MUTUAL LIFE Begins Action Against Former President FOR LARGE SUM J Mr. McCurdy is Charged With Wast ing Over Three Million Dollars of Company's Money. New York. —The first complaint in a series of eight actions al ready begun by the' Mutual Life In surance Co. against ex-President ■ Richard A. McCurdy, his son Robert H. and the firm of Charles H. Ray- j mond & Co., the company's former ! Metropolitan agents, was made public Friday. This particular complaint is against ex-President McCurdy and contains , nine separate causes of action. In each Mr. McCurdy is charged with the , waste of large sums of money belong- ; ing to the company through alleged unfaithfulness and neglect in the dis charge of his duties. Damages amounting to three and a quarter mil lion dollars are demanded. The first five causes seek recovery in the aggregate of $292,500 as alleged contributions to political parties since January 1, 1885. These contributions are said to have been $90,000 to the national republican campaign com mittee, $2,500 to the republican con gressional committee, and $200,000 embracing the various contributions testified to by Senator Piatt as hav ing been made to the New York repub lican state committee since January 1, • 1885. The sixth cause seeks to recover the sum of $225,000, embracing tlie $50,- 000 alleged increase of annual salary drawn by the former president since January 1, 1901. The seventh cause seeks to recover SOOO,OOO as the aggregate of the re spective sums of $25,000 drawn quar terly from the company for the last six years of Mr. McCurdy's presidency on the voucher of the committee on ex penditures. The eighth cause deals with the re lations of Louis A. Thebaud, son-in law of ex-President McCurdy, with Raymond & Co. and the "gratuities and • rates of commission" received by the firm. The final cause of action deals with the sum of $1,282,541 received by Robert H. McCurdy as commissions from ISBO to November, 1905, as su perintendent of the foreign depart ment. which are declared to have been exorbitant and unnecessary. Finally the company demands judg ment against ex-President McCurdy for the sum of $3,370,341.60, with in terest. as damages for alleged un faithfulness and neglect. TRADE BULLETIN. Confidence in the Future Is Remark ably Bright. New York.—R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Total distribution of spring mer chandise lias received a check because of the heavy snowfall and severe storms in many sections of the coun try, but some offset is noted in renew ed inquiry for winter goods, and there is no interruption to the activity of shipping departments. Confidence iu the future is remarkably bright, and the outlook would be far better than ever before at this season if the fuel uncertainty were removed. .Manufac turing plants operate close to niaxi- j mum capacity in the leading indus- 112 tries and it is an evidence of no little | significance that many mills cannot! undertake deliveries before 1907. j These are extreme cases;- it is a com mon thing to find production engaged for several months in advance. Mer cantile collections are also more prompt. Commodity prices are slight ly higher, on the whole, and building materials continue very strong, struc tural work being abnormally heavy. Failures this week numbered 213 in the United States, against 255 last year, and 37 in Canada, compared with 10 a year ago. Congressional. Washington—Mr. Spooner conclud ed his speech in the senate on the rail road rate bill on the 23d. Mr. Tillman also spoke on the bill, suggesting that the inter-state commerce commission should have authority to enjoin rail roads from increasing their rates. The fortification appropriation bill was passed. The bill carries an ap propriation of $5,278,993. The house considered the legislative bill, but without making much headway. The Oil Cloth Industry, Washington, D. C. —A bulletin is sued by the census bureau Friday giving statistics in the oil cloth and linoleum industry for the calendar y< ar 1904, indicates a substantial in cr< ase. There were 25 establish ment- with a total capital of $12,709,- 299 and total product of $11,042,009. Against Tariff Change. I)f Moln< s, la. Secretary of tin- Tren ury Leslie M. Shaw, in ta iddrwi oa "Republican ism" Friday night, made an elaborate argument against any immediate changi In turlff schedules, because such u change would endanger repub lican ■UCCeSs In 1908. Five Thouiand Men Laid Off. Meadville, I'a Orders were m ■ued by the ISrle railroad Kii tiuy ftiHpendinK locomotive repair work at all »hup< on the h>.