Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 17, 1895, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY BERE: SUNDAY, I Write for Samples oF OUR New Wash Cl . New L L At GREAT BARGAINS IN WOOL DRESS GOODS TOMORROW. Younr BRUARY - X 1 Own Price. Wash Dress Goods. FALCONER. osing Out Ladies’ Cloth Jackets At Almost We are going to close out all our Ladies’ Fall Cloth Jackets at some price. We will carry none over, no matter what the loss will be, them away than pack as Beaver, Cheviots, Diagonals, ete., ete. them away. Remember we are not offering you any old styles, but the very But here are prices that must make you buy: Prompt Attention. = We would rather give latest novelties, with extra wide sleeves, in all the cloths, such All our $10.00 Jackets for $8.78; all our $16,80 Jackets for $7.48; all our $20 Jackets for $9.98. Tomorrow we will piace on sale our first shipment of the very latest styles in Ladies’ Shirt W aists; this is a regular $2 Waist, but we will start the season on them tomorrow at $1.28 each, Look at the prices we are making on Dress Goods for tomorrow; this department is sure to be a crowded one. Wash Dress Goods--Our stock of new Wash Dress Goods is now the most complete in the city; we have now a full assortment of all the most desirable fabrics, the latest designs and colors. prices the lowest. these Ginghams is 80c and 88c on them is 18c a yard. our -prices are undoubtedly the lowest,. Dress Goods Department. Paris Dress Patterns at Less than Half Price. Rich French and ( Dress Patterns at §8. nan “ull are determined to close them all out | pattern in each—no two alike. Wi this week. Choice designs in Crepe smooth effe effec! st lot of pattern: 0, $15.00, $17. 5.00. effects, rough effect ts, iridescent cffects, silk mixed The o offered ote, ote. clioic ov 20.00, ALL GO ON SALE MONDAY AT 815 Pattern. Linings— ... yma)ZC and Perealines, at. .. (yard) 185 were 3 00 and $ Best Skirt Cambric..... All our 20¢ Silesis all shades, Monday \E OF OUR BANNER DEPART- MENTS. | This Sale Caunot But Increase Its | Popularity. 4d-inch Priest] (150 quality) #6-inch Priestlc air, quality) 50 7280 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 Priestley's wool novelties, quality) 5 44-inch 's Whip Cords, ($L.50 5 quality) 46-inch ¢ I wool French Serge, (L5 . quality) 1.00 1.00 1.00 42-inch ($1.50 Priestley's wool Melrose, quality) .. Priestley's C orkscrew, auality) ... 20 pieces fine all “wool imported on “‘?37!4(: | We have many entirely new They are the widest goods made and the very best grade. elegant line of Dimities at 18c; others are asking 25¢ for them, worthy of your inspection. terns. Our goods ave all ne greatest of care: our out first looking ov and colorings. , all th tterns you wi includes many new and handsome co demand this season. This is pc these Gingl other houses ave asking 30¢ to 35¢ fol Lay in a big supply now. in any color, or any grade you may d | them admits that we are the peaple ¢ H shown, grand display. clsewh ere for 18¢ | ano_you got the largest wd. We are also showing This pop. showing only the best grade and our will shrink and fade in washing. Percales— best goods in the market. figures; also in red ground, in dot, st yard, Ask tosee our patterns. ? A Yias New Spring Prints—il the season with them we will offer then in Dress Patterns of Sateens and Mulls them tomorrow at 83 ¢.for a whole dross patterns among this lot. New Wash Dress Goods— our stock by far tne most completa in the cit Genuine Imported Ginghams— ibly tho last shipment of them tha ms you had better come tomorrow and get the best choice. New Jacomnets, Dimities, Etc.-— nd Orzndies, No one can afford to pass this department without looking over our new wash goods. We desire to call special attention to our second shipment of Imported Zephyr Ginghams that we will sell at 19¢ a yard, the regular price on Our new Jaconets are the deli Our line of Printed Dimities is very neat and handsome. We have a beautiful line at 18c¢; Take our wash goods stock all through, you will find nothing but the most desirable fabrics, designs and colorings the very latest and and remember we are not © most d ble weaves and coloring 11 find very neat and handsome. of our Gen lorin besides many of the de ble \ r these Ginghams. We are offerin most complete ever shown esir n Wash Goods this se on. Ask to show you only the very best grades, and our price is only 15¢ a