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VOL. XXX, NO. 40
MONEY PAID BABCOCK
MUTUAL LIFE CONTRIBUTED %2f
•00 TO REPUBLICAN CONQRES*
8IONAL CAMPAIGN.
IELATIYES SECURE IMMENSE SUMS
ION AND SON-IN-LAW OF PRESI­
DENT M'CURDY PAID OVER
$2,000,000 COMMISSIONS.
New York, Oct. 6—The Mutual Life
tasurance company was under inves
igation at the day's session of the
«igislative committee. W. F. Thum
nel, an attorney connected with the
egal department of the company, in
•eply to questions, said he had re
ieived $2,500 from Vice President
tobert A. Granniss of the Mutual Life
insurance company and had paid it
•ersonally to J. W. Babcock, chair
aan of the Republican congressional
tampaign committee in 1904. The
tontribution, Mr. Thummel said, was
luggested "by the danger of a Demo
sratic house, which would result in
•ariff and other legislation of such a
:haracter as would upset business
ind affect policyholders."
He added that other companies had
»een asked to contribute, but he did
lot know whether they had done so
not.
Witness said he knew of no contri
lutions to campaign committees be
rond that to the congressional com
nittee and did not know to what ac
:ount this was charged.
Fortunes Paid in Commissions.
Robert M. McCurdy, son of Presi
lent McCurdy, testified that payments
imounting to $1,059,267 in commis
tions were made to him by the Mutual
Life Insurance company during the
rears 1S93 to 1903. Mr. McCurdy
tfas superintendent of the company's
foreign department and received a
tommissioii on all foreign business,
lis rate of commission was reduced
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ieveral times at his own request, "Bui
lespite the reduced rate his compen
sation grew until it amounted to $99,
153 for the year 1902 alone.
At the afternoon session of the eom
nittee it was brought out that in ad
lition to the $1,163,829 which Robert
£. McCurdy received in commissions
in foreign business of the Mutual
Life he also received $541,852 in com
nissions on domestic business. It was
Uso brought out that Louis A. The
aud, who married Miss Gertrude Mc
Curdy, received in commissions from
i.893 to 1904 the sum of $920,113 from
Hie Mutual Life Insurance company.
M'CALL MUST RESIGN.
otherwise Missouri Will Shut Out th®
New York Life.
Jefferson City, Mo., Oct. 6.—State
insurance Superintendent W. 1^. Van
liver has announced that unless John
k. McCall resigns the presidency of
he New York Life and repays the
noney which the commissioner thinks
las been improperly diverted from the
rust fund for political purposes Su
erintendent Vandiver will imme
liately take steps to take away the
:ompany's charter in Missouri and
itop the company from doing business
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that state.
"Mr. McCall, Mr. Perkins and all
ithers involved must resign," §aid Su
perintendent Vandiver, "and if the
:ase is within the criminal statutes
New York they should be prose
suted by the New York authorities.
)ne thing is certain, they must re
jlace these funds or they can't do
Dusiness in Missouri while I am super
intendent."
RUSSIAN? NAVAL REFORM.
Inefficient Officers to Be Compulsorily
Retired.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 6.—Inefficient
officers are to be gradually weeded
out of the Russian navy during the
next five years and pensioned off to
make way for better trained men to
command the reconstructed navy. In
a rescript addressed to the minister
of marine Emperor Nicholas directs
him to compulsorily retire all naval
officers who are unable to fulfill the
higher requirements which the project
ed reforms in the service will de
mand. Officers retired before reach
ing the age limit are to be pensioned
on favorable conditions to be deter
mined upon later.
Fashionable fabrics treated by a
waterproof process and made into rightly
shaped
raincoats
for
gentlemen
are called
MACKINETTES
And you never heard of
a
not turning the rain—they are not
"Mackinette**
made
that
way
mo 1 Marie
When it rains, don't growl fet the weather
—just fit yourself with a "Mackinette" and yew
will feel at peace with all the world You wiB
find them at
JEROME TO PROSECUTE
TRANSACTIONS OF INSURANCE
OFFICIALS TO BE LAID BE­
FORE GRAND JURY.
WILL AWAIT END OF INVESTIGATION
INQUIRY HAS BROUGHT TO LIGHT
"GREAT MORAL OBLIQUITY
AND OBTUSENESS."
New York, Oct. 6.—District Attor
ney William T. Jerome announced in
a statement to Justice Davy in the
criminal branch of the supreme court
during the day that he intended to
present to an extraordinary grand jury
the revelations affecting the conduct
of life insurance business which have
been made before the legislative in
vestigating committee. Mr. Jerome
said the inquiry by this committee has
shown greater moral obliquity and
moral obtuseness on the part of per
sons important in the business world
than did the "shocking revelations" ill
regard to the Equitable life.
