Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 1, 1901, Page 4

SIFTING PETERSON MYSTERY Countrymen of the Dead Girl Take Part in the Investigation. JURY INSPECTS THE SCENE OF DEATH lice Department and Coroner Are Co-Opernting In Effort to Solve the Extraordinary Death of Mr, Colling' Housekeeper. The large crowds that attended the Peter- #on Inquest in the rooms of the coroner Thursday afternoon were poorly paid for | their trouble, as the witnesses told very | little that bas not already appearel in the | columus of The Bee, Seven witnesses were | examined. Of these (he most fmportant was J. 8. Collins, in whose home the dead woman had been employed, and Drs. Gil- bert and Powell, who conducted the post- mortem examination. When the last wite mess left the stand the inquest was ad- ourned untll 9:30 this morning In the expert testimony given by the physiclans they expressed the opinion that ry Peterson had come to her death as the result of blows in the face, or from baving fallen and struck her face against #ome hard substance, causing a concussion of the brain. They had reached the con- clusion, they sald, as the result of a proc- of reasoning known as elimination. All the other vital organs of the body were found to be normal, there was no evidence of polsoning and no evidence that the woman had sustained any violence save to | the head. so the deduction was that the | ®raln had suffered the injury. Indeed, the condjtion of the blood in the brain indi- cated that there had been a concussion. It was brought out that it is possible for tae Buman brain to sustain an injury from a Mow 80 severe as to cause death and still leave no tracés upon the organ that would be apparent t an autopsy The physiclans testified that in the nat- ural course of events the woman would have become A mother in about five month, which point was verified by the testimony of Dr. A. F. Jonas, who had examined her about two weeks before death, Jury Vislts Scene of Death, The coroner's Jury was sworn in shortly after 3 o'clock, and, In charge of the cor- oner and County Attorney Shields and companied by Mr. Colling, repaired at once to_the Collins home, 1711 Burt where the body had been found. The prem- fres were subjocted to a rigid inspection. The lock of every door and window was carefully examined. Mr. Collins conducted the party to the east room on the secoud floor, where he had first seen the dead woman, and pointed out the exact spot where she lay, describing her position, also | her location with reference to various awe | ticles of furniture. It was observed that the woman's attitude was that of one who bad just risen from the rocking chalr and while In the act had fallen forward upon the carpet. Had she taken two more steps her head would probably have struck the edge of a table, which was standing near the middle of the room. As it was, how- | ever, her face could bave struck nothing | harder than a well-padded Brussels ca pet. The stain made by the blood upon the fabric was still In evidence and Mr. Collins sald that the articles of furniture in the room had not been moved since the fatality. Having finished the inspection of the house the jury was taken back to the coro- ner’s office and Mr. Collins was placed upon the stand as the fiest witness. He related his version of the affair substantially as published in The Bee of Monday, though in greater detall. He and Mary Peterson, who ‘was his only servant, never ate at the same fable, he. said, and his relations with her were never other than those of master and servant. She had frequented dances and | once had remained out all night. So far as | he knew she never had men callers. Dr. A..F. Jonas had treated her for a minor disorder and while doing so had dis- covered her condition with reference fo maternity. She had denied the latter, say- ing that he must be mistaken Bert Stone, about 22 years old, living at | 2711 Hickory street, testified that he had been acquainted with the deceased for about five weeks, having first met her late in January at a dance given in Germenia hall. He had seen her at dances four or | five times since. Once he had escorted her to a dance, but had not taken her home. He had never been formally introduced to her, but had simply walked up to her In the hall and asked to see her dance pro- | gram. She had never bailed him out of Jnil, he sald, nor had she promised to buy him an overcoat. Asked the names of her young woman friends he said he knew them only as Clara, Nell and Mary He's Married N The other witnesses were E. J. Hamlin, drug clerk, and Will Pamp of Irvington, who said he knew the deceased two years #go, but since his marriage had lost trac of her. Hamlin's testimony was not im- portant. ¢ Now that a part of the truth about the death of Mary Peterson has become public 4 large number of representative Swedes of the city have expressed deep interest and a determination to sift the matter to the bottom. Yesterday a movement was on foot to employ an attorney to represent the relatives of the dead girl at the in- queat, and 1f necessary take action to bring the guilty parly to justice. 