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About The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19?? | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1903)
THE NORFOLK NEWS : FRIDAY , MARCH 13 , 1903. ' " Match Touched to it at Order of the Health Board. JANE GRINNED AT THE FLAMES. Was Infected With Smallpox "For- tune Toller" Sign no Longer on the Door She Will Quit the Town and Go to Sioux Falls , [ From Thursday's Dally. ] The little old cabin on South Porrth street , where "Aunt" Jnuo Gordon Johnson , a colored woman with a bad reputation , has boon living in one way and another and tolling fortunes for years , was yesterday afternoon sot afire by the city and Homeless Jane is now making ready to shako tlio dust of Nor folk from her feet. The structure which Jane called her homo was about as small as a building conld well bo and remain a house , but it was big ouongh for her to cook in and rc the door was wide enough for the card that said "Fortune Teller" to the people who passed by and to ono now and then who drove up and stopped. The shanty was burned at the order of the city board of health , which condemned it yesterday morning on account of the smallpox germs with which it was saturated nnd because it would have boon practically impossible to separate the honso and the disease. . At 4 o'clock ono of tbo city fire com panies and Mayor Koenigstoin drew up at the house and Jane walked out out into the street , to stand by and watch her homo go up in smoke and flames. A conplo of cans of korosiuo were poured over the floor , a bunch of hay was chucked into a hole of the wall , and a match was touched. A moment later the wooden frame was wrapped in a band of leaping flames which crackled and snapped for twenty minutes and then all was over and nothing remained to tell the story but a pile of ashes. A great crowd of people from all over the neighborhood gathered to see the burn ing and a happy crowd they were. Ordinarily it would seem hard luck to have your very roof burned away from your head. But Jane didn't take the pathetic side of it to look at. She stood with her elbows on her hips and her broadest grin upon her face , for the $ -15 which she had been allowed for the building looked bettor to her white eyes than a dozen roofs just then. And besides sides , she was happy there on the side walk because she was enjoying her own fireside , and where on earth is there pleasanter place ? K Anyone enjoys a good fire , and this was a good fire to the people of South Norfolk. Time after time they have tried to buy the honso or to induce Jane that she rather live somewhere else and just as often have they been turned down. A half hundred women gazed at the pretty smoke aa it cnrlod up into the clear sky , the children danced about like a band of worriers nnd Jane , as an Englishman put it , stood near like Nero and watched 'er 'ome burn down , simply exclaiming "Holy Smoke 1" When it was all done , Jane was taken down on Braasch avenue to the home of her sister , Sadie , where she will re main for a time before she leaves for her home in Sioux Falls , S. D. , to live with her mother. [ From "Wednesday's Dally. ] Jane Gordon , a colored character familiar in Norfolk for years , is to be burned out of house and home. This was decided by the board of public health , consisting of Mayor Koenig stein , Chief of Police Kane and City Physician Salter , at a meeting held this morning. The reason for the act is the fact that Jane's house is so thoroughly saturated with smallpox germs that it is practically impossible to fumigate the building. Possibly no fire that has happened in Norfolk for years has had quite the oddity attached to it that this coming conflagration will bear. There have often been fires set by the incendiary n night , with the purpose of destroying buildings and property , but this is the first case where a fire is deliberately planned and premeditated and then exo outed by the city with cheerful method The building to which the match will be touched is a little , old shanty on South Fourth street , with a couple o narrow rooms in it and a gilded placard on the door bearing the words , "For tnne Teller. " Here has Jane Gordon lived for years , with her son , and here oho has unravelled many a myth of the future. Of late , however , she has had little time to give to the future for she found that the pressing present , with smallpox in the house , was quit