yavd. ave you seen our Printed Dimiti nd owr colorings are the late 1f not, ask to sce No one can afford to them. t. selection to choose from. Tomorrow we 4 line of Dimities at £5¢ that are really alar cloth will this season again be the lizing the fact that there will be vk and light culorings, Wo ha price is only 152ayard. Be sure and tores put togethc 7 the right quality und ‘We have just received our pew line of finest dark colored Percales. the thing for Ladles’ Wrappers and Shirt Waists. received our new one prettier than another. vd, but they ure regular Sc grade. patiern. for our Jaconets are the pride of Omaha. Wo do know ight patterns and the right prices. ing over 50 different patterns in all the new and delicate stripes and small figures. tylos and colorings In Sprin Tomorrw w10 yards in cach pattern. Some of them are worth 2, beautiful goods. We take great pleasure in_placing before you tomorrow a full line of the latost and most desirable Noveltios in Wash Dress Goods. howing y vs, and ¢ Do not buy anything in Wash Goods witii- ~our vast line, and bear in'mind that what we show you are all this scasons' latest designs You will find uany of last seasons’ pat- very piece is selected with the We will place on our counters tomorrow the sccond shipment ine Imported Zephyr Gingh ms. This shipment aple cheeks which will have great. 1l o the same g02ds to you at 1¢ sell at 19¢. ou are If yon waat any of no doubt well aware that S per yard. Ourselection of this class of spring goods is certainly the Wo can_suit you in any design, very lady who has scen see our Jaconets, Remember we A handsomer line of goods were never nss our line of Dim Our prices on Dimities this season ave very low—in tact much lower than ies without admiring our you will find them will” offer our 25¢ Printed Dimities good value at 20 reigning dress goods fabric of the a_big demand for Ducks we have just » indeed an elegant assortment. We are got the best grade, for all others Everybody who has seen our stock ofiPercales admits that we have a larger and better assort- ment than all the othe, quantity of them and we are showing that we elling an enormous We are show- is 124c for the They are just arc Our pric They come in navy blue with small neat dots, stripe and pe and figures; also some very neat pattern > A cloth isas soft as flannel and is very fine, in fact the finest grade ever shown. Our prices on this cloth is 15¢ in dark wine grounds. This Prints. Weo can show you over fifty hey re the best goods too, and Lo start e will close out odds and ends .50, but we will offer i, Our ght of every lady wh new Percales at 1 Jackets. ‘ we | | | are going to close out our | stock of Fall Jackets tomorrow it. It prices do We do not care now what | price they were formerly, or what | cost | ¥) they us; we are not golng to carry any over. Here are the prices that will startle you: | All our ladjes’ that sold at §19 Morrow for...... cloth > on Jackets 1o to- $3.75 | Al our Iladies’ cloth that sold at §16.50 tomorrow for. Jackets o on sal . $7.48 $9,98 On sale tomorrow—the latest designs in this season's Ladies’ Shirt Waists. We will start them oftering our or All_our $20 Jackets offered tomorrow for will be tomorrow by Shirt UNIVERSITY ATHLETIC CLUB New Association Which Starts Ont with Dual Fuuotigns on a Grand Scale, MAIN FEATURES OF THE ORGANIZATION @rounds Already Sccured —Arrangements for Grand Stand and Other Bulldings— Base Ball and Foot Bill Games Numerous attempts have been made from Hme to time to establish an amateur ath- letic club in Omahi For varlous reasons nene of these attempts have met with the success desired. Just what these reasons are it s, at present, needless to say. Some time ago a number of young men got together and | after discussing the need of such organiza- tion as mentioned above, and after canvass- ing the attempts already made looking to- ward its establishment, conceived the idea of starting a club which would combine all the essential elements of both an amateur athletic and a university club and thus ap- peal to a much larger constituency than either one alone. A number of meetings were held and the various details discussed until it appeared to be a perfeetly feasible thing to do and it was unanimously dccided to put the plan into immediate operation, Articles of Incorporatoin embodying the main features cf the two classes of organiza- tions were drawn up and