1t was thought at one time that the testi- mony of Ida Carlson would tend to show that Mary Peterson had committed sulcide, but the coroner has since had an interview with her in private and he now thinks that the evidence she will give will be without significance in this direction Miss Carlson said she had a talk with Mary Peterson on Saturda id he, “und that Mary bade her goodby, with the re mark, ‘This may be the last time I will see you.' She says she thought nothing of this at the time, as Mary had been talking of going to Chicago to have a surgical operation performed, and she thought the deceased meant that that would be the last time they would meet before she started on her trip. And I think, perhaps, that was what she did mean. Unsupported ax it is by other witnesses or by circum- ——— e RECOVERIES FROM GRIP, Mrs. E 1. Masters, at her home in Moni- tor, Ind., used Dr. Mil Nervine and Pills to cure after offects of grip. — | Mrs. A. E. Lopeer, In the little town of Modelia, Minn, used Dr. Miles' Pain Pills | and Nerve and Liver Pills and was well in | & few days. stree President McKinley is slowly recovering trom grip and its after effects. George J. Flannery was relieved of the awful pains In the bea in ffteen minutes | by the use of Dr. Miles' Puin Pills. Now he is rapidly recovering at his home in Buffalo, N. V. Speaker Henderson is again in the chalr in the house of representatives afier se- vere attack of grip. J. Heifrey, foreman at the Westing- factory in East Pittsburg, had a se- attack of grip, but he used Dr. Miles' Nervine and Pain Pills and was soon back in his place. Rev. C. Body was in a serious condition | at his home in St. Paris, O, but Dr. Miles' Nervine and Nerve and Liver Pills pulled ances, it is certalnly very slender evi- dence that the girl committed suicide the Future, Mme. S8embrich has made the hotel homelike, in the customary prima dcrna fashion, with photographs and flow- Royalty usually predominates among the portraits, but Mme. Sembrich has varied this scheme of decoration with some pho tographs of a more personal nature. These ivclude pictures of her two sturdy young who are now busy at their studies in Dresden They will never be musicians,'™ thelr mother says, without a trace of regret in her volce, 'or they seem to have no tal- ents of that kind. They study music just as other children do, but neither one of them has shown any gift for it."” This is a rather unusual exception to the laws of heredity, as their father is a mu- sician and 18 a professor at the conserva- tory in Dresden when he is not traveling with his wife. Dr. Wilhelm Stengler his name, and there never was a prima donna’s busband on these shores who was enabled, by his beard and spectacles, to present quite so serious An appearance. Mme. Sembrich is a Pole by birth and by training as cosmopolitan as the rest of her profession. She speaks English with some fluency and her accomplishments in the line of languages include German, French and Itallan, besides her native tongue, Any one of these 18 likely to be drawn upon when the most expressive word is sought. Put she ia proud of her English and clings to it. In view of the amount of practice she has had her skill in it is considerable. “Nobody knows how much I regret not to reappear here in opera,” she said, “‘but 1 am in hopes it may be possible at som: other time. I hear the Americans like concerts now, and maybe they will like me just as well in them as in opera. And the Wagner operas are nowadays 8o much sung But | am sure that ‘The Barber of Seville’ and ‘The Daughter of the Regiment' would be popular now if the people ever got a chance to hear them. Personally, I prefer 1o sing the Mozart operas. 