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The New Yor Evening Post's FINANCIAL SUPPLEMENT of Saturday, April 14, \Vil| Contain a Special Article on Th Minneapoli so To-da Its place in present-day American finance its significance in the rise of the new Northwest its part in the great "boom" of the past half-dozen years, and its outlook for the future. Prepared by a special correspondent, sent to the spot by THE EVENING POST, to study the city and its prospects. For Sale on All Newsstands INSURANCE PROBE CHANCE OF REFORM Legislative Committee Uncovers Alleged Faults in Insurance Company System. Milwaukee, April 14.So far the m vebtigci+iou ot the Northwestern Mutual I Life 1 noiirrr.ee company by a special legislative committee has developed the following matters which the committee evidentlv thinks must be remedied in I the company's management: FustThe practical control of the elections of the company by the officers of the corporation. Second'Loans upon policies at high interest rates bv officers and relatives of officers of the company. ThirdThe charging of a higher rate of interest by the company on small loans on policies than is charged upon large loans made on the same class of securitv. There tvas no meeting of the com mittee todav. Several members of the committee left for their homes, but will return Monday when the work will be resumed. Assignment Clause Criticized. The testimony taken vesterday after noon was of a technical but of a highly important chaiacte". The men on the stand were Perlev H. Sanborn, third vice Dresident of the Northwestern Mu tual Life Insurance company, and head of its loan department, and the com pany's actuary, C. A. Loveland. The main feature of Mr. Sanborn's testimony was brought out in compari sons between the assignnent clauses of the policy loan papers of the North western Mutual Life Insurance com pany and other companies making poli cy loans. The assignment or the Northwestern's policy provides for the First to Try It. It is a mark of distinction to be a pioneer in any good cause. What more natural than that a Connecticut invest ment banker should write us "I think I was the first one here to use Barrington Hall coffee, and I found it to be what I had most de sired, a coffee which I could use freely without in jury, for I love coffee as I love my life, and I had been obliged to forego the ordinary kind on account of its dyspeptic qualities. Very truly, ARTHUR G. TODD." The enthusiasm of a man who finds what he is looking for In Barrington Hall, the steel-cut coffee, is seldom found in any merely good food product. is goodthat is, delicious, satisfying and economical +r- 0^ *but it is something more Tft^^rsS? CjOrfeft something that you.do %JXG ^**y^w Barrii^toiCHallE Elegance Saturday^Eveningtf MONDAY or from THE MINNESOTA NEWS COMPANY, through any newsdealer ORDER NOW ORDER NOW absolute forfeiture of policies used as collateral for loans from the company upon default in the payments of princi pal, interest or premiums on the policy. This is declared by Actuary Miles M. Dawson to be the most severe assign ment clause of any company, altho some eastern companies are said to have simi lar clauses. Mr. Sanborn said the as signment conditions are rarely enforced. Deferred Dividends Abandoned. The testimony of Actuary Loveland developed the fact that the passage of the Wisconsin law compelling dividend divisions on policies at least once in five years haa caused the company to abandon writing all deferred dividend policies. Another interesting fact brought out by Mr. Loveland's testimony was that policyholders who did not accept the guaranteed settlement on twenty year tontine policies, but chose rather to keep the policies in force, had not" been able to realize as much on the policies as they would have obtained from a twntv-veor settlement if settlements i were made one, two or three years after the regular settlement period. LITTLE GIRL KILLED BY THRDST OF PITCHFORK Special to The Journal. St. Peter. Minn., April 14.Details of a terrible acident in the township of Moltke, Sibley county, which resulted fatally for Tillie Janke, an 8-year- old girl, have -just been received in this city. The child was impaled on a pitchfork, one of the her brain. Th*e girl's elder brother was pitching' straw from a stable. While thus en gaged the little girl ran into the open doorway and, not noticing her ap-! proach, he thrust the fork in her ace.| One of the tines was deflected by the 1 no Health IN Boys' Clothes PE have carried nearly every make of Boys' Clothing since we find i an fee and there is a reason for this claim. The significant part of the steel-cut process, by which Bar- rington Hall is prepared, is that it removes the bitter tannin bearing, yellow skin. If you will make an infusion of the cof- fee parchment (found within the kernelV you will find it a strong astringent without any coffee flafbr. If you will ex- amine Barrington Hall as it comes to you in the sealed tins you will notice that it contains none of the bitter parchment, no dust or any impurity. Also note that it is finely granulated so as to yield its coffee flavor fully, the moment the infusion comes to the boiling point. Try it don't take our word