Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 25, 1894, Page 20

20 CHAT WITH THE BOXERS Bome Caustic Comment on Modern Match- making Methods, TACTICS CONDEMNED BY THE PUBLIC Newn from Diamond, Ring and Track - Local Bas Bykers Want & Organization Ball Prospects Unite Horses and Horsemen. 1t Is Interesting to notice recent years have not only methods of t and ring tac but in the procedure preliminary to the actual meet ing In the sq Some of the older devotees of the ringside can rccoll ct the days when question of superfority most a8 soon as It was rafsed. the changes that brought about ining ared circle. was settled al When a chal lenge was offered and accepted with no par- ticular qualifications and only the time ually elapse ring. act- wed to in the neceasary for training was a the ok hands this away long be inded by a backers roustabouts ites like a lot for a st before But all The fighters have horde of who manipulate Jocke the great th ove men ome trainers, their favc their hors American Derby strotch In be rises In the , when ys pulls his and the must in work rt The horses autiful their down alignment, to the bell of sam and yone start seats one of in the air, tir see horse whol series be repeated. The manipulation now attends eves contest of any articles of agrecment are the men begin trainin and thinks the fight is on for keeps, when some trivial objection on the part of one of the fighters or his backer knocks the whole proceeding in the head, and tne public wearily loses interest in the encoun ter. Possibly after two or thre flascoes the men are brought together, but by that time the public has largely acquired a lively disgust for the wholo affair, and is disposed to regard it as a fake anyhow According ‘0 the modern order of things the preliminaries for a glove contest of the champlonship order occupy at least a ye First there must be something to provoke challenge. A favorite style Is to circulate a report of an alleged insult by one aspiring champion to another in the corridor of a ho Or the scene of the alleged en- counter may be lald in a saloon, and in that case it is not a bad idea to ring in a blow with a beer glass or bung starter as an incentive to bloodshed. After this has been sufficiently commented on by the pres the insulted pug picks up courage enough to promulgate a challenge and have himeelf interviewed as to his ability to mop up several sections of land with his prospective opponenit. Then his adversary also rushe into print and figures out how he has a lead pipe cinch on’ knocking him out in not more than” ten rounds, It s always go form_for each man to state he hever in as good condition before can’ figure out how he can possibly e GUL the maneuvers aggravatin glove pas and signed, every or note. Challenges are o drawn up a AL this consumes p but the two bruisers have succeeded in Eetting themselves thoroughly advertiscd without any particular effort on their part, To obtain the consent of both sides to {iic articles of agreement occuples a similar period. — What onc fellow don’t object to the other does, and meantime both aspirants for championship honors are starring the country coining money on the strength of thelr alleged anxiety to fight and the free adyertising which it brings them. i A couple of additional months are required to get the scene of the enc unter located. It one side professes a preference for any particular place the other straightway dis. covers that It 13 unalterably opposed to it. The club that wants to take chances on the fight must play both sides as an angler works his line to land a salmon trout. It Is a case of now you see him and now you don't. Each fighter, together With each component part of his train of roustabouts, Is in duty bound to object to every reasonable arrangement which the club can offer. Possibly by distributing a good sized portion of the earth among the interested parties the club succeeds in pull- ing off the match, but not until the public has become so thoroughly disgusted with the hippodrome procecdings that it refuses Its patronage and the club is loft to hold the sack while fits short haired bene- ficiaries travel over the country in palace cars and draw princely salaries’ for allow- ing the great American public to gaze upon their vulgarity. It is no wonder that pugilism is going into disrepute even with the classes from whom it has drawn much of its former in- spiration. It deserves nothing better. It has degenerated from a sport to a farce and as such must expect to be found out. The prospective encounter between Cor- belt and Jackson promises to be a repeti- tion of these ‘same tactics. The two bruls- ers have been talking fight ever since the Jacksonville episode, but according to recent Interviews, they are still \as far apart as ever. In talking with a New York reporter Corbett say “Beginning with next se say in the fall,” said Corbett,” Brady and 1 will be partners in all of the theatrical enterprises which Brady now controls, and various others. A capitalist