Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 13, 1902, Page 8

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE NDAY, JULY 138, 1902. NEWS OF INTEREST FROM COUNCIL BLUFFS. MINOR MENTION. Davie sells drugs. Btockert sells carpets and rugs. Leftert, eyesight specialist, 238 Broadway. Dr. Stockdale, First Nat. Bank bullding. Picture framing.. C. E. Alexander & Co., Bway. Tel, Judge Wheeler adjourned district court yesterday until next \\'ednnd;:‘y T bric 3 lla, 25c; Council Bluffs tent, Knigi Maccabees, will join with the Omaha tent in a plenic Tuesday at Courtiand bench.d iage license was issued yesterday \Chester C, Egbert aged 2, ‘and Blanche Bartlett, aged 18, both of Council Blufts. Colonel Hogeland will make & publlc Ad- this afternoon at 3 o'clock in Sark on Hwenty Years with the News- For rent, five-room cottage, city water in Kitchen, good out buildings, 850 per month, Call on E. F. Wi Bee office, or 84 North First street. i ; udge Wheeler in district court yester- aay Serruled the motion of Fremont Ben- Jamin to be allowed 3§30 attorney fees against the Thomas Officer estate. G, W. Dalton was granted a divorce yes- erday from 8. J. Dalton, as was Minnie J. “Appel from George J. Appel. :fifxfw:! ppel, 8. ‘was_awarded the custody of their «chl spectal meeting of the Council Bluffs e raterna) Order of Eagles, has been called for 10 o'clock this mo arrangements for the fune Denny. R A st The steel work for the Mynster stree bridge has arrived and Contractor Wick- ham expects to begin the construction this week. 'The concrete abutments have been in place for two months. Superintendent Clifford and Principal Ensign, accompanied by most of the thirty teachers from this city who attended the National Educational association meetin, in Minneapolis, have returned. Several ol the teachers remained to spend a few weeks among the Minnesota lake resorts. Mrs. Alvereita Miller brought suit in the district” court yesterday _against Phiilip Mergen and Hans Frahm, keepers of a Bouth Main street saloon, to recover 2,000 damages for the alleged sale of intoxicat- ing lauors to her son, Will B, Miller, mihor. Half of the amount sued for i asked as exemplary dam: . U ing to make 1 of Dixon any soap #o its Puck's soap. ‘Writing tablets half price only. DeLong the Printer. this week ‘With the Churches. Thewe services will be held today at the Broadway Methodist church: Preaching service, 10:30 a. m.; Sunday school, 12 m.; Junior league, 4 p. m.; Epworth league, 7 p. m.; preaching service, 8 p. m. The mid- ‘week prayer meeting will be held Wednes- day evening at 8 o'clock. There will be no services today in St Paul's Episcopal church, which is under- going repairs. “Obedience and Knowledge” will be the subject of Rev. Harvey Hostetler's sermon this morning in the Second Presbyterian church. His toplc in the evening will be “The Spiritual Harvest. All services and meetings will be at usual hour At the First Congr fonal church there will be morning worship at 10:30 o'clock and evening worship at 8 o'clock. Sunday school will be beld at the close of the morning service and the meeting of the Endeavor soclety will be at 7 p. m. In the morning the pastor, Rev. James Thom- son, will preach upon “Christ’s Memorial of Love” At the evening service Rev. Mr. Case, who has for years been engaged in missionary work among the Mexicans and Spaniards, will tell of his experiences among these people. The First Church of Christ, Sclentist, will hold servicés this morning at 11 o'clock in the Sapp bullding, when' the subject of the lesson will be Sunday school will-be held at the close of the morning sorvice and the midweek experience meet- ing will be Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. A notable event in church circles today ‘will be the dedicatory services of the new Trinity Methodist church, which will begin &t 9:30 a, m. At the First Baptist church there will be preaching at 10:30 a. m. and 8 p. m. The pastor, Rev. Milford Riggs, will take as the subject’ of his morning sermon “‘Thy Kingdom Come,” and in the evening his theme will be he Prodigal's Elder Brothe Sunday school will be at noon and Young. People's meeting at 7 p. m. Sunday school at the (West Side Mission at Twenty-second street and Avenue B will be at 3:30 p. m. There will be morning prayer and ser- mon at Grace Epsicopal church at 11 o'clock Sunday School will be held at 9:45 a. m. . Rumor Not Founded. Local politiclans were thrown into a tur- moll yesterday by a rumor that Congress- man Walter 1. Smith had withdrawn as a candidate for renomination at the con- gressional convention to be held in a short time. While such a story is absurd on its face, it is a conceded fact that the Pil- grim is the best 5-cent cigar sold in Coun- kil Bluffs, Ask your dealer for the Twin City. Writing Tablets Half Price. y 16 tablets, 8c; 10c tablets, Se; Sc tab- Jets, 3c ln our stationery department this week only, DeLong the Printer. 