Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 27, 1902, Page 8

S S — THE OMAHA DAILY B SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27 NEWS O - COUNCIL MINOR MENTION. Davis sells drugs Btockert sells carpets and rugs. Expert watch repairing, Lefrert, 49 Bway. Officer is selling dwellings cneap. 419 B'y. Burnt wood_and leather goods. C. K. Alexandor & Co., 83 Broadway Miss Adelaide Swanson is spending the holidays with friends in Creston, la We are headquarters for glass of all Kinds. See us belore you buy. C. B. Paint, Oll and Glass Co. Mr. and Mrs. J. C, Bixby left last evening for a two weeks' visit with friends in Chi- cago and other egstern points. Charles Reynolds is home from the State | college at Ames, la., to spend s with his parents, Dr. A. P. Hanchett delivered an address on the subject of “Bacteriology” aj the | meeting of the Councll Bluffs club® last evening The high school minstrels have abandoned their proposed tour of this section of the state, having found that the undertaking was t0o great Mrs. W. 0. Frcggatt and daughter Helen of Knoxville, la., are guests of Mre. Frog- gAtU's parents, Kev. and Mrs. W. B. Crewd. #on, for the holidays, Mr. and Mre, John Kissell of Denver, Colo., are guests of Mr. Kissell's parents, Mr. and Mrs, H. B, Kissell, 210 North Sixth street, for the holidays. John Taylor, against whom an informa- tlon had been fiied by Thomas Owens, was adjudged insane yesterday by the cormmis- foners and committed to St. Bernard's ospital. Herman Martens, a dairyman, living near the lowa sI for the Deaf, has pur- chased the Creston houge on Bouth Main street from Father Thomas Burk and wiil take p«,.o»nmn January 1. Plumblnl and heating. Bixby & Son on Second Round. Santa C1 Santa Claus ia still in evidence in Coun- cfl Blufts and made his appearance last night at St. John's Eng'ish Lutheran church, where he distributed gifts among the ehildren of the Sunday school. Pre- ceding the arrival of Santa Claus the chil- dren rendered the Christmas cantata, “CRristmas Among the Pixies.” “An Old-Time Christmax Party” was the title of the cantata given by the children of the Union Band Sunday school at the Woodbury Avenue schoolhouse last evening. Presents for the young-falk were distrib- uted from a large Christmas tree. The children of the Sunday school of St. Paul's Episcopal church will have their an- nual Christmas party and entertainment this evening in Royal Arcanam hall. Lunch- eon will be served at 6 o'clock, following which the evening will be spent in games and the distribution of gifts. The even- ing's entertainment will be brought to a close with a dance for the “older” young people. At the Union mission, 1333 West Broad- way, the annual Christmas festival will be held this evening. The children of the mis- slon Sunday school will render a program suitable to the occasion, atter which lunch will be served. Run Down by Train, Louls Moore, a carpenter in the employ of the Northwestern rallroad, whose home is at 24 South Fifteenth street, this citv, was killed yesterday morning in the raii- | road yards at Clinton, Ia. From the infor- matfon received here it appears that Mr. Moore stepped from behind one train im- mediately in front of another. He was 44 years of age and is survived by his wife. The remains will arrive here this morning from Cliaton. Renl Estate Transfers. These transfers were filed yesterday fn the abstract, title and loan office of J. W. Squire, 101 Pearl street: Carrle P.'Zinkelsen and husband to B H, Lougee nek swi and sei nw % .$ 3,600 Jumes (unnin?mm ‘to' ¥, 3. Day, lut 22, block 37, Central subdiv., w. 200 Lagnard Everett and wits 1o Neweli HeGeorse, lota 5 and 6 block 3 ,Bllrnl add., 120 D. Bamundson and wite to Lare Hansen, ot 8, w. block 4, Riddie's 1650 and wife o 1 :‘» block 41 ubdiv., w. 3 J D Edmundson and’ wife ' to King, lot 13, block 4, Riddle's atib div., 250 Le Roy Tulllu and ‘wife to E. ¥ King, lots 11 and 12, block 42, Rid- die’s subdlv., . .. 40 Elizabeth Schram and husband to W lot 13" block 45, ma. Hugo, ‘and William wives to Harry Claussen, e% -w% 47740, 6,480 n YHigo™ Clstssen, nwi 9-77-40, G‘ e d. . 15,200 William . Famarm, trustee, and o L. P. Nevina, lot 11, block &, Ridalcs aubdiy. 