Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1885, Page 8

BOREAS BLOWS BIG BLASTS. The Day of Damaging 8torm in the Oity and Tts Incidents, SHE SOUGHT A WATERY GRAVE. Mes, Kranse Leaps Into the River Warren Colice and Court Notes —~lite., Bt Yates' Obsequies— A Stormy Day. ee yesterday morning a gal the nin ed wgh d city Al town alt poi then About th arosc from northwest eredibly short space of ti the energy hurric the early moining hours it how! shricked, and as day dawned the awoke amid tempestuous day Jong the wind Julling and swelling nate al seeming a8 moment Lreath descending mor than befor and in il 0 me had All ne. scenes swept the at inte CH to for and again Its rough sport disastrous, and a list of damn, pended. Busmess was much peded, and hut for the r of the the quict of aloliday reigned 10 o'clock o I tin and for two hours the wind quickly dispelled TILE SIGNAL SERVICE OBSERVATIONS The storm commenced at about ¥ * o'clock this mor with ity of gixteen miles an hour. ( y the asts gathered and inereased in velovity by §) ¢ the wi 18 blowing at a rapid | and elock (ho rate e, The av- ng the morn- emonieter in as 42 mil boisterons has t €now Insted the wind du corded by the peal signal ofiice, , though it wonld reacl velocity of miles an hour, anc 11:05 the velocity was nearly 55 miles In the afternoon the wind had slickened up somewhat, though it was still blowing ata stifi rate. Signal Serviee Obsery Pollock went down to the by in morning to take his reg ervi i nd discovered that the he rate of sixty miles an hour, or hur 1o Spe In fact the hree wus so still’ at this point that to cross the bridge on foot was absolutely impossible, Attheio ('llu'ku‘y*"l\ tion at the morn- ing the temperature was 4003 at noon the thermometer showed that the mer cury had fallen to The following annonnce ornamented with the black {1 wram, was sent the the dif- ferent newspaper oflices of the eit The following tel n has | ed from the Chief Signal Of n re- of toN, Dec. 4.—Hoist, cold wave The temperature will fall from degreesin the next thirty-six lours, C C. HazeN, U. 8. Army. After ble trouble the hiack flag was hoisted to the top of the federal building and is at present flaunting a lively accompaniment to the rushing winds. “Yes, you n wind is the strongest for tho past fifteen years, or since the i station was fivst established here,” 1 Oficer Pollock to areporter. . taking into consideration the t the wind has kept up ali the morning without slacking. Of course there have been times, asour records will show, when the wind has been more vio- lent for a few moments than it was to- day, but only for a very short tini reports from our stations in Nebr: Colorado, Wyoming and Dakota show th: cold v is sweeping over the north- west, accompanied by snow storms and markably heavy winds. W report this morning from Denver, that the velocity of the wind ther 106 miles an honr, We have telegraphed back and asked'if this figure wus true, i a reply that it was, 1't credit the report, a3 a wind of th ity of 106 miles an hour is unknown in this part of the country.” OF THE GALE S, that the known in_ Omaha tact tl lost the his father The fast young men of town were bad- 1y left by the wind. Divo large panes of Reichenborg’s res- taurant w broken early yusterday morni The wind broke ina door of the Higgins strect, The skylight on t} Tenth and Farnum, pieces. Lehman, the Farnam sf t dry goods man, lost & chimney, which eracked his roof. Several of the chimneys of the Dodge street school were blown down at about 10 o'clock Innume art of the front oon on Douglas Str: was building, ered to ble eases of down were reported yestel them however, did no harm, The street sprinklers might have stood in the wind, and their fluid could have been blown for blocks. The windows on the north Davis building, next to Redic were smashed {o smithereens. The Lincoln wires could scarcely be used at all. The wind in their stretch of country was particularly severe. An Ameriean Express wagon was over- turned uncercmoniously near the corner of Fifteenth and Farnam street, . The frisky ¢ tore up a large s tion ot sidew on ‘Twelfth street be- tween Do apitol avenue, @About ;n hundred fect of the northeast corner of the new Union elevator were torn off and carried away by the wind. The telephone wires were thoroughly tangled up by the winds, so much 80 in fact as Lo vender the instruments almost