Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 26, 1889, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY MAY 26, 1830.—SIXTEEN PAGES. Bennison Bros , Vs Ladies’ Bilk Mitts 18c uucflmsu-flxumlh ! wrls ®o; onr price, only t,on. i) Ladies’ Fast Black Hose 290 100 dozen Ladles' Fast Black air warranted Fast Black. Ladies iat have Dought thess o7 1 early this season nNOW get them again, only 25¢ pair, v rladien’ Beaded Wraps at one h-n co. Mon L only # eacn ; usual price 8 and: e FANCY FIGURED Check Silks|China Silks 38¢ | B65¢ y only Monday yonur cholcs of our entire stook of — Children's Draw srs Thc pair, 2 to'® yours, Dressing Sacgunes 100, Ladies' Drossing Sacquos, made nt fine sheer lawn. o fr--m. tr| ArCUNA bottorm, 1 ennes lace. White Goods [English Satines, BC lloudny ymmhom ot 100 ploces fin Figured Batiste Jnll arrived, thy This s a finie Jersey Ribhed Vest that usualy solls at&fc, We buught u lot at a_low price be- cause they run very short, ook at them Mon- dny, ut 10c each. plecos Fancy Chock Sura, W50, & ot of Fancy Rrips Silks_an A great line of fine English Satines, lght Ladies’ Pin Stripe Hose 230 Just arrived 1 case Halr line stri; full egular made, in rad and blogk fiflm“’h.e"a'a oyzcueep at t0c; our price Monday, only 2 Boys’' Hose 12:0 'Hera 18 & good one for the boys, Sizes are T a Beamless Hose, o heavy Grey-mix Lib- tocking. onty 12i4c palr; worlh double. Boys Fast Black Hose 36 This 18 our great leader, absolutelyFast B bonvy fine ribhed. ‘They'ate worth e Wernrs selling them at ic, 3 pate for radl. Children’s Fast Black Hose 250 ry pair warranted absolutely Fy l:holu of all sizes, 6 to 10, only 260 pa: Fancy Ribbons 29 10 cartoons of No. 16 fancy Hat Rfbbon, in a g silk. Worth about 8¢ yard, you can get onday at20c yard. Al wlorl. no blacks, B Bennison Bros Black, Hrocades. Your chcice Monday only i8¢ yard, nob BAIE pricn b4 LADIES’ Jersey Ribbew Fancy Parasols 3148 Prices smashed. $1.48 eacl 1ot on separate counter. VESTS, 14¢ all our fancy Parasols at worth up to $10, They sre all in one Your choice $1.48 each. Ironing Boards This heats ‘em all, no family should be with- outone. All can buy at $1; worth $1.50. Swiss Embroidery Flouncings 8lc O11ly 20 pleces left. 2 patterns in each ploce 45 inohies wide, worth $1.50; on saie Monday, ¥70 yar i it i Others try to match it at 25¢, but they can't do it. We coritrol them in this market wnd our price is l4c each. i T Corset. Children’s Lace Bonnets 18c An elogant Mne, worth up to 60c, get them quilck, they will Dot ast longat tais price. your right size, we canuot exchauge. ‘White Goods, 15¢c A big line of tne White Goods, satin checks and stripes, worth 26c to 85c, now on sale at loc Get | yara. 0 Figured Ohinn Siiks, only Gc yard. Now s your time to get a Hne silk dross oheap. SUMMER GORSETS, 60 dozen Ladies’ Summer Corscts, same as cut, our Tmproved Thistle Ladies, don’t miss this bargain, and don’t_pay that is not &s good as this. BHOHLINGERS ——{1MPROVED}—— [¥Lace Curtain Stretchers 1 - Will Bavel +"Time and Labor, Eveey e ran Baouis Have Ona} shy lady can bperato them. 81.25 for a corset Moaday only 75¢ a j air. grounds, pink, 1ght blue and cream; with hand- some firures, now on sale, 100 yard. LADIES’ Lisle Vests This a0 dandy, o fine Bril- liant Lisle Jersoy Kibbod, in fancy hair line stripes, two- toned; worth ll 50; our price 15 only §9¢ each, Fancy White Goods, 10c A lot of Fancy Stripes in hi lgh col &rounds; also lot of Klowered Leson o} lght colors, Your chofce lic yard; not half price. Iflc 0 pleces yard wids Flzared beautitul patterns 100 yard; worth tn C1O¥ Table Oil Cloth lac 1 case 5 Table Ol Clpths. Monday 150 yard. Fine U’nblea.ehed Muslin 15 yards for J Just 1 bale tine brown 36 inch Muslin, extra heavy grade, worth 9c yard. On salo Monday 15 yards for 1. Just