Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 16, 1887, Page 2

THE STATE'S SOLID GROWTH. Bubstantial Prosperity at Orete Builded on a Sure Foundation, STIMULATING NEWS AT YORK, Fairbury Pushing to the Front of Southern Nebraska Towns — Val- paraiso Steadily Progressing— Valley's County’s Metropolls. Crete's Prospects. Crere, Neb, May 13.—[Correspond- ence of the Bek.|—Crete, the acknowl edged prettiest town in Nebraska, has had no startling boom in recent years, like many Nebraska towns. For the last thirty days there has been unus! signs of new hfe and vigor. More real estate changed hands in that period than during ten years past. The oldest inhab- itant began to shake his head and won- der what it all meant. Light was finally thrown on the subject by the Missouri Pacific railway making our citizens a proposition a couple of weeks ago to build an extension of their line to Crete. The ]m» josition was at once nccepted and the county commission- ers were called togetuer to submit a proposition to the voters of Crete precinet to vote $3,500 in bonds to secure right-of- way and depot grounds for the company within the city. The surveyors have found an excellent grade by the Salt creck valley into the city. =~ Work will undoubtedly begin at once, as thereis not a fraction of doubt but what the bonds will carry without opposition. The expression of approval by our business men warrants us in saying that the Mis gour1 Pacitic ruilway will carry out of Crete and in the hon's share of business when once in operation. The B. & M., had it conserved its own interests, would long ago have n advantage of the splendid water facilities and lay of land tributary to their tracks at this point for vards, shops, ete is Bubstantial evidence now that they in- tend doing somecthing. Their chief engineer, Mr. Wecks, spent a couple of days here last week scrutinizing the territory we have men- tioned very closely. It is practically cer- tain that the R. & M. will close the gap of twelve miles between here and Mil- ford, thus making a through north and south line, with Crete a very central ot in their extensive systém. The orthwestern people are investigating this beautiful li&ua valley with a view to extending their line from Seward by Crete to Beatrice. If tho readers of the BeE see the announcement of a propo- sition from that road to Crete inside of a couple of wecks they need not be sur- prised. These§ are some of the developments from the outside which make Crete eople feel the big boom is coming, T. liller, mayor of the citv, a wealthy, German, conded by an ising council, 18 inaugurating public improvements in securing an electric light plant for the city. ‘With the water power which our big mills propose to give to the city, it is found the incandescent light can be fur- nished consumers cheaver than gas or oil. At the next meeting of the council a proposition for a franchise to build a system of waterworks for the city will be submitted. reservoir plan” on the heights ubove the city will be adopted These natural ad es, which Crete has supplemented with additional rail- roads, are bound to put itin the front rank of interior towns. Real estate is not on the top shelf, like most Nebraska towns, and the buyers now can realize handsomely on investments. Among the heavy purchases of real estate the past few woeks was the Town Plat com- pany lots 1212 by Dawes, Foss & Stevens; thirty-five acres adjoining the town site, by H. McKee; 112 acres adjoinin on the north and east, by M. A. Daugh- erty, H. M. Wells, J. W. Craig and oth- ers: several inside lots and blocks. Sev- eral from other towns are making pur- chases. The first new addition was put on the market yesterday, and is selling rapidly. We are glad to see again on our streets the familiar face of Ex-Governor Daw Mrs. Dawes is expected the last of thi: week and next week will find them dom- jeiled in the tasteful dwelling recently purchased of Mr. H. H. Whittlesey. Mr. Whttle: has left for D) Colo., where he will engage in th business in which he was 50 successfulin Crote—that of chemist and pharmacist. Mrs. Whittlesey and little daughter will remain the guests of Mrs. George D. Stevens until next week. Mrs. Dr. Foss, of the Doane college class of 87, is lying dangerously ill at or home. Miss Dunn, the national college secre- tary of the Y. M. C. A, is a guest at Ladics’ hall, where she held an interest- ing meeting with the young ladies last night. Another is announced for this eveningat 7:30 o’clock. Miss Dunn 18 a pleasing speaker and will do good work n the college. The Rey. W. F. Eyster enjoyed a pleas- ant surprise recently. The members of the 8. L. C,, for which Mr. ster has prepared programmes during the past year, presented him with a Rogers’ isr»un, “The Elder's Daughter.” Mr. Jyster tried his utmost to convinee th express boy that he had made a mistake. The boy’s firmness, however, carried the day, and the statuary was received. The extromely ws ather coming 80 early induces early thought of where shall be spent the summer vacation. No place seems more inviting than Crete, with its summer assembly. Many are already laying plans for tenting and the erection of cottages, M. D. Welsh and L. E. Calyert, superintendent of the B. & M., are planning to build cottages. The Rev. Willard Scott, of Omahu, has or- dered the ercction of Congregational headguarters, and other denominations will prepare headquarters before assem- bly time. The assembly vrogramme is richer and fuller than ever before. Mr. ¥. I Foss, its president, and Dr. E. A, Dunning, its conductor, have spared no effort or expense to make the assembly this year mect the most extravagant ex- pectations, The Excitement at York. Yorx, Neb., May 13.—|Correspondence of the Ber.