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TELLSJT ALL. 1 Hamilton's Relations With the New York Life Company. HE WAS ENTRUSTED With Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars With the Understanding that He Was Not to Be Required to Render Account of His Expenditures. Andrew Hamilton, the Legislative a^ent for the New York Life Company, who, according to testimony, has been entrusted with hundreds cf thousands of dollars by the company, and has not accounted for $235,000, Lno hno ? /-} l\i? f Ln "NT V /\?i? I /v?. uaa uci;u ucaiu vjj uuu novr i uiiv urn" Islative insurance investigation c?mmlttee, but has declined to make an accounting A statement by Mr. Hamilton was lead fur tho reoord Wednesday. It was presented by the Secretary John C. McCall, of the New York Life, who went to 1'aris to obtain an accounting from Hamilton. In his statement Mr. Hamilton says that be is unable to produce any books or accounts, because he undertook the Legislative matters for the life Insurance companies with the express understanding that ho was to make no accounting. Absolute secrecy was neccessary In retaining assistance therefore no checks were used in making payments. Mr Hannill.nli uunh Intfi art rtvliauu All 1 t 1 ? Viutl 1 VV'li ? ? \7? 1 U 11 VV/ nil V* S* 14(?~ tivo explanation of the reasons for organizing thin confidential service, as he characterized It, covering his methods of work and citing a number of legislative bills in which he had been Interested. A Hut of expenses from 1899 to 1904 was appended to the statement. The sum of $235,000 unaccounted for, he says, wculd be greatly reduced by his running acc uut still unsettled and open, and, as a matter of faith, pending a settlement, he of fers to deposit $100,000 with the company. Mr. Hamilton, in his statement, says that at the lime of his employment by the New York Life, the life Innirai o companies feared that unless concerted action was taken they might be practically legislated and taxed out of existence. "The usual practice of depending alone upon counsel to attend and present arguments was determined to be insufficient, "says. Mr. Hamilton. "The very fact that the great hfe insurance interests of New York favored or opposed pending legislative propositions, would itself often concentrate the opposition against their views; so likewise did the knowledge that we were represented at the canltols of the var ious States lead to demands that political favorites should be employed in the role of counsel, which, If acceded to, placed our altairs at the mercy of those who did not possess our con linen" e. These and other considerations led the three companies to hut one conclusion. We felt that if a se cret service was a permissible govern m-ntal agency, a conlidential service would be the only effective, and at the same time proper, plan to guard tne welfare of the most extensive com merclal interests in the world?the life insurance business of the State of Mew York This conlidential secret service wits decided upon as the only feasible plan of protection." Mr. Hamilton drives a long summary of the various styles of bills hostile to insurance companies, many of them taxable measures. "Hills to compel the company's reports to be repeatedly and unntcessailly published iu newspapers are advocated," says Mr. Hamilton, "to gain favor with the press for in creasing their revenues. Outrageous propositions, such as the 10 per cent tax proposed in Arkansas, or absurd propositions like the Michigan bill, where a doctor's certiticate of ill health would excuse the payment of the insurance premium aud keep a 4str? 1 ? i f. rnn A V H a A 7 1 * /? t n i n 1.111 y in juilu, ui unu > UK niia uui, making It actionable for a life insurance agent lo enter the otllce of a man, where the sign 'no ag* nth allow ed' Is displayed find, legislative favor However ridiculous these bills may seem, they demand attention "At the capital of every State we have either retained representatives for the companies, or are in co opera tion with some one who has retained representatives duly influential. It has been funod aovisable, as the result of experience, to avoid as far as possible anv exact p ublic information as to who represents us. The known presence of A J ~ 4. 