Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 6, 1901, Page 8

S THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JULY 6. 1901 NEWS OF INTEREST FROM IOWA. COUNCIL BLUFFS. MINOIL M 10N, Davie sells drigs. Btockert sells lace curtains, Willlams mukes $4 photos for $2 Fine A B C beer. Neumayor's hotel Victor heaters. Bixby & Son, agents. Wollm sclent wptician, 408 I8 way Born, to Mr. and Mrs. A. Whitelaw, a daughter [i . Alexander & Co, plctures and tram el W wo _berrypickers at 134 East Yroadwny at T m Born, to Mr, and Mrs, Wallace Mellor of Bouth 'First street, w son | Miss Nettie Gray of Fourth street fs visite g tricnds in Walnut, 1 Mr, and Mrs. Walter $pooner are epends tng the vacation in ¢ e W el wdertaker at-intector, 100 Souil Malh street. 'Ph L ¢ work done at the popular Eagle i Broudway. 'Phona 15 Miss Mabel Thornton of Avenue A s | entertatiing Mies Jane Thumpson of Jur- Tngton City Clerk Phillips wus at his office ves- terday morning, but suffered a relapse and had to return home Dr, Mary Tinley and Miss Aurclla Tinley left last evening for a trip to the Buffalo exposition and other castern point i City Treasurer True pald off yesterday $7.00 of the interscction paving and grad- ink bonds of the issue of December, 195§ A meeting will bo_held Tuesday evenin next at the First Preshy N church to reorganize the Pottawatt County Bible society White Rose Rebokah lodge will meet t night for the installation of officers. Re- freshments will be served at the close f the sesston Peter Thomas nvestigated the cauge of a lant firecrucker not going off on (ime at Lake Manawa Thursday. He now carries his right hand in a sling The Unfon Pacific bake ball team defeated the Minden club Underwood on_the Fourth to 1 ffelder, for the Union Pacitics allowed but one hit throughout th Bame re. Dalton, lving at the corner of Fit- teenth street ‘and First avenue, hus been reported to the Board of H 18 suffers ing from smallpox and the re ice has been quar 1ed. Mrs. 8. C. Thompson and Gladys and Helen, who have | rs.” Thompson's ' sister, Mre. wpie, will retus thelr home In field, ‘Neb., today The preliminary hearlug of Brown and Ed Bradt, charged hy Deputy Fish and Game Warden Brown with fifegal fishing In Lake Manawa, |s set for this morning In Justice Ferrier's court I'runk Hetts, the Omaha youth charged with obtaining money under false pre- e on the Fourth ng held until his Betts 1s on'y 16 tenses at the butchers' p at the Driving park Is A parents are heard from years old Dr. Donald Macrae, Jr., has been notified that the unnual meeting of the Natfonal Soclety of the Army of the Philippines will_be held in Salt Lake City August to 15, Dr. Macrac I8 sixth vice president of the soclety Harry Hrown, chalrman of the city re- publican central committee, stated yesters the cted to call the primaries { delegates to the county Iy 18 or 19, The county convention will be July 23, Mayor W. 8. Prouty of Charles City, Ta., bride, formerly Miss Alice Marriett of i%, have arrly in the city on a visit nds and relatives. Mr. Prouty ex- pects to remain here untll after the meet- ng of the State Bar assoclation. Bmall boys and some tirecrackers left over from the Fourth gave the fire depart- a run yesterday morning to the resi- of Thomas Skinner, jr., 2020 Avenue The burning of a bale of Kay and the rehing of the barn was the only damage, Owing to the attorneys being engaged elsewhere, the case against William Vance, whom Mrs, Kattellman accuses of stealing a $20 gold plece which she alleges to have puia him in mistake for 31, was continued n police court until this morning. Vance 15 out on bail. John Metz of the city ofice of the Illinols Céntral raliroad was® severely burned by a cannon firecracker while ~ standing 1n front of the office. The firecracker was hurled from the other side of the street an unknown party and exploded at Mr. Motz feet. The eleventh annual reunfon of the Potta. wattamie Veterans' assoclation will he at Tancock August 21, 22 and 2. The first day will be devoted' to the Modern Wood- men of America and other socleties. Senator J.P. Dolliver and Congressman Walter 1. 