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THE PHILADELPHIA TBIES. JANUARY 26. 1897. TUESDAY MORNINGK Strawbridge Clothier PATGHIflGUP THE IiOAfl Bllili BOTH BRANCHES OP COUNCILS AGREE TO AMEND THE SUBWAY ORDINANCE. Filbert Street Eighth Street Market Street Furs and Fur Garments I THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OP THE UNITED STATES.

FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1896. To close our superb stock of the choicest styles immediately, sweeping reductions have been made at every point in many cases prices have been reduced from Onethird to OnehaIf Actual Values The assortment is complete in Capes of all lengths, Collarettes of all shapes and styles, and Coats and Wraps, in Mink, Sable, Astrakhan, Persian Lamb, Electric Seal, Wool Seal, etc. Every article is grade and guarantee J. Muffs and Children's Sets have also been greatly INCOME Premium Receipts 836,089,357.71 Cash received for Interest and from other sources 8,921,700.67 32,021,426.97 26,088,242.94 Income $45,011,058.38 DISBURSEMENTS Death Claims $12,380,249.00 Matured and Discounted Endowments 1,096,193.24 ASSETS Bonds and Mortgages Real Estate, including the Equitable Building and purchases underforeclosure of mortgages. United States Stocks, State Stocks and City Stocks and other investments, as per mar- ket quotations Dec.

31, 1896, (market value over cost, S2.796.862.63) Loans secured by Bonds and Stocks (market value Dec. 31, 1896,814,738,055) Real Estate outside the State of New York, including purchases under foreclosure and office buildings Cash in Banks and Trust Companies at interest Balances due from agents Interest and rents due and accrued Premiums due and unreported, less cost of collection Deferred Premiums, less cost of collection Assets Dec. 31, 1896 410,793.31 3,582,301.09 2,041,970.20 113,077,465.66 11,723,700.00 16,670,386.37 11,262,939.63 632,697.20 518,896.58 2,578,037.00 2,200,155.00 Annuities Surrender Values Matured Tontine Dividends paid to Paid Policy-Holders Commission, and exchange All other payments aries, medical general expenses, if $21,937,439.45 advertising, postage 4,330,268.30 Taxes, sal- examinations, 3,736.714.26 Disbursements $30,004,422.01 ASSURANCE Instalment Policies Stated at Their Commuted Values. Outstanding Assurance Dec. 31, 1896 $915,102,070.00 $216,773,947.35 We hereby certify that, after a personal examination of the securities and accounts described in the foregoing statement for the year 1896, we find the same to be true and correct as stated.

The stocks and bonds in the above statements are valued at the market price December 31, 1896. The Real Estate belonging to the Society has been appraised by the Insurance Department of the State of New York, and is stated at the reduced valuation'as shown in the official report of the examination of the Society, dated July 9, 1895. FRANCIS W. JACKSON, Auditor. ALFRED W.

MAINE, 2d Auditor. LIABILITIES Reserve on all existing policies, calculated on a 1 standard, and all other liabilities $173,496,768.23 Surplus, on a i standard $43,277,179.12 Hew Assurance written in 1896 $127,694,084.00 Proposals for Assurance Examined and Declined $21,678,467.00 We, the undersigned, appointed by the Board of Directors of the Equitable Society, in accordance with its by-laws, to revise and verify all its affairs for the year 1896, hereby certify that we have, in person, carefully examined the accounts, and counted and examined in detail the Assets of the Society; and do hereby certify that the foregoing statement thereof is true and correct as stated. We hereby certify to the correctness of the above calculation of the reserve and surplus. Dividends will be declared, as heretofore, on the basis of a 4 per cent standard. V'n GEORGE W.

PHILLIPS, Actuary. 1 J- VAN CISE, Assistant Actuary. BOUDINOT T. S. YOUNG.

W. G. W. CARLETON, H. OFFICERS DIRECTORS PURPOSES OF THE ALTERATION According to the Amendment as Agreed to by Both Branches of Councils, an Annual Tax la to be Levied of a Sum Not Less Than Four-Tenths of a Mill, the Same Being Sufficient to Fay the Interest and Principal of the Loan Within Thirty Years.