—|The excitement in York oyer railroads, town lots and publie im- provements was supplemented last Sun- day night by a verv sensational affuir which was the principal theme of discus- sion Monday, Miss Rena Shafer, a hand- some and attractive young school mis- tress, deliberately placed a loaded revol- wer to her left breast and fired, The ball entered near her heart and lodged under her left shoulder blade. The physicians in attendance now think her attempt to take her own life will be abortive. The zoung lady has been reared from child- ood in this city and 1s well known to most of our eitiz Her mother died a few years ago, and her father married ain and moved to Missouri, leaving na, then a girl about fifteen years, to take care of herself. She has sceured a fair education and won au enviable rep- utation as teacher, Her friends are very evasive in regard to the shoot- jng, some of them even claiming it was an accident, but the fact has leaked out that a recreant lover has so conducted himself as to breuk her heart, and when ke failed to show up last Sunday night nceording to contract, she determned to eud her disappointment and sorrow, Saturday evening last a bright blaze * gpear the depot reddened the heavens and drew throngs of people out on the street. Presently the fire bell sounded and then everybody did run, merchants, clerks, and “even barbers, who forsook their customers half shaved and ran into street razor in hand. It was the first fire in York for a long time, and though only a barn it monopolized all attention, to the extreme disgust of a toothpuller and nostrum vender who was beguling a crowd on one of the corners. Last week W. W.' Lewis, a farmer who resided near this city, met with a sud den and very painful death. He v unloading a grist at the roller mills,when his team became frightened and ran. He succeeded in intercepting them and was whirled to the ground and run oyer. He lingered a counle of days in terrible agony and expired Work has been arly on suspended tempor- our new court house. Searcity of brick occasions the delay. The average citizen guesses the building will cost $75,000 by the time it is completed, but those in the best po- gition to judge say the amount will be much nearer §100,000. ‘The season’s bullding is fairly under way and new houses are raised in all di rections each day. The demand for bus- iness rooms i3 very vressing and on cannot be had ow for love nor money. A number of men been here recent- Iy and decided to go into business as soon a8 they can secure a suitable room. Business and residence lots are salling rapidly at advanced figures. Our hotels are crowded with new arrivals, and the streets ave full of life and activity. he Kansas City & Omaha railroad has the grade nearly completed and is laying rails in this county, They will be run- ning trains to York in about two weeks. The Fremont, Elkhorn & Missoyri Val- ley graders are at work near the city and this line will be completed to York in about eight weeks. The B. & M. has de- cided to build an air line from York to Central City to accommodate the busi- ness of the new lines which they are building in northwestern Nebraska. This will make York an important junction of this great line. A tepresentative of the Kansas City, Wyandotte & Northwestern was in York afew days ago and said his compuny would make this an important point on their line, which is an extension of the Fort Scott & Gulf route. This will gives us a direct line to New Orleans. Our people are sanguine and a big boom for York scems inevitabl - ready our real estate men are crowde with™ business and are adding to their force of assistants. Fairbury Pushing to the Front. Famsury, Neb.,May 13.—| Correspond- ence of the BEg.|]—The graders on the Kansas City & Omaha railroad are throwing dirt northwest from here at a lively rate and another large gang are at work in the city putting in switches for supply yard. The work on the division shops and round house will be com- menced soon. Fairbury is the terminus of the Fairbury & Stromsburgh branch of the road and will have more direct communication with Omaha when the road is completed. The Rock Lsland has surveyed a route from here through Reynolds, Neb., to Belleville, Kan., where connection with another llne will be made that is being built from Belleville southeast to connect with the Toveka line of the roa This will be the main line to Denver. All these railroad movements give us life and are fast pushing us to the front of southern Nebraska towns. A number of manufacturing institutions are in correspondence with the board of trade and we expect some of them will locate with us. All lines of business and manufacturing now represented here are pros ng greatly, and there is ample room for more. The building hoom holds up and _quite a large number of houses and store buil ings are being erected. The brick makers are in full blast and have already burned three kilns this spring. Everybody is busy and the weather beautiful, The Democrat is taking subscriptions for a daily which it proposes to com- mence isminq the latter part of this month. The nocrat is an_enterpris- ing paper and does much to advertise the (-I&y. although its political complexion is of The Harbine bank has lately been dec- orated inside, and a beautiful room it is. A new nursery company was organ- 1zed last week, to be known as the Mid- Continent Nursery company, and has bought a block of ground, on which to build packing houses. The nursery in- dustry of Fairbury is immense, Carpen- 1age having sold this spring in the neighborhood of “$100,000 worth of trees, They have a market all over the continent and do the largest business in r line west ot the Mississippi. There are two or three other nursery firms here. Fairbury is the Rochester of the west in this line of busines: Real estate continues_active and many sales are reported. Everybody who in- vests makes money, and, S0 far as pros- ent indications point, will continue to do so. oS Doings at Dodge. Dovce, Neb., May 14,—[Correspond- ence of the Bue.