useless. It was rnmored that twoor three street ears were blown ofl the - track yesterday but no particuls of any such neci dents could be learned. A number of the slates from the opera house were sent flying through the air and down upon the walks where they were dashed to picges. An old man in coming round Fifteenth and Farnam was struek by i 1} ated on the llag stone where for a ti e spun around like a top. Coroner Drexel is authority for the statement thut the wind blew & two-inch hole into Frank Bandle’s check. Great ot feat on record! A gentleman who arrved yeston! from tho west over the Union Pacitic says that all the corn eribs along the ling for miles out have been hlown down, 3 I was straek on th n, while he was w: et. He was pretty b od though not seviously injured. Am""‘i the list of buildings blown down is Matza & Anderson’s ice house which succumnbed to the fury of the winds at 11 o'clock yesterday, In Council Blufls, a tin roof on Main reet was blown off, and in faliing boro wi npon wires of the telephone ex- ~ ghange and curried them to the earth, A hotel on South Fifteenth street near he Bellevue road, known as the Evans se and but |mrl¥u|ly completed. blew wn yesterday, No one wes in e, At Tonh and Faruam stroets, one of ans blowing ay. Most of ido of the k’s building, Uling in fine akes which | | the covered top wagons of the American express company was overturned and ’ badly scratched and bruised upon the pavement The roof Faist_ ook | morning and went | toward Tleaven after fence of Louis s barn on the corner of Dodge | th streets Jost sc 1 dred shingles, which for a time round the corner with great the pedestrians Brown, the street, had a and ond hand man L% ad of str <t of wind took it and u from a inst 10 of th tel was sent he sther divection pavement and ts on top of the Goos venward, and then in when it met the gran reso d itself into i | I on Virginia w moved twenty-fi | and the furniture « will not fall short of $2,500. 1 fell w v erash ; nsternation in quc w resider of 1. A Mt wenne, seard comp to the unong s the I and departed Smith Rabbi Benson lost his silk corner of Sixteenth awd Farnam yes | terday, and chascd it leisurely for i block, wien o pile of bricks k stopped the comse of the runaway plug. The U. P | It | | lines between Omaha and and Island and the B, & M. between e and Plattsmouth were down of thetime yosterday, hut men t to work immediately to repair them A Laker's wagon driving fonth strect — was blown telograph — pole, when the horse ook fright and ran away, demolishing the w noand seattering bread along | the strect A number of house | mie were demolish wind in addition to B A, MeClure’s new | residence. Out houses and fences were | whirled oft and dropped to the ground twenty or thivty feet distant From the hill, an extensive view of lumber piles tottering and fallen Iying in promiscnons ruin could in The Tumber, howeve brok to any great extent demoralized, One of the most amusir day was that of Mike M 1z his blick Derby down After athree block’s run, in which he fully es- blished his record as asprinter, he iptured the hat axton block a baker's v and took n sl s no load in it and the driver kept the horses under control. A eouple of men put it on its wheels a n. A part of I, Spicg front of his store on Doy posite the Millard and when he went to pick 1t up the wind vaised it suddenty, striking him a severe blow on the hip und compelling him to Kk medical attend- ance. At long South inst on Virginia ave- slightly by the of the yon n fell in street op- 1l points along the various roads ent r the city, farm were busy rhting the clement. conceivable cht was utilized to weigh down the barns, eribs and_outhouses, which, in many eases, were badly demolished and spivited away. The chimne, f Col. Henry's house, on Twenty-fourth Wl Dodae streets, blew down yeste y and the roof caught fire. In the oxcitement, the family thought that a tornado had struck the town, and started at once for the eyclone cellar. The fire on the roof was “extin- guished without mueh trouble, The :Yn' e of St. Philomena’s eathedral on Nint rocking to and fro in the wind yesterday il its downfall y expected. Up to alate hour, however, it was *still on deck.” A policeman was stationed near th eathedral most of the morning to warn passers of the danger. the furniture man on et, suftered aloss of about )by the blowing in of one-half of his st