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Early in the sixties a foreign inventor offered the secret of a new explosive that he had discovered to the British Government. He asked for it an insignificant price, something like ?600. After he had been kept waiting three months, and had made repeated appli- j cations for a decision, he was informed ' that his offer was declined with thanks, j as ueuner me vv ar umce uor uie r?oaru i of Trade saw anything in the inven- j tion. The foreigner was a Swede, by j name Alfred Nobel. His invention was dynamite. My friend has only too good cause to remember the incident, for Nobel had offered him a half share in the profits if he would finance him to i the extent of 500 kroner. Unfortunate- | ly for him, my friend was young, and j still cherished illusions in regard to the i wisdom of Governments and their officials, and the consequence was that when he learned the views of the British experts he also declined the offer., with thanks. But for his simple faith he would to-day be a millionaire.?Loadon Truth. Essence of Thrills. A curious individual nas recently taken trouble to dissect the works of an author of sensational dramas, and h r\ fin/lc* flio f if PAAiiii?AC< fVtA oa a a n n uc uauo mat u icjuiica IUC a.- : tion o? eighteen widows, sixteen sons and two daughters of persons executed, eighty orphans of the male and 112 1 of the female sex, sixty blind persons and ten feigning blinclness, twenty-two fraticides, eight paricides, 143 foundlings, 1G2 lost and 116 kidnaped children, 124 children exchanged or foisted, 212 false wills, 216 stolen pocketbooks, 198 duels with swords, 16S with pistols, two with sabres, eight with knives and ten with axes; fort^-three tires, 123 murders with weapons and 136 with poison,'forty-five drownings, twenty-six guilty and sixty-two innocent galley convicts, eighty freed and thirty-six escaped prisoners, 115 burglaries, 206 distraints, seventy-nine lunatics, twenty-eight feigning lunatics, 113 false marriages and forty-one bigamies. Who will say after this that the drama is deteriorating??Toronto Mail an<l Empire. CURE YOUR KIDNEYS. When the Back Aches and Bladder Troubles Set In, Get at the Cause. Don't make the mistake of believing backache and bladder ills to be local ailments. Get at the cause and cure I?j3hSS?JS~? the kidneys. Use SBgSs||| Doan's Kidney dfflSjip8>2 Pills which have r5* cured thousands. Hunter, of Engine No. 14, PittsDepartment, and rc'sitlino at 27~J ^'y'ie aveuue, "It was three years ago that I used Doan's Kidney Pills for an attack of kidney trouble that was mostly backache, and they fixed me up line. There is no mistake about that, and if I should ever be troubled again I would get theur first thing, as I know what they are.". . , For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. HKEE BANKER SHOD Frank G. Bigelow. President of Fir National, Confessed Defaulter. LOSES $1,500,000 SPECULATIN . Arrested at HI* Home on Cliarje < Embezzlement and Later Keleasc on Twonty-tiTe Thousand Dollar Bail ? Henry G. Go!l, Assist*! Cashier, His Tool. Milwaukee, Wis.?Frank G. Bigelov President of the First National Ban! and last year President of the Arne ican Bankers' Association, is a eor fessed defaulter to the extent of aboi $1,300,000. He was arrested charged with tL embezzlement of over $100,000 of tL bank's funds aud released in $23,OC bail to appear before the next Federc Grand Jury. A warrant was also t have been issued for Henry G. Gol one of the assistant cashiers. The First National Bank will weathe the storm. Leading business me signed and issued a statement announi ing that they would subscribe a tot? of $1,635,000 to make good the shori age. In anticipation of a run. Chicag ; came to the aid of local institution ! (JO A/\A j Wi til ??-,WV,UW 111 UUtlCUVJJ, vuu VJ which was in the First National Ban: before the news of the defalcation b( came known. Speculated In Wheat. It appears that Sir. Bigelow has bee: speculating in wheat for weeks. H had made some investments that ha swept away his private fortune, an had turned to the bank's funds in th hope of recuperating his losses by deal in wheat. His son, Gordon Bigelow was a member of Tracy & Co., broker on the Chicago Board, and it is sai< that his father's investments wer largely made through him. When the bank's fuud3 were to b used Mr. Bigelow, according to th directors, effected a combination wit some bookkeepers and the assistan cashier, Henry G. Goll. He took th bank's surplus and charged up th I money taken to Chicago corresponden banks, but the other night, while