Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 26, 1903, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, 1908. NEWS O COUNCIL F BLUFFS. MINOR MENTION, Davis sells drugs. Expert watch repairing, Leffert, 49 B'y Elegant new pLotographs at S8chmidt's. 8ix photos 10 cents. Carveth, 308 B'way For rent, modern house, 719 Sixth avenue. Pyrography supplies. C. E. Alexander & 383 Broadway. ‘anted, lady for office work. Address B, Bee office, Council Bluffs. Mrs, J. E. Spurlock of Rockport, Mo, fs the guest of her daughter, Mrs. M. A, Alies- nouse. Excelsior Masonic lodge will hold a spe- clal meeting tonight for work In the first degree. We are headquarters kinds. See us before you buy. Vil and Glass company. Ivanhoe commandery, will meet, Friday night Knights Templar degree. A case of measies in the family of P. A Waugh, #1 Bouth First street, was reported to the Board of Health yesterday. W. 8. Baird, member of the local bar and trustee of the public library, has an- nounced his candidacy for the republican nomination for state senator. The case against W. J. Haines, charged by A, F. Clatterbuck with obtaining money under false pretenees, was dismissed in Justice Ouren’'s court yesterday. The women of the First Congregational church wili give a kensington this after- noon from 2 to 5 o'clock at the home of Mrs. F. W. Miller on Oakland avenue. A freight car in the Rock Island yards was broken Into Tuesday night and robbed of a case of rubbers, a case of socks, sev- eral caddles of candy and a bundle of raw furs. Fred Lewls filed an information n Jus- tice Ouren’'s court yesterday charging Joe KKraninger with assault. Kraninger gave bonds in the sum of $100 and will have a hearing March 6. Mr. and Mrs. H. 8 Biinn and son left yesterday for Los Angeles, 1., where Mr. Blinn is engaged in the cigar manufactur- and jobbing business and where they will make their home, Owners of property on Upper Broadwiy are circulating a petition for a sewer to be east from Frank street. The petition will be presented at the meeting of the city council Monday night. Hales of the Retall Clerks' Inter- Protective assoclation has effected a reorganization of the Council Bluffs retall clerks and a meeting will be called in a few days for the election of officers and selec- tion of delegates to the Trades and Labor sembly. It ls sald that “The Telephone Girl," which is to be the attraction at the New theater tomorrow evening, has a most ex- cellent cast. With not a dull moment, pretty girls, catchy music, elegant scenery, such'a play ought to crowd the theater to the doors. Mrs. Louise Backmeyer, died last evening at her hom=, 2408 Avenue A. One eon, F. Backmeyer, survives her. “Funeral services will be held at the residence Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock, after which the remains will be taken to the former home of the deceased at Seneca, Kan., for burial tor glass of all C. B. Paint, Knights Templar, for work in the ed 67 years, Plumbing and heating. Bixdy & Son. Matters in District Court. Mrs. Lilllan Meek began suit for divorce (CITY COUNCIL, TAKES HAND| Proposes to 8ee that Motor Oompany Keeps Its Offives in Ounoil Bluffs. HOLDS TERMS OF CHARTER ARE VIOLATED One Clause Provides for Notice to City of Any Transfer or Leawe Before the Same vana. The city council, It is expected, will take some action at its regular meeting Monday night in the matter of the transfer of the general offices of the motor company from this city to Omaha. While it is contended that the company is violating the provi- sions of its charter by not maintaining its principal offices in Council Bluffs, the at- tentlon of the city authorities has also been called to the fact that the company now operating the street car system of Council Bluffs has failed to comply with another and very important requirement of the franchise. Section three of the ordinance grcnting the franchise to the Council Bluffs, Lake Manawa, East Omaha Construction com- pany, which franchise was subsequently as- signed to the Omaha, Council Bluffs & Suburban Rallway company, and under which charter the motor company is pre- sumed to be now operating, provides in ad- dition to the necessity of maintaining the principal offices of the company in Council Bluffs that no assignment, lease or trans- fer of the franchise granted by the ordi- nance shall be of any force or validity un- til written notice of the same shall be filed with the clerk of the city of Council Bluffs. When the consolidation of the Omaha and Council Blufts street railway systems was recently effected it was understood that the Council Bluffs lines had been leased to the Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Rallway company for a term of ninety-nine years. No notice of the leaso, however, has been filed with the city, and therefore it is con- tended by the city authorities that tho lease 