—The cry of dry weather and fear of shortage n crops has all disappeared with the delightful rain of the past two days and vrospects were never better for an ample return of a rich harvest as a reward to the toiling husbandman. During the week we have not only received several cars of mer- chandise and lumb, but shipped two nand to- A 125 head of cut- tle, H. K ad, John Kraker- meyer 36 head and Will ‘lerhaull 34 head, making in all thirf ads of cattle, and there are plenty more in the country waiting for better prices. Several new and tasty residences are under way of completion and there isa demand_for more storerooms at good rents, We voted $2,000 bonds for a new school house and the contract has been consummated at §2,800, the balance and most of the money being already in the city treasury, Our livery men, of whom Mr. A. F. Stuetler is chief, report business brisk and plenty of new comers looking up de- sirable locations for enterprising farm- ers. A A flouring mill is greatly needed and the party who locates here will find it a paying investment from the very start. Traveling men from Unmf)m‘ best wholesale f:uuscs make regular visits to see our merchants and always find busi- ness good, Columbus Enterprisecs, Corumsus, Neb, May 14.—[Corre- spondence of the Bee.]J—It hath been said, ‘‘He that tooteth not his own horn, it shall not be tooted for him,” and the BEE is one of the best mediums in the state for tooting our advantages and ag- ricultural resources, and wealth. Your correspondent finds seventy-five copies of the Daily Bee distributed here every afternoon, besides many copies that are eagerly sought for from the news agent on the train as soon as No. 8 pulls up to the plattorm. E. I, Fitzpatrick, one of our news dealers, says he expects to re- quire 100 copies to supply the demand in the next thirty days, Platte county is getting a large share of the immense immigration that is pour- ing into our prosperous state. The com- Flnims that some croakers were holdin, orth, about a lack of moisture, are a dispelled, for we had on Thursday and Friday continuous and soaking rains, thus putting Beyond - & peradventure an unparalicled crop of small grain and corn, the acreage under cultvation being in excess of Columbus,thie cointy seat,is* to the front," and will literall Cgrid ironed,” and all the surrounding coun- try radiating from Columbus as a center. Articles of incorporation were tiled to-day of *“I'he Columbus Motor Rail- , ' capital stock £200,000, with power to increase to £300,000, in shares of £100 each, to operate in the counties of Polk, Butler, Colfax and Platte. The incor vorators are J, R, Meagher, R. H. Honr, Hermun Ochlrich, George Leliman, L ander Gerard and J. H. Kersenbrock, all men of energy, pluck and capital. Another enterprise of great import to Columbus is the proposition of A.J. A nold to sink an artesian_well on | property, known as Arnold's park, fur- nishing an unlimited supply of water for the lake, and enhancing the value ot the lots in the immediate neighborhood. Gustave Cordes, the young ma fell between the cars at Dun last Sunday, sustaining severe injurics to the right leg and foot, 18 doing well, and will be sent to his home in Howard county in a few days. He says it was too close a call to pass in his checks to undertake to steal a ride on a train again. ‘‘Dabblers in dirt,” in the shave of real estate dealers, are hanging out their shingles on our principal streets. Louis Weaver is the latest addition—another harbinger of our growing prosperity. Valparaiso Spreading Out. VaLraAra1so, Neb.,, May 18.—(Corre- spondence of the Bek.|—Although Val- paraiso has not had what is commonly termed a boom, yet she has grown from & population of 700 to that of 1,000 in the past year, and has nearly doubled in its number of buildings, while no notices of ““To Let can be seen. B.R. B. Webber has made out an ad- dition to the town of twenty-five acres of residence lots, also a k filled with shade trees, and to contain a fountain in the near future, to be supplied by a spring near by. R. K. Johnson also comes to the front with twenty acres of the finest residence lots in town. Lots in the additions are selling rapidly, and will be built upon ere another year rolls by. lle & Craft’s brick block is now re- iving the finishing touches,and will soon be occupied as_a hotel, drug stor barber shop. One room is already oceu- r“ld by the Bank of Valparaiso, which boasts of the finest bank room in the county. The hotel will be first-class in every respect. The whole building is lighted with gas, and is a credit to our who pl The Baptists are now building a ve neat and tasty church edifice, of t most modern style and fimsh. R. K. Jobnson is also preparing to erect a fine residence costing several thousand doliars. Although farmers are busy planting, yet the strects present a lively scene every day, and merchants have plenty to do, and are in good spiri! Farm work is farther ahead than for eral seasons past, and the crops are coming on finely, Lively Times at Ord. Onp, Neb., May 13.—[Correspondence of the Bee.]