Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 7, 1903, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1903. BOSTON STORE BOSTON STORE The Createst Bargains and the Finest Stock Ever Offered at any Clothing Sale in . Omaha. COPYRIGHT 1002 o1y Choice of 3000 Wholesale Price $2. Choice of 2000 BOYS 0DD LONG PANTS PANTS airs of $(.05 85¢c 50, at— JBRA 552 SONS ’Y | BOSTON STORE 7 } BOSTON STORE '| The Suits and Overcoats in This Stock Are of the Highest Quality and the Swellest New Styles. MOST EXTRAORDINARY CLOTHING SALE EVER HELD IN THE WEST Suits and Overcoats« ENTIRE FALL AND WINTER SURPLUS CLOTHING STOCK From S. H. Marks & Co., Mfg'rs, 10 W. 4th St., New York '+ Secured by us at one great purchase, will be sold below the cost to manufacture AT MOST PHENOMENAL BARGAINS| A CLOTHING SALE WITHOUT A PARALLEL - ON SALE SATURDAY, NOV. 7 Your Unrestricted Choice of all the Splendid $I5 and $I6. 50 ~ IMEN'S SUITS AND OVERGOATS From S. H. Marks & Go’s Stock, on Sale SATURDAY, at Your Unrestricted Ghoice of all the Finest $I18 and $20 MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOA From S. H. Marks & Co’s Stock, on Sale SATURDAY at YOUR CHOICE OF ALL THE YOUR CHOICE OF ALL THE YOUR CHOICE OF ALL THE es 8 to 14 ye olesale Prleo ges 14 to 20 Young Men’s Suits and Overcoats i .2 BOYS’ OVERCOATS & BOYS’ I(IIEE PANTS SUIT rs—From S. H. B up to $6.50, at.. rks Wholesale Price up to $4.00, SATURDAY, at 30 $@R90 g sSQ | years tu $12.50, at $4.90 $2.90 Wholesale Price $2.00, at— BOSTON STORE J. L. BRANDEIS & SONS BOSTON STORE J. L. BRANDEIS & SONS BOSTON STORE J. L BRANDEIS & SONS GIRL LED WEST IN TRANCE Miss Ooffin of New Jersay Follows Btrang Oouple to Towa. AWAKES AND PREVENTS HER ABDUCTION Telegraphs to Omaha to Postmas ' Prow, Her Oousim, with Whom She Now is Stopp! Clara Josephine Coffin, who has been missing from her wealthy parents’ home in Wast Orange, N. J,, since last Tuesday and for whom detectives have been scouring the country, is lying prostrate at the home of her cousin, Postmaster Joseph Crow in Othaha, the result of strange journey westward at the command of & strange man and woman, who she believes sought to kidnap and hold her for ransom. Miss Coffin's story is strange and weird, but ‘she vouches for the correctness of overy detall. Bhe declares that she was lured west by these two strange persous, whose sinister powers she tried, but was unable to resist. She declares she was stupified throughout the journey by some o A bald head, or Ayer’s Hair Vigor? You can’t have both. 13 Aruss, . strange miogle which worked like hypnotism on her. Miss Coffin is the 17-year-old daughter of Bdward W..Coffin, a member of the banking firm of Harkness Bros, New York, and aleo a confidential clerk of the Rockefellers, with offices at 2% Broadway, New York. Mrs. Coffin is an aunt of Mrs. Joseph Crow of Omaha. The young woman Is certain the man and womah intended to kidnap her and hold her for a ransom, but is un- able to tell why they @id not perfect their scheme without coming so far west, or why they finally allowed her to escape after keeping her under their influence so long. A report was circulated last night to the effect that Miss Coffin was not in Omaha, but this was emphatically denied by Mr. Crow, who when asked, sald “The voung woman- is at my house right now. She is confined ‘to bed, but is get- ting along nicely.” The story which Miss Coffin told hPr rela- tives when she arrived was In substance this: Story as Girl Tells It. She had been attending the high school in East Orange and last Tuesday, there being no school, she made a trip to the gymnasium to take her usual exer- cises. passing a strange woman just near the school bullding, who always had a strange effect upon her. The woman had plercing black eyes and the girl says they cut her lke a knife, approached her and told her, commanding way, follow her, as duty commanded her to do s0. In a half dazed state, and acting under the hypnotic spell, the girl made the trip back to her home, and without seeing any of the family, packed her teléscope and did as the woman had bid. She had arranged, fo’ meet the girl at a certain place, and when Miss Cofin arrived on her return there was a strange man in company with the woman. Taken to New York. The girl was placed In & carriage ama after the man and woman had entered they were driven at & repld rate, finally landing in Newark, N. J. From