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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
Suggests Joint Committee.

In the senate Senator Armstrong imme-
diately introduced a concurrent resou-
tion providing for the appointment Of q
special joint committee OF three senators
and five assemblymen to undertake the
investigation.
Both houses adopted in the afternoon
the Armstrong insurance investigation
resolution. 1t appropriates s5o0eo for the
expenses of the Investigation.
The senate members Of the committee
will be Armstrong of Rochester, chair
man. and Tully of Corning. republicans,
and Riordan of New York. democrat.
Speaker Nixon said he would not imme-
dateiy appoint the assembly members.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-21
superintendent Performed Duty.

Speaking of Superintendent Hendricks
investigation of the Equitable, the gov
ernor says that within the scope of his
authority and the limits of his time the
superintendent has performed his duty
with impartial fhoroughness. Although
he has informed me by reason of the
statutory limitations upon his inquisi-
torial powers, and by reason of the mag
nitude of the task imposed upon him.
have been of the opinion he would well
come the aid of legislative investigation
committee. He is of the opinion that he,
with his staff OF experts and with the
authority vested in him to conduct in
vestigations at the expense of the COM
panies examined was well qualified to
collect all necessary evidence upon which
to base new legislation. and that no other
investigation outside thescourts of justice
was necessary or desirable pending the
investigation now being conducted by
him.
ut is, however, of the highest impor-
lance that revision of the insurance
law should be enacted as promptly as is
consistent with a thorough knowledge of
the subject. 1t is proper and necessary
that the legislature should determine for
itself how the information upon which
to base such revision may best be OBJ
tanned. If in its Judgment an investiga-
ton conducted by its own members is
calculated to produce the most satisfac-
tory results, such an investigation cannot
too speedily be begun.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-07-07

company was agreat beneftto NJ.
Weaver. But right ON the day
when he was to see his cherished
hopes of many year realized, he
made a mistake. Instead of TAX
ing the cash away, he should have
given the owner of the property q
check on the trust company. The
trust company would have gladly
certified the check for Mr.. Weaver.
and that would have been accepted
ascash by anybody in Indianapolis.
Besides,it would,not doapickpock-
ct any good to steal the check for
it would have been payable only to
the, person named by Mr.. Weaver.
The experience of Mr.. Weaver
calls attention to the danger of car
rying large sUms Of cash ON the
streetor secreted about your home.
BY depositing your money in
trust company, you heve.it always
at your command and it is safe.
When you wish to pay out any
of this money On deposit, you can
dosO by 6 check payable only to-
the particular person you desig-
nate. In thet way yeutake no risk
and, furthermore, there is on fle at
the trust company the paid check,
which gives you reception the
money you paid out.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-07-07
Dan Weaver's Sad Experience.
Lost Life's Savings by Carrying Check

(This is published in the current num-
Der of the Home Banker, little paper
issued by the Security Trust Company
Indianapolis,)
For,years Dan Weaver and his
wife saved their money to buy a lit
tie home, adding a few dollars at
time to their accumulation. He
worked as q teamster. Having
saved up nearly $500, they con-
cluded to buy a little ehome on which
they had their eye. The arrange
ment for the transfer Of the pro-
perty was made and Mr.. Weaver
and his wife drew out their money
from trust company and set out
for the Law Building to pay itover
to the owner of the property.
On the way to the Law Building
pickpockets robbed Mr.. Weaver,
and the savings of a lifetime were
gone.
Their as a good deal of public
sympathy for the teamster, who is
well regarded by his neighbors.
He had taken the right course in
depositing his savings in one of the
strong trust companies of Indian
apolis, where it was always at his
command. Itwasmuch safer there
than at his home, and besides, he
earned interest on it. The trust
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-07-07
MAN LOSES Sc, 100.
With Big Wallet Of Money
Instead of Check Book.