adopted, providing among other things that the name of the new organization should be the University of Omaha. Probably no better idea of the exact pur- pose of the crganization can be given than by quoting from the articles themselve Article 1y provides as follows: ‘“The gen- eral nature of the business te be transacted by this corporation shall be the maintain- ing of an atbletic park and also of a club bullding or club room In the county of Doug- las, in the state of Nebraska, for the use of stockholders and others under proper regu- latoins to be adopted by the board of di- rectors. Sald athletic park and club house and club rooms and the proceeds thereof to be used for the purpose of establishing and ting amateur athletic sports of all and for the purpose of creating and fostering a more exten acquaintance- ship and soclal intercour g the col- lege men of the state of Nel b, It will be seen that the p the organization is as much to further the in- terests of amateur athletics as anything else indeed, until next winter it is the intention to devote the entire energles of the club to the interests of outdcor amateur athletic sports. In view of this fact two radical departures bave been made from the plans heretofore followed in this city. In the first place, the initiation fee has been re- duced to §5, aud the annual dues thereafter to §5 per ycar; the initiation fee comprising also the annual dues for the first year of membership. In addition to this, the stock- holders cannot be assessed, 5o that the high est amount for which a member may become llable can never exceed the sum of $5 in any one year. This, it will be seen, is & radical departure from the policy heretofore adopted by athletic clubs in this city. There 15 also a radical departure from the Alnes of the ordinary university club, in that there are honorary and associate members a8 will appear from the following quotation from article 5: “The stockholders of this corporation shall be known as active, asso clate and honorary, as follows: Any male person who shall be a regular graduate of the collegiate or any professional depart- ment of any reputable college or university, or who shall have been at least two years actually engaged in the pursuit of colleglate or professional studies in a reputable col- lege or uuiversity, may become an active member. Any male person of the age of 17 years or upward who shall be of good Tepute, may become an associate member. Any male person who has attained distinction An any way which in the opinion of a ma- rity of the board of directors is suficient enable him to & membership in this cor- poration, may become an honorary member. Provided, however, that in all cases it shall | be @ necessary prerequisite of membership that the candidate shall have purchased and paid for in full at least one share of the stock of this corporation, and provided fur- ther, that the application of every candidate shall be approved by a majority vote of the board of directors, and provided further, that the present board if directors shall have power, and is hereby directed, upon the first Monday of January, 1896, to prepare and execute an amendment to these articles of incorporation, providing either for the con- tinuance or the extinction of assoclate mem- berships in this said corporation.” It will be seen from the above that the purpose I8 to try the experiment of having associate memberships without incorporating the provision absolutely into the articles until the success of the plan has been demon- strated. Of course these associate members who join during this year will retain all their Tights as members so long as they com- ply with the regulations the same as the active members, the honorary degree will, of course, be permanent, These are the main features of the new club. The plans for the coming season are already made, and cer- tainly hold out alluring inducements to all the amateur athletes of the city. Grounds nd to none in the city have already been ured, and arrangements made for the erec- tion of fences, grand stand, and other neces- ary dings. Correspondence has been going on for two months with all the lea ities of the west, including Mich- , Chicago, Northwestern Towa, Minnesota, as, Nebraska and Grinnell college, with the object of arranging a scries of base ball games with the best of them in Omala this spring. The base ball manager has already commenced work on a midsummer