Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 12, 1895, Page 8

8 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY OCTOBER 12 WILL NOT LET SCOTT DECIDE Bano Will Determine Whether Ish Cases Go Off His Docket. MOTION FOR TRANSFER BY DEFENSE Alleged that Criminal Judge Hax Al- rendy Determined to Conviet— Seott Sayx that He WilL Not Allow It This morning at 10 o'clock in court room WNo. 3 Judge Scott will be glven an oppor- tunity to show why the Ish murder cases should not be transferred from his docket to the docket of some other judge of the district court. This was practically the de- cision reached by the district bench yester- day “afternoon after a conference which lasted for several hours. This action was brought about by the filing of two motions with the clerk of the dlstrict court by the defense, one in the case of the state against James Ish and the other In the case against Mabel B. Ish, ask- ing for the transfer. The allegations on which the motions were based are as fol- Toy “The Hon. C. R. Scott, the judge holding the docket upon which this case has been placed for trial, fs prejudiced against this defendant to such a degree that this defendant cannot have a fair and impartial trial in this case before Judge Scott. The Hon. C. R. Scott has prejudiced this case and has determined in his own mind upon the defendant’s guilt and has determined to work the conviction of this defendant; the Hon. C. R. Scott has de- termined in his own mind to so conduct the trial of this defendant as to bring about his conviction and to make the rulings on the trlal such that all evidence on the part of the defendant referred to in afidavits shall be excluded; the Hon. C. R. Scott has de- termined in his own mind not to grant this detendant a fair trial.” Accompanying the motions were filed some affidavits in which the rulings and remarks of Judge Scott, on which the charge of prejudice 1s based, were set out. It was im- possible to get these affidavits for publica- tion. For ob/ious reasons the attorneys for the defense were adverse to disclosing their contents and the judges were not minded to disclose their nature, It is understood, how- ever, that the affidavits contain little more than is already known to the publie. In general they affirm that on several occaslons the judge has made rulings and supported them with reasons which indicate that his mind is firmly made up as to the guilt of the defendants. On the last hearing for a continuance especially Judge Scott” refused to consider certain portions of affidavits that were offered In support of the motion. These portions tended to show the intimacy which existed between Chapple and Mrs, Ish, and Judge Scott excluded them on the grounds that they were immaterial. The attorneys on the other hand consider them of the very highest importance, as according to thelr theory of defense this intimacy was the cause of Ish shooting Chapple. Shortly after the filing of the motions the matter was brought to the attention of Judge Hopewell. He at once informally called the bench together, and In the afternoon the Judges assembled in Judge Hopewell's pri- vate office,. The affidavits were carefully Bone over and after a conference which lasted for several hours the judges called in County Attorney Baldridge and Informed him that they had decided to hold a hearing on the motions this morning in court room No. 3 at 10 o'clock. Notices to this effect were sent to Judge Scott and to the attorneys who had brought the motions. Judge Scott was not seen after the de- clsion had been rendered, but he spoke on the matter while the conference was going on. The judge sald that the whole matter was a political scheme, and he was severe in the criticism of his fellow judges for con- sldering the motion. “They have taken two cases from my docket,” the Bennett case and the Rosewater case,”” said the Judge. “But I am getting tired of it and they will have some trouble in taking this case. They are a nice set of Judges to sit on my rulings. The ‘whole matter is a political scheme and I know it Just as well as they do. Verdicts in Criminal Trinls. In the criminal court yesterday the case of Frank Woodson, colored, was called for trial. The complaining witness is Mary Ker- rigan, who lives at 613 North Twenty-first street. Late on the night of September 7 Mrs. Kerrigan was on her way home, and at the corner of Eighteenth and California streets she was met by Woodson. Woodson snatched a hand bag which she was carrying, and as the woman held fast to it, she was thrown to the ground. Woodson sticezeded finally in obtaining the bag and made off with it. A few hours later he was found in a saloon at Twelfth and Davenport streets by Detectives Savage and Dempsey with the stolen satchel. 1t contained about $15 worth of valuables an money. He was convicted. The jury in the trial of the two Petty boys, who were charged with assaulting Thomas Gallagher with intent to do great bodily harm, Thursday night returned a verdict acquitting Harry Petty and convicting George Petty of simple assault. The jury in the case of Charles Lamont, charged with robbing Conductor Stein while he was on Steln’s car, returned a verdict of acquittal. Wi The success of Hood's Sarsapariila In con- quering scrofula in whatever way it may manifest itself is vouched for by thousands who were severely afflicted by this prevalent disease, but who now rejoice over a perma- nent cure by Hood's Sarsaparilla. Scrofula may appear as a humor, or it may attack the glands of the neck, or break out in dread- ful running sores on the body or limbs. At- tacking the mucous membrane, it may ¢ velop into catarrh or lodging In the lungs lead to consumption. Come as It may, a falthful course of treatment with Hood's Sarsaparilla will overcome it, for working upon the foundation of all diseases, impure blood, the system is clarified and vitalized, and vigor, strength and health restored to the body, ST Homeseckers' Excurato; Round trip tickets will be sold at very low rates by the Missourl Pacific railway on Octcber 8 and 22 (o points n Arkansas, Kansas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Texas and Louislana, For information, land pam- phlets, ete,, call at company's offices, north- east .corner Thirteenth and Farnam streets, or