5. w. d.. 20 mnl (_cylc and wife to L. Antrim, w B feet lot § block 9, odonll‘ w. d 1,500 Loulse Pretifeld et lot 14 w. A m L. W. 0 Island & Pucific Rallway -u lol n bloek 41, Ridd| aie ; [ sa iot 12 and wig ot u. blmk (i md le's subdiv., w. d.. 18 Burbank to same, lot u, mock n “Riddies subate . A 150 Lars Hansen and wite to > 9, block 42, Riddle's subdiv 150 F. King to same, lot u, Riddie's subd'v., w. d 20 Leet to same, lots 13 and 1 block 42, Riddle’s subdiv., w. d.. %0 Jordan to same. lots 15 and ‘block 43, Riddle's subdiv.. w. d.. 320 P, KI0E o same, wip Tots’ 11 and 12, block 41 Riddle’s subd d m Bam game, lot 14, block o, Rid: ‘s subdiv ! ithesvantv m B F King 10 Chicago, Hock Tsiand & Pacific Rallway company, lots 41 and 12, block 42, Riddi subdiv., Fran kie to same, h»\ % o Biock s Riadl @ 8. Star to same, Tot Btk . Riddle's subdiv.. w 150 . Z._Thompson fo same, 1ot i, biock @, Riddies sublv., ‘w. d g 30 P. M. Willlamsen (o eame,’ blocic 6. Riddie's subdiv. w. ... us hd ok 30 250 Twenty-nine transfers, totai....... 83,475 Marriage Licenses. Liconses to wed were issued yesterday to the following: Resldence. ng, Havelocl Efle Mason, Haveloek, Ne Willlam D. Nichols, Omaha Dalsy E. Kinney, Omaha N. C, Sorensen, Bloomfleld, N Minnle Schackel, Bloomfield, Neb. NEW THEAT:R... Prices, 25¢, S0c, e, $1.00. SATURDAY, DEC. 27, “WHEN WE WERE TWENTY-ONE” ;i Best Comedy Hver Written. NEW THEATER 2% SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, THE WORLD FAMOUS HERRMANN : THE : GREAT, Accompanied by the Musigal Goolmans. e, B ~LEWIS CUTLER A Panrl 81 Phane 5 BLUFFS. NEW SUITS FOR HOLIDAYS. | Promise of a Buiy Time at the Coming Term of District Court. ATTACKS THE TELEPHONE FRANC“ISE‘ Damnge and Divorce Sults Predom- inate in the Actions Filed Up to the Present—City Defend- ant | Charles R. Hannan of this ity has begun suli in the district court against the Kan- sas City, 8t. Joseph & Council Bluffs Rail- | | way company and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rallroad company to recover | $1,999 for the burning of hay In the stack and in the fleld. Haunan is the owner of sixty-one acres of land adjoining the tracks of the Burlington system south of the city. On July 20, 1901 sixty tons of stacked hay and thirty-one acres of growing grass, ready to be mowed, were destroyed by fire. It Is alleged the fire resulted from a lplrki from an engine. Efforts to settle the case out of court, it s sald, falled. The petition in the quo warranto action against the Nebraska Telephone company | instituted in the name of the state of lowa by County Attorney Killpack, was filed yesterdaay. The same allegations attacking the validity of the franchise under which the company is operating in Cuuncil Bluffs which were set forth in the original notice of sult appear in the petition. ‘W. L. Baughn, who purchased from C. W. Napler a residence which was nearing com- pletion when the Great Western brought condemnation proceedings against (he prop- erty for its right-of-way and over which there was considerable litigation, has brought suit against Napler for $800, alleg- ing that Napler removed the heating plant and other fixtures in the building pending the determination of the condemnation pro; ceedings. . . Miss Lizzie M. Crocker, teacher In_the city schools, commenced sult against the city of Council Bluffs yesterday in the dis- trict court for $10,000. Miss Crocker suf- fered a double fracture of her right leg and dislocation of the ankle on October 14 last by stepping Into a hole on the bridge over Indlan creek at North First street. The structure was subsequently condemned and closed to traffic. Mrs. Meada Pace began suit for divorce from Joel Pace, to whom she was married July 4, 1896, in Woodbine, Ia. She alleges cruel and inhuman treatmént and asks for the custody of their two minor children. Mrs. Bertha M. Smith commenced suit for divorce from Ellis T. Smith, to whom she was married July 29, 1895, In Plattsmouth, Neb. She alleges cruel and inhuman treat- ment and fallure to support, by reason of which she was compelled to leave her hus- band two years ago. She asks also that she be awarded the custody of their minor son. B. E. Fields appears as plaintiff in sev- eral suite to recover on alleged contracts for fruit tre and other nursery stock. The defendants and the amounts claimed are: M. P. Chapman, Buffalo Center, Ia., $25; Willlam Hansen, Humboldt, Ia., $84; 1ke Leviness, Fremont, Neb., $20, Anni Batholomew, Humboldt, Ia., $100; E. Rice, Estherville, Ia., $20. Anot! r Heating Stove Free. The first heating stove given by Willlam ‘Welch to his coal customers was awarded to the Christian home. Another has been put up oft the same plan, and during the next thirty days will be given away free to one of his customers. Before ordering your coal call at 16 North Main street or ‘phone 128, iCLOUDS ON CHRISTMAS JOYS 30 | Denth Angel Comes to Darken Portals Councll Blufts en. of Numero H George W, Fletc: r died yesterday