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Estate of Grin D Adams
Notice of Settlement and Application Tor
Distribution


Distribution
ANTATE OF VERMONT, At session
> District Ot Bennington. IS OF the Probate
Court holden al the Probate ONCE in BenninS-
ton In said distr ct, on the 4th day of April.
A. d. 1906.
Present John Y Carney Judge
Charles Adams, administrator Ut the estate OF
Grin d Adams late OF Bloomington in said district
deceased, present their administration &C
count for examination and allowance, and
make application for q decree of distribution
and partition of the estate of said deceased.
Whereupou il is ordered by said Court. that
said account and said application be referred TO
a session thereof to he held at the Probate
once aforesaid, OH the Goth day of April, A. ID:
1906 for hearing and decision thereon; Ana IL
Is further ordered, that notice thereof be given
10 all parties interested by publication OF the
same three weeks successfully in the Bennington
Evening Banner a newspaper published at Ben
ningtOn, previous to said time appointed Tor
hearing, that they may appear at said time and
place and show cause II any they may nave;
why said account should not he allowed and
such decree made.
record whereof is ordered to be made.
true record.
Attest JOHN V. CARNEY, Judge.
A true copy of the original record.
Attest. JOHN V. CARNEY. Judge,
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EERAN INSURANCE COMPANIES Deny LIABILITY FOR EARTHQUAKE Losses
Resolutions Setting Forth the Position Of the Underwriters
Are Adopted at Meeting Held in New York City to
Consider the Conflagraton at San Francisco.

.clause; or lc) where policies covered
buildings (and or their contents) which
had been damaged or destroyed by the
authorities; civil and or military, before
fire had reached them; and (d)# where
policies covered property whose own
ers,. by. reason of the. destruction of
their books and records, are. unable to
supply the proofs required by the con-
.iitions: of their Insurance policies In
all such cases claims should be settled
by a reasonable compromise.
+ ~ Where policies covered contents
of buildings w4IIeh are certainly not
affected blythe exemption conditions of
the policy. claims under such policies
should be paid as soon as adjusted.
subject to. such deduction, if any, as
may fairly be made on account of the
saliva ge resulting from the removal of
portable property from the buildings
before fire had reached them
+. The following is a nearly complete
list of those, present and the fire insur-
ance companies they represented:
President George P. Sheldon of Phoes
nix Insurance Company of Brooklyn
acting as chairman; E. H A. Coreao
vice president Home; H. NJ. Bissell, vice
president Hartford Fire; w. N. Kremer.
president German American A. H.
wray.~ president; of the Commercial
Union of New York: E.. r. Irving. pres
ident Fire Association of Philadelphia; /;
J., B. Branch president Providence,
Washington: ]. J. Kenney of the Brit
Americana George B. Edwards, vice
president Queen; Marshall S. briggs.
president. and E.. X. Douglas, general
agent, Williamsburg City; w. H.. Ste
phens, president OF the Agricultural
George o. Howe. vice president Niagara
Fire; Joseph NfeCord. vice president
Hanover Fire; Theodore H. Prince
president Eagle Fire; P. L. Hoadley,
vice president American of Newark: K.
NJ. Gratz. vice president Girard Fire and
Marine of Philadelphia.
Henry Evans, president of the Con-
.tinentals left before the meeting came
to order, and said later that the com~
pany was not bound by any action
taken. Several companies which att
tended a previous conference held on
Tuesday We're not at yesterdays ses~
sion. The resolutions were telegraphed
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spEcrAToRs ARE KILLED.