—The B. & M. grading be- tween Ord and Crane, in Loup county, is nearly ready for the tie: A board of trade has recently been or- ganized at Ord and the secretary is pre- paring a twenty-two-page pamphlet de- seriptive of Ord and Valley county for general distribution. s B of the Ord Building and Loan association will soon be opened. A building boom has recently struck the town and several costly residences will go up this season. Brick are being made for two large brick blocks to he erected this summer. Ord will have water works within six months. A, L. Strang, of Omaha, agent for the United States Wind Mill'and Pump company, has been engaged to make a survey of the city with a view to hitting upon the best plan for water works in Ord. The murderer of Darling (in the unor- ganized territory west of Blai ounty) 18 contined in the custody of Sheriff John- son at Ord, and as court does not sit in Blaine county until next summer the vill be likely to remain an in- e of the county boarding house for some time, Will Rise F Howoreae, Neb, May respondence of the Bk porter from this city was mistaken in his report of our loss by five, or else it w typographical error. The loss was § 000 and the insuramnce $12,050. bnrned district will be rebuiit at once. We learn this morning that a fine two- story brick block will be built immedi- ately on the corner of West avenue and Hayden street, with a frontage on West avenue of seventy-five feet. 'Lhe parties interested are 8. A. Drayo, J. A. MeKil- lip and Einsil Bros. The building will be construcued of pressed brick and will cost §16,000. The debris of the late fire is being cleared away and the merchants burned out have removed the remnants of their stock into other buildings tem- porarily. The loss comes heavy on some 0 but all are in a condition to re- Holdrege will boom along the s usual and in four months we will never know that the flames wronght such ruin, eir Ashos, Young But Thriving McCool. McCoor, Neb., May 13.—[Correspond- ence of the BEE. |—MeCool is the name of one of Nebraska's future thriving cities. It is situated along the side of the Blue river and has a thickly settled country for ten miles around, whose trade is trib- utary to McCool. The first buildings were erected six weeks ago. To-day it a representative in nearly every mercantile ime, and yet there 18 room for more. There are about twenty-tive business houses, The stores and dwell- ings already built are good, substantial buildings. The Blue river will furnish \\';\!ur}u)\v\‘r enough for fifty mills or munufactories. McCool is niamed after an oflicial of the Kansas City & Omaha. 1t will be the principal division stition of the Kansas City & Omaha railroad. It already has prospects of two more roads and if these come McCool will have seven different railvoads coming in and going out. At present there are three, 1f anyone wishes tolocate ina good, liv, new town, we commend them to MeCool; you eannot locate in a better town wn the state. The Kansas City & Omaha rail- road cars will commenc run McCool June 1. Come and see t little railroad town in the state, $125,000 already invested in building improve- ments. Oakdale's Advantages, OaxpALE, Neb,, May 11.—[Correspond- ence of the BEE.]—Oakdale, now city of 1,000 people, is situated thirty miles west of Norfolk, on the main line of the Fre- mont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley rail- road, in Antelope county, Itis now the terminus of the branch of the North- western from Albion and in future will be a division of the road, a3 it is being xtended on. The railroad company is ereeting large coal sheds, building a new depot, and putting up a large round- house and turn-table, The company has now a In?u force of men busily at work and in a fow days will have ull compléted and in good running order, whi K will give us an outlet both ways, Situated, as .we are, in one of the best counties of the state, with good TR T A R R e e water power from the Cedar creck, we can offer inducements - second to none in northwostern Nebragks. The busincss men are very anxious to have a good roller flour mill located, and would give inducements to good: responsible parties for the erection of a mill on Cedar creck We have three banks, many general stores, and business of all Kinds is well represented, and all doing a good, sufe business. We would be pleased to cot- respond with any parties regarding busi- ness of any kind, and any correspond- ence addressed to Oakdale b v C, F. Duork, Oskdale, Neb., prompt attention, Seward Secking Residents, SEwakp, Neb, May 14.—[Corre. spondence of the Bek.)—~The committes appointed to canvass the town in the in- terest of a loan and bullding association reported adversely, as Claudius Jones, whom every one knows, has offered to build cottages on his new addition and sell them to any one serking a home for what the cost and $30 for the lot, in small monthly payments, with 8 per cent interest. Real estate men are making active efforts to induce traveling men to buy property here and make it & permanent residence for their families. Several houses have already been sold tor such Exeter Happenings. EXETER, Neb., May 14.—[Correspond- ence of the Beg lay 12 and 13 gave us two very heavy thunder storms. On the 12th the residence of H. G. Smith was struck by lightuing, but no damage done beyond demoralizing a chimney and frightening the family. During the same storm eight head of cattle were killed by lightning on the farm of R.Smale, two miles south of town. ¢ The head contractor of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad was here Thursday subletting” contracts for grading through this township. Al the buildings on the line of survey through the town have been removed and graders are expected daily. Organizing at Ogalalla. OGALALLA, Neb, May 13.—[Corre- sponde of the Brk.]