morn- Ing at his home, 702 Third street, from %0 | consumption, after an iliness of nearly hree years, aged 26. His wife survives [‘htm. Mr. Fleteher was proprietor of a drug store at 106 Weet Broadway. Conrad Nansel died Thursday night at the home of bis son, Joseph Nansel of Island Park, a few miles south of the eity. He was 70 years of age and had been a resi- dent of Council Bluffs and vicinity for up- wards of twenty years. Three daughters, Miy. L. F. Livrey of Palmer Settiement, Mrs. Maggle Owens of Keg Creek and Mrs. Mary McGeary of Imogene, Ia, and five sons, Godtrey ot Calloway, Neb., Joseph of | { Island Park, Michael and Willlam of Mo; roe, Neb., and John of Cozad, Neb., sur- vive him. The funeral will be held Sund: morning at 10:30 o'clock from St. Peter church, Rev. Fatber Burke conducting the services, and interment will be in St. Jo- seph's cemeotery. Jacob Henton, aged 77 years, died yeste! day morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Harriet Johnson, 1909 Fourth street, after an illness of one month. Besides b wife and the daughter at whose home he died, another daughter, Mrs. Anna Peter- son, residing south of the city, survives him. The funeral will be noon at 3 o'clock from the Johnson home and burlal will be in Fairview cemetery. | Willlam Merec: aged 61 years, dfed yes- | terday afterncon at his home, 2328 Avenue @, from paralysis. He is survived by his wife, two daughters and two sons. Mr. | Mercer was a veteran of the civil war, having served in Company K, Seventeenth Towa volunteer infantry. He enlisted March 2, 1862, and received an honorable discharge | April 15, 1865. The funeral will be held Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the family residence and interment will be in | Patrview cemetery. Rev. G.' W. Snyder, | pastor of St. John's English Lutheran | church, will conduet the services. 'HOLDUP MEN TAKE ORGAN'S HAT | Unable to Find Any Money They Ave Have Someth! for Trouble. Richard Organ, son of Attorney John P. Organ, had an exciting experience with | three hold-up men late Christmas night on Bast Broadway while on his way to his bome on Bluff street. When near tho cor- | ner of Oak street he eng eld this after- | INTEREST FROM “frisk” him and went through his pockets In the manner practiced at police head- quarters. Falling to find any money on him the fellows relieved Organ of his col- lege pin and his hat, a mew one which he was wearing for the first time that day. They then told him to continue on his way and young Organ lost no time in complying | with the order. He hastened to police headquarters, where he gave a description of the fellows and secured a cap to go home in. Officers were sent to the sceme of the | hold-up, but the fellows had disappeared. Gravel roofing. A. H. Reld, 126 Main St. Queer Way to Celebrate Christma. C. A. Guthrie, 2626 Avenue A, and Elmer James, 1715 Avenue G, charged with cele- brating Christmas by abusing their wives and families, were among the prisoners in police court yesterday morning. Thrlu | was charged with going home Chtistmas eve and beating his wife and two stepsons. | He was fined $5 and costs. James was arrested after who accused him of beating her, and in support of her charge appeared in police court displaying a number of brulses and scratches. Justice Bryant, who was hold- Ing court in place of Judge Scott, sen- tenced James to twenty days on bread and water, but later suspended the sentence during good behavior, it being shown that the family would suffer if James was kept from his work. N. ¥ Plumbing Co., telephona 256. CHARGE BANKERS WITH FRAUD Serious Allegations Growing Out of Failure of Bank of Ote. SIOUX CITY, la.,, Dec. 26.—-(Special Tel- egram.)—Serious charges continue to bo made against the Oto bank, of which Fred H. Cutting and J. T. Willett were owners, and which recently closed its doors. The charge 18 made agalnst the Oto bank and Cutting and Willett in a petition filed in the district court today that the bank re- leased a chattel mortgage of record with- out authority, without any consideration and without actual payment being made upon the indebtedness of $5,000 which the mortgage represented. The euit {s begun by the First National bank of Lyons, which holds a note for the amount stated against J. H. Melott. Me- lott executed the note to the Oto bank August 10, 1901, and the bank afterwards rediscounted the note to the Lyons bank. The plaintiff asks the court to render a personal judgment against Melott, to de- clare the release of the mortgage as null and vold and to foreclose the mortgage. A number of otaer banks which have set up claims on which It was asserted the same property was security, are included as de- fendants by the Lyons bank. DEMANDS FIRE PROTECTION Armour Company Say They Will Not Rebutld in Sfoux City Otherwise. BIOUX CITY, Ia., Dec. 26.