Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1902, Page 2

! e S — PE— e ——— R L 2 mhmfa pont| 1E_OMAHA DA!EY BEE: FRI DAY President and Family Gather in Library of Executive Mansion. ton, Ineclud- Documents Which Rep! Loss Reaches Half a M 1 MARLBOROUGH, Mass., Dec. 26.—A fire EXCHANGE GIFTS AND OPEN PACKAGES | which broke out in the city hail at mid- Fifteen Yenrs Roosevelt Fafls t Clans In Oyw Act s Santa at WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—Snow, which | began falling late last night, gave Wash- Ington & genuine Christmas appearanceé to- | Interest centered in the doings at the | White House, where early this morning the president and bis family repaired to the library, presents were exchanged and many boxes and packages which had come from cut of town were opened. There were s large number of callers and many gifts m the shape of handsome floral pleces were | received, and soon after breakfast the | sresident, Theodore, jr., and Lieutenant ferguson of the Rough Riders, who Is & White House guest, took a long horseback #ide, returning in time to join the rest of the family at lunch, wtih Captain and Mrs. Jowies. At the Homes of the cabinet officers the lay was quietly observed. The president and Mrs. Roosevelt enter- tained a number of friends at dinner to- aight In the newly furnished state dining room. The guests included Senator and Mrs. Lodge, John Lodge, Captain and Mfs Cowles, John EMott of New York, Mrs. | Charles Henry Davis, Miss Davis, the Messrs, Davis and Robert Ferguson. At the Mexican embassy the day was celebrated by a supper tonight. Oyster Buy Mimnes Presmident, OYSTER BAY, Dec. 25.—For the second time in fifteen yeary President Roose- velt did not act as Kris Kringle in person at the Covi 01, whete his children e taught prior to his elevation to the edd of the nation. Last year the presi dent was #0 much employed with his pub lic duties that he was unable to attend | the festivities. A telegram was sent to the president telling him how much the children appre- olated his gifts, which arrived yesterday, and wishing him many more years in his present position. Clevelands Observe Day Simply. PRINCETON, N. J.,, Dec. 25.—Ex-Presi- dent and Mrs. Cleveland passed Christmas day in their home on Bayard lane, Prince- ton, N, J. The hollday was observed sim- ply, observation being given chiefly to making merry with the children. A blg Christmas tree, hanging full of good things for the four children, stand: in the library, the headquarters for the little ond e 6w “YoRK,' "D ! 40Yed,8 “white Chriaimas” this year. Early " R 'the Horning ' spow, begaa falling and by ml I, ;h people yere awake the ground “_;ei ly covi re _ special Chrigimas a music being .the am Bishop ,Potte mq Protestant . Eplgeopal ‘-mfl l!-a the Yr yu Land eled. Archbishop ‘High mags a t\dnL E. :id-nm.h; ‘ oy ;:" ig &. m..u.,'a'r e ) y The usuné Chriswnns u? ot m lunthn Arvhy: way umu cuceessfully. The army gave n /000 dlnners &t the’ Grand Central Ilach dfmuer ‘Was calculated’ to (m. persons. It was uncooked and served in a basket., ... .. Archbishop, is Dined. SAVANNAH, Gu., Dec. 25.—Mgr. Digmede - Falconer; titalar flhhllhap of Larissa and pApak hpostolic delegate ‘to the' United !mu. telebrated wolerhn pontifical *high Mmiss i the cattibdeal of St. John the Bap- $ist this Morting. - 'A-banquet was tendered Mim. tonight at the-residence of John' Mc- ¢ Dooough. The!other 'guests of honor were Bisbop Benjamin J. Ketley ard Mgr. Rooker, secfetary to - Mgr: ' Falconlo. The prefate ¢ willeemabii-here several days as the guest of Bishop Kelley. e Hathers Gét Medals. WD‘)IL Dee. - 25.~King . Edward - and Quesn., Alexandra .spent . Christmas - at +-Sapdsingbam for the. firet time aince their « wegesslon., The royal family, including the prigcg.and princess of Wales, Princess Vic- to the duchesa. of. Fife aud Prince and : L‘lnlog of JDepmark, attended an b thhe - sl Aeryice at Sandringham church, which m Dbeautitully decorated. The king after- ly directed, the annual dis- lrlbuuu of &l and game to the employes and tenants on the Sandringham estate. London. apd the south of England gen- emlly enjoyed a clear and cold Christmas. In apite of:the low temperature there was gatherigg: In Battersea patk of the tyehty men who take their early morn ik Qip there ‘all the year round. 