1s not yet in effect. While this may be the case, it does not alter the situation, and the fact remains the same, as one of the aldermen said yes- terday, that the offices of the mo- tor company, instead of being maintained in this city as required by the ordinance, have to all practical intents and purposes been removed across the river. Several of the aldermen when Interviewed on the matter yesterday, expressed them- selves &6 In favor of appealing to the courts yesterday in the district court from James M. Meek, to whom she was marrfed in Lincoln, Neb., January 15, 1888. The de-| Tendant is one of the oldtime employes of the motqr company and proprietor of the Revere house on Broadway. She asks the court to award her the custody of their minor children. The Petrus Peterson Insurance o ar? expected to go to the jury today, follow: ing which Ben Woods, the alleged pick- pocket, will be placed on trial for the second time. . E. A. Wickham has won the first round in the suit brought against the Rock Island railroad involving demurrage o.. a number of cars of paving brick shipped to Council Blufts from Des Moines. Judge Thornell has banded down his decision requiring the railroad company to set out full particu- lars regarding the demurrage charge, which must show by whom the demurrage reg- ulations were adopted, to whom such de- murrags charges go, whether to the de- fendant company or some other party; to t out the date of arrival of such cars and when the demurrage was charged, and when the plaintiff was notified. Thy re- sult of this case is being watched with considerable interest by shippers who have in the past been subjected to demurrage charges by the rallroads. ' Death of B Ploneer. George Schindele, a ploneer resident of this city, died last evening at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Adolph Beno, 205 Frank street, aged 68 years. Mr. Schindele wi born in Ropenhiem, near Strasburg, Ger- many, and came to this country as a young man. He was married to Miss Ernestina Sauter In Chicago in 1856, and two years later removed to Council Bluffs, thus hav- ing been a resident of this city for forty- five years. Besides Mrs. Adolph Beno, one daughter, Miss Lena Schindele of this city, and one son, George Schindele of San Fran- cisco, survive him. Giving Away Stov. The third heating stove given by Will- fam Welch to his coal customers was awarded to Mr. Willlam Pool, Twenty-ninth avenue and Garfleld street. Another has been put up on the same plan, and during the next thiry days will be given away free to ome of his customers. Before ordering your coal call at 16 North Main street or ‘phone 128, Real Estate Transfers. These transfers were filed yesterday in the abstract, title and loan office of J. W. Squire, 101 Pearl street: Budney E. Morse and wite to Louisa M. Parmele, ul\:w 4, part nel swi and part wis sel 20-75-43, w. d.......3 Elmo ‘W. Kieef and wife to Peter Lubbe. sty swig 3748 w. d.... Christian Straub and wife to Harry B and Walter C. Slevers, section 8, except nwiq and 1 acre 71-38, w.d Gustavus J. Haas and w.fe to Jurgen Bladt. ail s of raflroad of n sel 7141, w. 4 Rasmus' Frost and wife (o Anton L. Anderson, el nei 23 w Henry Slevers and wife to Johann Mohr, se % and si nwi and swiy ne H, w. W. E. Simpson and wife o T, Wii- Nelm Westphalen, wi§ nel 15 and all nwii 16 & of railroad T-38, w.d.. Fred Hanson and wife to Wiillam and Nanerva Downs, 13.23 acres in 27642, w. d A, B. Oglesbee (o Sullie B lot 2, Auditor's subdiv swy o8, w. ... 1 6,000 32,000 1,00 4,100 10,400 Ogleabee. 4 SWi 1o Total, nine transfers Marriage Licen Licensss to wed were issued yesterday to the following: Name and Restdence. W Dullighan, Logan, la Hattle M. Longman, Logan, J. T, Miller, Oakland. Ta Ellen L. Campbell, Carson, 1a NEW THEATER | Age. 2 ia 24 A B. BEALL, Mgr. You See the Searchlight There's a Show, FRIDAY... . The Telephone Girl All the Pretty Hello Girls — b o it LEWIS CUTLER MORTICIAN - Councll Bluffs. 'Phone §° unless the Omaha company now op>raling the street car system of this city was will- ing to comply with the requirements of the tranchise. It 1s understood that City Solicitor Sny- der has the matter in hand, and will make a report at the meeting of the city council Monday night. Wiekham Bros. Get Contract. Wickbam Brous. of this city have secured the contract for the Great Western's pas- senger depot. The contract price is in the neighborhood of $12,000. The depot will be located on the west side of South Main street, on Ninth avenue, and will set back some little distance from the street to al- low of parking. It will be 119 feet long and 31 feet wide. Pressed brick and Bed- ford stone will be used in its construction, and the style of architecture will give the bullding a villalike appearance. The roof will be of red tiles with wide cornices. Wickham Bros. now have the contract for all