—(Special Tele- gram.)—This morning the mayor and city council and the trustees of the city water works received a letter from C. W. Len- non, manager for Armour & Co., asking definitely what added. fire protection the city was prepared to give In tue stock yards district in the event of the rebuild- ing of their milllon-dollar plant. Inasmuch as the matter has been up before, the let- ter amounts to a statement that unless some definite answer is made they will not rebuild. The trustees have replied that they have endeavored to confer with representatives of Armour & Co. but that the latter have never been able to meet them. They state they are ready to confer with them any time they are ready and say they are ready to give the necessary additional protection. Armour & Co. demand a sixteen-inch main instead of the present eight-inch main, and the water works trustees prefer putting in another eight-inch main if sat fefactory to Armour & Co. The council is tully alive to the importance of the situa- tion for Sloux City. FATHER AND DAUGHTER KILLED Buggy in Which They Were Riding Struck by Tr on Mil- PERRY, Ia, Dec. 26.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Way freight No. 92 today at 4:30 p. m. struck a covered buggy on a crossing about two miles east of Bayard, a town twenty-five miles west of here on the Mil- waukee road, demolishing the buggy and Kkilling {nstantly the occupants, John Dufty and his little daughter, Nellle. The train was stopped and the bodies were taken back to Bayard. 'Further particulars can- not be obtained. The coroner will hold an inquest tomorrow forenoon. Engineer J H. Wasson clalms to have blown his whis- tle for the crossing, but as the top was up it is supposed the people In the buggy did not see or hear the traf es Great Dam: WATERLOO, Ia., Dec. 26.--(Speclal Tele- gram.)—The ice in the Cedar river broke today above the dam, causing a jam below, risen to its highest al ‘The Union mill plaht is closed and great damage to property will result unless the jam is broken by warm weather. Capture a Robber. PARKERSBURG, Ia., Dec. 26.—(8pectal.) H. Yordy, with bloodhounds from Water- 100, captured Cooney Cottmer, who robbed the postoffice here. He had stamps and money In his poss fon amounting to 160, Towa State News Notes. There has been a decrease of school en- rollment in lowa the past year. The reform movement at progressed so far that all chines are plugged up. Everybody was supposed to be vacein- ated in Lee coun'y early this year, but over 400 cases of smallpox are now re- ported. A Page county farmer worth at least 000, a Sunday school superintendent eader in his church, has just been indicted for horse stealing. An_lowa country editor, Fred Brown of the Belle Blaine Union, has shattered tra- ditions by accumulating enough to donate oo to "Cornell college ARd have plenty eft for himself. Fort Madison Ting offered & hand- some bonus for an automobile Now the factory has burst and s to be wound up without ever having turned out a single machine. A Creston lad Tama b the slot m had o Dot dog. which ‘v;lliu east on Broad Organ and demanded bis money. sured the fellows that he had spent all of his spare cash for Christmas presents and that he had mot & cent on his person. The tellows laughingly told him they were from Missouri and had to be shown. At this young Organ made & move as if to get | away, when one of the men told him he had better stand still and hold his hands | up. Organ then realized he was against the real thing and decided that it was the best policy te obey, so up went his-hands. The three fellows then proceeded 1o court learer to her as the nel compi ‘Bt ‘when The beast the other day chewed up her favor- ite bonnet she promptly called in the dmaster. In the police court of Sloux City there was the singular spectacle of a divorced husband paying the fine of his wife, who was caught in the act of shopliftin upon her discharge, With Dusband No. T The famous Charter Oak steer litigation, in which a dispute over an animal worth o has blready plhd up over costs ivided & borhood into two l’u’ Bas )un been settied by a de- using ab appeal Lo the supre.ne —— midnight | | Christmas night on complaint of his wife, IOWA. INTERESTED 1N CORN SHOW| Towa Farmers Waking Up to Importance of ! Investigating Beed. CONTEST FOR JUDGESHIP GROWING WARM State Bankers’ Association Hopes to Have Address from Elther Secre- tary Shaw or Ex-Secre- tary Gaj (From a Staft Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Dec. 26.