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• I kAnvAXTAc.K of a Lifk Insurance.—-The Buffalo Rt'jmhUc slates a fact of interest connected with the death of Capt. Titus, of the propeller Montezuma, recently drowned, near Kalamazoo:•‘The wife of Cnpt. Titus has for a long time helil an insurance policy on his life, which expired about the tinio wlien he last sailed from Buffalo, lie was notified of the fact, hut Muted (lint lie could not then renew it, as he had not the money to spare. Before the thirty Java time for renewal had • •elap^ d, and only a few day* Ik*fore his death, Mr. Henry Daw, a well known, liberal, business gentleman on the docks, became informed of the faet, paid the premium, and the widow is now entitled to *:t,000 for her future mnintninnneo. The relief will le most acceptable, as it in reality constitutes her entire legacy—the misfortunes which attended (’apt. Titus during the latter years of his life having stripped hint of the hard earnings of a life-time.4*Capt. Titus, who was the commander of tho Erie, at the time of her burning, and ('apt. McBride, who was her first mate, met, after a separation of yea is, at her wreck, after it had Ixnm towed into Buffalo hist summer. But, what is more singular still, just, fourteen years, to a day, fr»»m the time the Eric was humcd, (’apt. Titus was drowned in the Kalamazoo Jtiver!”
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Grand River Times
Grand Haven, Michigan, US
Wed, Aug 29, 1855
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