work ing on the books, a bookkepeer not i: the deal, discovered an incorrect entrj He notified Charles F. Pfister, of th Pfiister & Vogel Company, one of th directors of the bank, and a meeting o the directors was called, when step were taken to prevent a collapse. Bigelow was asked to explain, am made a full confession. Chicago bank were notified, and the bank official provided means for meeting the rui which was certain. Before the publi knew of the shortage $1,000,000 reache* here; then, when the run was in fu! swing,,heavily guarded automobile brought from the railway stations an other million sent by Chicago to pre vent a panic. It looked as though the alarm woui< spread to other banks, but so carefull; had the First National prepared for th< event, that the fears were largely al layed. There was something of ; jam at the doors, but the police kep the crowd orderly. Glass cutters chipped a hole in a bij plate glass front window of the bank and deposits were received in full viev of the crowd on the streets. The full amount appropriated by Mr Bigelow was $1,500,000, but he ha: made restitution in the shape of rea estate and securities sufficient to reduci the amount to $1,300,000. The Boan of Directors decided to meet the issui in a straightforward manner, and for mulated a pledge, -which was imme-li ately signed by members of the board whose aggregate wealth will probably approximate $25,000,000, to more thai make good the shortage. The capital stock of the bank is $1, 500,000, and the undivided surplui amounts to $1,200,000. The persona guarantee of the directors more thai covers the defalcation, and with th< surplus and undivided profits which thi bank carries over and above its capital it is announced that the institution i: more solid that it was before the de falcation became known. Charles F Pfister heads the guarantee list witJ $000,000. TRAIN BURIED IN TUNNEL. Four Killed in Wreck on the Unio: Pacific West of Cheyenne, Wyo. Cheyenne. Wyo.?The engineer an< fireman, a bra.keman and an unkuowi tramp were killed in a wreck at Edso! Tunnel, on the Union Pacific, about 10 miles west of Cheyenne, when the wes approach of the tunnel caved in an< buried a portion of the train utide thousands of tons of earth and rock The rest of the train left the track completely choking the long tunnel. Relief traius, with wrecking outfits steam shovels and hundreds of labor ers, were hurried to the scene fron Rawlins and Laramie. EARTHQUAKE IN ENGLAND. People Badly Scared. But Little Dan age so Far Reported. London. England.?An earthquake lasting several seconds and occasionini much alarm, was felt about 2 o'cloci in the morning throughout Derbyshir and Yorkshire and in adjacent districts There was trifling damage to wall and roofs in some places, and movabl articles were severely shaken, but noth ing serious is yet reported. FRENCH NAVAL PLANS STOLEN Rooms of the Director of Constructioi at Toulon Ransacked. Paris. France.?The rooms oeeupiei by the Director of Naval Coastructio; at Toulon were ransacked. The Journal states that valuables am money were not touched, but that doc uments and plans were carried ofif. Cossacks- Wound Many. Cossacks wounded many childrer women and men in breaking up a fesi val in Cauc.'isio. Sporting Brevities. For $300,300 the Boston Natiouc League Club was sold to Frank \ Dunn. The Debonnet won the Prince c Monaco's Cup at the Monaco moto boat races. ForLy thousand persons saw the opei ing National League champioushi frnmn o f tho Pnln fJl-niUld. in WlliC the Giants defeated Boston by 10 to Philip J. Dwyer is named as the pu chaser of the controlling interest i the Queens County Jockey Club, hit] erto held by three sisters of the lal Thomas D. Reilly. y TEXAS LEGISLATOR SHOT j| John M. Pinckney and Two Other?. St Killed in Street Riot ^ Prohibitionists and Their Opposers Clajh Q | Arcer uecenc Jbiecuoiia ui ncuiy I j. _ stead, Texas. H. of L Hempstead, Texas.?At a mass meel11 ing called to petition the Governor to send Rangers to enforce the local op1 tion law, J. N. Brown, a leading lawyer and stanch anti-Prohibitionist, ber? gan shooting. Many other persons fob c? lowed suit, and three men were killed, ^ r* one man was fatally injured and two * i- others were severely wounded. The it dead are: J. N. Brown. Congressman k John M. Tinckney and Tom Pinckney, u brother of the Congressman. j, John Mills, a leading Prohibitionist, ie was also shot. "Doc" Tompkins, pri- ^ i0 vate secretary to Congressman Pinck- g ney. and Polling Brown, son of J. N. Brown, were severely wounded. There wore many armed men in 1 he '? streets