8Mver medals. were presenied to seven among {lie: bathers, 'who had not missed a single day lulu the ppaxlons year. "I.l: distress among the une wnloy‘a it t8rfh"an unusual num- zv of charitable dlouers:in all sections . sgpaglally 1o the gast ep A sexere.gale gwept the north, coast. of Great Britain today u:.u sed constdexable mage to shi] an rtront proj rty R e Sy re prepert s oos Malnen. Gives Gold Away, ~ . BERLIN, Dec. 25.—Bmperor Willlam spent Christmas In his usual way. His majesty took a walk this afternocon In the hu Soucl park and distributed b Ahe n&n‘ among , ar- n n'. t'4 o'clock, {he Chilafmas lqfi n nu 11 hall of the of lh‘ im- fio present, anfl edch® had or her own tree of a size proportionate llo age of the child. ‘Romanp Damee with Meye: ufil ‘Dect '3i—All -tashionsble Rome WoMmd up’ Obristedas” day st the American W Mr. and lgn. Meyer enter- o ot a nuni were Gen- I Mins -I' .tc.t Loule fair &igfi:yél& w York, J fempT R tmas felicitations fil- umzmn ON. FRAUD CHARGE | Ma i ogetbdi o5 G , Been Wasted fov Long Time. | Dougherty then fired a shot into his own night entirely destroyed that bullding, which contained all of the city offices and departments, also the armory of Company F, Fitth regiment, and the Matiborough public Lbrary. The total loss will be $500,- 000. None of the cantents or papers of any of the departments were saved. The Ii- brary contained 2,000 volumes and docu. | meuts of incalcuable value, which cannot be replaced. The bullding was a four- story etracture and one of the finost in the olty. 1t was vAlued at betwesn $76 000 and $100,000. ‘The building was ‘well covered by insurance. Owing to the wires being burled under falling walls the city was cut off from tele- phonic communication~ with _ the outside world. ol Michael O'Brien, 40 years o1d, wia burld | bepeath the falling walis and s thought to { be fatally injured. PEABODY, Mass., Dec. 25 —Fire which broke out mbout midnight in the brick buflding of the Vaughan Machine works and did damage to the exlent of $25,000 broke out afresh at 2 o'clock after it was supposed under control. This second fire was under control even before the Salem department arrived. Omly 4 small portion of the second bullding and the root of the dwelling house were burned The manager of the Vaughan Machin: company stated that the loss would reach 100,000. BOY’S GUN HALTS MURDERER Fleeing Man Drops with Charge of Small Shot and Attempts Sulelde, HOT S8PRINGS, Ark., Dec. 26.—Jack Don- ohue, chief of detactives, was killed on the ' street by Frank Dougherty, a race track followér, today. Dougherty, it is olaimed, had struck a woman with an axe, and Donohue came up and attempted to arrest him. Dougherty resented and shot the de- tective over the eye, killing him (nstantl. He then started to run up the street, but had only gone a short distance when & boy, who was In & buggy, got out a shot- gun and shot him In the tace and breast. head. Tbe doctors say he cannot live. He was taken 10 the police station and crowds soon began forming and there was talk of prisonet could not survive his wounds the crowd dispursed. LIFE STORY OF MRS. unANT Interesting M *ipt Left by the Widow of Famous Presti- dent, ' WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.~Mrs. Grant has left & very Interesting and valuable manu- soript of personal reminiscences which she began when her distinguished bhusband wi Express Oar, Baggage and Bmoker on the Alton Are Telesooped. | FLEISHT PROJECTS ON THE MAIN TRACK m Occurs Betw, the Chiea; Kil Head End Col Two Frelghts Peoria & St 4 and Injuring Oth BLOOMINGTON, Ill., Dec. 25.—~The pro- jection of a heavy freight shgine on to the main track of the Chicago & Alton last night resulted Tn ihe" wreck of the southbound from“Chicago ‘aid the express, baggege and smoking car rwerc telescoped and overturned, while the engine plunged into an embankment. There were 200 (passengers on the train and all were badly ‘shaken up ap@ bruised. Thosg ,mast_ seriously Injured are: Sgmdel Ll}’l.ngnéh r-l}l‘ner hous ago, knee sprained. A. C. Branher, Danville, 111, subject to rheumatism, {1l from exposure. Mrs. M. S, Rogers, 4333 Hvans avenue, Chicago, left knee sprained and brulsed. M. M. Merry, Bloomingion, wrenched and brulsed. E. J. Harper, Normal, back sprained. Ben Eckert, 333 East Ninth street, Chi- cago, hand sprained and wrenched. H. H. Glondon, baggegeman, Chicago, leg sprained and bruised. H. E. Humphrey, bruised end sprained. Willlam F. Lenning, engineer, Blooming- Chi- conductor, Chicagoe, ton, hurt