Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 11, 1903, Page 7

DYNAMITE WRECKS BUILDING One Man is Killel and Half a Dosen | Are Injured. i | IN PH'LADELPHIA SUBURB EXPLOSION Aecldent Occurs In a Filtration Plant and Wing of the Women's Mouse of Correction in Badly Damaged. PHILADELPHIA killed, half a dozen ming of the House wrecked by the of dynamite In fitration plfnt at Holmesburg, a day. The dead man, who blown to pleces. The wing of the House of Correction adjoins the shaft. The women were at breakfast when the ex plosion occurred and when the building be gan to shake there was n wild rush to get “ut, resulting in a panic The women were got out in saftey and Quickly escortgd to another part of the buflding. Eight hundred panes of glass in the north wing of the building were broken and the force o the explosion was felt for many miles. The injured were taken to a hospital after baving their wounds dressed at the House of Correction SMALL VOLCANO IN UTAH Jan. 10.—One man was njured and of Correction partially of al sticks shaft of the uburb, to the women's explosion No. new a laborer, was ter in Discovered by Prospectors | Inteau, Near 1 River, | BALT LAKE, Utah, Jan. 10.—A speclal to the Tribune says that a small active vol- | eemlc crater has been discovered by pros- | pectors in the Dome plateau reglon, near | the Grand river, twenty miles north of Moab. From the crater, which is in the solid sandstone formation of the Mesa, arises a column of st hat can be seen for miles. The app e volcante vent indicates that rec it had been dormant for many years. Moab fs In the extreme eastern part of the state, not far | from the Colorado line. » SHIPPING TRUST CALLS CASH | ues Demand for Five Million from | by Underwriters to Pay for New Bonts. NEW YORK, jan 10.—The International Mercantile Marine company has issued’ a eall for another 10 per cent, or $5,000,000 of the $60,000,000 for which the underwrit- ing syndicate holds itself liable This money will be applied to the payment of extra tonnage on twelve new ships now butldin The vessels range from 10,000 to 15,000 tons, and, while designed chiefly for freight, will also have ample accommodations for saloon passengers and steerage passengers. THINK BANKER STOLE CASH Police Hold O New York Financler on e of Stealing Client's Money. BOSTON, Jan. 10.—Edward J. Dunning of Brooklyn, of the firm of Dunning & Co., bankers, of this city, was arrested today charged with the larceny of $23,000 from ¥rancis A. Brooks. It 1s sad that while the warrant men- {toned only the ome sum, the funds of Mr. Nirooks' estate are involved to the extent of more than $100,000. The accused man is prominent in Boston business circles and he is recognized as being wealthy. Meets with Painful Acéident, YUTAN, Neb., Jan. 10.—(Spectal.)—Meta | Koerner, 14 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Koerner of Yutan, while visiting at the home of Christian Passow, near Mead, had a painful accident. Iu passing over the sugar beet fleld she fell and broke her leg. She is still at the home of the Passows, but will be brought to town today. of infants and children. [} | Edward VII of Great Britain and It is ex | Atlantic | ing Mrs. | Davis had come into her room and thrown | continue ROOSEVELT TO SEND MESSAGE Wil Be Transmitted by Marcon! Him- welf to King Edward of England, WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—President Roose. velt today consented to prepare and have anemitted his signature the first ‘ormal message by wireless telegraphy acrcsa the Atlantic oces The message will be over directed to King | pected the king will respond in a menner by the same method of atlantic communication, Hon. John W. Griggs, former attorney | general, presented to the president Major Flood Page the representative in this country of Marconl, the Inventor of the wireless system of telegraphy. Major Page requested the president formally to open the public work of Cape Cod station with a message to King Edward, and he promised to o so. It is expected that the Cape Cod station will be in working order in about ten days, perhaps a little earlier. The presi- dent will deliver to Major Page the mes- sage to be transmitted and upon the ar- rival in this country of Marconi, who Is expected shortly, the inventor personally will transmit the meseage. OTTAWA, Ont.,, Jan. 10.