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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY , SEPTEMBER 20 , issa-sixTEEN PAGES. Our Sample Floors are literally jammed with goods , our store rooms crowded and our warehouses are actually shaking from the immense stock of Furniture , Car rots and Stoves stored there , besides car-loads unloaded for want of room , Our stock to-day amounts to the enormous sum of One Hundred Thousand Dollars , we are overstocked and must unload , we therefore begin to-morrow Monday morning , Sept 30th. , the greatest sale ever attempted by any concern in HOmaha , prices cut to the core , nrevious selling prices and cost not taken into consideration as we must unload , without regard to what our loss may be ? This a chance once in alife time. Remember this great sale lasts only one week , positively no goods sold at the cut prices after Sat urday , Oot 5th , , when this "greatest of all" sale ends. EFU HING GOODS FOR LES $8 Extension Tables This week $3.75 $15 Bureaus This week $7 $7 Kitchen Safes This week 53.5O Bedsteads This week $1.75 Folding Beds ' This weeM$25 $60 Folding Beds This week $35 $18 Bed Lounges This week $9.5O $1 Window Shades This week 3Oc 50c Ingrains This week 25c 75c Ingrains This week 4Oc ' $1.25 Brussels . This week 70c Pillows This week 4Oc Comforts This week 9Oc Lace Curtains This week S5c Chairs This week $4 Bookers This week $1.5 © $6 Billing Tables This week $3 $6 Center Tables This week $3 $2 .SO Center Tables This week 9Oc $6 Hanging Lamps , This week $3 S2.5O Decorated Stand Lamps.This week $1,25 $15 Bools Cases This week $7.50 $15 Polished Rocker , Ollk 110S1U1J , This week $7-5 O A VOICE FROM THE.TOMB. Some Good Stories of Men and Other Animals. A TUSSLE WITH A TARANTULA. Ijlvcly Scene in a New Vork Station HOIINC A Maiden Who Could' Shoot Sentenced to Hung In Hhyine. The Curious Side of Life. I overheard tv jolly story in a cafe on Fifth avoiiuo the ether evening , suys a writer in the Sun Francisco Call. A good-looking young fellow was telling it to his companion. "You know I bought a beautiful little game rooster about a week ago , intend ing to take him down the Hhoro and put him up against that bird of SmlUiers' . Well , not having any bettor place to keep him before L loft town I let him go about in the .yard at the buck of the house. I noticed ho began crowing pretty early in the morning , but I'm a pretty hard sleeper , and it scarcely en tered my head that ho was disturbing any one in the neighborhood. Well , night before last I was at a party , and flld not got homo until nearly 4 o'clock in the morning. It was broad daylight at that time , you know , and while I was getting my clothes off I heard that bird of mine crowing away like a good one. I wont to the window to look down on him , when I was confronted with one of the most extraordinary sights that my eyes were over dazzled by. The hutibo in the rear of mine , on the ether street , is a swell boarding school for girls. Two of those girls were standing in the window , glowering down upon the game rooster. It was a fearful not night , you know. But what do you suppose those girls were prepar ing to deV One of them had a revolver in lior hand. They both wore watching the bird. The girl with the revolver raised her weapon , rested the barrel on her loft arm , drew a bead on the bird , and ilrcd. Hy Jove that stooped the rooster's crowing. Ho tipped over as uoadas a herring. As BOOH as the re port of the revolver rang out the girls gave n quick glance about the neigh boring houses , and of cam-so saw mo looking at them. I could hear them Loth scream a little and then vanish from the window. The next day I re ceived an anonymous note suylng that , the rooster would bo paid for if 1 would send my servant to the school at o.Miotly 4 o'clock that day. I bent my man with tx note assuring the young laUios that I would have a bird in my yard foi > them to shoot at every morning , for such a picture as they formed was equal to any thing iu the Paris salon. " Pollco Captain Thomas Uoilly had n visitor at the West Thirtieth street sta- Uou house yesterday morning that did not receive the hospitable welcome the captain usually accords to his guests , says a Now York dispatch. It was an enormous tarantula , and succeeded in scaring the occupants of the station house half out or tholr wits. Charlie Moolinn , the doorman , lights the gas in the station house just before roll call at midnight , so that the men can bo