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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-15

review is rernodelled The intended effect of this
With a oTsr Of pc the or Tes oG to fs
courts for its suspension and annument the
a new section is added. which expressly author
limits the duration of an order of the commission
Piled with for year shall not thereafter be in
The effect of this would be to give the Carrier free
dom, on the expiration Of the time named, to
by the order.
REBATES AND fAE EI.KINs LAW.
In the annual report for 1903 the commission en-
deavored to explain the changes in the regulating
statute effected by the Eakins Law. which was ap-
proved in the previous February, and made some
favorable comments its operation and a sirai-
lar opinion was expressed in the report made a
year ago. Further experience however coupels
the commission to modify In some degree the
hopeful expectations then entertained Not onIv
have various devices for evading the law been
brought into use. but the actual payment Of re-
bates has been here and there resumed Instances
Of this kind have been established by convincins
are now pending More frequently the preferan na
is brought about by methods which may eseane
to defeat purpose While this do 5sn not 0Pe ma
nor any BELIEF that there is general retnrn To-
evil has by no means disappeared and that il is
liable TO ncrea b, gh 5ss eeSTely restrained
commission during the year. including both formal
cations on formal complaint Instituted durin nSef fSs
year is sixty-ive involving directly the rates anS
practices s2i carriers. Seventy-nne hearings ana
investigations were held in Washington ana ntmer
GUS cities in various parts OF the country siv
cases were settled through concession OF relief hn
the carriers and twenty-five cases were disco5
tinued
Forty-ive formal decisions have been renderAs
during the year. This number greater than in any
previous year includes cases OF unreasonable rates
discrimination between localities, between co.,
modties and between persons. and also Ia faciIi
ties of transportation. with some cases nvol,Sf,-
departure from published tariff rates and some re
lating chiefly PREPARATION.
The preliminary report for the last fiscal van.
includes returns for 752 companies, representing AZ
operated mileage Of &4.4I7S2 miles. which Is nTa
sumably about 50 per cent Of the mileage that will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-15
INSURANCE CONFERENCE CALLED.
Question of Uniform Laws To Be Considered
in Chicago on February l.

Washington. Dec. d4-Thomas E. Drake, the
Columbia, has addressed d circular letter to the
Governors Attorney Generals and Insurance
Commissioners Of all the States and Territories
inviting them to attend conference to consider
questions relating to insurance at Chicago on
Thursday. February 1, at 10 a m This action
follows several conferences on insurance which
have recently been held in New-York and Wash
ington and an interview with President Roose-
Velt last Saturday Mr.. Drake has been di-
rected by the President to attend the conference
In Chicago. Mr.. Drake believes that the best
features of the State laws on insurance should be-
compiled and remodelled into model code with
q view to its adoption by Congress for the Dis
trict of Columbia and by the legislatures of the
States. The call says In part:
In view of the interest that is now being tst,ar
In the business OF insurance throughout the
country, and in many sections abroad too. also
because of the belief almost universally existinc
that the disturbed situation requires the yyisasf
most thoughtful and comprehensive cons;da-.
tion It has been suggested by several ofzSnta -
who rank high in public life that conferences ~
al the Governors, Attorney Generals and Insur
ance Commissioners of the States and Territorie.
and the District of Columbia be held for the mr.
pose of considering matters pertaining tn tSa g.,
surance, well the business of ins,1ranc ~ - -
general. Therefore, after preIin1inery 80,
ference held in New-York City last yyee- Mir =
number of Insurance Commissioners ard 80 a
tended meeting that was subsequently heIa -
this city on the 9th, 10th and IIfh tns+ - -
was deemed advisable to call such nneetine ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-15
SUBPOENA j. r.. GARFIELD.
Packers attorneys Want Commits
sioner's Records.

Chicago. Dec 14.-Three jurors, two OF whom
are carpenters and one a real estate dealer from
the interior of Illinois. have been accented by
both tbs government and the defendant pack
ers' lawyers in the Beef Trust case before fed
eral Judge Humphreys.
It developed to-day that Commissioner Of Cor
porations James R. Garfield has been served
with 8 subpoena duces tecum Issued at the in
stance Of the defence, commanding Commits
sioner Garfield to produce every book, paper,
record or report he has now did have concern
ing the case, and to be ready to testify con-
corning the documents. The defence viii en-
deavor to show, it is said, that Mr.. Garfield has
in his possession sworn statements which were
made by the packers IN Commissioner Garfeld's
investigation Of the business methods of the
Beef Trust. The beef packers maintain that
they have gained immunity from criminal prose-
cution charges Of Illegal combination, in re-
straint Of interstate commerce by giving evil
dence against themselves before Commissioners
Garfield
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-15
FLIGHT THROUGH CLOUDS
Chicago Airship Almost Pitches
Aeronaut to the Earth.

