Seward gateway., 1905-10-21

Curdy of the Mutual Life Insurance Company was hooted by the crowd in attendance upon the hearing before the insurance investigating committee this morning, and threat to clear the room of spectators was necessary to stop the demonstration.
 The testimony given by President McCurdy admitted that press agents Lad been employed by the Mutual company to send out favorable reports Of its business.
 san Francisco, Oct. IS Al Kaufman. the promising heavy weight amateur of this city, will have a tryout in the professional ring with Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, October ?. The men will fight at catch weights and if Kaufman iS successful he wilr meet any man in the world for the heary weight championship, barrinF JeffrieS, assuming that the latter adheres to his relinquishment of the champion ship.
 Los Angeles, Get lS-Twin Sullivan wa2 given the decision over Tommy Burns at the end of the twentieth round last night. Sullivan had the better of the fight most of the way and came out of the encounter without mark of consequence while Burns showed the effects of body punishment. Sullivan was the favorite in the betting, 10 to9.
 Everett, Wash. Oct. lS-The Wash .ington State Liquor Dealers AsSocia tion today adopted resolution to fight the enactment of local option law by the next legislature which is proposed by the state prohibition league.
 The liquor men will ,hake the fight on the choice of members of the. legis- Iature, as the Prohibitionists propose to do.
 Pittsburg, Oct. lS-The Carnegie hero fund commission today made awards of ten medals One went to the widow of a coal miner who rescued his brother-in-law from a mine in Sherrodsville, Ohio, and in doing so lost his own life. A majority of the medals go to persons who saved others from drowning.
 Paris, Oct. lS-The cruiser De SaiX will be dispatched to the West Indies and stationed in the French possessions there to be ready to deal with Presi- dent Castro if the French demands against Venezuela are not settled.
 Venezuela is in default upon the pay ments promised at the time of the settlement of foreign claims against the republic three years ago, when the United States interfered to prevent European powers from attempting to enforce their demands by naval de- monstrations.
 Seattle, Oct. lS- Godfrey Chealander. promoter of an Alaska exposition in Seattle in 1907. returned from Alaska today, where he had been to enlist aid for the project. He visited all the Lynn canal towns and the Panama dis uict. He says he found the people everywhere in favor of the project pro vided Seattle would do its share toward the expense.
 Washington, D. C., Oct. lS-Presi- dent Roosevelt has directed that the civil service rules be amended to per init cabinet officer to discharge summarily a clerk clearly shown to have been guilty of misconduct.
 St. Petersburg, Oct. lS-The work iHgmen's strike is becoming general in all parts of tie empire. and in the large cities the attitude of the strikers is a menace to official authority. Dls- orders are reported from every quart CT and it is feared that a repetition of the riots of last January and February may occur at any time in any of the great centers of population.
 Rigid precautions have been taken hy the government to suppress out breaks, which are particularly feared in the large cities, where, many poor people are on the verge oF Starvation.
 London, Oct. lS-A spot beside the grave of David Garrick, in the poets cornerof Westminster Abbey, has been selected for the tomb of Heniy Irving.