mun ILNNNESSEE.
The President Makes 21 Speech at the
Nashville Exposition.
EX - CONPEDERATE ESCORT.
Conveyed to His Hotel by Grizzled Vet—
erans \Vlio \Vore the Gray —- The
Glory of Tennessee and Her
Signs of Prosperity.
Nashville, June 12.—-President Mc-
Kinley and party arrived at 8 a. m. and
were escorted to the Maxwell House by
a squad of mounted former Confederate
soldiers in uniform. His speech at the
Tennessee Centennial exposition was as
follows:
American nationality, compared with
that Of Europe and the east, is still
very young, and yet already we are be-
ginning to have age enough for centen-
nial anniversaries in states other than
the original 13. Such occasions are always
interesting, and when celebrated in a
practical way are useful and instruct-
ive. Combining retrospect and review,
they recall what has been done by state
and nation and point out what yet re-
mains for both to accomplish in order
to fulfil their highest destiny.
The End of the First Century.
This celebration is of general inter—
est to the whole country and of spen
eial significance to the people of the
south and west. It marks the end of
the first century of the state of Tennes-
see and the close of the first year of its
second century.
One hundred and one years ago this
state was admitted into the Union as
the sixteenth member in the great fam-
ily Of American commonwealths. It was
a welcome addition to the national
household—a community young, strong
and sturdy,.with an honored and heroic
ancestry, with fond anti-cipations not
only of its founders, but faith in its suc-
cess on the part of farseeing and saga-
cious statesmen in all parts of the coun-
try. I am justified in saying that these
anticipations have been grandly realiz-
ed. that the present of this community
of sterling worth is even brighter than
prophets of the past had dared to fore-
cast it.
The builders of the state, who had
forced their way through the tracklesS»
forests of this splendid domain, brought
with them the same high ideals and
fearless devotion to home and country,
founded on resistance to oppression,
which have everywhere made illustri-
ous the Anglo-American name. Wheth-
er it was the territory of Virginia or
that of North Carolina mattered little
to them. They came willing and eager
to fight for independence and liberty,
and in the war of the Revolution were
ever loyal to the standard of Washing-
ton. When their representatives served
in the colonial assembly of North Caro-
lina, they chose, for the first time in
our country so far as I know, the great
name of Washington for the district in
which they lived. and at the close of the
Revolution sought to organize their
territory into a state, to be known as
the state of Franklin,"in grateful hom-
age to the name of another of its most
distinguished patriot commoners.
Home of the Immortal Jackson.
Spain had sought to possess their ter-
ritory by right of discovery as a part of
Florida. France claimed it by right of
cession as a. part of ‘Louisiana and
England as hers by conquest. But no
contention could for an instant be rec-
ognized. Moved by the highest in-
stincts of self government and the lofti-
est motives of patriotism, under gallant
old John Sevieriat King’s mountain,
your forefathers bravely vindicated
their honor and gloriously won their in~
dependence.
Thus came the new state, second only
then of the now mighty west and south-
west. And it has made a wonderful
history for itself. Tennessee has some-
times been called the "Mother of south-
western statesmen.” It furnished us
the immortal Jackson, whose record in
war and whose administration in peace
as the head of the great republic shines
on with the advancing years. The cen-
tury has only added to the luster of his
name, increased the obligations of his
countrymen and exalted him in their
affection. Polk and Johnson also were
products of this great state, and many
more heroes of distinguished deeds
whose names will come unbidden to
your memories while I speak.
Tennesseeans have ever been volun-
teer, not drafted patriots. In 1846, when
2,400 soldiers were called for, 30,000 loyal
Tennesseeans offered their services, and
amid the trials and terrors of the great
civil war her people divided on con-
tending sides. But upon whichever side
found they fought fearlessly to death
and gallant sacrifice. Now, happily,
there are no contending sides in this
glorious commonwealth or in any part
of our common country. The men who
opposed each other in dreadful battle
a third of a century ago are once more
and forever united together under one
flag in a never to be broken Union.
The Exposition and Restored Confidence.