—A loan and building association has just been organ- ized with n capital stock of $60,000. A board of trade 1so just being organ- ized by our business men, and every ef- fort 18 being put forth to make Ogalalla one of the best towns in western Ne- braska. Our large roller flouring mill will be in operation in a few days. Three hundred lots were sold in one week recently. e MRS, HOLTSCH IDER TAUKS, She Says She Did Not Drive Her Hus- band to Suicide. The BeE a few days ago published an account of the suicide of William Holt- schneider i the Atlantic hotel on South ‘Tenth street. 1t will be remembered that before commutting his rash act he wrote a note which gave as a reason for ¢ same the fact that his wife had riven him from home without a penny and that she and her son-in-law had made a life a burden to hing. His widow now residing in Harlan denics the truth of these statementsin the following let- ter There is not a word of truth in the note written by William Holtsehrieider before he committed sutcide. May the good Lord for- give him, if he was in sound mind. 1In the first place, 1 did not consider him very sane for the last three years past, as he'many times threatened that he would kill all of us, or that he would set the house on fire. Many a night [ aid not sleep a wink in order to be prepared to proteet my, ehildren and myself. Asto my s he never had more than one conv ring his entire stay in Harlal begin- ning of our unlue marriage he always showed a great inclination of running away from home whenever he could get ~ hold of any money. Tho last time he lefthere I went to him three times and begged him to stay, but he retused abso- lutely, saying that he was tired of living with us any longer. My chlldren and myselt always tried our utmost to _keep him in good humor, but all our united efforts were in vain and it always seemed to me that some of our nearest neighbors here in Harlan, for some reason or other, were a great cause of our troubles, by speaking ill to him against us, and he, feeble-minded as he took re- venge on his family in that case every time. ‘When we were married Mr. Holtsehneider wasa peor, sick helpless man, Soon after he got well and showed his bad character by getting drunk, cominz home late, spending all the money he made, including our busi- ness house and my private bank account of ), He first left mo in 1851, three months our marriage, taking 855 and staid two or three weeks, — In six months he went to Council Bluffs, Ia., with 535, and not only spent it, but contracted $25indebts, IHe went away, takinz money several times more, The last time was two weeks after we came to IHarlan, He took $75, and after spending it all in St. Paul, Minn., attempted it his thr but did not ime he went away he left us or any help neede always took every centof money he could tind in the house. "L kept him in St. Paul all winter and sent him money to come home on three times. Dut he spent it there and did not come home. Mus, HOLTSCHNEIDER. Olarinda's Sightacers, Yesterday morning about 10 o’elock four carloads of excursionists from C a arrived in this eity. There were about two hundred people in the party, who took ¢ nd earri drove around the city until 6 the evening, when thev returned home. They were all favorably impressed with the beauty of the city and the wonderful progress which they noticed had been made since their excursion 20 T'he trip wus gotten up by H on, general freight and passenger agent of the Humeston & Shenandoah railway. Fooling With a Bad Henry Rhoades was arrested b Ormsby and Hor Otlicers N last evening on charge of attempting suicide, He had several onc-sixth grains of morphine powders in his posessipn and had already taken three when ha was found in a botel on Tenth stre ¢ claimed he had been employed atfthe smelting works and had became l¢ ng . His excuse for the morphme was xt:u he was taking it as an alleviation of Ris pains, He Doesn's Want Her, Harry Burt, the painter whose wife ac- companied the wifo of A. L. McKeel to Towa quite mysterionsly the other day, contradicets the statement that his spouse has returned, or that e found her in Council Blufls, F s he didn't find her and doesn’ o The Hillside church has hung a 700 pound Blymer bell: which was used for the first time yester - Died at the Hospital. Yesterday a man named Dominick O'Rourke. aged fifty years, died of con- sumption at St. Josepi's hospital. The remains were brought to Barret & Heafy's undertaking rooms, from which place they will to.day be forwarded to St. Joseph, Mo, Cottage colors ready for use in new and desirable sha Alabastine in various tints, the original and only per- manent wall tinish, supersedes ealei- mine for beauty wnd durability, and is easily applied. = Paints, window glass brushes, ete,, largest and most complete stook west of Ohloago. 'Oummings & Neilson, 1118 Farnam St ot Edison Elcctric Ligbt System Estimates furnished, 1£0. W, COSTER, Paxton Iouse, Omaha, Agent, AMERICA'S MONEY (QUEENS. Women who Handle Fortunes Womanly Wisdom, with THE WEALTHY HETTY GREEN. Mrs. John Jacob Astor’'s Snug Compe- tance — Philadelphia’ Rich Widows — Chicago's Million- airess.