1 llke the music of them better than any other in the worl But 1 suppose that these older operas are losing their popularity, because there are really so few singers who can do them jus- tice. 1 often wonder where the singers nre to come from. There are none for the Italian operas and there are none who will be able to take the place of the singers who have been famous in the Wagner works. Where are the women to come from who will take the places of Lilli Lehmann, Theresa Malten and Rosa Sucher? There is none iIn Germany Certainly there (s none in Italy, ‘The art of singing seems to be dead there, If one can judge from the methods of the young Italian singers One case shows strikingly (he way In which the art has declined. Only a short time before I left Europe I heard a young woman sing who four or five years ago was the best of the Ttallan prima donnas. She Is a charming presence on the stage and a de lightful actress. Now she is not more than 0 years old. But her voice is nearly gone. At her age she ought to be reaching the best period of her career. It is coming to an end instead. There are no teachers left there, for one thing, and the style of Italian music written now does not de- mand fine singing, as the older operas did. After a year or two, in which they learn some operas of the old repertoire, they go on the stage. Then they begin to sing the modern Italian music, or, what is worse for them, the Wagner operas, and within a few years their voices are gone. But, above all, it is the lack of good teachers that is responsible for their poor trawming. 1 was a pupil of the older Lamperti, and when he died one of the. best was.lost. Today 1 know of very few women who know what the bast metholls of the old singers were. Adelina Pattl, above every- body else, is a singer. She knows all about the art that can be taught. Marchesi is a great teacher, and so is Artot-Padilla. But there are so' few teachers now that the absence of well-trained singers is not sur- prising. One need think only of the work that used to be necessary to see the differ- ence now. Formerly years of study were necessary; now within a few months a girl thinks that she is ready to begin her career. 1f she has a great voice, then success Is possible in the heavier Wagner roles. They need no singing: all that is necessary for them Is plenty of voice. But the woman who would sing Elsa, Elizabeth, Senta or Eva must know how to sing.”" With the exception of occasional ap- pearances at Covent Garden, Mme. Sem- brich has of recent years appeared only on the continent. Three or four months of the winter season have been spent in St, Potersburg. The rest of the year has been divided among Austria, Germany and Spain. Spring will soon be here—~how are you golng to get that new wheel? Read The Bee's special offer. sons Though the Woman's Christian Tempel ance unjon’s second meeting of each month was originally intended to be devoted to literature, Wednesday's session was given over entirely to business and there was s0 much of it that the allotted hour was in- adequate and the session held until loug after 5 o'clock The secretary’s report included an usual number of communications and fn addition to these there were reports of special committees, besides the regular business. As chairman of the committee to investigate the custom of the South Omaha Institutions paying their employes by check, the larger part of which are cashed in the saloons and spent there, Mrs. Towle of South Omaha reported that the packing houses consider the check system the sefest method for the protection of the majority, as paying in cash would only incroase the danger of the men being “held up” on their way home. It is possible for the men to get their money at the banks the evenings that the checks are issued, but the ma- jority of those who go to the saloons do 8o hecause they run book accounts there and in consequence the saloon owns thelr checks before they are issued. This con- dition of affairs explains the dificulty the men’s wives encounter when they under- take to get the money at other places. A un- | detatled account was read of a proceeding in the state senate not long since, in which, by a small vote, that body failed to put itself on record as opposed (o the method now in use in South Omaha The rasult of the conference of (he com- wittees from the political and social sci- ence department of the Woman's club and the Woman's Christian Temperance union vegarding the proposed co-operative work at the Tenth Street City mission was re- ported. The