The Madisonian, 1913-08-05

states and foreign companies doing business in Kentucky. . Losses paid for this same kind of insurance in 'the same twelve months amounted to $3, $3,-460,031.90 - 460,031.90 $3,-460,031.90 and the ratio of losses to premiums to stock companies of other states doing business in Kentucky was 63 58-100, while for foreign compar ies it was 65 31CC. These figures are taken from the advance proofs of the annual report of the state insurance department, now being printed. There are 3 Kentucky stock com panies, 3 Kentucky mutual and 26 Kentucky assessment companies, 81 stock companies of other states, 4 mu mutual - tual mutual companies of other states, and 31 foreign companies doing business in Kentucky. The total amount of risks written during 1912 was $393,330,465.83, of which $5,223,233 was written by Ken Kentucky - tucky Kentucky stock companies, $3,211,200 Jay Kentucky mutual companies, $6,652, $6,652,-889.66 - 889.66 $6,652,-889.66 by Kentucky assessment com companies, - panies, companies, $291,984,395.64 by stock com companies - panies companies of other states, $4,623,110.27 by mutual companies of other states, and $84,835,637.26 by foreign companies. Of the total of $5,425,013.54 paid in premiums by the insured, $171,09S.54 was Teceived by Kentucky stock com companies, - panies, companies, $19,834.12 by Kentucky mutual companies, $157,162.78 by Kentucky as assessment - sessment assessment companies,. $3,970,180.47 by stock companies of other states, $31, $31,-511,33 - 511,33 $31,-511,33 by mutual companies of other states, and $1,075,225.04 by i foreign companies. Of the total of $3,460,031.93 losses sustained $79,796.92 was paid by Ken Kentucky - tucky Kentucky stock companies, $13,589.93 by Kentucky mutual companies, $30,507.78 by Kentucky assessment companies, $2,524,247.54 by stock companies of other states, $9,148.90 by mutual com companies - panies companies of other states, and $742,240.8 by foreign companies. Kentucky Charters Issued. Secretary of ' State Crecelius ap approved - proved approved the following articles of incor incorporation: - poration: incorporation: , . Clifton Southgate Loan ani Build Building - ing Building Association, "Newport, increasing capital from $200,000 to $300,000. Park Carnage Co., Henderson; changing, name to John J. Delkar Co. The Stamping Ground Realty Co., Stamping Ground; capital, $2,000; W. P. Wigginton, O. N. Jameson, S. M. Sinkhorn, W. J. Hook and C. B. Rob erts. Taylor, and Coate Co., Williamsburg, changing place of business to Louis Louisville. - ville. Louisville. . Lee Smock Co., Harrodsburg; cap capital, - ital, capital, $30,000; Lee Smock, Brenet O. Smock and Mary Smock. Farmers' Loose Leaf Tobacco, Ware- 'house Co., Eminence; capital, $15,030; J. C. Dunavent, W. L. Nuttall, J. H. Wilson and H. C. Dale. Oxy-Gen-Ade "Co., Louisville; capital, $50,000; Steve P. Holcombe, E. D. Nel Nelson, - son, Nelson, M. L. Knowlton and L. F. Schus Schuster. - ter. Schuster. The Tydings Dickson Co., Louis Louis-rille; - rille; Louis-rille; capital, $10,000; Frank G. Erk Erk-ibe, - ibe, Erk-ibe, J. A. Lickson and R. H. Tydingn. Standard Dairy Lunch, Louisville; capital, $5',000; H. M. Revell, C. A. Scribner and H. Collings. Co-operative Cigar Stores Co., Louis Louisville; - ville; Louisville; capital, ' $5,C0ft'- . A. Gc-c:i,'L. E. Dyson and Hill Spalding. Louisville Store Fixture Co., cfc cry crying - ing crying name to Louisville Fixture tind Furniture Co. and increasing capital from $20,000 to $50,000. Wyoming and Navarre Realty Co., Louisville; amended articles. ;. . Fields Cloak and Suit Co., Louis Louisville; - ville; Louisville; changing name to Redfern Cloak and Suit Co.' , ' Mrs. Beckham's Funeral. . Two hours after the arrival of her son former Gov. J. C. W. Beckham, who hurried from Frankfort in an au automobile, - tomobile, automobile, when he .received word that her condition had become critical, Mrs. Julia 'Wickliffe Beckham died at her home ' at Wickland, Nelson ' coui.ty. She was 79 year old and had been ill three- weeks. For the last fortnight, former Gov. Beckham had spent most of his time at his mother's bedsid. Her funeral was held from the Bards Bards-town - town Bards-town Presbyterian church, the sermon I being preached by the Rev. W. C. Ta!- bott, tne pastor, auriai was.maae in the Bardstown oemetery. v Steals $2.50; Gets 10 Years. ; j . V Gov. MoCreary, pardoned - James Manley, of . Montgomery county, "who has been in prison since 1907, serving a ten-year sentince for stealing $2 .50 from a companion. He Is a young man and the governor thought he had been sufficiently punished. v After "Canning" Information. Mrs. Helen Wolcott, who had charge of the girl's canning club in Kentucky, has gone to Jackson, Miss., to witness the demonstration work being .done un un-dpr - dpr un-dpr a Federal bureau direfitDr. TChe canning season is now on in: Mlsuis- sippL '