the buildings of the Great West in this city. Work on the freight and pa senger depots will not be commenced un- | til the road has its trains running in here | 80 that the material for the building can be | hauled in on the company’s own line. | N. Y. Plumbing Co., Tel. 250, Night, F6s7. | NAME SCHOOL BOARD TICKET W. J. Davenport and G. P. Are Made the Republican | Nominees. | Kemp Colonel W. J. Davenport of the Fourth | ward and Granville P. Kemp of the Sixth ward were nominated as candidates for members of the Board of Education by the | republican school convention last night. | The nominations were brought about in quick order and the entire convention lasted | not to exceed ten minutes. Hon. W. E. Bainbridge, assistant secre- tary of the United States legation at Pekin, China, now home on leave, was asked to preside, but excused himself, and County | Attorney W. H. Killpack was called upon to | wield the gavel in his stead. C. K. Taylor acted as secrotary. The first ballot, an informal onme, re- sulted as follows: W. J. Davenport, 41; G P. Kemp, 16; B. M. Sargent, 4; Mar Bourl- } clus, 7. On motion of Fred H. Hill the bal- | lot was not only made a formal one, but | Davenport was given the nomination by a clamation. For the second nomination the first and only ballot resulted in the Sixth ward can- didate, C. P. Kemp, receiving 64 votes, against Sargent, 7; Bouriclus, 6, and J. F. Wileox, 1. Colonel Walter J. Davenport is assistant general freight and passenger agent of the Burlington anl since his residnce in Coun- cil Bluffs has besn prominently identified with every movement for the welfare of the city. He needs no introduction to the electers. Before coming to this city Colonel | Davenport served for several years on the Board of Education of Creston, la. Granville P. Kemp is a well known resi- | dent of the western part of the city, where | he has made his home for a number of years. For several years Mr. Kemp was one | | of the trustees of Kene townshin and at! present is clerk of the township board. | The democratic school convention will be | | held tonight at the county courthouse. | Gravel roofing. A. H. Read, 12¢ Main St Suggestions for Library. \ Miss Alice 8. Tyler, secretary of the lowa State Library association, and Miss Edith Tobbitt, librarian of the Omaha pub- | lle iibrary, were in the eity yesterday om | | their way home from attending the dedi- | cation of the new public library bullding | at Onawa, Ja. While In the city they vis- ited the public library rooms in the Mer- riam block and were entertained by Mrs. M. E. Dalley and President Rohrer and Member Balird of the Library board. While discussing the library building to of Andrew Carnegle, Mis that the trustees erect a tw)-story and basement building, the first floor to be used for the library proper and the second floor ‘for an assembly room to seat 300 or 400 persons. Miss Tyler's idea of an sembly room is that it could be used for | public lectures in conmiction with the work of the Mb | inspection of horses; INTEREST FROM order to prevent them occupying space in the library proper, as they do now Coeds Hang Tomether. 10WA CITY, Feb. 26.—(Special.)—A com- motion was caused in coed circles at nent landlady clearing her house of room- ers. The house was a popular one and was one of the “board and room” Kkind which are most approved by parents and the university authorities. The landlady thought she was acquainted with facts con cerning the character of a brother of one | of her coeds which -were not creditable to the young man. She repeated them a num- ber of times to the young man, who resented them, and, being ready of tongue, of the landlady's spouse. them all; we don't need the money any way,” were the words of the landlady's husband when told the story. hung together and informed the landlady not to hurry about firing them, as they were golng to quit. This ultimatum was delivered at noon and by 9 o'clock in the evening the last trunk had been removed from the house, after many ringings of telephones and long consultations had found new places for all the roomers at the house. “Fire Hlinols Central Makes Rate. CHICAGO, Feb. 2i the Illinois Central will make a rate of trip from points in —Notice was given by rallroad today that it one tare for the round Towa to Paducah, Ky., for the dedication of the lowa soldiers' monument in Shiloh battlefield, to take place May 30. Roek Island Must Pay Damages. I0WA CITY, Ta., Feb. 25.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The jury this morning awarded $5,000 damages against the Rock Island railroad for negligence resulting in the death of Samuel Shellady while constructing a bridge over the Iowa river. STILL INTRODUCING South Dakota Legislature Danger of Running Out of BILLS in No Employment. PIERRE, 8. D, Feb. 25.—(Special Tele- gram.)