enough bo handle. It has been an uncompromising case of smallpox bn the bouse has been small , too too small , in fact to make it worth while to try to get rid of tbo disease. So they will got rid of the building , and possi bly the germs , alongside , will go up In smoke. The burning will be done as soon a ; men can be spared from the flood and a hose company will be on hand to prevent vent anything else going. Jane will b paid for the property. Besides this business , the board do aided that in case smallpox patient must bo moved on account of big ] water , and where no building is proonr able , the city hall will bo given over fo the purpose. WENDESDAY WRINKLES. Miss Lena Wetzel has returned horn from Des Moines , Iowa. The Browning olnb enjoyed the evening ing last night at the home of Miss Josephine phino Dnrland. Mrs. Robert Craft is visiting relative and friends at South Norfolk , from Missouri Valley. A Washington dispatch states tha Gco. A , Brooks of Uazilo Mills has been ppoiutod postmaster of his homo town , Mrs. A. A. Warner of Oakdiilo IB the neat of Mrs. L , B. Mnssolman , instead f Mrs. Mary Klllott as stated yester- ay. ay.An An Odd Fellows encampment will bo nstituted at Tildon tomorrow night ud a number of the Norfolk members outouiplato attending. Miss Porter of Des Moincsja. , has re- nruod to Norfolk to take charge of the rimming department at Miss Bonder's milliner store this spring. A dray wagon runaway that was lerco but not disastrous , held the boards on Norfolk avenue about a minute yesterday afternoon. Miss Etta Dnrland returned yester- lay from a ton days' trip to Chicago iu ho interest of the firm. Miss Durland was accompanied on the return by Miss lary Harris , of Chicago , who will take charge of the trimming department at ho Durlaud Sisters' milliner store this eason. 0. Dixon , formerly of Blair , is now a Norfolk citizen. Ho has purchased the ill wagon business of II. M. Roberts ind will conduct It hereafter. Ho will tart a new flour and feed store iu the ity. Mr. Dixou's household goods are now hero and ho will remove his family at once. "Billie" Ferguson , a well known jharaotor of Norfolk , who has douo tago work around the play houses of ho city for the past dozen years , ex pects to leave in a day or so for an all ummer's trip with Campbell Brothers' lircns. He will do the lomoiiado and palm leaf fan soiling act. Extensive and permanent improve ments ore being made by Dan Craven it the Norfolk Steam laundry. Two mammoth cisterns are now in process of construction and hereafter soft water vill be used for washing clothes. This will make a large saving on soap suds. Che cisterns are 10 feet and 12 feet in liarneter and will drain moisture from msiuess houses near the laundry. 1 Senate Approves Reciprocity With United States. VOTE IS SIXTEEN TO FIVE. Confirms Protocol by Exactly Two Thirds Vote Argument is Advanced That Reduction on Sugar Will Aid Cuba's Trade. Havana , March 12. The reciprocity treaty with the United States was ap proved by the eenato by 10 votes against 5. The treaty was ratified by exactly two-thirds of the vote of the senate. Fifteen administration senators and one nationalist voted in favor of the treaty and five nationalists against it. There were three absentees , all of whom , it is believed , favored the treaty. The ratification required only a majority vote , BO that there were three votes to spare. Senor Zayas , the only nationalist who voted for ratification , tti explaining his vote , said it was bis desire to amend the treaty with reference to the exchange of Bimilar commodities produced In both countries , but he had no Inten tion of opposing the treaty itself. Senor Sangullly , the leader of the op position , explained that his opposition was designed chiefly to draw out what ever could bo advanced in support of the treaty and that the arguments of Senor Bustamento , as put forward in the senate , convinced him that the country would bo more prosperous with reciprocity than without it , but nevertheless his attitude of opposition and disapproval of the acts of the executive department of the govern ment forbade him voting yes. The vote was taken immediately on the conclusion of a forceful appeal by Senor Bustamente. Ho insisted that whether the trust or the producers were the chief beneficiaries of the 20 per cent reduction of custom duties on Cuban sugar shipped to the United States , it was not possible that such