there they were taken to the raliroad station and, boarding & train, they soon landed in New vorn City, but at just what hour and over what rallroad the girl cannot remember. She was stlll under the spell of this strange woman and did not seem to have energy enough fo arouse herself. Miss Cofin gnnnot tell how long they re- mained in the metropolis, but she doss mot believe it was ‘more than For the last month she had been and on its way to Chlcago. When this city was reached the girl was becoming weak and sick, the effects of the spell seeming to be working off. She was driven from one raflroad station to another and when they got on this train the woman remained with her and the man occupled a seat in the coach next to the rear. Occasionally he would make trips into the car and talk with the woman in & low voice, always speaking in French. When the train reached Cedar Rapids Miss Coffin had recovered her senses and slipped out and sent a telegram to Post- master Joseph Crow, whose wife is a nlece of the girl's father. It asked Mr. Crow to meet her at Omaha sometime during the night. In the meantime after the girl had re- turned to the seat occupied by herself and the woman - the latter excused herself and apparently went to the rear coach to talk with the man. At this opportunity, Miss Coffin being sufficlently possessed of her senses, grabbed her telescope and rushed for the front end of the car. Once out of the coach she began to revive after a little fresh air, and prepared to step off the train at the next station This she did, but does not remember what the name of the town was nor on what rallroad it was located However, Mr. Crow went to the depot and met’ tihe girl as she dismounted from the 11 o'clock train on the Northwestern Thurs- day evening. As soon as Miss Coffin saw Tuesday the strange woman | Mr. Crow she recognized him and fell into in a very| to pack her clothes and | ¢ s arms, prostrated. He assisted her to & rriage and soon had the girl, who is almost & complete nervous wreck, under the care of & physician at his home. Miss Coffin is confined to her bed, and, being In so weak a condition, is not able to tell much of the thriling story, which, she says, seems like a horrible dream. No trace has been found of the mysteri- ous man or woman and the only supposed motive is that they expected to abduct the girl and hold her for ransom. WENTZ HELD FOR RANSOM BRISTOL, Slemp in Bristol tonight confirmed the rumor that Edward L. Wents, the young Philadetphja millionaire who disappeared, 1% in the hands of abductors in the moun- tains of southwest Virginia, and that a ransom of 100,000 is demanded for his release. SHERIFFS ASSIST ROBBERS Such is Allegation Made by Officers of United Btates. ARREST MAN THOUGHT 10 HERD GANG ¥. W. Whiting, Captured in Kansas, Sald to Be Leader of Party Which Has Robbed Many Post- Offices and Banks. JUNCTION CITY, Kan., Nov. 6—F. W. Whiting was today bound over to the United States grand jury on the chaarge of complicity in the recent postoffice rob- bery at Morrill, Kan. Whiting is chaarged by officers with being the active officer of the gang of robbers which has been making things Interesting for the banks of the smaller towns in Kansas and Ne- braska for some years past. Evidence is alleged to be in the hands of the United States district attorney to the effect that proceeds of the robberies were turned over to Whiting, who divided the money among the members of the gang. A number of the members are in the penitentiaries in Kansas, Colorado and Ne- braska and It is charged that they re- celved thelr regular share of the stolen money by means of postoffice money or- ders sent to them by Whiting. Several sheriffs are sald to be impli- cated in helping the gang along, according to disclosures made by the United States authoritie: Moving Into New Quarters. The Chicago Great Western is moving its headquarters from the Omaha National bank to the Merchants hotel bullding on Farnam street. ‘The room will not be ready for six weeks, but while work Is going on the company wiil ccoupy a emall partion of the front. No officisis ‘for the city ticket o 0 “been anmounced yet, lnd ln uc. not ove Of the office force has selecte —_— Don’t Scold affection. WEBSTER AND HENRY CLAY Miller Hears Mr, OMAHA, Nov, §~To the Editor of The Bee: I read, a day or two ago, of & gentleman who, at the age of %, sald he had lived to see Daniel Webster and Henry Clay. “Me, t0o;” so have I. And I lack more than several months of being %. 