for a fiyer, Hickory Check Shirtings 2 ease fine Hickory Check Shirting, in bl yl.nu- only. Get them Monday, b¢ ):rds. a8 Ladies’ Jerseys 98¢ Monday we place on sale 50 dozen Ladies' all- woo] BIALK Jobsevs in fancy hraided, aiso plain at one price, choice 980; worth up to 8% Dressing Sacques $1.20 The world's wonder! A Ladys Barquie "With Twanty ticke (6 Font. uoksl Bloovos, Lriimmed with fino om broidery How i front, around bottom, collars and cuffs, £1.25." Ask to seo this garment, 1t is woreh: cheap at . Mail orders filled. Dressing Sacques 9100 Ladies' Dressing Sacques of. nn. tucked front, trimed With fioe around bottom, collars and cufrs, -M‘t'll garment beats the world, We will wali onday tor $1:06. Matl Grders Ailedr Dressing Sacques b3c Ladies' Dressing Sacques, made ‘of & mice White shoer Iawn, only fo; worth ‘and wold by otliers as a leade?, for 81. Matl ordess tilea, Baby Cloaks $3.00 Infant's Long Cashmere all wool Oloaks crowm and tans, silk embroidery oo iier. cuffs and embroiderea on_bottos equal to any cloak sold thawh'l'a 686, Infant’s Cloaks §1.98 Monday, Infant's Long Cuhmer. embroldered collars and cuff: ) worth #3, in cream and tans. 3ennison Bros |Bennison Bros ! $8&.=Z5. |Bennison Bennison Bros 3ennison Bros | Bennison Bros ' #2225, Bennison Bros |Bennison Bros Bennison Bro: 'Bennison Bros |Bennison Bros COMPELLED HIM T0 DISGORGE: A 8t Paul Firm Gives Architect ‘Wilcox an Emetio. HE WHO PLANNED THE CAPITOL Puta Up a Little Job That Wasn't Satistactory—A Belated Husband and His Irate Spouse—Lin~ coin Notes, LANCOLN BUREAU OF THE OMA®A Bas, 100 P S 8T, LiNcoLN, May 35, ‘The evidence 1s now perfeot that lays busi- ess transactions of a doubtful character at he door of Architect Wilcox, the gentleman ho furnished the plans and specifications or the capitol building and the capitol rounds. It is hardly nocessary to call to emory the fact vhat this man has been se- verely criticised from time to time since he pecame connected with the state in contracts t special interost to the general public. In- geod. Wilcox did so many things of a doubt- ul nature that the board of pul hu lands and uildings kept him under vel close sur- eillance, and some of its members had an open clash with hiun at the time of their floul settloment. ,But this only has to do With the matter in hand 1n & general way. vrominont St. Paul firm secured the con- ract to furnish the granite pillars, used on he terraces of the cng‘-m grounds, at an ex- ense of something like 100, he firm in question gave ileox uthorty t collect portions of the mouey, nd as be produced sutisf ctory evidence that he had a rh(hl to receipt for the woney, he state pald hin as agreed upon in the con- with the com) y. At one time he re- ropon o bl prncipua. +The. B sty roport 1t inci| rm_flnal “urged the collection of tde wmount due it trom the state, but Wilcox put them off with the statement that the firm was behind with its work and that the granite bad not been used, Finally, however, a member of the firm wrote to a friend in 1he cif member of the board of publio lunds and Bulldlnm. inquiring into the matter, and re- coived the startling intelligence that Wilcox had been paid every dollar due it from the tate. This brought a representative of the 5t. Paul firm to Lincoln in hot haste, and he was but a short time in discovering that the rocords in the ofice nl the secretasy of state roved that Wilcox nad been playing lnem 'his visit was made within tl -pul. nd the unews has just ivod here hat on his return to St. Paul cos pcund the yriley architect to disgorge. This is no idle lmry -nd can be prot byuwuhlec&l‘- 1 Lincoln as well as gun‘\l\rn of the board ol" publio lands ana ings. '.l‘rhl- of a Drunken Husban dlwuulnn nnup out, but the climax was reached when tho enraged wife seisod a pai) of water