department will do nothing until the possession of the building Is set- (led, but will in the meantime coutribute as individuals to the support of Miss Magee's classes. Miss Magee reported that all women and children had received shelter at the Woman's Christlan Temperance union cot- tage and that eighty-nine classes had been beld at the Tenth Street City mission since the last report. seventeen of these classes being & boys' temperance elub, supported by the union, and the others are the chil- dren’s industrial classes and the gospe! services. Mra. L. W. Shadel of Odell, who is in him through all right, charge of the Woman's Christian Tempers THE OMAHA DAILY RIDAY, her rooms al | is | | slignt | hous MRS. MARY ADAMS IS HELD | Alleged Acid Thrower Must 8tand Trial in District Qourt. SHE IS BOUND OVER BY POLICE JUDGE Defendant Asserts She Went to Loe Street Home (0 Take Her Own Life in Presence Mr. Adams, st Mary Adams, on trial in police court on the charge of dashing nitric acid into the face of her former husband, Joseph Adams, declares she went to the Adams home on Losust street the night of February 15 for the purpose of committing suicide in the presence of the man whom she alleges de- serted her for a younger woman. This story was told by the accused woman | wife with throwing into his face. on the witness stand yesterday morning. She denies absolutely that she went to the house intending to inflict any harm upon her former husband. The object of her nocturnal visit was, she says, (o see if the reports that had come to her concern- ing the relations between her former hus- band and a girl whom she had always con- sidered in the light of a sister were really true. She asserted emphatically that she a1d not throw acld of any kind iuto her former husband's face At the conclusion of the attorneys’ argu ments late in the afternoon, Judge Learn announced that probable cause of guilt had been shown and held Mrs. Adams to the district court under bonds of $500. The amount w mtisfactory to her attorney ond the lond will be furnished Friday. Deputy County Attorney Thomas announced | that she would be given a speedy trial In| the district court. Mrs. Adams was the principal witness in her own behalf. Before she took the stand but little testimony had been introduced by the defense. Dr. Ames, police surgeon, told of dressing the woman's wounds when she was brought to the central station after her encounter with Joseph Adams. He said the head was cut in two or three places and seemed to doubt the possibility of the wounds having been inflicted by a rounded cofteepot. On cross-examination Dr. Ames admitted that the cuts might have come from contact of the head with the Jagked glass of a broken window. Mrs. Adams was dresesd in mourning. There was no contrast in the somber garb except that formed by the white bandages covering her head, which were easily dis- tinguishable under the outer fold of crepe During the first part of the examination she replied to the questions asked her in a clear voice. When she related the inci dent of her arrival at the house on Locust street and her former husband's appear- ance at the door, her calm demeanor gave way to the most violent emotion. Fre- quently Mrs. Adams was unable to continue her narrative because of weeping. Tinge of Pathos in Th “I knew Joe Adams,” she said, “for sev- enteen years. Sixteen years of this time we were married. Last spring we had a misunderstanding. He seemed troubled and morose and told me his bus ness affairs were worrying him. He wi not the same Joe as of old, and when he suggested that 1 go away for a while and leave him alone, I reluctantly consented. 1 went to Grinnell, Ia., some time last spring. “Two weeks ago I came to Omaha. 1 got oft the train at Council Bluffs and when I was 80 near my old home, where 1 had been 50 happy, and thought of the things I bad heard about my husband, I was nearly crazy. . S0 1 went to a_ drug store and bought a small bottle otbarbélic acid. ““The following Priday night T determined to find out the truth and drove out to Joe's 1 sent a messenger boy to the front door and I went around to the back. I wanted to see Joe. 50 I intended to walk right into the house by the back door. I thought it would be open. Joe and I never locked it. “Arriving at the house I went to the back door. It was locked and I knocked. It opened Just a trifle, but 1 shall never forget what I saw. I crlied: ‘My God, Joe, it is you ‘He ralsed