The Springfield herald., 1909-06-11

Life insurance companies distributed
$3.50, ,00C in the United States and
Canada last year for death claims and
material endowment according to the
annual compilation Of the Insurance
Press.
Lieut. Gen. Arthur Macarthur. rank
ing officer of the army. was placed on
the retired list June End by operation
of the law on account of age and the
grade of lieutenant general has ceased
TO exist in the army.
The will of Bridget Torpy, for twen-
ty-seven years a cook in the family OF
Mrs. N. B. Taft, as filed in New York
city leaves $4,000, the savings OF
lifetime, to James Edward Johnson,
negro, who had been her assistant.
Justice William Gaynor of the appel
late division OF the New York Supreme
Court, In a letter adressed to Mayor
Mcclellan, denounces the police prac-
tice Of photographng for the 'rogues'
gallery" prisoners who have not been
convicted.
A meeting between Emperor Will
lam and Emperor Nicholas has been
arranged and will take place in the
waters of the Finnish gulf. The exact
date of the meeting will be decided
upon later, but 1t probably will be
June 18th.
Beginning with June 1st, 1900
agents of the New York Life lnsur-
ance Company of which Darwin P.
Kingsley is president, were dropped
ho &c
of the law of the state prohibiting any
company writing more than $150,000,-
900 Of new business in any one year.
The relief department of the Penn
sylvania railroad during the year 1908
paid the sum of sl,373,S56.43 to en-
ployes or their families on account OF
Illness or natural deaths. The amount
paid on account Of accidents was $547,-
35305. Since the relief department
was established in 1886, the total pay
ments to employed and their families
have amounted to $26,272, ,102.24.
The Panama libel case against the
owners of the Indianapolis News has
been continued In the Federal court at
indianapolis until October 11th, to
give the government opportunity to
produce as witnesses Frank Hitchcock
and Norman E. Mack, certain men,
bers of the office force and J. P. Nor
gan and certain government officials
n Washington.
On June Bird the one hundred and
first anniversary of the birthday OF
jefferson Davis was observed in Nor
folk, Portsmouth, and other Virginia
cities by the presentation of crosses
of honor" to veteran Confederates
with an innovation including the pre-
sentation of similar honors to widows
and descendants of Confederate SOL
diers.
Resenting the statement of David
Starr Jordan, president of Leland Stan
ford University, that France by her
own confession is weak and decad-
ent nation" which was made in an ad-
dress at Bryn Mawr College on the
subject of War and Mankind" Prof.
Lucien Foulet, instructor in French
literature, arose from his seat on the
platform and, exclaiming, 1T is not
SOL" left the building.
The copper exports for May totaled
100000 pounds. figure 2.250,000
pounds above the heavy exports for
the previous month. That the copper
situation is stronger is evident from
the fact that copper consuming con-
Germs have increased their consump-
ton to the extent of fifteen per cent
over what it was in the first quarter
of the current year.
After some of them had spent twen-
ty years of their life in the leper set
tlement on the island of Molokai, ten
of eleven supposed lepers who were
returned to Honolulu at the instance
of the territorial legislative committee
for re-examination, have been found
free of the disease. OF these, two are
boys of six and seven years, but the
others vary in age from twenty-seven
to seventy-nine, and some of them
have spent many years in the settle
ment.