Such Tax to be Taken From the City Tax, of Which the Sum of Twenty-One Mills Is Set Aside for Remaining City Expenses. Both branches of Councils held special sessions yesterday for the purpose of amending the $6,000,000 loan ordinance so as to bring it within the technical requirements of the Constitution of the State. The amendment provides that "whenever any loan shall be created by virtue of this ordinance there shall be by force of this ordinance an annual tax levied of a sum not less than four-tentbs of a mill, the same being sufficient to pay the Interest and principal of same within thirty years; and there is hereby appropriated annually out of the tax so xjollected a sum sufficient to pay Interest and principal within thirty years." In Select Council the legality of the amendment raised considerable discussion. Mr. Clay argued that Councils had the power to levy a tax only once a year, bo as to make the Income of the city equal to Its disbursements, and contended that Councils had no power to legislate for thiry years, as the amendment proposed they should do.

He thought the best that could be done under the circumstances would be to Insert a clause in the ordinance to the effect that a sum equal to four-tenths of a mill would be appropriated each year toward tbe payment of the interest and principal of the loan. He had no objection to the amendment, but questioned Its legality and said he would vote for it under protest. The Amendment Agreed To. Mr. Patton explained that the amendment had been prepared by the City who had been present at the meeting of the finance committee when they recommended it to Councils and that Common Council had since passed it.

He felt very much like Mr. ('lay on the matter, he said, and should vote for the ameudment under protest. Upon being put to a vote it was unanimously passed and will be signed by the Mayor this morning before the bids on the loans, which arc to be opened to-day, are unsealed. The amendment grew out of a hesitation on the part of capitalists to bid on the loan until provision had been made for the payment of the interest and principal. Proposals will be opened by the Mayor at noon today for the purchase of $2,400,000 of the $6,000,000 loan and all of the $2,000,000 loan for the widening of Delaware avenue.

Having disposed of the amendment and left the responsibility of its legality with the City Solicitor, the chamber took up other business and a number of ordinances for lights and sewers were Introduced and sent to appropriate committees. By request of the Bureau of Surveys, Mr. Pntton Introduced a resolution, which was passed, requesting the Board of Tort Wardens not to Issue any permits that will Inter-' fere with the rights of the city at Race street wharf and also to Issue to the city a permit to extend said wharf. Au ordinance was passed amending the ordinance making an appropriation for 1807 to-the Commissioners for the erection of the IMiblic Buildings. The amendment placed the salary of the superintendent of plumbing at $2,000, "provided he devotes bis whole time and attention to the duties thereof and remains In the building during working hours." To Abolish Grade Crossings.

An ordinance to authorize the revision of lines and grades of streets required to avoid grade crossings of the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad, from Norrls to Butler streets, In the Twenty-fifth and Thirty-first wards; to provide for the elevation of said railroad; to strike from the city plan Trenton avenue, from Lehigh avenue to Butler street; to place upon the city plan numerous streets and to provide for the opening of Wyoming and Wltte streets, for all of which an appropriation of was made, $750,000 of which is to pay the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, lessee of the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad, for the work of elevating Its road, building bridges, and $150,000 to pay damages to property-owners, tbe whole amount to be taken out of the loan, was passed with hut two dissenting votes, those of Wilbur F. Short, of the Twenty-fifth ward, and Hugh Black, of the Thirty-sixth ward. The ordinance providing that the departments In the preparation of specifications for cement shall recognize the American product and also that all tests made In the city laboratory be published was also passed. IN THE LOWER HOUSE Common Council Takes Favorable Action on the Amendment to the Loan -Ordinance. In Common Council, which met In special session, the amendment to the $6,000,000 loan ordinance for the work necessary to abolish all grade crossings on Pennsylvania avenue and Noble street, between the east side of Thirteenth street and Poplar street, in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth wards, was agreed to without opposition, although at the first it looked as though a long debate would take place before such action was reached.