ana dashed it over the husband’s head. As and also to of being the receiver of stolen goods, before Judge Stewart, closed last evening, but he withheld sentence until this morning. The counsel for the state and the dofense had quite a wrangle over the value of the goods, and a number of sccond hand _denlers were called to teatify as experts. This valuo was finally fixed at $28, and afier sleeping over the matter the judie sentenced her to thirty days in the county jmil. PRITCRETT WON'T RESIGN, He Has Been Charged With Mdl- feasance By Alleged Enemies, AND ASKS AN INVESTIGATION, Memorial Services. Memorial day will be fittingly celebrated in Lincoln by Farragut post,.G. A. R. Com- mander McArthur has issued his proclama- tlon to this effect. ‘The place for the cele- bration will be designated in a day B! two. The memorial sermon will . be _preac! ed by Rev. Baker, pastor of the First Bn l-t church, at the vorner of Fourteenth and K streets, to-morrow, and the bo s will march from the post room in a bos A special invitation is given to the pub) ic to nttend these services. A Letter of Endorsement, However, From Paddock or Manderson Would Encourage Him to Step Down and Out. Pritchett’s Troutile. George H. Pritchett says he will never resign while there are charges standing against him. This is the reply he made yesterday to & Beg reporter, who asked whother his rosig- nation had been forwarded to Washington. Sald the gentleman: ‘‘Matters have re- cently developed that put a new phase on the situation. Charges have been circulated and filed against me at Washinzton which are false, and I don’t pronose to give up the office unless the president removes me, without a chance to vindicate myself.” “But special Examiner Hoiskett reports lnvhlw found everything straight as a strin, “D%d he let that fact be known here " “Unda\lbl.edly, and Tue Bes puts him on I am glad to know that, because his word has weight with the attorney geveral.” “‘Who prefers the charges?’ “fhat I am not able to tell, but they come from a few political strikers ‘scattered about the state, who simply want to get me .out and publican put in.” flh-t is the import of these accuaations?” “That I have not performed my duty hon- estly, that I refused to prosecute parties uh-r Wi '.h olmhn frauds last fall, be- democrats, and various Sther falao thlngl." “It is reported, Mr. Pritchett, thut you have asked for a letter from the del lega- tiont" “That Is only partially true. I mot Sena- tor Paddock on the street one day this week, and he mude some reference to the effect that republicans ought to occupy all the appointive offices under a Te) ublican administration, to which I replied, ‘es, and if 1 were president, you can bet every republican would have to get out. It ie right und just for the president to reward his parvy friends.’ Of course, the senator came buck 8t me with an _inguiry as to why I don't step down and out. My answer to him was, ‘Because you know the charges against me are mu, and I will not resign under a cloud.” * *Yes,’ auid he, ‘I belleve you have been an honest ofticial, and have mdnm the duties of your office faithfully and well.! New Manufnacturing fndustry. For the manufacture and sale of mowers, harvesting machines, barbed fence wire and other machmery, the Capital Harvesting Machine company, of Lincoln, bas organized anda incorporated under the laws of thestate, articles of incorporation having been filed in the office of the secretary of state to-day. The articles stipulate that the capital stock snall be $00,000, which may be Increased as necessities require, From May 25, 1889, to May 25, 1080, the company will live and transact business, unless otherwise deter- mined by & majority vote of the stockhold- ers, which can unlg‘obe taken at a regular anuual meeting. llowing are the