plate g vindow. It erashed down upon a large assortment of china nd dinner 5, which stood in the Telephone men were kept busy climb- ing tho poles and straightening the wires, but they would cross and tangle up as fast as they were fixed, It w: risky job for the workmen, and seve bare sed being torn from their ions and dashed violently to the groynd. A driver foot named Fernandez had his crushed by the overturning of Peycke Bros. delivery wilzon near the corner of Tenth and Far nam streets, His injuries were dressed by Dr. Hyde and he was taken to his home on North Twenty-fourth strect, A blacks shop on Twelfth street, near the U cifie shops, was blown down during one of the sudden gusts of wind this morning. The occupants, a man and a boy, eseaped with their lives, but it was quick work for them for a while nhJ. Leech, boarding at the Doran house, & one-armed soldier, had his coat opened violently by the wind, and as a consequence, siffers the loss of & pension certificate, a'tree elaim and a homestead certificate, which he w to have used yesterds e Parties finding will oblige Mr. Leech by returning them to the above place, One of the empty dry goods boxes i front of Willinms"storé went on a jour- ney and landed in the street in tront of a horse who wasdrawing an express. The animal i’umpml the box and the front | axle landed upon it, and with this novel | fifth wheel the horse continued to run until by a sudden turn over the track, he ckedl the whole outlit The new hotel at the Union stock yards lost all its chimneys. These had been extended beyond the mansard roof last night, and the wind took them piece meal and sent them llying almost beyond the railrond traek, “The wind at noon was blowing a perfect hurricane and strong fears were entertained that the building, because of its open coundition, would suffer more before evening. “I'wo loads of scencry for the **Prisoner for Lifo,” at the ora_ hause, were unable to m cof the Boyd and took up a_position in front on I nam street, They were there unloaded by piccemeal, and the fondness the wind displa everal wings, flats and | drops would lead one to suppose that the shufts stood an excellent chance of going to heaven, A pilo of boards in front of Lear saloon on Farnumn street went ono by one against the front of the honse, wil?n much the same noise as a cunnon shot One of them swept the walk as a B reporter was passing. and mowing his legs from under him, deposited his hurly form upon the walk and ding to annihilate him when his g as usual, rescued him from his plight. Dell Rudd, the handsome bar tender at Higgins'was going down Fifteenth strect towork yesterday with 1 down against the blast and his eyes looking for imaginary nickels on the sidewalk when 13 roused from his re 0 by a plank tifteen foet long imbedding it in the walk just in front of him. Three feet more and there would have been one of the best hrnml" simnshes Dell had r had anything to do with, The On ity 4 Union Pugii ted on the foundry, 3 hteenth, a el rained | danger to | win front | | <hin by | enme dly | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 5 building, which, from its peculiarly shel tered position would seem to defy the clements, was badly wrecked early in the morning. The east end with a sce tion of the roof were crushed in like egg were compel Castings and and a sustained Welshans & ( corner of Eighth stored with 2,500 straw, which were scattered oy d to Mly for their Ii molds were badly disar loss of about §5,000 was store house on the nd Farnam strects, bundles of hay ana piled fifty feet high, adjacent ground in artistic confusion. One side of the | pile, with several of the supports,crashed thro o Canfield’s barn on the south and demolished the part assailed and stove in one of the stalls, Mr. Can field removed his beforo they cou be injured Policeman near the rnam - ye large 1 cornor torday, sheet-iron while stand. | of Fifteenth and | hit on the | hoot-sign of | which was blown to | nately, however, he and not saverely in- | gave another turn or | of the boot lighted | on the sidewalk, be imbedded - the timber to the depth of three inches. It required, sev al minutes of hard hacking with pick to dig it out A hatless young lndy rushed into the oner’s office, and brought tears to the hanging around. She seemed | d, Maul, in endeavor- | divve her, mduced fer to remark | that she didn’t. want to buy a coilin, but