internally; serlous. | John Riordan, freman,’ Bloomiugton, | brul 1lision Between Freights. I & head-on collison between two freight trains of the Chicago, Peoris & St. Louls | at Petersburg last night Fireman J, A. Wright of Springfield was killed, both legs being cut off. Both engineers were badly | hurt and other members of the crews paln- tully brutsed. One train was standing when the other crashed Into at the depot , being be- Men Are Acemsed of Passing Five With the arrest last night of Thomas Moss of 1607 Webster street by Detectives Heitfeld and Donabue, the police have in custody the last of the men who are thought to be the parties who forged and eirculated five bogus checks on the First National bank with an aggregato of about $18! forgeries fist came to the attention of the authorities through the complaint of J. N. Nelcon, & dry goods man at 2222 Cuming street, who had cashed a check for $3) Since then four others have turned up George W. Stover, a confectioner at 1417 North Twenty-fourth street, cashed a check for §14.75, taking out 60 cents in payment for candy which the stranger had pur- chased. These two checks were identical as to payor and payee, belug supposedly drawn | by W. L. Seabrook of 408 North Sixteenth street on the Frist National, In favor of Oeorge Sutton or bearer. The man who passed them on the shopkeepefs claimea to be Sutton and to live at 1611 Cuming street. After Nelson had cashed the $35 check he became suspicious and called up Seabrook, whose name was signed to the same, by telophone. Seabrook denled | knowledge of the chocks and Nelson went | to the Firet National bank, where hé tound | that Beabrook had no deposit. Nelson then put the matter In the hands of Heltfeld and Donahue. From the dry goods man amd from Stover descriptions were obtained which lead to the arrest. Moss will only be charged with passing forged checks, as the police believe that he was gullty only | to that extent, and that Frank Betts of 2624 Sherman avenue, who.was arrested on | the night of Dn-mber 22, s the person names and was the head James Schultz of Forty- inth atreet and Underwood avenue, who was arrested at the same time because he was often in company with Betts, has been released as he is mow thought mot to be implicated. The prisoners are young men lving with their parents and the principal has not for- merly been rrested. Moss was convicted, together with Arthur Sylvester of 710% yond control. tally $50,000, SNOW CONTINUES TO DRIFT Troubles of Rallroad Men Not Over When Road s Cleared. The property loss will be CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 25.—(Speclal.)— Although the Cheyenne & Northern has been opened to traic more trouble is ex- pected, for the snow is blowing and drifte | ing badly In the country and the cuts fill {up rapidly. The Denmver rotary will be re- tained on the Cheyenne & Northern for the prese: Tralnmen who came in from | the north’ last night stated that in many mow “was pifed twenty and” thirty fect deep on the tracks. MAi QUETTE, Mich:, Det. 25.-A severe storm has been raging-over: the ‘upper pe- | writing his memoirs, and has ndded to it | Binsula of Michigan for,twenty-tour hours. from time to time as ber health and dispost-, tion permitted. It consists of 300 or 400 =gey of tygewriften metter, sufficlent fgr a book of ordinary size, and neatly tled u; in chapters with blue ribbon. She de. ‘deribés mihy thcidents in “Ner-domestic ex- perience, beginning with .ihe time.of her v and gives important facts con- | Today street ear. trafic stopped and rajlroad transgortdtion became uugomln n. ter- peratire’ s ‘below ‘ge: LOPISVILLE, Ky, ’h.,-‘lnllfi_n n & of thevsauth ooll Christmas l!“, [ Yoday. . 10 Tontevil ‘tetdoraturé: was 16 degrees ‘abové. sdip. &, alter hovm around-SHAL mask: today.s 4n At- ve Hever been publl ‘SHOTS FLY IN MONTANA BAR ‘| Drunken selatér Atms at Proprietor, His Employe and Fellow Army Man, HAVRE, Mont, Dec. 25.