—While bills introduced at this late date cannot expect any great amount of consideration, members of both houses are yet presenting measures. Those in the sen- ate today were by Seney (by request), de- fining anarchy and making it an offense; by McDougall, pro~iding deficiency appro- priation at soldiers’ homes and committes bill amending game laws. The senate warmed up on the educational bill, which is before that body, Payne starting by asking for preference rights for puplls of the state educational institutions in granting certificates and moved to amend to that effect. In this he was supported by Lawson, while Dillon opposed the amend- ment on the ground that the graduates of sectarlan schools should be given the szme standing as those from the state schools. The discussion ended in the bill being sent back to the committee. The apportionment bill, presented in the senate today, met the same fate as the house bill found yesterday, and it is now dead in both branches. The senate passed senate bills providing salaries for boards of education; providi for systems of ladder ways in mines; and regulating the location of mining claims. The senate rushed through a number of house bills, the principal ones being to cre- ate a board of medical examiners which Dillon attempted to amend to except cen tain sellers of patent medicines, but failed, and the bill passed as it came from the house; fixing reglstration list as a basis of population, for fixing salarles of certaln county officers; granting the State Board of Eqaulization the power ot increase sessment returns made by counties; giving miners prior liens for labor; limiting the number of gamo birds which can be sent in one shipment to fifteen; providing for fixing the salary of state veterinarian at $1,500 por yeas ing the larceny of live stock of any valus grand larceny; and appropriating $3,000 per year for state fair premiums, The house committees returned without recommendation the resolution for an equal suffrage amendment to the constitution; the ninth judiclal circuit bill after cutting Hand coutty from the list and Inserting Spink county In its stead; and appropriat- ing for several state institutions scaled down from what was asked! The principal house bills introduced were by Russell ,to provide election to fix boun- | dary between Lawrence and Butte coun- ties; by Goddard, to provide for organiza- tion of surety and safe deposit companies. and a joint resolution by Carroll, for con- stitutional amendment making legislative terms four years. The only senate bill before the house was to allow wholesale drugglsts to handle lig- uor without a license, which was killed. A number of house bills were rushed through, the principal among them being to provide for scale inspection; requiring owners of property to mow weeds on high- ways along their lands; to prevent judg- ments against state; requiring gasoline cans to be painted red; re ways by traction engines and automoblles. SOUTH DAKOTA EARTHQUAKE nd is Severe B Tee in River, SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., Feb. 2.—An earth- quake shock was felt this morning at Oacum, in Lyman county. It lasted sev eral mijutes and was severe enough to shake down stones and break lce in White river. Snowfall Heaviest in Years, LARAMIE, Wyo., Feb. 2.—(Spectal.)- Mayor Miller and W. C. Hanks have re turned from a visit to the Great Rambler mine in the Douglas creek district. They report having witnessed one of the worst storms that has visited the mountains in many years. Snow fell to a great depth, and a strong wind piled it up in banks as high as the tallest trees. Old-timers report that the snowfall this winter has been tho heaviest In their recollection, and that there will be plenty of water on the Laramie plains th ecoming summer. RUN AWAY WITH AN ENGINE Four Me neouple it from Tr e« While Engineer is Bating. LEBANON, Mo., Feb. 25.—About 1 o'clock while Engineer James Amelia and his fireman were ecating at the St be built in this city through the generosity | 1 ouiy & San Francisco lunch room here, | Tyler suggested | . four men detached their engine from an extra freight, westbound, ran it about two {miles west and abandoned it on the main | track. Paesenger train No. 6 was stopped by a telegram to Conway and a posse started in pursuit on a handear. It {s belleved the purpose of the men was to wreck train No. 6, thelr \gnorance of the fact (hat there that & room be provided in the basement for the storuge of public documents in was & night operator st Conway frustrati thelr plans. . o » the | University of lowa yesterday by a promi- | the coed | threw back charges about certain convivial | | habits The coeds | ulating use of high- | IOWA. 1R1(HARDS IS T0 COME HOME | | Ex-United States Mar:hal is Said to Be Willing to Face His Accusers. LET CONTRACT FOR THE IOWA BUILDING Severe Penalty Under fowa Law for | Undervaluation of Property by | Asnensors or Boards of Review. (From a Staff Correspondent.) DES MOINES, Feb. ~(Spectal.)