has offered to bufld for me a theater In New York, and T am also considering an to harg of @ new Uicater in C e Corbett will sail for England on the Fuers Bismarck, April 12, shall take father a mother with me," he said, “to London. Then 1 shall send them to the place of their birth In Ireland where they will remain during the rest of my stay abroad. Leaving Eng- land I shall tour Ireland.” With regard to his proposed encounter With Peter Jackson, Corbett says: “My fight with him will be the last.” When will It take place?" Not till a reputable athletic club demon- strates that it is capable of bring! g it off successfully, It must be to a finish, If the b offer is made by an English club I Wil accept, but it cannot take place in June. I must have three months to traln after the articles are ratifiec You mean to say, them, Mr. Corbett,” Interposed the reporter, that after your fight with Jackson that ‘you will retire for- ever from the prize ring “That Is exactly it. It is my ambition to be a successful business man. 1 selected the theatrical business in which to invest all the money I have made In fighting, because it 1s the occupation of my manager and because it seems to offer abundant oppor- tunity for remuneration. 1 will amend my statement in this connection. In case the champlonship of the world should ever be secured by any one not an American I will train in order to wrest it back again for my country," Jackson was in St. when shown the dispatch sald T am dis- appointed, 6f course, that Corbett refusen to meet me in June, but I will bide my time and endeavor to get the match brought off as 800N as possible. “‘Yes," sald Parson Davles, “‘Peter has set his heart on meeting Corbett and he feels pretty badly on account of the fact that the fight has been postpoued and may be put off entirely. We had intended to cloge our season here and Peter was to go into train- ing at once. We have no arrangements as yet for the future, but will probably go to Chicago, and at the end of the e gagement here, play there.” on—that is to Louis at the time and Patrons of pugilism paying patrons are fow Joy in the New York demonstrated on are plentiful, nowadays," but ' says P, Recorder, “as was night at the mill between the Harl oe Cooler and Mad- den's Black Cyclone, which took place just over the state line in Connecticut. Of the 150 sportsmen at the ringside there were only sixty-six who pald. This means that the purse amounted to $330, all told. Of that amount the management took 40 per cent, or $132, leaving § for the fighters Of that sum, Krelg, who won, got 80 per cent or $158.40, while Morris, as loser, was glven $39.60. Compare this with what the same men asked for and secured from the Coney Island Athletie club last summer. Then they would not box ten rounds with big gloves for less than §500, and now they will battle to a finish for whatever they can in | ibly three months, | get. They have no one to blame but them | melves, and I believe they now regret their avariclousness Y. M. C. AL B Unless every ind distinctively b o Ball Notes. fon falls 1894 Is to be seball year. Throughout dth of the country leagues es and colors are forming which causes the turbulent crank to play many a tuneful heartstri a the length and bre of all s with a ma pidity of the ditt as us emotions prophete upon hi Omaha il is promised her share of everything that 1s going on. She will have a professional team for those who think that no one ball worth sceing unle long green, the Convention team for those who think that plenty of red eye puts ginger into the game, the soldiers for those of a patriotic disposition but not least the Young Men's Christian As ation team, the champions of the state last year. Bless my soul, what an aggrega- tion of sluggers, base runners and ftielders the lambs have got lassooed for this season Ever since they struck their hallelujah gait last summer ball players have been pouring into the assoclation from every known quar- ter of the globe for the sole purpose of ge ting on the gospel train. Manager Abbott has been swamped with applications from sure “‘comers” until he has decided to apply the civil service test it All the players will be divided into teams which will take turns in playing daily games with the champ the men showing up the best in wctual service to be placed upon the first team. By this means it is hoped that the very best men will be chosen to represent th clation during the coning season The team 8o far as at present made up Is Abbott will captain and do the catching the games last summer him and his style of backstopping Connor, the lady from Weeping Water who steps on herself whenever she gets out of the box and who strikes out all her friends when she is in the box, will be on hand again this season. Then there's Jelien, amateur piteher in the pitches a magnificent fleld with any of them ing. Then if you can pla is drawing and last id manage the team sse who patronized are familiar with the hardest state, who game, but hen he not only can play