for anything. Roasted, steel cut, packed by machinery in sealed tins and guaranteed by Baker & Co., Importers, Minneapolis. For sale by the better class of grocers at 35c per pound. have been in business, but we have never handled an article that gave such satisfaction to the Rain Proof, Moth Proof, Double Seat, Double Knee, Taped Seams, Wire Sewed Buttons, Elastic Waist band, Pants Front-Lined with Linen, Padded Shoulders, "Indestructible" Lining, Pockets Tacked with Silk. You get all these advantages of IFJIiSiy style and health-quality for nothing because the "Best-Ever" Health Suits are so much more durable that it is really economy to buy them. "Beot-ETcr' Club Button FREE with every* Suit. Write to Spitz & Schoanberg Bros., Maker", Chicago, for Booklet explaining all about tola groat National Boys' Club, and Game*. vanr^i? ot ITAKEDLIFETO WIN MILLION LOST Prof. WurtexLberger First Victim of Powerful Explosive He Invented. A, Journal Special Service. Mount Vernon, N. Y., April million dollars against his life. These were the stakes played tor last night in a chemical laboratory in East Chester by Professor Wurten berger, inventor of an explosive twenty times more powerful than dynamite. The professor lost and will pay the forfeit, with his life, having been fa tally injured by an explosion while he was experimenting. Professor Wurtenberger's explosive is set off by a fuse. He recently gave a demonstration of its power to govern 1 tines entering I cheek bone, but another penetrated the eye and entered the brain, and she dropped to the floor unconscious. Colds relieved without a jar with Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar.and Best for coughs. Moves the bowels. A liquid cold cure. C0f. *r*vJ-&-*-w.* 14.A dangerous experiments conducted there,! fre is located at a desolate place in theI the explosion occurredst 4.1. 11 Cre lder I *to*i.8ee ?a Yi khn Journa Specia I 5 calling madly tor help, while the humeri skin wasl help while the burned skin was hanging in tatters from his arms. His ears were nearly burned off, while his clothes had been taken off to the waist by the force of the explosion. DREAM, SAYS CLEWS Plan of Stock Brokers to Regulate Banking Impracticable. SeryIce New York, April 14.It is learned upon trustworthy authority that cer tain leading interests upon the stock exchange have in contemplation steps which they believe may serve to regu late money market conditions in this city. Stockbrokers feel that they and their customers have been treated unfairly by the banks and that a great deal of business is being diverted to London other points on account of the ex cessively high rates which have been exacted for money. So far as can be ascertained, it is proposed that individ ual members of the stock exchange s'lall subscribe a large amount of cap italsay $25,000,000 or $S0,000,000 which will be applied either in the form of an increase of the capital stock of the National City bank or to be employed in the organization of a new trust company to be operated under the direction of the National City bank. Would Regulate Gold. It is argued that some such control over the international money market as is now exercised by the Bank of England could be attained by such an institution and that in times of stress gold imports could either be expedited or gold imports checked by such extra means as are used by the Bank of Eng land. The subject in question is at pres ent in a somewhat chaotic form, but much more is apt to be heard of it later. James B. Clews, of the banking firm of Henry Clews & Co., said today: "The whole thing is a dream. The way stock exchange houses do business the existence of such an institution is impossible. Its over-certification would have to be so enormous that nobodv who knows anything about the# banking business would want to deposit money in such an institution. If the business were confined to one institution, over certification would reach $50,000,000 a day, and the bank examiners would close it the first week of its exist- SECRET GHINESE FORT FROWNS ON AMERIGANS BLACK N SAYS lE'S REAL ELIJAH ment officials and thirty prominent' the only true Jews and assert that chemists from various parts of the Christ was a black man. United States. The demonstration was pronounced a success. Stakes His Life. It is said that the government offi cials wanted Professor Wurtenberger to perfect his invention to be touched off by an electric spark instead of a fuse, and that if he could accomplish this the government would pay him $1,000,000 for the recipe of the ex plosive. Professor Wurtenberger realized that the first test of the electric spark would mean either success or death, and rather than give up his life's work he de cided last night to apply electricity to to the world. Intimate friends of Pro fessor Wurtenberger said he had anyears idea his explosive would revolutionize the warfare of the world. Was Alone in Peril. The laboratory, on account of the carnatiorn, of Journal Special Service,. New York, April 14.There gath ered last night, ,in Plainfield, which is in New Jersey, over against the hills of Watchung, nine hundred and some odd of the lost tribe ot-Israel. "All hail," was the greeting of each to each. "Peace be