—The Marconi Wireless Telegraph company of Canada has given notice of an application to Parlla- ment for an act of incorporation to trans act and do business all over British North America, British isles, Europe and on the and Pacific oceans and on the islands and places near the same. Powers also are asked for leasing or purchasing existing telegraph, telephone or cable com- panies BURNS Angry WOMAN AND BABY Enemy ows Li on Bed of nted Lamp an Francisco other, SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10.—Mrs. Mary Kline and her infant child died in the city emergency hospital today from the effects of burns recelved last evening. Before dy- Kline declared that Mrs. Mary a burning lamp upon the ‘bed in which she and her baby lay. The tragedy was the climax of a feud of long standing. GRANT RAILROAD CHARTER Authorities G Line from Wichita Falls to e Right to Build New Matma. GUTHRIE, Okl Jan. 10.—A charter was granted here today to the Wichita, Okla- homa & Northwestern railroad, capital stock $2,000,000, to build from Wichita Falls, Tex., northwest through the coun- ties of Manchia, Kiowa and Greer, Okla- homa, to Maima, Tex., a distance of 200 miles. FIRE RECORD. Fire at Chattanooga. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jan. 10.—Fire in a four-story brick bullding occupled by the Chattanooga Buggy company caused a loss of $20,000. As the building adjoined the Read house there was much excitement, as for a time it was feared that the flames would reach the hotel. Coolness on the part of the clerks and employes prevented anyone being injured. Tobacco Warehouse Destroyed. BRISTOL, Tenn., Jan. 10.—Frank Win- ston's tobacco warehou and B. Amboy's produce store were burned here this morn- ing. At noon Mitchell & Powers' hard- ware storage house was burning and the fire was spreading. Glucose Plant osed. PEORIA, [l Jun. 10.—The plant of the Peoria Glicose and Sugar Refining com- pany has been closed for want of coal to in operation and some 00 em- oyes are temporarily out of employment. Pi°l Stated by the management that every effort will be made to secure the necessarv fuel for resumption by Monday, but it Is extremely: doubtful, as thirty cars are re- quired datly. ENGINE MEN IN CONFERENCE Negotintions for Higher Wages and Other Come Engineers and firemen of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missourl Valley railroad have not yet come to a conclusion with General Superintendent Hughes regarding their mands for higher wages and other conces- slons. After a session of nearly an entire | week the three members of the adjustment committee of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers and the three members of the adjustment committee of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Firemen have returned to their homes for Sunday and will resume the confe~ence with Superintendent Hughes next Monday. No session was held yesterday, as Mr Hughes was called out of the city to attend a funeral. Good progress is being made and the enginemen have already secured many concessions. The work of the conferemce is drawing to a close, but it will take the larger part of next week to conmclude it. Meanwhile the representatives of the con- ductors and brakemen must await that time betore they can get to Mr. Hughes on thelr | own mission, which contemplates a raise of wages of 20 per cent. Similar demands are being made by conductors and brakemen the country over, and at the headquarters of the Elkhorn grievance committes here good news is being recelved as to success at other rallway headquarters. RAID ON ROULETTE WHEELS Chiet Donahue ™ Men Selze ANl atures in Loeal Cigar the Stores. Under orders from Chief Donahue the police have seized all miniature roulette wheels recently placed In cigar stores In Omaha. “The slot machines all may be rounded up by the department,” sald the chief. ““They are practically a kindergarten for the youth of the city and anyone can play them. “I know that a majority of the machines aie belng run on a cash basls, that Is, your winoings are paid in cash and not In mer- chandise, as the placards on the machines ‘I am In favor of taking all the slot ma- chines, big and little. We thought we had rid the city of the nuisance when we took charge of the big machines, but now have appeared the small counter devices. We find that the most complaints come from the clgar stores, the saloons having obeyed our instructions to the letter.” The chief sald that one cigar dealer whom he knew boasted that his machines were netting him $200 in cash every week that they were in operation, WANTS DIVORCE SET ASIDE Albert Mayhew, Jr., Says His Wife Took Advantage of His