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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-23
Hawaii suit Decided.

Washington. April 22.-The case Of
Harrison VS.. MagoOn. involving a dis
pute which originated in Tasmania,
was dismissed by the supreme court of
the United States today, which action
was favorable to Magoon.
The case grew out of an alleged
breach OF contract under which Harri-
son failed to secure stock in a business
enterprise in accordance with an al
legged agreement. The suit was insti-
tuted in Hawaii ard came from the
courts OF the islands of the supreme
court
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-23
HEROIC ELEVATOR MAN.

Chicago, April 22.-Fire damaged to
the extent of $3.50, GOO a six-story build
ing at 10000 Wabash avenue today.
Twenty girls employed by the Healy
Music company We're obliged to leave
the building by means of fire escapes,
but none was injured. Horace Manley,
in charge of the elevator. made repeat
ed trips with his car to the upper sto-
ries and rescued forty-five girls. Man
ley was finally overcome by smoke and
was carried out by firemen
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-23
Orderly Procession.
Received by the Premier.

The premier received the deputation in
private room War Secretary Haidane
and Baron TWeedmouth. first lSrd of tn,
admiralty, being present The premier
made a sympathetic reply and assured
the men of the governments anxiety that
these inevitable discharges should entail
as little hardship as possible
Secretary Haldare then explained the
necessity of the reduction in military ex-
penditure and the need of bringing things
Gown from the inflated position which
obtained during the late war. He said
there must be even further reductions
hut promised that every scrap of work
possible would be given to WooIwich.
Lord Tweedmouth then promised TO do
whatever was possible in behalf of the
navy department and the deputation with
drew.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-23
TORRENTS OF WATER.

Mobile. April 22.-F'ronl midnight last
night until this morning Mobile was Wis
tied oy a torrent OF rain. So great ives
the downpour that streets in many sec
tons OF the city were covered with wa
ter two feet deep. Children We're unable
to reach the school houses and tho
schools were closed. The new Union sta
ton was completely surrounded by water.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-23
COLLISION IN TUNNEL.

Knoxville, Tenn, April PA portion
Of the Copper Ridge tunnel upon the
Louisville & Nashville railroad. seven
teen miles north of this city, caved in
today. snothering a fire that had been
burning since yesterday, when two
freight trains coilided in the tunnel.
Ons thousand feet OF the tunnel is dam
aged Two brakemen were hurt
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-23
Frau Heinrich knote.

Munich, Bavaria. April 22.-Frau
Heinrich Knote, wife of the leading
tenor of the Royal opera house here. is
dead. She was born in the United
States. where her husband is wen
known.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-23
THE DEATH RECORD.
Rev. Leroy A. Belt, D. D.

Kenton. O.. April Prev. Leroy 4.
Belt d. D., president of the Ohio
Northern university, and prominent in
the NJ. e. church in the United States.
died today of heart disease.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-23
FOUR CHILDREN cREMATEp.

{: Fulton. Ky. April 22.-Four I:
a children of AR. Hodad, a Greek {
: merchant, were cremated last Z
2 night il a fire that destroyed their (.
/. home. Mr. and Mrs Hodad were e
3 badly burned, and the latter may q
a not recover. Z
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-23
RuIcK. oN WALTINc LIST.

; Especial to The Herald. Z
? Washington. D. c.. April "a Z
} District Attorney Ruiek did not 4
see the attorney general or the c
; President today. The attorney (
general is sick in Baltimore (
; Ruick is going there to see him Z
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-23
POLICY MUST BE PAID.
Suicide Not a Valid Defense for In
suranee COMPANIES.

