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Si:CONI YEAR
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WIIECKLI) BY WIND
A Terrible and Fatal Catastrophe at
Omaha Yesterday.
A BUILDING IS BLOWN DOWN
Tho Walls Crash Through Adjoin
ing Structures, Killing Flv
Persons and Injuring
Many Others.
A Mournful Day.
Omaha, Xch., Feb. 4. Max Meyer's
t'.ircc story building at Farnam and
Klcyciitli street, occupied by Dtirrow &
I.nan, Mux Meyer fc Co'b branch store
and S.. Si-ligninn, was burned out about
u fortnight a.o. The roofless walls re
1 1 1 . 1 1 1 ) 1 .standing, and it was intended to
repair them and udd a fourth story. To
diy tin wind has been blowing a gale
ami at o'cleik thin afternoon it caught
the east wall and blew down a portion
of it m the huildiug9 adjoining, with a
tii'iiu it.l.ais crush. The ntrncture which
cm-lit t lie brunt of the wreek was Max
.Mayer's two story brick, No. 1018 Far
n i :n stri ct. It was occupied on the main
t!.Mr by I. Hover's safe store, and in the
sici.nil slnry ly I). C Dunbor's engrav
i;:; an. I printing house. Adjoining on
tliccist was an old one story frame oc-
iiji.-.i as a clothing store by E. Olesen.
There w:i no warning. A white pnff of
crumbling inortor. the rattling of a few
bits of plaster and the crash of the wall
followeiljin quick succession. Whenthe
cloud of dust blew away it revealed Dun
bar's oiiicc crushed flnt to the ground. A
shanty in the rear, occupied by Mr.
Ib-num, was alfo wrecked. A fire alarm
was st ut in and the force was called to
the scene. The firemen, with ropes,
sou ditto pull down the walls on the
open suit and give access to those who
were imprisoned. The street filled with
curious p'oph: who did not realize that
unroue was hurt until they saw men and
w omen craw ling out of the debris and
ethers cut and limping brought out by
the firemen. The scenes were heart
rending, and thoc who had friends in
the wrtck could hardly be kept back
M.tiis and tears were heard and seen as
the bodies of the dead and wounded
were brought out. The ruins were
crowded with business men and men in
nil conditions of life who worked earn -
istly when they found an opening to save
the livs of the unfortunates. When the
r schts hrt nrnved on the scene
tin i lies of Olscn were heard in
th- northwest corner of the ruins. The
re-c ! is went to work to save the unfor
tun at- man. Every cry from the dying
man biouuht new hands to the work of
rescue. It required too much time, and
t;ra dually the cries subsided. When
t!ev reached him, Olsen was dead. The
body of Mike Mirtin, Dunbar's fireman,
wis t ikcii out from the ruins in the
vicinity of the boiler. Miss Emma
Oliver, the stenographer for Dunbar, was
found at 2:30. half an hour after the
wnckj lying between tho safe and walls.
One leg was broken and she was severely
bruised and sustained a serious conncus
sion of the brdn, which will be fatal.
Tom Houston, of Dunbar's stereotyping
depaitmeiit, was found lying near the
boil.-:-, probably fatally burned. John
Jackson, aged seventeen years, was res
en- d with a broken leg and other injuries.
Daniels, the driver for Hall's safe agency,
w a taken out badly bruised and injured
iit -rn illy, but will survive. Two girls
employed by Dunbar fell from the, 2nd
f, or and were severely bruised. Mrs.
II -fi-.-ii. who lived in the rear of
o.s n's store, was hurried under her own
r .of !,;:t was extricated after sustaining
a broken rib. Charles Caeser, engraver,
su-t 'irc il a broken leg just below the
likt knee.
Fatal Disastar at Hstin - Lin
coln, AraoaMoo and other
points stirrer.
Xeb., Feb. 5.- A heavy gale
prevailed oil over Nebraska today, start
ing at 2 o'clock this morning at Alliance
mi I i. achiag Lincoln at about 9 o'clock
a. in.
(ns:derdble damage was done in the
western part of th state, buildings being
unroofed and trees blown down
FATAL WRKCIi AT BASTINGS.