over his head a small hatchet and struck me twice that I remember of. The pain was awful and the blood was a over my face. After that 1 remember but Iittle! I know I got into the house in some manger. How, I do uot remember. I was suffering intense pain. I remember 1 walked through the ball to the door of what I sup- posed was the dining room. 1 thought surely I would die, and T didn’t care. Then I remember my busband came and kicked me out the back door, and the next thing 1 remember of was seeing Captain Hayes as he helped 1ift me into the patrol wagon." ‘When the door opened for you, Mrs ance union edition of the Woman's Weekly, shortly to be published, was present and gave & general report of the work and what the features of the edition would be. The work at the Tenth Street miseion has become so extensive that the union deemed it advisable to appoint a committea to consult with Miss Magee. This com- mittee is to consist of three members and will greatly facilitate the work of all con- cerned, as these three women can by per- sonal contact with the work judge the better of Its needs and relieve Miss Mageo of many responsibilities that she has pre- viously had. A meeting of the executive board of the union has been set for next Tuesday. Nebraska City Is the wcene of an tciive convention of the Woman's Su¥rige associa- tions of Otoe countv toda: the session (o bold during the evening a Mrs. [9a L. Denney of Tekamah, corresponding secre- tary of the state assoclation, was in € maha this week and reports the women of Burt county preparing for a convention to be held the latter part of March The possibilities and practicabilities of the teachers aonuity ‘and aid assoclations, which In the last few vears have so bound tha teachers together and made possible to them in many of the privileges that are now enjoyed In many of the eastern citles, is admirably il- lustrated in an institution of this kind now in operation in Philadelphia The sssociation was established largely through the efforts of the Philadelphia High school alumnae and now has a permanent fund of §185,000. The interest from this fund, with the dues of its large member- ship and an annual appropriation from the ity and state of $20,000, is devoted to pay- ing anuuities, which amount to $15,000 yearly. The devolional commiltee of the Young Women's Christian association has arranged for the Thursday night bible claes to re open mext Thursday evening under the in- struction of Mrs. Borsheim. il was w reluctance that the resignation of Rev Sumner Mertin wes accepted not. long #go. but the committee feel that it has been most fortunate in his successor, Mrs. Bo sheim being u graduate of the Chicago Moody Bible institute is espectally fitted for the work. The life of Paul will prob- ’ ney, “did ¥ of Adams, 1 her atto throw any nitric acid into the face Adams "' 1 414 not any nitric acid “DId you have any intention of doing in Jury to Adams “My she tearfull 1 didn't “What did you Intend to do when you rived at the house In case you found your husband was living with another woman? | “I had determined,” she answered, “that {1 1 found out the awful truth that life | would not be worth living any longer. I | didn’t care what became of me. 1 thought | that all my hopes in life were gone and |that T should end it right t 1 had a { bottle of acid fn my muff. 1 in- | tended to swallow it and kill myself questio ' Joe Joe, responded. “No, carholl Recognive Bottl the bottle which Kitchen on the Mary Ad the nitric his former The wite seen the On (ross-examination was found in the Adame’ night of the trouble was shown ams. It presumably containe acld that Mr Adams charges ness denied she had bottle, “The bottle ‘‘was a smaller one, tle before.' “But what were you doing with the re- volver you had with you that night?" asked Prosecuting Attorney Elmer Thomas “I was desperate,” the woman answered “In case 1 should find my worst fears real ized 1 intended to commit sulcide right be- fore my hushand's and let him what he had driven me to. If the carbolie acid falled in its work 1 intended to shoot thyself."” Mra. Adams denied that she had gone stairs after she entered the how: threatened to kill Clara Adams, the second wife. “I did not burst a water pitcher upon the floor of the room where Clara fs said to | have been hiding.” she declared. “I did not even go upstairs The last was Robert Gilder newspaper reporter. He created some mer riment by describing a bloodthirsty