The Weekly Times from Selma, Alabama • 6

CONANUL VOMIT ANICO WILL SETTLE LOSSES Each Company Will Settle In Own Fashion. WILL NOT BE ON UNIFORM I BASIS Fire Underwriters' Bureau Will Make No Attempt to Dictate or Lay Down Rules for Companies to Observe in the Settlement of Claims. San Francisco, May insurance companies will settle their losses in their own way, each company acting for itself, according to the contracts embodied in the policies and the fire underwriters adjusting bureau will make no attempt to dictatte a general policy or lay down uniform rules for the companies to observe in the settlement of claims, according to a statement made by Attorney T. C. Coogan, who is legal adviser to the adjusting bureau.

The adjusting bureau is merely to act as a board of appraisers in dealing with claims, and only report on Josses sustained, leaving the settlement entirely to the respective companies. Mr. Coogan said: "The settlement of claims will not be on any uniform basis. Each company will settle its own losses in Its own fashion. It has its own contracts embodied in its own policies, and its own attorneys to advise it.

The adjusting bureau has no power to lay down any uniform course or policy for observation by the companies, no power to compel them to waive condi. tons and legal rights. "No proposition looking toward uniformity of action has been suggested, nor is there any truth in the report that it is contemplated to cut losses all down the line and settle upon a percentage basis. "The companies will pay what they legally owe. Moreover, they will be perfectly fair, but they will obey no rules laid down for them by any bureau." Attorney Coogan's statement was corroborated by H.

F. Wood, chairman of the committee of fifteen, which transacts all the executive business of the general adjusting bureau. On and after Monday next the underwrit. ers' bureau, which at present meets in Oakland, proposes to hold meetings in San Francisco. The special committee of the Merchants' association of San Francisco, on insurance, composed of Andrew M.

Davis, Byron Mausey and Alle nG. Wright, sent a letter to insurance commissioner Wolf on May 10th, asking him to compel the urance companies to furnish needed information in cases where policies were destroy. ed by fire. Negroes and Italians In Riot. Albany, N.

May riot between Italians and negroes broke out in the brick yards at Coeymans, 12 miles south of here, Wednesday. Sher. 1ff Pitts and deputies and Lieutenant Colonel Davis, of the Tenth regiment, went to the scene and the commanding officers of the local military companies have been instructed to be in readiness for orders. One negro been brought to Albany hospital with a bullet in his side. The trouble grew out of the importation of southern negroes to take the places of the striking Italians, Armitage's Head Blown Off.

Greenville, May H. Armitage, a prominent citizen of Greene county, met a tragic death on Tuesday on his farm 6 miles from the town of Greenville. Mr. Armitage 'bad loaded his shotgun, intending tc shoot into a flock of crows. The gun in attempting to remove the load from however, failed to fire.

the gun, it suddenly discharged and Mr. Armitage's head was blown off, killing him instantly. William Grows Satirical. Washington, May satirical amendment by Leader Williams, of the minority, amused the house Wed It provides for naming the rival of the British ship Dreadnaught, o' Nothing," with a propo sal for a contest between the two with the president and cabinet as chiel guests. The large battleship was vig orously opposed by Messrs.

Tawney and Burton. Three Condemned to Death, Tripoli, May Shamyl Pasha, former military governor of Scutari, and two boys were condemned to death Wednesday for the murder of Redvan Pasha, prefect of police of Con antinople, March 24. Three othere Soused of participation in the crime ere condemned to life imprisonment nd others to various sentences of rom ten to fifteen years' imprison ment. No Circus on Memorial Day. Chicago, May dispatch to the Tribune from Topeka says that the city council has decided that a circus performance on Memorial day would be nothing short of a sacrilege and has unanimously ordered the city clerk: refuse to grant a license to a show that has been advertised.

TROOPS AND STRIKERS CLASH IN SARDINA Several People Were Killed And Wounded. WORKMEN FORCED TO STRIKE All the Shops Are Closed, No Newspaif pers Have Appeared, and the Suspension of Work Is -Asked Mayor of City to Resign. New York, May cable from Caglari, Sardinia, to the Herald says: Several persons were killed and many wounded in a collision between troops and strikers here Tuesday and further trouble is expected. Reinforcements of the small garrison have been urgently demanded, and warships with troops have left Genoa and Leghorn. Troubie began Monday the culmination of a great increase in the price of food and an anarchistic agitator led the workmen to strike.