Til central school house was almost
tot-.Uv wrecked, four persons being so
severely injured that their recovery isim-p.)s-:'ole.
!esidLs a large numler slightly
injured. One of the scholars in the
Idsting-i school building was killed out
light iu I one other injured so he will
probab r tlie before midnight, and the
teacher. Miss Aldrich, fatally injnred.
The storm was widespread but the re
ports received so fir confine the serious
damages to the places mentioned. Lin
coin escaped with a few cornices blown
away and a few outbuildings overturned
The storm was also an electric disturbance
many watches and clocks in this . city
stopping at about 9 o'clock in the morn
Daring the high wind this evening at
7 o'clock. Brown's elevator, on of the
largest in the city, caught fire and burn
ed to the ground. The elevator is a total
loss together with 30,000 bushels of
grain. The loss "will aggregate : over
$30,000. The origin of the fire is on
known. There is about $16,000 insurance
in the Thoenix. Brooklyn, Commercial
Union, London, Boylestun & Co., Boston;
American fire insurance, t Philadelphia
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pool. . f The vie vat qr will be rebuilt. '
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THE BREEZE IN THE NORTHWEST
Minnesota, Dakota, Iowa and Oth
er States Feel its Chilly Blast.
St. Pacl. Minn., Feb. 4. Another cold
wave is prevailing tonight in the north
west The signal service expects the
mercurv to drop to zero before morning.
This morning at Winnipeg and Minne
dota. Manitoba. 1 the thermometer" re
corded 14 below zero. Light 'and
moderately heavy snow has been general
throughout Dakota and Minnesota dur
ing last night and today. '
Breezy at Waterloo.
Waterloo, la-." Feb. 4. Shortly after
noon today tho barometer began falling
nntill it stood 28-60, the lowest ever
known here with ote exception, j An
hour after a severe storm began and the
wind reached a high velocity, while the
temperature fell ifrom 45 to about 15
below zero. ' No damage has so far been
reported.
Sioux City 8ufTers.
. Sioux Citt, la., Feb. 4. There was a
sudden drop of 25 in the temperature
today, with a heavy northwest wind and
some snow. , . - . - -
. The Storm In the East.. '
Saranac Lake, N. Y., Feb. 4. Today
is the coldest of this winter. The Tem
perature is 87 degrees below zero. Re
ports from other sections received at the
signal service station, show a still lower
temperature. ; .
. ... PLATT8BUR, W. V.
The mercury registered 38 degees be
low at Saranac 'Lake this morning; 28
below at Plattsburg and 34 below at
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CHICAGO, ILL. " 2 -
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' The signal service officer here predicts
a cold wave coming. The thermometer
will fall to "10 degrees above zero by
tomorrow evening. T . T (
; 'BOSTON, mass. . i' 1 '
Advices from various points in New
England show the thermometer, ranging
from 30 to 40 degrees below -. zero this
morning. , - "f j
LKWISTOWIf. MB."
The merenry registered 40 degrees be
low zero this morning at Rangeby. '
WAXBKBUBT, VT.
This morning' the thermometer is SO
degress below zero.
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EriU of Public Drtaklns; Fountain. )
I am opposed to the erection of any
more public Jdrinking -.. fouutaintC.; on
the ground that they propagate dis
eases among horses. It may not be
generally known, - but it , is a fact,
nevertheless, that at least 1,600 cases
of glanders, whichfecently existed in
this city, can be" traced direetly to
public ' arinking fountains. The dis
ease was introouoed into the city not
long since by 'some Illinois hones.
These horses were watered at a certain
drinking' fountain, which ' waj f re
ouentedby hundreds of horses every
day. The result was thai the disease
was scattered broadcast over: the city,
and it now exists in alarming' propor
tions, St Louis Globe-Democrat.
Tho Wronj- Soont.
A prominent resident at Chaplin.
Conn., who is. extravagantly fond of
fox hunting, started wit on av bitter
cold day, ana, arriving at the edge of
the woods ' containing the coveted
game, he : started his nound on the
trail. The faithful hound caught the
scent immediately and bounded away,
and in a few moxnonts-was lost from
sight. ' The owner waited patiently un
til, utterly benumbed by the cold, he
crept back to his wagon,' where he
found the noble bound, an ugly , en
sconced beneath the -buffalo robe, fast
asleep. Chicago Herald.
