express messenger daims a former friend made asi effort to rob the car by provoking a quarrel decatur sept 27 john E ryar pacific express messenger on wa bash passenger train due here early 10 day and ed arcene a former express messenger both of chicago fought a duel with revolvers in ryans car OK the way from bement to decatur a distance of twenty miles both men were seriously wounded and may die on arrival here they were taken to the hospital each man received three bullets in the fight ahia lasted for miles green says that he boarded the express car at chicago intending to go to als home nt PiUs field to visit rel atiles he and ryan were old friends ryan he says permitted him to ride and he assisted the latter in working up the express matter they began drinking jokes led to a quarrel and greene says eboth drew guns at the same time ryan asserts that he did not see greene in the car until the train reached cerrogordo Cerro gordo and be believed greens jumped in tor robbery they quarreled according to ryans story they clenched and both drew revolvers vol vers the men separated and each sought shelter in different ends of the car both men fired and both went down but were on their feet in a short time and the duel continued just be tore the train reached decatur greeno opened the door and jumped from the was unable to escape and wa an hour later by tho police greene has an ugly bullet wound in the breast another in the lung while a third ball lodged in the part of the abdomen ryan waa shot in the jaw behind the left ear and in the left shoulder none of the trainmen was aware of the duel that was being waged in the express car until the train arrived at decatur and ryan was seen through the opening door lying in a pool 0 blood on aha car floor f called to explain As to insurance profits new york sept 21 today a morning session of the legislative in aurance investigation developed a mass of technical testimony as to the syn dacate profits of the lite assurance society the witness who was questioned on miffs tiffs was henry rogers winthrop assistant secretary and financial manager 0 the society mr winthrop testified an fn ona of the syndicate operations senator depew waa a participant to the amount of senator depew and senator dryden of new jersey president of the prudential insurance company have been requested to appear before tha corn ailtee upon the convening today of the special legislative investigating the life insurance companies charman armstrong announced that owing to the serious illness of S fred nixon speaker of the assembly the committee met under distressing from information at hand senator armstrong said it is feared ho cannot recover and in the event ot his death the committee wilt instantly adjourn it was announced prior to the pro that jacob at the of kuhn loeb and company has been subpoenaed and will take ho standi for exa cither today or tomorrow the first witness today was georga C van tuyl jr secretary and treasurer of the albany trust company who produced a transcript of the account of andrew hamilton opened feb 21 1903 henry rogers winthrop secretary of equitable life assurance society resumed his testimony as to the sn dicato transactions of his compan mr winthrop said that in tha syndicate organized to take tho bond issued on the af pf tha union pacific railroad company tho equitable society was allotted of the bonds and the profits the society received from this transaction were shares of union pacific pro berred stock the equitable society mr winthro aid paid only for the amount lot which it subscribed mr hughe counsel tor the committee asked why it was that the equitable society had paid to tha mercantile trust company mr win said it was because the checka were paid that way several signed by george H squires equitable were ablo wad a letter from george squires for the mercantile trust company to general fitzgerald of the finance committee of the equitable society asking for payment of or 80 percent of the equitable par in the union pacific syndicate in case of a call by kuhn loeb company then said mr hughes george H squires first as an officer of the mercantile trust company writes to the equitable and asks for and then as an officer of the equitable signs checks paying tha money to tha mercantile trust company asked mr hughes yes replied mr winthrop mr winthrop said that general louis fitzgerald chairman of tha finance committee of the society subscribed tor of the union pacific bonds and whoever held the bonds over the the to thai equitable also re tor profits 2750 shares of union pacific preferred stock in a northern pacific syndicate the equitable participated to th exi ex i tent of and the profits ultimately amounted to this was not paid in cash but in Nort bep pacific shares appeared on th socie tys books in the central pacific refunding syndicate abo socie tys participation WAS speyer company the syn dacate managers sent a check for on december 15 1899 benting tho profits amr winthrop said that he was unable to find in what account this was entered on tho so chetys books but the search was stilt eang made A syndicate to handle southern pa cills gold bonds was formed and november speyer company al the equitable of thega ands in this syndicate also was the western national bank J W alexander and george H squires the latter three each receiving of the bonds in 1901 the society received a check for as its share of the profits paris sept 27 M devoll representing the french government and r closen the representative of germany conferred at the foremen office boday arranging the final details of be moroccan agreement it 1 ex pecked that an announcement of the accord will toe gaven out today