3 Real Eatate Transfers, Thebe transfers were filed yesterday in the abstract, title and loan office of J. W. Baquire, 101 Pearl stree ty treasurer to C. D. Dillin, lot block 27, Riddles' subdiv, t. d.....3 John R. Edmunds, trustee, to W. lot_10, block 15, Willlam: " 1at add, 5. w. d. w. d.. Easle id Wood Bouldin, B eoutore, 1o same, Jat 7 block fg 'Willig#hs' ist add, e. d Tioyd to James 1.’ and 27, block 16, R et it o Total five transfers N. ¥. Plumbing Co., telephone 250. Keep clean. Use Puck's Mechanic’s soap. Thom Wright's concl o continue in’ the I Business in our present loca- tion at No. 48 Broadway. Our recent sale was & great succ e tely place that in addition to the com- state that in GIN WATCH, 18 JEWELS, $12.00. M. WOLLMAN 400 BROADWAY. Commell B teas ouruen e P ERTTRY: % "Fhone 07, ess, In -I?cknl and ant assortment of the :II and n)!to—uu joods. We will we intend to make . ‘The store will DENNY TAKES HIS OWN LIFE Former Oaptain of Police Shoots Himself Through the Head. FIGHTS FOR POSSESSION OF REVOLVER Wife and Her Sister Make De but Vi Effort to Wrest Weapon fro the Him—Evidently Temporarily. Insane. Dixon Denny, for four years night cap- taln of police during Mayor Jennings' ad- ministration, committed suicide at his home, 144 Vaughn street, shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday morning, by shooting himself through the heart. He had been seriously {1l for several weeks and it is belfeved that. the rash deed was com- mitted while he was temporarily insane from the effects of continuous pain and loss of sleep. He was also considerably worrled over his business prospects. Last winter, while serving on the police force, Deuny became quite ill, but man- aged to remain on duty most of the time until Mayor Morgan's election, when the new force was installed. He engaged in the saloon business on Broadway, baving as his partner J. E. Relchart. His heaith kept failing and for several weeks he had suffered intense pain and had been unable to sleep at nights. His enfeebled condition prevented him from attending to his busi- ness and last Friday he disposed of his interest in the saloon to W. C. Utterback. | When he returned home Friday night, after closing up the transfer of his interest in the saloon, he appeared greatly depressed and repeatedly remarked to members of his family that he did not kmow what would become of him, as it did not seem likely that he would ever be able to do any hard work again. Instead of going to bed he paced up and down the floor of his room all night long. His wife and sister-in-law used every effort to sooth him, but falled. About 3 o'clock in the morning Mrs. Denny heard him searching in the drawers of the bureau and asked him what he was looking for. He gave an evasive answer and went Into the sit- T suggested revolver Denny to hide it from Denny arose from bed and se- cured pot on of the revolver, but be- fore she time to hide it her husband came back into the bedroom and demanded that she give it to him. He eald that he needed the gun to protect himeelf. “They are after me, but they will not get me it I can help it. I will put up a stiff fight before they take me,” he sald, and he made an attempt to wrest the revolver from his wife's grasp. Mrs. Demny and her sister attempted to persuade him from taking the revolver and urged him to lie down on the bed and rest. Takes Revolver from Wi “What is the matter with us all going together?” was his next remark as he made a renewed and this time successful attempt to wrest the weapon from his wite. With the revolver in his hand he went into the kitchen, intending to go into the backyard, but the door was locked ilnd in his excitement he was unable to open It. Mrs. Denny and her sister grappled with him, but he threw them off and started out through the troa: door onto the porch. There they grappled with him again, but again he threw them oft and started to run around to the back of the house. The now thoroughly terrified women followed and again caught up with him and endeavored to take the weapon from him, but once more he succeeded in evading them and ran from the yard into the street. After going & few paces he placed the reyolver to his heart and fired, dropping dead. Nelghbors, aroused by the ehot and the screams of the women, were and advised Mrs. him. Mr Medical assistance was summoned, but his alm had been true and death had evi- dently been instantaneous. The body was later removed to Lunkley's morgue. Besides his wife, ““Cap” Denny, as he was familiarly known by his friends, is sur- vived by three young children. The funeral, it is expected, will be held some time Monday. In the absence of Coromer Treynor from the city, Justice Bryant decided that it would be best to hold an Inquest and sum- moned & jury, which, after viewing the re- mains yesterday afternoon adjourned until Tuesday afternoon. Formerly Lived in Omaha. Dixon Denny had been a resident of Coun- cil Bluffs for twenty years, coming heré from Omaha, where he had for several yéars been a