trip for the bace ball team, to extend (o the Pacific coast. and occupy a period of about two weeks, while the foot ball manager has practically arranged a’trip for the foot ball team, which cmbraces all of the principal cities between Omaha and Seattle, During the summer and fall the entire at- tention of the oficers of the club will be di- rected toward the success of the base ball ball teams, but as soon as the fcot eason closes club rooms will be fitted up down town and maintained in proper style for the use of the members. f, are the sallent features of the new organization, and if any one thinks it has not backing which will command for it the respect of the ccmmunity, let him glance over the list of charter members, as follows: J. C. Cowin, Victor B, Caldwell, R, S. Haill, W. D. McHugh, Joseph R. Clarkson, Robert W. Patrick, Isaac B. Congdon, Frank Crawford, Charles L. Thowas, Lysle 1. Ab- bott, Hugh Albert 'W. Jefferls, J. W. DBroatel . Spratlin, H, N. Mec- Grew, J. J. McMullen, 8. G. V. Griswold, John L. Plercz, John L. Webster, Willlam Nelson, Randall Brown. The cificers for the first year are as fol- lows: President, Lysle I. Abbott; vice pre Frank Crawford; secretary, Charles was, and treasurer, Hugh A. Myers, -~ pwre uzht Four sh 1 Sallors Home W YORK, Feb. 16—The Atlas line steamer Alps, which arrived this morning from West Indian ports, brought from Port- au-Prince four distressed seamen belonging to the schooner Hattie L. Sheets of Philadelphia Captain Rickards, which was run ashore to save her from sinking on the morning of January near Jermie. Tie Sheets was bound from’ Port-au-Prince for Aquin to loadt logwood for Delaware breakwater. The ve sel sprung a leak and they were compelled to beach her. Nearly all (he rigging, sails and fittings of the vessel were saved and the hull was then set on fire. The Hattle L. Sheets was of 184 tons register. Standard Oil ¢ es Up & Gas Company. 1ICAGO, Feb. 16.—The Standard vil con- tingent has obtained control of the Chicago Gas Light and Coke company. Following out the flan which has recently been adopted six directors of the company resigned, and their places wera filled by Chicago men’ represent- ing the Standard Oil interest, and headed by Robert T. Lincoln. Mr. Lincoln is slated for tho presidency. Large Wooien Al Starting Up, FAIRFIELD, Mass.,, Feb. 16.—The woolen mill here, which is one of the largest in'the than eighteen months, will resume operations again, A contract has been closed with H. C. Cowgill, Frank Hill and A. H. Baker, woolen mill men of Carthage, Mo., who have leased the mill for a period of two years. It is expected that a few looms will be started by March 1, and by May 1 at least 100 looms will be in operation. — CITY OFFICIALS INDICTED, Rumors that Are Indignantly (Denied Re- garding Ex-Mayor Gilroy and Others. NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Officlals of the dis- trict attorney’s offico were ‘mute today when asked as to the truth of the story that ex-Mayor Gilroy, Inspectors Willlams, McAvoy and McLaughlin had been indicted by the extra- ordinary grand jury which yesterday ad- journed until March 4. Assistant District Attorney Lindsay, who with Speclal Deputy Attorneys Rollins and Fox, has been acting in an advisory capacity to the grand jury, refused absolutely to discuss the matter. No indictments were handed in to Commis- sioner Ingrabam when the grand jury ad- journed yesterday, and it is not considered likely that they will be handed up before the grand jury reconvenes on March 4, At that time it is expected that from fifty to seventy- five iIndictments, some of them of persons high in authority, will be presented. Thomas F. Gilroy, jr., a son of the ex- mayor, who, it Is claimed, was indicted, called at the district attorney’s office early this morning. He was laboring under consider- able excitement and was vehement in his denunciation of an article in a morning paper. He said: “The publication so far as my father is concerned is absolutely false and a lie, and steps will be taken at once to sue the paper or papers which printed i.” He had a long covsultation with Chief Clerk Unger of the district attorney's office, and some papers, the nature of which could not be learned, were drawn up under the direction of Mr. Gilroy. He stated in an- swer to questions that he bad nothing whatever to say about the case, as it is yet too soon to talk. ——————— FIVE ACRES ON A SLIDE. Adobe Surface on the Berryman Hills 1o Californin Shifting Its Position. OAKLAND, Cal., Feb. 16.