SENATORS NEAR OPEN BREAK IN CROSS-EXAMINATION. Underwood Denounces Former Lobby ist for N. A. M., Says He Is a "Blackmailer." . Washington, Aug. 2. To an acconr- paniment of arguments between Dem ocratic and Republican committee men and between Martin M. Mulhall and everybody connected with the- case, the cross-examination of the al alleged - leged alleged lobbyist for the- National Asso Association - ciation Association of Manufacturers proceeded haltingly before the senate investigat ing committee Thursday. Attorney Mc- Carter and Senator Reed had a row over questions to be asked Mulhall. McCarter precipitated the outbreak: by asking Mulhall If he had not been discharged from the Cleveland police force ten years ago for violation of a state law. Mulhall replied he was dis dismissed - missed dismissed for political reasons, and de manded counsel. "I was advised by friends to refuse- to answer," he exclaimed. "I want counsel. I insist on it and refuse to go on until I have counsel. I'll go to to-jail - jail to-jail before I'll answer questions about my personal affairs thirty or forty years ago." "Instead of being designed to throw light on this case, many of these ques tions are . designed to throw mud at the witness," declared Senator Reed. This is an Investigation; not a trial. I insist you have no right to say a word here," he concluded, addressing McCarter. Mulhall withdrew his demand for counsel. "Is it not true that Samuel H. Springer, who resides at your house, tried to dispose of these letters to the Philadelphia Press and the Philadel Philadelphia - phia Philadelphia Record?" Mulhall was asked. 'It's a vicious He." he shouted. Representative Underwood, Demo cratic leader of the house, appeared before the house lobby investigation committee on Tuesday and charged that Col. M. M. Mulhall, the lobbyist, was a blackmailer. The appearance of Underwood was an event not on the program. He came unexpectedly. . At the night session' Minority Lead Leader - er Leader James R. Mann and Speaker Champ' Clark also made most em emphatic - phatic emphatic denials of Mulhall's statements that Representative J. T. McDermott of Chicago had offered them the "Mul "Mulhall - hall "Mulhall letters" for use In the house of representatives' investigation. Both insisted they never heard of the let letters - ters letters until after they were sold for pub publication. - lication. publication. They probably will repeat their denials on the witness stand next week. TELEGRAPHIC NOTES Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 31. The government of Argentina intro introduced - duced introduced a bill Into congress on the lines of the Sherman law, declaring unlaw unlawful - ful unlawful all trusts and combinations In re restraint - straint restraint of trade. Washington, July" 31. Prof. C. F. Marvin has been selected for chief of the weather bureau to succeed W. If Moore, recently removed. He Is now chief of the Instrument division. Brazil, Ind., Aug. 1. Foster Ray., colored, workman on the courthouse . here, was indignant because a 16 16-pound - pound 16-pound sledge fell ten feet and alight alighted - ed alighted on his- head, cutting a slight gash. Parry Sound, Ont., Aug. 1. Two lo locomotives - comotives locomotives hauling a long line of freight cars on the Grand Trunk rail railway - way railway plowed into a herd of cattle at. Beaty's Siding, 13 miles east of here. The train was wrecked and five mem mem-hers - hers mem-hers of the crew were killed and two. injured. The dead included three firemen and an engineer. New York, Aug. 1. J. Piejpont Mor Morgan - gan Morgan will be sued for $5,000 damages by by-Solomon - Solomon by-Solomon Kuntsler, whose fourteen-year-old son, Jacob, said that he waa knocked down by Mr. Morgan's auto automobile - mobile automobile in the street here. The car was. driven by Mr. Morgan's sister, Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee. FLYER BLOWS UP WARSHIP French Aviator Drops Bomb on' Mex- : lean Gunboat and De De-stroys - stroys De-stroys It. Nogales. Aril., July 30. The federal gunboat Tampico was destroyed on Monday by a bomb dropped from aa aeroplane over Guaymas harbor, de declares - clares declares an official Insurgent message. This is the first' occurrence . of th kind in history. It was said that the French aviator, Dridler Masson, made three flights over the harbor before he succeeded in hitting the boat' The Mexican gunboat Tampico was built at Elizabeth, N. J in 1902. She. Is 200 feet over all, 33 feet beam and draws ten feet. Her ' armament con consists - sists consists of two four-inch guns and six six six-pounders. - pounders. six-pounders. Her complement of officers and men Is 100. She has two torpedo tubes,' both above water.