—A shooting scrape {00k place at the Half Way house between - Hayre and Fort Asainibois last dight, im"which two soldiers of Twenty- fourth fhfantry were shot. Frank Gahts, who was wounded in the breast, will prob- ably die. Private Robiuson was the other vietim, but not seriously hurt. Gantz was drunk and quarrelsome; and fired throe times at John Dolan, proprietor of the place, afferwards wheeling around M and shooting at ‘L. Groves, the barténder, who replied With a shot at Gastz. Gantz then shot Privats inson. SPEND DAYS ON ROCK IN SEA Shipwrecked Men Suffer from H: and Thirst While Waves Break Over Them. t that thermofetat feglatirod” 32 X }”Cm -z's‘;u of'abiny e, events | Bréen 2t~mMyM a:arop of 1£ in that occurred while she was living in the Wmlm .nnw-hv. White House, and her description of the |abdve. ; ¢ Kansas City. -Il .In.tl '.ll. and Self ‘to Ewoape Pallée. Ban CRarge. KANSAS CITY, Deo 25, —Willlam P.. Hol- lenback today, while in a:fit of rage caused by domestic trouble, shot his wife- three times as she lay {1} In bed, drove his 17- year-old . stepdaughter into the street at the point of a revolver and then killed him- self. The wife is seriously wounded. Hollenback sad his wife had quarreled 1epeatedly of late and recently separated by mutual agreement. He was to have been | tried in the police court tomorrow on the charge of ill treating her. und tried today to effect a recomciliation. “Heré's = Ohtistmas present for you,” shot her as she raised herself in bed to receive his expected. gift. ‘Then he turned the wespon upon his step- daughter, who managed:to ‘unlock a door. and escape. . After which he sent & bullat into his own heart and died instantly. He was 40 .years of age and.welghmaster for evator company. - . Chidpin of Now Yuk. GIVES re- today were mmu- Philadelphia Man Spends Halt at Chicage Who Has | orphan gitls, dsughts A VIOTORIA, B. C,, Dee, 25.—oe rescusd | EDSON JOINS THE RIO IIRINDE captain and crew of Keteh Marquise of 3 Linlibow bave been brought to Launcester Kansas City 8 by a ‘steamer. They were 'I&M Buss atfalght on & small rock, two miles and & half from the mainland, without food or water and with the sea sw 8 over them for three days. Ketch was wrecked close by and | gencral manager of the Kanyas, City Southe they ultimately patchied up a broken dingy | ern rallway, has resigned snd- will suce | which. enabléd the seven umnunm to|cead J. M. Herbert as mapager of. the rogch the shore. Denver & Rip Grands, the , Rio,.Graade | 4n TRY To mm ISLAND Southern and Rio Grande Wumn roads’ of the, Goyld . Rooky. mountain. mfiroads. British !:-u-v Seeks Title to Fan- | uary 1. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 35.~J. A. Wdson, e, change becomtes effectiye on Jm- alig Satroh i ~Paine-> h'r:‘::::‘ wh:;h Do, Bdson vacates wit ot g g e . F.. Dickson, now su- S W0t 4, ST Aiois’, - oy perintendent of maintenance and way, will HONOLULU, vla Victoria,iB. O., | takeup the duties‘of general manager tn. Dee. 36.—The Bri superintendent. WRECK ON . nonruwesmx 16k "Cablk Sgmpany) own- | der ‘the title of gene: < VAngouver to Ausy ol hye imade an offer to James and Henry-fMpkmeld-of Hono- (lulu to pure thetr “Hakf enest Panning 'I'p-u 'a;' fivvlri.-:n- v.i": Engineer sad FI man § other halfiin $oas 7 ~ o James Bicknell m foreBsp Francisco on Zealandia and may close s bargaln with the British u-a‘y after he ‘Wrrives, . e m-h-, : L CHICAGO, Dec. 25—A, Novthwastern. pas. wenger. traln from, the Pacific coast, due s . | bege at 11130 p. m.). cp With. o switch mnofm nh Rome u:::, sngine at- Franclseo avenue and’ the- engi- wpondent of She ML nwm Bear and fremen of both engines wire sorl- .." ln . H “ ::n“ymunl ‘Néus of the passengers were P "5" , The passenger ifain was two hours late end was running at & high rate of speed when the accident occurred. Both engines were demolished. MASONS QIRLS" HOME|\oce “HaM PASSES AWAY mn.zu m ,ln. arranging, & . The Noted lows Man Dies at Dubugue After Promiunent Political Career. Dollare to Celebiate PHILADELPHIA, it was made today that ns will found & home i " .‘ DUBUQUE, Ia., Dec. 69 years old, dled tomight, . Pennsylvania, that will cost He was for many n-: editor of the Du- Mr. Eikins gave his m{m 4in- | puque Herald and was & national demo- residents of the Masonic ‘°-° oratic committeeman from 1871 to 1888, and Sserved as state senstor and postmaster of Dubuque during Cleveland's administration North Sixteenth street, of thieving from the Iler'Grghd“tatlor shop and was, at the time .08 Afs arrest, out on good conduct. MERRY CROWDS AT DANCES Large Number of P e Wind Up the Christmas Hollday in This Ma) The dancing halls were merry until 4| late hour last night with Christmas dancer: At Chambers' Dancing academy the guests of the Crescent club danced through | a program of elghteen numbers, consist- Ing of waltzes, two-steps, five-steps and lancers. About eighty couples wes in Royal Arcapum hall, Gouncil Bluffs. ’l'hl Tndepeaddnt Order of Sons of Rest, social organizatian of seventsen years' UM Copewell won, Adelante second, lundln‘, danced until a late hour in Wash- ingtod hall,!