Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 8, 1915, Page 12

BRINGING UP FATHER . fEges ALL RVGHT - FIRST READ THIS PAGE TO ME - SAY - DOC - ME WIFE WANTS YOU 7O TEST ME EYES: YOU MEAN TO TELL ME YOU COULDN'T SEE COUNT DE BIFF LAST NIGHT ? You MUST 40 TO AN OCOLIST THS VERY KID WILLIAMS AND T LS Baful By Tad. FRANKBURNS DIVIDE ’ Bantams Battle Twenty Fast and| jjveq, made a tour of the country years ago agreeing to stop all aspiring maulers Furious Rounds to Draw at in four rounds. New Orleans. Peter and his troup stopped over at Baltimore one night and put up the . BOTH PUT UP A GAME FIGHT posters announcing the scientific contest. A short but ambitious darky piped the g slgn and saw vislons of one hundred NEW ORLIANS, Deo. 7—Kid Willlama |y oo ™0 agreed to fight and Baltimore, world's bantamweight | .., and Frankie Burns of JerseY | yio raced the great Jackson in the first Oty fought twenty rounds to a draw in their battle for the title last night. The fight was fast and furious through- 2 round and stopped every left that Old Pete had—with his beeser. He came up for the second round and NS Bisterse 1A Bemith deciden bonors | 19 SO0 UP TOF LOe B0t ety PR SV soven times upon the same nose. The | Hach fighter welghed 118 pounds ring- | " yirteq to awell and the colored side. Both put up a game battle. Bl:m-f demon started to worry. forced he fighting in the first half of | “yiq yiepped to the center for the third the bout and landed hard ewiies B | round and his head bounced back as stift Jaba almost at will Wb 40 A o al. | thoush it was on a spring. It was bam, P vt wooome th aggTessor, | §8m, bam, right on the horn. Disgusted with his propects the am- bitlous darky dropped his arms and walked over to the referce, Advantage In Reach. had the advantage in reach and | !.-u hu:m:‘: nl:u?o; ?uat::'m’::u::; ‘See, yoah,' he bawled, poluting towards Purne’ Mead and landed frequently. In | Feter. ‘Dat sign say dis are a sclontifik contes’." ‘Willilams rushed Burns to the challenger drove him righit swings to the Williama dropped to g H “You sald it with a smile on." “Well den,” chirped the smoky target, “if dis are a scintifik contes’ you tell Mr. Jackson to scatter his hits.” retorted the referee, Bjgee fe Exs LT round, Burns rushed around the ring, landing | { chest. obtained, but no arrangefents have so to the finish, with | far been made. The squad will be coached seventc at. round. |by James Drumfond. have the better|) chamion seemed| Tohnsons Assrt o Supremacy Over the o e Class C Grid Field ting, land-| O, B, Burnett, who coaches and directs pounding | the Johneon Grocery eleven, enters a protest on behalf of his charges against thir-| the clalms of the Angelus team to the moemed to have gh- C amateur grid champlonship of faha. Burnett declares the Johnsona attempted th and elghtéenth werd oon- | to card games with the Angelus on three champlon was fa-| differet occasions, and that each time the latter athletes kicked out. He also holds wven to five favor-|the Johnsons can trim the Angelus any old time at any old place, and invites a representative of the Angelus team to get in touch with him at Harney 2896 The Johnsons average about 120 pounds, but Burnett says they are good enough to lick any 130-pound team around these parts. Mo@ill May Buy Ole!e_ala.nd Team CHICAGO, Deo. 7.—Discussing a report today that James McGill, the Denver and Indianapolls base ball magnate, might called the | soglc o buy out Charles Somers' Interest America, without & base |, the Cleveland American league club, are slated for franchises un-| pregident Ban Johnson of the American ‘der the proposed organization, which |laague sald that McGOlll would be ac- be named the Continental | ceptable to the league. MeGill owns the Denver Western league President Johnson will go to Cleveland tonight to discuss with banking interests in charge of Somers' affairs the future of the Clevelana club. JAMES BRANNIGAN SIGNED BY CARDINALS LOUIS, Dec. 7.~James Brannigan, a ll-year-old boy of Bt. Louls, has been signed by the St. Louls Nationals for the 1016 weason. He is a third baseman. He played with Decatur last season. FIRE CAUSES PANIC IN BIG DEPARTMENT STORE SPRINGFIRLD, 111, Dec. 7.—Christmas shoppers and salesgirls fled in a panic today when a swiftly spreading fire broke out In the basement of the four-story building which houses the Boston store, owned by MacPherson & BWdwards. The entira stock, valued at $180,000, was de- stroyed. It was partially covered by in- surance. The bullding loss will be ap- proximately $60,000. L3 H s £ H i I : % z 2 | I it f i g Ring General. to exercise better ring z § : %. i i i g { i H H ! 35 g § o ague to Affiliate With Federals Projected A number of the salesgirls escaped from the second floor by Jumping from a fire- escape. The flames spread to the restricted vice district burning several houses. Alhambra Theater in Ohi_gtigo Burned CHICAGO, Dec. .~The Alhambra, one of the oldest and best known of Chi- cago's theaters, was virtually destroyed by fire today. Slight damage was done to the Carleton hotel adjoining. The &uests, mostly theatrical people, were routed out by the flames, Elsas'r.184 152 Ohnesberg 145 1% o @ M i t | Stecher g %y 3 £ Y hi's E [ in ! | Pomero: § 180 178 46 W - Resort on “Knocking" |faweriii 18 18 & oo a ;. Borghoff ... g w g 162 19 & . Attorney J. C. Cook and J. F. Hetma- —— - o3 o6 W 631 698 1838 nun oy Totals ... 