differential treatment favoring Cuban sugar in competition with that of Europe could result other than favor ably to Cuba's trade. The treaty would also provide the protection thai Cuba needs on tobacco. "I vote , " said the speaker , "for the treaty with the conviction that we , In so doing , are rendering a patriotic duty to Cuba even If the treaty Is not approved by the United States senate. " THE CUBAN TREATY. Senate Committee Reported Favor ably on the Measure. Washington , March 12. Special to The News : The senate committee re ported favorably today on the Cuban reciprocity treaty , with amendment The house must also approve the treaty before it will become operative. ' "When the appointment of Crum came before the senate this morning there were not enough favorable votes to confirm. It is believed that there will bo no further action in the matte : at this session. The Kansas legislature proposes thn the slot machines must go , and has passed a law to that effect. Other states have been making a wholesale onslangh on gambling and it will soon bo unsaf to bet on a ball game in this country It is proper. All people- should dosir an opportunity of making un hones livelihood , but no ono , except th gamblers themselves , desirojthat oppor tunities should bo afforded for the ao cnmmulation of wealth by games o chance. Vlan Who Hanged Himself Lived In Iowa. BROER WAS LIKELY HIS NAME. dontlty Discovered by Carl Otto Through an Advertisement Photo graph Exactly That or Dead Man- Body Is Now Dissected , [ From Wedncmlny'H Dully. ] There is scarcely a sluulo of doubt Imt the unknown suicide who hanged iuisolf iu Norfolk and was found ens- ended from a tree ono uillo north of ho city on January 2(1 ( , and who was opt at the undertaking parlors of cHslou & Boll for flvo days awaiting omothlng to develop his identity , and vbo , being unclaimed at the end of liat time , was , in accordance with the aws of the state , shipped to the modi * al department of the state university t Lincoln for dissection , wan a man tuned Brour from Hubbard , Ilnrdin ouuty , Iowa , and a brother of Louin Iroor who has boon trying for sonio line in vain to locate the missing man. This fact was developed quite com * ilotoly yesterday afternoon by Carl Otto , who lives on Prospect nvouno vest of Twelfth street , in the slmpo of letter from the Iowa man containing description of ills brother and n photo- raph which exactly resembles the fact ) f the dead man and the likenesses of im that have boon retained. The dis- every was all brought out through a ittlo advertisement which Otto rend ,11(1 , answered , The notice appeared in an issue of the 3ornmnlu , a Gorman paper published t Milwaukee , and stated that for proof f the whereabouts of his brother , Louin Broor of Hubbard , Iowa , would pay the um of $50. Carl Otto wrote a letter to Jroer and informed him that an un- tnown man whom ho considered T > 5 years old , had hanged himself iu Nor- oik and that if Broor tboueht it could 30 the fellow , n letter and photograph night develop the fact inoro fully. This was written htbt Friday. Broor eceived the word Saturday and replied mmediately , sending a lit tie photograph tbout an inch and a half square , and ho fact that bin brother was CO yearn ild. Ho apked what style of clothing ho dead man land worn. Otto's letter was evidently the first information of \ny sort , whatever , that Broer has re- 3elved , although , according to his letter , 10 has sent out some ! )00 ) photographs over the country. The photograph is apparently exactly hnt of the man who was kept at the undertaking establishment so long awaiting identification. There seems o be not the slightest room for doubt as to a coiucideuco of this and a like ness that was made at the time , and following up this fact P. P. Bell , of the firm Sessions & Boll , has written today a personal letter to Mr. Broer , giving a complete discription of the man who was found and asking a description of lie clothes worn by the lost brother , if the case still works out and Broor thinks the discription given fits ac onrately , the clothing will be expressed to Iowa and the fact established beyond yond a doubt. The matter is a serious ono as there s probably un estate involved and in order to be absolutely certain that there s no mistake everything possible will be done to gain positive evidence. The dead man in question was found suspended from a tree near the Hillo farm on First