-The program consisted of. al- ternate wm}fib nd_two-steps. The Frate “Daneing club cruvflofl Creighton hall with. almost 260 coupl Ipr ttes cer -thag Jg, usual n | Sreekty Yabons. " Brersboty lively dance. thoft'we bk twirs crowded last ht with the, eltteasof, the eolored soclety of th city, . th p belng the first dance of the Iur'eh u"‘n ufsfilo th Jerry Sinith is chalrrfin “WiIMRRS “Baflth "weeretary and M. C. Dulaney fjoor. manager. Almost elghty. couples made merry until 2 o'clock. It s hoped to hol&mntmy dances lhron'h the season. o Norih n.f’m', Restaurant ne. WIMBLEDON;, N. D Dec. 25.—Jesse ‘Forsyth and Harry Sinclalr. were perhaps fatally burned in a fire that destroyed Frank Arcenesu’s restsurant and an ad- folning bullding owned by Andrew Juan. James Leffol and Frank Arceneau were seriously ‘hurmed, but will recover. 'The fire was caused by a gasollne explosion. LOCAL BREVITIES. Love '8¢ the Unifed Btat Denaed LT (e iy YeRetAT Forey Phiips charged with the larceny of “ ‘will have. his hearing in police court ihis mornin ohn M rd, W‘N‘l to have main- il A oe vebater biveet wiii be tried in' palice court toasy. 3., . Wamon and_ wite of Lincoln, N. army . of, Fullerion_and n and wite of Nebraska City ae In the city. H. C. Flatt teports to the police the loss of & mandolin; which w: len from him Christman eyening while ‘he was Tiding home on-a u: M. J. Flelds Glarkeon o F. g, Hamer o Krr Neb.. .n& .mormy Miles of Bidnéy, Neb., are guests ot lhe Ho S Who MAds o sericee fals: luke m nol ‘emembering where he p.aced MoR afierwaras was found i ‘witl havs ks Rearing in’ police iathk Alexander tmbibed too freely of Chi mnn invigorator dls urM the n Of Crowe’ ! ped mu-u Sentonce and will have s O schnaidar and nelder and wite of Eus senmftn nd wits o ;'f' ibrook: vy iu{ ars &t the .rwood Nel eb. Siahier of Blair, Neb., m: ants, h of fin of dcepon. Unable to,meet the prevalling market rfl"’gor ke ys nedk ihieves provided inner yesterday by effect- ing an entrapce nto the commission hose o C. . M Co., 415 Bouth Kievent street, and ' carrying away five dr birds. Bennle Thomtas, -old boy at Cum reets, on WD int of B of taking coal Wagon ‘from® come prisoner was & charge of 'y 8 avenue. . When discovered l)l‘( EMBER 6 CHRISTMAS AT WRITE HOUSE|CITY HALL AND LIBRARY BURN|pASSENGERS BADLY BRUISED | ARREST oF SUPPOSED FORGERS | JENKINS LUSES HIS Tllll‘.]""0 DIE 1N NEW 'YORK FIRE These | present. | Federal third. Time: " m The club's next dance will be on New Year's |y oy, Bep Mcra second, 81m McPhifis third enjoyed the | 1902 Dan McLeod Now Wears Oatoh-as-Oatoh- Oan Ohampionskip Belt | JENKINS HANDICAPPED BY A BAD LEG | Willlug to Go on In Spite of ¥ dition, but His fuses and Forfelts the Mateh, Cone Mnnager Re- | WORCESTER, Mass., Dec. 2 Leod won the Ameriean cateh-as-cateh-can wrestling champlonship today and the $1,500 eud of a 2,000 purse by getting the betier | of Tom Jenkine. Jenkins was suffering from a bad leg, the result of blood potsoning, and the pain coused by the points of a brass buckle en- tering the flesh of this leg mado him | quit in the third bout. In order to yrotect | he- Injured part Jenkins bad a leathor ban- dege with a steel strip down the front of the shin fastened with brass buckles. Two | of tnese were brokeh In the sarly part of the watch and the braes dug 1ato nls flesh, until the pain was unbearablo ind he was afraid of further blood poisoning. He had wrestled twenty minutes in the third bout when he told McLeod the ce: dition he was In and said he was willing to quit and call the match a draw or go ou wrestling. McLeod insisted on con'inu- | Ing, but Jenkina' manager refuscd to let {the blg fellow go on and forfeited t mateh. Jenkins won the first fall by a three- quarters Nelson lu 59 minutes and McLeod 8ot the mecond In 24 minutes on a crotch and half Nelson hold. The mateh was fast from the start, McLeod being on the ag- grossive almost all the time. [WINS A SENSA1ONAL RACE McChesney Snatches Half Length Vie- tory in New Orleans Chr mas Handicap. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 25—Wealth and McChesney Wore' the winning favorites. Bcoteh Plald was run up $306 after he won the second race and boukhit I he Chriatmas handicup, with 31,00 added | and_worth $1,68 to the winner, went to McChesney. He was ridden by Redtern and ran a sensational race, winning in a | grive by half a length from Old Huteh McChesney had a rough trip. He got caught "in'a Jam at the first furn and Redfern had to pull up to keep from going down. In the Fun home he came from seventh Weather clear; track fast. Result First race, six furlongs: Wealth won, Jane Holly becond, Epidemic third. " Time: Mt sona race, selling, one mil Plald won, Andes second, O'Ha | Time: 1:421.5. Third race, hlmllcl Jnhn Peters won, f us third. Ti ‘ourth race, mile: McChesne; seven turlonge: vboe second, An- Cirinimar handicap, one won, Old Hutch second, 1:41 11-15 Fifth race, five furlongs: L'Etienne Time: Bixth race, one mile and a quarter, sell- Gin Time NONES WINS AT INGLESIDE Christmas Ha ap Falls to Favogite, Who Proves Victoriouhk in Gallop. IAN FRANC!!(‘O Dec. 2%—Eight thou- ple witnessed excellent tacing at ln icelde xodnly The weather was E00( the track in fine condition. ‘!‘h feature was the Christm was ¢ qnl‘ favorite to score during “the afternoon. Results First race, n' turlongs, selling: Ga- lenthus won, Hand Press second, Platonius third. Timi 30, Second race, ¥ix furlongs, selling: Matt Hogan won, Jatlettre D'Or second, Jim Hale third. "Tim . Third Tace, futtyity course, selling: Little Mnr'urtt ’\‘v‘nn rfeo second, Onyx third. Tt race, one mile and a quarter, Christmas handl lp‘ Nones won, Bessle McCarthy second, Siddons third.’ Time: 2:07 h race, seven furlongs b Duraszo second, Gavio ird. " Time: 1:20. Sixth race, one mile, selling: Blil Massie won, Sweet Tooth second, lllowaho third. Time: 142, HIS ACCOUNTS FOUND SHORT A3 Arabo won, Stanley, City Salesman for the Helnts Pickle company, is Under Arrest, A. J. Stanley, living at 2126 Sherman avenue, was arrested yesterday evening by Detectives Savage and Davis on a charge of embezzlement, preferred by the local agency of the Heints Pickle company and by Baldrige & DeBord, attoraeys for the Pittsburg Surety company, which had se- oured his bond. The amount of shortage, 80 far as known, ls 3$800. The prisoner was city salesman and collector for the Heintz company. He was held last night by Captain Haze for $1,600 bonds. The shortage was first discovered only a tew days ago, at which time it accidentally became known that Stanley was about $350 short. When askéd to éxplafn’ the matter, he sald that he had lost the money, which ke had collected while out on his rounds, and had put In & billbook which had been lost. He sald that he would square the matter in a few As the travelisg auditor of the company was due hefe from St. Louis In & few days, the matter was allowed to stand as it was. Now that an examination of the books bas been made, it has already been found that there s a shortage of 3800 and it is not lmprobably that further amounts may be found missing. Stanley 15 & young married man and has been in the employ of the company for fust @ year. He has heretofore beep re- garded as trustworthy and capable. It is possible that the matter may be settled without prosecution. It is thought that not {mprobably the falsification of books has occurred since Manager Charl Homrighouse left here about two mont] ago. The prisoner admitted at the police J ding him on the :\2‘«" to be. given something t« t, me vt e padics "are hol n® on th lhn'nc was there F—id for other rea- At 8 o'clock yester: ‘ avenilll ‘Alexander Enix, & Jotps o co was pushed from a north bo Ed Davis, unmumr mu nix re- the Eni; fused to pay his fare. The negro fell flat and was mbll l . ll was at first y injured, but thought that E:n“ It was luun‘ lhn 'u onl dru‘l ‘efused to° PIY vis, saylng ti jven his to the" Conauctor -hnn Davis rellev 'd. Sergeant Dan Haldwin brought three househoids n his ?J hgothoo rissmngy ove. by stsuming’ (he K. Kri tmlly -bla L Wnny € clud hlmnll in lhlfl| hl o yiably the l(.dou annual visitor and nts in - three re: withdbut abaluln,uhu identity. The d.Y shift &t polige headquarters t'l 7 lh:{ hlvlel f,Erievance, as nt forgot to cal e v ks aaking 1is Tounda. wmu- Holmes ristmas eve because II‘N doing" and 80 it own éxcitement by [l Joon on Capitol avenue. ¢ started as soonh as he entered the blace. 