desived to wait, Her hat was rolling down the street at the rate of forty miles | an hour, and six men were flying after | it, and she wanted to see which one of them would overtake it _and return. Eyery member of the Coftin club then joined in the chase, but not one of them ind returned at last reports, but the hat 1s returned by one who had earlier joined in the It was not for trains to ¢ count of the hes superintendent trains v s lic Dohle’s ) ore, the ground. For was only grazed jured. The sign two, and the fec with terrifie foree e d safe yesterd; oss the U, P, bridge on ac vy wind, and the bridge gave notice that no 1ld eross until the wind went down, "The Lincoln train was held on this side of the river and did no leave on time. I'he Marysville train did not ¢ rvive until 2:30 in'the afternoon. Train men report considerable along | the roaud, wind mills, small build- ngs, ete., being down. Two men were blown from the platform of an in- coming train over the U, P. line, but fc tunately neither of them w injured. the tops were blown from three box ears that were standing in the yards this morning. Afternoon and Night. About 1 o’clock the intense fury of the its blinding dust, its dropping signs overturned wagons, tottering buildings and ominous clouds ceased tojmake men timid and miserable. The sun smiled his sickening, half apologetie smile for the mmpoteney he had displayed thronghout the When he found he was not ap preciated he went asleep upon a pillow | of cloud which not even his powerful em- brace could warm iuto the appear: ance of lifq The streets were as XIV century sideboard. They were de- serted and” impressed one “as being moved to remorse beeause of the demon- ineal scenes which they had permitted | themselved to witness during the carlier hours of the d Night sctin elear and cold, in eyery respect wintry. But the winds had gone to Avernus or to Aolu ve, beeause they sported no more with impunity ¢ their powerless vietims, 'S MYSTERY nges in the Cold is Rescued. ear of dust as a “MAD OF LIF Mrs, Krause Pl River, but The Krause alleged rape case had a sensational sequel yesterday. Jacob Neidereiner, ali “Jake, the Peddler,” who was accused of outraging the Krause girl, returnced yesterday from Calhoun, where he has been for the past week. e went to his home in the bottoms and was_seen by Mrs. Krause, who lives adjoining. I'he sight of her daughter’s supposed de imilurl uched her already shaky intel- cet o five and she flew into a fit of ragi The object of hoer wrath unfortunate child and the so violent that Mr. K daughter for safety to the house of a neighbor™ named Hen- nington. Upon returning, Krause thought to appease his wife by promising to feteh her some beer. While e was putting on his eoat to perform this ervand, Mrs. Krause rushed out of the back door. She ran swiftly to the river and plunged in. The swift cur. rent, aided by the high wind, sent her body out into the stream, but by some fortunate accident n long-projeciing log caught her dress and held her. Two small boys who had seen the deed, called for” help and a number of use took his ondod spocdily. Tho wretehod woman was pulled back to the shore half drowned and taken to her home. . Sho is is now sulloring from a high fover and although servico has been ealled i it s oxtremely doubtfal that she Wil vecover, COMMIT CAUCUS, mittee Think with the I They Have Donc ravenworth Grade, Agreeably resolution of the council adopted at its t meeting, the members of the several committees held their eaucuses last night. There was not much, except talk, indulged in, in nearly all of the committees. The absence of some of the members and the coldness without, conduced to this result. The Dest exeeption, perhaps, wa wtof the committee on rades and g That | Vody, as oye of its members remarked, was as usnal, the last to leave the chiam- ber, and they adjourncd at 9:80 o’clock, Up to that time, they had been engaged upon the everlasting subject of ‘the Leavenw: street grade, It may well be doubted if any grade so occupied the attention of our I‘-gl-lalorn before. Like the omnipresent ghost of Banguo, this subjeet will not be disposed of. It has en- fr. ul the attention of the delegation rom the ceond ward, it has been treated by the city cngineer, it has been considered by a special committee, it has been attacked by hos- tile factions on each side, and, although there is to-day a g