—(Special)—The | preparations which are being made now for | the corn and stock judging schools at the | lowa State college at Ames next month | make it certaln that there will be a much larger attendance than ever before. This | special work at the college will open Jan- uary 5. Profs. Holden and Curtiss, who will have charge of this important school, have been in Des Moines making arrangements | tor spectal teatures in connection with the | school and report that not before has there ever been so many intelligent .inquiries | from people all over the state in regard to the work being done at the college in regard to the stock judging and the scor- ing of seed corn. In the corn judging work Prof. Holden will be assisted by Messrs. Kennedy, Shamel, Stevenson, Olin, Atkin- son and others, and in the stock judging and instruction Prof. Curtiss will have as- sistance from W. A. Dobson, J. H. McNeall, George Heyl, John A. Cralg, John Gosling, Prof. Marshall and others. Secretary Simp- | son of the state agricultural depdrtment reporte that the interest manitested by the | farmers who are in contact with the State Agricultural soclety is great and that the time has come when it is comparatively easy to attract attention to practical work being done at the State college. Struggle for a Judgeship. Governor Cummins went to Dubuque to- | day to address a meeting of traveling men, but will return tomorrow and take up the task of choosing a judge of the district court to succeed the late Calvin P. Holmes. The task of picking out a judge promises | to be an embarrassing one for the governor. There are a number of candidates for the place and members of the bar in this city are all taking sides in the case and insist- ing on certain things. The candidate who was before the republican primaries last spring and came nearest to selection was Hugh Brennan, and he has the advantage of having been the only candidate from the east halt of the county. It is belleved, however, that the strongest candidates, be- | cause of their political affliations, are W. H. Bailey, W. P. McLaughlin and Jdmes C. Hume. It is understood that Governor Cummins would be glad to have Judge S. F. Prouty, who is just retiring from the bench, accept reappointment for the mext vear and thus avold emharrassment. Judge Prouty has planned to take & trip to Bur- ope next year and is then a candidate for congress, and he has stated he will not remain on the bench. Preparing for Bankers' Meeting. The annual convention of the Iowa Bank- ers' assoclation will be held the coming year at Davenport, some time in February. The president of the association 1s H. A. Miller of this city. It is planned to have the Illinofs State Bankers' assoclation meet at Rock Island at the same time, and there will be opportunity for bankers to attend both at the meetings just across the river. An effort is being made mow to secure the attendance of either Secretary Shaw or ex- Secretary Gage at the Iowa meeting. Murder Trials Delayed. | | The three men who were granted new trials at the last term of the supreme court, all of whom were sentenced for murder, will have their trials early next year. It will be Impossible to reach the case of A. M. Hunter at Mount Ayr until in February, as court does not meet in Ring- gold county until February 7. It is ex- pected that he will ask for a change to same other county on account of the in- tense feeling against him in the county where the murder was committed. In the case of Brooks and Phillips, who escaped the gallows by a technicality, they may be tried early in January at the term which begins at Storm Lake January 6, but it is hardly probable they will be ready for trial at that time. Would Recover Unpald Fees. Suit was commenced in the district court today by the administrator of the estate of the late General R, V. Ankeny, for many years county coroner, claiming of Polk county about $1,000 in fees which were due him as coronmer during his lifetime and unpaid. The administrator clalms that fees were not paid during many years and that these disputed claims rightfully belong to the estate. Small Des Molnes Fire, A fire which originated in the cellar be- neath the rooms occupied by the Green Candy company at 516 Walnut street, in- flicted damages estimated at $1,000 to $1 200 on the building and the one adjoining on the east, and damaged the stock of con- fectionery to the extent of $1,000, all of which is secured by insurance. The fire started at 3 a. m. and its origin un- known. The Great Western rallroad's city office was slightly damaged. IOWA TRAINS ARE TIED UP Switchmen Fighting for Four Cents Increane Threaten to Make Strike General, MARSHALLTOWN, Ia, Dec. 26.