MADRID. June The authorities, u
spite of the conflicting statements re-
garding the suspect, have not yet made
any announcement tending TO Clarity
the situation
II is now possible to assemble an ex-
act picture of the scene from the de-
scription of eve witnesses of the occur
renee Don Alvarez de Toledo, one OF
the equerries of the KiRg. and lady
who occupied a balcony facing the spot
where the explosion. occurred. give
graphic descriptions of the explosion
Eight horses of the royal coach had al
ready passed the tribune and the en-
thusiasm of the multitude had reached
its highest pitch at the sight of the
King and Queen and their supesb reti-
nue. HandkeFchiefs and fans Were
waving shouts of greeting filled the
air and the trumpeterS were sounding
a welcome at the entrance OF the palace
near by when suddenly from above
large bouquet fell amid the flags and
streamers followed by terrible deto-
nation. accompanied by flashes OF vivid
! fire and a crash of glass Every one
within hundred feet was stunned and
overthrown and those nearest TO the
spot where the explosion occurred were
killed outright. while others, horribly
manned. were dying
The first horses of the royal coach
met the full force of the explosion One
OF the animals plunged forward. COW
cred with blood, and, rearing on its
hind legs, fell backward dead Grooms
sought to extricate the horses from the
harness and drive the coach on King
Alfonso was seen at a window of the
coach motioning calmness. But the
dead horse impeded progress and COM
PEELED the abandonment of the coach.
Don Alvarez de Toledo, aided by
Colonel Rehague, Immediately went to
the Kings coach and opened the door.
Their majestieS at first did not wish
to alight. the King repeating 1T is
nothing" and trying to smile But the
spectacle soon made him appreciate the
gravity of the situation and he sup
ported the Queen as she got out of the
coach. Her Majesty was deeply moved.
almost hysterical, raising her hand over
face and hair as If to shut out tho
frightful scene Palace pages sent by
the Queen mother then galloped UP,
seeking to assist the young people, who
thereupon entered another coach, which
/ was hurried into the huge courtyard OF
the palace, around which detachmenta
1 of cavalry Immediately closed.
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Kings County Insurance Company
Frank J. Devlin, manager.
Royal Exchange Assurance. and Aus
trian Phoenix nsurance-Dickson &
Theme, managers.
Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance
@ Company--George B. Dornin, manager.
Transatlantic Fire Insurance Compa-
ny and Federal Insurance Company.
Carus Driffelds manager
German Fire Insurance Company of
Peeria-Duncan & Rehfisch, general
agents.
| New Zealand Insurance Company
Clinton Folger, manager.
Fireman,s Fund Insurance Company
Bernard Faymonville. vice president.
f. Franklin Fire Insurance Company
George f. Grant, manager. ~.
North British & Mercantile Fire. In
surance Company-Tom- c.. Grant. gen
GIens Falls Insurance company--G
B. Greenslet, general agent.
Fire Association of Philadelphia and
Philadelphia Underwriters-Gutte &
Frank. managers.
Continental Insurance Company-C
f. Hard. general agent.
Liverpool & London & 'GIobe-Charles
D. Haven, resident secretary.
Hamburg Bremen Fire Insurance
Company-Rudolph Herold Jr, general
agent.
Sun Insurance Office and Michigan
F. & NJ. Insurance Company-C. A. Hem
ry & Co. general agents.
Phoenix Assurance Company of Lon
don. Limited. and Pelican Assurance
lCompany-W. Irving general agent
Home Fire & Marine. insurance Com
pany OF California-Stephen d. Ives
/ vice president.
British America Assurance Company
Western Assurance Company, British
American Insurance Company, and
United Ffremen's Insurance Company
H I. Lamey. manager.
London Assurance Corporation, and
MNdagaTa M az ,rn Fire Insurance Company-Wil-
Norwich Union Fire Insurance So
ciety, and Indemnity Fire Insurance
Company-W. H Lowden, manager.
Company English-American Underwrit-
ers, Orient Insurance Company. State
Fire INSURANCE. Company. Limited, and
liam Macdonald, manager.
New York Underwriters Agency
Mann & Wilson. managers.
Commercial Union Assurance Com
pany of London. Alliance Assurance
Company of London, Palatine Insur-
ance Company of London and CONNER
cial Union Fire Insurance Company of
New York-C. F. Mullins, manager.
Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Com
pany-N. w. Osborn, manager.
Hartford Fire INSURANCE Company
and Citizens Fire Insurance Company
-Palache &, Hewitt general agents.
Home Insurance Company of New
York-Harry L. Rolf, general agent.
American Central Insurance Com
pany-D. Rorick vice president
Mercantile Fire and Marine Insur-
ances Company-D. Rorick, special ad-
juster.
Connecticut Fire Insurance Com
pany-R ]. Smith, manager
North German Fire Insurance Com
pany of Hamburg-Wafter Speyer,
general agent.
Rhine and Moselle Fire Insurance
Company-Syz & Co, general agents.
artferd and Ppotection Ueany Undermyiteps
IT. c. Temple.
German American Insurance Com
| pany of New York, New Hampshire
Fire Insurance Company and German
Alliance Insurance Company of New
York-George H Tyson. general
agent.
Queen Insurance Company-Rolla ".
Watt, manager
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lar on their insurance policies. He
is known in Chicago as the counsel
for the receiver. When he addressed
the policy holders at their meeting he
claimed. 10 represent eight or ten
stockholders of the Traders Company.
The policy holders committee ex-
pected to have before them yesterday
some figures that Attorney Bates
promised to supply. He did not ap-
pear; neither did the figures In the
absence of Bates and the opportunity
to verify any of the statements that
he made to the policy holders. the
committee voted to send a communfca-
tion TO Mr.. Gordon, the State agent
of the Traders Company. at tsOakland,
requesting him to furnish certaiT, I'm
formation; for the benefit of. the policy
holders. This was done on notion of
Walter S. Iinforth.i
INFORMATION ASKED FOR:
Gordon will be asked to inform the
committee, for the policy holders. on
the following points: Total amount
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-02
WORK OF LONDON ANARCHISTS.


LONDON. June liking Edward and
Queen Alexandra today received tele-
grams of a reassuring character from
Madrid in response to their messages
to King Alfonso and Queen Victoria ex-
pressing sympathy and thankfulness at
their providentiaI escape
The Spanish Charge d dAnaires. Count
de Pradere, says there seems little
doubt that the plot was concocted in
London, bat the officials have not yet
been able to ascertain IL an Italian who
is suspected of executing IL actually
went hence to Madrid. A dispatch from
Madrid says that an Englishman
named Robert Hamilton is detained
there on suspicion of being an accom-
plice of the men who threw the bomb.
According TO writer in the Evening
Standard, the London anarchists at
least week ago knew that an outrage
was to be attempted at Madrid He
says that three weeks ago five anarch-
ists-two Italians. Frenchman. a
Swiss and man of Spanish descent
born in South America-went to Paris
to attend an international conclave.Af-
ter their return frequent meetings were
held and unusual activity was dis
played. Ten days ago two OF ths
five, one being the South Ameri-
can. left London for Madrid. After
their departure. one OF the inner coun-
ell of the anarchists declared that King
Alfonso would never leave the church
alive. adding:
Wait until the news comes.p
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-02

and Aachen and Munich Fire 1nsYTe
anee GfSm1panyI75 A KELSEY Connv .,
New York-C. H Lacey. general agent
British America Assurance Company
American. Insurance Company and
United Firemen's of Philadelphia--H
T. Lamey, manager.
London Assurance Corporation and
Niagara Fire Insurance Company
William ]. Landers. nanag ger.
Norwich Union Fire Insurance So
eiety and Indemnity Fire Insurance
Company-W; II Lowden' man manager:
ahce Company. English American I'm
derwriters. Orient Insurance Com
panye State Fire Insurance Company
L I'd and Assurance Company of Amer
sca-william Macdonald. manager.
New York Underwriters Agency
Mann & Wilson. managers:
+ Pacific Underwriters and Colonial
Fire derwriters-McNear G. Way
man. general agents.
Commercial Union Assurance Cempa-
ny of London, Commercial Union AS
suranee Company of New York. ALI
and Palatine Insurance Company OF
London-C. F. Mullins, manager.