depot, Fifteenth and Webster streets, THOMAS F. GODFREY, Passenger and Ticket Agent, J. 0. PHILLIPPI, &P A Welcome Ba Given by Owmaha lodge No. § in honor of delegates to the ond annual natfinal con- vention of the Switchmen’s Union of North America, Cieighton hall, corner of Fifteenth and Harney streets, Monday evening, Oc- tober 14, 1895. Tickets admitting gentleman and ladies, 60 cent Awarded Highest Honors—World’s Fair, WRICE BAKING POWDIR MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Fise Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterany, 40 YEARS THE STANDARD, Jack Shannon, a discharged bartender, commenced & row at the saloon of Willlam F. Garrity at the southeast corner of Tenth street and Capitol avenue last night by making an assault on George North, the present bartender. During the row Shannon's left ankle was broken, Special Officer Cullen was kicked and badly bruised, and North was cut and brulsed about the head and face. The police made no arrests. Shannon, who was discharged about ten days ago, came into the saloon shortly after 9 o'clock and began to abuse North, who had taken his position. Before the bartender cogld realize what was going on, Shannon cathe up to the end of the bar, and as North stepped to the end to draw some beer, Shannon struck him in the face and knocked him down. Proprietor Garrity stepped in and attempted to hold Shannon, but he proved too light a man to accomplish his purpose. Garrity, Shannon and North rolled on the floor to- gether, and the fight became mixed. At this juncture Pat Ford, jr., took a hand in the affalr and gave his aid to Shannon. Then all hands in the bar room piled in and the blows fell rapidly and indiscriminately. There were at least twenty-five men on the floor pounding and hammering each other to their heart's content Specfal Officer Cullen attempted to arrest Ford and Shannon, but was thrown on the floor without much ceremony. He pulled his club, but it was snatched away from him, and he was left to the mercy of the gang to be kicked and pounded as the fighters willed. During the Garrity had his lip cut, Shannon's ankle was broken, and North re- ceived a pair of black eyes that defy descrip- tion, besides cuts and bruises on the head and ' face. The row was in progress about three- quarters of an hour before the police, other than Special Officer Cullen, arrived on the scene. The proprietor pulled his A. D. T. box for police as soon as the fight started, but the clerk at the office says that no alarm for police came in, but that there was a call for a cab received from the saloon. Several women across the strest blew their palice whistles, but Cullen was left alone with the mob. A boy was sent to all the telephones in the neighborhood, but the owners positively refused to have their 'phones used to call the police. Finally some one broke away from the mob and reached the drug store of Gladdish, at Twelfth and Dodge streets, from whence a telephone message was sent to the police station. Officer Cullen says that as he Is not furnished with a key fo the patrol boxes he cowld not ring in an alarm. He placed Shannon and Ford under arrest, but aided by the large crowd they broke away from him Officers Dollard and Poole were present at this time, but instead of glving any help to Cullen to make the arrests they advised him to let the men go. When the patrol wagon reached the place the participants had scattered and no arrests were made, Garrity says he will swear out warrants for Shannon and Ford and others who have been making his saloon the scene of several recent disturbances. Garrity says that this gang has it in for him because he has of late given much aid to the police in locating the thugs and highwaymen who infest this neigh- borhood. THE OLD TIM ns. Miss Lucretia Estes near Rockland, Me spectacles. The father of the House om Commons, Rt. Hon. C. P. Villiers, can, at the age of 93, beat half the crack whist players in London. He was a schoolmate of Lord Byren. Harrlet Hilton of Havre de Grace, Md., was_assisted in the recent. celebration of her 100th birthday by 152 children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grand- children, Sir Henry Bessemer, the “steel king,” 82 years of age, continues to take a keen inter- est in scientific matters and keeps himself up to date. His peculiarity is that he will not give any one his autograph. The death is announced in his 86th year of the zoologist Sven Ludwig Loven, professor at the University of Stockholm. He was born in 1809 and conducted the first scientific ex- pedition to Spitzbergen in 1837, The 91st birthday anniversary of Alpheus Felch, the sixth of the thirty governors of Michigan, is to be celebrated by the people of that state. He was born in 1805 in Limerick, Me. He is a graduate of the old Fryeburg academy. Hannibal Andrews (s Maine's latest hero. Ho is the veteran brickmason of Milton plan- tation, 71 years of age, who, crippled with rheumatism, had the neighbors h him with ropes to the roof of North Woodstock's new school house and laid the last brick on top of the chimney. Rt. Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, who has just completed his 90th year, was three times home secretary under Lord Derby and has drawn a political pension of $10,000 a year for over twenty-eight years. His wife was the daughter of Spencer Perceval, who was shot while prime minister, in 1812, One of the wealthiest women In France, Mme. Mame of Tours, recently died at the age of 80. She and her husband, before his death, built up a large publishing business. Their specialty consisted of works of plety. Mme. Mame was known personally by nearly all the clergy of France. She was a good business woman and gave much to charity. A famous Chippewa Indian chief, familiarly known as “Little Pipe” or “Bunga Powagan,” was drowned in Beaver Dam lake, near Cum- berland, Wis., recently. He is supposed to have béen about 108 years old, but was still in robust health. He was out with his squaw In a canoe when it capsized. His squaw swam to shore, but he was too drunk to swim. William Norrls, an glabaman, has the doubttul honor of being the oldest counter- feiter in America. Norris is 100 years old, and has been engaged in counterfeiting for years, his age causing the United States officers to be merciful. It is said he has great mechanical ability, and can make any- thing from a needle to 'a whisky still. The latter he can improvise cut of a washtub. Well Known Ju Writer 111 CHICAGO, Oct. 11.