8mith are cxpected to speak during the reunton. A. Becker, proprietor of the Frele Presse, caused the' arrest yesterday morning of John Hiatt, on a charge of mulicious mis- chief. Becker charges Hiatt with shooting a_ hole through the window of the office of the Frelc Presse at 512 South Main | etreet on the Fourth. Hiatt denfes the & charge and gave ball for his appearance I in police court this morning. Articles_of incorporation of the R, H. Bioomer Manufacturing company of Coun- cil Bluffs ‘were filed in the county recorder's office yesterduy. The object of the incol poration Ix to carry on and extend the usiness of the R. H. Bloomer fence works, | The capital stock is placed at $100.000, I divided into 1,00 shares of $100 each, The ' incorporators ‘are R. H. Bloomer, R, W. | Bloomer and A. 1. Bloomer. The company is planning to erect additfonal buildings and_warehouses und new machinery will bo Installed with the purpose of doubling the present capacity Y. Plumbing Co., telephone 250, i Gravel roofing. A. H. Read, 541 Broad'y. Joseph Lauder of Omaha Sues. Joseph Lauder of Omuha, who claims to own the team of mules, wagon and harness recently attached in this city on proc ings brought by the Fulton Milling com- pany against the Lauder Baking company, began suit In the district court yesterday egainst Sheriff Cousins to recover §470. He pluces (he value of the team, wagon and harpess at $370 and wants $100 additional for damages. iauder claims that the suit of the Mill- ing company was against the old Lauder Raking company and not the present firm of which he is a member, and which owns the outfit seized, An application on behalf of the Fulton Milling company to sell the property at- tached was taken under advisement yester- day by Judge Aylesworth of the superlor court Davis sells paint. Meal Estate Transfers. These transters were filed yesterday in the abstract, title and loan office of J. W. Squire, 101 Pearl street Jullus €. Hasler, trustee, to Gottfried Muhlestetn, lots & and 9, block 9, Minden, w. d : 3200 Sume to Peter . Petersen, lot 1, block 13, Minden, w. d......\..... [y J. 0. Bates and wife to Edward B, Puryear, & 80 fect of lot 4, block Town of Oakland, w. d. e Three transf, Marr Licenses to wed were lssued yesterday to the following persons Name and Residence, Harry Briggs, South Omaha Graco Eskew, Omaha 2 Lou Gassett, Omaha ¥rrma Schnarr, Omaha Iowa Steam Dye Works 304 Sroadway, Make your oid clothes look Cleaning, Dyelng and Repairing. like new. LEWIS CUTLER Funeral Birector U C wor to W. C. Estep) 38 PEARL STREET. 'Phone h1, FARM LOANS 6:i:¢ | | L astern Nebraska and lowa. James N. dy, I, 126 Main St, Councll Blufts, . VETO STILL HOLDS COOD Mayor's Opposition te Cenfersion of Judg: ment Etill Stands. CITY ATTORNEY'S OPINION AWAITED Mutter Passed Over by Council Until Another Mceting=Likely to Be Carried Into the Courts, | Mayor Jennings' veto of the elty council's {Actlon In instructing the city attorney to {contess judgment in the Lock personal | injury damage sult etill holds good. No !action wus taken by the aldermen at the special meeting last night to override it, |and they adjourned without attempting to pass the motion over the veto, On the meeting being called to order and its purpose explained by Mayor Jennings, | Alderman Clark started the ball rolling by stating that for one he was not willing to g0 Into the watter until he could secure the opinfon of the city attorney as to the | valtdity of the mayor's veto. The mayor suggested that the veto had better be read anyhow and thie brought Brown to his feet with the remark that it was unneces- sary to take up the time of the councll with reading it, as they had all heard it jread at the former meeting and they had also read it in the newspupers. The veto was read, however, and then rk objected to the wording of it on the | krounds that the mayor termed the action of the council as a resclution, whereas in fact it was merely a verbal motion accord- | Ing to his (Clark's) opinion. This brought on a general discussion among the alder- | men Who had voted for the settlement as to the legal points Involved, which was n- terrupted by Mayor Jennings stating that he had looked the matter up and was satls- fled that he had the power to exercise the right of veto in this case, as the action of the councl being on report of the com- mittece of the whole was nothing more of less than a resolution Sald Alderman Clark: “Then in that case the mayor would have the right to override the majority of the council at any time." | | Mayor Jenninge: I | the right to veto in any such case as this One before us now.” believe I have Considers It a Business Matter. Alderman MeDonald sald he failed to see what effect the opinfon of the city attorney could have in ths matter. If the mayor's veto was valld it was valld and if it was not valld it was invalid, and that was all there was to It. He did not, he sald, consider It a question of law but one of Ibusiness. For his part he would sustain the veto of the mayor by his vote. Mac- donald then referred to the Mikesell set- tlement, in which he asserted the council had been misled and referred in particular