—The strike of switchmen on the lowa Central threatens to spread bevond Marshalltown. It was thought at first that the company would grant the advance of 4 cents asked, but s0 far no settlement has been reached and the switchmen say they will call for a sympathetic strike in Albert Lea, Oska- loosa, Monmouth and Peoria. Switchmen at Albert Lea already refuse to handle any Iowa Central cars and it is sald that those in other towns will do the same when requested. Freight trafiic is at a standstill here; no trains have gone out for two days and the yards are congested. A coal famine is threatened, as the lowa Central hauls 50 per cent of the coal used here. The general superintendent will meet the strikers’ committee tomorrow. S0 They Hur Him Al - Chicago Post: You must have enjoyed the comments of that country cousin of yours. He's stranger to art, isn't he?’ “Of course.' *“And so original in his remarks. Did he see that copy of “The Temptation of St. Anthony ™ - “What did be say about it “He sald it was the first time he ever wished he was & saint. After that I burried him along.” Mexican Cabinet Minist NEW YORK, Dec, 2.—General Mona, re- cently appointed minister of war of Mexico, asrived on Celle > THE GREAT BANKRUPT Is still going in sold at a sacrifice. one-halt their origin ALL KINDS OF CHRISTMAS CAT CALENDARS STATIONERY PERFUMES PICTURES BLACKBOARD STATUARY WOODENWARE =—0F full force, and every item in the store, al price. RDS THE=——= Whitelaw & Gardiner Stock eager buyers in every department taking advantage of the wonderful bargains, which includes each No goods reserved—everything A HALF PRICE SALE of holiday goods, now on sale, main floor, every article marked in plain figures. and sold for A good assortment left of the tol- lowing lines of Christmas goods, allat HALF PRIC JAPANESE CHINA. BOOKS WAGONS DRUMS GAMES OF ALL KINDS IRON TOYS CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS PYROGRAPHY ETCHINGS CHRISTMAS TREE CANDLES CHILDREN'S DOLLS INTERSTATE MERCANTILE CO., SUCCESSORS TO Whitelaw & Gardiner WASH SETS FLIES MAN-LIFTING KITE Towards Conquering Air ventor For ments Largely to Substantiate it So Far, with Most Gratifying Re 1t to Sclence. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who has just come from his summer home in Cape Breton island, made the following statement tonight in con- nection with reports that he had invented a flylng machine: I have come to the conclusion that a properly corstructed flying machine should be capable of being flown as a kite, if anchored to the ground, and that, con- versely, a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying machine, if provided with sultable means of pro- pulsion. My experiments have been directed to bullding a kite capable of cerrying up, in'a moderate breeze o weight equivalent to that of a man and engine so formed that It could be used as the body of a fiying machine, 1 have successfully ac- complished this, but do not care at the present time to make public the details of construction. COST MR. BLAINE DEARLY. Speech in Which He Aroused the En- mity of Senator Roscoe Conkling. The widow of Henry Winter Davis, who was once a very conspicuous figure in American politics, dlcd at her home in Baltimore recently. The circumstance re- calls a speech made by James G. Blaine in the house of representatives in 1866, in which the name of her husband figured. It was this speech which incurred for Blaine the undying enmity ot Roscoe Conk- ling and which cost him, according to some historians, the presidency, Conkling, and Blaine had indulged in a tilt. Blaine was speaking, and, turning to Mr. Conkling, who was accentuating his profound indifference to what the gentle- man from Maine might be saying by writ- ing busily, made this utterance: “‘As to the gentleman's cruel sarcasm, I hope he will not be too severe. The con- tempt of that large-minded gentleman is so wilting, his baughty disdain, his grandilo- quent swell, his majestic, supergminent, overpowering, turkey gobbler strut, have been so crushing to myself and all the membors of this house that I know it was an act of the greatest temerity for me to venture upon a controverey with him." Referring then to the statement of a newspaper that the mantle of Henry Winter Davis, who had died in 1865, had fallen on Mr. Conkling (which he interpreted sar- castically), Mr. Blaine