Absence. Albert Mayhew, jr., of Waterloo has filed in district court a petition to have set aside a decree of divorce granted his wife, Myrtle Mayhew, by Judge Dickinson October 8 on the ground of drunkenness. He files an afi- davit in which he charges that Myrtle took tage of his absence in Oklahoma with bis father, a sufferer with rheumatism, to rallroad through her petition and the court proceedings. He relates also that he didn't know what was happening until Myrtle had gone to Councl Bluffs and there married Paul Rohwer, a clerk in the Wilson store. They have two children and Albert wishes these. Ho is said to have the Waterloo hotel and other property and Rohwer to have only his wi PUTS PREACHER Advertisement for Ohto Man Trouble, COLUMBUS, 0., Jan. 10.—Rev. B. E. Harker, principal of the Otterbein Busine: university, is in jail here, having been a rested on charge of traudulent use of the matls. He advertised for copylsts to do work at home aad required a deposit of $1 from each. Copylints JAIL in Serious BABY'S DELIGHT MOTHER'S COMEORT ORIRRITATIONS, CHAFINGS, ITCHINGS, Rashes, Heat; Perspiration, Lameness, and Soreness no other application so soothing, cooling, and healing as a bath with CUTICURA SOAP, followed by gentle anoint- ings with CUTICURA, the Great Skin Cure, relief for skin-tortured babies and rest for tired mothers. No amount of persuasion can induce mothers who have once used these great skin pusifiers and beautifiers to use any others for pre- serving, purifying, and beautifying the skin, scalp, hair, and hands CUTICURA SOAP It means instant combines delicate emollient properties derived from CUTICURA, the great skin cure, with the purest of cleansing ingredients, and the most refreshing of flower odours. Together they form the only speedy, economical, and infallible cure of itching, scaly, and crusted humours, rashes, and irritations of the skin, scalp, and hair from infancy to age. Guaranteed absolutely pure, Sold throu ut the world. British Depot: F. Newsery & Sons, 27 Charterhouse L, E.C, PorTer DRUG AND CHEMICAL CorrgraTION, Sole Props., Boston, U, SS.X: | service In Nebraska, but to do this it would | | show that the Nebraska man has a requisi- PARDON IS NOT A RELEASE Towa Man Reoeives Executive Oletnency to Go to Nebraska for Tral. IOWA BRICKMAKERS ORGANIZE A UNION Indieations Are That Men Who Robbed Sullivan at Hamilton A People Occupy Promi- nent Positions, (Fiom a Staft Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Jan. 10.—(Special.) ernor Cummins this morning received a telegram signed by the county attorney and the sheriff of Jefterson county, lowa, asking for a pardon for & prisoner in the county Jail. It 1s an unus by telegraph and expect a reply in the affirmative by wire, but this case has some pecullar phases. J. P. Wilson 's in jail In Fairfield serving time on conviction of lar- ceny. He has about forty days yet to serve in the jail. In the meantime it has been dlscovered that he was one of a palr of thieves who committed burglary in Hamil- ton county, Neb. Wilson's pal turned state’s evidence and gave the whole thing away, and Wilson has been indicted. The telogram stated that Sherifft Kiumb, from in Fairfield and had fdenti- man and wanted to take him to Nebraska by return traln. The Fairfield authorities were willing to have him give | up the remainder of the forty days' sen- tence in view of the prospect of a longer be necessary to have him released at once. | The telegram stated that Judge Sloan, who | sentenced Wilson, would join in the recom- mendation of pardon. The senders asked announcement of the pardon by wire and that the papers be forwarded to Fairfield immediately. There was nothing on file to tion, but this evening Governor Cummins recelved word that Wilson agrees to ac- company the sheriff to Nebraska for trial, and he will be pardoned. Brickmakers Are Organising. A state meeting of representatives of the brickmakers' unfon was held here today and a temporary organization perfected of a district association. The towns and cities in the ociation are Council Bluffs, Sioux City, Des Moines, Lehigh, Kalo, Fort Dodge, Marshalltown, Boone and Mason City George Hodge of Chicago, general secre- tary of the union, was present to organize. The assoclation will be afitated with the State Federation of Labor. The local workers in the brickmaking husiness in the state have been well organized locally and nearly all in the state have become inter- eated in the matter. The officers are: Pres- tdent, 