When the amendment was taken up, Chairman Seeds, of the finance committee, said that he wished to cortcct a mistaken view that by the adoption of the amendment that the tax rate would be Increased. By the amendment an annual tax Is levied to pay the Interest and principal within thirty years, but Mr. Seeds said that In the present tax rate of $1.85 there Is set apart 21 mills for running expenses of the city, and that the Increased tax would be made up out of this amount. The amendment was then agreed to without any opposition. One of the important features of the ses sion was, the concurring In the ordinance reg ulating travel upon the streets and high ways of the city, as amended by the commit tee on police and prisons of Select Council, which was originally drawn up at the request of Director of Public Safety Rlter.

Af terwards Mr. Richards presented a resolution directing that the ordinance be published In all the newspapers after It has been signed by the Mayoi and become a law, so that every person affected by the law will be ac-nuaiuted with its provisions and the nenal- ties for any violations. The ordinance as now amended la as follows: "Section 1. That from and after the passage of this ordinance all persons driving or naing upon tue streets or nignways ot the city of PhlladelDhia. whether on horseback.

In carriages, wagonr or other vehicles, or upon bicycles, tileyciea or other mechanical contrivances, shall at all times drive or ride unou the right side of the street or hlirh way, and shall pass nil vehicles traveling In the opposite direction by driving or riding to the right of such vehicles, and shall pass all vehicles traveling In the same direction by driving or riding to the left of such vehicles; provided, that whenever It shall be necessary for any person driving or riding upon any street or highway to turn from the right slue thereof to avoid any obstruction or obstacle, he shall turn again to the right side Iminedlnte'y after passing such oostfue tlon oi obstacle. "Section 2. All persons using barrows or hand carts upon the streets or highways of tne city or rnnaueipnia suau ue suDject to tne regulations prescrioea in section of this ordinance for carriages, wagons and other vehicles. Any person violating any provision of this ordinance shall be subject to a penalty of five dollars, to be recovered as debts of like amount are now by law recoverable." The ordinance granting permission to the Pennsylvania Division, Sons of Veterans, to occupy the room In the Slate Home Row Immediately west of Independence Hall, lately vacated by the Prothonotary of tbe Courts of Common Pleas, was agreed to, after Chief Elsenhower had said that the room could Jr -Jt--i 'rtr'tilir( COMBINATION CAPES-of Seal and Persian Lamb, Electric Seal and Chinchilla, Alaska Seal and Ermine, and ack Marten and Persian Lamb. Reduced from prices raneing from to $200.03 to $18.00, $35.00, $60.00 and $100.00.

PARIS FUR CAPES AND COLLARETTES the balance of our stock has been reduced to less than one-third former prices. Some of the richest Fur Capes ever imported are included suitable for street or evening wear. No such bargains have ever before been offered in rich and reliable furs. Clearance Sale of Ends of NOTTINGHAM and LACE CURTAINS suitable for short curtains and many other useful and decorative purposes, at nearly nominal prices: NOTTINGHAM CURTAIN ENDS, at 15, 25 and 35 cents each. LACE CURTAIN ENDS, at 35, 50 and 75 cents each.

IRISH POINT CURTAIN ENDS, at 50, 75 cents and $1.00 each. SILKS pretty styles in great variety: CORDED WASH SILKS the best quality and the choicest colorings, at 25 cents. LYONS PONOEE SILKS in several desirable printed effects, on black, navy and colored grounds, 22 inches wide, a firm, well-made silk, at 35 cents. BLACK JAPANESE SILKS Lyons dye, a very heavy grade, 36 inches wide, at 58 cents per yard. Another grade, same width, 50 cents.

GLACE TAFFETA SILKS i-s pieces, in all the wanted combinations, a 1:... lL. ncavy, uius-y Mu.iniy, wim me correct rustle, at 68 cents. BLACK SATIN DUCHESSE a grade that once sold freelv for $1.50 per yard, is now $1.00. Another special grade, 23 in.

wide, is offered at 68 cents. BOTH HELD FOR COURT Two Reading Men Charged With Illegal Voting- at the Democratic Special Telegram to The Times. Reading, January 25. Frantz Bloch and Joseph Polak, charged with illegal voting lu the Second ward at the recent Democratic primaries, were given a hearing before Alderman Kirschmnn. Tho prosecutor.