Chicago. Dec. 14-Horace B, wild an electrician
OF Chicago, for the first time In his life made
a fight yesterday in airship, rising $500 feet
above the ground. He returned to the earth safely
three miles from the place whore he started in a
machine which had never been tested before. His
flight Grand Crossing and watched
by hundreds of spectators
Wid's greatest peril the danger of losing
his hold the machine account of the cold
Twice his numb fingers slipped from their grasp
on the frame of the ship and twice he caught him
self by hooking his heels into groove in the
beams.
For time after the start all went well, the
drigbie machine moving To the south smoothly
Then the engine operating the propeller stopped
because the supply of gasolene was exhausted. The
machine continued to rise Wild In frantic en-
deavor to escape destruction, climbed into the net
work Of the gas filed bag above him and, holding
with the fingers of hand. almost frozen
with his teeth unfastened the cord that held the
escape valve, permitting the to escape in sut1-
Client quantities to allow him to land.
The pulling down OF the airship by its trail
rope was accomplished by two women and boy II
it had escaped from the rescuers VILLAS death
would have been certain. as he would have been
carried out into the lake.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-15
"INCoNTEsrABLE CLAUSE VALID.
Federal Court of Appeals Decides Against
Mutual Reserve Insurance Association.

Boston, Dec. IA decision establishing tho valid
ty OF the so-caled 'incontestable clause In life
insurance policies was handed down to-day in the
United States Circuit Court OF Appeals The case
came before this court on an appeal taken by the
Mutual Reservs Fund Life Insurance Association
of Sylvia A Austin, executrix of the will OF Jona-
than w. Austin to the amount of $1,000 threA
life insurance policies
The company asserted that the agreement to
incontestability merely conditional upon the
Insurance having been In force and that the in
surance was not in force because, at the time Of
the delivery of the policy the insured man was
not In good health. The court finds that the argu-
ment TO absence CT continuous force Is pred-
Gated a fact not appearing in the policy. This
court declares that II the defendants argument is
adopted the policy, instead Of being incontestable.
Is contestable always.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-15
CLIMBS sPIRE TO WIN DRINKS.
Bricklayer Invites Policemen DESTROYS of
Arresting Him to Come Up.

eth drinks for all OF US that stand with
one foot on the cross" was the challenge Jon Pc
tersen a bricklayer. hurled at his fellow workers
on the roof of ST AIchaers Catholic Church, I'D
ST. and 4th-ave., Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon.
''Ofn pay fur thin twice over If yez cam" retort-
ed Michael McGinn. and up went Petersen. taking
advantage OF every slight projection. The church
Is $50 feet high from the ground level to the cross
top. Petersen reached the top of the dome with
5 out a slip and threw his hat down to a group of
children their way from school. The young
sters's eyes dilated with wonder when Petersen
mounting the top of the spire, reached the cross
and threw kisses down to them
Two roundsmen along and thinking Pc
tersen crazy invited him TO come and be ar
rested.
come up Petersen yelled in broken English.
The roundsmep looked up moment, then said
they'd return When they returned Petersen was
down and away and nobody seemed to know where
he was.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-15
FAvoRs NEW MORTGAGE TAX LAW

At meeting Of the Union League Club last
night IT was voted to direct committee of the
club to try to secure a repeal of the Mortgage
Tax law. and to get in it's stead the law pro-
posed by the club at the last session of the
legislature. This bill proposed a tax on mort
cages OF one-half of ! per cent This was not,
however TO be a yearly tax.
committee was also instructed to endeavor
TO obtain an improved ballot law The matter
of voting on amendments to the constitution
was also considered. law was favored. pro
yiding for the posting in conspicuous places OF
comics OF the amendments to be voted on
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-15

subsequently be covered by returns in the ma ~
port for the same year. The gross earnings % re
mileage just stated were 2.07S.177S25- This sS
s5T2 los $685. earnings nom the height service u
44slSIo2, and miscellaneous earnings,
According TO this preliminary report, tle ~ ~
earnings from operation averaged $685. per nlis ~
line. This average Is considerably higher than
like average for any other year for which 1900
ucal report has been published by the eoTnn'S
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-15
FUGITIVE FORGER TAKEN.
Cushman, Wanted IN This Citg,
arrested in Nezc-OrIeans.
IBy TeIegraph to The Tribune. ]