ished, yet the fact is still unchanged that the ques- tion of permanent of that street has not yeu been actorily Now come Messi 1 y and members of the committe grading, and each of these nd they, individually naveat length o i upon ) which shall in eficet pe the compromise which will give satisfaction to the ma prity, even thouwgh it do not please some of the more wealthy residents on that street, Mr, Faray, inthe absence of the profile, could not” ‘explain very clearly in what the compromise consisted, beyond the fact that the reduction would not exceed five feet in one AN INTERESTING REMINISCENCE Ben Hogan 1 of Johin Morrissey's Ingratitude—Robbed of $7,000. “Yes, said Ben Ho, with a reporter last night, 1 vissey, and Heenan, and all timers well. Those were the days when New York politics w most corrupt along from '65 to 130, when Tweed was Dbig politician. In those times a pugilist | a great man. He was king of t gang of fellows, numbering some- times 2,000 of 3,000, and politicians use to rush to him to buy his influence. They kntw he could control his gang and theiv votes, you understand. Morrissey used 1o head one gang, Heenan another. Each man would rule over his own and they would back hum i eve choose to do. I remember when Morrissey out of a pretty serious serap _one time. In fact 1 ved his life.” You see there was a Y]”[ formed to get him out of the way. He stood in the nath of some other politici and the {allwr\\‘nmwl him vemoved. e hired one of the other gangs to_kill Morrissey. I told John about it, for I was a gr friend of his and of course did not wault to sce him worsted. He got out of the way and eseaped the danger. Kill him outright? On,no. They wonldn't have shot liim down in cold hlood, nor stabbd him. That_ would look tod much like murder, o meethim in some f when none of his . They were tosend fuss with him, whom yrrissey would *do up’, houtany trouble. = 'Then, under the pretense protecting their friend, they were to rushin, doublebank him and beat him to deatn. In that way the made itlook asthough it was an attempt to proteet their friend, you understand. Yes, sir, those were exeiting” times. But John aftery turned ne a mean Ari that it was mighty hard to forgive him for.” n,in conversation knew Mor: those old- ot an, 7w man to pick they knew Mc t was that?” queried the re- ou see T was in Saratoga along about 67 'or 68, Tunning a’ faro Morrissey arranged a hurdle race, in which his horse was one of the contest- ants, It W a sure thing tha his nag could win. Just before the race. John eame along and said to me: ‘Here, Ben. take th 000 of minc and het it on my horse, and_rope in as 1 fellows as you can. 1'll divide the prof- its with you.” You see he was a cunning man—h¢ knew that lending me mond of his own to bet would make me conl; dent, so that 1 would stake alot of my mv;n cash Dbesides, He caleulated just it *He sent a number of his gang around tome to get bets out of me. “1didn't know who they w and when they 1 to back the lhorses that to run_ - again Mor- , I got excited and offered to ake them for any amount. I bet a thou- sand dol with this man and a thou- cand dollars with that man, until I had about $7,000 up on John's n In the meantime, he had “fixed” the race so that his horse was tolose. And it did, But the “thrown’ so plainly that anybody could sce it. Why, just be ¢ hurdle was to be jumped, y ahead and he rider made ble pull-up and threw the horse se and almost ofl' his feet. Tho other horse rushed up, and in the jam Morriscy's horse and_rider came mighty near bemg killed. L knew then that John, whom 1 had always considered a ood friend of mine had put up a job on me. L felt v th I might have killed him if dn't jumped into his bugey and rode away before I could reach hime The faet was Morrissey wanted to break up my faro game, He took that means of doing it. But he afterwards paid me back the money he had swindled me out of.” S ppened while you were in Saratog “Yes, and hefore T left that plac mbled away thing | st my money went, Then my nd carriage, then my dinnonds., teh, and all my jewelry, and tin- ly my house and lot were stuked and lost on the cards,” T was SHE HANKERED FOR DEATH, An Omaha Woman's Capers on the the Lincoln Tvain, Some fool woman from Oinaha made a ridicnlous annoyance of hersclf to the the passengers on Thursday morning'sB. & M. train to Lincoln. he entered the secontl day coach with a sad expression