Washington. April 22.-In deciding the
case of Amanda S. Whitfield OF Kansas
City, Mo, VS.. the Aetna Life Insurance
company of Hartford, the supreme
court of the United States today con-
struod the Missouri state law providing
that the suicide of an insured person
shall not constitute a valid defense in
resisting payment upon the policy
against the company.
The opinion was delivered by Justice
Harlan and reversed the decision of the
circuit court OF appeals for the Eighth
circuit. which decision was in favor of
the company. The policy involved was
for 5000 upon the life of James Whit
field, husband of the plaintiff, and was
taken out about eighteen months before
the death by suicide. There was
clause exempting the company from
paying more than $500 in case Of sui
eide, and this sum the local federal
court awarded. The court of appeals
took the position that an expansive
construction of the law would render
the statute violative of the common
law allowing freedom in contracts. The
court therefore held that the state law
could not properly be construed as pro-
hibiting the right 10 classify risks
which had been done I'm providing for
the payment of only $500 in case of the
death of the insured by his own hand.
The supreme court took the opposite
view.
Justice Harlan's Opinion.
Justice Harlan said in part:
Eve cannot agree with the learned
courts below in their Interpretation OF
the state law. The contract between
the parties. evidenced in the policy, is,
we think, an evasion of the statute and
tends 10 defeat tie objects for which il
was enacted. In clear. emphatic words
the statute declares that IL all suits on
policies of insurance or life it shall be
70 defense that the insured committed
suicide unless it be shown he contem-
plated suicide when applying for the
policy. Whatever tends to diminish the
plaintiffs cause of action or to defeat
recovery in whole or in part amounts
in law to 8 defense. When the COM
pany denied its liability for the whole
Of the principal sum it certainly made
"A defense as to all of that sum except
one-tenth. If. Notwithstanding the
statute the company by contract could
have bound itself in case of the suicide
of the insured. TO pay only one-tenth
of the principal sum, it could have law
fully contracted fer exemption as To the
whole sum or only a nominal part
thereof, and, If sued defeat any action
ia which a recovery was sought for the
entire amount insured. In this way the
statute could be made useless for every
practical purpose. Looking at the OBJ
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-23
Thomas w. Bishop.

Salem, 5. D., April 22.-Thomss w.
Bishop. one of the best known newspa
per men in South Dakota, died here of
paralysis last night.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-23
Matthai St. innes.

Cologne, Germany. April 22.-Matfhai
St Times. one of the most important
coal magnates Of Germany, is dead.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-23
HARD LINES FOR
DISCHARGED MEN
Reduction of Military Expenses
in England Leaves Thou
sands Out of Work.
"cRY OF THE UNEMPL DYED"
VICTIMS MARCH WITH BANDS
AND BANNERS.

London, April 22.-The 'cry of the IN
employed was raised in London again
tonight when several thousand workmen
who mad been discharged from Woolwich
arsenal as an outcome of War Secretary
Haldane's scheme of reducing military
expenses marched with bands and ban
ners from Woolwich to the house Of COM
mons to impress their grievances upon the
government. The complaints of the men
are far-reaehing, representing not oniy
loss of employment, but the wiping out
OF their savings invested in little prop
critics located in the historical and here
tofore prosperous town of WooIwich.
Orderly Procession.
Some Of the discharged men have been
employed in the arsenal at NoolWich for
not less than thirty years A number of
printers and other tradesmen, laborers
and citizens Joined the procession, which
Was further augmented by strong body
of workers from the army clothing fac
tory at PimlieO. The entire eight miles
of march was thickly lined with spec
tatoTs. The procession which was per-
fectly ordered was halted at St Georges
circle, mile from the house of parlia-
ment, from where a deputation of picked
men proceeded TO the house OF commons
TO lay their grievances before Premier
Campbell Bannerman
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-23

Trying to sell goods with cheap
advertising matter is like trying
to win a golden crown by drop
ping pennies in the contribution
box.-Rusty Mikes Diary.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-04-23

Mr. Rockefeller says he loves
his country. Of course he does.
So would the rest of US if we
owned one-Houston Post.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-29
QUICK TRIP ACROSS OCEAN
The Lusitania Breaks All Previous
Eastern Records.

Queenstown, October 24.-The CIn-
ard steamer Lusitania arrived here at
9:3O this evening" She has broken the
best previous eastern record.
The best previous record from New
York to Queenstown was five days,
four hours and nineteen minutes. This
the Lusitania made herself on her last
run from New York. The Lusltana
cleared Sandy Hook lightship at 5:4l
q. M, Saturday last. Her time Of pas
sage has been four days, % hours and
46 minutes.
This is about six hours better than
the last eastward bound passage CT tre
boat The Lusitania experienced rougtl
weather and was obliged to slow down
her engines. Her daily runs were
405, $40, $40, 532 and Thursday to noon
$40. Her average speed for the entire
distance was 23.G1 knots.
An official statement issued Dy the
Cunard Company points out that trav-
cling against the sun, these figures
mean exceptionally fine steamlng. O1:
a westward trip, with a twenty-five
hour day they would mean a daily aT-
erage Of nearly G20 knots.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-29
Continued Presence of Admiral Ey-
ans i'm Washington and Conference
es Between President Roosevelt
and Secretary Netcalf Causes Com
ment-Many Changes Made Daily
i'm Personnel of Officers.