1 a purauiuu rcprenBiibCU R'piS il t halls Is the signal for renewed Vi/or in the attacks of blackmailers and cranks, and unfortunately mem bers of the legislative body are frequently deaf to reasoning where a nonvoting or corporate interest is at stake. Where it becomes necessary, we have often bad occasion to employ the col umns of the public press for a discreet advocacy (four views; this method has been found to be very etlioacicus, but it has also been found very expensive. I have found that in my work in every legislative body In the United States there was as lar^e a proportion of honest men as there is in any body of men In any walk of life. Permit rne also to state that In mv work I have not found it so difllcult to defeat black mailers. A man who is out to blackmail corporate Interests In penorally I well known and his character thorough ly understood. Ttuse men never retain influence for any length of time, and 1 have found that requeste to the honest members of the Legislature for help In defeating the blackmailer are always readily and cheerfully granted." A statement of money reoelved by Mr. Hamilton ehows a total of 1270.550 for the ytar* from 1890 to 1905 lie oalls attention to an expense cf 83,100 for * retainer* and newspaper ariiohs" In 1904 and says a large portion of this expense was occasioned by an attempt to oreate public sentiment throughout the United States In fa vor of national supervision of insurance. Under the same heading $97,000 Is charged for 1905 and the increast was due, he says, primarily to the troubles in the Equitable Life Assurance Society. In couoludlng his statement, Mr. Hamilton says that "the Injunctions of the president of the New York Life to me were always unmistakably < xpliclt tbat my expenditures and my work were to be strlotly oontlned within the limitations of the law of the land. These instructions have been faithfully followed to tho letter. There has never been a disbursement made by me of the company's funds which trespass! d upon the instructions given me by the president of this company and 1 want It thoroughly understooo that not one dollar of any moneys ever paid to me by the New York Life Insurance Company has been uted improperly or foi Improper purposes, or In a way that transgressed either the statutory law or the moral law." A statement of legal expenditures other than those to Hamilton was produced by Mr. McCall, showing a total for fruch expenditures of 1,103,920 from 1901 to 1906. Secretary McCall was questioned by Mr. Hughes as to what further light he could throw on the statement of Mr. Hamilton, but he said he could give no Information. lie did not question Mr. Hamilton's figures nor toe lari/e. amr nnt.H f<ir t.ravplHnir n-r. penRt'8. lie nuked Mr. Hamilton for a full statement and relied on his honesty to explain everything. He did insist that Mr. Hamilton produce checks or check books, but Mr. Hamilton said lie had none. When Mr. McCall was excused Henry D. Appleton, of the State in surance department, was called. He was told that Mr. Morgan, former pnsldent of the Hankers' Life Insurant Company, had testified that Mr. Appleton had sakl It would cost the Linkers' Life $60,000 to reincorporate. Mr. Appleton somewhat heatedly said: "If Mr. Morgan said that, he is a liar." He was called to order by Chairman Armstrong. L ?uls F. Payn, former superintendent cf insurance of the State of New York was called to the stand late in the day and explained a larye number of appointments of confidential examiners on the ground that an uuusual number of examinations wore made during bis tenure of ( nice. Mr. Hughes produced a list, which showed that in 1892, two ex aminat ions were made, and in 1898 two more were made, while iu 1899, the last year of Mr. Pay?.'sadministration the number bad not been brought out when adjournment was taken. The 8 11'iirs of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company were taken up with the witness, and during this llrx/v . # ~ I 4-1 1* ^ 1 ? - - * ' I 11iic ui ua uuiniviiDii jvir. rayne start n that he had been opoosnd to Mr. Burnham as president of the Mutual It serve, and said he had tried to get him out. Mr. Hughes asked why he had tried to get him out and Mr. Payn flatly staled "because I thought him a crook." ? A point of Interest m Insurance matters developed in the Courts to day when Justice Greonbaura, in the Supreme Court, granted more. The Court granted a writ of man damus to Clarence II. Venne and <r'p hundred other policy holders, directing John A. McCill, president of t le New York Lift}, to furnish them with a ojmplete list of the policy' holders. The board of trustees of t.hr Mutual Life Insurance Company h? Id a meeting today and elected E.nery McQllch ck, the actuary of the company, as vice president and director, lie will be in active charge of the company's technical t Hairs. President elect Charles A. lY.abody was