incor- rators aud stockholders: S. K. Modck, D, . Johnson, Joel W. George, Francis M. Gwartney and W. S. Hamilton. Oity Nows and Notes. The case of Mark M. Crada vs Home Cattle company ‘et al, on appeal from the distriot court of Cheyenne county, was Hiled for trial in the supreme nourt to-day. Guy A. Brown's home-coming seems to have been for the better. His health is ap- parently much improved. Sheriff David Baker, of Lincoln county, was here to-day to commit Alfred St. Clair and David Brown to the state pen for a term of years, The next monthly report of War- den Hopkins will show a marked increase in the pumber of wuvh,l‘ serving sentences at lh state prison J. H. 0 \-lll declined to let his plumbers return to their work, saying when they pro- posed to do 30, **You union men ure gotiing too arbltrary to suit me.” It is generally understood that the strike is off here. O’Nolu is busy to-de; socuring non-unionists 1ill the positious of the old wen. Gone on Lydia Thompson. Cmicaao, May 25.—|Special Telegram to Tun Brem|—The dead body of George A. Westerkill, aged twenty-five years, was found In his room at Damon's hotel to-day. “Then write ina letter to me just 'h"w- Westerkill hud uttired himseif in full dress | ¥ou stated hore, I urged, and you can have gut. Heuds o bed wire found two | oy iy A iy g the ofice fora friend. It shall be my priv- ilege to use tho letter and give n.ll the publication 1 ploase.’ '‘He thought my wopoolllon the fairest eyer made by a democrat, but could not be induced to ny what he would do about it."” ithes Trom Paddosk of Mandaraon or bosh Watorkill for flowers ond many | either from 00K O Miay n or favors o had stowa her during her recent “‘"‘"fi you would st ouce give up the stay in Chicago. Persons arouad the the- | OURLL, =0y lndly aters say that Westerkill formed quite an | ,xbat I would, and gladly, oa.” quachmosh far e sud thai e wae | oicic oe'ofoo avokeral” ol actress, aha lof} tor The oa. “Well, not if 1 can hel it is my be- letters speak of fnancial embarrassment. Mot th “‘- X “'ID m ‘.hT., G. A K. Matters. on whom [ o, mu tor o ce_sny Lime MiLwaukke, May %.—Wilham Warner, | 52 | dou's kaliews Nes Franidant commander-n.chiof of the G. A.[R., was | be removed without ctisnon to refute e here to-day, with a part of his staff to con- charges. 1 don’t think, eithe ‘ln Ufl lull. -m lno conference o mn&. ‘1' cent nd Puldnuk will dn anything w Whs fellows who are Fuduuu s 1 sis hmiry harges do go pralviousty: uad ey Wil m"‘r m, covor Tam and prapared to ‘-lfld ¥ A-m —— "I cun understand,” uo-llnund Mr. Pritoh- ‘that the prosident desires & blhu More Gold for Europe. Rea4ts, sy b _:{:n Naw Yonx, May 25.—Up to noou $400,000 ‘body, r del- B HERRER cause of his desiro % end his life. Lying on ® table in the room, in a way to indicate that Westerkill had beon looking at it just pre- wvious to his taking morphine, was a photo- graph of Lydh 'hompson, the ourlesque uu-l:n. Heside it was a letter from her, thanka true, bu, for !hc sake of harmony, T will re- move Mr. Pritchett.! On the other hand, I know there are people at the capital whose influence and backing he would rather have than the senate,” Mr. Pritchett made the further statement that he received a long telegram last night from an easter republican senator which gave him great encouragement. He refused, though, to reveal its contents. “I can not let you see the message, because it is confi- dentisl, and to publish even its substance would put my enemies on, and that I don't ‘want to do. THE PARK COMMISS1ON. Proceedings of the Meeting Yesterday Afternoon. All themembers of the park commlssion except Judge Lake were present at the meet- ing at their room 619 Paxton block, yoster- day afternoon. Messra. Millard and Lake were appointed a committee to decide on plans for improving