to the physician's certificate, which showed that Mrs. Mikesell had died from heart failure, Alderman Clark suggested that action on the veto be postponed until next Monday night. as the settlement of the Lock case had been ordered entirely on the advice and suggestion of the clty eolicitor. During this part of the discussion it was stated that the judgment in the Lock case had been assigned to Harrlett L. Lindt, a relative of the attorney for the claimant. Alderman Lougee took the same position as did Macdonald and sald he did not see what difference it would make it the city attorney was there or not. If the veto was valld the payment of the judgment had been stopped, If the veto was not legal then the judgment had been stopped, it the veto was not legal then the judgment stood as it did before Mayor Jennings handed down his veto and mo harm had been done anybody. Macdonald stated that he had eminent legal advice to the effect that the action of the council ordering this confession of judgment agalnst the city could not have become operative until the time for the mayor fo veto it, if he felt so disposed had expired. Alderman Boyer said he w satisfied that it the mayor's veto was good it had unquestionably stopped the payment of the judgment, in his opinion, until six of the counciimen should pass the motion over it, but until several legal phases of the matter had been made clear to him he was unwilling to take any action at that time. He would suggest that the police department be Instructed to secure evi- dence whenever possible in all cases of accident and furnish same to the city attor- ney. He had been informed by the city at- torney that he found it impossible to se- cure such evidence and he (Boyer) under- stood that Detective Weir had evidence In this Lock case, Chief Albro was asked ' why ‘Detective Weir had not turned over this evidence to the council and he sald that the oficer had given It to the city attorney about a week ago. It developed from one of the aldermen | evidence showing that Lock had received ‘‘temporary permanent injuries.’’ After more or less desultory discussion the counct] adjourned without attempting to paes the motion over the mayor's veto. It is belleved that the matter will now be taken to the courts. — County Demands a New Issue to Meet the Terms of Supreme Court Dect County Attorney Killpack has notified the saloon keepers of this city that they must file pew bonds forthwith with the county auditor, as required by law, particularly to such saloon keepers filed their bonds prior to the new code going into effect, October 1, 1897, The supreme court has held that the bonds filed prior to that date were not good under the mew law, and that new bonds must be filed This the saloon keepers of Council Bluffs have falled to do and County Attorney Killpack 1s determined that the law in this respect must be complied with, It 18 also sald that many of the saloon keepers who have entered the business since the new code went Into effect huve falled to file any bond and the cireular letter ad- dressed to the dispensers of liquid refresh- ments by the county attorney Is to remind these also that they must step up to the auditor's desk with the necessary $3,000 bond The circular notice sent out yesterda by County Attorney Killpack is as follow Dear 8ir{ The law requires every person, firm or cobporation that engages in the loon business to file in the ofce of county auditor w bond in the sum of 33, such bond to be signed by at least two I dividuals as suretles, or by some surety company, and to heupproved by the clerk of the distriet court Some doubt has heen cast upon the val- 1ity of liquor dealers’ bonds glven before Ogtober 1. 1897 And unless you have given #uch bond in vour present firm or individual name since October 1, 1897, you should now | that Detective Weir had stated that he hld1 WANT SALOONKEEPERS’ BONDS | This applies | give bond without regard to the fact that You may have given one priof to that date it you a »w engaged in the saloon bus- iness you must furnish and file this bond at_once. An_immedfate compliance with this re- quirement of the law will be insisted upon Respectfully yours, W, H. KILLPACK, County Attorney. Inquiry at the office of the county auditor | developed the fact that a large number of | the saloon keepers who have been granted | licenses within the last two years have | failed to file the required bond BRIDE PROVES UNWILLING Plattamouth Girl Says Home Ties Are Dearer Than Impetuous Groom, G. G. Baird, in his officlal capacity of | deputy clerk of the district court, has had many varied und amusing experiences dur- lug his many