also el cted a director. These two su c ed Eiihu Root and Ilufus W. Beckham. The trustees voted to abolish the Metropolitan agency of C Raymond & Co., and all agencies are to be on a salary basis. A ltoujrll XI 111? . A dsspatch from Galveston, Texas, says without food or water and with out scarcely enough air to sustain life, Carl Joseph Kuhlcck, a young German stowaway, 1G years tf age, after suffering Indescribable tortures for a period of nearly 10 days, was rescued from bis perilous po-iltton in a narrow space between sacks of coffee In the lower hold of the Malloiy steamer Comal at 11 o'clock Thursday morning. He was Immediately con veyed to the John Sealv hosDital where medical attention was given him. His chances for recovery are considered good. He says his home js at 305 Columbia avenue, Jamaica, L I. Killed Father With Flwt. Defending his mother against her quarrelsome husband Joseph Pollock aged 22 years, of 138 West Cumber land street, Philadelphia, Stjuok his father in the face Mouday a blow, wh c i resulted in his death. Toe son lias been arrested, charged with murder, and his mother held as a witness. Another son, who is a lay preacher, was absent from home conducting a Christmas entertainment. \ A BLOODY RIOT, In Which Several People Are Killed and Wounded. A bloody riot among negroes was reported at Valdosta, Ga., on Sunday, trom Ewing, a turpentine oamp between Fargo and St. George, on the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad The tirst report stated that a orowd of negroes tried to mob a white man he barracaded himself and fired upon the orowd, killing seven and wounding six others. Later reports stated that the riot occurred as the result of a Christmas frolic among negroes who had plenty < of "blind tiger" liquor on board. A 1 general fusillade occurred and probab- < ly 60 shots were tired. Two negroes ; were killed outright, three were mor- ; tally wounded and died later, while < eight others received bullet wounds, i A negro worn in was among the killed i and women were also among one i wounded. One of the women was , brought to Fargo for treatment, having several bullet wounds In her body and another of the negroes cime to Valdosta with a part of his chin and Jaw shot off having received the contents of a shotgun at close range. He will probably die. It was Impossible to gf?t telegraphic comnouloatlon with the place as there Is no telegragh otllco there and only meagre information could be had f/om nearby stations over the railroad i wires. Parties who came on the train i from that part of the cjuutry tod ly stated that the row was entirely t among negrors and that bad liquor | and women caused It. i There are persistent reports that >, the white superintendent of the tur ? pentlne still at Ewlng took a hand in t the killing among the negroes there i{ last evening. The report says that t he tried to stop the tight and thus became Involved In It, and that It > was his quick work with his gun that r saved him. This cannot be verified, r but It Is told here by a negro who i came on the train. c JKntal tlow News reached London, Ky., Wed- J nrsiavofthe killing of the deputy } sheriH and two other men in Laalle county. A dispute over a turkey j* sh(x>tlng match caured a general dls ( turbance In which John DufT and J*cob Wilson anrl Alexander Little shot and killed Mack Roberts, a dep ( uty sberllT. DulT and Wllsrn were ' arrested. L'ttle escaped. At Moose s Creek J arms Creech was shot by Wll- ( Ham Vanover In a auarrel. ItankH Fail. * The Merchant's Trust company of a Memphis, Tenn., decided to go Into . liquidation and the A meriean Savings !' hank and Trust company, ontrolkd by the Me;c lant's c impanv, closed ' Its doors to avoid a run. IJp toll o'clock Wednesday morning the lnstl- ^ tuLions made no statement. The . Merchants' company has a paid-up 11 capital of $500,000 and deposits of (' about. $000,000. The Amercin Savings Hank and Trust company has a P paid-up capital of $25,000 anu depos- ' Its of about $025.000. tV Clothi5H C'Aii^riv jj Miss Goldberg, 22 ysars old, sister li of 15. 