isn’t pitch want another pitcher there's Lawler, who in the opinion of many was the best pitcher the Conventions had last year Ho has plenty of speed -and curves and Knows to use them. Besides being first class pitcher he is one of the fines fielders in the state, amateur or professional First base will probably be covered by Jefferies, who played that position with the University of Michigan team the la geasons. He s six t two inche: pounds and hits up into .400, cither right or left-handed. His fielding average in Michi- gan was considerably nearer to 1,000 than .950. “Russ McKelvey will cover either second or third, and maybe he doesn’t cover a ba How it warmed the hearts of the cranks las summer to see him pick those incandescent grounders off his corner lot and push them across to first! Mac is unquestionably one of the cleanest, neatest and easiest ball players that ever stepped upon a_diamond. If there is a team in the new Western a soclation which has any. better short stop than Stoney the manager is open for con- gratulations. Stoney has a way of covering an acre of ground that is wonderfully rea: suring to a pitcher. He is without doubt the best short stop in the state, and last year was considered a good enough hitter and base runner to lead off with Fred Rustin, who fs now playing second base on the Yale team, will be home about the 1st of July and will play some infieid position during the remainder of the season. Among the new men from whom the other positions will be filled are Crawford, who captained and caught for Michigan last year; Marquette, lately captain of the champion amateur tgam of Colorado; Hughey, who pitched for a number of prominent amateur teams in Council Bluffs. Robinson, who vacillated last season som: what between the Young Men's Christian a soclation and the Conventions, finally wind- ing up with the latter; this youngster has the making of a great pitcher it he has a mind to work for that end. In addition to these are all the men who played last year, and a large number whose names and ambitions are still undisclosed. Manager Abbott, while Jooking out for a team, has not been unmindful of games to keep them busy. As 1y as last Novem ber he entered into correspondence with all the prominent western colleges and universi- ties with a view to arranging games of a different uature from any ever seen in Omaha. His advances met with favorable responses, and the prospects now are that at least four of the prominent western schools will be represented on the Young Men's Christian assoclation grounds this spring. In addition to these games negotiations are now pending for some exhibition games with some of the new Western asso- ciation clubs. There seems to be small hope of getting a game on With any except Omaha and Denver. St. Joe In response to a request for a game sald she didn’t Intend to play in any Western assoclation city before the season opened. A fow days afterwards they wrote asking for an exhibition game with Omaha at Omaha on a certain date. Learning t the Omaha team could not play them Mana- ger Abbott immediately offered to give them a game on the date specified, but has re- celved no reply, though the letter was writ- ten two weeks ago. Lincoln was also written to, but alleged that the absence of their manager prevented all negotiations. 1f-he has returned yet he has shown no signs of life so far as this matter is concerned. Des Moines was written to, but has never even answered the letter. If this article should ‘chance to come under the eye of St. Joe, Des Moines or Lincoln manager and this manager should think that somes body thought that he didn't wa gamey with Manager Abbott's team because he was afraid the Lambs would show up his pro- fessionals, his thoughts would be right in line with those of & good many people who know that the Young Men's Chris N as ciation team is one of the strongest aggre gatlons of amateur talent ever gotten to- gether In the west. The men are all doing hard work_in the gymnasium and as soon as the weathér permits will be out on the field: From that time on during the summer there will be dally practice in the evening, with a game every Saturday. Cricketers Showing Activity. Cricket will make itself heard in Omaha this year. That is if present intentions and prospects are not belled. The Omaha Cricket club now numbers something over 100 members, and is hoping for an un- usually lively season. It was organized a few weeks ago with Mr. Harry Laurie as president, Mr. J. C. Doyle secretary, Dr. Young treasurer, Mr. J. H. Marshall club captain, and a general executive committee consisting of Messrs. F. A, Kemp, W. A. Taylor, A. Gavin, C. H. Young and E. Hart Mr. Kemp Is an enthusiastic cricketer, and although he has now almost passed the time of life for much active participation in the game he is just as anxious as ever to see it continue to flourish, and it is through his generosity that the club is en- abled to go abead with several valuable Improvements to the ground that are in