citizen whom he met on the night of the trouble near the Adams house. “I rode out to the scene of the trouble in the patrol wagon.' sald Mr. Gilder. “When we got into the vicinity of the Adams house the first thing we saw that looked suspi clous was a man prowling about in a long bath-robe and with a big revolver in his kand. He was at the corner of Eighteenth and Locust streets, just a few steps from the Adams home, but he studiously avolded the place. ‘What's the matter th patrol conductor asked him. ‘There been a woman murdered over th he re- plied, ‘and I'm looking for the murderer. ‘You're liable to find him {f don’t watch out,’ the officer replied, ‘but the best thing you can do is to go home and get to bed." that over of carbolic acid,”" she 1 never saw tha sald bot~ up and witness you Grip made me very weak and nervous, with tightness of chest and headache. Dr. Miles' Pain Pills and Nervine gave me quick reliet.”—Mrs. Clarinda Butler, W. Wheel ing, O. HYMENEAL. Pardee-White, SLOAN, la., Feb. (Spe Maud White of Lakeport and Cly dee of Sloan were married Wednesday night at the home of the bride’s mother Ly Rev. C. M. Van Martin of the Methodist Episcos pal church al.)—Mliss de R. Par Urwi hat. LOUISVILLE, Neb., Feb, 28.—(Special.) — Charles E. Urwin and Miss Susie Brobst went to Plattsmouth today and were mar- ried by the county judge, returning this evening. The young people are both of this place. - Vi bave 0l "Foley's tloney and Tar cough medicine and think it is the best in the world," says Chas. Bender, a news- dealer of Erie, Pa Nothing else as good. Myers-Dillon Drug Co., Omaha, Dillon's drug store, South Omaha. LOCAL BREVITIES. Mrs. Mary J of D.'W. St at the family teenth street N holice patrol wagon cam shops Thursday resplendent W paint, varnish and new cushior at once put in service at tlon. The Woman's alliance of Unity church gave the fourth of a series of soclals in the Metropolitan hall Jast night. One hundred couples were present and the evening was spent in dancing Miss Myrtle Aldrich, aged 18 years, died hursday the family resldence, Howard str ter a year's fliness. faneral will be from the residence o'clock Friday afternoon Waste paper burning in a the Tler Grand hotel Stevens, aged 38 years, wife ens, died Thursday afternoon residence, 1101 South Nine- out of the th bright nd was the central sta- T Thi at 2 store Sixteenth and Jackson streets, the fire department a run shortly before 6 o'clock Thursday night The damage was nominal W ot ably be the class Since the privileges of the international examinations have been granted the as soclation, the educational work has taken almost first place in the interest of many of the members, greatly to the of the education committee, ar this in- terest will make it possible for them to ex- tend the work on the broad scale that wishes to adopt. At present there are classes In the following branches, German, French, English history, English literature, elocution, dressmaking, chorus music and lectures In hyglene and physiology, and the advancement in the standards of these classes in their organization is very marked. The branches embraced under the international examination are follows Commercial and politieal arith metic, bookkeeping, busicess mer- cial law, stenography and typewriting, in dustrial art course, free hand drawing, do mestic art and domestic sclence, scientific course, hygiene, prysiology, algebra, geom- etry, physic and chemistry, unguage course, English, French and German It s the Intention of the committee interest the members as far as possible dur ing the summer and by October 1 to open classes inas many of the branches as at least 8ix of the members shall desire to take up. The syllahi for these various courses are arranged and sent out at the beginning of each term by the leading educators of the day, among them being Calvin Thomas. Walter 8. Perry, and Hamilton W. Mabis they also being the judges of the examina tlons. The English literature classes have this week made a valuable contribution to the assoclation library The conditions for test, which opens on May 31, have recently been given out, they are most liberul and the rewards are be the highest ever offered by tion. ‘The trip to Lake Geneva, with all expenses pald is the most attra tive, andsthis une alone will not be dupli cated. The summer conference of both th associations, which held there year are a greal feature to all association members and with the