Mobile, Ala. Doc H.-F. A. Cushman. alias q. c,
Courtney a young from New-York, was ar
rested yesterday in New Orleans telegram from
the New-York police saying that Cushman
wanted there for forgery. The accused
taken to Police Headquarters, where he admitted
his guilt and said he was ready to return to New
York without requistion.
Cushman is wanted for passing two forged
checks, one In New-York and the other in Chicago.
The former for $3.50 and the latter for $500. He
forged the name of Mrs. Rose G. Dwyer. of New
York and the checks were drawn on the Lincoln
Trust Bank Both checks wero honored before
they were found to be forgeries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-15
MEDICAL SOCIETIES CONSOLIDATED

Albany. Dec. 1.-THE consolidation OF the Me-.
cal Society of the State Of New-YOrk ana -
New-Yorl State Medical Association. authors
by the first act OF the legislature OF 1904, was fss
tered in the Secretary Of States ONCE TO-DAY =
the hling OF an order signed by Supreme Soal-
Justice John NJ. Davy. approving the consodslsu-
agreement Of the two societies and the joint eon
stitution. The new society viii he known IS nv
Medical Society of the State OF New-Yorz
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-15
wARDwELL DOES NOT REMEMBER
Says If He Was Paid $4,000 by Insurance
Company he Has Forgotten T.

Boston. Dec lS.-1- Gus "ardwei. the Boston man
referred to in q statement read bv Cv,ar,a. .
Hughes, ID one OF the most prominent IegtslatJvs
attorneys sn the State, Mr.. Wardwell was FORMER
Iv in politics and for dozen years was prestder+
Of the Republican State Committee He has IRE
quentIy represented corporations at legislative hear
,ngu at the State House. He is n1eruber az .h
iaoai arm of which Attorney General William u
Moody wa soon become the head. -
when seen tonight concerning the reported nav
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-15

Farm Products Amount to $40S, 6s9, 1923, and
the Goose Hangs High.
[By Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Topeka, Kan. Dec 1.-THE report OF the Kansas
Department of Agriculture, which was issued to-
day by Secretary F. D. Coburn. Shove that 1905
has been the most prosperous year in the history
OF the State. The value Of the farm products and
livestock to $4Os sos. which is the best
showing ever recorded by the State The report
shows that the wheat crop the fourth best ever
produced in the State, amounting TO T17s177 BUSH
els. or 100000 bushels more than in 1904 It is
greater in value by sA2227O3, Il per cent. than
IN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-15

ment OF 5000 by the Provident Savings Life AS
surance Company to him. Mr.. Wardwen said he
had no recollection of such q transaction. II he
had received the money, he said the payment
made so long ago that he had forgotten It
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-15

william A Reed is understood 70 hare exT
pressed desire to testify regarding ene trans
action and may take the stand to-day.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-10
WEST NOTTINGHAM.

Mrs. Robert Aiken and Miss Ella Tosh
were Baltimore visitors last week.
Messrs. Riale and Eddy Richardson, Of
Wilmington, were Saturday and Sunday
visitors at the home of Robert Aiken and
family.
Mr.. Curtis Tyson has returned to Balti.
more after brief visit to his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Tyson.
Misses Abbie and India Keen were
Wilmington visitors over Sunday.
Mr.. Robert Aiken and family were
Sunday visitors of DR.. Richardson and
family, of Calvert.
Don't fail to attend the Missionary Tea
at the Chapel on Friday evening, the 10th.
While Allen Bryant and Carroll Cole
were cunning near New Bridge on Satur-
day, some unknown party fred at rab-
bit near them. one grain of shot striking
young Bryant in the forehead and three
grains passing through bis hat rim.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-10
FISHING For sheep.