—Portions of the Berryman hills north of Berkeley are sliding toward the valley. About five acres have thus changed. The foundation of the hills seems to be solld enough. It is the adobe surface stratum, about thirty feet in depth, which is gradually settling. Engineers and olhers who have examined the shifting area before say that the displacement of earth is due to the rains and not to any sinking of the hills caused by vcleanic or other sub- terranean force. Considerable damage has been caused and some fears are entertained that the gradually descending mass may some day cause dis- aster to life and property. The residence of R. W. Darms, built on the shifting earth, has moved six inches out of plumb, and the main pipes of the Alameda Water company have been twisted and snapped in nearly 100 places. ——— Students Broke Luto the Girls' Rooms, WILKESBARRE, Pa, Feb. 16.—Trouble las broken out at the Wyoming seminary at Kingston, A few nights ago a party of stu- dents broke into several rooms in the female department. It Is sald the boys were intoxi- cated. . The screams of the girls attracted Prol. Lake, but when he attempted to go to their rescus he found that his room had been fastened. He burst the door vpen, but in the meantimo the students had fled to their rooms. Prof. Schrague has expelled the ring- leaders, 1. H. Luycock, R. W. Rimer and David Reese, and it is said more students will be expelied. T —— Florence and Cripple Creek Road Sold, DENVER, Feb. 16.—The News announces that Colouel John C, Montgomery has nego- tiated a sale of the Florence and Cripple Creek railroad to a Boston syndicate for $2,000,000. The road, which is forty miles long ,was built largely with money furnished by D. H. Moffait, Who is the heaviest stock- holder. It has been a dividend-payer from state, and which has been closed down for more the first. The names of the purchasers are not given, JOHN MWBRIDE EXONERATED Mine Workers Give Him a Three to One Vote of Confidence, MARK WILD DRIVEN OUT OF THZ HALL Denounced as & Domngogue and Selt-Con- fossed Corruptionist—Penna Llected President of the Union and Came eron Miller Vice Presidont, COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 16.—John McBride today by the unanimous report of the com- mitteo of fifteen, was reported to have been not guilty of the charge of corruption in con- nection with the Hocking Valley railroad strike. The committee’s report said that Mark Wild, the raiiroad man who preferred tho charges, is a demagogue and self-con- fessed corruptionist. Thereupon a resolution was adopted extending a vote of confidence to John McBride and ordering Mark Wild to leave the hall. Mr. Wild endeavored to ob- tain the floor, but the demonstrations against him were so pronounced that the presiding officer advised him to withdraw immediately, and he did o, The convention then elected P. H. Penna of Indiana president, Cameron Miller of Ohio vico president and re-elected Patrick Me- Brido secretary-treasurer. Theso elections were a complete vindication of the men who took on the part of miners in the settlement of the striko last summer. Mr. Miller, in presenting tho report in regard to Mr. Me- Bride, said that the committec believed he had been discreet in handling the strike. The voto was 124 to 44. The vote of Wild leay- ing the hall was 223 to 77 Started with Non-Union Men. ST. LOUIS, Feb, 16.—The spike mill at the Tubor Iron works, East St. Louls, is being operated by new men, with machinists filling the places of the boss rollers. Only two of the striking steel workers have gone back to work. The others are still holding out and claim to be more confident than ever, as, ac- cording to their statements, the new men in the mill are doing such, unsatisfactory work that the plant cannot continue in operation niore than a few days, ————— NEBRASKA COUPLE'S SAD END, Rancher Renn Kiilg fiis Wife and 0 in Montpua. HELENA, Mont., Feb. 16.—In a lonely cabin on a sheep ranch in Custer county, thirty- five miles from the tdwn of Terry, Rancher Renn ehot and killed his, wite and then killed himself. Both had lain dead several days before being discovered. /Renn came to Mon- tana from Nebraska, and has two brothers living in the neighborbood. His vietim was his second wife. No metive can be found, as they apparently lived Happily. School Boy Tried to Hang Himself. TROY, N. Y., F¢8' f6.