driver of the old street car lines. He had also been In the employ of Hon. A. J. Poppleton as coachman. On coming to this city he entered the employ of Vie- tor Jennings and remained with him until Mr. Jennings was elected mayor, when he ‘was appointed night captain of police, which position he held with much credit for four years, untll Mayor Jennings went out of office, and was succeeded by Mayor Mor- &an. Mrs. Denny was completely prostrated yesterday by the terrible ordeal through which she had gone and her condition was most serlous. That his continued {llness and inabllity to sleep, coupled with bus ness troubles had driven him temporarily insane, Captain Denn: friends feel as- sured, as those who knew him say had he been in his right state of mind he would have been the last man to even contem- plate taking his own life. Puck's Domestic soap 1s best. Davis sells palnt. i Fahey Gets F Years. Mike Fahey, one of the seven prisoners who escaped from the county jail on the evening of June § and was recaptured s few days ago in Chicago and brought back here, pleaded gullty before Judge Wheeler in distriet court yesterday to holding up and robbing Fritz Goth in the rallroad yards and the court sentenced him to four years in the penitentlary at Fort Madison. John Plumb, one of Fahey's accomplic was recently sentenced to three years for the same crime. Mike Sheehan, the third of the gang, who also escaped from the county Jall, is still at lar E. A. Jones of convicted of assaulting his wife, was sentenced yeste day by Judge Wheeler to thirty days in the county jail. A. Raph, who pleaded gullty to the theft of & large sign board belonging to B. M. Sargent, was sentenced to pay & fine of §25 snd costs and serve seven days in the county Jail. Reduce Bail for Heeol Carl Hector, the young man charged with killing Fred Johnson, som of A. Johnson, district court balliff at Avoca, succeeded yesterday in having Judge Wheeler reduce his ball bond from $10,000 to $7,600. Hec- tor, whe bad been brought 0 Councl | church. Bluffs for the hearing before Judge Wheeler, was taken back to Avoca last evening by Sherifft Cousins. He was ac- companied by his attorney and {t is under- stood that he will be able to furnish a bond in the reduced amount. Otto Roderick, held to the grand jury for the killing of Rallway Mail Clerk Moyer, was released yesterday from the county Jall _on furniebing bonds in the sum of $1,000, the amount at which his ball was fixed by Justice Bryant. He furnished two bonds, one In the sum of $400, the surety on which was his uncle, Rasmus Campbell, and one in the sum of $600, the surety on which was his attorney, Emmet Tinley of this city. It was stated that young Rod- erick would, pending the consiferation of his case by the grand jury, which convénes in September, go to work on his uncle’s farm in Keg creek. Davis sells giase, FEW DEMOCRATS TURN OUT Primaries to Select Delegntes County Convention Attract Little Attention. to No officlal call having been issued, the at- tendance at the democratic primaries last night to select delegates to the county con- vention to be held in Neola next Saturday ‘was of the slimmest, in some of the precincts barely a corporal’s guard being present. The First precinct of the Third ward instructed for Louls Zurmuehlen, jr., for clerk of the district court. The delegates selected last night will meet Monday evening, July 21, in the county courthouse to place in nomi- mation a township ticket. These are the delegates selected last night: First Ward—First precinct: V. Jennings, C. N. Huber, George Dentler, F. H. 8hoe- maker, Charles Nicholson, M. C. Goodwin, Garner, sr.; committeeman, Charles Second precinct: Edward Stock- F, A, leby, Ed Brooks, J. A. Booth, 'D. Waiters, James 8nodderly, John Mc- ; committeeman, F. A. Bixby. Second Ward—First precinct: Davis, Jacob Neumeyer, W, B, Fisher, W. C. Jenkins, lfif: committeeman, W. primary of the Second ond ward will be held Monday evening or Tuesday. Third’ Ward—First precinct: John P, Or- an, J. R. Dietrich, H. O. Ouren, M. D. ughes, A. C. Graham: committeeman, J. R. Dietrich. Second precinct: P, Gunnoude, John Schultze, Fred Spetman, P. B. Sulli- M. H. Tinley. J. J. Hughes; commit- ert, T Gil George 8. H, Schurz, W. R.'N. Whittle- . 