Thousands of men marched to the state tobacco manufactory and to the other establishments, forcing the work. men to strike, smashing windows of shops and upsetting streets cars and cabs. There was another and more serious demonstration yesterday. Preceded by a woman bearing a red flag with a large loaf of bread on top of the staff, a parade of strikers was. formed and passed in front of the mayor's house, demanding his resignation.

Next they went to the railway station, which was guarded by troops, whom they proceeded to stone. The soldiers stood their ground without firing until the colonel, Count San Martino, and Captain Gandini had been injured by missiles, and 25 of the troops and police agents seriously wounded. Then there was a scattering fusilade from the soldiers and the crowd fled in panic, leaving 42 of its number lying wounded in the street. Of these two died before reaching the hospital, four are dying and eleven are in a dangerous condition. All the shops are closed, no newspaper has appeared and the suspension of work is general.

Laborer Killed in Riot. Bristol, May the result of a riot which was incited by seventyfive Italian laborers employed on the South and West railroad, near Spruce Pine, N. one was killed and two seriously injured. For some unknown reason the men quit work and demanded a immediate pay. The superintendent was unable to comply with this demand, and threats were made to blow up the office and commissary buildings.

A posse was organized to quell the mob, and when it approached the house where the ring leaders were assembled, they were met with a volley from within. The fire was returned with the above result. One Killed; Two Injured. Buffalo, May Wabash passenger train running over the tracks of the New York Central within the city limits, ran off an open switch Wednesday. The engine and three of the coaches were wrecked.

James Howe, enginee of the train, was killed and two other trainmen were painfully injured. Found Date Seed in Apendix. Lawrenceburg, May C. Howard is dead here after suffering for a week with acute appendicitis, An operation was performed last Week and a date seed was found in his appendix. The seed had sprouted, and was the cause of his trouble that ended fatally.

Howard was well known here and at Cincinnati as a sporting man. Named for Congross. Jacksonville, May Tuesday's Democratic primaries Frank Clark and W. B. Lamar and Steve Sparkman -were nominated for gress by big majorities.

Governor Broward's drainage scheme also received an unmistakable rebuff.in the personnel of the men nominated to the legislature. Charged with Embezzlement. Chicago, May T. Wenham, formerly agent for the Canadian Pacific railroad in this city, has been indicted on a charge of embezzling $51,000 belonging to the company. He is at present in New York and an officer left here Wednesday to bring him back for trial.

Named by the President. Washington, May president has sent the following nominations to the senate: Postmasters: Indian Territory---H. P. Warfield, of Tishoringo. Louisiana- R.

Rosenberger, of Garyville. Tennessee--Reuben Hurtt, of Hardiman. Texas--Theodore Ray, Midland. Freight Steamer Stranded. Chicago, May steamer Lewiston, bound from Buffalo to Chicago, which stranded Tuesday night on the reef about ten miles north of the Chicago harbor, is still in a perilous position.

The boat was loaded with hard coal. PYTHIAN KNIGHTS IN SESSION. Armed Posse at Rome, Seeks Negro Assailant of Little Girl. Rome, May unknown negro, about 18 3 years old, atempted to criminally assault Janie McElha ney, the 13-year-old daughter of Ben McElhaney, Tuesday evening about 6 o'clock. The little girl had been to Lytle Spring to get some water.

She was accompanied by a child named Grace Landreth, aged 10 years. As they were leaving the spring they were accosted by the negro, who told them they would go with him to a place nearby and pick strawberries for him he would give them 10 cents a quart for all they could pick. The children started with the negro and when they reached a secluded spot, he seized little Janie McElhaney by the back of the neck and began choking her. She immediately began to scream loudly, and jerking away from the she ran to a nearby house and told of the occurrence. The negro in the meantime escaped.

The news of the affair spread like wildfire, and soon an armed posse was in search of the negro. Two negroes were arrested soon after the alleged assault and taken before the child, but neither proved to be the guilty party. Cotton Spinners In Convention. Asheville, N. May is estimated that 300 delegates, representing 750,000 spindles, have already arrived here to attend the tenth annual convention of the American Cotton Manufacturers' association, which opened at Kenliworth Inn Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock.

This convention is: regarded as the most important in the history of the association by reason of the fact that it will deal with questions which have attracted national at. tention during the past 12 months. An unusual feature of this convention is the announcement that the public will be admitted to all sessions. This action is taken, it is said, in order the people generally may know exactly how the cotton manufacturers stand on matters wherein their attitude has been questioned. Headless Body of Man Found.