—Ernest Winters, 10 years old, attempted suicide in the Parsons public school, Hoosack Falls. The boy was reprimanded by his teacher for dis- obedience and shut up in the cloak room. Some time after the teacher found the pupil suspended from @& hook and unconscious. Winters had buckled a skate strap around his neck and tucked a mitten between the strap and his neck to make the noose tight. Mr. Dillon, the teacher, released the boy and succeeded in reviving him mself 4 - Princess Ninito from Tahiti SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16.—San cisco is entertaining a live princess. comes out of the wide an islend in the South seas Ninito is a scion of the famuy of Pomare, rulers in Tahite for nearly 200 years, Sho came by the Mariposa and is accom- panied Taus far on a journey halt around the world by two retaincrs who will stop here, however, and the lady will continue the Journey alone. Sho will remain in the city Fran- She Paclnc—her realm Is The princess | somo time, seeing all that is to be seen. She is going to France, of whica country her royal family is now a pensioner. When she starts cast her retainers will return to their island homes. ——— DEATH OF A MIDGET. Succumbed to the Combined Effects of Grip and Bronchius. NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Princess Paulina, who arrived in New York on December 22 last, has since that time been the object of great interest to: thousands In this city. Princess Paulina was born in Holland in 1876 and during the past nine years has been seen and fondled by nearly all the kings and queens of Europe, She was brought to this country under a two years' contract by Manager F. Proctor. The princess was exactly seventeen inches high and welghed but eight and one-half pounds. Two weeks before her arlyal she had an attack of the grip and was laid up for a few days. She s00n recovered and on January 20 gave a special reception, attended by nearly 100 well known physicians and surgeons. She was taken ill again a week ago and v nounced to be suffering from bronchitis, but it was not until Thursday that her life was despaired of. The princess died at 9 olclock yesterday morning and was placed in a little white casket no larger than would be re- quired for a 1-year-old child. The remains will be taken to Holland for burial, Charles F. Abbott, the Horseman, WORCESTER, Mass., Feb. 16.—Charles F. Abbott, one of the best known horsemen in America, died of pneumonia at the city hospi- tal last night after a brief iliness, He was years old and lived at different times in St. Johnsbury, Vt., Detroll, M Denver, Worcester and Saugus, and was for seven years engaged in the ranch business in Texas. Last gcason he was In charge of the western stable of John S. Gray, the well known Ken- tucky breeder. Embezzier Commits Suiclde, SPRINGFIELD, 11l, Feb, 16.—C, J. Bow- man, agent of the Wabash rarroad at River- ton, committed suiclde yesterday to avold ar- rest for embezzlement.” He had embezzled a considerable sum of railroad and express money to further an invention, Denth of a Leading Kaliroad Man. NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Percy R. Payne, vice president of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Rallroad company, died at Rome, Italy, yesterday. RIS BATT Mich,, Feb, 15.—The gencral conference of the Seventh Day Ad- ventists convened at the Tabernacle ye day,the president, Elder LA.Olsen, p One hundred and twenty-five de here representing more than conferences and misslon field: s address stated that general conference two year ixty state and local camp meetin, Ay been held; sixty-two p ns have been ordain to the ministry and the n embership of th denomination 8 incres over 5,000, ninety-seven church bulldings have constructed In varlous cou les, inclu the organization of five churches in bourne, Australla, and its suburb than a dozen schools and academ! been established by the general the past few years and as ma church schools. The publishini were reported in” a substantial conditi and much of the literatur: of the socl had been printed and disoibuted. President Olsen thinks that much more should be done in the line of medical mis- slonary work In the future, More has been accomplished in this line the past two y that during all the time previous. At pre ent elghteen persons are under appoint- ment for different fields in this line of work. He recommended larg: plans for the work among the colored people of the south gy tes are forty state President the last state interests with seven. and Flo- nd 60 mem anference and nittees were ljourned till re are 127 tist work. of Oklahoma, teen church 1d 500 membe rida, with seventeen churehes bers, were admitted to the their delegates seated appointed and the mee Bunday. ‘At the pres in !mmbn-ni engaged Told Where (0 Find the Hody. CARTHAGE, Mo., Feb. 16.