A. G. Hawkins, merchant of
Sebree, Ky, went to st. Louis to
buy goods. He expected to buy
about $4,000 worth, so he put thir-
ty-one $100 bills, and smaller bills
to the amount of $3, 900 in big
wallet, stuffed the wallet in his
inside pocket, and started on his
journey.
When he stepped from the train
at the union station, st. Louis, he
still had the $1,000. When he
reached the street, after passing
through the crowded station, he
didn't have money enough to pay
his car fare down town. The wallet
was gone, and he had no idea how
it got away from him.
Now, when we consider how
many free schools there are in this
country, and how many banks, isn't
it wonder that some people still
try to make walking treasures of
themselves?
Mr.. Hawkins is probably a de-
positor in the bank at his home
town, and his check would be just
as good in st. Louis as at Sebree.
IF he expected to deal with stran-
gers, he should have taken aletter
from his home banker, or cashiers
check, or draft, or his own person
alcheck duly certified. His banker
could have told him many ways of
transacting the business without
possibility of loss. But, of course,
had he done SO, he would not have
got his name in the paper.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-07-07
COSTLY KtNDLlNG.
What Happened TO the Hidden Hoard of
New York Farmers Wife.

(This sorrowful tale is submitted by
William G. Whitford, vice-president OF
the University Bank, Alfred, N. Y. The
expensive little blaze occurred in the
vicinity of that town.
Few people are so poor that they
do not some times have money
which they do not wish to spend
Immediately. Every one has this
practical problem to solve: How
may l keep moneyin safety till the
time that | want it?
The most natural solution of this
problem is to put the money in q
bank. 1t is the business of banks
to keep money for people. In spite
of few failures, it remains true
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-07-07
REASONS WHY
YOU SHOULD KEEP A BANK ACCOUNT. !.

as suitable for the transaction of
business of a financial nature.
Because if you are a married man
you should carry bank account,
because your wife and children
will also feel pride in knowing
that the head of the family is
known at the bank, and the infu-
ence and example will be benefit
to both wife and children.
Make your banker familiar with
your circumstance and show him,
by your actions, you are determin-
ed to save money, and you have
established a basis for any reason
able accommodation.
Don't do like the merchant who
went to st. Louis to buy goods,
who carried hismoney in his pock-
ct and was robbed while passing
through the crowd at the union
station.
Don't do like a good citizen who
went from Camden to Nashville
and got into stampede, was run
over, knocked down, and when he
managed to get up found himself
several hundred dollars poorer but
a wiser man.
Don't do like a certain good lady
at Holiday, Tenn, who only few
days since put a sack of money in
the stove for fear of burglars. But
luck was with her; the moneyall
happened to be silver. Forgetting
the money, she built fire in the
stovesand the sack was burned up
and the silver was made very black
but it passes all o. k.
A gentleman at Union City who
was guilty of the same act last fall,
was not SO lucky; his money was
all paper instead Of silver and was
all burned.
Ii you put your money in bank
you don't have to buy postoffice
and express money orders when
you want to pay bill away from
home. You fill out check for the
amount and mail it. After the
check has been paid it goes back
to you and becomes a receipt for
the amount paid. If you buy a
horse, mule or COW, give a check
for it.
Be progressive. Your placein
the world demands it.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-07-07

that money in,e bank is safer than
anywhere else. There are many
people, however, who never think
of putting money in banks. For
them a place of hiding is the one
thing to be thought of.
Now, in hiding anything, the one
supreme consideration is to put it
where no one will be likelyto look
for it, or even happen npon it by
accident.
A certain farmers wife had two
hundred dollars in legal tender
notes, and decided to conceal it
somewhere.
Sheconsidered many places, and
finally hit upon the parlor stove.
1t was summertime, and there
was no fire insthe front room.
No one, she thought, would be
likely to look in thestovefor money.
She was correct In her sqpposi-
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-07-07

1t helps your credit.
It stimulates your courage.
It guards you against extrava-
gances.
It gives you confidence in your
judgment.
It helps to hold you up while
you are out of work.
It furnishesathe best receipt for
all money you pay out.
1T creates business habits that
will increase your earnings.
1t protects you against loss by
robbery and personal injury by
robbers.
1t enables you to pass over Pc
riods of sickness without embar-
rassment.
It makes you able to run your
business instead of your business
cunning you.
Because drops of water fill the
bucket, and small deposits made+a
big bank account.
Because men who do not use the
facilities offered by bank can mot
compete with those who do.
Because nine-tenths of the bus
iness of the world is carried on by
the use of checks, drafts and ex-
change.
Because if you have bank ac-
count, you will have a natural de-
sire and pride to make it as large
as possible.
Because systematic and persist
.ent depositing in a bank is the
best means yet devised for the ac-
cumulation of money.
Because a man with bank &C.
count, and check book in his
pocket, has all the money he needs
right with him and the correct
change, too.
Because if you are depositor
st a bank, and you should need to
make loan, it will be an easy mat
ter, ,becausethe banker is acquaint-
ed with you.
Because the national govern
ment prefers that all funds receiv-
ed by its money order officers and
postinasters be deposited IN banks
and not kept.in pockets.
Because the private office OF the
hank is at the disposal of the depos-
ftsrs, and there is no other place
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-07-07