Your exposition shows better than any
words of mine can tell the details of
your wealth of resources and power of
production. You have done \‘T‘isely in
exhibiting these to your own people and
to your sister states, and at‘ no time
could the display be more effective than
now, when what the country needs more
than all else is restored confidence in
itself. This exposition demonstrates di-
rectly your own faith and purpose and
signifies in the wisest sense your true
and unfailing belief in the irrepressible
pluck of the American people and is a
promising indication of the return of
American prosperity.
The knowledge which this beautiful
and novel exposition gives will surely
stimulate competition, develop your
trade, increase your output, enlarge
your fields of employment, extend your
markets and so eventually pay for all
it cost. as well as justify local sentiment
and encourage state pride.
Men and women I see about me from
all parts of the country and thousands
more will assemble here before the ex-
.position is closed. Let ourselves and
let them always remember that what-
ever differences about politics may have
existed, or still exists, we are all Amer-
icans before we are partisans and value
the welfare of all the people above‘party
or section. Citizens of different states,
we yet love all the states. The lesson
of the hour, then, isvthis———that whatever
adverse conditions -may temporarily im-
.ede the ,iathwa of'our national proge
MURDERBR GORDY SWINGS.
Be Faces Death Declaring That He Is In-
nocent of Uxoricide.
Georgetown, Del., June 12.—James M.
Gordy was hanged here at 10:20 o’clock
this morning for the murder of his wife.
He died game, and protested his inno-
cence to the last.
He prepared a statement, which he
made on the scaffold.
“In regard to the neWSpapei‘s,” he
said, “I am sorry people believe all they
say. They are the greatest falsifiers
that I ever heard of, and are largely
responsible for people thinking so ill of
me today. I thank God, though, that a
day will come when newspaper men will
have to give an account of the deeds
done in the body.
“They say I killed my dead father.
My people know that is false. I was not
at father’s house at the time it is al.
leged that I gave him something that
killed him. I was miles away at my
own home. I’m also charged with kill-
ing my dear wife, who died about two
years ago. I’m said to have caused the
death of my sweet little child. It is
hard to bear these things. I thank God
that my conscience is clear of all these
charges and that God and I know that
I never directly, or indirectly, killed any
one.
“To all I say goodby. You believe
I’m guilty. God and I know I am not.
I believe I’m going to heaven. I do
hope you who hear and those that read
'my statement will ultimately enter the
'rest,that remains for the people of God.
Farewell.”
Gordy was on April 14 found guilty of
murder, first degree, for killing his
wife at Milton, Del., on March 11.
Gordy married the woman in New York
city Feb. 25. She was then Mrs. Estella
M. Lewis. The body of the woman was
found on March 12 floating in the
Broadkiln river at Milton. There was a
wound on her head made with a blunt,
instrument. Gordy was immediately
suspected of her murder.
At the coroner’s inquest witnesses
testified to having seen Gordy in her
company on the night of March 11.
They got off a train at Milford together
in the evening, and there Gordy hired
a horse and carriage and drove off with
the woman. Gordy drove up to his
farm near Milford at midnight alone.
Chapman Out of Jail.
Washington, June 12,—Elverton B.
Chapman, the New York broker who
refused to answer senators’ questions
about sugar,
his term in the district jail. His sen-
tence expired at midnight, but accord-
ing to custom he was “allowed to re-
main” till morning.
The broker accepted the courtesy at
the hands of Warden Leonard laugh-
ingly, saying he should be sorry to re-
quite the hospitality he had received by
seeming to hurry off precipitately.
He might, had he so desired, have left
in time to breakfast at the Arlington,
but instead he breakfasted as usual at
the jail and after finishing his meal
spent an hour or more looking over his
mail while waiting for his friends, who
had arranged to call for him with a car-
riage.
The five children of Mr. Chapman,
after making many urgent requests,
had been given permission by their fa-
ther to come to Washington, and at 10
O’clock they were driven to jail, where
they spent some time with their father
while he waspreparing to leave the
place where he has been confined for the
past 25 days.
Yellow Fever Bacillus.