'B. Fisher. The recinct of the Sec- teeman, J. J. Hughei Fourth Ward—First precinct: 8. G. Un- derwood, James O'Nelll, 8. B, Wadsworth, J. A, Churchill; committeeman, James O'Nefil. Second precinct: A. W. Slack; C. Peterson, Georfi Crum, T. L. Smith, Boysen, John ulqueen, J. ‘Weaver; committeeman, T. L. Smith. Fifth Ward—First precinct: Dr. Seth H. gralg, 8 T, McAtee, Lee L. Evans, George F. Wise, John K. Cooper, V. E. Labbe, George L. Judson, Nick O'Brien; commit: teeman, George I, Judson. Second pre- cinct: Alexander Hamilton, M. B. O'Rourke, Andy Howard, Peter Jacobson, R. I Gal® lagher, Lars Nelson; committeéman, M. B. O'Rourke, Sixth Ward—First precinct: W. C, Boyer, . C. Graves, Miles Scofield, 8. Aibro, Mercer, C. Crippen, L. P. LaBelle; commit- teeman, Miles Scofield. Puck’s Domestic soap s best for laundry. Writing Tablets Halt Price. This week only. DeLong the Printer. Base Ball Games Today. The Smith & Bradleys will play Doc Wy- land's “Indians,” from Underwood, at Lake'| Manawa ball grounds this afternoon. The Milwaukee railroad has made a special rate for the occasion and the Underwood boys, it le expected, will be accompanied by a large crowd of rooter The game will be called at 3:30 o'clock and this will be the lineup of the two teams: Smith Underwood. Position. Shugart . T Maxfield McCarthy Butler street. The Yeung Americans will play the West Councll Bluffs team at 10 a. m., at 1:30 p. m. the Red Cross club will try con- clusions with the West Council Bluffs ag- gregation, and at 3 p. m. the Big 4s will play the Has Beens. Gravel roofing, A. H. Read, 541 Broadway. Plumbing and heating. Bixby & Son. WEEK IN THE SOCIAL WORLD Midsummer Dull Several Pl fl is Relieved by sant Gather- Miss Helen ler will leave tomorrow for a 'visit with friends at Minneapolis. Miss Laura Flickinger has gone to Cali- fornia to spend the summer with relatives. Miss Inez Dorland of the city schools is visiting friends in various points in Illinols and Tndiuna. r, and Mrs. A. T. Flickinger and family have gone to Spirit Lake on thelr annual summer outing. Miss_Caroline Test Rohrer entértained a few friends Informally &t her home on Vine street last evening. Miss Nina Meyers of Park avenue enter- tained Wednesday evening in honor of Miss Bingley of Portiand, Ore: Mrs. C. Lougee entertained the women of the Broadway Methodist church at her Rome Thuraday afternoon. Mrs. Horace Everett entertained the members of the Woman's Whist club at her home Tuesday morning. Mrs. J. BE. Hunter will leave today to spend the summer with her sister, rs. lobert Reynolds at Pocatello, 1daho, Mrs. C. R. Tyler wi s to the mem- bers of the 'veni) club Friday. About twenty members were in attendance. Mrs. Clay Platner and Mrs. W. 8, Hewet- son chaperoned a party of young people at }‘ke Manawa Tuesday afternoon and even- g, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Willlams entertained a few neighboring friends informally at cards at their home on First street Wednes- day evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Hart entertained at dinner Thursday evening in honor of Mr., and Mrs. Tory Everett., Covers were lald for ten. Miss Milldred Spoor entertained Tuesday afternoon a number of little friends in celebratiod of the birthday anniversary of her sister Cora. Misg Caroline Dodge entertained at lunch- eon Wednesday in honor of her guest, Miss Hawley of New York City. ‘overs were lald for ten. Mrs. F. H. Morgan entertained a numb: of litile folk Friday afternoon in honor of Miss Muriel Baldwin, who is visiting rela- tives in Counell Bluffs. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Oliver, Mr. and Mrs A. B, 8Bweeting and Mrs. Horace Gleason fett the early part of the week for & wseveral weeks' outing at Spirit Lake, Mrs. W. L. Douglass entertained at ping pong Monday evening in honor of her wister, Mrs. 1llam Copock of Mason City, and Draper of Washington, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Sapp gave #n In- formal dinner at thelr home on Oakland avenue Wednesday evening to ten of thelr friends) The decorations were meteor roses. Miss Roland Robinson entertalned at Buchre Wednesday evening in honor of Mise Robinson of Chicago. izes at_cards were won by eyers and George Mayne. Miss Ada Lawrence and Arthur Town- send, both former residents of Council Bluffs, were married July § at Douglas, . They will make their home at L-l Springs, Wyo. Mr. and Mrs. Jarvis, Miss' Etta Maxwell, leff extended eastern trip. They will visit in Chicago, Washington, Boston, New York City and other eastern putnts. Mrs. J. R. Reed and Mrs. Hazelton acted as charmen for the quarterly soclal given by the women of the First Presbyterian c‘nrch to the women and friends ‘of the short musical and Uterary pro- accompanied by esterday for an About 100 women were from was given. n despite the inclement attendance, weather. Miss Nina Quinn of Eighth street enter- tained at a \'\rlltllt’ appointed luncheon fiven at her home Wednesday In honor of er cousin, Miss Hasel Arnold of Marshall- town. Covers were laid for twenty. Miss Thomas entertained the members of the Flower mission at her home on Eighth street yesterday morni About twenty members were In attendance. Ping pong ‘Wag the me chosen for the entertainment. Miss Baldwin won the first prize. The dancing party given by the members of the Council Bluffs Rowing association at the boat house Friday evening was -a largely attended affair. Whaley's orchestra furnished the music for the occasion. Aboiit ten Omaha couples were in attend- ance, Miss Agnes Wickham entertained the members of the: Kensington club at her home on Seventh street Wednesday after- noon. The game for the afternoon was an advertisement guessing contest, Josephine Jennings winning the first prize, a dalnty plece of cut glass, The club will meet this week with Miss Josephine Jen- nings. FATAL MISTAKE IN OILS Ily Burned lowa Man F Destroyed by Ignitin, of Gasolene. CEDAR FALLS, Ia, July 12.