THE OMAHA DAILY IIEIS : SA'ITtlDAY , SHPTHM1 ! 1811 18 , 1807. COUNCIL BLUFFS- Ml.NOH Mi\TIO\ . Dr. Slirlvcr , dcntlnt , Morrlam blk. , room 2IC. W. J. Datcnport returned , yesterday from DCB Molnc * . Dr. J , P. Waller has pone to Dee Molncs on bus'jicflf ! . Hon.j V. Potter ot Oakland was In the city yesterday. Miss Karnlo Hrock has returned from * visit with Indiana friends. K. A. Troiitmnn In In tlic northern part of the ntnto on a bimlncss trip. Mrs. W. P. Vic Hey has returned from a very pleasant visit In Chicago. Marvin White has gone to Osage county. Ho wilt bo absent filx weeks. Satisfaction guaranteed at the reliable Bluff City steam laundry. Phone 314. Coglcy nnd Dalby'x new cnon lullabyo at Doliatiy'B tonight by A1 field's colored quar tette. A. W , Barlow and family have gone to Qlenwood , which will bo their homo In the future. Captain Stewart , the new commander of the Salvation Army , has arrived from Wash ington , la. C. K. Qooric and family of Kremont , Neb. , will star In the city this week and attend the fair at Omaha , Sol Dloom , tine of the prominent merchants of Dcadvvood , wan In the city Wednesday calling on old friends. The autumn meeting of the Council Dlufts presbytery will bo held In Carson on next Tuesday nnd Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Klbcrt of York , Neb. , en route to Vllllsca , la. , spent Wednesday with Council Iluffs friends. James Heard , who IB now located In Texas , Is In the city , visiting his friends and former fellow townsmen. Miss Sylvia .Mossmoro , who Is teaching In lUver Sioux , will spend today and tomorrow with her parents at the Ogden. Officers from Harlem were In the city yesterday , looking for a man whom they wanted for beating a board bill. Mr. and Mr ? . P. W. Lyons have returned from St. Joseph , where they were called by the Illness of Mr. I.ycm's mother. The district meeting of the Council Bluffs Society of Christian Kndeavor will < bo held In Carson on Mrculny afternoon and evening. The remains of Gordon U. Knotts , who re cently died In Kansas , will not be brought hero for burial , as was previously announced. .Ed Cogley's "Mummy's Croon" Is surely catching the best of them. Al Q. Fields sings It tonight. Send > our work to the popular Eagle laun dry , where you got clean , crisp , snow-whito work and best delivery service. Telephone 157. 724 Bway. Judge W. I. Smith returned yesterday from Clarlnda , where he has Just finished a term of court HP will open the September term at Sidney on Monday. .Mrs , Rimer McClure of Phllllpsburg , Kan. , en route to Ohio , Is stopping over In the city for a visit with the parents of her husband , Mr. and Mrs.M. . C. McClure. Wanted Olrl or woman for general house work at fruit farm of W. S. Kcellne , 3 miles cast of city. Good wages to right party. Address 1133 East Pierce street. C. S. Raymond of St. Louis , general agent for the Early Breakfast Coffee company of that place , was In the city yesterday on business. The wives and daughters of all old sol diers are requested to call on Mrs. T. C. Dnnlop at the Ogden. Mrs. Dunlop Is agitat ing the question of a now organization In the city. | J. W. Squire and family have returned I from their western tour. The experiences F of Mr. Squire and family on the wrecked p steamer Mexico are well known to readers | of The Bee. I At the last meeting of the city council a I plat was presented subdividing outlets 1 and | 2 In Hagg's extension , and It was approved. I Yesterday the new- addition was presented t to the county recorder for filing. I Superintendent Wells of the Wells , Fargo t & Co.'s express has returned to Chicago , P after completing arrangements here for the I reopening of the line over the new Qulncy" [ road. Tha local olllce was not definitely t located. [ John L. Dodge nan determined to go to the Klondike country and Alaska and spend at [ least two ycara In searching for gold and experience. He will put in the coming wln- f tor making preparations for the trip nnd will I bo ready to start early In the spring. He | proposes to buy and train a lot of dogs dur- i Ing the winter and to take along and use j them for packing purposes when he reaches L the snowy north. Lloyd GrllUth has become [ a partner In the scheme nnd will make the fc trip with Mr. Dodge. t The heavy rain of Tuesday night caused consldorrtblo damage to strcots. On Pierce . street the .water followed an old water pipe ! ditch and washed out a hole that extended : from the center of the street to the curb. It was eight feet deep and two feet wide , the dlmcnslcr.s of ( ho original ditch , and made a most dangerous obstruction In the street. On South Main street n similar ditch , but ! of only slight depth , was cut In the center Of the sidewalk. It ran parallel with the | , walk for quite a distance. 