Montevideo, June 12,—Dr. Sanarelli,
in a. lecture delivered before delegates
from all parts of South America, mem-
bers of the diplomatic corps and others,
announced that he had discovered the
cause of yellow fever to be a bacillus
which he had named “icteroid,” and
which was-very rare. It infested the
blood of patients and their bodies after
death. The bacilli, he continued, could
be easily eliminated by secondary in-
jections, and he hoped soon to discover
a. curative serum for preventive vac-
cination.
Russia Opposes Germany.
Paris, June 12.—A dispatch to The
Soleil from St. Petersburg says that
Germany is trying to secure the reten—
tion of the Turkish garrisons in Crete,
the retroeession of Thessaly to Turkey
and the abolition of the special priv-
ileges accorded to the Greek subjects 'in
the Ottoman empire. Russia, according
to the correspondent of The Soleil, re-
fuses to concede these points. He adds,
”And so Germany will have to yield.”
Roberts Soon to Get $700,000,000.
Washington, June 12.—The secretary
of, the treasury has received a letter
from Mr. Ellis H. Roberts of New York
transmitting his official signature for
use in printing government notes. Mr.
Roberts will be in Washington early
next week, when the count and transfer
of the $700,009,000 in money and bonds
will begin.
Camden Policeman Shot.
Camden, N. J., June 12.—William
Schregler, a policeman, was shot in the
back here at 4:30 a. m. He had just
captured a man whom he. had caught
stealing a milk pail from a front door-
step when two men ran out of an alley,
and one of them shot the policeman.
Schregler may die. The three men es-
caped.
Lightning Strikes Circus Tent.
St. Paul, June 12.——The main tent of
Ringling’s circus was struck by light-
ning at‘Wahpeton, N. D., while a per-
formance was going on. Two persons
in the audience were killed outright. A
panic followed, the Crowd rushing for
the exit, and three persons were tram-
pled on and severely injured.
Colonel v' Frank Huger Dead.
Roanoke, Va., June 12.—Colonel Frank
Huger, superintendent of transporta-
tion Of the Norfolk and Western rail-
way, died suddenly from a stroke of
apoplexy. He served with distinction
as colonel in the Confederacy during
the late war. He was 60 years of age.
New Havenv'Chalr Company Fails. '
New Haven, June 12,—The New Ha-
ven Chair company applied to Judge
Robinson for a receivership, and Isaac
N. Dann, president of the company,
and E. C. Meresick were appointed re-
ceivers. The liabilities are $85,000.
Minister Terrell Preparing to Leave.
Constantinople, June 12.—Mr. Alex-
ander W. Terrell, the United States
minister to Turkey, has presented his
letters of gecall. Mr. Terrell’s departure
spent the final night of_
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THE MUTUAL . Iii-u [usununou to.
OF ‘NEW YORK.
RICHARD A. MocuRDY, President.
Statement for the Your Endinu Documher 3131, I89.
According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York.
- INCOME,’ - ,
Received for Premiums 7 - - -
From all Other Sources - - - - - IO,IO9,ZOI O'I
—-—-—-—_
DISBURSEMENTS, .
To Policy-holders for Olaims by Death - - —
To Policy-holders for Endowmcn s, Dividends, clc. - - -
For all Oh’r, Accouns - -
ASSETS.
nilcd Slalcs Bonds and other Sccuriies - - ~ -
Firs Iicn Loans on Bond and Norgage -
Loans on Socks and Bonds '
Real Esau -
Oash in Bans and Trust Oompanie s - - - - . .
Accrued In crcs, NcTchcrrcII Premiums, elc- - - . -. '
6 I2,595,Il3 39'
I2,642,456 II
IO,'IOI,00
sMTsTs—Ia
s I I O,I25,082 I4
II,543,929 64
- II,O9I,525 oo
22,161,666 60
l2,000,39O 00
6,535,551: no
6 234,144,I4OT2
- zos,oIo,6_3_3_ 12
Reserve for Policies an do her Liab iIiics -
Surplus -
Insurance and Annuities in force - p . . .
S 29,133,5I4 'I
S 9|8,698,338 45
l have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and-find the same to be correct
liabilities calculated by the Insurance Department CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor.