He said there was public excite
ment and a sense of outrage at what
had been done and that it would un
doubtedly meet with general commen
dation if he were to select certain in
dividual transactions and place them
before the grand jury at once. How
ever, he regarded it as his duty to
wait until the investigating committee
had completed its work and then to
ask for an extraordinary grand jury
and lay before it the matters dis
closed by his own study of the situa
tion, as well as that of others. This,
he said, he intended to do.
WORK OF BLACKMAILERS.
Murder of Attorney Streed at Cam
bridge, III.
Cambridge, 111., Oct. 6.—Details of
the mystery of the death of Attorney
ohn V. Streed have, been gradually
Are Yon Ready?
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Buy Early.
Don't allow the choicest things to slip
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coming to 'tight which tend to show
that the well known lawyer was slain
in an impromptu revolver duel fought
in the night. Indications are that at
least two bullets were fired and two
persons were wounded. That develop
ments point strongly to the murder
theory is admitted frankly in official
circles. It seems now pretty well es
tablished that the attack on Streed
wSs the result of a series of efforts
at blackmail by a gang which had
been operating here for a long time.
The duel theory agrees with the evi
dence of Henry White, cashier of the
First National bank, who says he
thinks he heard two shots fired on the
fatal night. In his opinion the blood
on the inside of the house where
Streed was killed came from a wound
on some person other than the dead
lawyer. This would also account for
the blood spots on the back stairs, the
theory being tliat the murderer, slight
ly wounded, hastened up to Streed's
rooms to get possession of papers in
volving the assailant.
SENTIMENT AGAINST WITTE.
Services at Portsmouth Simply Re*
deemed Previous Mistakes.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 6.—A strong
sentiment developed against Count
Witte at a recent caucus of the
St. Petersburg municipality, called to
discuss civic action in recognition of
his services at Portsmouth. Sugges
tions that a banquet be given in his
honor and that he be presented with
the freedom of the city or an address
were rejected and a resolution was
adopted declaring that he is not
worthy of any special honor because
his services at Portsmouth "were only
a redeeming sacrifice for the political
mistakes in which he has acquiesced
and which were responsible for the
war."
RAMSEY LOSES CONTEST.
Ousted by Gould From Presidency of
the Wabash.
Niew York, Oct. 6.—Joseph Ramsey,
Jr., has been removed from the presi
dency of the Wabash Railroad com
pany at a special meeting of the board
of "directors held in this city. F. A.
Delano was elected as his successor.
Eight directors, including Mr. Ram
sey, u*rc present at the meeting.
Mr. Ramsey has been engaged in a
contest with Mr. Gould for the con
trol of the road.
not
coats. They look like a
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be guaranteed.
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MARRIED QUIETLY AT MUNICH.
livorced Grand Duchess of Hesse and
Grand Duke Cecil of Russia.
Berlin, Oct. 6.—A dispatch to the
fageblatt from Munich announces that
lie divorced Grand Duchess Victoria
»f Hesse and the Grand Duke Cecil
if Russia were married there quietly
several days ago at the Hotel de
rtusse.
T^e civil ceremony was performed
ly an official of the Coburg govern
bent and the religious rite by a Rus
fian priest. The greatest privacy was
observed and after the ceremony all
be persons concerned immediately
eft Munich.
Yellow Fever (n Colorado.
Trinidad, Colo., Oct. 6.—Frank Gar
lea, who has arrived here from Louis
iana, having evaded the quarantine
»fficers of that state, escaping thence
to Husted, Tex., was stricken with
rellow fever shortly after his arrival
md is not expected to live. The pa
tient will be rigidly quarantined.
Duluth Printers on Strffce.
Duluth, Oct. 6.—Union printers em
ployed in eleven shops in this city
struck during the day for an eight
hour day and a closed shop. Three
small shops signed a contract with
their employes and are not affected.
Both sides are confident and the strike
is likely to last some time.
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$1.50 PER
PEACE TREATY AT TOKIO.
Document Reaches Capital of the Jap*
anese Empire.
Tokio, Oct. 6.—M. Yamazam, direo
,or of political affairs of the Japanese
foreign office, and H. W. Denison, the
idviser of the Japanese foreign office,
arrived at Yokohama during the day
hi
board the steamer Dakota, bringing
he peace treaty signed at Portsmouth
Sept. 5, and left immediately for To
iio. They arrived here during the
svening, but found few people to meet
.hem at the railroad station, owing to
lie strict examination made of all
persons by the military and police
nrho guarded the station.
SURROUNDING TOWNS SHAKEN,
Terrific Explosion of Powder Neaf
Wilmington, Del.
Wilmington, Del., Oct. 6.—Wilming
ton and surrounding towns were ter
rifically shaken early in the day by
an explosion of powder at the Dupont
powder works, just outside the city
limits. The force of the explosion
was felt for a distance of twelve
miles.
No one was Injured, as the work
men had not yet reported for duty.
The roof of mill No. 13, whwe the ex
plosion occurred, was blown off and
one of the walls demolished. Houses
in the vicinity of the mill were dam
aged by the shattering of window
glass.
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