unto thee," was the re sponse. They kissed each other on the lips, for Solomon had said, "Let him kiss me with the kisses of the mouth." Thus came the descendants of Israel to Plainfield. They declare themselves Plainfield failed to house and feed adequately the swarthy multitude. Many were exhausted after long jour neys from distant points in the east, west, north and south. Several dele gates came from Kansas and one from Africa. Celebrate Passover. The gathering of these negroes in Plainfield is for the purpose of cele brating the feast of the Passover. It will continue for a week. Members of the Church of God and Saints of Christ regard with loving awe and veneration their prophet, Wil liam S. Crowdy Of Emporia, Kan. He and white-mustached negro of 60. Nine ago he was the most highly es teemed cook employed on the dining cars of the Santa Fe railroad. One night he had a vision, and a white robed angel told him wasi the rein-Ieh ove tures an salt meadows, two miles from East *?ete.of ths Biblcen a ndla thefounda- Chester. The inventor was alone 'when \\10e and he shrieked with pain tor fullfiV,an hour before' Says Jews Were Black. medical assistance could be obtained. I th London, April 14.The Tribune's cor respondent at Peking telegraphs as fol lows: "While native unrest continues there is an augmentation of the feeling in the foreign community that the European and American governments are unwise in weakening their positions in the eyes of the Chinese. "Major General Ventris (command ing the British troops in north China) and Chief Engineer Blair have proceed ed to Wei-hai-wei, ostensibly to dis band the Chinese regiment, but really, I have reason to believe, to return the harbor and port to China. "Even in case of local disturbances the burden of the first defense will fall upon the Americans. The Chinese have a fort on the wall, which secretly commands the American position. This would demand capture by a rush, but the American garrison is too weak to afford the necessary men. Meanwhile incendiary literature is being spread." WATEBXOO IOWA Frank Sproul, 17 years old. had^his thumb torn off while working at an oil lathe in the Iowa Dairy Separator company's shop. A new idea in cough syrupsKen nedy's Laxative Honey and Tar. Moves the bowels, expels all cold from the sys tem. Relieves all coughs. 59.80 to California and Beturn via Chicago Great Western Bailway Account Mystic Shrine Convention. Los Angeles, May 7th to 10th. Tickets on sale April 25th to May 5th, inclusive. Final return limit, July 31st. Stop over privileges granted. $72.40 going via a direct route and returning via Portland, or the reverse. For full in formation, apply to R. H. Heard, G. A., Nicollet avenue and 5th street, Minne apolis, Minn. "Will be found an excellent remedy for sick headache. Carter's Little Liver Pills. Thousands of letters from people who have used them prove this fact. Try them. Jew wer no THE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL. April" "14181966. "J7%} Former Cook, Now Head Negro-Jews, Calls Dowie a Fake Prophet. fhe lt Elijah. There wahs Perso to reach 1 destroyed by an alien army some een- he th the laboratory describes th.eh sufferings, turies ago the people were driven out. i "mentor being something rui ^a,s found ThWe followerstemple'of Nin S a*deliv- ^I ?,L CT? 1 clxur Thi *i hl %__ arn Jerusalemswas of Elija were Jew and an a hal 0 tribes were lost. bldctkh people. For does Solomo i 5 a nd 6, sing in his songs: I am black but comely, oh ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me because I am swarthy, because the sun hath scorched me.'' As proof that Christ was a black man, and that Prophet Crowdy and his host are Jews because they are black, Crowdy quotes from Jeremiah, vii., 21: I am black astonishment hath taken on me." Also Psalms ix, 83: "For I am become like a bottle in the smoke." Poses as Elijah. Once Crowdy had possessed himself of the revealed secrets, he threw up his pots and pans and began preaching t the blacks, telling them that they were the true Jews, and that he was Elijah reincarnate. He attracted to him a considerable following. He welcomed whites to his fold. The men dress jn? nut-brown suits, brown ^signifying* meekness. The prophet ancaserne o hisjinore opulent* sajnts wear brown ^pe&e and patent leather shoes. rxrFh4 signers wear robin jg blue w^istsVblueRsignifying truth. The other, official colors are white, for purity red for the sacred blood black for royalty and yellow and pink. The prophet won't telh what yellow and pink signify. Those are secrets in the color scheme. The brothers of Israel wear mortarboard hats with tassels the three corners of the mortarboards symbolizing friendship, love and truth. All Wear Sashes. T* You can exchange your dollars and cents with H. G. Neal for awnings and tents. 