-Itich Maidens, Utica Observer: The death of the rich Catharine Wolfe ealls attention to the rich women of the United St This is an age not only of millionaires, but of millionaires as well. The wealthy women of the United States are now numbered by hundreds, and every city has its girls who are worth their weight ingold. The richest woman of them all 1s, perhaps, Mrs. Hetty Green of New York, who is worth £30,000,000, and has been estimated as high as $40,000,000. Sheis a sharp business woman and has made the $18,000,000 which she received from her father breed rapidly. She added $1,000,% to her fortune by mar- riage, and she cuts her expenses more closely than many women who 18 worth a thousand times less. Mrs. Mark Hop- kins, who 1s building a $2,000,000 palace at Great Barrington, Mass., is, however, nearly as vich. She is worth somewhere between $20,000,000 and $40,000,000, but her money comes from her husband, Mark Hopkins, who made a fortune out of the Central Pac railroad. Hopkin's estate when he died was inventoried at £21,700,000, and it was worth fully one- third more. Nearly the whole of thisw left to Mrs Hopkins, and she spends her large income generously. Mrs. Terry got one-third of her husband’s fortune of £80,000,000, and in case her baby dies she will get the r This baby 18 & girl not yet two vears old, She is worth at least $50,000,000, and issaid to be the wealthiest babyv in the world. Mrs. John Jacob Astor of New York is smd to be worth $8,000,000 and all her relatives have gold galore. Mrs. Thomas A. Scott, the widow of the raiiroad presi- dent, is worth $5,000,000, and Mrs. Joseph Harrison, the widow of the man who built the_first railroad in Russia, £1,000,000. Mrs. Jayne, the widow of the patent medicine man, is worth £3,000,000. Mrs. Josephine M. Ayer,who gets her money also from patent niedicin, is estimuted to be worth from 1,000,000 5,000,000, and Mrs. Edwin Stevens, of w York, has $15,000,000. New York has a number of other rich widows. Mrs. Martin Bates was left £1,500,000, which her husband made in dry goods, and Mrs Jane Brown re: ceived from her husband’s estate about $4,000,000, which was accumuls i banking. Mrs. W. E. Dodge, esti at £1,000,000, sends much of her income to the heathen, and Mrs, Robert Goelet, worth £3,000,000, owes her fortune hardware. Mrs. John C., Gre A be worth $10,000,000, and Mrs. Commo- dore Vanderbilt has in ased the $1,000,- 000 which she received from her hus- band’s estate until it 1s near $2,000,000, avkson Potter's widow hasun immense income. Mrs, John Minturn is worth $2.000,000, Philadelphia widows are numerous, and there are rich women of all kinds in the City of Brotherly Love. I have spoken of Mrs, Tom Scott’s wealth, Mrs, Disston, the widow of the saw manufac- turer who died not long ago, is worth $1,000,000 and she lives in a marble pal- ace. Mrs. John Ray_ Bartonis worth $7,000,000; Mrs. M~ W. Baldwin, the widow of the locomotive builder, is es timated ns worth $2.000,000, and Mrs Charles Bromley, the widow of a carpe manufacturer, is worth about $1,000,000. There is a widow in Chieago, Mrs. Cyrus H. McCormick, who is said to be worth $10,000,000, and as to Washing- ton’s weu "‘f widows, they are many. Admiral Dahlgren has several fine s the fashionable part of Wash ington, and Mrs. John 0. Evens, the widow of the late president of the Mutual Union Telegraph company, owns tal residence suid to be worth $1,000,000. the mother-in-law of Congressman Glover, lives in a_house worth ¥ and keeps, it is sai 1,000,000 in gov- ernment bonds in the hington banks. As ta the rich young women, there are numerous good eatches i the United States, Miss Elizabeth Garrett, the sister of the presutent of the Baltimore & Ohio Iroad, is said to be worth between £15,000,000 and $20,000,000, and she is both bright and businesslike. The three daughters of Francis A. Drexel, of Phila- delphia, are worth_£4,000,000, and there 18 a millionre girl in Tennessce named Maud St. Pierre, who lately bought 1,000 acres of coal lands, and who las enough ability to manage her own fortune and a husband as well, One of the richest young ladies in Washington is Mi. Jennie Riggs, whose father, George W. Riggs, was a partner of W' W. Corcoran, and there is a Miss Ber: Morrson in i ago was down on the tax P worth 064,900, Miss Clothilde Palms, the Detroit beauty whom Senator Jones i n tried to woo, is said to be worth he beautiful as she vieh, reis hardly a city in the United States which bhas not an heiress or two whose fortune runs aigh into the hundreds of thousands, Miss Benson, of Philadelphia, inherited §1,500,000 from her father, who was a well known Phila- delphia | and Miss Ellen Erben, another Philadelphia girl, the daughter of a thy wool factor, is also worth a million. iss Erben is a fine horsewoman. drives a spanking often a tandem, also fond of hor t their only dissi ch of these three four-milliol 3 a splendid Arabian steed which goes like the wind, They ride out from their count seat near Philadelphia as carly as 6 o’clock in the morning,and they go 'galloping the country until their cheeks roses, They are said to be as well posted rinary surgeons, and i 1,rub down their e after they come from a hard drive, Mrs. Mark™ Hopkins is another great horsewoman. She is as fond of horses as was her husband, and her stabl, at Great rington are among th smpletest and most com- fortable the country. She keeps well bred horses, and every fair day you may see her about Great Bar- rington = driving behind a pair of fine trotters and herself holding the reins. She makes lomg excursions around the surrounding country, and ev ant of the colony knows her Mis. Hopkins is noted for her charity. rrington She ad this s, in rees themse! -ost her, all told, and the largest part of the salary, I imagine, comes from is not alone among her sisters in alms- giving, Mrs, N, Fairbunks, one of the rich women of Chicago, gives away 10,000 a year in charity, i Mrs. Mar- shall Field, the wife of the rich goods man, is said to k('«": an almoner whose business itis to make the rounds of the city searching for the worthy poor, She is fond of educating poor children, and pays $5,000 & year out of her individual allowance for this alene. The three Drexel sisters, of whom I have spoken, are also systematic in their charity, They keep a female executive to preside over the benefactions, and have, it is said two mwen constantly employed in lookin up the needy aud in caring for their wants kv are, perhaps the most wung women in the United id it is swid ther list