street , ono mile north , January 26 , this year. Ho had strangled limself in a wire noose. He was com fortably dressed , had a blue overcoat and mittens , and in ono pocket was 29.85 cash. There wore no papers from which his name could be obtained. He ooked to be about 65 or GO years of age , and had grey whiskers. The body was : aken to the undertaking rooms , em jalmed and made ready for burial. For Ive days the public looked at the un mown man in the hope that some ono could place him. Orders came from the state authorities that the body be imme diately shipped to the medical college , according to a law which would let it ay but 48 hours. The undertakers asked for special permission to hold it over time but the limit came and the stranger salcidofriendless and unknown , was shipped to Lincoln where long ere this he has passed under the the dis secting knife. And now.but two months later , a [ probable brother is found who lias been searching all over this broad land in vain for the missing Broer. It is possible that the Iowa man may : ome to Norfolk to clear up the mystery absolutely. THURSDAY TIDINGS. Dr. Bertha Ahlmann is in Pierce to day. day.J. J. M. Pile was in the city from Wayne yesterday. Mrs. H. McBride is visiting friends at Plainview. M. H. Rathbnrn was in the city over night from Lincoln. W. H. Bucholz made n business trip to Madieon yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Salter returnee from Omaha yesterday. There will bo a clnb dance nt the Railway hall in South Norfolk tonight W. H. Baird , formerly superintendent of the Norfolk Sugar factory , but now of Grand Island , was in the city this morning. Miss Krasno has returned to her homo at Fnllerton , after a visit with Norfolk relatives. A. J. Dunlovy , J. P. Erskino and F L. Putney were Norfolk guests frou Tlldon yesterday. Mrs. 0. M. Janes entertained a company of ladies at her home on Sontl Twelfth street yesterday afternoon , in TAKE OFF YOUR HAT TO AN OLD FRIEND. Mexican Mustang Liniment Its Year of Jubilee has come. Sixty yours of faithful net-vice to Matt and llcasl entitles it teA A GRAND DIAMOND JUBILEE Your Hires and grand sires used Mexican MiiHtiiiii ; I-lulinc'iit because it healed their hurts and cured the ills of their domestic ani mals. What MltXICAN MllSTANO LlNIMIiNT did for mankind and brute Kind CO vcnrs ngo it tloen to-day. It has always eared and always will cute Jiuy and everything that a goo'd , liunest liniment can ettre. All Sorts of Horse Flesh nrc all subject to all sorts of Sprains , Ilrnises , in i , Wounds nnd other all * . Most owners know that Mexican MtiHtiiti Uhilniotit is the most clleetive horse med icine that over penetrated flesh. Jt ia the best investment an animal owner could nut money into. It soaks down through the muscles. No liniment can cure unless it penetrates the fevcml nnd swollen miiNcles light down to the roots of the trouble. MiiMC.v.s MIISTANI ; I.INIMHNT | ieiielratv.s more thoroughly than anything that was ever eteated in a chemical lubotatory. The deeiest. | most stubborn and most intense pain in man or beast can be icached and routed by the use of this good old time-tried liniment , Cures the hurts of anything that walks. If your horse 1ms a stilt joint , a harness wore , a cut or bruise , MitxtOAN MtisTANO LiNiMitNT will eure ii. If your cow 1ms a hurt , a caked udder or HOIC teats it will cine it and testoie her to health and usefulness. Ifyotir ] > ottltrv has rotip , fio/ea combs , rlienmatisin , .scaly legs or anv disease of the'lh-sh or bones MiixtCAN MDSTANC. I.INI- Mi'.NTwill eure thfin. What it has done in ilionsaiids , tipoa thousands of instances justifies these claims. Two things needed in lameness. j What Lameness , KtifTJoints and other dee-Keateil | ailments need more than any thing else is MIAICAN MfsTA.sc. I.IMMKNT. The next is plenty ol rtibhinj ; . The nib bing works the liniment away in through the tireil and sore mnseles to wheie the ] ) ain begins and then the lameness disappears anil the pain departs. Three nl/.en. -5e. , 5Oe. und Jl a bottle. Sold everywhere. louor of her sinter , Mrs. Harvey of Omaha. Cards wcro a pleiiHing feature ) f the afternooti , which were followed > y a dainty lunch. Mrs. O. W. Inskoop loft this morning 'or the eastern mniketH in the interest if the Inskoop millinery Htoro. Miss Irene Soutlierlttiid of Tekamah visited Rov. and Mrs. .T. F. Pouoher yosterdiiy , ourouto to Plaiuviow. Norfolk lodge No. 4 ( ) , I. O. O. P. , will meet in regular Bosnian tonight. There will bo work in the Third degreo. The Ladies' guild of Trinity church will meet with Mrs. S. W. Hayes to morrow afternoon at 2 : ! 