—An- nouncement is made here today that W. A Richards, the cx-United States marshal, s ! to return to Des Molnes in a few days and | 8ive himself up, give bonds and stand trial {for the robbery of Sullivan at Hamilton, | Richards is understood to have returned | trom Mexico as far as Omaba a few days | ago, at the suggestion of his friends In | Towa, and from there to have carried on negotlations for a return to the state. His son-in-law, Ed Davis, of this city, was with him in Omaha last Sunday. He has wealthy and :nfluential friends here and in Creston, his home, who have arranged to see that he is given his freedom at once and Is glven a fair trial. He is also very much wanted In the trial of the case of the state against Frank Beard at Knoxville. Beard is the man who was shot by Sullivan at the time of the robbery. Richards, who had known Beard well, having taken him to the peni- tentlary twice, was the first person to have a consultation with Beard in jail and his actions were looked upon with suspi- clon. Finally it became openly charged that Rictards was one of the men who was with Beara and participated in the rob- bery. This grew into.more than suspicion when it became known that Richards had gone to Mexico. Later it was alleged Rich- ards' friends had made overtures to Sulli- van to return the money stolen if the prosecution against Richards should be dropped. Since then but little has been heard of the case, but it Is expected Rich- ards will turn up hera or in Knoxville this week and give an account of himself. His friends here, who have recelved leters from him, say that he protests his innocence and declares he can tell where he was on the night of the robbery. Richards had been deputy marshal a long time and his friends have all along declared their be- llef in his innocense. Bids on lowa Bullding. The building committee of the Louislana Purchase commission held a meeting this afternoon and opened bids on the construc- tion of the Iowa building at St. Louls. The bids were from the Capital City Brick and Pipe company of this city; . W. Schlueter, Chtcago; E. W. Nichols, Des Moines; J, E. Duffleld, East St. Louls; James Rowson & Son, Towa city, and others. The contract will go to E. W. Nichols & Co. of Des Molnes, whose bid of less than $35,000 was the lowest. The building committee also made an agreement today with Nichols that the cortractors would use Towa mate- rial in the building as far as possible and union labor from lowa. James Walker on Trial. The case of the state against James Walker, colored, for the Finkelsteln mur- der in_Des Moines last summer, was com- menced, a jury empaneled and witnesses placed on the stand. The witnesses thus far are the mmme as those who appeared fn the trial of Levich for the Lame crime and nothing new has been disclosed. Only two new witnesses have beca secured by the ate, two women who claim to have been eye witnesses to the tragedy, but these bave not been on the stand. The Hossack murder case in Winterset was not quite ready for submission to the jury this evening, as the attorneys have talked all day and have not concluded their arguments, Gain in Iowa Unilons, Reports to the officials of the Towa Fed- | eration of Labor, as compiled by President | Holder, show that since last May when the last state meeting of the federation was held, there have besn organized a total of 145 local unions, which are now afiiated with the state federation. This makes a total of 717, and others are under way and will be added before the meeting at Dav- enport. The total membership will be re- ported at not far from 45,000 at that time, Hard on the Assessors. Secrotary Davidson of the state execu- tive council this morning called atteation to the fact that there is an unusually se- vere law in the matter of assessmens of property In lowa. There is a special pen- alty provided for failure to assess prop- assessors take oath to determine the ac- tual value of the property asnessed, and list it at one-fourth this value for taxa- tion, and the statute provides a speclal fine of not less than §500 for any faflure so to | do. This fine would attach not only to an assessor, but to a Board of Review If it | tatled to have the assessment right. But few of the assessors and local taxing offi- cers in the state were aware of this spe- clal statute applying to such cases, and as the assessment and review work 1s now going on the stirring up of the matter may have its effect on the general assessment. The attorneys in the case of Jolley against the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Ral way company, from Calhoun county, have flled a motion for a hearing of the case be- | fore the supreme court. The case was re- | versed, and the attorneys for Jolley ask the court to go over the