When sheep were first introduced In.
to Cornwall, England, a flock which
had strayed from the uplands on to
Gwithian sands were caught there by
the tide and ultimately carried into
st. Ives bay during the night. There
the floating flock was observed from
the st. Ives fishing boats, whose crews,
never having seen sheep, took them
for some new kind Of fish and did their
best to secure them both by hooks and
lines and by netting. Those they Sc
cured they brought home triumphant
ly next morning as catch to which
even pilchards were as nothing.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-10
Damage Suits.

Suit for $4,000 damages has
been brought by Mrs. Caroline
Cooper, against the Lancaster &
Quarryville Street Railway Co.
The plaintiff alleges she was
thrown from trolley car at Refton,
sustaining a sprained knee, and
being made permanently lame.
Mrs. Elizabeth Greiner, wife of a
New Holland turnpike toll-gate
keeper, has entered suit for $4,000
damages against VIM. III. Ruffhead,
for injuries received by being
caught between the toll gate and
dollhouse by defendants automo
bile and suffering the fracture of
several ribs.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-10
N0TICEI

Complaint having been made and re-
liable information given to the Board oil
Town Commissioners, it is known that
some parties of both sexes are making
themselves liable to arrest by indecent
behavior on the streets, trespassing on
public school property. in empty box cars
near the station. and on other private
property. Teams have been found hitch
ed in prominent place in the town at
O'Clock in the morning. evidently hav-
ing been there all night. 1t is known
who the parties are. the same ones being
concerned in most of the offences. Now
if these things are persisted in. there is
surely trouble ahead for the offenders.
! BY order Of the
BOARD OF TOWN COMMISSIONERS.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-10
Fire At Creswell.

Fire at Creswell, Lancaster
county, on Wednesday morning of
last week, caused by an overheated
stove, destroyed the old freight
station, occupied by laborers on the
railroad work at that point, who
lost all their clothing, bedding,
furniture, etc. The high wind
prevailing at the time carried
sparks to the large stable some dis
tance away, owned by the con-
tractors, and where eighteen head
of horses were quartered. The
animals were all at work at the
time and not in the building, which
was one of the largest and finest
barns in the locality. A large
quantity of hay, straw, tobacco,
three hundred bushels OF corn, and
other grain were lost. Three dwell
lings in close proximity were set on
fire by the flying sparks, but were
saved through the efforts of the
railroad laborers, who laid water
main five hundred feet in length in
an hours time, through which
water was pumped with which to
fight the spreading flames.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-10

King William III. Of England was
passionately fond Of the chase and
made it a point never to be outdone In
any leap, however perilous. A Mr..
Cherry, who was devoted to the exiled
family, took advantage Of this to plan
the most pardonable design which was
ever formed against kings life. He
regularly Joined the royal hounds. put
himself foremost and took the most
desperate leaps in the hope that Will
liam might break his neck In following
him. One day, however, he accom-
plished one so imminently dangerous
that the king when he came to the spot
shook his head and drew back. It Is
said that Mr.. Cherry at length broke
his own neck and thereby relieved the
king from further hazard.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-10
MARRIED
Evans-foard.

Miss Adelaide Jefferson Foard,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jefferson
B. Foard. of Middletown, Del, and
Mr.. William Sterling Evans, Of
Elkton, were married in st. Annes'
Church, Middletown, on Thursday
evening, Nov. 8, at $50 O'Clock
The groom is son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William s. Evans, of Elkton
Hunter-Hale.
Thomas Benton Hunter, of Mon
terey, CAL, formerly of Cherry Hill,
and a son of Rev. T. B. Hunter, OF
that town, was married on Wednes-
day, Oct. %, to Miss Edyth Hale,
of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Alexander-Morrall.
Mr.. Albert Parry Alexander,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. p. Alex
ander, of Elkton, was married to
Miss Sara Elizabeth Worrall, at
the home of the BRIDES mother, in
Wilmington, Thursday evening.
Oct. 81. The ceremony was per
formed by Rev. G. T. Wyatt, pas
tor of Harrison st. M. E. church
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-10
Cunning Accident.

Frank Rowland, a motorman liv
ing in Lancaster, was killed by the
accidental discharge of his gun
while enjoying the opening day OF
the sport on a farm near Mechan-
icsburg, Lancaster county, with a
party of friends. Rowland had
placed his gun against a wire fence
and in getting through the fence
one of the wires was forced against
the trigger, discharging the piece,
the load taking effect in the mans
body, close to his heart and killing
him instantly. The deceased was
AZ years of age and leaves widow
and seven children.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-10
Interesting ANTIQUES.