upon her countenance and aJook in her eye #0 far away that it seemed to rest on the distamt battlements of Glory. Anybody at a glance could tell that she was meditating suicide or murder, and all the passengers regarded her attentively from the time she lopped into o seat until she began her perform- s, The train had run half way to ttsmouth and was flying along “the utiful streteh of road Which skiris the 3 n Omaha and the mouth of as observed her hosom letter which roceeded to ing softly the while. Next she hout, and satistied that : or tray- r hag a smali bottle of black liquor s she eyed pensively, and withdray i Sudd, produce hundred, Me. Furay is satisfied that this idea wili one that will obtain and the one which will bring im- mortality to him and his confreve Dailey. Itis the desive of both these men that their compromise shall be fully discus: l?- the residents of the ward, "and they claini nothing will _be left undone to afford the opportunity they desire in that resp: ng the covk, swiftly placed it to her lips At this juneture, the conductor, who had been summoned by a nervous passenger, 1t 1, but the wowan thrust the bottla into her dress somevhere and no one cared to recover it. Ou various oc casions she repeated this performanee tearfully reading the letier, and starting | to suck the neel: of the bDottle, When 1855. Cost! the train who had by teleg reached Lincoln, the police, been summoned to the station ph, took the tody, but after ving th from her, and obts that she would nc the earth, they condi fatal phial Promise 1in 0 quit ted her o a hotel The Belt Li ) of eold weathe whack to the work Belt Line. Several of the gangs wanted only tendays at the most in which to complete their work. The various con tractors expected they would have at st that number of days, and some ot them were so sanguine as to believe that they would h n open winter inwhich to not only complete the grading but also the laying of the trac} otwithstanding this sudden ireaption of cold weather, are few of the con- tractors who have not been in possession of hoarty feelings and genial smiles, The dertook their ec cts with the esti of the engineers to guide them in the amount of work they were expected to perform. In a number of eases the estimates have not been, in any manoer, near the amount of arth which has had to be removed. In one instance rinecr’s estimate showed a r of something over 9,000 yards, w s in the ac work the displac nt has not been far away from nearly three times that amount, o abont 24,000 yards, pancy of something like 15,000 y course is paid for it just so much a yard One of the heaviest cuts on the line is icinity of the poor farm, which is i by Brennan & Co. " This eut is nearly completed and is one of the best on the road. The company will commence laying track, in all probability, on Monday next, and in anticipation of this event, a force of & ve heen at work for several ding the site of the new depot cholas streets. This sn the heen on the m of le Fifty patterns fine C woods, at greatly reduced p continue only uitil sold. Cirs 1206, 1208 and 1210 snne Absconder 1, the abscondin from Cheyenne, arrvested here v morning at the instance of Messrs, Riley & Dillon, was released Thursday cvening. A reply was received from his wife stating th he had placed to the firm’s eredit the $600 hoasked for and this heing corroborated by the bank, Landau was released. He left for the east most 4-\Iw4hlitm~l The follow Cheyenne to the Denve te of the first SHIVERIC rnam st The Chey Frede ing special te m from Tribune-Repub inst., gives some Fredes his wife w saloon-keeper, sent ning, with S16, and attemptec intendis st, v up'in | ve hiniself, up the town s but his ereditg i 52,500, took him from the tr Ting him to remain, el 1865, and he recently sold Y amount of city property. He has been considered o square business man, His destination was South America, He isa native of Guatamala. Nagal Catarrh, Throat and Ear cessfully treated. Chas, ITmpey, M. cor. 15th and Harney, Withnell Block, A Judgment for Green, case of ex-Oflicer Duff G wger & Miller and C. W, Edg, upin the county court for 3 y afternoon. ‘The plaintify brought the suit to nll|"l'| the defen- dants to pay him the stipulated reward for the rceovery of the goods which were stolen from them at Lincoln last spring The other elaimant was Constable dger ton, who was made a co-defendant in the