Granite City, May head. less body of a man was found in a cess pool in the rear of a Madison saloon, not far from where John Hickey, an overland traveler to Oklahoma, was sandbagged and killed last week. The absence of the head, it is believed, indicates that the man was murdered, and that the head was removed to prevent identification. The body had evidently lain in the cess pool for several months. Russian Parliament Meets.

St. Petersburg, May upper house of parliament met Wednesday. Two ministers and Count Witte were scheduled to speak. It was to appoint a committee of eighteen draft an address in reply to the speech from the throne. The committee was given entire freedom of action, and no instructions of any kind.

A second conference of the re-actionary court faction has been held at the palace. Will Prosecute Standard Oil Company. St. Louis, May General Davidson, of Texas, and Special Assistant Lightfoot, through St. Louis Wednesday enroute to Jefferson City, where they will confer with Attorney General Hadley which they intend to bring, garding the Standard Oil prosecutions, showing relations between the Waters-Pierce Oil company and the Standard Oil company in Texas, Two Killed in Wreck.

Peru, May a wreck at Fowlertown on the Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville railroad Wednesday En gineer Wesley Wolf and Brakeman Ollie Bowman were crushed to death The cause of the accident is unknown Father Gapon's Funeral. Ozerki, Finland, May funer. al of Father Gapon, who was found hanged May 13th in a cottage in this town, and who is believed to have been executed by revolutionists for treason, was held here Wednesday. Greene- Case To Be Tried. Macon, May federal court will go into session here on May 31st, and will take up the Green and Gaynor appeal case.

The court will continue in session until all business now on the calendar is cleared. Freight Claim Agents' Convention. St. Louis, May fifteenth annual convention of the Freight Claim Agents' association of the United States, Canada and Mexico, began here Wednesday and will be in session for three days, 'Frisco Banks Will Reopen. San Francisco, May the sav.

banks of the eity will reopen for ings business on May 28th. All the offi cials of the various institutions declar. ed their banks to be in excellent condition finuncially. Bishop of Exeter Dead. London, May Rt.

Rev. Hen ry Bickersteth, D.D., bishop of Exe ter, died here Wednesday. He was born In 1825. Grand Lodge of the Order Meets In the City of Augusta, 650 delegates and members present, Augusta, May nearly the thirty-seventh grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias opened its session Tuesday. Grand Chancellor W.

H. Brannon presided at the sessions, which began at 9 o'clock. W. G. Sutlive, of Savannah was chosen assistant to the grand keeper of records and seal, and the lodge adjourned to watch the parade of the uniform rank.

Brigadier General Charles A. Cox, in command. Three companies from Savannah, two from Atlanta, and one each from Augusta, Brunswick and Columbus, were in line. After the parade the opening exercises were held at the opera house, City Attorney C. Henry Cohen making the address of welcome in behalf of Mayor R.

E. Allen, who was unavoidably absent. The response by Grand Chancellor Brannon was eloquent brief. Fraternal greetings were wired to the grand lodges in Arkansas, Alabama and Kansas, which are also in session. The customary reports of grand lodge officers were read.

The uniform rank will hold their prize drills at the Schuetzen Platz in the afternoon and a branch of the Rathbone Sisters will be instituted in Augusta. A barbecue dinner will be served at the Platz at 6 o'clock for all visiting Knights and the Knights of Khorassan will have a ceremonial session in the evening preceded by a red fire parade in fantastic costume. Newspaper Men at Montgomery. Montgomery, May southern newspaper publishers arrived too late for a business session in the morning, and as soon as the welcoming speeches were made the party left on a special train for a barbecue at Jackson's lake. They were welcomed to the city 1 by the president of the council, Gaston Gunter, and Major W.

W. Screws, of the Montgomery Adver. tiser. The response was made by H. H.

Cabaniss, of Atlanta. The attendance is not so heavy as was expected. A business session was held Tuesday afternoon and this evening, at which matters of interest to the advertising and circulation men were discussed. Negro Hanged for Murder. Lawrenceville, May Gordon, a negro, was executed here at 1:20 o'clock for the murder of Rachel Hunt, a negress, at Buford, 15th, last.

Before the prisoner was removed from the county jail to the gallows, about 1,500 people- assembled near the jail to hear his last speech. He said he was ready to go, and warned all the living to abstain from the use of whisky, pistols and dancing, as these evils were the causes of his downfall and death. The execution being in private, there was no apparent excitement, and Sheriff Martin and his guards had no trouble in carrying out the sentence of the court, Wanted Aid to Punish Assailant. Macon, May Pope, the victim of Will Mormon, the negro who was lynched near Eastman, made a pathetic appeal to United States Marshal George White here, just prior to the firing of a shot from her which led to the negro's death. She wrote a letter in which she told of the negro's conduct on the previous night, and said she feared that the state authorities would fail to punish the negro.