the small parks recently laid out 1n the center of Capitol avenue, be- tween Eighteenth and Twentieth streets. A number of plans were submitted by local landscape gardeners for this special improve- ment. Onc of these, will, with slight al- terations meet the commissioners’ approval. About 8603 will be spent for flowers and shrubbery on these parks at once, Mr. Pratt was appointed a cowmittee of one to provide aset of rulesaund order of business for the government of the board. The board received its first bill, it bein from Major Wheeler for grading done aroun Hnnlcnm k. The bill was returned in- stanter, board dw&dlnf that the civy council wn u-pon-lbxe for ite payment, the council haying ordered the work. Mr. Lininger was ‘ppoinled to look after the immediate needs of Hanscom park. and to -m.x'z: to the purchase of - all necessary A number of applications for positions were placed on file, Chairman Miller announced that with the consent of the board he woyld see the police authorities, with a view of wxurhlu patrol- men for the parks. The board is dom' all ln- its power, the members say, to hasten the commencement of the more wsl;my improvements contem- plited, and hope to make substantial im- provements at Jefferson square, Hanscom park, and other portions of the city, this summer. Dr. Miller purposes lookiog up thie question 88 to whether the board has authority to issue bonds for park purposcs, Ko ogrer Made. The follbwing sentence has been published 1n tho daily phpers: “The motat icompany has offered to raise the tel ne company’s wires without ex- renula t hemy, but this offer has been re- Mr. Flemon Drake, geueral manager of '.bn ulophfim mfiw ‘knndthu no‘ -ulul;h consequen! Sould not hmm VR, ._....__ s ‘rllllllror'l Fall, John Larsay; s luborer employed on the brick buibiin hich 18 being erected near the onmi(p and Fifteenth stroets, old to_the ground, a distance Yesterd rday afteracon, and re- ceived - “intern: ries. He was taken to bis hewe on South Eighteenth street by the patrol wagon, el ZEE Trevelick's Lecture. Richard F. Trevelick delivered an address to the Kpights of Labor ot Omaha, night. Washington hall was filled terested listeners, but beyond that fact noln- ....a‘l"i'p.fi.u %'t ‘Fonorat ‘pubiier "For 1 chvn{’ht :,”J Iddl’l"l"-lhu Knights O LN b i hon docss Sotnad o—— Royal Sporc at Osakis. W. L Albright, G. C. Ames, M. W. Ken- oard, J, 8. McCormick, Jeff W. Bedford, E. T. Duke, C. W. Road ana W. J. Hahn, the party of Omaha geatiemen now enjoying life and sport at Osakis, Minn., remembered Tus Bre yoste , by sending ® barrel of beautiful fish, mumflm movl B T ———— I and other specimens of the finny tribi in tho lakes of Minnesota. ’ll.l‘e ;on(:.{en;gs aro evidently having good Tuck, and conse. quently lots of un on the fshing grounda, PLAYS AV D PLAYERS., Leading Attractions to Appear at the Opera Houses This Waek. Mlle. Rhea opens her second engagement at the Boyd tnis season, on Friday evening next, producing an exoeptionally brilliant ropertoire, Rhea i8 one of the standard tavorites with Omaha theater-goers, and her coming is always a source of great pleasure. She is an actress of undeniable genius, and Dossesses a magnetism that is wonderful; added to her ability as an ac- tress, her worth as a good, pure hwnmln has made her hosts of friends who ave met her off the sf stands amid that bright n'l‘l% of‘:'iiilnl'i‘lel: embraces such names as Bernhart, Mod- jeska and Anderson, and she is pre-ominently the society actress of our stage. The viva- city of action, the charm of expression, the cordial grace of manner, which are the radiant country- heritage nf » her women, er eculiar] for those bright nnd .p-rkr plf;y., which by their wit, pathos, dechcy aud refined humor upunalwrhn intelligonce of a oul- tured audience. Mlle. Rhea will