50 o'clock. George Box was iu the city yesterday Tom Sioux City , greeting old friends and attending to business matters. There will bo n mooting of the clerk's union at the city hnll tonight at 8 o'clock , for the purpose of eirecting an organization. Bob Stoughtonn hostler at the Brun- on stabloH , was quite badly kicked by a horse a few days ago and is now limping about on crutches. A. G. Bohnert , formerly in bnsinebs here but now farming in Boyd county , was in tbo city last night , meeting friends and acquaintances. The Koenigstein pharmacy is under- jolng thorough repairs. The windows are being lowered , new shelving placed and the store remodelled throughout. Rev. H. Bross of Lincoln will bo at ho Congregational churches next Sun day. Ho will preach at the Pirst Con- ; regatlonal in the morning and at the second Congregational in the evening. 0. E. Bnrnham was registered in the city yesterday "from the best town in Nebraska. " Inasmuch as Mr. Burn- mm'B home is in Tildeu , it is presumed that he was standing up for that place. W. H. Goakin has become a citizen of Norfolk. He has bought the Whithain residence property at the corner of Thirteenth street and Madison avenue and will move his family from Humph rey at once. The Salter Coal and Grain company are making improvements on their prop erty in the way of a now addition to the elevator. The now wing will bo of the same height as the old , will oxteud about 80 feet and will bo used largely for seed grains. A. Morrison has the contract. H. E. Owen came to Norfolk this morning. Ho soys that owing to trouble at homo , ho is stopping at the Pacific. The nature of the family jar is a quarantine card on the front door of his house , where his young son , Chandler , is still ill. His friends will bo glad to learn , however , that ho is im proving and will be out as soon aa the health board removes its calling cord. A number of South Norfolk people went down to Wisner to take part in the Cantata of Ruth , which was pre sented under the supervision of Rov. Franklin Baker , the samoaa it was given in Norfolk. Those taking paits were Mrs. Immiley , osNeora ; Mrs. Hedrick , as tbo Jewish maiden ; Miss Clara Beach , Miss Bessie Williams and Homer Wil liams as members of the chorus. While the presentation was successful , it did not equal that directed by Mr. Baker in Norfolk last year. The ministers of five Norfolk churches are negotiating for an engagement witl Rev. M. B. Williams , the noted evangelist list , for a series of meetings in Norfolk the date and the plan of the mootiugi having not yet been determined. Rov. Mr. Williams ii at present iu Topeka , Kansas , where nliio of the churches have combined for the purpose of con ducting a series of meetings. It will bo remembered that Mr. Williams con ducted very successful revival meetings at Fremont and York. It in reported from Lincoln that the intention of the Northwestern in sup porting the bill passed by the house of representatives Monday removing the limit from the indebtedness which rail ways may create , was to permit it to gridiron northeastern Nebraska , which it was claimed could not bo done und or the present law limiting the indebted ness to two-thirds of the capital stock of the company. Where or when the im provements of the-company will begin is not stated , but it is probable that im provements out of Norfolk twill bo among those planned. At tbo regular meeting of the Norfolk fire department , held at tbo city hall last evening , it was decided to prepare to enter tbo contests at the state tourna ment , to bo hold in this city July SI , 22 and 2 ! ) . The organization and training of a hose * running team was loft to R. II. Reynolds , who will select the best material of the department for the for mation of the team. Ho made several selections last night and will take his time to choose the swiftest men whoso names arc on the department rolls. It is also proposed to form a team to outer the ladder climbing contests. Practice meetings will bo held as soon as the ground is in condition for the training to bo undertaken. Sick Headache ? Food doesn't digest well ? Appetite poor ? Bowels constipated ? Tongue coated ? It's your liver ! 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