The marshal turned the letter to Sheriff Rogers. Negro Workmen Walk Out. Montgomery, May negroes are kicking over what they unjust treatment of the street railway company and held a mass meeting to protest Tuesday night and it was learn. ed that all the negroe shop and round house men of the company quit at sundown, giving no reason for such action. The negroes are provided with adequate accommodations with the whites, only being forced to ride on the rear of the cars.

Spaith Held for Robbery. Cleveland, May T. Spaith, auditor of the Carl Hagenbeck circus, has been arrested here charged with the theft of $30,000 from the ticket office of the Forepaugh-Sells show in October, 1904, while he was treasurer of that enterprise. The robbery, it is alleged, occurred at Tarboro, N. C.

Extradition papers have been prepared and he will be taken to North Carolina for trial. Sent Challenge to Fight Duel. Montgomery, May governor has pardoned Spencer Webb, convicted about one year ago in Montgomery, for sending a challenge to another negro to fight a duel. It was agreed at the time of his conviction that he did not realize that he was violating any law, and that after he had served a short time the judge and solicitor were to ask the governor for a pardon. Jordan and Smith Speak.

Montgomery, May Harvie. Jordan and E. D. Smith, of the Southern Cotton association, spoke here Tuesday at the meeting of the state cotton association, 40 HOUSES SWEPT AWAY BY FLAMES Fire Destroys Blocks In Atlanta Negro District. 400 NEGROES ARE HOMELESS Those Burned Out Lost Practically Everything, Many Having Their Effects Burned After Being Taken from the Houses.

Atlanta, May the result of a fire which originated Tuesday afternoon at the corner of Martin. street and the Jonesboro road, forty houses, with all their contents, were reduced to a pile of ashes, about ten acres were swept bare by- the resistless fire driven by a strong wind, between three and four hundred people were made homeless and destitute of clothing, and where was a few hours before a populous negro neighborhood, is now only a forest of chimneys and ashes. The loss is estimated at $40,000, with only a few thousand dollars' insurance. Mont Eagle, Visited by Fire. Chattanooga, May fire Wednesday morning on the assembly grounds at Mont Eagle, on the Cumberland plateau, where is located a great national chitauqua, entailed a $25,000 loss.

Among the burned was Warner Hall. The immense auditorium, the largest in the south, modelled after that at Lake Monona, near Madison, was saved, although it was in imminent danger. The village adjoining the grounds has no system of fire protection. The fire will not delay the opening of the assembly scheduled for July 1st. Thousands of southern peeple have their summer homes on the assembly grounds, which are filled with beautiful cottages.

The assembly was a hobby of the late Major Thomas, president of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad, who did much to promote the growth for twenty years. Telegraph Operator Suicides. Atlanta, May H. Clark, the telegraph operator at Chamblee, who ran amuck Monday night, who, with torch, shotgun and pistol terrorized the citizens of two towns, killing one man and wounding four others, was on Tuesday afternoon surrounded by a sheriff's posse.

After exchanging several shots with the posse, he cried: "Do not shoot any more; I am shot." The posse ceased firing. A minute later a shot was heard in the bushes where he was concealed. The posse, coming closer, ascertained that Clark was dead. He had sent a bullet in his heart, causing instant death, -Meteorite Crushed His Skult. South Norwalk, May celestial visitant flashed from the heavens and struck Andrew Giso, of Rotan Hill, near this city, so terrible a blow that he was found senseless with a crushed and fractured skull.

The meteorite which laid Giso insensible in the roadway near his home is the size of an orange, strangely rugated and marked with peculiar crystalline figures. Local mineralogists declare, after a careful examination of the curious mass of metal, that it is unquestionably of origin. Received by Pope. Rome, May pope Wednesday received in private audience the Rt. Rev.

James Schwebach, of LaCrosse, Wis. NEWS TERSELY TOLD. Mose Williams, convicted in the spring of 1905, in Conecur county, bama, and given a sentence of ten years for carnal knowledge, has been given his liberty. Judge Terry Richardson, who acted in place of the solic. itor, agreed that after a short service a pardon was to be asked.

James Walsh and James Smith, of Goshen, captured after a hard fight in a country church and charged with robbing country stores and the Millersburg postoffice, have been turned over to the federal authorities and were taken to Indianapolis under bond of $1,000 each. James Laugherty and Chas. Bridgewater, of Youngsown, the latter a negro, have been sentenced to ten years in the Ohio penitentiary for criminal assault on Mrs. Sabit Wasif, an aged Assyrian woman. They pleaded guilty.