in- upoetou as they turn out. On Saturday night the doorman stoppod-to the "gal- lory" to got the gaslighter , and as ho reached for it he disturbed the spider. The latter ran along the wall , fright ened bv Mcehiufa yell of horror , and tool ; refuge in the corner of the room. The captain and Sergeant rushed out from behind the desk , and when they saw the tarantula the cap- Luin seized a night stick and prepared to do battle. Ho at once saw , hoivovor , that the rounded onJ of the stick would prevent him from hitting the insect , so | ip lied a piece of cloth on it and then iiit at the spider. Although usually a oed shot , the captain missed his aim and the tarantula ran up the wall to the ceiling and then down toward Sergeant Sheldon , who stood armed with a cricket bat , ca'pturod in a. raid on some "shin- noy" players. The sergeant stood ready , and as the tarantula reached him he struck at it. Els aim was fairly good and the taran tula fell to the floor , whore It faced its foes defiantly. Another blow and the tarantula was past doing injury to any one , and lie was quickly gathered in to bo nut away in alcohol by a collector of curiosities of insect life. It measured about three Inches across and was about nine in circumference , and about as vicious a looking insect aa has over boon scon in u station house. L.ast week Captain Koilly ordered a raid on poddlers. and , as a result , sev eral wagon loads of bananas were housed in the station house. It is supposed that the tarantula was brought from South America in the bunches of banana s. and left there to seelc the seclusion of the top of the rogue's gallery - lory , where it was lying when dislodcred by the movement of the doorman. Ser geant Sheldon was congratulated by all who witnessed his fight with tha ven omous spider , when the policeman roal- i/.od that one bite meant death. The sergeant recognized the species before no struck It , and shouted a warning cry when it dropped to the floor. LiiBtnlght while a party of young men and women were \ynlklng under the shade trees , skirting the Lafayette cemetery , they were startled by a num ber of wild cries is.sulnir from the center - tor of that burying ground , says a Philadelphia dispatch. The nour was about I ) , and although there wore twenty persons about , none of them at first could muster enough couraga to go in. Ah they blood in listening attitudes the cries again wont up. The girls were sobbing with terror , and oven the young mon glanced anxiously at one another and inquired in whispers , "What did it moani" ' In a moment the terrifying sounds conned , and then they cV.me again with renewed vigor. "Lot's see what it is , " suddenly sug gested one young man. "All right , " came from half a do/.ou others. Guided by the bound they made their way between the graves to a vault near the renter of the comotorv. The vault top ribes only a few inches above the ground , but there are a number of holes piercing the bides and the investigators throw themselves prone before this. . For a time they could tide nothing , Then one of the watchers discovered the outlines of a moving form , and another piercing cry rent the air. Satisfied now that , the thing wit I ) in was a ghost , the men sprang to tholr feet and ran like mad for the streets. The mystery was not explained until this afternoon when OMIcor Smith putted that way. Jus > t as ho reached the vault in question ) he noticed the white face of a man who was lying on the floor inside. Uo promptly broke in the door and found James N. Clarke , one of the grave diggers , in a half un- cousolona condition leaning against the Bide of the vault. The young man'a hair , which was black the night before , had turned grey , and it was some min utes before ho could talk. Then ho said ; "I caino Into the vault yesterday af ternoon to do bonu work. There are 0) ) * < u HS -0 - 2 _ | Js 9 a § 8 . E 3 vl w c o - ( ! ) Housetoer's ' Friend , $10 worth of goods $1 a week or $ < \ a month. 