1 saw, heard and stood very near to the Demosthenes of the United States fifty-three years ago at a public reception that he received in Byracuse, N. Y., as he was returning to the midst of those, to him, once dear “solid men of Boston,” from a tour of the west. He made a brief speech, in which he sald, among other things, that “the fugitive slave law must be ex-e-cu-ted (I am trying to write the sentence as Mr. Webster spoke it.) He was then an old, disappointed and broken man. Seward and Weed never intended that so great a man should be president of the United States. The highest tribute in my estimation that was ever pald to Danlel Webster came from the powerful pen and brilliant mind of James G. Blaine when he sald that Webster's “Reply to Hayne” was “equal to a constitutional amendment.” I once asked Mr. Tilden his estimate of Mr. Webster. His answer was, “Mr. Web- ster was a rhetoriclan.” | Charles A. Dana once said in the Bun that nobody had ever succeeded very well in answering Jefferson Davis. I saw Henry Clay in 1860 in Syracuse, and squeezed his already 1ame nhand until he jerked it away from me But that was not satisfactory for a boy of 18 who didn't know any better. Following the illustrious Kentuckian, “Harry of the west,” “The Mill Boy of the Blashes,” to the Empire house, in which he was entertained In the §00d company and care of the famous Joshua A. Spencer of Utica, the eminent ad- vocate and whig of that day in New York, I took it into my head to call upon Mr. Clay et his apartments. A fine, warm- hearted Irishman, “John" by name, stood guard at the door. “John” and I were fust friends, perhaps because I could play the Irish game of “forty-five,” and could also swear a little—"ton & mon de'el,” for instance—and talk & little more Irish. It is enough to say that I coaxed “John" to step around the corner of a turn in the hall, and I rapped on the door that hid so much greatness from view. The tall form and sallow, broad face of Mr. answered the call. 1 came near falling over myself at the presence. I said: “Mr. Spencer, will you please let me see Mr. Clay?" Mr. Spencer smiled a kindly smile of surprise at such a performance, and, turn- ing to Mr. Clay, said: “Mr. Clay, & young lad says he wants to see you In a soft, mellow voice, the great Ken- tuckian replied: “Let him come in, Spencer, let him come in, by all means. As I entered the large parlor Mr. Clay ross from the sofa upon reclining to his full height, and, stepping forward, bowed gracefully, and said: “How do you do, my young friend; I am glad to see you. Bit down, sir,” waving me to a seat by his side on the sofa. And down I sat. Remembering the manners that I had been taught by my mother not to stay too long when calling upon nelghbors, and being as anxious to flee from that presence as I was to get into it, I made my way to the door, to which I was ac- companied by Mr. Ulay, who said: “I wish you well, sir. Spencer Exe: Excavating for the foundations of the Mr. which he was | new Monmouth Park school at 'l'hlfll-!hlrd street and Meredith ~avenus has started by Contractor Thomas Herd. Pt ard of Education wil Insy ( toat the building be constructed as rapldly as pos- sible, as it is needed for me accommoda- tion of children of the distriet. POSTPONE MEETING OF BOARD Lady Managers of Expesition Defer Conference Called for Next Week, LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Nov. 6.—Mrs. Fred- erick Hanger of this city, secretary of the board of lady managers of the Loulslana Purchase exposition, has recelved a tele- gram from Mrs. James L. Blair of St Louls, president of the board, notifying her of the postponement of the meeting called for next week until December 15. The postponement was decided on at the suggestion of President Francis of the ex< position and President Carter of the na: tional commission. | To O in One Day | Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, All | druggtsts refund the money If it fafls to cure. B. W. Grove's signature is on'each box. 2. e a Col Growing 01d Gracefully —and Healthfully The infirmities of old age are successfully combated by the A“HEUSER'BUSQHS use =Nutitre —The Food-Drink. Its tonic properties are invalua- ble to those who are weak— mothers, little children ) Rfiflfiz Almlllllt. Prepared by the B ' ! cu;erf‘usch B::wlogm n