suit, He clamed the reward, as haying been instrumental i the recovery of the goods, The defendants failed to put in fn appearance m proper time and Judge led the case in favor of MeCulloch dec ex-Oflicer Green, giving him a judgment 1 liere sinee The, | of %100, Rawlins Sand Stone. Messrs, R. M. Galbraith, the general manager, and Chas, Carson, the supoer- intendent of the wling Dimension Sand Stone company, of Rawlins, Wyo., are in the eity introducing their new material to the notice of builders and architects. They have what they elaim a perfect building stone which is quar- ied from endless ledges near Rawlins. grayish-white stone and dicsses oy ensily. It is claimed that, upon exposure to the air it hardens with cach succeeding and becomes thus a perfect building materinl. It is worthy of the notice ot loeal builders, ned the propric u it the fort, reported to the one of nig. Mus ress of livery stuble police yesterday that two soldier them named Jennings, had hivdd a rig Jast night, in order to come to town ind and have a good time. Up 1o # late hour this morning they had failed to return, | htle wits much alarmed lest and made the hors Tho police wer and Mrs. Be they had deserted I to the crime. structed to be on th men, and Mrs, Beehtle left the jail, say: ing ominously, “If 1 ever sce those bh conts again, Pl teach themal DAVIS—In this ity Dec m., Joseph, infant son of dames E. Anna Davis, aged 1 year and 6 montl: Funeral took plice yesterday at 3 o'vlock poom. from the residence, 222 Poppleton avenue, woman into cus- | lookout for the two | Affairs of the County The county commissioners | their semi-weekly ses their room in the court house devote the time main of bills and vouchers, missioners a will hold ey will y Lo consideration The county com- anxions that every dent of the county should be made aware of this fact, in order that full and free knowledge of the same may be within the reach of every taxpayer. Lor se U weeks back, at intervals Commissioner O'Keefe has been in active | supervision of the constructing of several boxes in the road leading to tne Forest Lawn cemetery, near Fic cnce. At that place two crecks eross »ad at righy angles, and through these boxes the ks conducted I'wo more boxes have been finished in the same viemity on the county line, which now make the road perfeetly passable to the new city of the dead, Lie dy g 1+ which, somctime d with aview to drain ial wastes of North Omaha resi- iing the ma this winte menc of th It will ¥ next sp it v lable benedt to that Wil rid ot the which now biights cunabl remune I'he c howev ving. er will he part of the city. tendency o w while at the it the mark be com- same at nty commi L {03 eouple into the mers have had of weeks back records of Count Rush. Thus far,nothing to war- rant suspicion of either dishonesty, car lessness origneranee has been discover- 1 veral more weeks will be required to complete the work, When Mr. Rusi accounts are finished, the examiner will connmence upon the books of the other cers whose places are stairs. It s more thun hinted that some lively little **brushes will be experienced be- the examination shall have covered all the records. Alarm in the H The Union better equipped with five tinguishing apparatus building in the city the low: rters is larm and ex than any other A large gong in hallway is provided asa warn- ing signal, and a full assortment of hy- drants, hose, Buabcock extinguishc buckets, picks and axes ofter facilitie for subduing flames About 5:30 Thursday evening, just as the three hundred ocenpints of the building were preparing to knock off work, some- thing happened to the electrie apparatus and The gong hegan to peal out 'its loud alarm. The sound reaches every corner of the building distinetly 1d when its warning notes ecame pealing throvgh the halls, stampede vesulted instanter. All hands dropped their occupation and with Jimity of purpose that was surpris- rushed for the stairs. Every hall corridor poured in its reeruifs and in two minutes the stairs were thronged with fugitives, the lower hall ch mind that 15 neither five nor 15 1o be seen, It was quite ing episode but fends to show ¢ under ordinary civcumstances the | quarters can Ue safely emptied ina ver few minutes, Brevities, Boggs & Hill have donated a lot in ir addition for the site of a new Meth- church, i the Home of the s will pl Mrs. Slangh- ter (the state superingendent