Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 3, 1902, Page 7

TLLINOIS CENTRAL IS ALOVE 55t b 20, /'I was quoted in that paper as having said + the deal. CARPETS We have just received a large shipment of carpets and rugs all of which we will place on sale Monday at remarkably low prices. For Monday we will sell 9x111.2 ft. woven o Gy e e 3010 49 SPECIAL! SPECIAL! 1,000 pairs of ruffled muslin curtains, plain white, the best summer curtains made, $1,50 values, at 590 el e SRR BRI LA MATTINGS—25c. 30c and 35c qualities of Japanese matting for 190 Furniture Lawn rocker, exactly like cut, large, handsome and easy, high back, strongly braced, double woven cane seat and back, finished in a rich moss green, natural or red, regular four dol- lars value, oursale price Monday 2'48 27x63 in. Axminster rugs, $3.50 values . LAWN ROCKER—The season is now on for lawn and ver- anda furniture. See our line before you buy. "All styles, all prices and the lowest. As an example, a rocker ex- with double woven cane 7 9 c seat; othérs ask $1.50. Our price...... g S g Oall and examine the following: wear—regular price $3.00, Ladies’ patent tip welt oxtord, regular price $2.50, now. Ladies’ flexible turned sole oxford, pa heel—regular price $2.00— Bow ... tip Ladies” fine patent kid oxford, just the thing for street Ladies' fine patent leather dress sandal, 2 000 Ladies’ turned sole, JNDAY THE OMAHA DAILY .BEE: R. THIRTY PHONES—-RING Bennett Sells Pianos Every day is sale day in this department. Our prices are such that you will be satisfled. Then, too. wé are in position to sell to you on $5 MONTHLY PAYMENTS if desired or should you prefer larger payments of course, we will aceept them. Our line includes the mew artistie standard— The Everett Also the IVERS & POND, STARR, LINDEMAN, SMITH & BARNES, WOODBURY, JEWETT, RICH- MOND, NEW ENGLAND, WIL- LARD. We have orgaps from $15.00 up to $100.00 and planos including equare grands from $45.00 to $1,000.00. Re- member our offer of & brand new plano, iarge size, doudble veneered ebony sharps, triple strung throughout, t::: !x.n‘w:w:-::”' $]68 Chase and Baker wveneered pin block, ete . I ‘A child on a giants sheulder sees further than the giant” | ‘The leading selt plano player made. The first plano players made proved merely that it was possible to produce a mechanism that would play the plano, The Chase & Baker shows the greatest perfection to which the plane- playing idea has been brought. ~ AUGUST 38, 1902 BENNETT 16™ & ‘HARNEY STs. 0 UP 137. SHEET MUSIC SALE Commencing Monday, and running all sell the following hits: h (E. T. Pau Finest March.. ry and W 4 per cent off publishers’ price. Complete stock of McKinley edition of 10c_music, Art and Picture Frame Department 1,00 pictures in sheet on black mount #xi0—copies of paintings from old and modern masters, on sale at, An elegant line of containing portralts of fi in 3-ply veneered efch ... ....... s Another new line of ruby tin with mats and 1-in. gold frame 6 subjects to select from ... ‘We thake a speclalty of ing—have 150 of the newest shapes and finishes in mouldings suitable for water color and oll paintings. Another 100 pat- terns suitable for engravings, etchings and carbons and another 100 pattorns suitable for pen sketches, photographs, colored prints, ete. to fit square and SPECIAL—Frame oval cabinet photos—warranted gold g‘h(ed, Regular price 25c. 15¢ onday only . oo S Bring your pietus first class—prices Dry Goods Department We hawve just Skirts opened nearly one thousand women’s dress and walk- ing skirts for present or fall wear. This lot of skirts was to be shipped a month later and we were not fully prepared for them. We decided to accept the shipment and make a manufacturer’s price on all of them, 80 we offer them Monday—-all new. All about half the regular value. Some of the prices will be $4.95, $4.50, $3.95, $3.45, .13 98 $3.25, $3.00, $2.75, §2.00, $2.26 and ... ‘We call special attention to our Waists window display of high class wash waists now being made on the Har- ney street front. These waists were sold at $2.25, $2.50, $2.69, $2.90, $3.00,.$3.25 and $3.45. They are elegant goods in white and fancy col- ors, all are offered at. ™ ® Misses’ a medium French heel—regu- lar price $2.00, now ........ % ]-60 8 strap sandal— $1.00 a and dress 1.60 regular price $1.50, BOW .65 hsiriy'aiere about 100 miles under construction out of His New Orleans, and it will be completed as President ln’“-ng Fish lql Read | soon as possible. General improvements of MM our road s our motto, rather than the ac- - . We are constantly NOT CONCERNED —III_A-IV MERGER PLAN Bumors that 1t ;—:uum- m me |LEFT A MESSAGE FOR WILL Roek Island-Frisco Deal is Emphatically Denied by the President. Eleanora Reoberts Seeks Suicide ‘l. Ohloroform, but is Saved by Susplclons Friend. President Stuyvesant Fish of the TNols | gyoinp 4 note to another girl, who was Central, accompanied by Judge J. M. Dick- | ;00" rooning in the same House at 1205 inson, general counsel, and John F. aw:. Douglas street, Eleanora Roberts said: Jace, assistant general manager, and MU l.give tniy to Will at 10 o'clock” Bhe . Fisk's two sons, arrived in Omaha at 245 [y op "y urrieq o her room and locked the yesterday afternoon on & special 0 the Central rosd. President Fish and his 3 are on a pleasure trip to Colorado and left on the Union Pacific train at 4:35. Mr. Wallace and Mr. Dickinson return to Chieago, where they met the president, with whom they transacted official business on the way to Omaha. N “You mhy say that the Illinols Central s pot in any way connected or afliated with the deal of the Rock Island and the ‘Frisco,” sald President Fish to a reporter for The Bee. “For that matter,” continuing, he sald, “we are not in the amalgamation business and have no connection whatever with this or any such transaction. We are not seek- ing & combination with any other railroad ot forming any sort of securities jpany. You may make that just as bread as you please, for It is a fact that the Illlnols Central is absolutely divorced from this 'Frisco deal and all other deals of that kind. We are devoting ourselves assiduously to the management of our own little road."” door, The reciplent to this letter becamé suspicious and hurried down into the street; where she found Patrolman Me- Carthy and told him of her fears. The policeman tried the locked door and, not receiving any response to his demands for admittance, broke the lock and entered. The woman lylng face downward on her bed, whiel saturated with chloro- form. As he approached she sprang up was caught. The woman was taken to the police station, where, after ‘being restored to normal condition, she was locked up. The pri JACKSONIAN CLUB'S PICNIC Exeeutive Committce Has Plans in Embryo, but Nothing Settied The executive committee of the Jackson- tan club that was to have met laat night to ded the purchase of the | discuss plans for a plenic to be beld to e e T Taland » consurmated | offset the one susounced by the Douglas deal, Preaident Fish said: County Democracy August 24 did not meet, et because & member of the committes on g B P speakers telephoned to headquarters that “1 would rather not be quoted on that the committee had done mothing toward point. Shortly before I left New York 1ast | gotting speakers or had not secured any Thureday one of the papers there sent a re- speakers. It is the intention of the Jack- porter to Interview me on that subject, and | gopians 4o pull off their outing &t some Omaha resort and to do it at an earlier date than the picmic of the Democracy. The committee on speakers is trylng (o & range to secure orators for August 21 sad Bold the outing on that day. that the Illinois Cemtral was mixed up in The paper also published the statement that President Yoakum and I bad held & conference over the matter. Now, or of fact, I never in my lite was mce with President Yoakum over anything of this kind, and the entire story was & misrepresentation. I desire to make ment 80 that my position may be Dead from the Hea . Holler was' found ds he L & butcher b working in ti shop of A. M i Soutn Bixteenth strect He had & sis- tom more caretully. ‘We are particularly | L6 3" *coroner ‘has been notified 10 interested Just now in our double track coB- | take charge of the remalos. west. 1 shall proceed to Colorade wth my boys and them return and go over the eys- and made a d llm'l-hllwll'll‘".l‘t“ Dz | arop st lower. CUTTING THE MEAT RATES month that will be interesting. Fri War, Lively I STRONG LINES WILL MEET STICKNEY'S DEF| | ith this view. Probability of Reduction Stock ms Well, to Offtset Any Ad- vantage that May Accrue to Packers. polnts, but