25 worth of goods $1.50 a week or $6 a month. $50 worth of goods $2 a week or $8 a month. $75 worth of goods , $2.50 a week or $10 a month , $100 worth of goods , $3 a week or $12 a month. $200 Avorth of goods , $5 a week or $20 a month. seventeen bodies hero. As I entered , the door closed with a bang , and I saw that I was caught. The lock is a spring lock , and opens only from the outside. At first I lautrhed , but as no ono came to my relief I soon quit that. When night came I was thoroughly fright ened. There was no fun in the prospect of passing a whole night in a narrow vault with seventeen corpses. Then I shrieked for help , but no ono came. I must have fainted , for when I awoke the sun was shining. I knew no more until you came. I'm going into some ether business now. " McCoy , who was recently hanged at San Antonio , Tex. , for murder , was for fifteen years ono of the most notorious desperadoes in southwestern Texas , says the Now York Sun. Nobody but himself knows how many men lib has murdered. Ho had oscap'od conviction in live trials for murder. Four years ago ho lost his rigtit log from n wound received in a street tight in CotuUa. Ho was one of the most daring and heartless members of the Alita Pen gang , which , terrorized southwestern Texas for years , until Captain Charles MoKinnoy came along and began a war against them. MoKinney , as sheriff of La Sallo county , tiiinncd their ranks until Jim McCoy and Bud Crcnslmw were about the only members loft. They decoyed MoKinney on the day after Christmas , 1830 , to Twohig station , a few miles from Cotulla , the county seat , where they had plotted to murder him. McKinney - Kinney and a deputy named Edwards were met at Twohig by Cronshaw and McCoy , who proffered thorn the use of tholr horses to ride to the house where a crime was alleged to have boon com mitted. McKinney mounted ono of the horses , and while lie was Inquiring the way Cronshaw pushed the muzzle of a Winchester under his chin and fired , killing him instantly. At the same time McCoy fired at lidwards , wounding the deputy In the shoulder. Edwards' horse , frightened by the shooting , dashed olT , saving Its rider. Cfonshaw and McCoy fled. Cron- shaw was killed by state rangers shortly afterward while resisting arrest. McCoy boat around in the bush a few weeks , and , becoming sick , gave himself up ivt Cotulla. On a change of venue the case was brought to this county , where McCoy was convicted. The fury rendered - dored its verdict in rhyme. Hero it is : Wo , the Jury in the McCoy case , Have found his action very base ; Wo think tlmt 'tis only Just , When to us Is given trust , No reason why wo should abuao Our bodies further with misuse. To waste our time ID vain endeavor , The Judge would nay 'twas very clover ; 13ut no , ttioir guns wont bang , bang I Tlion why in h 1 shoulu ho not hang ! 'Twill ' bu a lesson In after tlmo To warn mon from aaoh crime. So , should our lives Ijo pure and true , 1'hen will wo not have in court to MHO , For life or property or divorce. For law will surely have its force , As It did In this coso. The ether day as I lay In my ham mock I saw a hugo toad winking and 'blinking lazily under the largo loaf of a foliage nlant , says a writer in the Ashland ( Ga. ) Gazoito. Ho looicod contented and happy , and just as if ho didn't ' care whether school kept or not. A bumble-bee came buzzing around the flowers. That toad opened his eyes , looked around , deliberately winked ono eye at me , and then , to all appearances , went asleep agftin. Ho was not asleep , however'for the next moment , when the boo came a trifle nearer , he made it little spring , opened his countenance till I thought ho would drop in two , there waaa flash and the bee had dis appeared. I was just beginning to wonder whore it had gone to when I noticed the toad begin to look melancholy. I then no ticed that his white vest was pulled out like an alderman's. In less time than it takes to toll it he was the most lone some-looking toad that I over saw. Ho seemed to reflect a minute and then got into an attitude in which the old prints represent Nebuchadnezzar when ho was out to pasture. His big mouth was close to the ground , while his hind foot stood on tiptoe. Ho had swallowed something hot and was now going to got rid of it by reversing the process. After several violent efforts , during which his whole anatomy heaved with emotion , the troublesome Jonah was ejected and lay on the grass before him. The toad wasn't winking at mo any more. Instead , ho was venting looks of revengeful spite at the unfor tunate author of all his troubles , which by this time presented a sorry appear ance. Soon ho cautiously approached , and. with a lightning-li'lco movement , the bee again disappeared , this time to stay. For a moment the toad moved cautiously , as if to avoid stirring up again that burning lire beneath his vest , and then , seeing that It was all right , hopped back with an elated air and wont to sleep under the leaf. A Boston young