The sheriff of Clark county, Illinois, is searching for Mrs. Harry Casteel, wife of a merchant in Marshall, who the sheriff says, eloped with a farm hand. The sheriff says Casteel only wants the child which she took with her. The two two-and-a-half-year-old son of Ross Fryer, Deer Creek, found a box of tablets intended: as a powerful heart stimulant. He ate 24 of them and died a few hours later.

B. B. Crew, of Atlanta, has been elected vice president of the National Association of Piano Dealers at the annual convention held at Washington, D. C. PRECIPITATED LIVELY DEBATE.

Committee Recommends Extension of Time Limit to Pastors. Birmingham, May -1 The burning issue in the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, Wednesday, was the recommendation contained in t.o, majority report of the itineracy committee extending the pastoral limit from tour to six years. When it was taken up for consideration, it preeipitated an earnest debate. A minority repert signed by 14 memof the committee opposes any extension of the limit. A special committee on the case of Senator Reed Smoot presented resolutions calling for his expulsion from the senate and urging the president and the senate to bring about a speedy decision.

A letter was read from L. O. Murray, assistant secretary of the department of commerce and labor acknowledging receipt by the president of resolutions adopted by the conference against outrages in the Congo. The letter said that the matter had been referred and would be considered. The committee on appeals reported affirmation of the suspension for six months of Rev.

W. W. Hicks, from the Holston conference "for the repetition of an indiacretion, it being alleged that he kissed a woman." FIND NO TRACE OF ASSASSINS. Coroner's Jury Investigating the Mum der of Ackerman Family. Pensacola, May investigation by the coroner's jury into the murder of W.

G. Ackerman, his wife and seven children, who were found dead with their skulls crushed and bodies partly cremated in the smoking ruins of their home at Allentown, 10 miles north of Milton, Santa Rosa. county, Florida, early Monday morning was continued at Milton throughout the day, but no verdict was reached. A large number of witnesses were examined and there are still several more to be heard. As far as be ascertained, there has been no evidence thus far to convict any one with the deed.

There is much excitement throughout the county and a subscription of over $1,500 has been taken up which will be offer. ed as a reward for the apprehension of the assassins. Military Review at Tokio. Victoria, B. May steamer Tango Tuesday brought news that the day of her departure from Yokohama military review, in which 50,000 troops took part and all the guns, swords, flags, captured during the war, were on exhibition before the imperial palace, was held at Tokio.

The review was one of the greatest held in Japan and was followed with a. banquet to which 6,000 were invited by the emperor. The Japanese government has decided to erect a tourists' hotel costing $1,500,000 at Toldo as a national venture for the encouragement of tourist travel: Found Dead in Bed. Denver, May J. McKinney, of' Marlin, 45 years old, was found in a room at the Albany hotel Tuesday night, dead in bed.

McKinney came to Denver on Monday from Marlin, and from an unused ticket in his pocket he is believed to have been enroute to California. In a memorandum book is the address of Mrs. R. J. McKinney, Marlin, and it is thought the deceased was married.

No baggage was found in his room. Coroner Rollins is investigating. It is believed that death was due to natural causes. Once Wealthy; Now a Pauper. Chicago, May special.

to a morning paper from Indianapolis says that William Herrick, once a wealthy man of this vicinity, has been admitted to the Friendly Shelter of the Poor House. While rich Mr. Herrick conceived the idea that the Bible was made purposely' mysterious, and, at. tempted to straighten out the difficult passages by research and study. For years his business was neglected, and finally led to his being entered in the poor to which he was at one time the heaviest contributor.

Former Consul a Pauper. New York, May Emanuel Contravas Crooke, for more than 30 years a member of the Spanish consular service, holding appointments at Athens, Pekin, Glasgow, Amoy and Algiers, is detained at Ellis Island. He has relatives in the vicinity of New York, but immigration Commissioner Watchorn says a morning paper got a letter from some one saying that the old man was a pauper and would probably become a public tharge if permitted to land. Making Standardization Trial. Rockland, May new protected cruiser St.

Louis constructed by Nefle Levi, at Philadelphia, started 1 out Wednesday for her official standardization trial on the Rockland course. The contract requirement is a speed of 22 knots per hour. A Mother at Sixty, Bowling Green, May Fincham, 60 years of age, and 12 times a grandmother, her oldest living child being past 30 years of age, has just given birth to a 10-pound baby boy,.