continued- ““The gentleman took It seriously, and it has given his strut additional pomposity. The resemblance is great; it is startling. Hyperion to a Satyr, Thersites to Her- cules—mud to marble, dunghill to diamond, a singed cat to a Bengal tiger, a whining puppy to a roaring lion. Shade of the mighty Davis, forgive the almost profana- tion of that jocose satire!" Mr. Davis became prominent as a bril- lan orator ar® controversialist in the Scott canvass in 1852. Two years later be was elected to cougress from Maryland, and was re-elected in 1856. In 1859 he & republican, and in 1860 announced him- self as an “unconditional union” candidate for congress and conducted bis canvass al- most alone amid & storm of abuse. He nevertheless recelved about 6,000 votes. When Lincoln was nominated in 1860 Mr. Davis was offered the nomination for vice president, but declined it. He was agaln elected to congress in 1863. On his death, in 1865, congress set aside a day for the commemoration of his public services, an honor mever before pald to an ex-member of congres: BACK FROM A PERILOUS TRIP. Remarkable Ocean Voyage Made in & Kerosene Launch. Captain Willlam C. Newman has re- turned, crossing the ocesn in a little thir- ty-elght-toot kerosene launch, accompanied by his 16-year-old son Charles. “The little craft that weathcred us through several fierce storms and pounde through mountain-llke combers for thirty- #ix days,” says Captain Newman to a New York World reporter, “‘is named the Ablel Abbott, and though thirty-eight feet long is little more than a light shell that tosses at the pleasure of an ocean swell. She has only nine feet beam and & draught of three ecame | | teet eight inches. Her engines, which are placed amidship, take up most of the hold leaving only a narrow, cramped little cabin to live in and a small Dr. Graham Bell Suoceeds in First s“p compartment to store provisions, beside the space of the boat, | water and oll tanks. | “We left College Point, L. I, on the aft- | erncon of July 9 and started for the At- AERIAL MACHINE MAY FOLLOW SOON | lantic by the way of the Sound and around We had on board about 2,000 gallons of water, 700 gallons of oil » Theory and Experi-| ing provisions enough to last sixty ‘days. We could use salt water in our engine. “On the evening of the twelfth day out I noticed a peculiar looking cloud on the horizon, and even as I looked it seemed 1 to grow until it towered like a mountain. I knew then that we were in for a storm of hurricane proportions, and we disposed | of everything on the ship, 8o as to trim her to keep her balance through the great waves I knew would break on us. | “The storm descended on us like an ava- in a few minutes either upon the pinnacle of a great comber or In the valley of two great wa hurricane had not been upon us for more than an hour when we were compelled to stop the engines and go into our littie natches and trust Montauk Point. lanche, and cabin, the Abfel with bru:ses. saved. commission. “Finaliy, from the great { names. to London. when 1 wi fasten down the to the buoyancy of our little boat. “For three days we were rolled about ir Abbott until we were covercd We could aot eat nor could we sleep. And during every lull we dropped on our knces and prayed that we might be storm “When the storm finally blew itselt out | we were so exhausted that it was almost | two days befcre we could iure the engine | and begin to make healwav again. we procesded along smoothly. encountering only two 1a01e storms, but neither of them wae bad enough to put our emgine out of after thirty-six days of most terrible suffering, for our exhaustion completely | broken us down, we reached Falmouta. We immediately took up lodgings there and engaged a physictan to help build us up. | We had both lost our memory and could | not for nearly elghteen days remember a | single incident of the voyage. was all we could do to remember our had In fact, “When we did recover we gave the Ablel | Abbott to a charitable institution and wo1t From London we went to Bre- | men, where I saw my parents, whom I left 9 years old.” we were The Then ! the | it | Examine the package you Under th Cocon. is AKER'S decis MORPHINE Delicious Drinks and Dainty Dishes ARE MADE FROM BAKER’S BREAKFAST ABSOLUTELY PURE Unequaled for Smoothness, Delicacy,aad Flavor ceive and make sure that it bears our trade-mark. s of the U. S, Courts no other tled to be labeled or sold as CO0COA Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. Established 1780 DORCHESTER, MASS. .uu of LAUARU | DAt eared ot bome. 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