open her Omaha engagement with her new play, ‘“The Case Vidal,” which is said to boe one of the wost ong rossing in all her extensive reper. toire, The scene is laid in Paris, and is French ln every essential, At the matinee the star will appear as Helene in_Victorien Sardou's great comedy, A Dangerous Game.” Saturday Bvfilflll. Mille. Rhea and her full company will present Shakspeare's beautiful comedy, ‘‘Much Ado About’ Noth- “;fi:" a special bill for. Maunager Boyd's ben- Thatcher, Primrose & & West, the big leviathans of minstrelsy,give two perlormm- ces at the Boyd, on Wednesday and Thurs- day of this week. They have long been rec- ognized as the leaders in . their llna of busi- ness, and, this year, they have completely ouutrlpped all camper.lmm Nenrl‘v avery innovation the realm of minstrel that. has been made within tb- lu’L five years, is directly attributable to Thatcher, Primrose & West. 'Phey are the progressive minds of the profession. Their grand Shakspearian fivst-part ie the most brilliant departure from vhe time-worn mothods that has been made within the lust ten yoars, and is the first step toward the fu- evitable reformation of the minstrel stage. Thatcher, Primrose & West carry more than fifty people in their © company, “Katth the Family Help,” a new English farce-comedy, which was played successfully in London 800 nights by l-ha comedian, Willie Edouin, will he produced at Hoyd's opers house ou Monday and Tuesday of this week b{ An able col y, under the mansgement Frank W. Sanger, The comedy of the plecnh-rhplmd clear, and the fun is irre- istible. Miss Marictta Nash sssumes the itle role, Miss Nash has aiore than ordlur.v reputation in soubreste es, and Messrs. George Lauri and Harr) B. Bdl are comedians of ackuowledged L. The Gleason family, comprisin comedians, will be the chief at ‘ou at the Eden Musee the coming week. Wther at- tractions will be exceptionally good. ‘The house has been provided with mew patent ventilators and is ouc of the most comforta- ble resorts in the ci ty Alphonse King, the water ostrian and marine hw 5»::& , has m‘:dunxlnd by Sons, n'ulc Far, to give a per- twnum on the Missouri river at 8 o'clock thl:ln(mnloon T!a: exhibition will ttendin upon the water and lfin ;u::o sod performs twenty e Y Bull Fights In Alabama. According to the Montgomery (Ala.) Dispatch, **parties of mesas and inllus ence” talk of conducting o bull fight in that city. T [ Ole-.nlng Ous Doggeries, In Philadelphis the wumber of sa- loons uuder the regulation law has heen reduced from 5000 te ivas than twelve hundred. AN 0LD HODDODED SQUARE. Ravages of Rain, Fire, and Other Destructive Hlements. A DREADFUL LOSS OF LIFE, Denizens of the Block Who Have Long Since Been Removed From the Scene of Their Varied buc 1n- teresting Careers—Eto. Eto Home ot the Hoodoo. The fatalities attending particular lo- calities in almost every country, are so numerous and in cases so significant and appalling, that like vhe fabled Charybdis and Scylla, cause them to become & by-word in the neighborhood, a terror to the timid, a menace to busi- ness and dangerous or fatal to the lives of those who haye the hardihouvd to in- habit them. Omaha has a square locally known as the *‘hoodooed block,” and it well mer- its the name, because it has become as well and as odiously known as was Phrynne in Thebes. During the last score of years, the square, bounded on the north by Doug- las street, on the east by Tenth, on the south by Farnam, and on,the west by Eleventh, has had a series of unfortu- tunate accidents or ‘rpulllnz catastro- phes which has caused it to receive and merit the name of the ‘“hoodoed block.” As usual, the record commences after the ocourrences have become a subject ot history. In 1868, on the northwaest vorner of Teiith and Farnam streets, where now standg