—Mrs Clara Doty Bat well known as a writer of high class literature for juvenile readers, is Il beyond recovi and her death Is expected momen- tarily. Mrs. Bates has been identified prom- inently with the work of women's clubs, e LOCAL BREVITIES, aged 101, who lives ads and sews without ‘The women of the G public will give a dax Wednesday, October 16. Oficer Daniel P. Baldwin, who was so seriously injured on Saturday night, is able to be out. He Is still unable to swallow food, and is being kept on beef tea. He is fast regaining his strength, and hopes to re- sume his work in a short time, Harry Hamilton, an old min, was arrested yesterday afternoon, charged with being a suspicious character. He has been in the enltentiary for terms of two and four years respectively for burglaries committed around Couucil Bluffs. He will be held a few days. While Jacob Bergsteln, 1118 Capitol ave- nue, was standing around the polls at Twelfth and Capitol avenue at 8 o'clock last night some one pushed through the crowd and grabbed his watch out of his pocket, An hour later Officer Dollard arrested Jesse Howe, known to the police as “South Omaha Jack,” on suspicion of the robbery. Howe is a familiar character at the police station and has served time for such offenses be- fore. and Army of the Re- at Metropolitan hall, e PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS, Mr. and Mre. Dan Biukerd of Dorsey are Dellone guests Mr. and Mrs. J. W. are at the Dellone. Colonel A. E. Coe and Mrs. Coe of New York are Paxton guests. James C. Dahlman, mayor of Chadron and deputy state oll Inspector, is at the Paxton. C. McGarvey of Cheyenne, interested in the development of Wyoming ofl fields, 1s a guest at the Paxton. Humphrey of Norfolk Nebraskaus at the Hotels At the Dellone—~E. W, Lyman, Grand Is- land, At the Arcade-C. V. Halsclaw, Valen- tine; W, H. Wells, David City, At the Millard-W. A. Palmer, Charle Sadler, Alma; W, C. Brooks, Beatrice. At the Mer orge C. Shedd, J. E. Shue, Lincoln; L. A. Darryton, A. G. Fisher, Chadron; W. Cham! ?n. Clarks; E. A Rudiger, Nebraska ¥ Mrs. 8. B, How- ard, Mra. L. B. Terrill, ‘Hastings. KEIR HARDIE 0N AMERICA Noted English Socialist Labor Leader at Washington Hall, STRONGLY IMPRESSED WITH HIS TRIP Politieal Conditions Should Be Changed but the Greatness of the Country Surpassed His Dreams in All Respects. James Kelir Hardie, the Scotch coal miner who is now at the head of the soclalist labor party in England, and has served a term in the House of Commons, addressed a gathering of Omaha socialists and others at Washington hall last evening. He was ac- companied by Frank Smith, who was a mem- ber of the London County Council at the time Lord Rosebery was chalrman, and John Burns initiated the movement for municipalizing the street car system and in other ways introducing into practice that form of municipal soclalism which has given to him a reputation which is world wide. Frank Smith spoke first and set himself to explain the aims of the socialists. He contended that soclalism meant the aboli- tion, not the advocacy, of robbery and vio- lence; he claimed for labor its due share of the wealth that was produced by labor, ad- ding that that due share was the full share, and he endeavored to show that it was the present individual system which robbed the workingmen of his right, and enabled the duke of Hamilton in Scotland to collect $600,000 a year in rental for doing nothing from miners who were earning their $4 a week on his estates. The present system, according to his showing, was also responsi- ble for the violenco which put Eugene Debs in jail without trial by jury. MOTIVE OF HARDIE'S TRIP. Keir Hardie spoke for three-quarters of an hcur in a similar strain. His assertions, however, were less extravagant than Mr. Smith’s, and he spoke with a warmth that gove evidence of deep-seated conviction. Mr. Hardie sald nothing of his personal ex- perlences of oppression and scarcely referred to his work in the English Parliament. At the same time he was severe in his de- nunciation of the old parties, both in Eng- land and America, maintaining that they were like two farmers puiling at the two ends of a cow while a lawyer sat quietly between them taking the milk. As an evi- dence of the increase in poverty together with the increase in wealth, he pointed out that while thirty years ago there was no millionaire in the United States, there was also no man unable to earn his bread by daily toil. Mr. Hardie's present tour is undertaken for the purpose of aiding the soclalist labor party, and in this connectio he pointed out last night that while in C many, England and other countries this party was a power in all political movements, here the men of whom it would be composed were at strife among themselves—Catholic against Protestant, and so forth—until there was no party with power enough to make itself felt. Mr. Hardie leaves today for Kansas City. He now spent about two months in this country and having been to the Pacific coast and back, states that he will return to Eng- land considerably humbled. He says he has learned more of the greatness of this country, not only in size, than he had ever dreamed of before. r- o A Modern Woodmen of Amerlca—Neighbors you are requested to attend funeral of J. B. Miller of Auburn camp, Nebraska, No. 206 Will leave M. O. Maul's undertaking estab- lishment at 2 p. m., Sunday, October 13. All camps in city are invited to attend meet at Omaha camp No. 120, at 1:30 sharp. @. D. Rice, clerk. G. T. Elsasser, vice chancellor. ST e Dr. Bailey, dentist, Paxton biock. R $11.50 TO ST. Vin the Wabash R. R. For the St. Louis fair and exposition the Wabash will sell at above rate October § to 12, On Tuesday evening, October §, grand parade of the Velled Prophet. For tickets and sleeping car accommodations call at Wabash office, 1415 Farnam street, or at union depots, Omaha and Council Biuffs, or write G. N. CLAYTON, N. W. P. Agent, ——— Hayden Bros' add is op page 2. g o kers' Ex On October 8 and 22, 1895, the Unlon Pacific will sell tickets from Council Bluffs and Omaha to points