at night, but it was not belie% ed there would be any more trouble. t ir The Governor sent Rangers and a o n special train from Houston with sur- c :- geons to attended the wounded. There il has been bitter feeling here for several t t- years over the Prohibition question, ^ and the recent election, when the "an- c 0 tis" failed to gain the victory they had t] s expected, added to it. The whole coun- 0 f try has been divided into factions as a 0 I; result. j Houston, Texas.?The Adjutant-Gen- c eral left Austin shortly before midnight for Hempstead on a special train .. with half a dozen Rangers. At Manor the local military company was picked q up. Troops arrived at Hempstead p e early in the morning. The town wa? d quiet, but the feeling was tensa, d ? 0 Mr. Pinckney'ii Career. p r> Representative John McPherson f3 s Pinckney (Democrat) was born in l( d. Grimes County, Texas, on May 4. 1845, j? e and educated in the public schools. *He served for four years in the Civil c q War with the Fourth Texas Regiment, P e Hood's Texas Brigade. J h For ten years he was District Attor- J! t ney for the Twenty-third Judicial Dis- f! e trict of Texas, and three years as e County Judge of Waller County. Cl 1 In November, 1903, he was elected c to Congress to fill the vacancy caused 0 n by the resignation of T. H. Ball. a e SERVANTS SHOT IN KITCHEN. u ! P L vr:?c TIIIJa ATot* TTnrnnr TJMnrta t"hf> n JAIOO Xlltic IUUJ A. Vi UN,J * s Woman Dead, Man Dying. e 1 Philadelphia. Pa. ? Miss Tillie Slay fl s Forney, daughter of the late Colonel ^ s John W. Forney, publisher and editor, a a discovered her two servants, one dead. a c the other fatally wounded, in the 0 I kitchen of the Forney mansion the s I other night. The butler. Samuel n s Barnes, or Smith, colored, thirty years v - old, sat at a table, his head leaning ou v - his hand. Margaret Toner, white, fifty t; years old, cook in the family for twen- j i ty years, was lying on a settee. Both 'a 7 were shot in the head, and a revolver v e with two exploded cartridestin it lay j, - on the floor. n i An, empty whisky flask in the negro's f, t pocket and a pitcher and glasses in ? which there had been beer indicate that ? I the servants had been drinking heav- e . ily. The butler died three hours after ^ r being found. ? s, Miss Forney was the only other per- c ' son in the house, and neither she nor ^ s the neighbors heard the shots. The u I police could not explain the tragedy. ^ 1 11 I CIGARETTE SMOKERS FINED. ? n . Many Arrests Reported in Indiana? ? One Victim Will Appeal. J { Indianapolis, Ind. ? Local officers j o * throughout the State, acting uuaer instructions from police boards, began ~ the enforcement of the anti-cigarette ? law, and a large number of arrests ^ were reported?not of dealers, but of j. persons found coking cigarettes or having cigarette paper in their posses- ? sion. In every case the person arrest- -y g ed was fined where trial was held. John E. Lewis, a well-known citizen, ' r was fined $25 and will appeal the case. j. 1 SERIOUS FIRE ON CAPE COD. a a Five Hundred Acres Burned OverChange of Wind Saves Hamlet. o a Hyannis, Mass.?More than 500 acres ? of forest, meadow and pasture land v were burned'over by a fire that broke rj I out at noon in the brush near the West t i Barnstable road, two miles west of this 0 i village. No buildings were destroyed, 0 although at one time many were threat- t t ened. At Happy Hollow, a settlement p 1 of colored people, household effects had ? r been hastily removed to a place of | jj safety, when a siiirt In tue wind saveu f the liamlet. ^ ? t ?. RUSSIAN OFFICER SHY $30,000. t v 1 Gambles Away Funds For War Sun- a plies and Flees Country. t g St. Petersburg, Russia.?An oficer a named Kasperoff, belonging to the a i- Commissariat Department of the War Office, and who had large sums at his disposal, to purchase supplies for the S Army, has defaulted, to the amount of t 5 $30,000 and lied abroad. He had lost f ? money in gambling. t e t i- Woodruff Again Marries. y s Former Lieutenant-Governor Wood- r e ruff, of New York State, married Miss s l* Isabel MoiTison at the bride's home in i New York City. [ , For Zemstvo Governments. u Plans for the extension of zensivo governments to Siberia and Finland < have been inaugurated by the Czar. a Earthquake's Awful Record. 