July 24 the roads here made rate of § cents on wheat and all west and was called a pr \ This rate was to remain in e “It vrobably means war abzad,” sai¢l & { August 15, when the charges wi local froight agent of ome of the Chieapo- Omaha llnes when asked as to the effect of | the through rates, which from Omaha ha the Chicago Great Western's heavy cut in | averaged from 11 to 13% cents. With th rtional rat ¢lde to reinsta to Chicago. without delay, probability and the only question is, VIl the matter end there? It is'not altogether | mous grain crop, which is the b that some of the Great Wist- | advanced rates at Kansas Cit; will go that line one het- | the rates here will go any higl greater cut in these | were before July 24 is also & the dispatch, the obtained & con- cession in the form of a promise of the lion’s share of the packing shipments for initiating this rate.” This view s more than indorsed by nearly all the frelght men in Omaha interested in this rate. Another agent, in discussing the matter sald “There is another feature of thia case to be considered just mow. Under the Inier- state Commerce commission’s ruling the live stock men will have the right to de- mand and recelve reductions in freight rates on thelr live stock commensurate with those granmted the psckers, and there 18 overy reason to belive that the rangers will make such & demand. If they do and the roads should hesitate to grant it them you will see a very interesting fight. But it 1s 2 to 1 that their request or would not be turned down, for the resson that the Great Western's competi~ tors would be glad to embrace that oppor- tunity of lowering that class of rates and forcing the road that took the Initiath i the packing house rate reduction, to come to them. ral of the local freight men admit decide. Milwaukee Time Changes. The Chicago, Milwaukes & senger train schedules effecti Sunda; of running time between Omaha and Ch cago, of thirty-five minutes. b passage in both direction: turn lmit of thirty days. This rate as is done regularly e This | would simply eved, and no telling where the rates ould land. ey In a transport of f st belng th ness. the place of contest, Nettie &o0d it ,Mfla‘ l.hl‘:" hh‘la May Affect Grain Rates. rgeon | able t . " he member, although the wrist is about While the controversy over Burnette cat in two. await the course of law 1] may, after all, be some p - the month past. in tde graln rates about the middle of this iday & local freight man stated that notwithstanding the contemplated increas: Boun Qall for |in grain ratos by the Kansas City-Chicago Ohioage Great Woestern " and St. Louls roads, such an increass would not be made by Omah». lines, at least three prominent freigit agents today take issuc As a matter of fact there has never been any establiehed flat grain rate between on Live|Omaha and Chicago or Mississippi river other grain to Chicage and § cemts to Minne- La apolis. This was on business originating ere will of August 15 in rious roads de- | payment of any such claims. the flat rates just quoted. Just what will be done s not known now, but it le scarcely probable that the reduced rate will be contimued in view of the enor- than thsy atter of peculation, which no one yet pretends to Paul has made several important changes in Its pas- One of these changes involves a reduction m. and reach Chicago at being the one > make the to be limited to continuous with final re- fn conjumction with the eastern lines ry | Drobable internal injuri from the innerness of Jabbed her window Nattio ls suepoeted of twios atismoting sulcide during Y e pcia White Goods Just opened a late shipment of India linen, nainsooks, long cloths and French and Persian lawns —all splendid value. Country customers send for samples. Monday morning Round ' Table Sales in the dry goods department. 2 Hose Supporters, side and belt, ‘worth up to 85¢, for . . Porch Cushions, handsome styles, such as sell at 76, for Laces, up to b fnchel wide , £ Embroideries up to & inches wide Muslin Underwear, of almost every description . + Parasols—our entire stock at eost. Have you seen Bennett’s footwear for women & children nd children’s colonial slippers with gilt buckle—regular price $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50—now $1.20 Sy 80c¢ 1.20 Misses’ and children’s bow strap slippers from $1.25to ........ 