| Washington, Oct 24.-The contin
ued presence in Washington OF Real
Admiral Evans, who is in command
or the Atlantic battleship fleet on it,
voyage to the Pacific. the daily ap-
pearance OF orders making changes
| In the personnel OF the feet, and the
conferences going on between the
president and Secretary Metcalf since
| the former returned to Washington
have had the effect to renew inter
est in the rapidly approaching de-
parture Of the great fleet Naval of
ficerS here have had their attention
directed to the remarks of the presI-
dent in the course Of his recent
speech at Vicksburg, bearing upon
/ the fleet movement, as representing
the present state of mind of the ex-
ecutive upon that subject. 1t is re-
called that he president took occa-
sion during his remarks to answer
the criticism he said he had obsery-
ed in some quarters that he was eX-
ceeding the appropriation available
for coal in getting the fleet to the
Pacific
At this point he turned to Repre-
sentative John Sharp Williams who
was on the platform, and remarked.
Il should like to say that we have
money enough to get the fleet to
the Pacific. If the appropriation is
then exhausted the question of get
ting it back will depend upon an
other appropriation being made
While this utterance appeared to
indicate a purpose on the part of
the president to leave to congress
the final decision of the question as
TO whether or not the battleship fleet
vas to return to the east, it is now
certain that the president has never
in his mind cherished any idea of
maintaining the feet permanently in
the Pacific.
Indeed, it was today learned be-
yond question does he intend to or
der the feet back to the Atlantic, but
that unless his present plans are
changed that order will be forward
ed to the admiral in command before
the ships have been ninety days on
the Pacific coast Of North America.
One important conclusion is to
be drawn from this esta ablished fact
that the ships are to be returned al
most as soon as the great ships can
be cleaned up, replenish their sup
plies of coal and provisions, and be
otherwise made completely ready for
the $4,000 miles return cruise. That
conclusion that the eXeCutiv feels alb
sOlutely no apprehension respecting
the possibilities of wa with ia
pan and the short stop at the trun-
ing point will amply demonstrate
the truth of the statement heretofore
made from authorized sources that
the purpose Of the cruise is to test
the caDabilitieS Of modern battle
shin feet under conditions almost as
trying in the point Of endurance as
least as might be expected to arise IN
actual warfare.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-29
is AN ALABAMA CONCERN
Soutehrn Steel Company Capitaliz-
ed at SD, ,Oo0. .OOO-Was Said to
be Long Of Assets and Short of
C&h-1aiHed by Official That
Company Is Perfectly Solvent.

Birmingham. Ala, Oct. 24.-Ar
involuntary petition in bankruptcy
| was fled in the federal court this
| afternoon against the Southern Stee
| company. capitalized at $4,000, 900
The creditors seeking the bankruptcy
order are the Birmingham Coal and
Iron Company; the Sayre Mining and
Manufacturing Company, and the Ca
haba Coal Company.
The Southern Steel Company owns
a big steel plant at Gadsden, steel
rod. wire and nail mills at Ensley
coal mines at Altoona and Virginia
City, and ore mines throughout the
Birmingham district as we'll as coke
ovens and other properties.
Moses Taylor of New York, is pres
ident, and Z. T. Schuler, of Birming-
ham general manager.
The petition alleges that the COM
pany committed an act of bankruptcy
in acknowledging in writing it's in
ability to pay its debts. 1t is also
& erred in the petition that the de-
fcL22It company has been insolvent
for six months.
The petition asks that it be ad-
judged a bankrupt and that receiv-
rs be appointed.
Attorneys for the petitiOning cred
itors have gone to Huntsville, where
United States Judge O. r. Huntley is
holding court to secure an order
naming the receivers.
The filing of the petition was no
surprise in the financial and indus
trial circles here. Some such action
has been expected for some time,
though it was rumored as late as
yesterday the company was about
to reorganize.
Vice President Schuyler said this
afternoon that his company is "abun-
dantly solvent and if the creditors
are patient and will cooperate with
us all debts of the company will be
paid In full and the company put
back on it's feet
Mr. Schuyler said also that the
plants would go on uninterrupted.
He attributed the financial embar-
rassment of his company to the tight
money market in the east, and other
causes.
New York. Oct 24.-The South
ern Steel company against which an
Involuntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed today at Birmingham was
according to one Of the directors in
this city.
He said that owing to the present
condition of the money market the
company was unable to get funds to
meet it's bills and accounts and the
present action was taken to secure
the creditors.
OF the s25, 100000 capital stock
of the company $10.0OO,OOO is pre-
ferred and $l5,O00.0OO common. f.
T. Schuyler and Evans T. Jones,
both Of birmingham, are the first
and second vice presidents respective
Iy
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-29