—(Spectal Telegram.)—T. F. Norton was frighttully and fatally burned this morning while starting a fire with gasolene, mistaken for kerosene. The explosion wrecked the house, destroying it with the contents. The flesh on the hands and face dropped in pleces. There was no Insurance on the household goods. Neighbors have supplied the temporary wants of the unfortunate family. KILLS AGED FATHER-IN-LAW Clinton Fisherman Slays Old Man Who Interferes in Quarrel in His Daughter's Behalf, CLINTON, Ia., July 12.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Ed Widner, a fisherman, became involved in a quarrel with his wife this afternoon and was threatening to brain her with a flat fron. Moses Labarge, the woman's father, aged 80, interfered, whereupon Wfdner struck him on the head, killing him instantly. CHOOSES AN ABRUPT DEATH Towa Farmer Shoots Himself in Fleld and Dog Leads Search: to Body. SUMNER, Ia., July 12.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Willlam Eskle, a young farmer, committed suiclde today by shooting in his. wheatfleld. His dog led the searching party to his body, No cause for the act is known, About Iowa Men, Judge Thayer of the the following incident Judge Hubbard: Thbmates of iy utes o 5 touching lowa soll he anc lh'e writer of this article were fast lrlandld. We were practicing law, or rather we were running a law office, and after introducing !’l asked the privile; of sittin, down and studying T o “Femarice that he intended to take the Stage the next day for Marion. We told him to pitch in and that he was welcome to use our law library. The library consisted of four vol- umes. Two of them were Blackstones' Commentaries,’ one was ‘Greenleaf on oE?"gfa'x'“ l'gfl the other dl‘ll the JTowa Code L commenced to apologize the scant legal lore we had onpoex{lb'l,tlg:r when Mr, Hubbard Interrupted us with the Clinton Age relates concerning (he late remark, ‘You have too many books, friend, 'altogether too man; ow country. The code is -um(:le’r'n,‘hrl-l‘: pent the greater part of his time before P:‘l;l' stage left the next morning ‘st ¢l X but'he Opened only the codg. 07 18 1AW/ Washington Post: Mr. Hull of Tow been to central New York to learn how 1o Wadsworths farm. He found not onl that Chairman Wadsworth of the llrlculy- tural committee had broad and Tertile aores, including some 2,000 of as fine grass m:r!l:l l:;'e‘\;grd lookeg upon, but that adsworth £ V' lf,?-lhlll’wg"\lll"fll!!- th family were also arned also,” aeserted Mr. Hull, the Wadsworths have sporting pro(‘llvl‘gg: ~—that to this day they keep up the prac- tice of generations in having Eo se races Eflfipo‘::: ah(u:;u‘ a|.|1 :,hlelr estates, not for n, but for tl - lllafi'eg Ipm’ltulhthe thing. O B0te W80 N5 ‘a8 not these matters, h mont T ited? st maliem Jogerer tas Worth's tenants up along the lakes, where pllnx ponf sets are not easily obtained, dis- play an Ingenuity the like of which I have ?fil\er before known. I found them laying s popular game in the kitchen with raw Potatoes for the balls, the cookstove for a net and two frying pans for racquets.” Blou: duous duties he . He was an Acrl‘ullly doing nearly ail of the edlu;’rl:.l Writing, much of the drudgery of scanning the exchanges, and he works hard, any employe of the paper. 1f been an cxample of system and regul & Somes to the ofice in ‘the forengo , and be gan alw found at the office late {he offce and w ac on the st recreation ‘In’ recent. years her besit™ k riding, and this has been do; {ematically’ aa”al his- other dutics, manager, 8 days’ poring over his hooks and Joking after the accounts, he always gave his - sonal attentlon to'the weekly edicion. That always walks to and from 8 never known to take a only 01 was his pet and pride. He ne: any other person to do the mechanies ::;l: of making up the weekly forms. He the upper story of the Regisi ?lo«‘k and personally put the type ?: l‘;: dali;nl‘lfld selected the matter from the hn y Issues. He never went away from A}lme hor attended public meetings. Once, when “Ret" Clarkson was in the Postoftics General Alger and pavey Wos€h, here wih n party an ey kidnape Richard P. and took him to l);le Plc‘iflg coast. That w routine of his life sine e warsF B the Towa Stgte News Notes. The Merchants' assoclation of Davenport soons . J. W. Blackford, one of the besi farmers of VanBuren county, ll\‘}'lkml,h'l'l‘ {Juring his experience of thirty-nine years n Towa he has never known a full crop of corn to be gathered in. a year that had an §jcegs of rain durlnf thé month of June. this yeneyes there will not be a full”crop Mrs. #. B. Merrill of Webster City has sold the automobile which she drew re. cently at the Elks' carnival held in Des Molnes. She sold it to a Des Moines dealer for $00. The machine was of the light run- ning ort and hence extremely hard to run over the frequent heavy roads in this sec- tion of the state. The machine cost her but 50 cents, a; TE X, nd is one that would retafl lowa leads the list in free rural delivery. While the first route was established but six years ago the service has grown until on July 1, 1902, there were routes in operation. There has been a 'total of 21,670 applications for the establishment of the rural free delivery service in different parts of the country. ' Jowa had 94 routes on July 1 and thirty-two additional routes will be placed in operation on August 1. Forty-elght carloads of steel rails and 200 carloads of ties for the new lowa & Bt. Louls railroad are being unloaded in the Rock lsland railroad yards at Centerville. They will be used in’ the construction of the Towa & St. Louis southward from the junction at Shawvllle. The construction en- Eine for the new road was expectea ail last week, but for some reason it failed to ar- rive. ' When it does come the work of lay- ing ‘the tles and rails will be proceeded with without delay Attorney W. F. Murphy of Iowa City has recelved notice from Washington that he has been granted a patent on his load: ing device. Mr. Murphy calls his device the Hawkeye corn shock Toader, plement for loading upon a wagon corn shocks, baled hay or any other heavy articles. It is attached to the side of an ordinary hayrack and li‘l lirfting is done 5 1t is an im- ;flg‘w: n:due—rn;‘: manual labor. It is a el and carrier combined and a great -saving machine. IOWA. [Summer Trousers, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50 to $5.00 Straw Hats, 50¢, 75¢, $1.00, $1.50 to $10.00. Tropical Underwear, In both union and two-piece, Negligee Shirts, “The best ever—" Crash, Homespun and Flannel Suits, $5.00, $6.50, $7.50, $8.50 to $12 A great assortment. All the fashionable belongings for gentlemen’s summer comfort from A to Z. Telephone A 614 416 Broadw’y, Council Bluffs lSMITH % BRADLEY, |wi i Sollcited. RUMPLE IS 0UT OF THE RACE 111 Health Oompels Withdrawal of Qongress- man from the Becond. TELEPHONE OPERATORS BACK AT WORK Labor Commissioner and Deputies Commence the Work of Inspect- ing the Factories the State. (From a Staff Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Ia, July 12.—(Special Telegram.)—Congressman J. N. W. Rumple of Marengo has withdrawn and will .not be a candidate for re-nomination in the second district of lowa. He is supposed to be afficted with cancer and declines on account of il health. He would have been renominated by acclamation. The strike of the telephone operators is now closed. The Mutual operators who went out on a strike were all taken back in & body this morning, thirty-five in num- ber, and the union has been recognized. The operators who were brought to the clty from out of town were already In the employment of different telephone com- panies connected with the Mutual and they will go back to thelr places. The operators on the Jowa system will not go back for a few days, but the officlals of the Iowa have glven orders for the settfement of the strike and acceptance of the terms lald down for them by the operators. The strike will be called off in a few days and all will be settled. The operators get a sub- stantial increase in wages and time of work more satisfactory. Practically all the labor unions of the city had been drawn into the controversy, and while the telephone owners were determined in thefr stand and the operators were using all honorable means to win their fight, there was ‘no violence and very little hard feeling at any time. The people of the city are glad it s over. It will take some months to get thie telephone lines back to thelr normal condition. Named it Camp Rudisill. The camp for the Forty-ninth regiment, Towa National Guard, at Cedar Falls, to be held next week, has been named Camp Rudisill, in honor of Corporal Willlam J. Rudisfll of Cedar Rapids, who dled in Havana March 28, 1899, of typhold fever. The body was taken back to Cedar Rapids for burial. Rudisill was a member of Company ©, Forty-ninth Iowa, and went to Cuba with that regiment. The state property necessary for the encampment at Cedar Falls went this morning and it will open mext Wednesday. New corporations fillng articles: Savings bank, capital, $20,000; president, W. M. Smith of Sheldon; cashier, Alfred Morton. Shick’s Express Transfer & Stor- age company of Davenport gave notice of an increase of capital stock of $200,000. The Dexter Mutual Telephone company in- corporated with a capital of $5,000 by M. W. Brown and others. Paying Off State Indebtedness. The state treasurer today pald fifteen ‘warrants aggregating in amount $20,000. These were warrants drawn on the special State university bullding fund nearly four years ago. The regents anticipated the taxes from a special levy and had war- rants drawn which were discounted and, wold in the east. The first batch of th old warrants was