PheniX Insurance Company OF Brook
lyn-A. c. Olds, State agent.
Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Compa-
ny, Hartford Fire Insurance Company
and Citizens Fire Insurance Company
r. W. Osborn, manager Palache q
Hewitt general agents.
Home Insurance Company of New
YoGrk-Harry L Roff. general agent:
B. ]. Smith, manager.
North German Fire Insurance Com
pany of Hamburg-Walter Speyer gem
Scottish Union and National Insur.
ance Company-T. ]. A Tiedemann
general agent
ny of New York, New Hampshire Fire
Insurance Company and German ALI
ance Insurance Company of New York
George H Tyson. general agent.
Insurance Company-RoIla vo Watt
manager.
Atlanta Birmingham Fire Insurance
Company-M B. Yates.
NOTICE TO POLICY-HOLDERS
Notice is hereby given to all policy
holders of the undersigned insurance
companies who sustained loss or dam
age by the catastrophe which occurred
in San Francisco on or about the 18th
day of April. 1905, that the time ex-
pressed in any of the policies wherein
sworn statement or proofs of loss is
hereby extended until and including
the 18th day of August. A. D. 1906. And
this document is and shall be a sufi-
cient extension Of such time within the
meaning of the policies.
Dated May "a 1905
Teutonia Insurance Company of Lou
fsiana-C- W. BENJAMIN, adJuster-
Individual Underwriters of New York
Arthur Bell, adjuster
Aetna Insurance Company-Board-
man & Spencer, general agents.
California Insurance Company
George w Brooks. secretary.
Germania Fire Insurance Company
W. H Breeding. manager.
Law Union and Crown Insurance
Company and Union Assurance Society
Cation. Bell & Co, general agents
Insurance Conpany of North Amer
lea and Alliance Insurance Company OF
MISREPRESENTATION Catlin.
st. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance
Company-Chfistens Edwards &
Goodwin. managers.
Northern Assurance Company. C.
Corbet. assistant manager.
Atlas Assurance Company. Limited
Manchester Assurance Company and
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have met all the San Francisco losses.
More than one half of the stockholders,
so IL was given out by directors, re-
fused TO stand for the assessment
and the proposition accordingly fell
through Then it was decided to apply
for a receiver.
BATES IN DUAL ROLE.
The secretary and the assistant sec
retary of the Traders Insurance Com
pany were held by the directors to be
responsible for the large amount of
risk assumed in California. But this
was not considered in Chicago suffi-
cient to excuse the attitude assumed
by the directors in throwing the com
pany into Insolvency
Attorney Bates appeared in Chicago
as counsel for the company when the
bill for a receiver was filed He is
OF the firm of Bates, Harding & Calk-
ings. Attorney Bates came to Califor-
MIA TO address the policy holders and
sound them as 10 whether they would
be willing TO take 60 cents on the doll
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-02

NEW YORK. June 1.--An important
meeting OF American insurance *compa-
nies was held here yesterday, when
resolutions setting forth the position
Of the underwriters represented as re-
CARDS tho adjustment. of. liabilities In
the san Francisco confagration were
unanimously adopted: The rulings
adopted AFFECT it is claimed. not. less
than IS per. cent Of the Insurance car
ried by American. corporations. and sz-
pHcifly deny liability for purely earth
quake losses. !: -. =:
After pointing out the complex and
intricate nature Of the: problems pre-
scented. for. solution and stating that 1T
IS. highly. odesirab BILE that all losses for
which the companies are legally liable
should be. promptly and fairly settled,
the resolutions. continue:
Whereas, -It.fs. .expedient. that a state
. n9ent. as 10 the legal and moral liability
: Of npanies< IN regard TO. claims aris-
ing from the catastrophe at San. Fran
cisco should be made. the subjoined is
adopted as a: fair statement of such
liability, suitable.to be used as the
basis for adjusting losses.