2 An official estimate of the loss of life , in the recent earthquake in India j places the number at not over 15,000. ( Yield of Wheat Heavy. \ i, The yield of wheat, oats and barley i i- on the Pacific coast will be the heaviest for several years, says F?radstreets. < News of the Toiiers. p Warwick furnice employes, at Pofts' town. Pa., will receive a 10 per cent. | increase in wages. A A AA ATvinlArae P +V>n fn^o ;\UUUL 1W ClUJ/lVJ CO \Ji. me IUUW ^v, partment of the Longmoad Iron Company, of Consiohocken, Pa., went on 1 * strike for 10 per cent, increase in P wages. The Boston Pilot says: "The Fall FUver strike iai ended. In its way it r* was as heroic as the defense of Port u Arthur, and if its methods were less 1 dramatic and sanguinary its principles :e and motives were nnore humanitarian and noble." ~ * ;v;> .y I ILL JKU III TURMOIL Wholesale Anarchy and Disruption Feared by Government. 'OSSIBLE REBELLION OF ARMY rlboral Hope For a Constitution Lien In Ultimate Defeat of the Czar by Japan ?Arrests Made on All Sides? Poland and Other Province! Are Heavily Policed. St. Petersburg, Russia? Not only the uture of the war in the Far East, but be fate of the whole program of in?rnal reform to which Emperor Nichols stands committed seemed to lay pon the issue of the sea battle besveen Rojestvensky and Togo. The Government undoubtedly would be reatly strengthen^!, at least for the loment. by a victory decisive enough j change the war situation. The Liberals have been impatient at lie delay and suspicious ol! every move f the Government. They have been onvinced that if victory comes to the ureaucracy, 10 wmcu iu*? icaniaion of reforms has been consigned by tie Emperor, will be able, despite the lamor throughout the country, to keep tie execution of these reforms in their wn hands, which, of course, in their pinion, would mean their eventnal issipation in a labyrinth of endless ommissions. Practically the interior administraion has been conducted through a poce regime. Already there has been verywiierc evidences of return to Von 'lehve methods. Domiciliary visits nd arrests by scores and hundreds are eported in every part of the empire, nd meetings of air classes of the peole have been forbidden and broken up y the police under the direction of the >cal government. Even zemstvo leetings in Vladimir, Elizabethpol, >rel, Tiflis and Livadia have been losed. Of course the' Government roperly argued that it could not fold :s arms and see the flames of revoluion fanned by agitators, but it was noiceable that such spokesmen of reacion as Prince Mestchersky, editor of lie Grashdanin, have again boldly prolaimed the doctrine of repression, haracterizing the Constitutionalists nd "Intelligentsia" as lunatics. "Rusia has suddenly become.a vast lunatic sylum." says the Grashdanin, "and nless mad people are locked up and laced out of harm's way there is no redicting where all this idiocy will nd." In the meantime the Easter holidays nd May Day were awaited with exreme anxiety both by the authorities nd the public. The Social Democrats nd Revolutionaires have planned demnstrations on an extensive scale. They eemed to have plenty of funds, furished both from abroad and by realthy sympathizers in Russia. The rildest stories of plans for blowing up lie members of the imperial family, linisiers and palaces and of pillage nd murder of the nobility and the wealthy have been current, especially i aristocratic drawing ropms, and lany society people, thoroughly rightened, have made preparations to o abroad. Large reinforcements of troops, and specially of Cossacks, have been rought to St. Petersburg. Arrests and earches of the lodgings of suspects ontinue. but even General Trepoff, albough he has been taking every measre of precaution, did not seem to now exactly what to expect That e anticipated trouble and bloodshed as apparent from the fact that he had otlfied all manufacturers to guard gainst incendiarism, and through ouse porters had warned every family hat women and children must remain ff the streets. Polish Cities In State of Siege. Although disorders more or less serious ave been anticipated everywhere, oland and the Baltic provinces probbly are the storm centres. General laximovitch, Governor-General of Varsaw, has just returned to his post fter a conference here, clothed with Imost dictatorial powers. All the PoistL cities have been in a state of minor iege, but the Governor-General was uthorized to declare martial law, and mple troops have been furnished. There were many disquieting reports f disaffection of troops, and the names f regiments, even in the Imperial Juards, were given as having been von over to '"the cause of liberty." ?h-e military authorities, however, said here was no question of the loyalty f the troops and that orders would be beyed. They admitted, however, that he revolutionaries have pushed their iropaganda