'the patroiman on that stated, and fought his way even with the Dbar. Here he was met by U he allies of the he e 128 s his feptures resembled a ma wh. He Is charged with Il-ull'-nd battery and will bave bis hearing this morning. station that he bad appropriated money to his own use. HOLIDAY WINDS UP WITH ROW Six Italians, two revolvers, a kanife, an axe and u lip figured in a celebration 1319 Jomes strest last ni in the police station, Willlam Bruno and @ kaife are charged with cutting with in- tent to wound, John Popperell with mayhem, and P. Marcuso, D. Germo and Frank Bruno with disturbing the peace by fighting. The police were wnable to termine just what caused the fight, because of lack of an (nterpreter, but it Is sup- posed to have been a womsu. William Bruno started with the knife and eut Popperell on the head and Mrs, Popperell Ilikewise. Popperell had an axe and with it chopped Frank Bruno, who was armed with a revolver and a butcherkaife, in the arm. Finally Popperell threw aside his weapon, and getting & good hold, bit off & good part of Willlam Brune's lower lip. The parties were taken from the blood- spattered room in the patrel wagon A second revolver was sald to have been flouriabed, but 5o shots were fired. Dan Me- | CHILD STRUGGLES AMID FIRE SHkar Reinééy Walls Collapse and |Dlaze in Adirondacks Slays Mother Bury Men Henmeath the and Her Three Chil- aren. NEW YORK, Deg 26.—Fire which broke | MALONE, N. Y., Dex. 26-Four phrfons | out early this morning destroyed the coop- | were burned to death today in Plerc r‘fl(‘l:‘. erage plant of the Arbuckle Bro#'. sugar & pulp and pager manufacturing town in Ll cate ear t river fron the Adirondacks. g et s The fire had gaibed stch headway. before The large force of Aire engines and fire- | it was discaverad that Mrs. M: J. McGov- men which was summoned succeeded in | ern, daughter and her thre children, who | confining the Names to the cooperage shops. | were sleeping on the lower fioor, were not | No estimate of the loss has as yet been |able to get out and all were burned to given out | death. One of the children, whose body During the progress of the fire one of | was found close to a.windaw, had evidently burying the | made desperate efforts to escape. Tb the walls of the bullding fell, es be- | prietor and his wite, with a few b { mombers of one of the fire com | ncath, the mass of brick and other wreckage. | on an upper floor, escaped by juraping 0;" When the.other firemen arrived they |of the windowd, Qne miil was seriously [found Michael O'Toolo was dead and | burned Thomas Coppitger, a battalion chief, and oy serionsly hurt. Wants Burean of temifgeation. i Thomas McOsrthy, The battation chief, Coppinger, died after | CHEYENNBD, Wyo., Dee.. 2. —(Special)— | belng’ taken to a hospital and the dead | An effort will.be made to bave the {pcom- body of the nssistant fireman, Thomus | yo \egiglature estabiish a State Board of Jefftics, was “found In the Tuine of the | jnnieraijon or A Bureau of Statistics, and fethia wah the governor will probahly .be provafled e oy T—— upon to make recommendations for one or G’UVERNOR YATES IS 'WELL |the other in his mpssage to the leglsla- Two years ago an Altempt was wade ure & Stpte Bureau.of Immigration, the bill .met .with considerable oppdsi- tlon, the office of state geologist being ere- i | wted as & compromise. Bui the work pre- | seribed for ;this official is confined. to the SPRINGFIELD, M, Dec. 25.—Governer | examination of mines, prospects, ete., and Yates, Who I8 now in Florida for his|the good to be dérived by the state ‘s to health, did not spend Christmas in Cuba,|® great cxtent limited, especially as re- a8 _oxpected, He was to have sailed on | gards the develgpment of the state's ag- | Wellnesday, but the boat on which he was | Mcultural and pastoral wealth. to have taken the trip did not start. | i |, A message recelved at the executive of- Bos today statés that the Governor and Always the Same Good Old [ Mrs. Yates will roturn to Springfield next Tuesday, as he s greatly improved in health and now able to ume charge The Pride of Illvmlh of state affairs lnnd PoI!Al Card fo l.r Ne: RANGE CATTLE ARE STARVING tells why Impossible te Procure Feed or fo Cone BLATZ D R i3 RICHT BLATZ MALT-VIVINE Quarters. (NON-INTOXICANT) TONIC FORTHE WEAK All Druggists or Direct VAL. BLATZ BREWING CO., Miiwaukee ture. WA Rethrn eraim’ Floridn on Taeslay | fo_Renub Ilinofs State DENVER, Dec. 25.—Thousands of esttle are reporied to be starving to death on the range ‘in northwestern Colorado. 