County Detective Baucbnecht, was represented by Assistant District Attorney Schneft'or. Testimony tending to prove that Polak voted In the Second ward, although a resideut of the First, and that Bloch swore that Holak lives in the Second ward, was submitted. After hearing further testimony Alderman Kirschuiau bound tbe accused "over for court. Cash for a Change of Grade. The jury of view In the matter of the change of grade of Chancellor Htreet, between Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth streets, Twenty-seventh ward, yesterday Bled Its report iu the Common I'leas Court, awarding damages as follows: Joseph M.

Bennett. $75: Franklin Fire-insurance Company. two properties; William C. Meade. $75: Mabel K.

Mai-Farland. $75; Henrietta It. F. Baker, Anna W. Anspach, $75; John Doyle.

$S5; Anna R. Lowry, $S5; Thirteenth Ward Building and Loan Association. $fs5. and Lewis Fodell, $85. The jury assessed no benefits.

Supreme Court List for To-Day. Following is the list, of cases fixed for argument in the Supreme Court to-day: Wllkey et al vs. city of Philadelphia, appellant; Key vs. Guarantors' Liability Indemnity Company, appellant: Philadelphia Company, appellant, vs. United (las Improvement Company; Cox estate.

Potts appeal; Webster vs. Electric Traction Company, appellant; Leary vs. Electric Traction Company, appellant; Braddock Trust Company, appellant, vs. Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit Company, administrator of Siccus, et al; Tasker Sr. estate, Tasker et al's.

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8 to to Sundays, 111 to 1 CONSULTATION In Person or CDCC bv Letter "(X HENRY B. HYDE, President. JAMBS W. ALEXANDER. Vice-President.

THOMA8 D. JORDAN, Comptroller. LOUIS FITZGERALD, Second Vice-President. W. ALEXANDER, Secretary.

GAGE E. TARBELL, Third Vice-President. S. D. RIPLEY, Treasurer.

GEORGE T. WILSON, Fourth Vica-President. J. B. LORING, Registrar.

EDWARD W. LAMBERT, Medical Director. EDWARD CURTIS, Medical Director. new and fresh and of the highest reduced in prices HANDSOME ELECTRIC SEAL CAPES generous sweep, richly lined, high storm collar. Reduced from pri es rangin? from to $12.00, $15.00, $19.00 and $20.00.

IMPORTED CAPES -of fine Kersey Cloth, lined throughout with Spuirrel. Colors: black, brown, cardinal and purple. Some with Persian Lamb and Marten Collars. Former ptices. $40 00 to now $25 00 to $40.00.

COATS AND CAPES of Alaska Seal and Persian Lamb. Reduced to half former prices. BLANKETS: At $3.00 per pair WHITE BLANKETS of fine Fleece Wool, 72 by 84 inches.five pounds. Reduced from $3.75. At $2.00 per pair SANITARY GRAY BLANKETS of pure Scoured Wool, 72 by 84 inches, five pounds.

Reduced from $2.75. DOWN QUILTS: At $3.50 DOWN QUILTS satine covered, a manufacturer's entire stock of the $5.00 grade. At $1.50 COMFORTABLES-cotton filled, with fine silkoline covers. The regular $2.00 grade. HOUSE GOWNS pretty effects in the best materia WOMEN'S HOUSE GOWNS of Flannelette, full and wide, lined to waist.

Earlier price, now 75 cents. WOMEN'S HOUSE GOWNS of fine quality Flannelette, separateinside waist, trimmed with braid, very full skirt. These Gowns are made in our own workrooms, and will bef jlind superior in fit and finish to- any heretofore offered. If purchased elsewhere, the price would be our price, $1.00. WOMEN'S TWO-PIECE HOUSE DRESSES in blue, black and silver gray, very full waist, trimmed with braid, full, wide skirt.