490 COMBATS FARMERS' CLAIM of Flood Damages. COUNTY NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR OVERFLOW Culverts Com; Beea of Vi sible ned Of Have Really in Making Pos- the Use of the Drained. Since the meeting last Wednesdsy ths Board of County Commiesioners has re- back, it was understood, to the balance of | celved two bills for damages alleged to have been sustained by farmers during the is | recent rains, ‘when water backed up from inadequate culverts, but the commissioners seem Inelined to be unfavorable toward They bave been touring Valley and Waterloo pre- cincts and will go out again Monday to finish touring the county, holding no meet- ing until next Saturday. Of the damage Commissioner Ostrom sald: “Some of these farmers are almighty hard to please. They kicked for the roads and now they kick about them. The fact is that where some of these claims come from the land was practically a swamp until the county put in culverts and drains. I can remember when to ride over this land in rainy weather t to ride through for rods at a stretch, yet now when 1s an especially heavy flood that back over them they make a great to i- [ the board, forgetting that it was the county’s action originally that raleed the value of their lands from $5 per acre to $60 per acre. Moreover, I happen to know that one man who asks momey of the county for flood damage to certaln acres has as fine corn on those acres right now as I ever saw.” RESULT OF A CARVING MATCH Two Men R y. & Great Many Stitches. As & result of a duel yesterday evening with a ‘razor and & breadknife, Bchuyler Hart les in Clarkson hospital with & cut across the back between the shoulders ten inches long and & half-inch deep, another boue and five otl deep slashes on the Fred Lang is in the city ound 1o his right shoulder, nd a cut thumb. required in the jall, & deep ght stitches w case of Hart. The fight occurred in the house of the parties at Nineteenth and Plerce stre shortly 6 o'clock. Jobn Hart, brot o and was sent for & teurned Lang grabbed Oommissioner Ostrom Oomments on deul Services of wound under the left arm cut in to the A Children’s Day Toy Carnival Second Floor Tomorrow we open a Sensational Toy Bargain Car- nival. Every mother bringing her ohildren with her—the more the merrier—will get anice well-made Doll Ham- mock for nothing. Come early and be sure of get- ting one. Pennies will buy pretty nearly anything. room for our Huge Fall Purchaees. SNAPS FOR THE BOYS TOOL CHESTS— A 10c tool chest for...... A 50c tool chest for. A T56c tool chest for A $1.50 tool chest for IRON EXPRESS WAGONS The greatest giving away sale you ever heard of. A T8¢ iron wagon for. A 98c iron wagon for. A $1.18 iron wagon for. A $1.38 iron. wagon for. A $1.58 iron wagon for. A $1.78 iron wagon for.. A $1.98 iron wagon for A GREAT SNAP—Driving reins, a regular 10c set, for 3¢. HOBBY HORSES—Only 14 of them—We will sell them at HALF THEIR COST. A 80¢ wheelbarrow for. ... A at bigd Snaps for the Girls A large dressed doll forciiaenens Toy dishes—real China and real nice, a set for........ 3C A doll go-cart—a regular 30c cart for........ loc We want \{“\ n tu x\.'o\‘vg Crockery Department Main Floor. Extraordinay Sale Monday. Fine china tea cups and saucers, coffee cups and sau- cers, gold and decorated lines. A midsummer clean up of values from 25¢ to 75¢. All will be closed SC out for, choice ...... e New line of decorated crystal wares, bowls, tumblers, sherbert cups, wine glasses, jelly stands, cream IOC sets, etc—special table, 20¢, 16¢c and ............ .15¢ Semi-Porcelain Meat MDishes. .. .. White Granite Meat Dishes ...... ARSE T S Engraved Tumblers ........ e ... 3¢ Mason jars, quarts only, dozen . .50c Stationery Department A good fountain pen, absolutely reliable—to be car- ried upright in pocket, like all other fountain 5 c pens—special price, each ....... $ioesonsnssibanse Paper Napkins with colored designed borders, put up 100 in each package—special at, per hundred the fowl and threw it across the room.