of pension: ains no less than 850 names, and t their giftsamount toa round $100,00 rly. ‘They inherit their charitable tastes. Their father was noted for his almsgiving, and their mother paid the rent for 100 fanulies for scver: before she died, and gave away, it is said, §10,000 n year to tl Mrs. Philip Armour is very charitable. Mrs, Leland Stanford does much unostentatious giv- ing, and aw told that tetty Green gives ay considerable, though she is very careful that it goes to the right persons. Mrs, Green's chief ambition seems to be to make money, and I might add also to save it. She is not at all extravagant, and there was a paragraph published not long ago which described her as carry- ing a sum of money to Philadelphia her- self in order to save the heavy charges which would have been entailed Inuru been sent in some other w She some- times ex s fortunes in securities about New York 1n a hand satchel, and uses the street ears as often as she does her car- ringe. Mrs. Hopkins is thoroughly ne- quainted with all the ways of business. She has a broad grasp of finaneial ques- tions, looks after her vastinterests closely, and drives a bargain with both tact and economy. Miss Elizabeth Garrett was the confidential secretary of her father for some years before he died, and she understands the value of Baltimore & Ohio railroad stock as well as any man in the country. The richest widow m Colorado was the wife of the late John W. Lliff, who was known some years ago asthe cattle king of Colorado. INifr eft about 100,000 head of cattle, and it id that his widow manages his estate as well as any business man could. She went to Colorado as a sewing mach- ine agent, though she came of a wealthy family and could have remained at home doing nothing. She there met HifY and married him, and I doubt not the experi- ence she obtained in connection with the sewing machine, aids her in the manag, ment of her fortune. Speaking of cattle, there is a cattle queen in Texas, near Corpus Christi. Mrs. Rogers, who is said to be worth $1,000,000, and who has many times as much stock as Job had in most rms)mrnus days, Her husband is preacher, but Mrs. Rogers manages the using She sells the stock hel y buys all the suppl and can ride a horse as well as any of the many cow- boys whom she has in her employ.” An- other cattle queen is the widow of Gen- eral Meredith, of Iilinois, and she breeds a different kind of cattle from Mrs. Rogers. Her stock is ot a bet- ter grade. Meredith was ~ worth about $300,000 along in the seventies. but he failed. His wife took what was left of the herd, managed it, and made money. She was content with a good round price for her stock, and she did not believe in owning $10,000 bulls and §5,000 calves. One of the wealthiest womnien of Ohio .is Mrs. George Ward Nichols, who is said to have an income ot %200,000. She is the daughter of Joseph Longworth, and she is the foun- der and proprietor of the Fockwood pot- tery, which 1s now noted for its exquisite workmanship both in Europe and Amer- ica. Mrs. Nichols took up the pottery craze when it came over the country a few years ago. She \h-volo{wd the art tastes of Cincinnati and established this factory. She works initabout five hours daily, and is constantly at work improv- ing her ware. Her works sell well in New York, and they have an interna- tional reputation. Mrs. Frank Leslie has made $1,000,000 in four years, and there is no brighter business woman in the world. The richest woman 1n South America is a good business woman. She is Dona Isudora Cousino, of Santiago, Chili. She ot a big fortune from her father and married another. Her husband died, and she has now millions of acres of land, millions of money, hundreds of thousands of cattle, and coal, copper and silver mines, a railroad, and a fleet of iron steamships. She has an income of sev- eral millions a year, and her coal mines bring her $30,000 a month. She owns a town of 7,000 people, and pays out £100,000 a month in wages. She has su- perintendents for all her establishments, and she receives weekly reports from them. She is sharp at driving a bargain, and, while she is very gencrous, she re- quires a strict account of every made and spent upon_ her is still under fifty, and dec never marry again. She unde fortune hunters and fortune hunting, is satisticd to remain as she is. e said nothing about the rich married women of the country—women who have proverty in their own right and I forgot to mention among the rich unmarried girls that Amanda who lives near § ) Ga, is the ri negress in the world. t is said that Miss Eubanks received $400,000 from the estute of a wealthy Georgia vlanter, who died in 1885, leaving an estate of about $300,000. He had no children, but a large number of relatives. He cut off his kindred with small sums, and bequeathed the remainder as abo: ated, — Speak- ing of rich married women, many of our prominent public men have added to their fortunes by good marriages. White- Iaw Reid’s wife, the daughter of 1. 0O, Mills, is worth a fortune. yor Hewitt of New York, dates his prosperity from the time he was made tutor to Peter Cooper’s daughter, whom he afterw Whena good medicina ts + Tho impura 10t the woak puritying, regu- influences so happily and 4's Sarsaparilla. 