Actual value. ft. 50; our price, 3l.OU. bo spared. There was considerable opposition to pausing the ordinance.

The ordinance directing several departments and commissions of the city in the preparation of specifications for cement to recognize the American product was also agreed to. JOHN C. REID DEAD The Late Managing Editor of the New York Times Succumbs to Heart Disease. New York, January 25. John C.

Reld. for years managing editor, the New York Times, died at 10 o'clock this morning at his residence, nt 70 East Thirtieth street. For the past four or live years he has been connected with the Republican State headquarters. Before "that he had been managing editor of tho Times. He ha9 been In poor health for some time.

Heart disease was the direct cause of death. He wus about 60 years old. When the war broke out Mr, Reld. then an apprentice In a printing office In t'hicago, left his work to enlist In the Union army. His capture and imprisonment in I.ibby t'rison formed one of the many incidents lu his varied and active life.

After the close of the war be resumed his trade and secured employment in a printing office. Early iu the 70's he secured a position In the proof room of the New York Times. It was in ihe Times office that his great ability began to manifest itself, and la 1872 he succeeded (ieorge F. Williams as "managing editor of the Times. Here he remained in the capacity of managing editor until after the close of the election of 1SS4.

Reld worked hard for Ihe election of Rutherford B. Hayes for President. The day following the election in )70 the Times was the only paper In the United States that insisted that Hayes had been elected President, President Gartield In 1KSO offered Mr. Reld the position of United States Marshal, which office he promptly declined. He was appointed editor of the London edition of the New York Herald the follow-Ing vear.

doing to London he assumed charge of tlie paper, but returned later to this city. Subsequently he became editor of the New Haven Palladium. In the last campaign he was associated with the Republican State committee. While serving In this capacity he was widely consulted, and was au authority on Republican Stale and national politics. Mr Reld bad musical tastes and was a confirmed theatre-goer.

He was a great admirer of Roscoe Conkllng and a stalwart opponent of what he termed "half-breeds." Mr. Reld leaves a widow, but no children. BRAKEMAN WISE DEAD One of the Victims of Saturday's Railway Accident Succumbs to Hb Injuries. Clarion, January 25. Another death Is to be added to the list of those who went down Saturday with the Pittsburg and Western train which Jumped the trestle at Paint creek.

The victim is Brakemnn George Wise, of Foxburg. Conductor Tonks, who lumped as tho train was going over. Is so badly Injured that his case Is considered critical. The air brakes refused to work while going down the heavy grade and at Ihe eud of the trestle the engine and its train plunged Into the creek, where It lies a mass of ruius. Opposed to Liquor In tho Capitol.

Mrs. Anna M. Hammer, president of the Pennsylvania W. C. T.

has asked that each member of the white ribbon army write a short letter to United States Senator M. S. Quay asking hi in to push tbe Little bill through the committee, so It may have a chance to be passed by the Senate, as It has already been by the House Renresenta tives. The object of this bill is to prumoit the sale of liquor In the Capitol. Alhrerht ne hundred rtiuicnu years a favor.

Diinnc ite Piano in nailUS Philadelphia. If the experience of yars counts for anything, this instrument should command your attention. Those who have examined the 1897 styles say they are unex celled for Tone, and their dura bility is unquestioned. riNE itMxo a nrv.r UlTV, 1101, 1103, 1119 CHESTNUT ST. -atWw RUSSIAN MARTEN CAPES-extra fine, 20 and 24 inches long, richly lined.

Reduced from Sis.oo and 1 50.00 to $25.00 and BLACK MARTEN CAPES-richest grade, 20, 24 and 30 inches long. Reduced from $100.00 and ftw.oo to $65.00, $8 LOO, $90.00 and $100.00. FANCY COLLARETTES-in Electric Seal, Persian, Astrakhan, Wool Seal and Black Marten. Reduced to one-third and one-half former prices. MUFFS of all kinds, at the same proportionate reductions.