8. B. Stevenson, Des Moines; vice president, M. Crouln, Boone; recording sec- retaty, H. L. Goodrich, Lehigh; secretary and treasurer, J. Hedberg. New Postmaster Installed. John McKay, the new postmaster for Des Molnes, recelved his commission this morn- ing and is now the postmaster of Des Molnes, to succeed Dr. Schooler, who has held the office a little over four years. The pension office has not yet been turned over to the new agent, R. I’. Clarkson, and it 1s expected the change will not be made Gov- | ! thing to ask a pardon | untfl late in the month. Agent Sperry is trying to close up all the unfinished bu: Justed before he goes out of office. After the Hamilton Robbers. Since the identity of the man in jail at Knoxville fn connection with the robbery of Sullivan at Hamlilton has been estab- lished and it s known that he is none other than Frank bt Creston, the in- vestigation is going f#rtaer and the oficers belleve they are on the trail of the right men. It is now common rumor that one of the men implicated If the robbery is a former federal officeholder having a deputy~ ship, and that he and other prominent res- idents of the state will be arrested ac- cused of the crime. As yet no indictments have been found, but the Marion county officfals are confident that when they get to the bottom of the transaction they will find prominent persons implicated. It is learned tonight that a warrant has been placed in the hands of the sheriff ot Marion county at Knoxville for the arrest of Willlam Richards for connection with the robbery of Sullivan at Hamilton. Richards lives in Hamilton, but until re- cently he was a deputy United States marshal. It is now believed he planned the robbery and got the Creston men into it with him. He cannot be found. Richards resigned as deputy marshal be- cause he asserted there was not enough b to make a living. We had been in the service many years and was stationed | at Council Bluffs. Since resigning it was | announced he had been employed by the | State Sherifts’ association to run down Ed Carnes, the murderer of Sherift Strain of Monona county, Counterfeiters Under Arrest. The officials here belleve that two count- erteiters under arrest in Cedar Rapids aro a part of an important gang operating in lowa. There have becn complaints of counterfeiting in several places of the state. EAd Hagenberger and George Burke have been arrested. The former came there from Davenport, but Burke claime that he came to Cedar Raplds from Omaha. He admits baving passed a number of counterfeit coins. Burke claims that he worked in a cereal mill in Omaba, but had not heen there many months, having formerly lived | in Chica FEMALE THUGS HOLD UP MAN He Offers Resistance and One of Them Shoots, Inflicting a Serious Wound. DENVER, Jan. 10.—Three women at- tempted to hold up a man at Nineteenth and Lawrence streets about 3 o'clock this morn- 1ng, and when he resisted one of the women shot him, the bullet entering the cheek and passing out through the back of the head The would-be holdups were captured and gave the names of May Kelly, Della How- ard and May Summers. looking up their records. The man who was shot regained con- sclousness soon after his wound was | dressed. He is W. C. Thompson, a walter. His wound s not regarded as serious. DEEDS HIS PROPERTY AWAY | Nephew of Late C. P. Huntington | Turns Over Real E | | te His Relatives, SAN FRANCISCO, Jan, 10.—Willard Hunt- ington, one of the nephews of the late Collls P. Huntington and a brother of Henry E. Huntington, bas deeded away practically all his real estate to his brother and the widow of C. P. Huntington The police are| Winter designs, The deeds give title to fitty blocks and lots in San Francisco and 5,000 acres of the San Sabel ranch in San Luls Obispo. . nominal consideration was §1 and the transfer is subject to & mortgage for $417,- 564 executed May 17, 1899, to C. P, Huat- ingtom. trade. 11, Omaha’s Popular Priced Tailoring House! ON'T LOOK SHABBY When such prices as Nicoll offers this week are within your reach! icolls January Clean-up Sale is the talk of Omaha. UNDREDS of shrewd and economical buyers have availed themselves during the past week of this tempting opportiu- nity to have garments made toorder at the most tempting prices ever known for first-class tai- loring. WE want you to see th fabrics. E want you to feel of their good qual- ity. E ask you to compare our assortment and our designs with the average stock about town. 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