tion.
No one did think OF looking in
the stove for money, sRd there her
treasure remained in safety-tiN
winds of autumn demanded artif-
cial heat in the front part of the
house.
No thief ever lsid hands upon
those two hundred hard.earned
dollars.
The little roll of bills wes skill
fully hidden, but one chilly day
there was fire inside the safety
deposit box.
When the farmers wife remem-
bored her money, it was too late
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1905-07-07

This bank offers you its services
which are the most conservative
andprogressiva; backed by board
of directors; home men, who hold
your Interests equal with theiSc.
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
CARNEGIE'S LATEST GIFT.
Establishes Fund of $1o,ooo,ooo to
Care for Wornout College
Professors.

New York, April 2S.-A gift of s10.-
100000 by Andrew Carnegie, to pro-
vide annuities for college professors
who are not able to continue in active
service, was announced Thursday by
Frank A. Vanderlip, vice president of
the National City bank of New York.
Professors in the United States. Can
ada and Newfoundland will share in
the distribution of the income of the
fund. United States Steel Corpora
tion five per cent. mortgage bonds for
$1O,000,O00 have been transferred to a
board of trustees and steps will be
taken at once to organize a corpora
ton. to receive the donation. DIR.
Pritchett, president of the Massaohu-
se5ts Institute Of Technology, and Mr..
Vanderlip have been selected by Mr..
Carnegie to obtain data on the sub
ject, to be presented at the first meet
ing of the board of trustees, which
will take place on November 15
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
PREMIUM on OLD MAIDS.
Be. Louis Deed Offers Prize of $40, 900
to Girls to Remain Unmarried
for Long Time.

St. Louis, Mo.-According to the
terms of a quitclaim deed filed in the re-
corder's Office at Clayton, suburb, real
estate valued at $4,000 is the prize that
awaits one of the four daughters of H.
w. Hough who succeeds the longest in
avoiding marriage. The daughters are
Misses Miriam, Jessie, Emeline and
Efie Hough.
According to the deed, the sisters ara
to share equally as tenants in common
while they remain unmarried. If one
weds her interest is to inure to the
others. If all marry but one she is to
have the fee simple to all the property.
# however, she marries, she is to be de-
prived Of all interest in the property.
In that event, the deed stipulates, .'tha
whole of the property shall vest in
either of them who shall be widow .
The young women are well known in
social circles. They refuse to explain
q discuss the matter.
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
STRIKERS Violate
Injunction.
A MOB OF MEN AND BOYS RAID
EMPLOYERS BARN AND
STAMPEDE ANIMALS.
All Eff orts to End Strike are Futile.
Employers Decline to Listen to
any Overtures for Arbitration or
Compromise.

Chicago, May 1.-Spurning the ef-
forts of the peace commission appoint
ed by Mayor Dunno, the employers
Sunday afternoon declared that the
strike must end by the unconditional
surrender of the strikers.
All hope of cessation of hostilities
and peaceful settlement of the team
sters' strike was abandoned last night,
after a series of conferences in the
mayors Office, lasting from o'clock in
the afternoon until 1880 in the evening"
The peace conference was failure.
Nothing was accomplished and the
warning elements are now farther
apart than ever.
Unconditional surrender on the part
of the striking employes,it is declared,
is the only thing that can close the
breach between them and the employ
ers. This is the ultimatum of the ex-
ecutive committee Of the employers
association, as expressed in emphatic
language by the various apokesmen be-
fore the peace commission, and as re-
Hected in the defiant manner of the
members of the committee.
A mob of 500 men and boys, headed
by a number of striking teamsters,
raided the main stables of the EN-
ployees' Teamlng company and stam-
peded the animals. This was a vio-
lation of the federal injunction issued
by Judge Kohlsaat. The names of the
union men involved have been secured, +,
and they will be brought into court
to-day.
William and Harry Grady, picure
frame manufacturers, who were shot
early yesterday and seriously woun-
ded, are said to have been the victims
of a misunderstanding. Some time
ago these men supplied Montgomery
Ward & Co. with picture frames, but
their contract expired several months
ago. 1t is said by the police that
strike sympathzers who We're of the
belief that the Gradys were still con-
nected with the Ward company made
the attack on the two men.
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
STRIKE SPREADS.
More Additions to Ranks of Idle
Chicago Teamsters-Injunction
Is Granted.