among the soldiers with MmoatnAss Sneeial regulations lave been instituted to keep the army ree from contamination, and these lave been enforced in individual cases, >oth of officers and men, who have teen found to be in communication nth revolutionaries. Such cases, the uthorities declared, have been deected, particularly among Jews, and evereiy punished, but the authorities re confident that no uuits have been .ffected. Some Troop* Ready to Mntlnjr. Independent investigation seemed to )ear out the official contention, except is to the Caucasus, where, according :o private advices just received, the roops were badly fed, and were 011 the rwge of mutiny and ready to join the evolutionaries. These advices reprelented that the situation bordered on inarchy. with the revolutionaries in >ractical control. WOMAN DIED OF FRIGHT. scared by a Mississippi Cyclone Which Tin mazed a Town. Mobile. Ala.?News was received here hat considerable damage was done by i cyclone wbicb struck tbe neighborlood of Newton. Miss., and caused the leath from fright of Mrs. J. J. Nicholson. When the storm broke she fell inconscious in her yard ;.nd never recovered. Five? buildings, six stores, and nujier)us burus and fences were destroyed. Personal Gossip. ' Giacomo Caponi, dean of the foreign correspondents at Paris, has just retired. He served the Tvibuna, of Rome, there for many years. The Lokal Anzciger says that the Czarowitz has been in. ana tuai u specialist in children's diseases was summoned to attend him at TsarskoeSelo. Archbishop Mesmer, of Milwaukee. Wis., has had to ask police protection against the importunities of beggars, following an article in a local newspaper telling of his liberality as a giver. ' ''\ - : \ rf*' JOSEPH JEFFERSON DIES Noted Actor Passe3 Away in Hij , Florida Home. ! I Illness of Some Days Had Trefaced tli.il ; End?His Family at tbe Bedside. * West Palm Beach, Fla.?Joseph Jefferson died at 6.15 o'clock at night, at his home, The Reefs, Palm Beach, of pneumonia. At his bedside with the medical attendants were his wife; two of his sons, Charles B. and Frank; his granddaughters, Marion Jefferson and Mrs. C. Sympns, and his faithful old servant, Carl Kettler. He expressed a desire to see the ocean during his last few moments, and wanted to be left to die as peacefully as he had lived while at The Reef.'The parting with his family was calm and resigned. The body was taken from Palm Beach on a special train to Buzzard's Bay, Mass., accompanied by the members of the family who were here. Since his last sinking spell, after a rally on Thursday morning, which was followed by an apparent Improvement until Friday, the family had been waiting for the end. Mr. Jefferson's condition on Saturday night grew steadily worse, and the family, who had retired', were summoned. The patient's condition continued to grow worse all through the day, and the brief bulletins from the bedside contained no words of encouragement. The sickness was contracted, it is believed, while on a recent visit to Mr. Jefferson's son, Charles B. Jefferson, at "Hope Sound, a few miles above Palm Beach, where the actor went to meet ex-President Cleveland. It is believed that from a slight Indiscretion in'eating there he suffered an attack of indigestion. Sir. Jefferson'* Career. Joseph Jefferson was of the fourth generation of the Jefferson family of actors. The first o* the family whose name is recorded in the theatrical annals of Great Britain was Thomas Jefferson, who was born In 1728 and died in 1807. He was an actor of more than respectable repute in the time of Garrick. The second of the Jeffersons, Joseph, a son of Thomas, born in 1774, crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1795, and for nearly twoscore years thereafter was one of the best liked actors in this country. With the famous old Chestnut Street Theatre, in Philadelphia, his name is inseparably connected. This Joseph Jefferson was a comedian of versatile cowers. He had many children. Thomas, his eldest son, was an actor, who died in his young manhood; John, another son, also an actor, died young; Euphemia. who became an actress, married William Anderson, and was the mother of Mrs. G. C. Germon and Mrs. Judah, and the grandmother of Effie Germon; Elizabeth was an actress of distinction. The other children of the first Joseph Jefferson did not take to the stage, except Joseph, his second son, who was born in 1S04. He married Mrs. Thomas Burke. He was a country manager, often in hard luck, and an actor of respectable attainments. His son Joseph, born February 20,1829, in Philadelphia, was the