Rome, October 24.-The details re-
cefved here during the day regarding
the earthquake in Calabria yesterday
J In every way tend to show that the
damage done was more extended than
at first estimated. but that the loss of
NE hes not bean great. The lowest
estimates place the number of killed
at about 30 and the highest at about
l2o, but up to this evening there is
notn1ng to show that the last figure
mentioned are correct. Nothing de-
Unite will be known on the subject
until the ruins are cleared away.
Details, of the earthquake show
that the shocks were especially
severe in the southern end of Calabria
Peninsular. but throughout CaIabria
there We're scenes of desolation and
despair
The first shock was a tremendous
one, and was followed by two others
of longer duration. which entirely de-
stroyed two villages and reduced many
houses in several sections 10 mass Of
ruins.
Tho first shock fortunately brought
the entire population of the villages
INTO the open, many succeeded in
making their escape to the hills or
open plains which accounts for the
SmallneSS of the list of fatalities To
add to- the desolation caused by the
SShi tIiQudhe II was raining IN torrents
yesterday evening which greatly in
creased the suffering among the
homeless people.
Many persons were buried in the
ruins and at Sinopoli ana St. Ilario
more lives arc said to have been lost
Panic prevailed everywhere Ro-
cello, Jonica, Reggie. BaraCdio. Citta-
nova, Palmi. Marina and other towns
also suffered from the shocks, but
none severely.
The cathdral at Tore di Gerace,
was thrown down as was also an an
cient tower which had withstood all
the Calabrian earthquakes for centur-
les past. Half the houses of the VIII
lage of Gerace are in ruins and SIM
liar conditions prevail in a number
Of other points in Calabria.
During the confusion caused by the
first earth shock, the prisoners in the
Jail at Catanzaro mutinied and were
only Subdued with great difficulty
The female prisoners were particular
ly alarmed, screaming and shouting
and beating the doors until the whole
place was in a terrible uproar. The
prison officials did everything possible
to calm the inmates but panics broke
out afreSh every time an earth shock
was experienced.
AS soon as possible detachments of
troops. With relief trains, were hu1-
ried to the scene Of the disaster and
did everything they coulG to assist
the People who had fled from their
homes
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-29
FOR INLAND WATERWAY
Convention to be Held to Further
Project.

Philadelphia. October 24.-At meet
ing held in the Office Of Mayor Rey-
burn today 4 fund was subscribed to
defray the expenses Of a convention
to be held in this city November 1870,
in the interest OF q proposed lnIaL'l
waterway from Cap Cod to Beaufort,
n. C. At the meeting 1nal arrange
ments were completed for the conyen-
ton at which it is expected representa-
tives will be present from all the At
lantic coast states.
At the meeting today the plan Of the
waterway was outlined by Congl es 8
man J. Hampton Moore, of this city
The meeting was attended by repre-
sentatives of trade organizations from
Trenton and camden, n. j., Whining
on, Delaware, and other places. Among
those present were Congressman Bur
ton, Of Delaware; Bingham, Moore
Foulkrod, Of Philadelphia, and Frank
Lane of the national board Of trade.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-29
OBJECT TO ANNEXATION
Citizens OF HaynOunt Claim That
Act OF Legislature is Illegal.
(SDecial to The Messenger. }