years of service in connec- tion with the issuance of marriage licenses, | but he met with one on the afternoon of | the Fourth that was unusual. Shortly after he had finished dinner Dep- uty Gil received a telephone message at his residence to the effect that a couple trom Plattsmouth, Neb., were most anxious to secure a marriage license. The person at the other end of the 'phone wanted to know 1f Mr. Baird would mind going to the courthouse and issuing the license. Deputy Baird, always williog to help ou people in trouble, consented and he was told that the prospective groom and bride would meet him at the cigar store at tho corner of Pearl street and Broadway, where | they were anxlously awaiting his arrival. When Mr. Baird reached the cigar store he was shown the young couple who were |#ald to want a marriage license and with | them procceded toward the courthouse | Something in the manner of the young ;uumuu tndicated to Deputy Baird that there was some trouble and it looked to him as |4t the couple had been quarreling. When they reached a point opposite m,.} Grand hotel the young woman suddenly stopped and said she would not proceed any further. “I am not ready to get mar- ried yet, and when 1 get married 1 will! | be married at home,” sald the young| | woman with an air of determination that left no room for dispute. Why, what's the matter?’ asked Mr. Baird. “I thought you couple were in a desperate haste to get splice “Oh, come along, Mary; what's the good of making a fuss about a small matter like this? Let's go to the courthouse and get| marri>1," broke in the young fellow, as he wiped the perspiration from his fore- head and fanned himself with his F dora straw hat, “No, 1 will not go a step further,” re- plied the young woman, as she planted her | teet firmly on the sidewalk, and then turning to Deputy Baird asked if she might speak to him privately for a second. The young woman and Mr. Baird moved ahead a few paces out of earshot of the would-be groom, and then the young| woman told her tale of woe in Deputy Baird's confiding ear. She safd: “It's like this. T and Charley started out this morning to have a pleasant day and decided we would take in Lake Manawa. 1 have not had a pleasant day, however, but a miserable time of it. Oh, you don't krow the time I have had with him. He has been all the time thinking of nothing else but getting marrfed. I don’t want to marry him and T will not. So there’s ap end of it. My prople have always been good to me and there is no reason why 1 should go away from home to get married.” The young man approached at this point in the recital of his companion's tale of woe and said: “Well, Mary, if you won't come and get marrled there Is only one thing for us to do, and that is to take our little tickets and go back to Plattsmouth. Come along.” This, Deputy Baird advised the young people was the best thing they could do under the circumstances, and assuring them that if at some future time they were both ot the same mind he would be only too will- | ing to issue them a license, bade them goodby. Thanking him for the trouble he had been to, the young man shook Mr. Baird's hand, while the young woman gave a gratetul look which told more than words. The last Deputy Baird saw of the young couple they were boarding a motor car for Omaha, evidently intending to return to Plattsmouth. Mr. Baird supposes that the young man did the telephoning In the cigar store while the young woman waited on the outside. Davis sells glas MAYOR IN PATROL WAGON ‘With Other Officials He Drives About the City and Inspects New Lights, Mayor Jennings, the members of the city council and other officers of the munici- pality commandeered the patrol wagon last night for a drive around the city to in- spect the new lights. The tower on Oakland avenue was first visited and the consensus of opinion was that it should be retained and that the | four lamps on the tower illuminated a far greater area than they possibly could if placed at street Intersections. The lamps were found to glve a uniform diffusion of | lght through the new style opalescent globes and to light a greater area than the old style arc lamps did. The general | the crowd | earth below. Beresheim and Murphy of the Officer & Pusey bank to Rev. J. G. Lemen as trustee for the Christian Home of two lots in Mynster's addition for $1,700. This was the value placed on the lots by the appraisers appointed by the court. By the terms of he sale Trustee Lemen pays one-half cash and the balance in two yearly payments. E. J. Drant ¥ Wife Arrested. E. J. Brant, agalnst whom his wife began divorce proceedings In the district court June 26 and had him restrained from in- terfering with their 10-year-old son in the State School for the Deat, retaliated yester- day by having her arrested on an alleged charge of violating her marriage vow. The warrant for Mrs. Brant's arrest was Issued from the court of Justice Ferrier. Mrs Brant gave bail for her appearance next Monday. IOWA LAD'S AERIAL FLIGHT Carleton Meye of W Liberty Care ried Five Miles Through Space Quite Unexpectedly. WEST LIBERTY, Ia, July 5.