15. Goldberg, a merchant of New a York, was burned at their winter p home at Thomasville, Georgia., on r Wed nerd ay. ller dress caught tire t from a sccvb. She ran into a hall, !i where bore brother, la attempting to n strip off her durning clothes, was n himself severely burned. Miss Gold- t berg died. r The soothir g and comforting < ITicts (] of DsWltt's Witch Ilazel Sa.vs. when applied to Piles, sores, cuts, bolls, etc. n subdues pain almost Irstantly. This \ Sa've draws out the inllimmath n, re- i duces swelling and acts as a iirrefac- i lent, thus circulating the blood through the dis^as*d parts, permit- n vrr or aiding N tturo to permanently i r m we the trouble entirely. Sold by Canwav D'uj Co. ? ? I - ( (Joino loo liktn. Mrs. II. J. L^wls, wi'e of the cashier of the Illinois club, cDmmitted I suicide Thursday by hanging at her ( borne 0:1 Dell street, Hot Springs, , Ark. She tied a clothe* line to the ( stairway and jumped df. Ill health i is supposed to have prompted the , deed. Thursday word was received by Mr. Lewis that his wife had been ( 1 ^ft a comfortable fortuno by a rela- , tl ve and while he was away from home ] his wife took her life. , Killed by Whinkoy. f At Society Hill the little two-and a half year old boy of Edward Ereemari j by an accident got hold of some whiskey that his father had( purchased and drank so much of It last Thursday that he never regained conciousness The physician worked faith < folly with him hut to no avail. The little fellow lived for HO hours and < I parsed awavi Perfection can only be attained in the physical by allowing Nature to appropriate and not dissipate her own resources. Carthartics trrlpe, weaken?dissipate, while DeWltt's Little Early Risers simply expel all partrld matter and bile, thus allowing the liver to assume normal activity. Good for the complexion. Sold by Conway Dmg On. Blow (Jp. A dispatch fro'm Newport News, Va., savs while the two-masted schooner Emma was coming Into Darling's Wharf, in Hampton Creek, Wednesday, explosion )f the urasolino tank of the auxiliary engine occurred. Capt. A. T. Nottingham was lustantly killed. The explosion was of such force as to tear a hole through the vessel. The boat was owned at li ickroe, and used for oyestering. } RADIUM INFECJ3 CURRIES Hounted by Sort of a Mineral Frankenstein. PERPETUALL1GHT PLANT Famous Disoovorers of Wonderful Element 80 Permeated with Its Rays Thsy Live in Constant State of Radiation?Necessary to Build Another Laboratory. The celebrated chemists, M. and Mmo. Currio, arc suffering from an embarrassmeat of too much radium. The famous chemists of Paris, whoso discovery of this wonderful element plunged tho scientists of the world into grave doubt as to tho soundness of tho atomic theory, have become the victims of this mineral Frankenbteln and, having been driven from Lhoir laboratory, aro now likely to bo driven from their home. M. Currio uud his wife, who had fclded him in every step In his researches, are suffering from what time. Currie characterizes as a "ralium pest." Incidentally they have leveloped the fact that with radium In iso in sufficient quantities tho extorious of the gas trust would become 1 thing of the past and tho establishj.out of municipal ownership too simile to require more than the impregnation of all parts of tho city with 'adiuin rays. The laboratory of the Curries has >een turned into a perpetual lighting >!ant by tho abundant uso of metal in experiments, and even the room in vhlch they sleep has become so thori 111 n f rwl llu> \i ho o I t.n**V I41.J/I vpjuwvvu VIU?V *V uuo uo* I some necessary to surround the bed | it night witli heavy black curtains on he sides uud across the top. There is radium everywhere about he house and laboratory of the Curves, and there is but little hope of elief for many years yet to come, as hey have estimated that the power >f the light front the impregnated .alls will have diminished less than 0 per cent in forty years. The radium follows the two chetnsts everywhere. There is no way of ;etting rid of it; no way of cleaning he place or their clothes of the myserious light that clings to and fol3ws them. Every piece of apparatus, very article in use about the laboraory becomes in time a separate founain of light, giving olT the weird and etting up a new point of brilliance, o remain such for decades. In discussing the strange misfornne that has overtaken her husband nd herself, Mine. Currie said today: "We will have to build another laoratory in our garden. The old ono 5 so impregnated with radium as to ender all our apparatus useless 'lie delicacy of all the old apparatus /as destroyed by the intluence of th? ndium, and if we put new apparatus 1 the radium infected rooms it soon eterlorates. "The linest electroscopes it Is posihle to buy work less accurately in a oom where radium has been exposed ban the clumsy article consisting of cork, tin foil and the mouthpiece of n old pipe. My husband and myself ave found it impossible to work in room where radium has been exosed for any length of time. The ays infect not only the room, bui be