presented today by the Burlington Savings bank of Burlington, Vt. Another batch will be due November 1 next, aggregating $13,100, and a warrant for $16,000 will_be due the first of next year. These warrants have been out- standing agalnst this fund for a long time and the money to pay them has been slowly accumulating. Sibley Summer Style and comfort as well is very largely dee pendent on good laundry work, the kind done at the Bluffs City Laundry. All work bere is well done. Collars and cuffs are laundered s0 you can wear them \with some comfort; rough edges of old collars are ironed down smooth. f Bluff City Laundry 22 North Maln Street, Wallace & Grout, Proprietors, Counefl Bluffs, Telephone No. 314, A Shower of Comfort In warm weather you can take any time you feel disposed when your bath room is fitted up in modern style with a good shower apparatus, porcelain lined tub and good closet. Do away with antiquated old tub and wash bowl and let us put you fn improved sanitary plumbing worthy of the times, If we do it's done right. J. C. Bixby & Son 202 Main, 203 Pearl St., Council Bluffs, Ia. Telephone 193. and expect to remain there some weeks. The work of clearing out the houses, which are filled with mud, has not yet commenced and will not for some time. The streets and roade will have to be repaired. Most of those who have been driven from their homes by the high water are in no oondi- tion to stand the losses and it will go hard with many of them. Many dis- tressing tales are told. A baby was born last night in a tent and there are many sick and old persons /who are poorly housed. The city and county authorities are at work preparing for rellef and the expense will be enormous. Most conservative estimates of the total of los are increasing the aggregate amount and some now say that the entire loss in the city of Des Moines will not be less than $400,000. The drowning of “Tommy” Crooks, the well-known sporting man, who has en- gaged in prize fighting and the promotion of prize fights in Iowa, was the most serious accident yet reported. He operated a fine saloon near the Unlon depot, had a number of good horses and at the time of his death wore a diamond ring valued at $376. Mortgages were flled today showing that he ‘had everything mortgaged and will leave little property. He had been con- spicuous for a number of years in Des Moines and had a fine family. “Everywhere in the flooded districts where the water has receded the stench from decayed vegetation Is beginning to be plainly discernible and it is feared that with extremely hot weather sickness will abound in these parts. Cellars will re- main full to the surface after the floods are down and it will be necessary to pump out the water and fully fumigate before residents return to their homes. CELEBRATION_E!FS FATALLY Sioux City Boy Accidentally Shot by Blank Cartridge on the Fourth, Resulting in Death, SBIOUX CITY, Ia., July 12.—(Speclal T egram.)—Glen Gehan, a 15-year-old son of Factory Inspection Commenced. B. D. Brigham, state labor commissioner, and A E. Holder, his deputy, returned to- day from Davenport, where they com- menced the inspection of factories under the new Iowa law which went into effect on the 4th inst. They find that with the added requirements of inspection It is mot possible to make inspectigns very fast and they will not be able to get to all the fac- tories of the state. They were generally well received, but in one case had to show thelr authority and use some force. They find that there is an increasing number of women employed in the factories and that the pay of women wage-earners is deplorably small. They also find & number of children employed in factorles. The in- spection of factories will be continued as rapidly as possible. Nearly all the cities of the state will be visited the next few w Good Service of a Friend. The family of the late John Burnside, whose funeral was held today, have cause to thank the fraternal friendehip of fel- low Elk. Mr. Burnside used to be wealthy, but in recent years lost everything and & few months ago when a payment became due on a $3,000 life policy he had been carrylng he could not meet the payment. He told the bookkeeper at the insurance of- fice he would have to give it up and or- dered the policy canceled. The bookkeeper said nothing, but quietly pald the sum due and kept the policy intact. Today the tamily found out for the first time that the policy had not been allowed to lapse and that they will get the money. CARING FOR THE DESTITUTE (From a Btaff Correspondent.) DES MOINES, July 12.—(Special.)