lady visiting in this vicinity relates n pretty good story at the expense of some poor old son of Ire land who resides in this city , name un known , says the Konnobeo Journal. On Tuesday she wont out berrying in the vicinity of the cemetery , and in the af ternoon a heavy snowor came up * so quickly as to compel her to seek shel ter in the receiving tomb. She was pretty thoroughly soaked before arriv ing at the entrance , and undoubtedly looked rather forlorn ; and while stand ing in the doorway , waiting for the passage of the shower , unconsciously commenced singing. At this stage in the proceedings the Irishman anpoars on the bcono plodding slowly up tlic walk in front of the tomb. He stops , hearing the music , and looks around. Presently he espies tlie figure in the door. It is a rather uncanny sight at that time of day in such a shower , and the spectacle is too much for his nerves. Ho turns pale , his knees seek each other in fear and trembling , and finally terror overcomes him , and with a muttered imprecation ho turns and Hoes. Over fences , ditches , Holds and rouds ho flies in his haste to quit the spot , while the heartless Boston maiden changes from asong to a hourly peal of laughter at the ludicrous sight. A Paris correspondent of the Courier dos-Etats Unis notes that hardly has the dibcovory of the elixir of life by Dr. Brown Senuard ceased to startle the French capital before Dr. Charcot , "tho man among us who is most habituated to the marvelous , " draws the attention of the world to a fummo-chat , or cat- woman , whom ho has discovered. Dr. C'harcot's femmo-chat is an in mate of the hospital of Salpotrioro. as the story goes. She is a pretty child , about M years old , with blue oy'os , and long , blonde hair falling down her back. She is modest and gentle up tea a certain moment , when the visitor suddenly beholds her eyes "frightfully convulsed in their orbits , " her mouth shrivels up , a horrible grimace distorts lior features , and she drops to the earthen on all lours , Then she bcampers about the room , over and under chairs and tables , seeking everywhere an outlet of escape , and , If anybody attempts to capture her , she npits with tno unmis takable utrt , ptft of an enraged puss. She humps her back and gives vent to long mlaulincnts In crescendo and it a bit of paper or ether trifle bo thrown to her filio stretches forth a paw or a hand , as thouaao may bo. and plays $5O Parlor Suits This week $23.5O $75 Parlor Suits This week $ < K > ' $18 Plusli Rockers . . . This week $0.50 ; $8 Finish Parlor Chairs This week $3.50' $4 Springs This \veek $1.75 M $4 Mattresses This week $1,75 Base Burner % This week $30 Ease Burner This week $25 $25 Heaters This week $15 $2O Heaters This week $12.50 $15 Heaters This weak $8.50 $1O Heaters This week $5 $ &Q R-a.3J.ges Tliis week $25 $18 Cook Stoves This week , 9.3O $5O Secretaries This week $39 $40 Secretaries This week $22,50 $25 Lailies' Writing Desks Tliis week $15 $2O ladies' Writing Desks. . .This week $12.5O $5 Pictures This week $2.5O $1O Clocks This wee\$5 $7.5O Toilet Ssts This week $4 $2,50 Set Potts Irons This week $1.25 $1,75 Wash Boiler This week SSc with it as a cat will. Finally , after having done the entire puss business to admiration , she curls over on her back , the crisis is over , and the fommc-chat becomes pure femme once more. All this , says the Now York Commer cial Advertiser , recalls the fairy story of the man who married a beautiful woman and found out too late aiid much to his dismay that his bride was but a cat transformed , A mouse chanced to scamper across the floor , and in an in stant the woman was filled with uncon trollable fury , sprang from beside hoi- husband , and in a jitl'y had the mouse by the nape of the neck. The cat holds a great place in folk-lore and popular tales of sorcery and witchcraft , and as sorcery is not far removed from insanity it is not unlikely that at least some of the stories had their rise in facts like those detailed concerning Dr. Charcot's patient. Such a patient might easily exist outside of the imagination of a French sensation-monger like him who spares the readers of the Courier dea Etats-Unis the observation that the famine-chat of the Salpotriero has not a sparsely olantcd mustache which erects itself and stiffens into bristles when she becomes puss pure and simple. Four foot from the ground in tlio wall of a largo brick building in the Wash ington navy yard , known as the ordnance - nanco foundry , is an