->i< iu, Five thousand uieu are laid off. THE MINERS' WAGE SCALE. It Is Referred to a Joint Committee of Miners and Operators by the Indi anapolis Convention. Indianapolis, Ind.—The second joint conference of the coal operators and miners of the central competitive ' district, comprising the states of IHi - | nois, Indiana, Ohio and western I Pennsylvania, which is the result of ; efforts of President Roosevelt to effect I permanent peace in tho coal industry ! throughout the United Slates, nd- I journed Tuesday afternoon after re- 1 ferring the demands of the miners to the joint scale committee. The conference was called to order by President Mitchell. The confer ence organized by the election of the following officers: George W. Traer, an operator, of Chicago, permanent chairman; secretary, W. U. Wilson, of the United Mine Workers; assistant secretaries, Frank S. Brooks, Colum bus, and C. L. Scroggs, Chicago. On motion of President Mitchell the rules of the previous joint conference, requiring that the vote of the miners and operators on "all main and princ!- pal questions" bo cast as a unit, were adopted. President Mitchell delivered a brief address in which Ik? outlined his views as to the purpose of the joint confer ence, at the close of which he moved the adoption of the scale of wages de manded by the miners in the joint conference which adjourned February 2. The scale provides for an increase of per cent. The motion was lost on a strictly partisan vote, the oper ators voting unanimously in the nega tive, while the miners voted as a unit in favor of its adoption. New York.—George F. Haer, chairman of the committee of seven of the anthracite operators, has addressed a letter to John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Work ers, accepting Mr. Mitchell's proposi tion to have another conference. ANOTHER MUTINY. Russian Sailors Are Reported to Have Inaugurated a New Rebellion at Sebastopol. St. Petersburg, Russia. —Most sen sational reports are current that the execution of Lieut. Schmidt, which | has made a deep impression through- ! out Russia, has been followed by an j extensive mutiny of sailors at Sebas topol, the massacre of their officers ; and firing by the fortress upon the city. The truth of the story is doubted, j this being the "psychological moment" j for tile appearance of such wild re ports. No press dispatches confirming -the story have been received, but if the report should prove true the ab sence of these might be accounted for by the imposition of a censorship. The alleged news came in the form of two cipher telegrams to a promi nent member of the social revolution ary party, such as the revolutionaries have sometimes been able to transmit through accomplices in the telegraph' offices when tile public, and even the government, has been unable to com municate. As translated and display ed at the offices of radical newspapers here, the telegrams say briefly that the sailors, infuriated by the refusal of Emperor Nicholas to pardon Lieut. Schmidt and their fellow sailors, rose in their barracks and seized and im prisoned the majority of their officers. The dispatches add that the city of Sebastopol is almost entirely in flames. It is also stated that a student at tho Technological institute lias received a similar telegram. The admiralty affects ignorance as to the occurrence of any such affair. The papers, in view of the menace of the new press law, which provides that they may be closed up for spread ing false reports affecting the army or navy, are afraid to take chances by publishing the story. A SEIZURE 0E JEWELRY. Canadian Customs Officials Confiscate a Lot of Gems Alleged to Have Been Smuggled by a Woman. Detroit, Mich. —An amount of jewelry which lias not been appraised, but the value of which has been esti mated at from $2,000 up to $ 10.000, was seized Monday by the Canadian customs authorities on the ground that it had been smuggled from the United Slates. Part of the jewelry was taken from a young woman known here as Mrs. Gus Kleiner, of i Toronto, when she crossed the Detroit j river from Detroit to Windsor. The remainder was seized at her home in Toronto almost simultaneously, word having been sent there by wire as soon as she was placed under surveil lance here. The woman is said to bo the wife of a Toronto jeweler and to have been for about ten years a commercial trav tier, selling jewelry all through Can ada as far as the Pacific coast and car rying stocks valued as high as SIO,OOO to $12,000. It is said that she was just about to start on a four