Few private homes in Maryland,
and probably nowhere in the
country, outside of museums or
exhibition halls, where curios and
antiques are assembled for the
purpose of attracting the public
gaze, can boast of such large collec-
ton of antique furniture and bric-a-
brac of historic value as that to be
found today in the home of Mr..
James L. Burke, at Havre de Grace
In the large, old brick dwelling,
on Union avenue, the home of the
Burkes for nearly a hundred years,
this family being the Oldest in the
history of Havre de Grace, having
settled here in 1854, is stored furni-
ture, paintings, rare old books and
curios, which have value as memen-
toes of generations passed and gone,
but, associated with nearly every
old relic in Mr.. Burke's possession
there is a history.
The collection, not to mention the
pictures and musical instruments,
includes bureau, wash stand and
table owned by Exequer Hilder
man, who sat at Harrisburg during
the days Of William Penn. Two
tables owned by Thomas Jefferson.
Two chairs owned by Junius
Brutus Booth. Table owned by
Edgar Allen Poe. Several pieces
Of furniture owned by John Adams.
A number of pieces of furniture
owned by Captain Charles Stewart.
commander of the CONSTITUTION"
during the war of 1872. Chairs
owned by General Vanzant. One
grandfather's clock, dated 1880,
owned by the father of Thadeus
Stevens. One grandfather's clock,
dated 1851, owned by General Ross.
Old firearms of different patterns,
sabres, dishes, rare old books, and
many small articles and trinkets.
A document in Mr.. Burke's pos
session, which shows remarkable
preservation in its clearness and
accuracy is a deed, dated March 20,
I773, from "Isaac Lewis ct uxOr ct
al, to Robert Allison" for 298 acres
Of land situated in the township of
UwchlaDd, in the county Of Chester,
Pennsylvania. The document was
written with a quill, is neatly drawn
on heavy parchment, 313x2S3
inches, and bears the seals and sig
natures oftwelye persons interested
in the transfer of the property
Ledger, Havre de Grace.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-10
John Steele Mathews.

John Steele Mathews, of near
Perryville, Oldest son of 1. j.
Mathews of Sparrows Point, died
Sunday of typhoid fever, in the
38th year of his age. He had been
in the employ of Jacob Reeds Sons
Philadelphia clothiers, as travelling
salesman for a number of years.
A widow, who is a daughter OF
r. G. Hopkins of Port Deposit,
four sons and three daughters, one
an infant, survive him. The fun
eral was held on Tuesday afternoon.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-11-10
THE LAW OF FINDING.
Against All Save the Owner the Find
er's Title Il Perfect.

Against All Save the Owner the Find
er's Title Ii Perfect.
In common law finding is qualified
source Of title to goods and chattels.
Briefly, the law is that the finder has a
clear title against all the world, except
ing the owner. The proprietor Of a
coach or a railroad car or ship has no
right to demand property found on his
premises. Such proprietors may make.
in regard to lost articles, regulations
which will bind their employees, but
they cannot bind the public.
The law of finding was declared by
the kings bench more than a hundred
years ago. (when it was the supreme
court of common law in England) as
follows:
A person found wallet containing a
sum of money on a shop floor. he
handed the wallet and contents to the
shopkeeper to be returned to the own
er. After three years, during which
the owner did not call for his property,
the finder demanded of the shopkeeper
Lie WdAlcI dA0 luC AAOnCy. luC AotI0k
refused to deliver them upon the
ground that they were found on his
premises. The finder then sued the
shopkeeper, and it was held, as stated
above, that, against all the world save
the owner, the title of the finder is per-
feet. The finder has indeed been held
to stand in the place Of the owner.
Thus A prevailed in an action against
B, who found an article which A had
originally found, but subsequently lost.
The police have no especial rights In
regard to articles lost unless these
rights are conferred by statute. Receiv-
ers Of articles found are trustees for
the owner or finder. In the absence Of
special statute they have no power to
keep an article against the finder any
more than a finder has to retain an ar
ticle against the owner.
A finder must, however, use every
reasonable means to discover the own
er of found goods before appropriate
ing them to his own use. It has been
declared that If the finder knows the
owner or knows that he can discover
him he is guilty Of larceny in keeping
or appropriating to himself the arti-
cles found.