conference privileges included this first premium will be eagerly worked fer. The other premiums includ a number of the special association priv leges and subcriptions several of the leading magazines, all of which will be duplicated, the beginning of her vork with course and con to a the membership cons Monday aund closes the ocla- Wisconsin be 4422 | satisfaction | MARCIT ‘ [ Gonsolidation of Two Syatems Awured by (Like a Worm i’ the Bud Her | Thursday's Big Purchase, | s | BOTH TO USE KANSAS CITY T[RMlNAL{ crtten Tnctuded in the Deat | Several Minor Transe | | actions Are tncldental | | | % | and KANSAS wade of CITY, P the purchuse of | Kansas City, Fort & | way system by investors who interested the St. Louis & San Francisco railroad | w transaction which will result in the con solidation of the 'Frisco and Memphis sys- tems, It the | by Announcement | the | rail- | Is coutrol of Memphis soott said that the major iphis was purchased for the ny Plerce of 8t. Louls, J Seligman & Co., J. Kennedy Todd and Clalr & Co. of New York | houses. who are heavily interested Frisco The Memphis and ‘Frisco consolidation will make a system with 3,002 miles of rail road, of which the Memphis contributes 1.260 miles. The Memphis extends from Kansas to Birmingham, Al with branch lines in Kansas and Missouri. The isco nas lines from St. Louis and Kan< sas City and Elleworth, Kan., into Arkan- Oklahoma, the Indian Territory and Texas. It was formerly a part of the Santa | ¥e system | The Memphis properties deal are the Kansas City, Fort Scott | Memphis, the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham, the Kansas City, Clinton & Memphis Rallway and Bridge company and the Kansas City Belt railroad. The con- solidation will give the 'Frisco road use of the valuable Memphis terminals in Kan- sas City, entrance to the unfon station and controlling interest in the Kansas Belt railroad B. L. Winchell, president of the Memphis railroad, who is in Florida, wired the fol- lowing statement today regarding the deal Nothing has cver meant more good for Ki City commercially than the plan contemplated for unification and enlarge it of the Memphis system The new apital will be available for needed ad- | | ditions to mileage, all of which will largely | benefit both Kansas City and the Memphis lrn.vvl Much valuable additional IA‘rr‘V||r3‘ will be opened to Kansas City jobbers ulnl: manufacturers The present organization | of the road will be maintained through- | out.” | The Memphis road today the | Deckerville, Osceola & Northern road. which runs from Deckerville, Ark to Laux Ark., forty-five miles northeast of Deckerville, on the Mississippi river. The | road was owned by the Pond-Decker Lum- ber company | | is interest Me H y in Frisco and W & by in « King the in the & included ns purchased BOSTON, Mas . 28.-The sale i to be made on the following basis: K. City & Fort Scott preferred stockholde are to receive $150 in cash, common stock- | holders in cash and 25 per nt in se curities; Kansas City, Memphis & Birming- ham stockholders, $30 in cash; income bond- holders, 5 per cent; second mortgage bonds redeemable at 95 It is understood that the exchange of the income bonds fs not obligatory. Nathaniel Thayer, chairman of the board of directors of the Kansas City & Fort Scott and of the Kansas City, Mem phis & Birmingham roads made known the facts of the agreement today. He sald: I shall remain as chairman of the board of directors and Mr. Marri- man will continue as treasurer and Mr Winchell as president. The general offices will remain in Boston ——e “I had been in bed three weeks with grip when my husband brought me Dr. Miles' Nervine, Pain Pills and Nerve and Liver Pills. 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Y., because they have found in his meth- ods an escape from the o obnoxious examinati agreeable local (reatment 80 many home physiclans a rule not perience and success of thousands of wom to determine from of women a necessary in n the form of d treat. vited to consult Dr. ¥ All correspondence is sacredly confidential professional and the same strict guards the written confk as Is observed by Dr. Pi in personal the In Buffalo, N. Y A WOMAN' STATEM health, “1 enjoy good Plerce's Favorite den Medical Discovery,” Schnetyer, of Pontiac, L “Have taken six bottles was taken sick last Febry tors here called it ‘Grip. woeks in bad, then when I had ‘Displacement.’ Prescry, any length of time. doctor would insist the examination, and that I to, unless 1 was dangerous it 1 kn drawe a curtain over her the than to submit to the examination of some fasten conceals her condition and endures a daily enables him at once the written statements Sick women consultations with women at alids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Had such aches and pains in my back and limbs could not stand would be too late to do any good #on had your book, Common Senso Medical Adviser, and I thought from reading it that Dr. Plerce's medicine would do me more good than all the home doctors—and %0 {t has. 1f any one had told me it would do me so much good I would have said, Oh, no, not that much good.' I can truly #ay that 1 was surprised at the benefit I received. 1 can do all my washing and also tend my flower garden. In fact | am on my feet most all the time. An old friend of mine said to me, ‘Why, what is tho mat ter with you? You are getting young again.' told her I had taken six bottles of Dr. Plerce's medicines, and it she would do likewise she would feel ten years young- er, too Damask touches the dom an‘'s nature. She ures until endur- ue. This is espe e modest minded Qiseases peculiar erable and unhap- oy know that they assistance, they ills they know However Doctor wonderful Plerce's it may seem, that Favorito Prescription s uniformly successtul in curing discases pe culiar to women, it is not so wonderfui as it appears. It 1s not wonderful to us, that a machine made to pesform a certain task omplishes it per- fectly. We do not wonder at engine which pulls the train of cars, though we know rothing of mechanics We know the engine was made to do this thing. We do not wonder at & mu sical artist liko Paderewski who sits at the instrument and produces perfect har mony. We know that con sant practice enables his perfect command of the key board. Let an inexperienced player sit down to the pi ano, and the same keys falsely touched jar into discord. It is so with Dr Plerco in his experience and practice of medicine “Favorite Prescription’ ouly does what it was made (0 do. Dr. Plerce knows the whoe gamut of the female organism. Where a less ex- perienced practitioner pro- duces u discord, his experl ence skill enables the n of perfect harmo ) difference between the success of Dr Plerce and the ordinary practii- tioner {n the treatment and cure of womanly ailments is the differencc between skill, and success on the one hand &nd a casual experience on the other GAINED TEN POUNDS. “I took four bottles of Dr. Plerce's Fa verite Prescription and two of his ‘Goldeu Medical Discovery' and received great bene fit writes Mrs. Elmer 1. Sheare of Mounth ope, Lancaster Co., Pa. "1 do not have tiw #ick spells as formerly. Before I took your medicine 1 could hardly walk, at times when I had uterine trouble. I can truly say that after taking four of Fa vorite Prescription and two of Gol den Medical Discavery’ I did not suffer any more. 1 gained ten pounds in weight. lu June I commenced using the medicine and in July helped to harvest the wheat, so you may know that I did not feel very bad.” Dr. Plerce’s Favorite Prescription estab- lishes regularity, dries disagreeable drains heels inflammation and ulceration and cures fewale weakness. It tranquilizes the nerves, encourages the appetite, and in- duces refreshing sleep. As a tonic for week, worn-out, run-down women, it is unequalled. It makes weak women strong sick women well Accept no substitute for “Favorite Pre- scription.”"The only motive for substitution is to enable the dealer to make the little more profit pald on the sale of less merl- torfous medicines. GIVEN AWAY. The Common Sense Medical Adviser re- ferred to in Mrs. Schnetyer's letter is sent FREE on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing, ONLY. This great medical work coutains over a thousand large pages and more than seven hundred illustrations. Send 31 one-cent stamps for the cloth-hound volume, or only 21 stamps for the book in paper covers. Address Dr. R. V. Plerce, Buffalo, N. Y’ ac the and product ¥ s reason many A upon her. She use her mind submission to the local practitioner ve written grate- Plerce, of Buffalo, ffensive questions ons and the dis s insisted upon by These things are Dr. Plerce’s ex- treating hundreds isease which it Is are in- . by letter, free it e, privacy dences of women erce and his staff T thanks ption” and “Gol- writes Mrs. J. 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