PASSES SMOOTHLY THROUGH THROUGH-, - , THROUGH-, OUT THE. COMMONWEALTH SOME BIG SURPRISES. THREE KILLED III OWSLEY Complicated Form of Ballet Causes Confusion in Some Sections and Delays Count.- Western Newspaper Union Nws Service. Frankfort, Ky. Under the new state primary law candidates were chosen by the various political parties in near nearly - ly nearly every county, of the state. From Middlesboro on the east to Fulton on th west, the battle of ballot was hotly waged and when the smoke cleared away the field was strewn with polit political - ical political debris in many sections, where big surprises were sprung on party favor favorites. - ites. favorites. With the'-exception of one dis district - trict district where three men were killed in a pistol battle following a dispute over the- election, the voting passed off quietly throughout the commonwealth. The most important contests, in the state outside the city of Louisville took place in the Twenty-third Judicial District, where J. A. McDowell and Hugh Riddell are running a neck-and-neck race for Circuit Judge; the Thirty-fourth District, embracing Boyd, Greenup, Lyons and Elliott counties, where J. C. Prichard and J. Howard "Williams are running close together for the same office. The Fifteenth Ju dicial District, where a nip-and-tuck contest is on between John J. Howe and M. L. Downs, Democratic candi dates for the office of Commonwealth's Attorney. Owing to the large amount of work entailed by the new primary law and the complicated form of the ballot some little confusion resulted in various sections, and returns . were slow in arriving, making it practically impossible to tell how the important contests would result. Leaders of the Democratic party in Louisville kept their hands off the primary held there under the new state primary law, and as a result Judge Muir .Welssinger, present County Judge and son of Col Harry Weissinger, of Shelby county, reputed to be the wealthiest man in this section of the state, is smarting . with the sting of defeat. He was beat en by Samuel W. Greene, a youthful attorney. The race in the primary on the Progressive side for the nomina nomination - tion nomination for Mayor of Louisville went ' to Wood F. Axton. whose opponent was Capt Frank Reichert. Dr. John F. Buschmeyer hjjd no op opposition - position opposition for the Democratic nomina tion for Mayor of Louisville. Kentucky Woman Petition. Kentucky woman suffragists were represented by proxy in the delegation of women from nearly all parts of the country who stormed the capitol at Washington to urge, the immediate passage of the senate joint resolution extending the right of suffrage to wom women. - en. women. Dr. Laura S. Brennond, of Wash Washington, - ington, Washington, D. . C, presented a, petition signed by about 20 Kentuckians to Senator James and .he introduced it. The signers are residents of Bowling Green and Hawesville, as follows: Bowling Green Benjamin F. Proctor, William A. Obenchain, Lida Calvert Obenchain, Edward O. Leigh, A. V. McCormack, Fils E. Townsend, E. T. Barr, E. D. Rose, J. M. McCormack, H. H. Cherry, J. H. Young, Leonard W. Durham, J- L. Harman,- J. S. Dickey, M. O. Hughes and L. H. Houth. The Hawesville. petitioners were. Martha Hall Newman, Sara Pickette, Lucille JlcAdams and Mrs. G. W. Newman. Dr. Helen Knight, formerly , of New Newport, - port, Newport, Ky., is here with the New York delegation. - Kentucky Delegates Named.. Commissioner' of Agriculture J." W. Newman designated Ed Bunton, of Frankfort, find William Clements, of Springfield, who are superintending the erection of concrete silos under - the department, to attend a convention of concrete .experts at Chicago at the invitation, of a concrete manufactur manufacturing - ing manufacturing concern which is paying all ex expenses. - penses. expenses. Camden's Barbeque Arranged.: . The program for the farmers' bar barbecue, - becue, barbecue, whiqh J. N. Camden, Jr., will give on his estate in Woodford coun coun-tyy - tyy coun-tyy August 20, has been made public. It contains the names of the leading authorities in the country. President Henry 'S. Barker, oft State University, will preside. ' '' Powers Will Practice Law. ' A Washington despatch says: "Ac "According - cording "According to information Representative Caleb Powers, of . Barboursville, will re-enter the practice of law with Judge Sampson and Sawyer A. Smith, with wjttom he was affiliated before coming to .Congress when bis term expires."