south and west in Ne- braska and Kansas, also to Colorado, Wyo- ming, Utah and Idaho, east of Weiser and south of Beaver Canon, at exccedingly low rates. For full information ag to rates and limits apply to A, C. DUNN, City Ticket Agent, 1302 Farnam street, Omaha, Neb, el i Hayden Bros' add is on page 2. —— POKER FLAT LOUIS AND RETURN. TODAY. us N re Eight rsons Above Ground and Eighty Under It. The chaparral-fringed ground sluice lead- Ing to Poker Flat, called by courtesy a trai winds down a precipitous mountain, the summit of which is capped with eternal snows. Lesser elevations, some heayily wooded and others showing red-mouthed tunnel heads through scanty manzanita growth, stretch away for miles in every di- rection, with intervening takes and verdant valleys. Nature has revelled in strange con- tortions here, says the San Francisco Call, and the effect is wildly plcturesque. Theré is a variety that pleases the eye, a ruggs ness of outline, and a solemn grandeur that inspires awe. ‘Man feels himself indeed an atom here amid these mighty strokes of nature's hand. But it Is only a slcr from the sublime to the ridiculous, and looking down into a deep canon the eye rests upon that classic burg of mountain romance— Poker Flat. Our horses, long trained in mountain sery- lce, feel their way cautiously down the steep trail, which passes at frequent inter- vals along’ the edge of some bold precipice, where one misstep would land horse and rider on the jagged rocks 1,000 feet below. At a spring, fed by a rushing mountain tor- rent and bordered with crimson snow plant, we halt a few minutes for rest and water and then hobble on, trusting to our faithfu! anin safe passage down the stee way s peril in every sinuous curve and ous bowlder, ¥ hour of slow d ent reach_th of the canon by turn in the trail. At last we are In Poker Flat, the wild mining camp of 18 that turned out $700.000 in gold bullion In a sin- gle month and then celebrated the event with a triple hanging. It was Poker Flat, too, that experienced a spasm of virtue soon after the tragic affair, and under its regen- erating influence sent forth the outcast wan- derers of Bret Harte's story to die of cold and starvation on the snow-bound road to Sandy Bar. There are no Oakhursts at Poker Flat now, and “Uncle Billy” has no counterpart in {he present population. for the very simple reason that there are no sluice boxes to rob and no money to win over the gambling table. Of “Mother Ship- tons,"” however, there are several. Our greeting was not cordiai. Mr. Rugg Jaid it all to the snow plants which we had gathered, and, going Into mountain lore, told of families that had been separated by taking this bulb of evil omen into the sacred precincts of the home. To carry a snow plant is to have bad luck. Conceal it as you will, those with whom. you come in contact ‘will somehow divine your secret and shun you accordingly. Your pay stre will peter out, you will never hold more than one small pair, the slickens men from Marysville will catéh you napping over a monitor, and most likely your wife will run away with a tin-horn gambler, who will turn out later as a confirmed slulce robber—all this if you carry a snow plant 8o runs the folk lore of the hills. On the porch of one of the six houses that now constitute the town of Poker Flat, a large, red-faced woman sat in a rocking chalr’ smoking a clay pipe. She wore short green dress that fell an inch or s below the lu!m of a pair of strong cowhide boots (to which were att: 1 heavy brass spurs), a paper collar, cravat and faded straw ' hat, Thickly covered with chaparral, with here and there patches of wild sunflowers and lupine, interspersed with prospect holes, the slope presented a scene of utter ruin. Bome of fhe graves have wooden head: boards, others are marked by stakes, while many ' have nothing at all. There are eight people In the town and eighty sleep- ing In this ruined ground. Nearly all of them were lald to rest without religious rites of any kind other than the reading and we a sharp of & chapter from the bible by Charles Pond, was always selected for this service o3 account of his finevolce and oratorical e o I liked Pand, “The Ve alwaye o end," Henry W r_ione of the old’ settlers of Poker . “Heeould read better than any one else, and.so he did the burying, and at times' buskaess in this line was ex- ceedingly lively, Pwice a_ year a priest used to' come ‘Over -from Downieville, but we could not alwaye wait for an ordained clergyman, Things went with a rush_in those davs, and the elimate of Poker Fla seemed to 'be conduelve to sudden death,’ Gold was discoverad in Poker Flat in 1853, and two vears later 2000 people had athered in this moh canyon. There were fteen stores, five hotels, three dance halis, and seven gambling. hotses. In 1866 a o cus came to town amnd £old 1,500 tickets at $20 each. The following year a man named Joslyn picked up a nugget worth $1,000. To celebrate his good luck he got fu and offered the whole plece to 18 partner in exchange for the latter's wife, The man accepted, and withgut the formal- ity of divorce proceedings Joslyn and the woman_were married and left town, Two days after he committed sulcide at Gibson- ville. His former partner also left town and bought some land near San Jose. Two years ago, on August 22, he died wealthy and respected at a good old age, but it {s doubtful it more than half a dozen people in the world knew how the foundation of hig fortune was laid. Henderson's big iron safe, over which the noted faro dealer shed his heart's blood_In defending his money in September, 1867, stands a ruin by the trail, half buried In the sand, just above the Bittinger house. Poker fflat will not last long, and when the ploneers have all been gathered to thelr fathers this lively and romantic camp f early days will be forgotten, and given ain to be a eafe and sheltered feed- ing spot for wild deer, LASSOIN, A DROWNING A Hint to the I aving Service on the Value of the La t. “You were asking me a while ago about the lariat and its uses,” sald a westerner to the Washington Star, “and it reminds me of a time on one occasion when it served an excellent purpose as a life preserver.” “It isn't always used for that, is queried the writer. “Well, no,” laughed the westerner., “I've seen