7% & & Wn N. C. LEARY CO, 168 185 408 1st. 2 ?'us Tn‘;. B R R 4 “BOOBRICH TEe Totals ... T 36 1 ist. lu"g'-i-% "‘"m‘.ii“fi“,’;‘ £ 1m0 4, Pustow 146 150 1% A s B. Pastow ... it ii8 33 18 188 “8 Osborne ...188 118 184 — — —— Hoffman ..142 169 147 08 46 4 Miratsky ..166 164 156 g 3d. J 110 868 o ™ ol . i i 3 B 1 18 % = oo 7 h o 11 58 NE‘T — (e E Poetp B 2 5 80 18 Totals ... TH ™ 21 1 HUBER IN 6 lr £ %3 1st. 3‘4. rx To* A —d r 1904 13 28 fif MO e 5 s iy W @ RN THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY Y DOC Total ... .80 T 45 a4 OMAHA PRINTING O, 1st. 3. DECEMBER 8, 1915 national tered U THEN TRY THIS BoOK! <OLLY- =1 CANT READ THAT! WOMAN IS THROWN OVER A HIGH CLIFF| Charles D. Etcheison Confesses He Helped F. T. Price of Minneap- olis Murder Wife, DOG IS THROWN AFTER HER CHICAGO, vDec. T.—Confessing, according to George W. Armstrong, county prosecutor of Hennepin county, Minnesota, that he aided Frederick T. Price of Minneapolls in hurling Price’'s wife to death over a cliff, Charles D. Etcheison, a travel- Ing salesman of Washington, D, C., is due in Minneapolis today to face legal action. Mrs. Price was killed November 28, 1914, one day after she had been given $60,000 by her father. Etchelson was arrested in Washington Sunday by operatives of a private detec- tive agency and was brought to Chicago last night. Accompanying him was Mr. Armstrong, who announced that the pris- oner had confessed. “Mrs. Price was the daughter of David H. Fridley member of one of the oldest Minneapoils families” Ktcheison is re- porteq to have sald in his confession, “and the day after sne got the money, she and Price and I went to a matinee. Later Price suggested an automobile ride. “SBhe sat in the rear seat with her dog—Price and I in front, Price stopped the car near a steep embankment. He muttered something about tire trouble and asked his wife if she didn't want to get out and give the dog sorne ex Drawri—for ;. N amy-poc - Look AT THAT SWELL. CHICKEN ACROYS THE STREET! THAT 0T ercise. “As Mrs, Price stepped out, Price pu' one arm in front of her and I put an arm in front and we.gave a fling. Down she went. Price picked up the dog and threw it after his wife.” When they climbed down the embank- they found the woman still alive and Etchelson 1s reported to have sald Price struck her on the head with & stone. ‘“We told everybody that she stepped over the cliff to save her dog,’ the officlals sald Etchelson confessed. “Price cancelled my notes for $1,200 he held, and &ave me $3,600 to boot. Flat Contradiction by Price. MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. T deny it all. I swear it is not true" declared Fred- erick T. Price, when told in his cell at the county jail today of the confession of Charles D. Etcheison that he aided Price in the murder of the latter's wife No- vember 2, 1914, “I do not care to say anything further except to reiterate that the confession is not tru Price was indicted by the county grand Jury last week for bigamy and murdec. After his wife's death Price sued the city of Minneapolls for §7,500 for leaving the river bank unprotected where he sald his wife had fallen over. A de- tective took the stand and revealed that Price had been married twice before, his second wife having divorced him. Price then dismissed his suit. Last Christmas Price married Miss Carrie Olsen, a Minneapolis bookkeepe-. ‘While his wife was living, it is sald, he promised Miss Olsen to get a divorce. It s charged he did not get a divorce from one of his three wives. Mary Fridley Price was a member of one of the oldest and beat known families in the state. The family home is at Frid- he fiee B} George Mc Mz;riu;g‘ HOW 134T YOU CAN SEE ) CANT FAR READ CAN'T READ THE Az, Y, CHEMICAL LABORATORY OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE BURNS WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Dec. 7.—Fire early today totally destroyed the Thomp- son Chemical laboratory of Willlams col- lege, with a loes of approximately $100,000. When the alarm was given Hrainard Mears, assistant professor of chemistry, the first floor from spontaneous com- bustion, according to college authorities. A valuable library, a quantity of metals and chemicals, which, it is sald, cannot | bo repldced on account of the European war, were destroyed. Use The Bee's “Swapper” column. Large Milling Plant Burned, 8T, CATHERINES, Ont, Dec. 7.—Fire and Cornellus Brown, an assistant, were | 44 between 330,000 and $100,000 damage asleep in the building, but escaped. today to the plant of the Maple Leaf The fire started in a work room on | Milling company, flour manufacturers. Get Your Holiday Shopping Out of the Way NOW! You gain in every way by doing it, to push through, the selections of merchandise are larger, you get more individual attention from the [ salesman, you can take your own time in choosing and you get the shopping worry SOME ley, Minn,, the town having been named after her father. Use The Bee's “Swapper” column. 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