Readers of The C&leago Journal are
pnzzling their head over this problem:
A sells B a horse for 980, and sherward
buys it back for $70, and then sells it to
C for $100. How much does A make by
the two sales? The original tppf pt
horse does not enter (nto (he proposition.
A NorwlchConn.) minister sAitooaced
from the , pulpit on . a StAodajr thai be
would giv 91.50 it the young men to
the gallery would take eaats down stairs.
They did ao and the money Was paid, f
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IN THE OLD WORLD
A DeiperaU Fight at Derybee Church
Over Arrest of Father MoFadden.
8HIPS OOLLIDE DURING A GALE
Princess Frederick Grieved By the
Publication of the Bismarck
Article The O'Brien
Sensation.
A Oesperate Resistanoe,
LeNBOB, Feb.. 5. Details are at hand
of the murder of Police Inspector Martin
at Derybeg, County Donegal, yesterday,
showing the fieht to have been much
more desperate than at first reported.
Martin slashed his asiailants with his
sword and was himself cut with various
weapons until he fell to the ground in
sensible. Father McF.ddn escaped
through the line of police, but subse
quently surrendered and was committed
by the .magistrate without bail Seven
confederates were severe cut in the melee.
THB NERCID-aiLLOCUAN COLLISION.
The details of the collision between
the steamer Nereid and the ship Killochan
off Dungcss last night are extremely
heartrending. Both vessels sank within
three minutes of the collission and those
not carried down with them found them
selves in water so cold as to benumb in a
short time. Many of those rescued were
unconscious when picked up, and were
with great difficulty revived, while others
were past resuscitation. The unfortun
ates taken on board the brig Red Rose
were immediately stripped and rubbed,
and upon their arrival at Dover were
rolled in blankets and conveyed to the
hospital. A number of those rescued
will lose their tineers and toes from the
effects of frost bite.
WBECKKD BY THB OALK.
Durinsr the sale last evening the bar-
ricks of the 8alvation army at Denby
was blown down while a meeting was in
progress. Almost immediatelw tne de
bris took fire and began blazing fiercely.
A boy of 14 was killed and his body
butned, but the other occupants of the
barricks succeeded in escaping from the
fire, though many of them were seriously
and some perhaps fatally injured by the
falling timbers.
KMPRE8S FREDERICK GRIEVED.
The Empress Frederick is much dis
tressed by the publication of the
Bismarck article in the Contem
porary Review, and - particularly
indignant that the authorship or inspira
tion thereof should have been ascribed
to her. She denies all knowledge of the
article prior to its publication and is re
ported to have said that had she been
aware of the intention of its author to
publish it, all the influence she might
have possessed would have been used in
the direction of preventing its appearance
THE O'BRIBX EXCITEMENT.
Hundreds of meetings to protest against
the treatment of O'Brien are being held
in all parts of the country. 1 be move
ment is training strength daily and can
scarsely fail to induce the government
to modify its course toward Mr. O'Brien
and the other Irish political prisoners.
The liberal are arranging for a monster
petition to the queen urging her majesty
in view of the changes in public senti
ment indicated by the recent elections to
dissolve parliment. (
PARK ELL NOT ILL.
- There is the highest authority for the
statement that Mr. Dillon's abandonment
of his Australian trip was not due to the
allesred illness of Mr. Parnell. and there
is no such consequent imminence of any
chanze of the leadership of the Irish
party as has been reported.
Eating by tbm Alplwbet.
, "'Have you got anything here begin,
nlng with 4kr that's good to eatr In.
'quired a new customer in a well known
local delicacy market, last Tuesday.
,,'How will pickled kidneys- answer?"
replied the clerk, after a moment's
thought.
"First rate. Give me a dozen cans.
The kitten's life is saved." exclaimed the
'strange patron, with enthusiasm.
told my wife" he continued: "that
if I failed to send home a kangaroo, dead
or alive, before 2 o'clock: I should exnect
to find thekitten served up for Ripper in
the latest Chinese style. But your happy
.VYou see we all got tired eating the
same things day after day, and so last
1 month we agreed that during December
we would Serin and eat un (or rather
down) the alphabet, taking one letter a
day; with bread, potatoes, tea an.d, ppffoe
thrown in as staples.