| American forces advanced, crossed the Schuyler Hart then assaulted Lang and |river and captured blockhouse No. 7, the would have beaten him, but Lang's wife, | powder house, and after a running fight of Carrie Hart, ran in with & rasor and told | six miles in heavy marching order they took him to il Hart. Hart then grabbed up|the water works, which supplied Manila. the breadknife. ighbors ran for the po-| 8ix thousand rounds of ammunition is on band; the scemery is progressing rap- parties were 1dly, advertising matter is out, such as nold Hebn and Mick dressed the wounds. |large window ocards, eto., the members Hart lost about three quarts of blood. of the companies are hustling to ses who — will the greatest number of tickets, CHAUFFEURS DEMAND RIGHTS —— D Wil Visit Co G;I—:o'.o' e the Reg- COMPANY sufl lTs AGE"T ulations Adopted by Park Manhatt Board. Life Accuses E. F. Phil- The Automobile club of Omaba is pre- paring to combat vigorously the passage of the proposed ordinance excluding the devil | has petitioned the county court for $500 wagons from the parks and boulevards. Judgment against Bdward F. Philbrook, al- The club met last night at Frederickson's | leging that that amount of premium mo; ey store, with B. W. Lamoreaux in the chair, | i due the company, but has been converted and selected a committee which is to walt | by the defendant to his own use. on the council next Monday afternoon at 3 The petition recites that Philbrook was o'clock and plead ifs case. The committee | the company's agent from September 5, includes John M. Westberg, chairman; J. 1, until June 1, 1902, and was at liberty W. Crawford, G. L. Smith, Dr. A, K.|to collect bis commission from the pré- Detweller, J. J. Deright, H. E. Frederickson, | mium money before making his regular re- George Patterson and E. W. Lamoreaux. mittances (o the company, but that he col- This committee will not only assail the |lected $1,843.14 and overdrew bis commis- justice of such an ordinance, but work- | slon by $496.90 and refuses to make resti- ing on a bill of concessions, inclu such | tutlon. The judgment asked is for the guarantees as running only twelve miles | $495.20 and Interest from June 1. per hour, keeping to the right and carry- 600D NEWS, ing two carriage lamps. Many Omaha Readers Have Heard It nsurance company cago and will fall here. It would be out- REPRODUC"‘G__THE BATTLE sands of back sufférers In Omaha are glad rageous to exclude us, and particularly our medical members, from privileges that the Omaha Guards and Thurston Rifies |to learn that promipt rellef {s within their resch. Many a lame, weak and aching One of the committeemen sald: “This drivers of the most dangerous teams in and Profited Thereby. back is bad no mors, thanks to Doan’s prejudicial sort of legislation falled in Ohi- harness are allowed.” “Good news travels fast” and the thou- Kidney Pills. Our citizens are telling the Next Week. ‘The battle of San Juan del Monte bridge | good news of thelr experience with the Iit- will be reproduced by the Omaba Guards |tle conqueror of kidney ills. and Thurston Rifles at the Viaton street | example worth reading: base ball park from August 12 to 16 In- Mr. A. Rauschert, house and sign painter, clusive. 105 N. 28th avenue, whose office is at 105 The battle of San Juan del Monte bridge |S. 16th street, telephone 1080, says: ‘“Back- occurred on February §, 1808. The out. [ache, why, I had It so bad for two years break ou the part of the atives had long | that it wakened me at night and when the been expected, positions had been planned |attacks were at their height trouble with and rehearsed so that the officers and men | the kidney secretions set in. Woen I went koew exactly where they would be placed | to Kuhn & Co.'s drug store for Doan's Kid- in case the aAlarm came at night, which it [ney Pills I had very lttle faith in their did. A portion of land that lay between | merit, but balf & box cured although had been 'l took more, to make a job aln, It declared neutral. On the night of Feb- seems cur ing liquid ruary 4 & party of natives advanced across, medic! arations for my and toward the American outpost and when ) kidne; Doan’s Kidney Pil should effect ordered to halt by the sentry they con- (such a wonderful and rapid cure” tinued to advance. The sentry fired and For sale by all dealel Price, 50c per immediately from the native trenches a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., heavy firing was opened up, which con- |sole agents for the United States. tinued throughout the night. { Remember the pame, Doan’s, and take Early on the morning of the 5th the|no substitute. Here is an