WOMEN'S COATS-someofthe most interesting bargains ever offered are now to be found on our counters: WOMEN'S COATS of imported Frieze, loose front, haif lined with satin, finely mad? and finished. Reduced from $10.00 to $5.00. WOMEN'S COATS-high buttoned, of fine Cheviot, split inlaid velvet collar, front lined with satin, trimmed with fine braid. Reduced from $15.00 to $7.50. WOMEN'S COATS-of fine imported Beaver, half lined with fine twilled satin, front braided in design.

Reduced from $18.00 to $10.00. WOMEN'S COATS-in black, tan and brown imported Kersey, lined throughout with plain or changeable taffeta. Reduced from $25.00 to $12.00. BOOKS some more decidedly attractive offerings: "TALES OF WOMAN'S TRIALS" by Mrs. S.

C. Hall (Anna Maria Fie cling), new edition of 483 pages, size 6x8, published to sell for $1.50, at 30 cents. With full gilt edges, at 40 cents, instead of $2.00. It contains sixteen interesting stories. "CIGARETTE PAPERS" a book of after-dinner stories and sketches, by Joseph Hatton, with eighty illustrations and 306 pages, attractively bound.

Published to sell for $1.75, but we make the price, on a limited number, only 30 cts. THE COURTS APPEALED TO Sensational Suit Between Members of a Family Begun iu Special Telegram to The Times. Chambersburg, January 25. The trial of a sensational suit growing out of a family quarrel was begun here to-day. Samuel Relsber, one of the largest property holders In this place, died In 1895, leaving about $100,0110 In real estate.

Soon after bis death the oldest son, Daniel, from whom the father had been estranged, presented for payment a note for $15,000. purporting to be signed by his father, dated September 3. lsito, and bearing interest from August, IRtIS, the whole Halm amounting to over $45,000. The biKlv of the note Is In the handwriting of the son." but the son claimed that the signature was his father's. The other heirs say that the elder son has forged his father's signature, and the divided family at once began litigation.

Electric Brevities Pr. Richard J. Hall, one of the foremost surgeons of the Pacific coast, is dead. He was the son of Rev. Dr.

Johu Hall, of New York. Receiver Cowen. of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, announces that $500,000 Interest dne February 1 on the bonds oi the company will be paid. On the Lake Shore train which arrived In Buffalo yesterday morning was the corpse of Charles H. Finn, passenger from Partridge, Pine county, who bud died In his berth.

August Tavlor, 35 years old, was suffocated bv smoke at a lire yesterday morning In a frame building In Chicago. The explosion of a kerosene lamp occasioned the blaze. The loss was nominal. Ktarre Fontanorl was arrested in Cincinnati on Sunday for murdering Mary For-pinua and robbing her of Jl.SOO,-which represented the savings of forty years from the proceeds of fruit vending. A school house built of sod near Perry, O.

collapsed and twenty-live school children were entombed for some time. Several children will die from Injuries and Miss Jennie Jones, tbe teacher, is in a critical condition. Professor R. Van Slz. head of the geological department of the Wisconsin State University, has been offered the management of the Smithsonian Institution, at Washington.

D. at a salary of $5,000 per year, but declined It. The Welcome Ramsdell building at West Brattleboro, wus burned early yesterday morning. Leroy Amidou, a student at Brattleboro Academy, was burned to death and the family of L. R.

Kuapp had a narrow escape. The steamer Ellhu Thompson arrived at Lynn, yesterday morning, having on board the crew of the coal barge Charter Oak, which foundered at a point about fourteen miles southwest of Fire Island last Saturday morniug. Captains of fishing vessels which have arrived iu Eastport, say that the gaies of the past few days have completely broken up the wreck of the Donaldson Line Btenmer Warwick, which went ashore early iu the mouth oil Yellow Murr Ledge. It Is money thrown away (or our business men seeking foreign markets to load up the United States Consuls with pamphlet and circulars and price lists. So says Lnlted States Consul Itartholow at Mayence, Germany, lu a report to the State Department.