245 Hennepin avenua. Both males and females have sashes flung over the left shoulder inscribed with the letters of the church in gilt. Plainfield sat up and took real notice of the host when it paraded the streets. St. Isaac Fassett, high bugler of the church, headed the procession, blowing mighty blasts on a silver Ladies' Bailor Tie Patent Corona Colt whole vamp wide rib bon bow drop toe high military heel ex tension edge medium weight sole. Also made in Gun Metal and Tar. trumpet shaped like a ram's horn. The pro phet, wearing a spiked helmet and white kid gloves, rode in a hack. Be hind him came Grandfather Abraham, otherwise William Pluramer, and Grand mother Sara, on week days plain Martha Butler. The ministers of the church, fifty of them, carried ach a little basin, a cup and a slice of unleavened bread. The ministers are continually equipped with these articles the basin in which to wash the feet of an intending convert, the cup to place water to his lips and the unleavened bread for sacrament. Feast Began at Midnight. At the conclusion of the street parade the hosts repaired to Eeform hall, for a few hours' relaxation and communion. Careful plans had been made for the beginning of the feast of the Passover, which started at midnight. The elders, under orders from the prophet, had ob tained in Plainfield markets whole car casses of the finest spring lamb. A roaring fire was started in the cook stove in the basement of the hall. Stacks of unleavened bread were ob tained and casks of pure water. Before the feasting began testimonial services and preaching were held in the hall. Prophet Crowdy looks on Alexander Dowie as a bogus Elijah. Pointing to his kinky white wool, the prophet quotes "his hair will look like lamb's wool and his eyes will look like flames of fire." ST. GLOUD LID BREAKS, SALOON HEN REJOICE Special to The Journal. St. Cloud, Minn., April 14.This city is no longer under the "lid." The saloonkeepers have been notified that, beginning tomorrow, saloons will be al lowed to remain open all day except during the hours of public worship. The regulations regarding week days remain as at present. The front doors must be closed by 11 o'clock and the places emptied before midnight. Mayor Robinson detailed Police Sergeant Bet tenberg to notify the saloonkeepers of the change of policy and there is much -jubilation on their part. FEVER EPIDEMIC SPREADS Pittsburg Situation Improves, hut Scare Sweeps Down River. Pittsburg, April 14.Pittsburg's epi demic of typhoid, while apparently de creasing in the dailv number of cases, appears to be spreading to the surround ing municipalities. Twenty-one new cases have been reported. Towns along the Ohio river below Pittsburg are beginning to report cases in alarming numbers and instructions have been issued by the various local boards of health to use no water out of the Ohio river for drinking purposes un less it has been boiled. VOLCANO'S DEAD TO REACH- THOUSAND With Vesuvius' Wrath Spent, Mangled Bodies Are Taken from Ruins. Naples, April 14.Before the last chapter is written about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1906, it is prob able that a death roll of 1,000 persons will be recorded. How many millions of dollars have been lost it will take weeks to compute, but the popular es timate is about $75,000,000 direct loss, not to mention the enormous loss to farmers thru inability to cultivate the once-fertile fields that were left deserts by the fury of the volcano. The period of danger has passed, and only desolation and slowly-declining panic remain. Mount Vesuvius has ceased to give any sign of life. The volcano seems to have spent itself in one enormous convulsion. Thinks Danger Past. 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Naples is just beyond this circle. Apprehension has given place to a smiling confidence here, which there is little reflection of the terror which had prevailed for the past week. But in other quarters there is no escaping from the awful evidences of the vol cano's furjr. f_ Mangled Dead Removed. At Boscotrecase the exhumation of the dead is being carried on by sol diers, who, owing to the advanced state of decomposition of the corpses, are unable to work more than an hour at a time. The work is one of great financial cost as well as of danger and arduous ness to those" engaged in it. Many of the bodies are merely shapeless, unrec ognizable masses of flesh and bones. As quickly as possible they are buried in quicklime, to lessen the danger of epidemic. IJ ere are actual photographs of two'models of COCKRAfTTO DEFEND MINERS. Boise, Idaho, April 14.J. H. 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MOTHER WANTED B1BE CARRIED AS BAGGAGE 'I: Special to The Journal. %-g^ Milwaukee, April 14.Railroad men draw the line at babies as baggage. This was made plain by Baggagemaster John S. Eunyon at the Union station today, when a young woman asked to have her baby carriage checked. Thei request was complied with. When the? baggageman started to wheel the car riage out of the way he found it was occupied by a healthy, good-looking baby. "Here. Come back and get your baby," he cried to the mother. "Oh, no, he'll be all right there,'* was the response. The baggageman, however, camea his point. SALMON IS FIRST He Will Represent S. D. Agricultural College in State Oratorical Contest. Special to The Journal. Brooking, S. D., April 14.Orators of the state agricultural college competed last night for the honor of representing the institution in the state contest at Huron. Cecil Salmon was awarded first place by the judges. 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