of that work) at the First M. E. chureh on Sat flernoon at 3 o'elock, Dec erof Mrs., Slaughter, the ntendent, supe The statement in yesterday's Bry the eftect t the “accounts of J at the Omaha naii works were drawn was not baswd on good an- s Mr., Lauer's accounts have not e stands, It was reportc tors yesterday that ith street re ant, named \Wal ntland, stole an overcoat, pur of violin, belonging to'a fellow waiter in the restaurant last nig He is believed to be in the Bl nof horses zht up When they Gladish’s blo that wililly led straight for . It secmed in v would rushinto the st s prepared to fles for their Just before the hors ashed on Lo idewalk one of the w Is canght on en plank and turned OIS won, The horses rushed up s strect, and were caught near ath and Davenport street by | Oficer Bloom, the champion runncr o s force y attempt to get the two trucks of tor the pluy last night into the opera house, eaus and a great deal of umusement. Il picees were wide and light, just such as the wind loves to toy wit When the men raised one from the load, the wind not satisfied with their puny efforts wo | take it out of their hands and guily A Wittig's saloon, and gent bandlers with it At tiwcs, aky nature impressed one wi act that s mountain Sdungeon eell, by some sp ad blotted out tl on of the goi Y while these anties were being crowd of shivering wretehes 2 and enjoyed (he s especially that of the youus was doing beavy work by sittin sconery in the s, while otl were being r Ihe stull length housed l ing was far advaneed, 1 pieces ised was at on this morning at | into Cut-oll fake, will not be undertaken | § a great deal of Jabor | | pliort weight, alin o phosy hut it was when the evens | ‘HOW they do STRUGGLE T0O0 GET THHERIF. All the Clothiers of Omaha tell yoi how cheap they will sell you goods. At Cost! At The trouble is the cost is not right, THE TWO ORPHANS make a PROFIT ON CLOTHING Our Booming Business Tells Where Low Prices are Made Our Efforts Crowned with Success. THE YANKEE BOYS FROM MAINE, THE TWO ORFHANS, 1118 FARNAM STREET, OMAIIA. «PRICES SPECIAL AYORINe EXTRACTS MOST PERFECT MADE avors., ete., alavor a8 delicately and naturally as the frult. PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. CRICAGO, [t | sprei Lavamine|| =\ | EXTRACTS| row TRUE rru® LOUTA Lauer and Habeas Corpus. J. M. Tharston has som ewhat modified his original intention of moviag immedi ately for the release by habeas corpus o Johu F. L The attorn ey scems dis posed to await the return to the publi nd of the reason which has been driven from it throne by blind fanaticism rotry and prejudic When that shall have taken place nd Mr. Thurston thinks he will not have long to wait, he will make his move for the diseharge of writ mention The work men’ ot the strongly devoted to Lau niuhave seve times ed the fact since his arrest and especially since his incarceration. ‘Che affairs of the nail w will not, it is thought, snlli imprisonie nt “The Tatter's v y il reasurer ntendent has aceepted and the works are ranming 1s usual, Not Three of a Kind. The hopes of expectant billiar this vieinity were dashed to tl v nnouncement ! the rd playe Vigneaux on, who had heen an- nounced as coming,” would not make their appearance. The was knocked on the h Vigne de termination in the east, Vige naux s best, a pecnliarity, and this determination on’ his part is looked upon as an evidence of an ceeentricity of which he cannot be dispossessed, uer, d. ists in ground Dismisscd. s of Mrs. Frank, who is cha b selling liquor in her house without license, was called for trial in the police court y 1y, The state failed have on hand the witnesses—the det tives who purchased the beer—and the case could not go to trial. It is probabie that 1t willde dismissed altogether. It is broadly hinted by the police that the witnesses have been paid money Lo leave town. The Puncral of Warren 8, Yates, The funeral of Warren Yates will take place from Trinity Cathedr: I:. m. ¢ y. ‘The remains will bo be y pall hearers from the lute residence of the deceased, 1824 Capitol avenue, to hedval, His remaing ean be m 30 m. to 1:30 p.m. at the res e of his purents. te [} POWDER Abhsolutely Pure. 1 of put This powdor nover yarios. A ma ty, mtrength aid whologomowss il than tho ordinary kinds, And eainot be so in compotition with the i [i1ido of low (o Powder only in king Wall street ] IMKEN OVER 400 ol ) SPRING fEI&I.C‘LES