iron palate about eighteen Indies square bearing this in scription : Within this Wull is Deposited The Leg of Cor.oxi. Uuiio UAIH.OHIK : , U. S. V. , Who was wounded July 0,1S03 , while skirmishing with the Hobols m the streets of Hrmcrstown , after the Battle of Gettysburg. An explanation of the freak of HOII- timontwhich prompted the interment of the amputated leg in such a place is loft to the imagination of the reader , who can probably guess as well as I can. I was told that It was in accordance with the wish of Colonel Dahlgron himself , says a Washington correspondent of the Cleveland Leader. lie was a son of Admiral Dahlgron , and was 0110 of the youngest ollloors who were a colonel's eagles during the war. As soon as the stump of his leg was healed ho sprang .into the saddle again , and on March S , 18(11 ( , was killed almost in the suburbs of Richmond during Kllpatrick's fa mous raid upon the confederate capital. Colonel Dahlgron's body fell into the handsof the enemybut was sent through the union lines and delivered to his friends. It was charged that the body had been barbariously mutilated. This provoked a long controversy , the con federate authorities denying to the la&t that there had boon any mutilation , ex cept that by the missiles which caused his death. Ho was struck by several bullets in a volley fired at short range from an ambuscade. Quo Faro September 10th and 21th , and Oc tober 8th , round trip tickets will bo sold via the Santa Fo route ut ono lowest first class faro to Kansas , Texas , Indian territory , Now Mexico , Colorado and Utah , reaching cities of Galvoaton , Austin , Ft. Worth , Dallas. Oklahoma , Guthrie , I'anhaadlo City , El Paso , Doming. Denver , Colo- radoSpring'jPuoblo1TrinidadlSaltLako Cjty , Ogden and intermediate points. Tickets good thirty days. Stop over privileges at pleasure while on the Santa Fo. For maps , rates and full information regarding ontional routes cull on or ad dress E. L. Palmer , Freight and Pas senger Agent , S. M. Oggood , General Agent , Santa Fo Route , KIDS Faniain street , Omaha , Neb , STORY' OF A HUMAN SKULL , An Early Tr'agrody in the History of Adams County. SLAUGHTERED WHILETHEY SLEPT How Knur KmicraiitH Were Massacred at Their Crunp Plro llv tlio Pawnees Nine Aides South ot Hastings. the Sloop oT Dniitli. A human skull and a number of bones for a long time used in ono of the school rooms of Habtings us an aid to the study of anatomy , have artery connected with the early history of Adams county that has , wo believe , says the Hasting Ga- Kottc-Jourmil , never before appeared in print. The facts have boon in the pos session of the Gazette-Journal for a num ber of years and the incident to which they relate will bo readily recalled by the oldest Battlers of Adams and Clay counties. Previous to the year 1800 there were but a few straggling settlements in the part of Nebraska now designated on the map as Adams county. A few hardy , adventurous spirits had pushed west ward from the Missouri river bottoms and formed small settlements along the valleys of the Big and Little Blue riv ers. Ono of these settlements was started by William Kress , or "Wild Bill , " as ho is more familiarly known to the people of Hastings , near the pres ent site of the village of Ayr. Another was located near the present village of Sprlnir Ranch , in Clay county. In about the year IbOIJ a party of four mon homo accounts say nine whoso names have long boon effaced from the memory of mon , loft the bottlomont near Spring ranch on a long journey over the plains to California. Their equipage consisted of two emigrant wagons , a thrashing machine and a number of horses and inulos. The party waa a small ono , but It was known that at that time the most of the Indians who roamed the plains in largo numbers were in the extreme northern part of tlio state , engaged in a war with the Dakota Sioux. This fact , together with the largo number of emigrants constantly passing over the trail , em boldened the four mon to undertake the hazardous journey. They started confidently enough , but their journey was destined to come to an unexpected and most , tragic oiullng. At the clooo of the Jirst day of their travels they halted for the night beside the old Fremont trail at a point where it outers the rough , broken valley of old Pawnee croelc , nine miles south of Hastings , on the road to "Olmsteads- on-tho-Bluo. " The picnic purlieu who drive from this oily toOlmstoads nearly ovorv week pass within a few rods