—The problem before the city of Des Moine now is the caring for the flood sufferers. ! The water in the rivers is receding very slowly and it promises to be many days before they can get back into their homes In the meantime probably 150 familtes will have to be assisted by public charity ur’ the city and county authorities. A great many have settied down to liviag 1 tents ‘Mrs. Agnes Gehan, died of tetanus today, the result of the discharge of a blank cartridge fired on the Fourth of July. While loading a thirty-two-caliber revolver on the Fourth the weapon was prematurely discharged and part of the wadding re- mained in the boy's hand. He did not suffer from the wound until last night and died in terrible egony this afternoon. This is the first death resulting from Fourth of July accidents in Sioux City. DROWNS IN THE BOYER RIVER Sunday School Worker of Wo Meets Death Near His Home. MISSOURI VALLEY, Ia., July 12.—(Spe- clal Telegram.)—County Superintendent of Sunday Schools G. E. Boyd of Woodbine drowned near that place yesterday evening. At the time of the fatal mishap Mr. Boyd was driviog in the country near the Boyer river, which is out of its banks. A searching party found the body at 2 o'clock this afterpoon. Mr. Boyd has been connected with Sun- day school work in this county for several years. TRAIN MAKES RECORD TIME Displays Speed Verifying Hours Sched Possible Betw: New York and Chicago. xteen CHICAGO, July 12.—Reeling off 481 miles in 460 minutes, the Twentleth OCentury Limited on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern road today smashed records for fast running on that system and verified assertions made by officials that a sixteen- hour schedule could, if necessary, be main- tained between Chicago asd New York. The train, forty-five miles west of Buffalo, was two hours and twenty-eight minutes behind its schedule, and it was then that the englneers were given & clear track and ordered to make thelr best time over the varlous divisions. The train covered the 134 miles between Brockton and Cleveland in 131 minutes. After leaving Toledo the engineer pushed along over the 113 miles at some points at & speed reaching ninety miles bour, covering the distance in 103 minutes. The The Coming Thing Is Parafine For the preservation of canned fruit. It is away above the old-fashioned way of screwing on lids, which In many instances is unsatistactory, as it is almost fmpossible to shut out the air entirely in this man- ner, especially if the fruit jar lids are little old, and the consequence is that a goodly share of your frult is spolled, Use parafine and you will experience no trou- ble by having spolled fruit. We sell it. Price is too cheap to print. Picnic Parties and Manawa Visitors Should prepare themselves with our paper lunch eets, only 10 cents, and our tablecloth and twelve napkins only cost a dime, so that for this trivial amount you can go prepared to feast, fish and frolle and enjoy the luxuriés of home. We are selling EXTRA PURE SPICES, the select quality from the markets of the world, and we want you to test them. If not satisfled we will cheerfully return your mone; You can get ypur round-trip Manawa tick- ets at our store. GEORGE W. FLETCHER PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST. TELEPHONE 275. 106 BROADWAY, - COUNCIL BLUFFS, run to Elkhart, Ind., 133 miles, was' cov- ered in 116 minutes. The run into Chicago from Elkhart was slower on account of the necessity of slow- ing down while passing through three towns where the speed of trains is limited by ordinance. Slowdowns were also nec- assary for the fourteen grade railroad cross- ings in Chicago. Despite these delays, the 101 miles were covered in 111 minutes and the train, which was due in the city at 9:45 a. m., arrived at 10:18 a. m. at the Grand Central passenger station, only twenty-eight minutes late, HELD DEBTOR IN A ROOM Denver Attorney is Relemsed Aft DENVER, July 12.—~A. B, Sullivan, an st- torney of this city, who had been beld & prisoner by Michael O'Keefe, a locomotive fireman, rooms since 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, was rescued this morning by Sergeant Lee of the police force. Lee engaged O'Keefe outside the room and at an opportune mom: Sullivan grabbed O'Keefe around the waist and held him until the officer came into the room. In the scufffe O'Keefe fired his revolver twice, but without effect. O'Keefe asserted that Sullivan was in- debted to him in the sum of $17,000. He invited the attorney to his room and fore- ibly held him, threatening, according to Sullivan’'s statement, to kill him unless he pald the money. Several ineffectual at- tempts had been madé to rescue Bulliv during the night. O'Keefe, who is an ol time Union Pacific fireman, is in jail. FOUR INJURED AT WEST POINT Artillery Instructor and Three Ondets Seriously Hurt by Fall Down Embankment. WEST POINT, N. Y., July 12.—Captain Bdwin 8t. J. Greble, U. 8. A, instructer in artillery tactics, d three cadets, were injured today In an accident during ar- tillery drill. Captain Greble, accompanied by six cadets, were taking & gun along & high embankment, west of Highland Falls, when the horse Captain Greble rode embankment, drawing the gun carriage with it. The caisson fell on Captain Greble, crushing both legs and injuring him fa- ternally, Three cadets who were riding on the calsson were also badly injured. B N —