Fayetteville, n. c., October "a
Citizens Of IaymOunt, the Wealthiest
and most pOpu1ouS suburb of the city,
recently incorporated within city linn
it's, under act of the legislature and
known as the eighth ward, have be-
gun proceedings to enjoin the city of
Fayetteville from exercising control
over said Haymount on the following
causes of action. That the act Of the
legislature extending the corporate
limits of the city of Fayetteville was
not passed in accordance with the
law, in that it passed two readings in
the senate on the same day without
roll call, whereas the state cOnstitu-
ton expressly requires this; that there
is no record Of the concurrence of
the senate in certain amendments
made by the house; also that the act
provided that the election be held by
the people residing in TIE extended
district only, whereas the election as
held allowed all persons to vote, in
Guiding the citizens of the original
seven wards, and further, that the
boundary as set forth in the act was
indefinite and did not incIuue tnar
portion OF the extended limits as
claimed ny the city of Fay ettevllle.
The Fayetteville Realty and Insur-
ance company. capital 100000, was
organized today, with the following
officers: c. c. McAllister, president;
A. F. Rankin, vice president; j. G.
MCAllister, secretary and treasurer;
Rose & Rose, attorneys.
w. M. Morgan, director Of the Cape
Fear Electric Power Company, one OF
the most prominent business men IN
this city. who has been critically Ill
for a few days in Highsmith Hospital.
is much improved.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-29

Voeck's attorney. He told how
Voeks had come TO his dressing room
in the theatre where he was playing
and demanded $1,000 from him.
threatening IL it was refused TO have
published in a newspaper a story So
riOusly rejecting on Hitchcock.
Regarding his acquaintance with
Toecks' 12-year old sister, and other
young ladies, he said that on one oc-
casion he took Elsie voecks and an
nor girl out for an automobile ride,
with 80 permissioin OF their mothers.
His conduct at all timss had been
above reproach. he declared.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-29
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT

Keen, ". II. October 24.-Lester
I.eiscester Ford the novelist, was pro-
baby fatally scalded at the summer
home of Mrs. Ford's father, Edward
H. Kidder, at Chesam today. A tub
of hot water had been drawn for the
child's bath, and before it had been
cooled sufficiently tie little one either
jumped or fell into it.
Paul Leicester Ford was shot and
killed by his brother, Malcolm Ford
in New York in 1902 after dispute
over an inheritance. Malcolm Ford
then killed himself.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-29
CONVICTED OF PERJURY
DR.. Gillette, Former Vice President
of Mutual Life Insurance Co.

New York, October 24.-The jury III
the case of DR.. Walter Gillette, former
vice-president of the Mutual Lite In
surance company, who Was charged
with perjury, tonight returned a YER
dict of guilty. The verdict was accom-
panied with a recommendation for mer-
cy. DR.. Gillette was remanded uElu
Monday for sentence. The jury was out
one hour and twenty-five minutes. IN
the interval Dr.. Gillette chatted with
his son and daughter. If he was at
all nervous he did notbe tray his state
of mind. When called to face the ju,y.
however. he paled perceptibly, the pal
lor giving way TO a flush as he heard
the verdict. He appeared surprised.
but promptly recovered himself. He
was accompanied by the son and daueh
ter TO the entrance of the tombs.
The specific charge upon which DR..
Gillette was found guilty was that he
had testified falsely before the grand
jury on May "a, at which time he was
vice president of the Mutual
The indictment alleges that at that
time under examination by District
Attorney Jerome he stated that certain
moneys in the Dobbs Ferry bank were
those of his personal friends, and that
subsequently under cross-examinetion
ton he had admitted that these funds
We're really the property of the Mutual
Life.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-29
Strikers Return to Work

New Orlens, October 24-The levee
strike, involving 10000 men. mostly
cotton handlers, ended tonight. The
men agreed to return to work tOmOr-
row pending final adjustment of the
controversy by arbitration which was
proposed yesterday by the local steam
ship agents The strike was sympa-
thetic in behalf of about 1900 cotton
sci holds the number Of bales demand
ed by the steamship agents.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-29
WAS DRAMATIC EPISODE STAY NOT PERMANENT

maze on Can Money Dropped From
o 70 Az FER Cent-Sacrifice of
securities Prevented-TrusfC Com
Rany of America Comes Ont Of a
Tive Days Run With FIvino Col
-ofs-When Stock Exchange Closed
everyone Was Getting All the
money They Needed-Three Small
banks Suspend Payment-Brokers
Cheer j. Pierpont Morgan and
MEMBERS OF the Pool Which Saved
thc Day.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1907-10-29

Take something now ano then to
help the stomach. Kodol will do this
It Is a combination of natural d.
gestants and vegetable acids and
contains the same juices found IN
healthy stomach. 1t ia pleasant to
take. 1t digests what you eat. Sold
by Robt. r. Bellamy.