From the surplus a. dividend will be apportioned as usual
Report of the Examining Committ e e A
’ Office of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
TO THE HONORABLE, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF .
THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE OOMPANY OF NEW YORK
The undersigned, a Committee apppointed by your honorable body on the twenty-
third day of December, I896, to examine the Annual Statement of the Company, and to
verify the same, respectfully
REPORT
That, pursuant to the power and authority thereby conferred, the Committee have at various dates between the date of the
said reference and the date cf'lthis Report attended at the office of the Company,_ and have been waited on by the Treasurer,
the Comptroller, the Auditor and and the Cashier, together With the the respective aSSIStants of such oflicers, and have care-
fully gone over all the items contained 111 the said Statement, and have found the same to be correct. They have examined
and counted every certificate of stock, bond and other obligation held by the Company, and compared the price at which the
same are carried in said Statement with the market quotations and find the same not exceeding such quotations—m fact, in
many cases below them. They have examined and counted the bonds and mortgages on real property held by the Company,
and find the same to be as stated. They have also verified the valuations of the Company’s holdings of real estate and have
verified the deposits of moneyin the various banks and trust companies, and have counted the cash on hand held by the
casfiild the Committee certify that all the books, papers. documents and evidences of title of every description necessary in
such examination have been freely submitted to the Committee by the said officers and their assmtants, and that the same are
accurate, in good order and well kept. . .
And the Committee further certify that the Investments of— the Company are of a high order, and that the System and
methods adopted by the Company in recording Its transactions and caring for the assets are entitled to commendatmn
- .- tf 11 bmitted ROBERT OLYPHANT J. HOBART HERRICK
“1 “WM-h ‘5 ”Spec u y S“ JAMES N. JARVIE CHARLES D. DICKEY, JR.
NEW YORK JANE,“ 25, 1897, JAMES C. HOLDEN CHARLES R. HENDERSON
The company has issued an order whereby women can be insured without the extra
charge heretofore required. More definite information 011 the subject will be furnished by
the local agent, Mr. A H. Camp,
Board of Trustees
GEORGE G. HAVEN
ADRIAN- ‘IS‘ELIN‘ J 3.:
GEORGE S. BOWDOIN
THEO. A. HAVEMEYER
WILLIAM C. WHITNEY
WILLIAM ROCKEEELLER
JAMES N. J ABVIE
CHAS D. DICKEY JR.
ELBRIDGE T. GERRY
HENRY H. ROGERS
Jim. W AUCHINCLOSS
THEODORE MORFORD
WILLIAM BABCOCK
STUYVESANT FISH
AUGUSTUS D. J UILLIARD
CHARLES E. MILLER
WALTER R GILLETTE
H. WALTER WEBB
FREDERIC CROMWELL
J ULIEN T. DAVIES
ROBERT SEWELL
S, V. R. CRUGER
CHARLES R. HENDERSON
RUFUS W. PECRHAM
J. HOBART HERRICK
WM P DIXON
ROBERT A. GRANNISS
ROBERT A GRANNIss Vice-President.
WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. .
ISAAC F. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President. HENRY E. DUNCAN, JR, Corresponding Secretary
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary. ‘ ' ' .. V ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asmstant Secretary.
' FREDE RIC CROMW ELL, Treasurer.
JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer - JAMES TIMPSON. 2d Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P, SANDS, Cashier. ' EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier.
,. EMORY MoCLINTOCK, Actuary. H
~ JOHN TATLOCK, JR , Assistant Actuary.
CHARLES A, PRELLER, Auditor. WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller.
0. CLIFFORD GRETSIN'GER, Aesistant Auditor. HENRY S. BROWN, Assistant Comptroller.
JOHN C. ELLIOT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies.
’ EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, General Solicitor.
MEDICAL DIRECTORS: , .
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SAMUEL D, BABCOCK
RICHARD A. MCCURDY
JAMES C. HOLDEN
HERMANN C. VON POST
LEWIS MAY
OLIVER HARRIMAN
ROBERT OLYPHAN'I
GEORGE F. BAKER
DUDLEY OLCOTT
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