of the 'fatal camping ground ; and the writer , in company with a party of hunters a few years atro , camped on the Biuno spot and enjoyed an evening meal beside a oiunn-Hro with as much zest as if the ground had not. thirty years before fore , been the scene of ono of the blood iest tragedies that was over enacted within the boundaries of Adams county. The small party of emigrants cooked and ate their frugal meal and lay down to sloop beneath the twinkling stars , as unconscious of danger as the innocent babe who , tired of its own childish prat tle , sinks to sleep on its mother's breast. They slept the sloop that knows no waking. A party of marauding Pawnees discovered their camp and with a ilcndishness that lurks onlv lit the breasts of Ravages , ruthlessly slaughtered thorn as they slept. The morning's sun arose upon the lemalns of the butchered mon and the smoking embers of their wagons and camp equip ? age. The horses and mules , were , 01 course , stolen by the Indians. Another party of emigrants p.ibsing along the trail a day or t > o later discovered the crime and gave the bodies of the victims a decent burial beneath the sod that had drank their blood. Years after , when Hastincshad grown to bo a city of : ! , ( ) J ( ) inhabitants , the story was told to Prof.C- . Davib. lliea principal of the public schools of thla city , but now a resident of Col ton , ( ala. Prof. Davis resolved to investigate Urn story. In company with Dr. Perry , sit th.it time a well-known physician ol this city , ho drove to the spot where the tragedy was said to have occurred. The place was easily identified , and sim-nil mounds of earth offered con spicuous places for research. The largest of the mounds was ononed and a , few foot below the surface four human skulls and it largo number of bones were u.ioarthed. The slo-v bus been verln lied. Selecting : i skull anil a few of tlio bolioa shotting the bo.st atato of preser vation , Prof. Davis removed them from the earth tlmt had hold them so many years , and the grave with its ghaijtlyf memories of early days was carefully re filled. Tlio oUull was cleaned and placed , in the old cast ward school house , where for several years it was used by the clashes in anatomy. When 1'rofi Davis resigned his position several years Inter ho carried the skull with him. If tlio writer is not mistaken , it to-day occupies a place in the musuum of Hastings college , u mute witness of one of the darkest tragedies enacted la the early history of Nobraska. . As a funeral cortege wound slowly up Joll'ornon avenue last Friday , say * the Detroit F oo Press , an unwonted h oil ml of hilarious laughter was hoard coining from the last 'carriage in the row. nnil < ! the staid and decoroiiM funeral diroi-tou rode back along the line and looked in to see what was going on. There was a whole family in the carriage , fouu adults and two children , and they had provided thumsolvcR with all the no- cosbary refresh monts for a picnic of the most festive kind. Kucli child hud a chicken sandwich in its hand and the older poonlo were partaking of llijnld refreshments In generouH quantity. On being.remonstrated with they said it was not any relation of theirs , only a friend , and It was Homo of his stnrioa they were laughing about , 'ihoy agreed to postpone tlio eating , but no knowledgod they couldn't cry. ' "Jim wouldn't have wanted it , " said ono of the two mon in the carriage , ' 'an'if ho knew what a good time wa were a-havin' goin to his funeral , he'd want to be with UK , wouldn't ho JukoV" "Yuus , dot is a , ho-wouldn't like no cryiir aroundt , " answered .lake. The funeral director decided , liowi over , that they must conform to tha custom in such cases , and they llnli-hed tno journey in grim sllonco. A Nnnil-ill 1'rodiiol of CulH'oni.- , . It Is only found in Hutto county , Califor nia , and In no other part ol the world , Wa refer to the trcu that produces thu I calln uml penetrating gum used la Unit pimiHunfc . < and effective euro for consumption , astliinu , Ci bronchitis ami coupli * , SANTA AHII. , tha king of consumption. Goodman Drui ; Co. guarantees ami sells it forll a boulo.or three lor $ J.50. Hy thu UHU of CALIFORNIA. OAT-H-Cl'UK , ull symptoms of catarrh are dispelled , uiul the diseased tmsul ju8s.i-o ( U Bpcodlly restored to n healthy condition. 91 u package , Hy inuil , J1.1U , Circular * frco. Ulllo Akoi slrom la presenting ' 'Annetto the Duncliig Girl" In the laino cities oi 1'cimsylvuuiu to crowded house * .