the B. & M. headquarters, St. James hotel stood. In that year, 1868, ‘guen while eating supper was choked with & piece of beefstenk, and, before medical aid could be nuuunnned, died. During a rain and thunder storm in 1869 the front of the store 1016 Furnam street fell in, This wnu one of the fortunate or ppg nccl- dents. At that tlmo. e Star clothing store occupied the ground , while the collur was usad for keno rooms, and the upstairs as a gambling resort. Auhou(‘h many per- sons wer'e in the differen and several were driven in !orllmlhr by the rain and thunder, among whom was A, Poluok, the ier, the whole front of the buildin, 1 in the street, and all escaped without iajury, When the bricks begaa falling, the people, ukl:g warning, got out before the orash, In the year 1870, the district was ex-~ mpt from lnymuz urlo{u Wli w0 be ghcnn soverer attack in 1871, In that your, one of the largest moss_de- structive “fires of y Omaha laid waste much of that'square in that jear, Commencing with the St, James hotel, the resistless flames swept "orylmng west to and including the ing at No, 1016. 8t. Nicholas was one of the noted bobln of the cisy at that time. and it ;Il wiped out by the fire fiend, very spot of that part of the square “.urnul over snd everything de- |' Vyll the City S d:: 0 i uu: lu-d:y now tenement hou-. and’ in 4874 the ing eaught fire und was ly con- g MU'. kuown asany structure in the it the winter of 1875, on one of the col t nights of that memorable soason, caught fire and, before the flames could be got- ten under control, the whele quarter of the block north to the alley on Eleventh street and east to No. 1016 Farnam streét was burned. The night of this fire wus ons of the coldest on record. Tt . was indeed so cold that water froze #u the hose while playing on the buildi; Three fires in succession have City Steam laundry a reco prey of the fire fiend. At one of these Chief Galligan fell from the third floor through an elevs- tor shaft to the basement, seriousinjuries and finaliy the loss one of his eyes. Tu the year 1887, the fire in the'bulld- ing used by the B. & M. wasquite ser- ious and came nearly being HYatal %o ;l‘homuu‘Run’nal. a fll‘fi::ll'l “on ‘whom'a arge pain of plate glass fel ,‘l\‘k’a Afcuvi:,mg him so that he almost to death. Long ago this square was Tligiited’ the presence of an old hag ‘kmown Madame Schwartz,who pretended to fortunes, but used this us & cloak to her real occupation, which was that a regular line procuress, and her under- ground railroad between virtuesand wise made the travel as large and longas inmntes and frequenters houses could desire. To this day or rather a similar but . worse mades the ‘‘hoodooed square’an sufferrble stench in the nostrils of cltizens of Omah: In the early part of the present Darrow & opened & large store in the eyer build within & few weeks a’ fire ali stroyed the entire stock, while building was prmtlully wreoked ‘Within a few weeks a wind storm b duw M!:" of the walls of the bulldisg the adjoining buildin knllng lil people, injuring half u d others and mungl gloom o-w oity from which it is not likely to emerge. Omitting a long list of minor ca ualities, it nceds but to mention huunny of Harrly ‘Wilkins, bis nu Y nearly suceessful kill wl his sad denth the hu ol & family, living together twenty-four years reariug sixteen children, soparated & disrupted, The mllhum| and misfortunes, fatalitics and follies and the SHM ‘umunmu- of that lqnu:‘ durl ast twenty years, have nams of Omaha's **Hoodoved ‘Sqy A st s A uu" to Mr, m I mwm\m«n T o write A E m&y (Bure somsbody’s pulling s air.) AU the samo.d advise thak Whuu' ‘the nursel That bav (Wfi“-—obody answer its ory) 5, Halatod instll | o ubhany 0o (vould bekes An%_fl'm A,n_u‘o‘ Don't_believs (The &u lill! ol _& my - | "One vtllu,-l. s w