Excitement continues unabated In Chinatown In San Francisco over the murder of Little Pete, the Chinese gambler, shoe merchant and shoe manufacturer, by highbinders. Little Pete was worth probably and was a lender of the bam Yup Toug. A reduction of wages of from ten to twenty per cent, went Into effect yesterday In several of the Cenlervllle Manufacturing Company's mills nt Manvllle, R. I. The company manufacture plush goods and the reduction Is due to the dullness iu the murket.

A. H. Grlesbach, a solicitor for the publishing house of Apnlctou New York, by whom he had been employed for over twentv years, committed suicide by shooting himself In' the heud. Ills body was found by two boys on a high peak out by the Sunny-side of the line o( the San Mateo road, In Sau Francisco. Cai)taln A.

F. Roger. George M. Morrison, of Chicago, and Robert F. Burr, of New York, members of the Deepwnter Harbor Comtnlsslou, have arrived lu San Frun-clseo.

tho past month they have taken testimony and have made many personal Investlgntidlis of the sites avsllnble for the proposed harbor and have completed their allotted task In that direction. Hood's SArsapsrllla feeds the nerres on pure blood and thus prerenta and cures nerrous prostration. or Values Policy-Holders 2,425,932.61 COLT, B. KENDALL, F. FAIRCHILD, Special Committee of the Board of I Directors.

JAMES W. ALEXANDER, AUGUST BELMONT, THOMAS T. ECKERT, WM. B. KENDALL, HENRY S.

TERRELL, GEORGE W. PHILLII'S, GEO. W. CARLETON, E. BOUDINOT COLT, DANIEL R.

NOYES, ALANSON TRASK. BRAYTON IVES, SIDNEY D. RIPLEY, J. F. De NAVARRO.

NO MONETARY CONFERENCE Mr. Balfour Says That the Government Will Take No Steps Towards an International London, January 25. In the House of Commons to-day the First Lord of the Treasury and government leader, Mr. Balfour, replying to questions of Mr. Field, member for the St.

Patrick's division of Dublin, said there was no probability of the government initiating such a movement as the calling of an International monetary conference. He added that It would be premature to discuss the composition of a conference which, so far as he, Mr. Balfour, knew, had not been proposed. POLICE RULE IN LIMA Citizens Indignant at the Dispersion of a Parade of Cuban Sympathizers. Lima, Peru, January 25.

The parade of Cuban sympathizers yesterday was dispersed by the police, although the chief of police had given permission to organize the procession. The Commerclo censures the "puerile conduct" of the Intendeute and general Indignation prevails. A protest against the action of the police has been signed by three thousand citizens. STJBUEBAN HOMES Entirely Comfortable In the Coldest Weather Are those Desirable Steam Heated Houses at Overbrook Farms WEST PHILADELPHIA, PA. PELHAM Germantown These places offer Perfect Homes in surrounding oountry of great love-llness and handy to town.

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INMAN, W. C. VAN HORNE, B. ALEXANDER, EDWARD W. LAMBERT, J.

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YOUNG, A. VAN BERGEN, JOHN E. SEARLES, DAVID H. MOFFAT, JAMES H. DUNHAM, T.

DE WITT CUYLER. JOSEFH T. LOW. HEXRY B. HYDE, LOUIS FITZGERALD, HEXRY A.

HURLBTJRT, HEXRY G. MARQTJAND, WILLIAM A. WHEELOCK, MARCELLTJS HARTLEY, H. M. ALEXANDER, CHAUXCEY M.

DEPEW, CORNELIUS N. BLISS, THOS. D. JORDAN, CHARLES S. SMITH, JOHN SLOANE, HORACE J.

FAIRCHILD, ACQUITTED OF MURDER Sequlne's Own Story and the Contradictory Evidence of Several Witnesses Set Him Free. The trial of Joseph L. Sequlne, charged with the killing of William J. Johnson, colored, on October 11, 1805, after many delays, was quickly disposed of before Judge Wilt-bank in the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday, the Commonwealth abandoning the case after the evidence had been heard nud the Jury rendering a verdict of acquittal. Assistant District Attorney Barlow announced himself as satisfied from the contradictory statement! of some of the Commonwealth's witnesses and the story of the defendant that the striking of the fatal blow was In a measure justifiable, and said be could not press for a conviction.