= =. That where policies. covered build
1nRs (and or tfleir~contents9 which had
certainly. fallen. before the p fire, or
which had been SO DANA ged as to void
the. Insurance under the express terms
of the contract. claims under such pol
icies should not be paid. -.
w here. policies covered buildings
1and or their contents) which may
have been damaged or destroyed by
the authorities, civil and military; sub
sequent TO the confiagration, claims un-
der such policies should not be paid
until the facts have been definitely as
certained-
3. aa9 Where policies covered build
4ngs (and or their contents) which
were. probably but not certainly so
damaged by earthquake as TO be
brought within the provisions of the
fallen. building clause; or lb) where
policies covered buildings land or their
contents) which had suffered from
shock Of earthquake, but not to such
an extent as 10 bring them within she
provisions of the fallen building
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of insurance issued by the Traders in
the burned district of San Francisco:
total amount of the demands made
upon the company for losses by the
fire in April: capital stock of the
Traders Company; amount of rein
surance: how much reinsurance is
good; the names of the stockholders;
the number of policy holders of the
Traders Company in San Francisco:
the total amount of Insurance issued
by the company in the United Stares:
the amount of unearned premiums >hat
must be returned; what settlements
with San Francisco policy holders
have been made to date and upon what
terms such settlements were made.
Expecting that an answer would be
promptly returned by Mr.. Gordon, the
committee voted to meet at Century
Hall next Monday at II a. m to dis
cuss the information received and per-
feet the report to be made to the pol
icy holders at their meeting Monday
afternoon.
Marshal Hale. chairman of the policy
holders, John S. Partridge secretary,
and all the members of the policy
holders committee were at the meet
ing yesterday. In addition to- those
mentioned the following were in at
tendance: w. F. Humphrey. H. G. w
Dinkelspiel, A. Aronson, Walter S
Linforth, W. II. Metson, Wv. Ben
nett. W. d. Plummer.
w. H. Metson reported that he had
personally taken steps to find out
what he could from Chicago about the
Traders Company, having telegraphed
to Robert Campbell to make certain
inquiries Mr.. Partridge was instructed
by the committee to investigate GER
tain legal points and report.
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SAYS TRADERS WILL PAY.
Mitchell Asserts Policy Holders VIII
. $50. - Get All rTbcir Nancy = =

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; CHICAGO June John J. Mitchell
today reiterated his statement that the
Traders Insurance Company directors
intended to pay their San Francisco
losses in full. despite dispatches from
San Francisco. that Attorney Thomas
Bates, representing them, told $50 poll
icy holders the company. would pay 90
cents on the dollar. -.
MIR. Bates was: instructed to find
out what the net claims of the San
Francisco creditors are, and to learn
what allowances the other fire compa-
MES are making for loss from earth
quake and dynamiting.' said Mitchell.
He was not authorized to make a pro-
posal for settlement. My interpreta-
ton of the newspaper reports, and L
have no others, is that he met the pol
icy holders to get their ideas on a fair
deduction for losses from other causes
l:than fire..
Receiver Byron l.. Smith, whom At
torney Bates also represented, said:
''As receiver / am not trying to make
any settlement. / am collecting assets
and getting ready to pay creditors pro
rata. Mr.. Bates went out to San Fran
cisco to see what the adtuster is doing
about the claims of San Francisco cred-
itors and to report to me. on the legal
aspects of the situation. What he may
have been doing for the directors / do
not know"
+ Bates was commissioned to go to the
coast after meetings by the entire
/. board of directors, which includes be-
sides Mitchell 7. ]. Lefenss c. L. Hutch
/ inson, E.. a. Hamills Abram POOLE E
buckingham. Clarence Buckingham
William Dickinson and A. Ne Young
+ The proposition of Bates ie IS said
was that If 80 per cent of the policy
1 holders would agree to accept a SO per
cent or 60 per cent adjustment the
payments would be made within sixty
dayS
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-02
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