contemplation. Last season, it will be re- membered, the club played for a few weeks on the falr grounds and then moved to a vacant piece of land in_ Kountze place The grass on the plece of land was so ragged and rough that it was found necessary to remove it altogether from the piteh and play on the bare soil. This, however, was very un- satlgfactory on account of the light, and also’ because the ball bounded with so much force from the ground as to be very dif- ficult to play. Men are now at work remedying this defect In the only satis- | factory way, and that is by entirely re turfing the pitch. A large patch, measur- Ing 126x25 feet, has been taken up and relaid with the best black soll and re- sodded, It will be thoroughly sown with blue grass seed and it Is expected that be- | tore the time comes around for the playing of important matches it will be in first rate condition. AN the surrounding ground, of course, has been leveled 50 s to conform with this. It is estimated that the cost of these improvements, -together with- a complete system of waterworks, by the ald of which it is hoped to keep the grass green hitting | of the woods. THE _OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MARCH 25 18M—~ITWENTY PAGES T. P. Cartwright & Co. throughout the summer, will _amount ‘to between §60 and $70, and owadd this sum Mr. Kemp volunteered to guarantee §50. Another very generous offer of Mr. Kemp and one which cannot but have the effact of greatly stimulating Interest in the game among the members of the club was that of a silver cup for presentation to the man making the best batting average during the season those who are present at at least one-half of the matches of the season being allowed to compete. This will be a valuable cup and well worth competing for In addition to several towns In the state tneluding Lineoln and Hastings, n fons are being carried on with Chicago Paul and Kansas City with a view to arranging interclub matches. There is every reason to hope least, of these will be satisfa before the season is old. Claret has been adopted as the colors of the club, and efforts are being made to have the players wear the colors 1 playing, especlally in - interclub matches Noxt Friday evening dance at Metropolitan attendance s expected, will be devoted to the ¢ for the scason. SELLIN IN GOOD EARN iST NOW that some, at rily arranged toc That Schoelply car the club hall and the penses of the gives a A large proceeds club Some Horse Talk. The Unlon Driving park at Council Bluffs has been leased by Clinton Briggs of this city, and is being put In shape for a June meeting. Mr. Briggs will make a number of fmprovements in the and will fit them up in first class shape. According to the latest there are 16,081,139 horses in_the United States, whose assessed value is $760,224,707, Out of seven stallions living that have pro- duced fifty or more standard performers three of them are by sons of George Wilkes, Colby Brothers, the well known trotting horse men of Fort Dodge, Ta., are the latest victims of the fire fiend. Their livery stable was destroyed on the night of March 1, and twenty-elght horses were burn Farm, Fullerton, Miller, owner y promising ghertine, 2:18% trotting, am Angeline, dam of Ontonfan, 2:07%, ani Online (2), 2:11; also a gelding by Balmoral 1162, out of an own sister to Guy Sheridan, 4, by Charles Caffery. Buffalo, which last year purse for free-for-all pacer but $1,500 for the same class. Dictator, brother of Dexte trotters and five pacers with re 2:10 to 2:30, and one of his daug dam of the trotting queen, N 2:04. In 1893 at the Union Stock Yards in Chi- ago carriage horses brought the highest average for the year. Draft horses came next in average. Carriage horses declined rage value from $150 in- Junuary to in December. Draft horses from $140 to $115 in December. About ke grounds official returns Egline, pacing, £10,000 ar offers gave a this ye forty-one 15 of from ors 18 the ney Hanks, n siz, then, ‘g, Base Ball Prospects. President McVittie has closed the contract for the grounds at Seventcenth and Charles streets, and work will be, begun at once on getting them in readiness: for the open- ing of the season. The grounds will be graded and fenced in within a coupje of weeks and the grand stand will be rusicd to com- pletion. The stand will be built ih Arst- class style and will seat about 1,200 people. The management is well satisfled with the grounds which are more ' copyeniently lo- cated than the old ones, and -as they have leased them for five years will spare no pains to fit them up in a thoroughly satis- factory manner. Manager O'Rourke is now fin” the city. He has not signed any additional players but has strings on several good men, some of whom he expects to have under con- tract in a few days. The team will prob- ably open the season with about fifteen men, but these will be weeded down to ten during the first two months. The fans are already showing marked interest in the per- sonnel of the team, and there s every in- dication