case again. It | has been widely published that in this case the court declared the law providing A penalty of $100 for the fallure of a rallroad | company to redeem its tickets when ot used, to be valid and constitutional, but | the ouestion was not raised nor passed on But there was some doubt In the minds of attorneys on both sides as to the full im- port of the decision as it related to whether erty in strict accordance with the law. The |, one or more penalties could be claimed where a purchaser of more than o ticket | had brought suit. The court rather inti- | mated that only one penalty could be | clalmed in any event. On this and some | other questions a rehearing is asked, and | the attorneys will go over the case again | betore the highest court No Place for Soldiers. Adjutant General | | | | Byers returned today from St. Louls, where he went to look after the arrangements for the quarte’ing of the Towa regiment that is to be taken there at ihe close of April to attend the dedication exercises when Fresident Roose- velt will be present. His report is not very satisfactory. He found that the exposition | people bad not msde any arrangements as | yet for the care of the troops that have been invited there, that they have no idea as to what ought to be done and that all the work is yet to be attended to within the next thirty days. General Byers suggested to them that instead Of their attempting to feed the gathered soldiers they pay them h and let them provide for themselves, as it is manifestly impossible for the ex- position to provide for many thousands at this time on the grounds.’ General Byers was informed that Wisconsin is arranging to send & brigade 0 the exposition and | the | —Clay Center is to have a morning paper. | polities § LAY A VAN R LA M AN William Allen White Will write a series of articles on the political situa- tion at Washington as he sees it from week to week. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST There are perhaps three or four men in the length and breadth of the country who can write on political topics as sanely, shrewdly and clearly as Mr. White; but not one of them possesses in like degree his fine native humor or his ability to wring the last drop of human interest out of hjs subject and into his writing. Mr. White has also the rare gift for stripping a complex theme of its non-essentials and showing it forth in its simplest terms, How the Cabinet Does Business By Charles Emory Smith Exclusively Former Postmaster-General. in A very general ignorance of the inner workings of the Cabinet room prevails, and yet the Cabinet is the least formal, the most active, of the arms of the Govern- ment. rence how the assembl ly handles grave questions. Mr. Smith will illustrate with anecdotes of actual occur- A Congressman’s Wife A regular letter from one of the brightest women in Washington, giving us all the social gossip of the Capital, telling us the good things said at the social functions; bright, sparkling, full of life—the social life of Washington. m<=~The Saturday Evening Post will be sent to any address every week from now to July Ist, 1903, on trial, on receipt of only 50 cents. It is the handsomest weekly magazine you ever saw The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadeiphia, Pa. AW HY Y Y other states are making some arrange- ments. He will not determine what lowa will do until after a conference with Gov- ernor Cummins. M1 y Examining Board. A military examining board will meet here tomorrow to examine a class on mili- tary tactice. The board will consist of General Lincoln, Colonels Humphrey and Prime, Captain Howell and Lieutenant Conkling. The persons fo be examined are V. W. Greene, second lleutenant, Center- ville; Fred W. Hood, second leutenant, Sfoux City; J. M. Yergey, first lleutenant, Villisca; W. S. Rankins, captain, Mason City; C. W. Easter, captain, Des Molnes A. H. McNeal, first lieutenant, Des Moine; W. W. Phillips, first lleutenant, Perr: Thomas H, White, second lleutenant, Ferr: Ora E.. Wertz, second lieutenant, Bedford. The second election for major in the Fifty- tourth regiment resulted in no choice, there still belng four cand!dates ip the feld | WANT ONLY UNION COAL USED| Demand is Made Upon Mayor Harri- won in the Shape of an CHICAGO, Ili., Feb. 2.—The president of the American Federation of Labor, the president of the Chicago Federation of | Labor and the president of twenty coal teamsters’ uulons called on Mayor Harri- sor today and demanded that the munic pality use none but union mined coal. | The demand was in the nature of an ulti- | matum, and was accompanied by a threat | of refusal to haul coal for the city unless | it was complied with. A felegram from | John Mitchell was presented requesting the refusal of contracts by the city for Mar: land and West Virginia coal with the ex- ception of Kanawha valley coal. President Samuel Gompers acted as| spokesman for the delegation. The mayor promised to submit to the committee coples of the bids received, that they may desi nate which is union and which is non- union mined coal WILD CARS CAUSE A WRECK Run Down Slope of Mountain o a Frelght Train, Killing One Man in the Accldent. ALTOONA, Pa., Feb. 25.