- "ibo Dpc.'l Inaugurated the dietary
System' with a bill of fare consisting of
apples m many forms, apricots pickled.
asparagus, ahnonda and the staple, Tho
next day a menu was beef, beeta. beans,
.biscuita, buttermilks baoon and bon bona.
"the following day we feasted on
chic hen, codfish bails, clams, celery, cu
cumbers (fifty cents eachX crabs, cheese,
'cake, crackers. crulWs. carrots, canned
.i i..::t... cuiuu'.i uiiiiuii. i-itii. f.-it-r
:usup ami ruin.'y. .vim o u nan gone
.n.
Tin' fifth tiny would have wn h fust
Any liuil it not U-vii lor egw, i.ut we
uic.de r.n Instil .f it. Vfttterdny v.-c
Jintil, Lrtakfutitel ur.il upjeil chh-lly on
jellies, lodny voi r kidney HuggetUoii
ares us from starvation, whilo to-rnor
row wo will grow fat on liver, lamb.
lobster, lettuce, etc.
"A queer thing -about our new food
departure b the number of thincr.4 it
baa led lis to iiut hi our mouths which
we never thouiriit of before" Buffalo
Express.
Til rra.l Spool.
Among the pevuli-.ir industries which
flourish in western Muino id tho making
of thread spools. They are cut from
smooth, white birch timber a wood
which works eatri'.y by various kinds
of improved machines. There are nu
merous mills throughout the lumbering
reinon, where the birch U uawed into
strips about four ft-et long and from one
to two niches in vidth and thickness.
These strips then go to the spool facto
ries, to bo converted into t-jxlj. The
processes they are put through are nu
merous, and one of them, the method of
polishing them, is quite interesting. A
barrel is filled nearly full of them and
then revolved by means of machinery
and belting until the spools are worn
smooth by rubbing one against another.
Spool manufacturing is the most im
portant industry in several of the vil
lages of Oxford county, and will doubt
less continue so until tho supply of
white birch timber is exhausted. The
manufacture of shoe pegs is another
peculiar Maine Industry, though shared
in to some extent by other New England
states. These are cut from maple and
white birch by machinery, and are worth
at the factory from tldrty-five to ninety
five cents a bushel. The compressing of
sawdust is also a flourishing business in
Bangor In that state. There is a unn
there styling itself a "compress com
any, who convert sawdust and shav
ags into solid bales by compression.
which Unas ready sale in the lares east
ern cities. Tim berman.
HoTwemsnahlp of Mexlon Boja.
One of the finest and most insniritine-
sights of small town life in Mexico is
the horsemanship of the boys from 8 to
17 perfect young (jentaurs, as much at
home in the Bad die as Arabs, How thev
go thundering through the streets, what
marveiousiy snort turps they make, and
now instantaneously tney come to a
short, sharp stop in a headlonar e-allon!
These country towns of - Mexico aro the
nurseries, so to sneak, of tha national
cavalry, an arm of tho service in which
Mexico excels. The finest sight in the
world, one on which the coda must look
uown approvingly, is a mgh spirited lad
astride a kockT worse, A Mexican bov
takes to the back of a horse as a Caue
Cod boy does to a boat. At no acre is a
riaer ooiaer man in that
enchanted
period of existence lying between child
hood and manhood.
A Mexican lad, in default of a saddle.
will enjoy himself huirelv bareback. Ha
early learns to use the rope or riata, and,
beginning with lassoing dogs and pigs,
he advances to mulea and cows, and
nnaiiy essays the ropinjr of a hvelv bulL
So expert do they become that In war
tney rreauenuy drag their enemies from
their saddles, by a skillful cast of the
rope. Some of mv yountrer friends here
seem to me to uve on horseback. They
come home at noontime to snatch a bite,
as most boys will, but off thev are airain
on weir tireless norses. ihey nave the
good fortune to live in a country which
enjoys a climate which makes out-of-
door life possible all the year round, and
the country lad, continually on horse-
oaca. grows un straisnt. robust and
cuuring, Boston Herald Mexican Letter.
Hunting Lobs term.
