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
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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.
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