Johnson died at the Hahnemann Hospital on October 12, 1895, from fracture of the sknll dne to a blow from a club In the hands of Sequlne. The latter is a saloon-keeper at Tenth and Morgan streets, and It was said that the quarrel which led up to the striking of the fatal blow was caused by the refusal of Johnson to pay for a drink he had. After several of the prosecution's witnesses had told widely different stories the Commonwealth closed its case and Sequlne was placed on the stand in his own behalf. He said that as the saloon was about to be closed Johnson and his party came In. The former ordered a drink and a man named Robinson, one of the party, walked out at the side door.

After the drink was served Johnson refused to nay for It. Sequlne said be remonstrated with Johnson, whereupon the latter made a most vile remark and attempted to strike him. Knowing Johuson's previous bad record, Sequlne said he attempted to go to the door to summon a policeman and have him removed. Johnson grnbbed him and attempted to draw a razor, and In self-defeuse Sequlne struck him across the back of the head with an Indian club which he had picked up while passing around the bar. Mr.

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JAMES SUPREME COURT DECISIONS Many Orders and Judgments Disposing of Important Cases. The following orders and judgments were yesterday filed by the Supreme Court: Per Curiam: Krlder vs. City of Philadelphia, C. No. 1, Philadelphia, judgment afllrmed; Partridge et al.

vs. Powell, C. No. 1, Philadelphia, judgment affirmed; Cone vs. St.

Johu et C. P. No. 1, Philadelphia, the decree Is affirmed and appeal dismissed at plaintiff's costs; Law vs. Billlngtou, C.

P. No. 3, Philadelphia, Judgment affirmed; Assigned Estate of McDaniel Harvey Appeal of Driefus, Block C. P. No.

3, Philadelphia, decree affirmed and appeul dismissed at the appellants' costs; Richard C. MeMurtrle. trustee, vs. Black, C. P.

No. 1, Philadelphia, judgment affirmed; MeMurtrle vs. Black, administrator, C. 1'. No.

1, Philadelphia, judgment afllrmed; Frame vs. the Electric Traction Compauy, C. P. No. 8, Philadelphia, judgment afllrmed; Commonwealth ex rel, the Century Company vs.

the City of Philadelphia, Walton, City Controller, et C. P. No. 4, Philadelphia, leave to amend refused, and ordered that the Judgment heretofore entered stand as the judgment of this court; Young, by his next friend, vs. the Omnibus Company General, C.

P. No. 4, Philadelphia, Judgment affirmed; Eckles vs. Sony-ser, C. No.

4, Philadelphia, Judgment affirmed; Hemphill Estate, Hunsworth's Appeal, O. Philadelphia, decree affirmed and appeal dismissed at appellant's costs; Estate of Hemphill, Hemphill et Appeal, O. Philadelphia, decree affirmed and appeal dismissed at appellants' costs; Estate of MtJOrea, Eppelshelmer et executors, O. Philadelphia, decree affirmed and appeal dismissed at appellants' costs; Estate of Snyder, Snyder et Appeal, O. Philadelphia, decree affirmed and appeal dismissed at appellants' costs; Snvder Estate.

Charles J. Snyder et Appeal, O. Philadelphia, decree affirmed and appeal dismissed at appellants' costs; Sheppard'g Estate. Halsey and Smith's Appeal, O. Philadelphia, decree affirmed and appeal dismissed nt appellants' costs; Commonwealth vs.

Mulr, appeal from Superior Court, the Judgment of the Superior Court Is affirmed, with costs to he paid by the defendant. By Justice Mitchell: Dock vs. Dock, C. P. No.

1, Philadelphia, decree reversed, demur-rer overruled and defendant ordered to answer; Robertson vs. Pennsylvania Railroad Company, P. No. 2, Philadelphia, Judgment affirmed; Chamberlain vs. Maynea, 0.

P. No. 4. Philadelphia, Judgment affirmed..