that base ball in Omaha will be a success this season. Whisperings of the Whe The Tourist Wheelmen Century. club will elect officers next month. The “boys” will miss their loafing place on Dodge street, as Perrigo has moved to lower Douglas, where he is fitting up his “emporium” In a tasty manuer. And now ‘“Zimmie,* ‘the acknowledged amateur champion bicyclist of the twWorld, pauses, hesitates, yet listens to the soft purrings of the professlonal ‘“‘cat;" in- fact, he is undetermined whetlier'to travel as a maker's amateur or a full fledged profes- sional bieyelist. Denver is to have a $10,000 track! Chief Consul Ebersole will soon announce to League of American Wheelmen members the list of prizes for largest number of appli- cations to the league. A ‘fine gold ‘watch and a high grade bicycle are among the prizes offered. The famons ‘‘Rambler Triplet,” renowned as a pacemaking machine for. ambitlous world's record breakers, draws the curlous to Daxon's place these days. wien novelties in “bikes" are frequent sfghts. A team of Omaha's speedy boys will probably train up on it this summer and make a pace for our “fiyers.” It cost a merry teamster $50 and costs to have a little fun with a_wheelman~down in Texas the other day. The merry teamster thought he had more right to the road than the eyclist and procecded to emphasize his remarks with a blacksnake whig, the wheel- man being the smaller of the .two. The wheelman had the road hog arrested and the above was the result. % The racing men at the meets. this season will be distinguished by colors. This is an English idea, and a good ong in many ways. The average spectator does not care to keep track of the racing men by their faces; it is tdo tedious. So racing men will be be- decked with sashes savoring of all.the colors of the rainbow. J. Henry Kastman, formerly well known to wheelnien in the state at large official handicapper of the League of American Wheelmen, but now of Red Oalk, Ia., is chaperoning a new bicycle club at Red Oak through its first breathing spells. The club s not fully or Dbut bids fair to rival some of the clubs in this neck Stze awrujjy Schol, bly 20 mych 80 at see it drift. There is one thing sure, the growth of the cycling clubs in the city ‘has been anything but phenomenal in the past three years, and Interest in cycling clubs in Omaha is very dormant. A good live association would remedy this to some extent. Why not try it? of Omaha, Baso Ball Rustlings. Charley Dewald has signed with Cleveland. He claims to have played with four pennant winners during the last five year: Michigan s to have a state Among the towns mentioned are T City, Alpena, Cheboygan, Muskegon Manistee. The New York management is after a heavy-hitting team this year. They have seven men whose batting averages run above the .300 mark, Most of them are left- handed. Sandy Griffin has put his bottom of a New York contract. Though an old timer, Sandy retains much of his pris- tine ginger and Is generally a favorite with the bleachers. Some of the old league players are show- ing a disposition to hang off for a raise in salaries. They will find that this is a poor year for that sort of a bluff. Managers found out that it is possible to run a on a much more economical basis than believed possible a few years ago, and they are not like men who don't know a good thing when they see it The fact that King Kelly has signed to manage & minor league team Is a sort of a shock to his admirens. But after all every dog must have its day, and sooner or later most of the one-timo stars reach a minor league level or drop out of sight entirely It isn't such a bad move for Kelly, though, from a financial standpoint. Allentown is an exceedingly lively town from a baseball standpoint and with everything his own way ought to make a good salary out of the sea- so0n braska division of the League of American Wheelmen has over 300 membe ity or more of these reside in Omaha, yet only twenty-five or thirty turned out to the cailed meeting of the Omaha members held Friday evening of a week » ago, to discuss the idea of holding stato meet in Omaha. 1f you want o met in Omaha, boys, you Wwill have se more enthusiasm Into the local league members as well as those who have never heard of the League of American Wheelmen. Each one get out and preach the gospel of good roads, protection to the wheelmen and thelr rights, the advantage of the league to a cyelists; don't rest until you get somo one's name down on an appli- ation, and you will seo a boom in cycling clrcles. lhere iy a movement on foot among the local wheel clubs to organize an assocla- tion composed of all the local clubs for the protection and advantage which may accrue from such an o1ganization. This is 8 move- ment In the right direction. Cities all over the union have their assoclated cycling organizations, and great benefits these as- pclations have been found. What would Denver do with the national moet If it were not for the Associated Cycling club? St Louis has fallen into line and