months' trip when th< seizures were made. A Day in Congress. Washington -The pension appro priation bill was passed by the scnati on tlii- 20th, the remainder of the day being give ii to debate on the fortifica tions lull. The house devoted its ses sion to considering the legislative ap propriaUou bill. A Dozen Vessels Were Wrecked. iJo-'len, M; 111 till' norm of March 19 at' l J" hi bust :i ' a ves mi wt ie wrecked or dninai e«| and six lives |ohi That ihe llhi will grow In ihe next 112. a days is probuble, iu View of the i-t/e of the lie. I which WBM off the con 1 when th« storm was at i It* height. Earthquake Killed Thousand*. Londut. KngUnd According to Ihe Dally Te|< mph's eurre >|Miii(|enl iii Toklo, It Is now emlmated that m ml thousand iM-mius were killed the r< ■ cut earthquake Iu Foruiuaa. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1906. HEARING WAS TOO GOOD. Examinee Who Could Hear the Tick of a Watck When Not Running. "The physical examination of new po hcemrn often (urnishes a lot of amuse ment," remarked Chief of l'olice Hayes i the other day while in a reminiscent mood, relates the Kansas City Independ ent. "Catch question* don't go, of course, but every now and then they are asked ]by way of a josh. 1 remember a youmj i fellow lie's now a sergeant- who tell into a trap the prettiest you ever saw. The j doctor had examined him up and down and all around, and then declared that he would make a test of his hearing. Tak ing a watch out of his pocket, with a wink at me, he asked: 'l)o you hear that tickr' " 'Yes, perfectly,' the voting man an swered. "He held it a foot from the applicant'* ear. " "Still hear it?' he asked. " cs, sir.' •"Now stand back three paces.' "The young man did so. " Now,' said tlie examiner, 'do you hear : it from that distance?' "The applicant listened intently. Then ; be smiled .and nodded. "" 1 still hear it, sir,' he said. "You certainly have the most remark- j able hearing 1 ever came across,' said the examiner. 'That watch has not been run ning for three weeks.' " ♦ ONE-ARMED APPLAUSE. Cooperative Hand-Clapping by T770 Men with One Hand Each. Mrne. Bernhardt had just returned from a spin in motor car. Her face was flu-lied, and she wore a skirt of sealskin. "Madame," said a reporter who speaks French, "what do you regard as ib< greatest triumph of your career?" The great artist smiled. "My greatest triumph?" she mused. "Well, I think perhaps my greatest tri umph was in l'aris, on the tirst night of L'Aiglon, at the end of the third net. " The third act was passionately ap- j plnuded, but, as I stood before the cur tain, the applause was drowned under a burst, oi laughter. "The laughter came from the topmost gallery. The audience's eyes, and my eyes, too, were turned reproachful Iv thither. And as we looked the leproach died out of our faces. l*'or what do yi u suppose we saw? "Wo saw to one-armed men standing up in the front row, side by side, qnile oblivious of the amusement they created, j co-operating with the remaining hands to j add to the applause." NO REST NIGHT OR DAY. With Irritating Skin Humor—Hair Began to Fall Out—Wonderful Re sult from Cuticura Remedies. "About the latter part of July my whole ' body began to itch. 1 did not take much I notice of it at first, but it began to get worse all the time, and then I began to pet uneasy and tried all kinds of baths nd other remedies that were recommended for skin humors; but 1 became worse all the time. My hair began to fall out and my scalp itched all the time. Especially at night, just as scon as I would get in bed and get warm, my whole body would begin to itch and my finger nails would keep it irritated, and it was not long be fore I could jiot rest night or day. A friend asked me to try the Cuticura Reme dies, and 1 did, and first application helped me wonderfully For about four Wt'eks 1 would take a hot bath every night and then apply the Cuticura Oint ment to my whole body : and I kept get ting better, and by the time I used four box's of Cuticura T v-ns entirely cured, and my liair stopped falling out. 1). E. 1 Blankenship. 319 X. Del. St., Indianapolis, ; Ind. Oct. 27, 1905." — Seemed Unlikely. She—l see that in the preface to your ' volume of poems you say you haven't an enemy in the world. lie (laughingly) Yes. but that was be- j fore the book was published. "Why, lias some one read it?" Stray : Stories. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-lCase. It cures painful, swollen, smarting, sweating feet. Makes new shoes , easy. 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