Show 1 FOR airale ati anti fur the insurance inea ISTAh DARD special chronicle service nov 14 maggie w 0 i aured kerosene oil on her husband on june 25 1888 and then bet fire to it burkink bur him fatally is suing the catholic orber of foresters for of john C king an attorney for buoo interest and pal on a death benefit of 1000 which slie claims as a beneficiary of the dead mans ecate the socie tys lawyer claims that as the woman murdered her husband and is now berving a term of ten years in the penitentiary the death benefit cannot be claimed by her the plaintiffs made a motion to overrule the demurrer on the ground that the policy did not provida for any euch a contingency but merely promised to pay to heirs its face value in the eveet of his death the case is without precedent and ill be the first of the kind on record in illinois the defendant society will contest the matter and u ill in all probability make a fight on the prop position that a finding for plaintiff would be against public policy aa it would virtually a premium for murder I 1 annual CHICAGO nov 13 the anguil meeting of hie american turf congress to the rules drawn up by the secretary as amendments to the present rules the most impe was an alteration of clashe A aule 47 tj reid there shall be no dash raca given for horses 3 years old and upwards lesa that one mils this was the only change and about a division it being adopted by a vote of six to two judge berkins of latona and of birmingham being dissenters section A in the preamble reading subscribing jockey cluba agree thai no contract for betting be made with any of bookma kera was stricken oat the rule in repard to foul riding and fraud was changed to real any one ruled off for fraud shall stand ruled off for life rule ago was changed to read when two or more bogrees start in a race in alie baine interests in teresta or wholly or in part by the same persons they mchall ba and old 13 one in all rans mutu als and beok butting A number of minor changes were made referred to a committee to report on tomorrow to morrow the league caal LONDON nov 14 upon the re of the barnell bion this morning alie cashier of alio national liaos testified as to tle accounts kept at the bank by members of the league objected to the testimony aa irrelevant justice ioannau ahat binigar hould he present when counsel for the kunf over alie accounts to prevent alie passing upon private busi naiia sir aenry james then resumed bis menta in support of lie changes made by the oot in oni bound nov 14 john L sullivan has ma ie up his mind not to pay any attention to alie chal leoze and letters issued by dominack Domin lck mcgaffrey |