—One man was killed, one fatally injured and four others more or less seriously hurt in a freight wreck on the Pennsylvania raflroad at Kic- | tanning Point, seven miles west of here, to- day. The dead J. H. COX, aged 32 years, a flagman, R. E. Cooney, aged 26 years, engineer, was fatally injured H. J. Storey, fireman; C. W. Leech, con- ductor; T. L. Gill, brakeman, and John D. Trouse were all injured. The wreck was caused by a freight train of tHirty-six loaded coal and coke cars running wild on tern slope of the Allegheny moun- tains and colliding with another freight which was standing on the same track Thirty care were demolished, blocking the trafic for several hours. Dally Paper for Kansas Town. CLAY CENTER, Kan., Feb, 25.—(Special.) This is the first venture at a daily news- | paper since boom time. It will be called The Dispatch, and will be independent in C. A Southwick will be publisher. It will contaln press dispatches, and will start wita & good-sized subscription list on its advent Fridey morning of next week w seasonable 4 reasonable o1ce | the order given NS WA OHI0 HAS- & BLUEBEARD ‘llun is Acoused of Marrying. and Then Murdering Women, - TAKEN FROM HOME OF LATEST BRIDE Three of Hix Wives Have Met Death 12 Peculiar Manner or llave Dis- appeared in Mysterlous a; Unexplained Way, INDIANAPOLIS, Feb Knapp of Hamilton, O., was taken by the police today from the home of his bride on a charge of murder. the wife at whose home Knapp was ar- rested and whose malden name was Anna May Gamble, s Knapp's fourth wife, and that the others have disappeared in a man- ner which warrants investigation. Knapp, it 1s sald, married the following women in Emma Stubbs, Jennie Connors, Hannah Goddard and May Gamble. Knapp formerly lived in Hamilton, where Miss Confiors and later Miss Goddard were married to him. Miss Goddard, according:to the complaint made to the police at Hamil- ton by an uncle, disappeared December 22 last. About two weeks ago Knapp was married to Miss Gamble in Indianapolis. An investigation at Hamilton showed that | Miss Goddard, or Mrs. Knapp No. 3, really disappeared December 21, and that the fol- lowing day Knapp was seen to take from the house a large box and carry it away in a wagon rented from a livery stable. Further investigation showed that Jennio Connors, wife No. 2, wap found dead a few years ago In a canal at Hamliiton. The | coroner investigated at the time, but ar-| rived at no definite conclusion regardiug the manner of her death. At police headquarters Knapp was ques- | tioned concerning the whereabouts of his third wife. He said she disappeared from The police say that | her home December 22 and that he did mot know what became of her. When asked what he had in the box which he cartied eway from his home the day after his wite was last seen, Knapp seemed confused, but fually explained that he dieposed of a box of old clothes. " % In his confusfoh he said he had thrown the box away about two miles from his home. The police say Knapp has seryed efght years In the penitentiary. i CAR SITUATION IS CRITICAL Are Shut Down Becauss the Product Cannot Be ; Moved, Many Mines PITTSBURG, Pa, Feb. 25.—While the ear situation at the mines in the Pittsburg dis- trict has not been good for several months, the conditions just at present are pro- nounced by coal operators the worst in his- tory. Outside of the river mines and those along the Pittsburg & Lake Erie and the Monongahela division of the Pennsylvania railroad, fully 70 per cent are idle. Of th twenty-eight mines of the Pittsburg Coal company on the Pan Handle road sixteen are shut down today and the others have but a fair supply of cars. Six of the largest mines on the Baltimore | & Ohto railroad, out of fifteen owned by the combination, are idle. This 1s sald to’be a good showing, compared with the condi- tions at the independent mines. ts Divorce from Baronm. NEW YORK, Feb. 1t has just been learned, says the Paris representative of the American, that the Baroness de Fontel- lart, who is an aunt of the duchess of Marlborough and a sister of Mrs. OliveR H. P. Belmont, has obtained a divorce the baron. ‘The baroness has been ord to resume her maiden name of Miss 1 Smith. Baron de Fontellart, with Count Fitzjames, Secured some notoriety by son of a'thrilling boat adventure at th time of the Martinique disaster, while at- tempting to explore the shores of Bt. Plerre. WL WHISKEY. “'HE WILSON DISTILLING CO Baltimore, Md. That’s Alll QUICK MONEY FOR LAND BUYERS. 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