it do prompt eervice when there was no other rope handy and the hoss thief was. But this time was different,”” he went on. “I know, because I was the ono preserved. We were up in the canyon country looking for some cattle, and one of the boys and I had gone off the trail to a stream to take a bath, as you might call it in the east, for it was hotter than blazes and shade was not plentiful. We went into the water some dis- tance above a turbulent rapid and a waterfall of twenty-five or thirty feet, and as we didn’t go to swim so much as to get cool, all we needed was enough water to cover us, and that's all my companion took “I was, however, more ambitious, and hav- Ing been a fine swimmer when I was in the east, I thought I would branch out a bit. I was soon branching out extensively, and the first thing I knew the swift water caught me and down I went toward the fall. I tried to pull for the shore, but it was no good, and then T set up a yell that made the canyon €cho, and my partner came after me along the shore. I'was fifty feet out in the stream, struggling, and there wasn't any more sign of salvation for me than If I had been in midocean. “Down I kept going, whirled upside down and fired around promiscuously, until, about 100 yards above the final fall, I caught on a rock. It was just high enough to keep my head ont of water and I hung to it till my finger nails weemed to be embedded in it. My partner. at this juncture showed the kind of a fellow he was in an emergen for he appeared on shore with our two laria tied together, and just as I was about to let 80 and be smashed an the rocks below he swung that larlat as caol as be ever did from the back of his mustang and it dropped square over my head. The rest of it I am not very conscious of, because by the time he had pulled me ashore by the neck I was about as near hung as 1 ever want to be, but he brought me around all right in the course of a half an hour or %o, and I was quite as good as new again.” “That Wwas a narrow escape, writer, “And that was an odd fellow who saved me,” added the westerner, “for he was so mad about the scare I'had given him that T'll be blamed if he didn’t turn to before the day was over and give me the worst licking I ever got in my life for scaring him so.” i i < iy M N¢ MAN. 1o and turned remarked the The English papers were lately talking serfously of a_cartoon in one of our humor- ous weeklies showing a wedding party arriv- ing at the church, the entire company, cler- gyman, bride, groom, attendants and guests, all being mounted on bicycles, as indicative of the present devotion to the whesl. But what was merely foreshadowed in a spirit of jest has arrived in London—the invasion, by ‘the wheel, of social duties. It is told as a fact over there that a fashionable woman sent her groom with her bicycle the other day to a funeral instead of her carriage. Attached to the wheel was a wreath of white flowers, When young and poor one of the now wealthy citizens of Waterbury, Conn., loved a poor and beautiful maiden. So much dia he love her that he had her name and a striking portrait of her tattooed on his right Pond was a professional gambler, but arm. Her parents opposed the match and forced her to wed a rich sultor. The young man vowed he would never marry, and for forty years he remained a bachelor. He be- came many times as rich as the man who had wrecked his youth's dream of love. A few weeks ago he capitulated to the charms of one of Derby's fair belles, and propos:d marriage. She accepted on condition that he should have the tattooed reminiscence of his first passion removed. The sight of the symbol could not fail to prove embarrassing to both. Dr, Stivers of Monroe, Conn., was called in and performed a painful but not dangerous surgical operation, and the counterfeit presentment of his first love was replaced with an ugly scar as a reminder, so he now says, to his soon-to-be-bride of 'the folly of youth. Mrs. Adam Streib, an elderly woman living near Adrian, Mich, was cutting grass on the river flats with a sickle, when she was at- tacked by a rattlesnake which was after- wards proved to be five fect long, the larg- est seen in that vicinity for years. The snake circled about her ankle and struck her In the leg. Instead of screaming she fought the snake with the sickle she had in her hand. Twice the snake sprung at her after she had thrown him off, and the second time she severed his head with the sickle, but the same sweep opened a Geep gash in her leg and severed (wo veins. Death from bleeding stared the woman in the face, but she proved equal to the emergency and, going to the river, washed away the blood as best she could and sewed up the wound with needle and thread, which she had in her pocket Then she started to walk home 'and had neatly reached the house, when the thread gave way and the big wound began to bleed afresh. She had mo more thread and could think of nothing butia big brass safety pin which held her dress together. With this she gathered togethen the edges of the wound, and walked a quarter of a mile to her home. The doctors say that the profuse bleeding saved her from sericus results of the snake's bite. The way that wemen not respectable have put themselves in evidence on bicycles in New Ycrk City made ene man say the other day: “In a year not.a decent woman will venture to ride a wheel in the city.”” And then a lady answere “I don't belleva the women Will be se' feolish as to give up wheeling for any such iliogical reason. They might as weil quit eating because disreputable AT THE MISSIONARY MEETING Addresses of Weloome to the Delegates from Abroad. SEVERAL COMMITTEES SET AT WORK Convent in on Hears About the Cnuwe Forelgn Lands from Those Who Have HReen Labor- ing There. At the afternoon session of the Topeka branch of the Woman's Missionary society Mrs, Sisson led the usual devotional exer- cses, She was followed by son in a talk on China. She discussed progress of misstons in that country, and gave many personal experiences with the Chinese, describing thelr pecullar customs, religlons, and tke difficulty encountered in converting them to the Christian faith. She says that the only way to rescue the women from the menial positions they now have in all heathen countries Is to convert them. In all cases