FEW CHANGES MADE BY HOUSE COMMITTEE IS READY FOR CAUCUS. ADVISORY BOARD IS PROVIDED Changes Alter Division of Federal Re serve Earnings and Provision for Mutual Rediscount Smooth Prog Progress - ress Progress Is Predicted. Washington, Aug. 4. The Demo crats of the house banking and cur currency - rency currency committee practically concluded consideration of the- administration's currency bill on Friday, ' after more than five weeks of continuous and stormy discussion. The bill was ordered closed and re printed, and on Monday the Demo cratic committee members will take a formal vote recommending the meas measure - ure measure to the Democratic caucus. The bill differs little in its essen tials from the administration measure framed by Representative Glass, Chair Chairman - man Chairman Owen and Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and approved by President Wilson. The complete gov ernment control of the federal reserve board which will direct the new bank banking - ing banking and currency system, deemed by the president the all-important factor of the bill, was retained. At the eleventh hour the Democratic msmbers of the committee incorpora ted an amendment providing for aa advisory board of bankers to "advise" the federal reserve board. This amend ment was in the nature of a compro compromise - mise compromise with the banking interests, which protested vigorously against the ex clusively governmental feature of the control of the board. Another important amendment In corporated in the bill altered the re discount section conferring the power to require federal reserve banks to mutually rediscount paper. A change was made in the division of the earn ings of the federal reserve banks cre ated by the law. As amended, the bal ance or earnings after tne nve per cent, dividend and the 20 per cent, surplus will be paid, 60 per cent, to the government to be used as a sinking fund to reduce the national debt, and 40 per cent, to be divided among the member banks. In the reserve section the commit tee reduced the period during which a bank must hold a 25 per cent re serve against deposits from 26 months to 60 days. As finally passed the re serve section requires that after period of gradual changes the country banks must keep their 15 per cent, re serves either In their own vaults or in the federal reserve bank of the district in which they are located. By a vote of seven to five, the con ference struck from the bill a provi sion previously ordered Inserted for forbidding - bidding forbidding interlocking directorates be tween banks. It was stricken out on representations that the president be lieved it should be considered apart from general currency legislation. The so-called Insurgent amendments to the bill providing for currency on warehouse receipts for cotton, corn and wheat were voted down by a viva voce vote, with little discussion. Representative A. Mitchell Palmer, chairman of the house Democratic caucus, predicted smooth . progress for the administration currency bllL ENVOY WILSON IS ROBBED Ambassador Victim of Pickpockets But Silent on Importance of Booty Barred by House. New York, Aug. 4. While escorting two women friends into a Long Island train in the Pennsylvania station, Hen ry Lane Wilson, United States ambas sador to Mexico, who had just arrived from Washington, fell victim to pick pockets Friday. The thieves took his wallet, containing $128, valuable pa pers and official memoranda. Mr. Wil son declined to discuss the incident but from other sources it was learned the loss of Important papers It con contained - tained contained will prove a serious inconveni ence to the ambassador. Ambassador Wilson declared the re port that he had quarreled with Presl dent Wilson about the- Mexican situa tion vas false. Washington, Aug. 4.-rTo prevent any aggravation of the Mexican situa tion, which in the view of the nation's officials is slowly adjusting itself, the administration, It became known Fr: day, does not look favorably . on the proposal to have Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson appear before the house committee on foreign affairs. Feeling is growing among the officials that Ambassador Wilson is a factor in pro moting i objectionable discussion in Mexico. ' Release Sylvia Pankhurst. . London, Aug. 4. Sylvla 'Pankhurst. daughter of Mrs. Emmellne ' Pank Pank-hurst, - hurst, Pank-hurst, leader of . the militant suffra gettes, who was arrested when' she led a crowd to storm Premier As As-aulth'a - aulth'a As-aulth'a home, was released from JalU