-Carlton Meyers, a small boy, became entangled in the rigging of a balloon that ascended here as a feature of the Fourth of July celebration and was carried five miles and ! dropped unhurt in an adjoining county. When the balloon shot upward the acronaut, seeing the lad's perilous posi- tion, yelled to him to hang on. All through the perilous filght the boy clung to the ropes and was finally safely landed. Among that witnesscd the boy's ex- perience a collection wae taken up and a purse of $100 was ralsed as a reward for his bravery. This Aeronaut Not So Fortunate. LA PORTE, Ind, July 5.—Frederick Wright of Indlanapolie, in making a bal- loon ascension and a parachute leap at New Carlisle on the Fourth, became en tangled in the gulde ropes when 150 feet above the ground and was pitched to the Thousanda witnessed the ter- rible fall. Wright was picked up uncon- sclous and will probably dle. GOES TO CLAIM HIS MILLIONS Plymouth County Wi At- tempt to Enforce n Klondike Grubstake Clain Farmer SIOUX CITY, Ia, July 5.—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—Joseph Kass, a farmer in Plymouth county, lTowa, next Monday will start for Alaska to make an effort to force Hans An- derson to divide his wealth with him. A tew years ago Anderson was a cook in the | Hotel Garretson here without a cent. He joined the Henry party, bound for the Klondike, and s one of the few who stayed there. Now he is a semi-millionaire. Re- cently he sent for his sweetheart to go to the Kiondike to marry him. Kass, who was with the party, alleges that he grub- staked Anderson and that by law he is en- titled to half the makings off the grub- stake. He will take with him George W. Argo, one of the most prominent lawyers inethe city, and Dr. J. M. Henry, who will be a witness. IOWA COUPLE ARE FOUND DEAD Brackett of At e Kills His Wife and Then Commits Suiclde. F. A DES MOINES, July 5.—F. A. Brackett, a retired farmer from Atlantic, Ia., killed his wife and shot himself in their room at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Otis E. Pow- ell, 202 West Ninth street, about 1 o'clock this morning. The tragedy was not discov- ered until 10 o'clock, when Mrs. Powell went up stairs to call her father and mother to breakfast. Brackett was lylng on the bed with a bullet hole through his forchead, while his wife was upon the floor with a bullet hole in her temple. Both were dead. Brackett was 68 years of age. The couple had come to Des Molnes to spend the Fourth and had gone to the park during tbe day, where Brackett frequently complained that the heat of the day was making him ill. It is believed his mind became affected TWO KILLED IN IOWA WRECK Mail Clerks, Expr: Messenger and Train Hands Suffer in a Cen- tral Smash, MASON CITY, la., July 5.—The tender of an lowa Central passenger train jumped the track near Hampton late yesterday aft- ernoon, derafling the mall, baggage and smoking car.. The mail car was crushed and Postal Clerks Kendall and McKenzio of St. Paul were killed. The injured were: M. C. Heath, Adams Express messenger, Ottumwa, serious. 3 John Morgan, baggageman, Mason City, slight. §. B. Chapman, conductor, Mason City, slight. Heath i a cousin of former First Assist- ant Postmaster General Perry S. Heath. He I8 the oldest express messenger n point of service in the country, having served for over forty year: — Fonr Negroes nnged, July 5.—At Vernon, six- CHIPL teen mil opinion of the city officials was that the new lights were most satisfactory. While it is possible that the city council may decide on doing away with the tower on the court house, It is belleved that all of the other towers will be retained and | that the company will be ordered to equip them with the new style lamps. With the exception of those at Oakland avenue and | Fifth avenue and Twenty-first street all the towers were dark, as they still hold the old lamps, which are not avallable for | the alternating current | City Electrician Bradley made a test of several of the lights at the street lnu‘rr‘ sections in the business part of the city last night with a voltmeter and found that | they were all up to the standard required. Want Mother's Will Set Astde. | FORT DODGE, Ia., July §.