Jefferson of our own era, the great Rip Van Winkle. His Childhood and Youth. Young Joseph, besides having a theatrical ancestry from whom he mig^t ha%re been expected to inherit the dramatic gift, was trained to the footlfgbts almost from his infancy. The celebrated "Jim Crow" Rice employed him in his darky song and dance when the child was only four years old. He was carried on the stage In a large bag, from which he emerged in the guise of a little colored person, the very counterpart of the grown-up Jim Crow, whose singing and dancing he Imitated to perfection. In 1837 he took part in a broadsword combat, a la Master Crummies, on the stage of the Franklin Theatre,! in New York, where his parents were then engaged. During the nest twelve years the family were i strolling actors, traveling in the West and South. Joseph passed about tkres months at school in all his boyhood. He suffered many hardships and privations, but he mastered his art. Mr. Jefferson acted Rip Van Winkle, the part he made famous, throughout the United States. For many years he needed no other piece. The public could not seem to get enough of the humor and pathos of Rip. His two long engagements at Booth's Theatre are siill remembered. In 18G0 Jefferson bought a house with ample grounds, beautifully situated in the Saddle River district of Bergen County, N. J., near tUe ; namlet of Hohokus. This place, -vvliicu he greatly beautified and improved until it became a model country residence, he sold in 1.888. In 1869. also, he bought bis Louisiana plantation, of which so much has been said in print. His summer house on the shore of Buzzard's Bay, called Crow's Nest, was built later, and, with the furniture anl art works it contained, cost $300,000. It was burned April 1, 1893. but th?> builders were soon set to work upon a new house on the same site. In his leisure hcurs he found plenty of pleasant occupation away from tbe theatre. He was a painter of quite unusual skill for an amateur, and an expert fisherman, too. Mr. Jefferson had, by his two wives, eight children. His eldest con, Charl33 Burke Jefferson, has been an actor, and was for a time a prosparous theatrical manager. Other cons are Thomas anl Jcseph Warren Jefferson both actors. MASSACRED BY TIBETANS. Chinese Commissioner and His Retinue : J Aa TT^ Qlnin ouiu r?j iiu> c jjccu viaiu. Lordon. England.?Correspondents at Shanghai give an unconfirmed Chinese report to the effect that Fen-Chuen, the Am'oan (imperial Jommissioner to Tibet) and his whole retinue have been massacred by Tibetans at Eatang. Jap Ships Off Manila. Three supposedly Japanese warshiparrived off Manila Bay. P. I. Education Brevities. Andrew Carnegie gave Pomona College, at Claremont, Cal., ?40,000 for a library. Professor F. K. Sanders, of the The* ologieal Department in lale University, resigned. Andrew Carnegie offered $30,000 tc Drake University, at Des Moines, la. for a library. Beloit. Knox, Grinneil and Coloradc Colleges and Washburn University asked Andrew Carnegie for $1,000,0(X each. ? - 1 - EQUITABLE UNDER FIDE ; Policy Holder Brines Suit Against the Big Insurance Company. WANTS SHARE OF THE SURPLUS . \ Colonel J. Wilcox Urown Throdjli Hli A'torneya Allege* Illegal Retention on the Fart of Hi? OfHcer* of the So? ciety of Fanda Ilijlitfully Belonjinc to tlie Follcy HoMor*. I New York City.-A suit asking for the appointment of a receiver for the $80,000,000 surplus of the Equitable Life Assurance Society was begun in the United States Circuit Court here by Colonel J. Wilec:: Brown, of Mary land, on behalf of himself and all other policy holders who may be simularly I situated. The action is based on the broad allegation that the complainant and other policy holders have never shared in th? surplus to the extent to which they were entitled by law and by their contracts' with the Equitable, \ but that instead tin? surplus has been, accumulated and is In fact used for the ulterior purposes of 1110 group of men who control the organization. Representing Colonel Brown are Dos Tassos Bros., and Brittle & Marshal!, of ' this city, and Josc-pLt DoI'\ Junkin. of Philadelphia, Pa. George Gordon Bat- ; tie, of Battle & Marshall, expiaiued the purpose of the suit r.s follows: "This is an ordin.