where families have renounced paganism the social position of the woman has vastly improved. This is in every case, and she has had, she says, more suc- cess in dealing with the Chinese women than with their lords and masters. She reported the foreign missions in a prosperous condi- tion in her territory, and thanked the mem- bers of the soclety for the kindness in send- ing her back to the field of her former labors. In answer to the question “Why Do T At- tend the Monthly Missionary Meeting?" Mrs. Lindsay of the First Presbyterian church read a paper, in which she assigned many reasons why she enjoyed the meetings, the main ones being that she knew they were organized in a good cause and for the selfish one that she enjoyed the soclal intercourse they afforded. She offered a welcome from her church to the visiting delegates, and extended its courtesies She was followed in addresses of welcome by Mrs. Burns of the First Christian church, Mrs, Coe of the Kounize Memorial church, Mrs. McKay of the United Presbyterian church and’ Mrs, Fuller of the First Con- gregational church. Mrs. 3. M. Torrington recited several experiences in her life as a missionary, and spoke enthusiastically of con- tinuing the work. Mrs. Burloek on the subject of mite the meeting was concluded discussion by several members trict work. The conference then ad- Journed to meet at 7:30. The following mem- bors were elected to the various committees during the morning session Courtesies of the Convention—Mrs. Phillipi. Resolutions—) Hyde. Heathen Isham. minating Committee—Mrs. J art, Mrs. T. C. Glendenning, Mr edict, Mrs. G. W. Bartley. Miss E. Pearson of the Des Moines branch of the Foreign Missionary society addressed the conference last evening. Miss Pearson is a very enthusiastic worker in the mission- ary fleld and has had a large and varied ex perience In foreign countries, principally in China. In her lecture she outlined the his- tory of Bishop Thoburn and his sister, Miss Isabella Thoburn, and gave them as exam- ples of what sacrifice and love for the work would accomplish. She then gave a detailéd history of the soclety from the time it was organized in Boston, with only seven mem- bers, to the present time, with an enroll ment of 153,590, Of the 253 missionaries now in heathen lands this society has 154, and property valued at $410,000. Miss Pearson stated that over $3,600,000 had been ralsed in America by the branches since its organi- zation, and that the work is still being pushed forward with unabated ardor. In China the soclety has Instituted forty-nine boarding Steven- the Miss M. 0 spoke at some boxes with length and the of dis- Mary Mrs. Mary Huron and Mrs. R L. Women's Friend—Mrs, Mary W. Stew- E. D. Ben- Madison and Miss E. F. women frequently make three meals a day.” A short time ago a lady in Paris became violently Insane on the street and was sent to an asylum. Her apartments in the Rue Rambu- teau—fine ones, for which she paid an annual rent of 2,000 francs—were then visited. An intolerable stench pervaded them. The de- mented woman had completely “tinned” them with empty sardine boxes, which emit- ted the pecullar perfume. There were four cartfuls of these odorous boxes The woman with a talent for dress says “Why won't women learn to put on thelr belts 8o that they will slope downward in front and up i the back? All good fashion plates make the walst line dip a little in front, and it is an easy thing to accomplish and yet only the cleverest women and the cleverest dressmakers manage it. It does everything for the walst In making it look slender and sweet.” schools for girls, with an attendance of 13,000, sixteen trade schools, where children are taught various useful trades, and thirteen hospitals for nvalids and old people. It had organized a society of 728 native women to work among the people and had found them mora successful in, some instances than the white teacher as they could approach stheir own race with greater ease and handle the language to much better advantage. These bible readers she described as being very much absorbed in their work, and she re- gards them as permanent conve to the falth. The lifo of Chinese women was stated as being one of humiliation and degradation, and from the fact that all of the teachings of the misslonaries tended to raise them from their lowly positions as their husbands’ serv- itorp, the missio ries were at once regarded by them as friends. Miss Pearson closed her address with an carnest appeal for church members to support the holy cause and sus- taln the missionaries in their efforts and privations. BOYS' At Hayden DAY TOMORROW. Bros'. lothing Depart- An fncomparable one days' bargain sale. prices and values that almost take one's breath away. Glving away with each knee pant sult Sat- urday from § a. m. to 10 p. m., one pair of Sandows' perfect pants fine all wool, double seat, double knee, sewed with silk and linen warranted not to rip, patent waist band. Regular §1.00 pants free with each and every suit all day tomorrow. | Double breasted, two-piece suits, ages 4 to 15 years, made (o resist all sorts of rough and tumble racket, all seams sewed with linen thread, double knees and seats; every garment strictly all wool, in black, blue and mixtures, tomorrows spectal price only $2. Largest assortment incity at prices $3.00, $3.25, $3.50 and up, as fine as made in Amer- fea at 25 per cent less than any other store, or your money back. Read column announcement on second page of special sales in silks, dress goods, cloaks, furnishings, notions and basement bargains. Attend the great sale of O'Connell & Ander- son furniture stock. Come to the store Saturday and you may get a high grade bicycle or a beautiful pres- ent absolutely fr HAYDEN BROS., Agents for Butterick's patterns, South. Start from Chicago Unjon station at 10:30 a. m., arriva Atlanta next afternoon. Parlor car Chicago to Cincinnatl, sleeping cars Cin- cinnati to Atlanta. Take the 8:15 p. m. train from Chicago Union station, reach Atlanta sccond morning for breakfast. Sleeping ca to Cincinnati and Cincinnati to Atlanta with- out change. This Is the Pennsylvania through route to Cotton States exposition via Chat- tanooga. Dering, 248 South Clark street, Chi- cago, for low rates, i Through Car