Chicago, April 28-All drivers for
the express companies were ordered
to strike Thursday afternoon. This
means that 1000 drivers will be added
to the 800 teamsters already out. The
strike among the express drivers was
called by James B. Barry, business
agent of the union, who drove in his
buggy from barn to barn, command
ing the men to quit. A spread of the
teamsters' strike to all branches of
that organization is impending. The
strike may go beyond that and may
eventually result in one OF the great
est industrial wars in the recent his
tory of American labor. President
Charles Dold, of the Chicago Fedora
ton of Labor, threatens to bring
about a universal strike in Chicago,
involving all of the 250,0OO members
Of unions in this city. President Dold
says this plan was determined on at
a secret melting of labor leaders.
Chicago, April 29. - An injunction,
sweeping and direct in it's nature, was
granted Friday by Judge Kohlsaat, of
the United States circuit court, against
all labor unions and others, restraining
them from interfering in any way with
the operations Of the Employers Team
ing company. This action places the
employers under the protection of the
federal government. One hundred de-
PENDANTS are specifically named in the
writ, including the teamsters' joint
council The order is temporary one,
returnable May 10. when the labor peo-
pie will be called upon to show why it
should not be made permanent. The fu-
ture course of the strike may hinge
largely on this Injunction. Violation of
the Injunction is punishable by fine or
imprisonment or both, at the discretion
of the court. 1t is expected that promi-
nent leaders will be arrested if they per-
sist in their boycott policy, just as Debs
was arrested and imprisoned in the rail-
road strike of 1894
The. impending general strike of the
lumber. hay and grain teamsters was
one of the largest elements in Fridays
developments. There are 1000 lumber
drivers. Two hundred of them are out
already and the other 1900 have been
ordered to strike
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
Carlton DahatOrs Win.

Grand Forks, N. D., May 1.-Carle-
ton college debaters, A. F. Strebel, R.
+. Hunt and H. S. MacIntyre, defeated
the University of North Dakota team,
composed of Martin Ruud, Olger Burt
ness and e. c. Hilborn, in the first
contest between these institutions, the
visitors getting the decision by vote
OF two to one. Carleton having the
negative of the subject, which was,
'Resolved, That a system of bank
notes based on the general assets of
the bank is preferable to a system
based on government bonds.'
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
Bowen Recalled.

Washington, May l Secretary Taft
has received instructions from the
president to call Minister Herbert w.
Bowen, now at Caracas, to Washing.
ton, also to send Mr.. Russell, now min
lister to Colon bia, to Caracas, and Mr..
Barrett, now minister at Panama, to
Colombia.
1t is stated that if Mr.. Bowen's ac-
tion relative to the charges affecting
Assistant Secretary Loomis are not
subject to criticism, it is the presi.
dents purpose to send him as minister
to Chile and then probably as am bas.
sador to Brazil.
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
Responsibility Placed.

Princeton, Ind, April 29.-Coroner
Hollingsworth returned his verdict Fri
day in the recent coal mine disaster in
which eight men were killed. He holds
Roscoe Hedrick and the Princeton Coal
company, which owned the mine, re-
sponsible. The verdict says that He'd
rick was incompetent to prepare the
shot which caused the explosion, and the
company knew this and is therefore to
blame. Harry Targett, who fired the
shot and was killed, is also blamed for
knowingly firing an illegal shot.
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
CEN. F|TzHUCH LEE
SUDDENLY DIES
FAMOUS SOLDIER EXPIRES IN A
HOSPITAL IN CITY OF
WASHINGTON.
He Is Stricken with Apoplexy on Train
En- Route from Boston to the Capt.
tal-Family Fails to Reach His
Bedside-His Career.