For a seaside sport tho visitors to a
Cuban watering place have devised the
safe pursuit of lobsters. The author of
"The Pearl of the Antilles" describes tha
chase:
For this sport a bur barce is secured.
and after having been furnished with
carpets and ruga for the ladies' accom
modation we proceed to navicate the
shores and creeks of the harbor. Three
or four black tishermen accompany us
and bear loner torches of wood, bv the
light of which the Ground beneath the
bhallow water is visible, r
Our prey is secured bv throwing a net.
in tho nieshefc of which the lobster be
comes, entangled; but should this prove
ineffectual a long polo forked at one end
is thrust over the creature's back, and as
he struggles to free lumself from the
pronged embrace a nimble nejrro dives
into tho water and captures him alive.
ureat excitement prevails when a loo
ter comes on board and bounds amonir
our crew and passengers. Youth's Com
panion.
The Cat Joined In.
V cat was found in the orcran during
the services that were beintr held in the
Masonic home at Broad 6treet and Ger
tn an town avenue. Gen. Waener pre
sided at the organ, and while the hymns
wero being sung tne pussy joined to with
more vigor than harmony. When the
music ceased the cat took a rest also.
While the Scriptures were beinsr read the
cat broke forth airain in a volley of
music, her voice pitched in C sharp, and
services liad to bo suspended while Gen.
Wagner served a writ of ejectment .on ;
the feline. It was supposed to have
been locked in the organ since Sunday
t, and aa very much emaciated.
PhiUHoiWa TtenrA
The Siani Mercantile Gazette aaya thai
in addition to the existence in that coun
try of debt alavMj. "alave hunting is in
ome provinces a part of Siamese na-
Hona- spoil, ouierwg only in degree
from the 'black ivory' trade of the dark
oonunent,"
A eat crawled into the muzzle of a
loaded cannon in the British barracks at
Cape Colony a short time ago. When
the evening salute was fired she was
thrown a distance of 300 feet, but.
strange to say. lived for two hour after
ae? in voluntary fiish.
THE
ONE -PRICE CLOTHIER
Has left lor the East to buy the Finest, Largest and Cheapest
Stock of
Spring and Summer Clothing
Ever
Brought
ECats and Caps,
Than You Ever Saw in Plattsmouth.
LOOK OUT
GRAND SPRING OPENING
JT Q EES'
Has not got one dollar's worth of Spring Goods, or old Shelf
Worn Goods. Everything you will see in his store
will be Hran New, of the
LATEST STYLES AND PATTERNS
At Such Low Prices it Will Astonish You.
$30,000 WORTH
of STAPLE DRY GOODS sold at Cost. Speciol Sale commencing
on Monday, February 4, and will continue until April 15th, all of
which I will keep you posted, from day to day, what new goods are
offered and opened, and especially about the Low Prices. I am
OilillsMfEiiDnCllsw
at Cost. My Winter Goods, such as Blankets, Flannels and Cantons,
will be sold regardless of First Cost. Flannels from 12ic. per yard to
33c, former price 20 to f0c. Blankets in proportion. It is getting
to be about the time of the year when yon need or buy these goods for
spring, and we save you money on
Fine Dress-Ginghams at 8c, other brands of Ginghams and Rem
nants at 5, 6 and 7 cents per yard, and 20 yards of Be6t Stoddard
Brands Calico for 51.00; other Brands at 3ic. peryard; Hope Muslins
l cents per yard, Lawnsdale 8 Jc,
Half and unbleached brands equally
bleached Muslins at the same rates.
styles 10c per yard. Indigo Blue
common widths 7c. a yard.
Ninety Different
in Carpets, from 15 to CO cents per
at 85 cents.
See our Special Adds on Dress
you money on Omaha prices. We
BOOTS and SHOES
that are offered on the same terms.
POPULAR
to Cass county. Remember JOE will Buy
FOK JOE'S
ffufUlP
every yard you purchase trom us.
Fruits 9c, Wancessatto 10c.
low. Off brands, half and un
Shirtings, good Styles at 7c; best
Muslin and Red Seal B. lie, and
Patter no
all wool. Three ply
yard, ply,
Goods. We guarantee to gave
have a Full Line of
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