—(Speclal Tel- | egram.)—Mary J. Swinell, Josephine Libby, | Nellle A. Mugot and Fanfie E. Martin four daughters of Mary Schaffner, who died here recently, have brought suit to break an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of the deceased. The | claim is made by plaintiffs In the sult that | the deceased made the wlll under undue | persuasion from L. W. Schaffner and wite | and was mentally incapable of executing a valld will. A considerable amoiat of | property 1s involved { New Democratic Daily. | A new evening dally democratic paper 1s preparing to blossom Into lite in Coun- ofl Bluffs and its initial appearance is sald to be planned for next Monday. Taylor Cox, publisher and owner of the Underwood (Ia.) Times, has moved part of his plant to this city and will father the new venture in Council Bluffs journalism. i Confirma Sale by Recelvers. i Judge Wheeler of the district court con- firmed yesterday the sale by Receivers . would have a regimental canteen. ere, four negroes, Helton Sinimony, Jim Harri on | hanged today for John and Wil Williams, wei Hamllton, murder. They had been convicted of kill- ing w helpless negro and almost killing his wife. During the trial Hamilton on cross examination confessed, saying: T am gullty before God: 1 am guilty and ought to be | hung until dead." his confession the | others were alko. John Simmons had killed another negro. ‘The town of non {s without rallroad connectfon and | long rides were made by classes ot people to see the hanging. At least 2,000 | were present. The four negroes were made | to ascend the gallows at one time and after short statements from each claimi ta be on thelr road to heaven. the trap wis | sprung. Or one neck was broken, the | others dying from strangulation No Canteen Hiinois, SPRINGFIELD, 11, July 5 -For kr\‘n\rul! days the question of having in army ean- teen at the :ntmll\rm-v\l of the Tllinols atlonal guard, which opens at amp Lincoln tomorrow, has been agltated among the officers of the guard, and it has even | been stated that the First {nfantry of ('hi- | ber 7, on the | ney, SHAW'S POLITICAL PLANS Will 8tump the Btate fer the Republican Cemmittes. REFUSES OTHER REQUESTS TO SPEAK Details of Dallas Center Fire—Farm- er's Wife Burned by Lightning =Biggest Woman in lowa is Deand. (From a Staff Correspondent.) DES MOINES, July 5.—(Special.)—Gov eruor Shaw this morning declined to accept an offer to address the Veterans' tion of Fremont county at Siduey Septem- ground that he expects to place himself at the disposal of the repub- lican state committee immediately after the State convention in August and will make addrosses throughout the state in support of the ticket and party. The governor is declining all {nvitations which might inter- fere with his campalgn plans. He has delivered many speeches this year in varfous parts of the country and Is in great demand as a speaker at all gatherings, espectally those of business men or persons interested in financlal affairs Further details of the fire in Dallas Cen- ter on the Fourth have been received here. The total loss will be not far from $30,000, as the entire north side of the main street, comprising more than halt the business houses of the town, was burned, except the Citizens' bank, a new brick building, which was slightly removed from the rest. The fire started in Hoffnagel & Co.'s furniture store, and the principal losers, aside from the Hcffnagel firm, were: Grant McClain, hardware and furniture, $8,000; Willlams, barness shop, $1,200; J. 1. Cramer, resi- dence, $1,000; Susong, millinery store, $1,000; Lewis, shoes, $300; Lloyd, shoes, $500; H. M. Sharnel, postofce bullding, $500. There were many other lesser losers and the insurance was fairly well covered. The part of the town burned was of old construction and as the town has been en- Joying a busiuess boom this year more than ever before, there is no doubt that the business part of the town will now be built up better than it was before the fire, Mrs. Mary Mason, wife of a farmer four miles south of Des Mofnes, was frighttully injured by lightning Monday night. She was n her doorway when the house was struck. Her right side is paralyzed and ber foot badly mangled. Her shoe was plit as keenly as though with a knite Sha will recover, though she may lose her toot. Death of lowa Large Woman, In a con which will easily hold five large men Mrs. Auna Wolt, who died at Mercy hospital last night, will be taken to her home in Luverne for burial. When it is known that she weighed 550 pounds It 15 not to be wondered at that the casket, which was made to order, should have been o