1 The Humane soclety appealed to the own- ers to rescue their stock, who have ex- | platmed that they. are powerless to do %o, | The cattle are snowed in on the high range | in Routt and Rio Grande counties, with- out pasture and without water. Jt 18 impossible to get feed to them and oqually impossible to drive them into suit- | able winter quarters, | DIES WITH GIFTS IN ARMS Duluth Man Freeses to Death with Scattered Prel Strewed OMAHA BRANCH, Around Him. 1412 Douglas st. Tel, 1081, DULUTH, Minn., Dec. 25.—George Plydell, N R IR Real Cozy frof pxhaubtion within five feet of his | . That'fs what fadies say of home Mnthb a@nd froze ‘to’ death. . ""‘} ATl afone In"a Iittle hous: iy thor | ) :a The Californis Limited. . + .. Private compartments, ample avedye, near the har! mm,«m m§ conducted #nd ‘eigar ‘dtore? -Thé city autlorities took | Tge,. 6f his) oflects. - Thé (hermometer has ‘registored: 20 de:rael below. zero for |' thenty-tour hours. ¥ confectionary' [t R, Injured in n Saloon Row. 4 u': u:uu oF'a ngirt o' & saloon at. 'flm-» drossing:rooms and. obses: Tt Stochwers o 1o Cupitor s palor, all daintily. furgls cnue suffered o fracture u! he orbital Perfect dining car meals. f The s rob- Chicago to California.in-less. thu b s butiit the blow hné struck thrae s Why stay at home? The California tour described in our Ve b camn ta 4 ol atation yesterduy ‘afterncor o have e wound dreased, aald tha hit by the edge of ‘4 cuspidore which had books, malled for 10c In stamps. be!‘? thrown at him. o arrests were Address P ma Atchison, POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Chicago News: A life of ease means a Iife of discontent: Love may be blind, but chaperons seldom are Life seams to be’one protracted sleep to some people. Young men know it all, but old men have the coln. “Soap dirt ch grover advertises it it takes a strong corporation to throw a | bridge across a river. Never judge & woman's mind by the time it takes her to make it up. If & man who-ls Injured in a railroad wreck falls to recover his hoirs will try to. One trouble with the average reformer is that he bas no other occupation. Pear of being ap old maid induces many a girl to choose the wrong husband. Cloves are responsible for the first bre is the way a Kansas of suspicion In many happy famfilies. BSome young men are prejudiced agalnst wark because they imagine that being hired lewers them. When a man wins & bet he sets his hat on the back of his-head; when he loses be pulls it down over his eyes. A"cursory gldhde over an undertaker's books will convince any man that he saves by not dying. i Here 1s the advertisement of a hotel at | Obtedd; translated’ by the New York Tri- buhé: “Hotel ‘In den ‘Koophandel,' Place Vandersweep, ‘to ‘one's ‘face’ the Station (Hailwdy); Odtend. Tenmous from Peter Vandenkerckhove - Houtappel. Telephone 351, “Breakfast from 6 o'clock the morning, ordifiery &t hoon ‘to 1 o'¢lock. Pottag Two plains of meat and legume. Desser: Beefsteak to the potato, one shilly a whole hour tenpence. Milk, coffee, tea, chocolate, beer of the country and oute landleh.” One would like 0 know the pr Forty Bizes- 10c to s6c Each. A. SANTAELLA & CO. MAKERS TAMPA, FLA. RDBON DRUG CO., Distriputors. RICH Deputy State Vetericarian Food Inspector. A, L. RAMACCIOTTI, D. V. S, CITY VETERINARIAN. and Infirmary, #th and Mason Sts, Telephone: 639, Omaha, Neb AMUSEMENTS, ' BOYD'S | ™ TONIGHT, SATURDAY MATINEE AND NIGHT, A atuahit o Woodward & Burgess, Managers. ciae. difference between Belgian beer .. meral manager of the Interns- and Trust syndleate. mine Al my dear friend! How besutiful zis lady ees! My beart he what you call ASTHMA (imates wear gut. Smokes and spraye relteve lympwnu Innemlarr-muvln CAUROS | Where W lake Asthing 80 ...mu‘)u uul the systom thet nothi which oan “FLORODORA” The Best of All Musical Comedfes. Company oL 7 lncluding fagdory Rush, Cortnna, !'rnfi!—-)fl-dnte. uc to $1.00; diignt] 250 to §L.60. I g P S— BUNDAY MATINEE AND NIGHT “oN THE nrm»n; OF TWELVE Price night, ‘2e; 506; The. CREIGHTON |- Telephone 1531, Matinee Wednesday, Batdirany, day, 3:115~Every Night, s, HIGH CLASS VAUDEVILLE w.bb. Beals and Bea Liong, .Jul and a Gart} Btuart Barnes, Harr) d “l s, Carson and Wiilard, Viel'l..nhae‘;xl Bros., Adel Purvis Onrt and the Kimodrom PRICES—10¢c, %c and G0, —_—— e i RS The MILLAR MII.LAR R Bteadily wicreabing taied an -nuumu‘t ot "this Its former capacity, \