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Show TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. & hhol nn.I Klllfsl. St. Loos, lay 8. lleury Ku-nolt, Ku-nolt, president of lhealngingHcItt.y of fee. Matthew's i.vangelical church, and a director cf the y oung men's Christian association, was shut and killed lis, iilglit, while I e anil a confederate ere ileeitig- from a carpenter thop they had tried to rob. fho proprietor of the shop, George Stallkam;, was awakened l.j tht-lr efforts to break In and, running run-ning down Willi a shotgun, called on tiiem to halt. They ran and he tired. One fell dead aud tho other escaped. Tiie body was taken to tho morgue and this morning Identified as Uiat of Kuuolt. lie had been married only fire months and stood hhrii iu the e&tiruatiou of .his ac-iualntauts. ac-iualntauts. His wile Is prostrated with grief. I'nclUc ltoa!. W-aHincton', D.C., Slay S. The House committee on 1'aellie roads today postponed final action, Chair man Dalzall declining to report the Senate bill, as Instituted, lusLtin.: tint the Union and Central Pacific should be put on oven terms as to late ret L. euhpnprr a'reprlelor Klllrsl. I Gainesville, Tex., May S. Captain Joe Means, ropnetor of the daily Hesperian, was hhut aud killed tonight by Charlie Hall, all employe or tho Keuit'jcr. A newspaper news-paper contruverej- cau'el the trouble, jlall was nrrer ted. T , The I'lidrrnrllirM. Xm' York, May S. Tlic National Na-tional Board of Fire Underwriters began their twenty-fourth aunual session to-day Willi a large attendance. attend-ance. President Held, In his aunual address, ga-manj ttatMics of Interest In-terest to Insurance men. On the sdljociof dead companies, he said b9 f-t6ck coninuies imre failed or retired since l!60. These companies represented a capital amounting to $9l,9Jlr!AJI, and as-ets not less than SU7.2Td,Sl', all or which was either lot In builm or withdrawn from it as not jitluiug tuflUiuit return upon the investment. On the valued policy law he said: "Valued policy legislation has been placed upon us duringthc -ftin,s ol several legislatures thi year, aiwl fiiu far iu Kcw Voik, Massachusetts mid lo-ta and duriug the pruviciis year iu 1'eunfjhania, such bills have failed of pas ae, afu-rtliefulitst an J mo-tscarchiug esaminntion. Whereer tills Is done Mich bills will nlwajs fail to become law." Mr. Heald rjioVe of tho pernieicu.- cllectof this Ian where t has Icen placed in ojieration, and called attention at-tention to the results In WL-coiii-lii. Thecumpauiotarc not defenseless. They can anil should meet and counteract the pernicious effects of this and allisimllar laws by incruLSr-ing incruLSr-ing the rates and reJuciuglluirlines far within the actual valuation. Iu concIuion,hctald: "One fact for ed ujn us by dally experience and Luoh ledge of oor business is that the rates of premium are too low; that Uiey nre fast approaching the dividing lino Ktueen profit and las--, even if they are not now drawing draw-ing uncomfoitabh near the point of safety iUelf." |