—J. H. Turner, living two miles down Spring river, found a e Adve s pro- | bottle in which was a note signed Jackson,” and reading: ‘“Whoever finds this will find my body above the dam in Spring river. it will be remembered that Jackson is the Carthage contractor who mys- teriously disappeared in Kansas City during Priests of Pallas week carly in October. TESTIMONY NOT ADMITTED. WS Effort to Prove Claus Blixt a Liar Failed for the Timo Being. MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 16.—The defense in the Hayward murder trial came up smiling today after the staggering blow dealt it yes. terday by Liveryman Wilson's evidence. The reason for the smiles lay in the confidence that the first witness this morning would completely shatter the evidence of Claus A. Blixt by her testimony. But there was a slight slip in the calculations of Mr. Erwin that prevented for the time the full fruition of his hopes. The witness was Miss Magg Wachter, who is the stenographer of Blixt's |atiorney.” On the day vetore Blist's confession | the attorney took her into the prison for the | purpose of taking down a statement of the prisoner. No one eclse was present at the time and she took down such words as the attorney dirccted. Erwin then read from a statement imputed to Blixt saying that ho and Adry Hayward had planned the murder and had gone out to Lake Callioun to arrange the details the week before. He asked Miss Wachter of Blixt had made the stalement that he had just read to his attorney, Before she could answer the state interposed an ob. Jection on the grounds that hatever s ment had been made by Blixt to his attor was inviolable under the state statute. court finally ruled that under the cir stances the evidence was inadmissable, ave the defense until Monday to pro thoritics which may change his opinion. Miss Wachter was dism. which the wounds of Mis trated was sent for. Three physiclans were put on the etand by the def-nse and asked hypothetical ques- tions bearing on the question of the fracture of the skull. Dr. C. H. Norred thought it bighly improbable that the double fracture had been caused by the fall from the buggy as oxplained by Blixt. Dr. S. E. Hance thought It next & ‘mpossible. Dr. D, C. Myers said he had a long army experinece, but he had never known of a case where a fall of three feet liko the one described had produced such fractures of the skull. Court then adjourned until Monday morning, but u. S0 °d and the skull on g were illus- LUM BURNED, Two Hundred Littia « [l s Turasd Out 1n 16.~The on North m the county court stroyed by «fire last ntained 200 children s of . bestdes and nurses, The » of James Plerce, wi ul Miss McDor e had been away all day a late train after the ruins. About 10 o'clock | red the cellir to be a from | f 1 sound 4 They w as quickly tnd hurri m the building first tak: the dry, but the t necame s > transfer 10 the school , about a mile f totally ranging from 1 to 13 y¢ dozen teachers in ehar perinten tant and returned | wa fro; to 0 1 na the ent ns responded had gone hardly h were told the fire w their houses, that unl it of or the scene. f a mile whes 8 out and retu A telephone call was the department haste whole ‘institution would be in a A second alarm was sounded and the de- partment agaln started out When they arrived the main bullding, which is sev- enty-five feet front and 190 feet d w & mass of flames. 1t was only possible save the bulldings adjoining the home this was done with dificulty children's wearing apparel and the children, many of whom were sick, suffered conaiderably from the cold. home was cstablished about fifteen years uklv) well known soclety ladles of New Yor d to t in the to and Most of the was destroyed Toxas Ol Warchouse Burned, DALLAS, Tex., Feb. 16.