whole building. It has become, n tact, a radium pest. Some of th" pparatus that has been exposed, the ew as well as the ohl, has acquired be property of throwing off radium ays and cannot be used. "The building will have to be torn lown, for even if every particle of ndium is removed, tbo rays will keep in increasing in intensity for two or lirce years, and after that, although osing in intensity, will deteriorate ess tli an 50 per cent in 50 yea us. "What would occur if you exposed in article continuously to radium rays or any length of time?" was asked. "!t would continue to give of? rays or a hundred years, at least." was be answer.?New York Journal. Many Bibles Sold. Popular novelists will be surprised c hear that the most popular book is lot a novel at all. In the course of a ;.lk with a writer in the Book Month\\ Henry Proude of the Oxford University Press says: "So far as I can calculate, the whole lufput of English Hililes in the course T a year is about 2.000.000 copies. Moreover, the Ilible differs from novels in having a steadily increasing tale. Just lliirtv years ago the Oxford Tnivorsitv Press alone sent out half a million copies. Ily 1830 tho sale had doubled." . Rig Pay for Judges. There are now no fewer than eight' ex-judges in England in receipt of total pensions amounting to $ 121.1)62.50 a year. A judge who continues on tho bench after completing fifteen years' service really does his work for $7,200.75 a year, the difference he tween liia salary and pension. The lord chancellor is entiled to a ponnion of $24,32.50 a year for life, however short tho tenure of tho chancellorship. The business of college education In one of the greatest businesses of the country. The 420 colleges and universities, in which are enrolled 175,000 students, represents an invested capital of $250,000,000 and give employment, to 25,000 persons as teachers anj officers. At the present rato of crumbling England will have been swallowed up by tho sea in tho year 12184, according to the calculations of a correspondent of tho Frankfurter Zeitung. BANK OF CON W> CAPITAL STOCK, $20,000.00 TOTAL ASSEr OFFI B. G. COLLINS, PltE8IDENT. C. P. QUATTLEBAUM, V-PRES. Our Lank, being a local institu building of Horry County and for tli suing thin policy wo take pleasure ii accommodation when consistent wit! With gratitude for the liberal cordially solicit your future busiueei Respect fi D. A. SPIV1 Robt. B. Scarborough, II. President. ViceBANK OI Conwa Capital Stock DIREC Robt. B. Scarborough, Hal Ii. Buck, George J. Holliday, We will pay you C) per cont. intc ish savings banks to those wishin Try our plan for sjivijig your nickles these little banks ond the interest w< help yon. THE "HU ). eHfiF fi y a Bub v This brand on a shoe means THE BEST for your money ca jr. is. iv death llomaiicc. The.dfath of tifteen-yesr-old Annie HelfeDblne, a student at Mount Dechautal reveals a pathetic romance. The girl was loved by John Amsler, a wealthy oil operator of Bellalre, Ohio, and they married senr*. months ago. The girl's desire to si cure an education, howt v r, irr polled her to enter the stmimry at "Wheeling, W Va., under her ma'den name, her husband posing as her uncle. A few day a ago, Mrs. Ausler, in running about toe seminary grounds for < xeiclse, burst a blood vetsel in htr throat, death ensuing Friday. Killed hy Diiinki-n N?grort?. As a result of the prt misccus tirlrg of their re \o'vers hy a party of r< grces nr.lsllv ee)ebrs?tlrg Christmssat M mphis, Term., Frank P >ston, a promij nt nt attorney of that citv was shot and fat all v wounded. Mr. Putson was standirg on the sidewalk in the vicinity of his home when the partv of negroes ap peart d and was struck by a bullet fiom the revolver of one of the party. He died "from the effects of his wf urds shortly. ' Killed I>y hockei, A dispatch fri m Union says Carance Rochester tired a sky r< cket acclcUntally at his friend, Sweri Thomas, killing him instantly. Roth ere white, and the affair occur*d at Zibella. Union c< unty. The sky rcekot was unutally large and piera (l 1 hornas'breast like an arrow, pucluciLg dentil in ? f? \xi nr.f mcntu Kill* o I lit in All. Williar McWlllianr s was sentenced on M >nda) 10 bo barged f< r the murder of his wife and live children tvso week* ayo at Jrd< render ca, low a. ^cciisN ISfCMACH/J Tnn body gets ita lifo from ij food properly digested. si Healthy digestion means pure M I blood for tho body, but stomach troubles arise from carelessness I H in eating and stdmach disorders j?1 Kg upset the entire system. 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