an accomplished diplomat, is acting erta cabinet. MILLIONS FOR CROPS SECRETARY M'ADOO PROVIDES FUNDS FOR MOVING FARM PRODUCTS. WILL HEAD OFF STRINGENCY Treasury Head Will Place Moqey in Banks Prime Commercial Paper to Be Taken as Security for First Time. Washington, Aug. 2. With the. ap apparent - parent apparent double objective of eliminating the possibility of money stringency in connection with the movement of the crops and of affording to the country a powerful object lesson as to the value of the government as an agency in banking business, McAdoo proposes to turn into the channels of trade from ! $5,000,000 to $50,000,000. This is the first time in history that the government has accepted "com "commercial - mercial "commercial paper" for such deposits. A supplemental declaration, however, says that only banks which have "ta "taken - ken "taken out at least forty per cent of their authorized circulation" will be permit permitted - ted permitted to participate in this distribution. Commercial' paper is to be taken at 65 per cent of its face value as secur security - ity security for. these deposits,' bonds other than government bonds for 75 per cent of their "market value," and govern government - ment government bonds at par. The government will charge two per oent interest on these funds and the distribution is to be limited to banks In "two or three principal cities" in each of . the states "where harvesting is. now In progress." Fifteen per cent of the money is to be returned , in De December, - cember, December, 30 per cent in January, 30 per cent In February and '25 per cent in March. All commercial paper offered first must be .passed upon ' and ap approved - proved approved by the clearing house .commit .committees - tees .committees in the cities where the banks of offering - fering offering the paper are located. Another development of the day was the investigation by the bouse of Sec Secretary - retary Secretary McAdoo's recent : charge that New York bankers are engaged in try ing to depress the value of govern ment two per cent bonds in order to create sentiment against the adminis administration - tration administration currency bill. Representative Neely of Kansas prepared a resolu resolution - tion resolution asking Secretary McAdoo to ap ap-pear - pear ap-pear before the committee to present proof of his charge. ' ' . The motive of Secretary McAdoo in announcing his new bank policy is to anticipate the money stringency in'the latb summer and fall which invariably accompanies ..the marketing and move movement - ment movement of crops,"' especially 'when ' they unusually large, as the harvest now beginning f6recasts.

Mexico, If In charge of American inter minister of foreign affairs in the Hu STORM HITS CAPITAL GALE SWEEPS WASHINGTON KILLS 3, HURTS MANY. White House Windows Crash as Presi dent's Secretary Rushes Wilson to Safety. Washington, Aug. 1. Three persons lost their Hve3, scores were Injured and" many small buildings were de molished and a large property loss was caused by a terrific wind, rain and hail ttorm which swept Washing Washington - ton Washington on Wednesday. The wind blew seventy-two miles an hour and more than one and one-half inches of rain fell in an hour. The wind wrecked a three-story brick office building occupied by the B. S. Saul company, real estate deal dealers, - ers, dealers, and fifteen persons were carried down in the crash. W. EL Hilton, vice-president of the real estate com pany; Thomas B. Fealey, sixty-five years old, a clerk, and an unidentified man who entered the building to try to rescue, those caught in the wreck. were , taken from the debris . dead The neatly kept lawns of the White House were devastated. Three huge elm trees, uprooted by the wind, were thrown bodily across the lawn End 'up to the very portico of - the building, blocking the drives. President Wilson was seated in .the executive offices when the . wind crashed through sev eral windows in the White House proper. Secretary Tumulty hurried the president and Representative Kor Kor-bly - bly Kor-bly of Indiana, .with whom he was con ferring, to a sheltered interior room. away from the searching lightning flashes. , WILSON FOR FRIENDLY POLICY President - Not Influenced by Argu ments of Ambassador in Favor of Huerta Recognition. Washington, Aug. 2. Presidentvil- son made It clear on Thursday to those who discussed the .Mexican situation with him that he had not been swayed in the least degree by the arguments of Ambasaa 3or Henry Lane Wilson in ayor of recognition for the Huerta government in .Mexico. He let 5t be known that his analysis of conditions from official' and unofficial reports and his judgment of what should be done had .not b jen altered by the ambassa dor's statement. , '.'" The president is formulating a policy which he told his callers Involves noth ing that is : not entirely ' friendly to Mexico. He has pot yet announced what, his program will be," but he is emphatically and unalterably, opposed to the government set up by Provision I al President Huerta.

Five Million In Premiums. Kentuckians paid out for ; fire, marine and tornado insurance in 1912 the sum of $5,425,013.54 in pre premiums, - miums, premiums, of which $348,096.70 was paid to Kentucky companies and the bal balance - ance balance 'went to companies of . other