Service, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn,, Angeles, Cal. Arrangements have Jjust whereby the Union Pacific and connecting lines will run a Pullman Tourist sleeper from Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., to Los Angeles, Cal., via Sloux City and Columbus, Neb., WITHOUT CHANGE; car to leave Minneapolis every Thursday, 7:40 p.m., St. Paul, 8:15 p. m., and returning, leave Los Angeles at 2:00 p. m., every Thursday. or comfort there fs mothing that excels the tourlst cars operated by the Union Pacific, and it is an established fact that this line makes faster time than any other line in the west, This already gives promise of being the popular line for California travel, and ap- plications for space in the sleeper should be made early. For information in regard to this through car line, apply to your nearest Union Pacl- fic agent, E. L. LOMAX, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, e Columbia Metal Polish. Cross Gun Co, to Los been completed ake p Presbyterian chui ts, Naturday, October Interment Prospect Hill beloved wife of Ik at her late F ho ‘al Sunday afternoon, 2:30 p. from Windsor ‘hotel. Interment Fleasant Hill cemetery, 1 , at 2 p. UFMAN aged Mar Kauf- sidence Boys' Suit Right or wrong, just or unjust, carry it dulge in. 81,25 $2.50 breasted—double make it prett $2.25 buys a boys' sult of tweed—quite pretty—t collar braided with a cuffs. Positively wor e what most A strictly all ped “with knees—double seat—p and lasting. here or a suit buys $5.00, durable (coat, v This is our sacrifice—your's you'll sacrifice nothing. Boys’ Suit B1.70 1 §2. ON SALE JUST NOW. it's a wonderful out regardless of any unfavorable £6.00 11 prove it when you come. wool silk cord atent during this skirmish as good a youths' suit littlo more, ever hought before. Is but afew moments, Come real soon. INTERESTING VALUES. ... Youth Suit 901 $2.26 | and we Intend to dealers might in- deal, criticism local A neat diagonally striped gray wool oo—double-breasted reefer style — deep n inch wide material, and so are the th $3.50, although you may pay more. will_obtain in any other store. That $2.50 suit will do it in a cheviot—chocolate color—garment a deep sallor collar. Double- elastic walstband—everything to on as A strong and est and long trousers), of gray striped m— cassimere, sultablo for every-day and school wear. But we promise that Might miss it. OWER Chicago, 245 Leke st., < 32180, 15¢h St d Today Charles H. Hoyt's company close its present successful engagement at Boyd's theater by giving two performances of Mr. Hoyt's latest farce comedy, “A Con- tented Woman.” The engagement will close this evening, and tomorrow afternoon the company will leave for San Francisco, where it has an engagement of four weeks. H. C. Miner's company In ‘“Human Hearts" closes the too short engagement at the Creighton with two performances today, the matince commencing at 2:30. The pro- duction fs staged with all the care char- acteristic of Mr. Miner's attractions, and is interpreted by a thoroughly competent com pany. The theme of the play is a touching one, causing at one time laughter, at another tears. “Human Hearts"” is a beautiful story ably told. “On the Bowery” will thrill and amuse Omaha playgoers for three nights, commenc- Ing tomorrow (Sunday) night. This Is the play that has Steve Brodie as a leading char. acter and a leading actor. Its author, R. N. Stephens, made it one of the most realistic portrayals of New York low life that the stage has secn. The long saloon scene has been recognized by critics and public as something really unique in_the way of life- like comedy. One of the dramatic climaxes of the play is the Jump made by Brodie from the Brooklyn bridge, at the end of the third act. By an ingenlous device the artist de- ludes the spectators into the fancy that they see all the way from the New York towers to those of the Brooklyn end of the bridge The means employed to create this effect of perspective have never before been used The speclalties introduced are all such as fit it and enhance the Bowery atmosphere of the play. The eale of seats will open at 9 o'clock this morning at usual prices. Manager Burgess announces for his next at- traction the comedians Conroy & Fox, and thelr company of players, singers and’ dan- cers, in an entirely new play, entitled “O'Flarity’s Vacation,” a three-act comedy by Arthur North and Hartwig Cassell. Al- though written for laughing purposes only, still “O'Flarity’s Vacation” s far more pre- tentlous than anything they have heretofore been seen in, and is unlike the so-called farce comedy, Inasmuch as it is possessed of an Interesting story. The piece Is enlivened with specialties from beginning to end, but they are brought in in a way that does not Interfere with the plot. Prominent in_the support of Messrs. Conroy and Fox are Miss Letta Meredith, Miss Susie Martin, Miss Ki tio Allen, Miss' Jean Evelyne, Hayes & P J. W. Kingsley, Dick Atchison and many lesser lights. This attraction opens at_the Crelghton for four nights, commencing Sun- day matinee. October 13. “Charley’s Aunt,” the now famous comedy success, Interpreted by the same excellent or- ganization that presented the comedy In all the large cities throughout the United States, will be seen here Thursday, October 17, af the Crelghton, opening a three-night en- gagement. “‘Charley’s Aunt” h tic circle pole in it tals have as been near the Antare and has almost touched the north peregrinations. All of Burope's capi- pplauded it, and the principal cities of America are still sounding its praises. It is now in its third year in Londen; Paris laughed over it, Berlin crowded its largest houses, even St. Petersburg ventured out of doors for it, and the Swedes and Norweglans have appladed it. Soain, France, Italy and Portugal have enthused over It in turn. The story s very simple, but the plot is natural -— R'S JURY DIVIDED, Difference of Opl Wreck in Unfon Pacific Yards. The coroner's inquest over the bodies of Thomas P. Armstrong, engineer, and Charles L. Barcus, fireman, who were killed in the railfoad wreck In the Unlon Pacific freight yard on Wednesday afternoon, was held at 2 o'clock yesterday. The examination of the witnesses, rallroad employes who were on the train at the time of the accident, lasted until 