Washington, April 29-Gen. Fitzhugh
hospital in this city at 1120 o'clock Fri
day night, as the result Of an attack of
apoplexy and paralysis with which he
was stricken early Friday morning
while travelling by rail from Boston to
Washington. A pathetic feature was the
fact that no member of his immediate
family, consisting Of his wife and five
children, was able to reach the city be-
fore death occurred At his bedside when
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
Texas Tornado.

Laredo, Texas, Via Bermuda,
Texas), May 1.-Twentv-one people
dead, scores more injured, many rem
dered homeless and great damage to
property sums up briefly the result of
a tornado which Friday night tore
through Laredo and New Laredo,
across the Rio Grande.
The victims were crushed to death
by the falling of the heavy walls OF
houses
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
Railway Wreck.

Greenville, s. c., May 1. While
rounding a curve inside the yard limits
ana running at the tremendous speed
of fifty miles an hour, the special Pull
man train bearing Robert c. Ogden
and 100 members of the Southern Edu-
cational conference crashed into the
rear end of a freight train, killing four
persons and injuring a score of Others
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
Bowen to Be Recalled.

Washington, April 20. Secretary
Taft is considering the advisability of
ordering Minister Bowen, at Caracas,
to report forthwith in Washington to
explain the charges against Assistant
Secretary Loomis which he has con-
yeyed to Secretary Taft ina personal
letter If President Roosevelt assents,
this order will be issued Immediately.
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
His Career.

Gen. Lee was a nephew of the famous
Gen. Robert E. Lee, chief
of the confederate army. In Washing
ton he was we'll and popularity known,
and his appearance on public occasions
always was the signal for outbursts of
applause from hosts of admiring friends.
Gen. Lees record includes an honorable
service in the cavalry branch of the
army of the United States up to the time
of the civil war years of active service in
the confederate army and the filling of
important federal and state positions
since that time, including the governor
ship of Virginia, the presidency of the
Pittsburg & Virginia railroad, the col
lectorship of internal revenue for the
Lynchburg district and the consul gem
eralship at Havana. Following his hon
orable discharge from the volunteer
army on March 2, 1901 Gen. Lee was ap-
pointed to the regular army February
II, 1901, with the rank of brigadier gen
eral and with this rank he was retired in
the March following
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
Marshals Bent on CAPTURE.

Milwaukee, April Seventeen Mil.
waukee men have been sworn in az
deputy U. S. marshals and were sent
to the Thornapple river to capture
John Dietz, who has terrorized luln-
bermen in vicinity of Cameron dam.
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
Miners EntOmbed.

Wilburton, Okla, May 1.---Thirteen
miners were entombed and probably
killed by an explosion early Sunday in
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Coal
company's Mine No. 10. No bodies
have been recovered.
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
Brakeman Killed.

Duluth, Mimi, April 29.-Jame,
Lockhard of Proctor, Mimi, brake
man on the Duluth, Missabe & North.
ern road, was instantly killed, by be-
ing thrown from the top of car upon
which he was working near Mesaba
junction.
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
Earthquake.

Geneva, Switzerland, May 1.-Earth.
quake shocks were felt here Sunday
morning. The inhabitants were some.
what alarmed and many of Their
rushed into the streets, but the dam.
age done in this city was very slight.
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
Policy-Holders Safe.

New York, April 30. c. Frick.
chairman of the directors committee
investigating the Equitable Life Assur.
ance society, has written letter to the
icy-holders assuring them that the
interest of every policy holder is abso-
lutely safe.
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee.

ne died were his brother. Daniel Lee,
and Drs. Edie and Kean. The end came
quite suddenly and was without pain.
Warren sheaf., 1905-05-04
The Attack.

Gen. Lee was stricken with apoplexy,
the entire left side being affected. at
three o'clock Friday morning. He was
On a train en- route from Boston to
Washington. The train had just left the
Harlem river when the stroke came.
Two physicians were summoned and
Gen. Lee remained on board the train
while it was transferred by float to Jer
sey City and proceeded to Washington.
When the train arrived here the pa
tient was removed to the Providence
hospital Gen. Lees attack is attribut-
ed largely to his activity in behalf of the
military and naval review, which is to
be held in the vicinity Of Jamestown,
Va. His heart and soul have been in the
work and he labored zealously to make it
q success ...-.-. .-