large. It is 615 feet long, 3 feet wide and 23 feet high. Mrs. Wolf was the largest woman In the state, for during her life no one ever disputed the claim. She was a tall woman, lacking but an inch of being six feet, but so large was she that she did not seem to be above the medium height. She came of a family all the members of whom were large, though none of them attained her size. Her father and mother both wéighed over 200 pounds. From childhood she was very large. When she was still a girl she weighed 300 pounds and it was thought then that she would stop growing, but she did not. After her marriage, a few years g0, she kept galning until she weighed about 550 pounds at the time of her death. S. R. Dawson, who has served five years of a ten-year penitentlary sentence for shooting Walter Scott, his son-in-law, on Christmas night, 1895, has been paroled by Governor Shaw. “Damascus” Dawson, as he is known, claims to have recovered the arts of making damascus steel and of hardening copper. Capitalists who are in- terested In a company to develop the Daw- son process secured the evidence upon which he was paroled, as he had asserted he would dle with his sccrets rather than reveal them while in prison. It was shown that Dawson was excited to the verge of Insanity at the time of the shooting. assocta- Telephone Sult to Be Tried. The sult of the City of Des Moines against the Iowa Telephone company, involving the right of the company to do business in Des Molnes without a franchise or any reg- ulation of rates, has been set for hear- ing on July 16. The company formerly op- erated under a franchise and its charges were considered so exorbitant that a fran- chise was granted a new company and the Towa franchise was forfeited. Afterwards an ordinance was passed granting a fran- chise to the lowa compny, the same as to the Mutual company and containing (he same restrictions as to charges and other matters. The company refused to accept the franchise and declared unwillingness to accept any franchise which would re- strict charges or attempt to regulate the business. The city council ordered the company to place certaln wires under ground, which was done, and forbade the company erecting any more poles or put- ting up other wires in the city The company has been for several years doing business without any franchise or legal standing. The city council has tried the city. New Corporations. The Rock Springs Creamery company of Winnighiek county has been incorporated by K. L. Grindeland, O. L. Wenns and others, with capltal stock of $2,000 The Western Stamping and Enameling | company of Dubuque has completed incor- poration. It is organized by W. H. § W. K. Gore and others, and the cap- ital s $100,000. The Oriental Coal company, with a cap- | 1tal stock of $15,000, has been organized with offices in Centerville and Cresten President, D. N. Dunlap; secretary, T. A Kyle. The Eldora Savings bank, with a capital of $10,000, has been incorporated by J. H. Bales, W. J. Murray and others. g0, which comes into tomorrow djutant | General Reece stated tonight that the army canteen had never been permitted heretoe camp | fore at Camp Lincoln and that it would | not be permitted this year. Governor | Yates, he sald, s unalterably opposed to | the canteen |g Colorado's Anniversnry. COLORADO SPRINGS, July §-—In ranging for t August of t state. e twenty-fifth admission of Colorado the local committee today comp ils for the complimentary b ditors of the t wh niversary in t Roosevelt is 1o the gue i principal pea Henry terson and othef noted ditors have heen invited to attend. xvioion Tnjures [ Gan n Injures Many. CINCINNATI, July §.—Four men were fatally and’ three others serfously injured by a natural gas explosion in pit No. 1 f the series of shafts of the new water works at Torrence Road late this afternoon Those fatally Injured are Martin McLaug lin, James O'Brien, Robert Rarnett ard James Bryant. Seriously injured: John 8mith, Robert Thomas and Willlam Thom | Western Ilillhry A}nfiahy} | poraonal o Fonpons bl ro i b 4 THE FRANCES SHIMER ACADEMY of the Un ¥ of Chie holastl work, mu all of high grade. For irls ding; ‘rate expen: Write for U P. McKE Dean, Mt Carroll, 1l Upens Sept. lith. EDUCATIONAL, HARDIN COLLEGE & CONSERVATORY | “onservatory. Wm. H. Barber, Examiner, present during May Cheapest. Best. Address JOHN W MILLION, President No. 43, College 1exico, Mo, UPPLIR ALTON,“ILLINOIS. Thoroughly eqnipped. Ex Snvanient (0 8( Laals: Owned an to oust the company, but not until this | suit was brought has any effort been made | to test the matter in the courts. 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