-y policy holders' suit. The plaintiff. Colonel J. Wilcor l Brown, a citizen of Maryland, consulted us last autumn concerning his policy in the Equitable Society. He bad a policy for $25,000. taken out in 1867, changed as to terms in 1872. Heiiad | elected to have his share in the surplus of the society applied in reduction of premiums. In the earlier stages of his connection with the society these reductions had been very considerable, ' but, although the business of the society enormously increased, there was no /.material further reduction in the prem? in mo. On onnllnoflnit fn flio enniofv ha * VU U]y|/llVUltVU tuv WVV4V, V.J ?v II had been told the usual story that all \| of this was due to a lowering of profits || op investments caused by the fact that 1] rates of interest in later days were much lower than in IStiT. , '"We were obliged to advise Mr. Brown when he first consulted us that I we saw no basis for a suit. There was \ no prooffcthen in our possession that the portion of the surplus properly a'pplicable to diminishing his premiums was misappropriated by-^he society. IJlejpil Ketcntiun Altered. "Recent events, however, have shown clearly that the huge surplus accumulated by the society is not legally retained from the policy holders, nor lawfully used by if. The affairs of the society are in considerable confusion, and the vast fund collected together by the methods which the society has employed is now claimed as the property of tile society and its stockholders. The old charter of the society providing that the company shali be a mutual company and that a^l of the profits 'shall be" apportioned equitably among. the policy holders, except a dividend of seveu per cent, to the stocklmlders, is now attempted to be swept aside by the present claims of the stockholders of the society. \XT r% horn trlvleA^ Wl* TV VJ JUUI\; iuuc?vtv ClUfMVU ***** Brown, in the light of these facts, that he and all other policj holders have K just and clear right to this fund- The "t, continued subtractions from their equl- \ table shares in the surplus have been withdrawn from that share, not for legitimate insurance business, but for an ulterior purpose. Tlii3 purpose ' plainly now appears to have been to build up a great fund, beyond any possible needs of the society, to which the society and its stockholders could subsequently lay claim. The claim has now been made. This claim has- takes the present case out of all past prece- _ dents in which the company has figured ' as honestly accumulating jttij*. surplus for the purpose of conducting; a, legitimate insurance business. "The present situation & further differentiated from past suits -by the fact ? that there appears to have been a further object of this accumulation in the holding of this great fund by the "** stockholders and officers elected by( them as free assets for speculation schemes in which they were personally, interested. It has been publicly, 1 claimed by one of the officers of the society mai immemorial preueuem ua? pstablished Iiis right to have an interest both as seller and buyer fn securities sold to the society. A chr.llenge of this sort has never been- proposed to ireveral hundred thousand people in the United States without findiug some one to take it up. It is the intenticu of this suit; ' among other things, brought on behalf of one, and all others wishing to Join him, to test this Immemorial precedent-""' and ascertain whether l>: is in accord with the precedents which govenj courts of equity and Grand Juries." t ? CnrEF KILLED IX FIRE. 1 i Old Ridley Store. i:i Grand Street, New; York City. Destroyed. New York City.?What was left of the old Ridley store building on the south side of Grand street and the west Side or urcuaru street went up in a lire alarm blaze which began about 3 o'clock at night. In ihe building were tbe offices of the east s-ide branch of the Van Norden Trust Company, and tbe fire broke otrfc^ on the second floor, just oVef them. Acting Battalion Chief W. J. Wieland fell from a ladder and sustained injuries from which ho di?d later. English Arrest a Russian. A Russian calling himself Vladimir Ar.torvitcb. but carrying a passport made out in another name, has been arrested on the fortified island of Brani, and was arraigned at Singapore, Straits Settlements, on the charge of being on Government property without author* u?. ne is ueweveu 10 ue a syy. i Minister Aspiroz Buried. The funeral of the late Ambassador -\spiroz took place at Mexico City, Mexico. i Murder at Breakfast. E!i Rogers was shot by a Frenchman, whose name has not been learned, at the Standish farm in ihe town of Greene. Mo. Tft?} murderer then killed himself with the same revolver. The men were employed by H. L. Keyser, and wore at breakfast with the other employes of the farm. ru'Jl) ivuu on cam;. .iatgs containing $2,000,000 carried ia in tlic vio'v of depositors clicked tno run on the First National BauU of Miljvaukce, Wis.