completed the organization of an assoctation, the clubs composing the organization being the St. Louls Cycling club, South Side Cycling rondelet Cycling club, ~ Young Christian assoclation cyelers the Pastime Whoel club. aha couM have an equally strong asso- clation composed of the Omaha Wheel club, ourist Wheelmen, Young Men's Christian EDUCATIONAL association cyclers, Turner's Wheel club fod and the Magic City Wheel club, and no | Bishop Spaulding of Peoria will preach the doubt the Ganymede Wheel club of the Bluffs | opening sermon at the Catholic summer would Join. It would be a good thing f0r | school at Plattsburs, N. Y., July 1. h of the clubs, as it would promote har- | *“ifr SRR, S A S mony between all, something WhIch 1t i | joecpoy n, JoRE S8 gottlng al ng i sl discouraging to admit does not exist at the [ \(or, “weil (harmer Coriossels nelgabor. present tme. Several of [the local Wheel | now he's doin' (n his studies, But from hiy here this summer. 1t will'probubly be held | |48t Photoktaph I Jedge hes discovered a here, but how much more of a Success it fepiras i A5 would be if held under the auspices of the President Eliot of Harvard university Assoclated Cycling clubs.of Oniaha, where | completes this year his twehty-Afth in his office, and the Harvard clubs throughout the each club would have a working interest, than to drift along under . the wing | country intend to unite in commemorating of any one club, while s other - clubs | his sliver anniversary by presenting him a would literally “sit on the fence” and | 89l medal, appropriately inscribed, at the It is claimed that Ni and to inf name at the more incentive than before O flvey S than go® Scholply > 8, that heap at g Lc’l(“es ? DOn S0ld hg, or them In making our initial bow to the public this morning we wish to SCHOELPLY'S SHOE state that we have purchased the Schoelply Shoes only to secure the location, and that we have come to stay, and now that there 8 oneg T les; ver solg <~ 10es, solq 5 OC ¢ Dongola S} Choelp)y 00,7010 ;fl‘"_‘é’llgm he S m for then;” o0 and batony “(he §1.00, time the finest line and as low priced as any in this city. 107 and lace gchoelply B¢ 43 palrs, sod them 107 for Schoelply’s Old Stand And when S:hozlply’s Shozs are Sold we’ll Stiil 211 Shoes P. T. Cartwright & Co. LY \h\\\\'\\\%\\\\\ S TR A O N SIS e N N alumni dinner on the day. The elaborate provision for public schools is a striking characteristic of state and terri- torial legislation in the far west. North Da- Kkota estimates the ultimate amou of her school funds at somewhere between $30,000,- 000 and $40,000,000. Oregon’s school fund is 500,000. Idaho's school lands are worth nearly $7,000,000. Kansas holds nearly 7,000,000 in bonds for the benefit of her public schools. Missouri holds between $4 000,000 and $5,000,000 for her schools. Okla- homa will one day have a large school fund, and half a dozen other western states and territories have many millions invested for the benefit of such funds, The venerable University of Paris, sup- pressed at the time of the revolution and r stored as part of the University of France, under the title of Academie de Paris, is to be re-established ere long, if vigorous effort and earnest prayer are of any avail. All that is really wanting is the former title, and the council is hopeful that the want will not now long be felt. The report of 1802-93 is full of interesting matter, cspecially con- cerning the enormous growth of the numbers of the students. The increase in 1892-93 was 1,166, making the total number of students in Paris 11,914, Another long established Harvard c has just gone to the wall. The president and fellows of the university has gone forth that hereafter no more punch shall be served In college buildings on com- mencement day and class day The secre- tary of every Harvard class which has representatives iy has celved notice to this effect, he liquors excluded are punch and distilied liquors,. 80 that wine and beer can still be served at the spreads in the yard. But the well filled punch bowls which have been free to e y comer and have been the crowning feature of every commencement will be seen om edict of the no more. o~ 2 MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Mr op tablishment, $600,000. A sad consequence of the habit of accept- ing compllmentary tickets to the theater oc ourred rocently in Buffalo, when a burglar sent two seats to a man and his wite, and while they were attending the performance robbed the house, The inmates of the Edwin Forrest Home, at Holmesburg, Pa., commemorated the an niversary of the actor's birth (March 9) by | praciog 8 beautitul fioral tribute upon bis Kieth's new theater in Boston will be d Murch 24, It must be a superb es- for it has cost its owner over next commencement 1S ever Bear in mind this one thing, we are Still Selling Schoelply’s Shoes at ) t Schoelply’s Old Stand, 1415 Douglas St. | . tomb In old St. Paul's churchyard, Philadel- | phia. | A bar porter in Butte, Mont., claims to be tho only relative