4:30 o'clock. The jury then adjourned to the freight yard and inspected the track It remained out nearly two hours, when it returned with a verdict signed by five of the six jurors. Willlam Irving refused to sign the verdict, and will bring In a minority re- port today. The verdict was in accordance with the facts as published, the jury stating that it was unable to determine the cause of the accident. The jurors signing the ver- dict are, D. H. Wheeler, William J. Kennedy, W. G. Shriver, E. G. Floyd and J. G. Cralg. The remains of Fireman Barcus were yes. terday taken to his late home In Monroe, Ta. Interment will be made Sunday afterncon The funeral of Armstrong will be held in this city at the same time. e Homeseeker's Excursions South Via the | WABASH RAILWAY. | On Tuesday, October the Wabash will | sell tickets at greatly reduced rates. For | further information and a copy of Hom sekers' Guide call at Wabash office, No. 1415 Farpam street, or write, . GEORGE N. CLAYTON, N. W. P. A, Oma e — COROY Regarding FROM Rend for Catal THE OTTO CAS ENCINE WORKS GAS DIRECT FROM THE TANK. LINE CHEAPER THAN STEAM. No Holler. No Steam. No Engineer. BEST POWER for Corn and Feed Mills, Baling Hay, Running Separators, Crenmeries, &o. OTTO GASOLINE ENGINES Stationary or Portabie. 110120 H. 8 to 80 H. P. gue, Prices, ete., describing work to be dons, & Walnat Sts., PHILADELPIIA. PA, 99096000003/ SOUTH OMAHA NEWS mm°m At last Monday night's session of the city, council Jack Walters introduced a resolus tion authorizing the mayor to appoint a 8pe= cial officer to watch the L street and the Q street viaducts and arrest all persons rid= lng or driving over them faster than a walik., Mayor Johnston placed a policeman on cach viaduct, and since Tuesday from two to three arrests have been made daily by the officers. Both viaducts are in miserable shape and need replanking at once. The city council has passed resolutions ehough to make & book ordering the rajlway companies to re- pair the two viaducts, but nothing Is obe tained from the managers of the roads ex= cept promises to look into the matter shortly, The city will now do the work and tax & part of the expense to the rallroads, Yesterday forenoon. a stotkman named Johnson was arrested and fined $1 and costs and last evening a arrant was sworn out for Morgan Heaffy for trotting his horse across the Q street viaduct. Some of the peoplo who are brought before Judge Christ- mann glve the excuse that they are tax- payers and ought to be allowed to hurry across the bridges it they want to. For the first day or two the police judge was inclined to be lenient, but now he will fine all comers who violate the ordinanc Enst N Street Grading Matte There does not seem to bs any immediate prospect of N street east of Twentieth being graded to the river before spring. Most of the property owners have signed a_petition asking the city council to do the grading, and plans have been made of the work. There fs one difficulty which stands in the way. From Thirteenth street to the tracks the land, which is owned by Maxwell & Willlams, has never been dedicated to the city. The courts have enjoined Williams from disposing of any of his property. Dick O'Keefe owns five lots down that way and will not sign the petition for grading until the land from Thirteenth street to the B. & M. tracks is dedicated. There ia no telling when the courts will settle the Willlams case, and just now the prospects for getting a_street (hrough to the B. & M, station and the river are exceedingly slim. win nkk More Wells, James Bailey, supcrintendent of the Cook Well company of St. Louls, returned to the city last evening after a brief absence and will proceed at once to bore additionel wells at the foot of M street for the new water works company. Tho company expects to placo a big gang of men at work laying a main up M street from the river to the stock yards inside of a month. Two temporary pumps and engines will be purchased and set up to furnish water for the stock yards until permanent buildings can be erccted. It the wells to be sunk show up as nicely as tho one tested some days ago there will be water to spare about the yards and packing houses. The water pumped from the well tested is almost as clear as crystal and is about the same as that taken from the Vista and Curo springs. Magie City Goas George Sutherland has return, to Chicag Miss Pearl Glasgow is still very low and there is very litlle hope of her recovery. Adah chapter No. 52, Order of the Eastern Star, will meet this evening at Masonio hall, The Current Topic club meets tonight in the assembly rooms at the High school builde ing Samuel Ensor, a brother of Dr. Ensor, who is at the South Omaha hospital sick, (s res ported & little better. Mrs. Denna Allbery of 816 North Twentys fifth street has gone to Blair to spend Sud- day with her parents. Nels Purinton, who has had a severe at tack of typhold fever, expects to be able to leave the hospital in three or four days, Yesterday afternoon a boy named Joseph ‘ejraska, an employe In the tin factory at Cudahy's, In an accident nearly lost his leff hand. ~ The hand was caught in a plece n{ machinery just above the wrist and wa nearly cut “off before the knife could be stopped.The hand hung only by a shred of esh, Real estate agents and owners here who havo postoffice sites to sell are hoping that the government will modify its specifications somewhat in respect to the depth of lots, Lots in South Omaha are 150 feet in depth, while the adyertisement for bids calls for & lot 130 by 155. , Should this change In the specifications bo made it will let in & nume ber of bidders who are barred at present, President W. B. Cheelg of the Board of Education has called a special mesting of the board for this evening. Several matters of importance will come up. One will be the supply of water at the East Albright school, This kchool was supplied by a well. The wel| has gone dry and something must be done a once. A deeper and better well may be or- dered dug. Possibly an arteslan well may bh put down, CALIFORXIA OR TEXAS, 1 from a trip Via Sunta Fe Route. For lowest rates on tickets and best se- commodations call on or address B. L. Palmer, P. A. Santa Fe route, room 1, First Hayden Bros' add is on page 2. Natlonal bank, Omsha,