1Lovs ling, curos headuchie and Ayspop: ory talnt of scrotuls from the eondition of tho oy, all eall for th Iating, and strenztheniny effectively eombined in comes that tired f sin, and expe blood. “ANT ask of any one I8’ to try & bottle of Tlood's Barsaparilla and aoe ite quick effect. It takes loss Lo and quantity to show its effoct (han any other preparation ever heardof. Iwould not by without itin the house.” M. C. A. M. HusbAkD, North Cuili, Monroe County, N. Y. Spring Medicine sed Hood' proud to r teine o reaparilla for several fent spring 1004 purith we considor | We nro el hoser, N. H up your mind to get ke any other, married. Senitor Payne's wife brought considerable real estate into the fumily and the old Perry farm, upon n part of which the Payne homestead stands, is now in the most fashionable part of Enclid avenue. Secretary Whitney mar- ried w prospective fortune in Henry B ayne’s daughter, and Mrs. Whitney or children will probably fall heir to the en or more millions which her bache- lor brother Oliver owns. Congressman Hitt, of Tllinois, got a nice lot “with his wife, and John Ihny was made a million aire by his marriage with the daughter of Amasa_Stone. Congrossman Tom Bayne, of Pittsburg, has mado a good deal of money, hiumself, but his wife, who is the datughter of Smith, the part- ner of Hostetter, who made the stomach bitters, has a fortune which runs highin the hundreds of thousands, and Senat or Hale's wife inherited a fortune from her father, Zach Chandler, FiaNk G. CARPENTER. REAL J B M Eller and wife to Julia a dercook lots 4 to 12 inclusive and 16 to 31 inclusive blk Leavenworth Business place, wd.................. $1,100 Victor Scott and wife to Baptist Joes- ten, lot 8, Arlington add.wd.... Victor B Caldwell to John R Reagen, lot 37, Millard & Caldwell's add, wd Victor B Catdwell to Benjumin 8 Brown, Lot 53, Millard & Caldwell’s add, w d ) William trude It S feet of lot i blk 14, Jebu H Hungate trus Loveland, lot5 blk 1, 4,000 nd wife to Ger- ) feot of the s60 hinn's add, w d. ee to lLlrwf' B d place, lots 14 and 15 blk 1,8; baugh’s add.w d August Wendt and n 110x08 feet on 15th st, lot 7 in 34, 15, 13, Okohoma, W d.... o.oe..s. ] uritz and wife to Clins A Thie- tal, n 56 feot of s & lot 4, 341518, wd.... .. Martin Cannon and wife to § R Davis etal, lot 2 in Hawes' add, W d........ Thos H Niccolls and wife to''Amos Phillips, s tot 2 blk 1, Lake's add, W 8 H Coa and wife to Amos Phil- 7 lot 9 blk 1, Lake's add, w d, Julius K Dunn et al to J G Megeath, 20 acres in in 20-15-12, wd . vie Wm A Gardoer et al to Isanc B Gault, lot 9 blk 11, Myers & Richards’ add, Geo H Hoges and wife to Louis 0 P Larson, [ot 2 blk 17, Park Forest,w d, Florence It Boyd and husband to'F M Shriver, 5 and 16 bik 2 place, w d : Thos I&' Ashle ads 4 blk 11, Hanscom place, w d Jehu 1 Tlungate (trustee) to Poter ) Conkling, ot 11 blk 8, Bedford place, w d : Jehu H Iungate (truste to Wm A Coddard, lot 10 blk 3, lots 11 and 12, ford place, wd... W16 to Hehry W Yates, © 3 of lot 11bik 4, Hillside add No 2w 2 ; Thomas @arvey to John Garvey, u divided half interest in the north feet, 10t 1, block 105, Omaha, q ¢ . Arthur § Potter, etal to Thomas ) Carmody, lot 21, block 3, Potter & Cobv's”aidition’ to South O first addition to Valley, w . Victor B iwell to D R Archer et al, lot fillard & Caldwell's addition, wd o DR Archer and wife ber- rigo, undivided one-third lot 24, Mil- lard & Caldwell’s addition, g c....... Christian Hartman et al to John W Jtobvins, 100x15 feet, buginning at reet, 6122-10 tween tion 20 and i and Jam b ck 4, Kilby Plac w d Christian fartman and Jum S Gibson, lot 1, Crescent Park addi- tion, w d.. John M Robbins S sido of Farnam strect, 642 3-10 feet E of line_between section 20 and 21 15, 13, w'd..... Eugene A Hill and Johnson, s' 4, block 1 of subdiy of lot 5, Capital addition, of Farnam st, wd.. David P \\'h«-llfluy an M Jacobs, lot 5 bloc Place, wd........ Thomas W Biac Laura M Andrews, lot 15, block 6, West Cuming addition, wi to Augast Shippor block &, Kountze & le: Coman, lots 10, 11 and 12, block 4, Bedford Place, w ... 5 Jehu 2 Hungate, trustee, to Ellza T Daniels, lot 11, block 3, lots 8 and 1 4, Bedtord Place, wd... M Gilier and husband to Johin hane, lot 7, Arbor s W Hamilton and wife to Miller, west }; of bloc W e k 1, Shinn’s 2nd add, wd.. Nah lots 27, 25 and 2! ark, wd .. . Amanda L Wich band to Naney 1, Lewls, Dave subdiv of lots 52, 53, b, Case's add, w d Chas I Kellozg hv::‘unidl. lots nort 55 and 57, Investors, McCague, sole Senator Conge of Loup City spent Sunday 1 Omahi This is the Season “Two months ago I co; saparilla us an exper strongth, and felt ti condition to sero differont kinds of cnent. ved taking Hood's it a8 1 had no w A all the timo. | at'ributed my 1048 humor. | had tried severn! edicing, without reeeiving any Butax soon as L hud tuken bult & botte ot h felt botter, I have now tak thiree bottle I never was o well in my I Mits. JESSIK K. DOLUEA! g R L s me of dy comp) . HORNBECK, South Fallsb: Building bullding-up power of Barsuparilla o timo I have Leon tonttend 0 business, but Aually atthe request unad part of & bottie of Hood's Sarsy which gave nd strongth L my system 1 a8 when a boy." GURANe # ohand 65 Lodge street, Clucinnut Jo's Earsuparalila cured mo of dyspep 1 Hver complaint with which [ hiad suiforod %) 3.1 HORN BECK, South Fullsb . Hood's Sarsaparilla On poses O Bold by all druggists., #1; Mix for 8. Propared by € HOOD & CO., Apohiocaries, Lowell, Mass EVERY LADY who degires i perfect FORM AND FIT consET Should Woar one. Wil ot Ushook while helag wors. WORCESTER CORSET €. 215 and 220 Market St., Chicage Dollar l 100 Doses One Dollar Sold by all druggists. 81 Projar 1 HOOD & Co., Apotbecurios, Lowell, Mass six for 2. GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1678 AKER' Brfiktasl Cocon Warrauted absolutely pura Cocoa, from which the cxcoas of removed. 1t has threa ength of Cocon mixed h, Arrowroot or Bugar, anud ls therefore far more economls cal, costing less than oue cent @ cup. 1t 18 dellclous, nourishing, strengthening, easily digested, and hadmirably adapted for fuvalids as well a4 for persons fn health, 0l by Grocers overywhere. W, BAKER & C0., Dorchester, Mass,