of the late Hans von Bulow, the great German pianist. He has started | for Germany to claim the fortune, amou ing to 8,000,000 marks, left by the dead mu- siclan, and if he is as near being insane as the uncle he will have trouble in keep- i ing out of a mad house May Brookyn's squandered savings were a contributory cause to thre suicides, those of the young woman herself, of F. A. Love craft and of a young Hebrew, who w partner in a luckless business ente The young Hebrew had the bu s knowledge needed for the undertaking | and he was reputed honest and industrious, | but when he saw the venture must be a failure he threw himself bencaih the wheels of a train, Clara Morris has not yet decided wheth will act next season or not During the past four years, under the management of Edwin H. Price, she has added a great deal of money to an alreday comfortable fortune, that financially and physically she is all right. Miss Morris does not b lieve in farewell engagements, and says tha when she makes up her mind to retire from e stage she will quietly drop out as Mary \derson did. Maurice Barrymore Is noted for being one of the slowest studies in the profession. It I hard work for him to commit 1o memory, and when he has a new part to learn he has to shut himself up and drill it Into his mind. A society lady who was getting up a play for charity sent for Barrymore, and told him that s would like him to appear in the leading part Of course it was a matter of+business and she asked him what his services would be worth. The part was a new one (o him My dear madame,” said Barrymore, “if It was any. thing that I had played in before I should be happy to give my assistance, but as the part is & new one I shall require six weeks | | salary This 0y ity could stand, and Barry | | sh was than cl lidn't play Hazel salve cures plles. - Another shop has been put by the United States Glass company at Factory P, Pittsburg. The company an nounces that it will add additional shops as quickly as trade picks up - - no better wine than Dry Imperial Champagne. It your food [ The Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing company's works at Bridgeport, Conn., bave | suarted up atter three weoks' idleness, Dewitt's Witch in operation | There 1s dinner Cook's Extra helps digest KELIGIOUS, tev. Dr. Lucius R. Page, who is said to be the oldest Universalist clergyman lving, has Just celebrated his 920 birthday at his home in Cambridgeport, Mass, George G. Lobdell, the car wheel manus facturer of Wilmington, Del., bequeathed an annuity of $600 each to seven religious, edu- catlo nd charitable institutions in that city, which s to continue as lon as Mr, Lobdell survives, The annuities are then to and each institution receive a gift of $5,000 from his estate. Considering his age, cellent health, but all to spare him fatigue, to which he Is sub- ject. The mitre he wears when he appears in St. Peter's on ceremonious occasions is a fac-simlile in painted silk of the real mitre, and even the apostolic and other rings he wears are made as lght in weight as cuss tom will permit The cond the pope fs In ex- that can be is done nnation of the Western Watch= man, a Catholic weekly, by the archbishop of §t. Louls, excites considerable interest in Catholic circles In Omaha. Editor Phelan I8 a priest of thirty standing and pa tor of a prominent parish in = St Louls. He s rogarded as one of the most* Independent and forceful writers on the Catholic press. The troublo he 15 now Involved fn may be traced to his action counsel for the priests in their controversy with the bishop of Lincoln, In his comments on the latest phase of that case he applied a literary scalpel and meta- phorically skinned “diocesan dictators” who readily appeal to civil courts themselves yet deny the right to subordinates Steps are being taken by the of Philadelphia (o celebrate anniversary of the consecration of Bishop 0zi Willlam Whitaker, bishop of Pennsyl- vania, which will cccur on October 15 Bishop Whitaker was born in New Saler Mass., May 10, 1830 1 was graduated from Middlebury colloge, Vermont in 1806, In 1863 he went to Nevada as a missionary In 1865 he returned to the east as rector 5t. Paul's church, Englewood, N. J. In he went back (o Nevada as rector of Paul's church, Virginla City, and in 1568 clected ‘missionary bishop of held this office for sevent n November 1, 1886, he nt bishop of the diocese On July 11, 1887 Bishop Ste died, and Dr. Whitaker succeeded bishop. His administration of the dloc been marked by vigor and good sense, and ho has the respect of all classen of churchimen, : biscopalians the twenty-fifth vada, He years, until elocted assia Pennsylvania W s0 ha 1 to close out Schoelply’s Shoes, greater bargains than ever will prevail, ied too expensive shoes for Omaha will not be gainsaid, and for that reason, none but the choicest of his special makes will be replaced, although every day from this on will mark the arrival of new shoes,—not so high priced as Schoelply had to sell at—but at the same - 9