—Fire destroy. tho large warehouse of the Waters-Pierce Oil company, situated in East Dallas, contalning 500,900 gallous of oil. Loss uokuown; uo in- surance, antire entire | You will find our stock the most complete and our o sees them. The price We are showing an 21ic and 18c are indeed Drabery Department. For one week, b Monday Ieb, sinning morn- 18th, we will offer the following | bargains in Draperie | and lot 18¢c 35¢ 39¢ 49¢ includ- s, Irish points, cte., worth | Plain China € | worth toc, | Jute C wide, Lace Curtaing worth up to §1, at, per pair irtain worth ¢ 5 Inches , per yard. vards long, I in one lot All odd pairs Lace Curtains, | ing fine By up to §25 per pair, at one-half price for Millinery Department. COND FLOOR. All our winter millinery must be sold to make room for new spring goods, which arriving. Fine mourning goods a specialty. WAS HUNG UP BY fIIS THUMBS Authorities at Honolulu Revive the Methods of the Dark Ages, HAWAIIAN PRISONER FORCED TO CONFESS Davies, an American Citizen, Sald to Have Been Cruelly Tortured and Compotlod to Give Up Information Cons rulng tho Kovolution, SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16.—The Call prints the following startling story from Honolulu: ~ The success of (he Hawallan government In conducting the treason cases was due to the criminating evidence given by Captain Davies of the steamer Walmanolo, The manuer in which this sworn statement was wrung from Davies is interesting as showing tho peculiar legal process at present the Hawallan islands, Davies and his mate, Knudson, were arrested on the morning of January 5. Knudson made a con- feszion, telling what little he knew. Davies, who is an American citl , refused to glve any information, and, while protesting his innocence, demanded an interview with the United States minister. - Davies was then taken into the prison yard, where he was shown two ring bolts in the wall above his head. The unifermed inquisitors of the gov= ernment then gave the captain to understand that if a complete confession was not forth- coming he would be strung up by the thumbs, Davies did not flinch, but dete mined that if the American minister could not come he consul general should be in- formed that he was an American citizen and wished to see him. His protests were in vain, His legs were bound below the knees and his thumbs were lashed with whip cord to the ring bolts, A hox was placed Lelow. him %0 that the man's toes just touched it, Davies was stripped to the waist, while Mar= shal Hitcheock, Attorney General Smith and Surgeon Cooper with a stenographer, awaited tho statement which they believed would be shortly forthcoming. They were mistaken, Davies would not weaken. Sweat oozed from every pore. The strong man In his agony begged a drop of water to cool the thirst that consumed him, The tendons of the vietim's limbs stood out like strands of rope; blood vessels knotted on his ares and legs, | swelling as if ready to burst with congested blood, suppressed by his abnormal position, | Tho ‘tormentors urged him to implicate all | known to bo politically opposed to thelr | 1s without avail. Davies refused to ender the secr he had sworn to protect, when it was apparent by his resple it would o impossibi to hold nature succumbed and Davies, fiends who were corturing him, Cooper used salts of ammonia to captain, who had sed into (e %8 realms of unconsciousness. As soon revived two negro convicts suspended by the thumbs. This inhuman begun at noon, and it was 6 evening before Davies, more X tho statement’ which | respited im 1 inhuman barbarity of | bis Inhuman torturers. | Anotl wse of cruelly was brought out in military inquiry. A young native knowm [to be intimate with Carl Widdemann was handcuffed, Then with a refinement of cruelty which would shock u Persian satrap, | o was placed in a tank of ice cold wat | He was kept there until the circulation of the | blood almost ceased, and Dr. Cooper, who ap= in the unenviable light of an arche ursing the 1. Dr vive th he n agala ration W in the deg pears inquisitor, declared that he was almost dead, The chief of police, Marshal Hitcheock, bad the young Kanika taken from the tank, and after being restored from his condition of { semi-conscl a3, the torture was adminig- tered again. Flesh and blood could stand no more, and the confession was made, 150 ! She Dying from Cold iu New Mexieo, ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Feb. 16.—The [ground is covered with snow four to six | inches deep, and many sheep are dying om | the mountains aud plaius from the cold snd | tack of food,