1 Complaint was made to the police yester day that the Burlington's limited vestibule train was stoned while running between the transfer and the Union Pacific bridge. One of the stones smashed a plato glass from the door of the vestibule leading Into the smoking car. The attack was made just be fore the train , reached the bridge. Under the Iowa low It Is a felony to throw a stone t a passenger train , and the Burlington people are very anxious to get hold of the miscreant In this case and make an example of him. f Charley Hale , a 17-year-old boy , was ar rested yesterday on a charge of keeping and maintaining a nuisance. The boy was helping sell a wagonload of fish on the cor ner of Broadway and Main street. During the afternoon ho helped also to devour a number of watermelons , and left the rinds on the sidewalk and In the street. Chief of Police Canning happened to come along while he was In the act of throwing the rinds about and ordered him to clean up the muss ho had made. The youngster was very saucy nnffl refused. The parents ot the . -boy concluded to let him spend the night In jail. The special committee of .the citycouncil appointed by the ma > or . | o endeavor to effect a compromise with M. P. Hohrer , by which the city could get possession of suftlclont ground to widen Sixteenth avenue , held a moetUig last night In the office of Flnlcy Uurko. The matter has bcon hanging lire in tlib council for a loi.g time and condemna tory proceedings were about to bo ordered , when a resolution was passed directing the formation of a cumpromlio committee. Sub stantial progresa was made list evening toward a satisfactory adjustment of the dif ferences , and the committee will proba bly bo able to report a settlement at the meeting on Monday , C. n , Vlavl Co. , fcmal ? remedy ; consultation free. Ortlco hourb , 9 to 12 and 2 to 5. Health book furnished. 3:6-327-328 Merrlam block. K , Y. PlumuuiK company. Tel. 260. Miixli' ( or I'alriuouiit I'nrlt , The Knights of Pythias olllclal state band of McCook , Neb , , will give an open air con cert at Palrmount park tomorrow. This U the first opportunity the people of Council llluffs have had to hoar this famous band , and one of the very best programs has hern arranged for next Sunday , Those who have beard Hie concerts In the park for the last few SmuUys by the Twrnty-secoqd Infantry band will have nn opportunity to compare this band with them , . Prom the fact that the McCook band plays fur the Ak-Sar-lIen ball and parade next week , It goes to show that they will bo worth heir lug. THERE IS A GLASS OF PEOPLE Who are Injured by the une of coffee. He- cently there has be n placed In oil grocery Btores u now preparation called GHA1N-O , made of pure grains , that takes the placu of coffee. Tbo moM delicate stomach re ceives It without distress , und but few can tell It from coffee. It doc not cost over U an much. Children may drink It with great bone-lit. I5o und 2So i > er package. Try U. tot QIUIN-O. . STATE COURT Will HEAR IT Judga Maoy Decides the Venue in the Big Damage Suit DENIES MILWAUKEE'S ' M3TION FOR CHANGE pprr , U'plln .t Co. Win the I ? I rut Itoiiiul In MILI.oicnl Content In Which ( he MHMIT of $1 IOUM ( ) IN Involved. Judge Macy made an order yesterday In the case of Deere , Wells & Co. , against the Milwaukee Hallway company , refusing the defendant's motion to transfer the case to the federal court. The suit Is to recover damages to the amount of $140.000 from the railway company for alleged carelessness In burning grass and rubbish on Its right of way In tlio vicinity of the big warehouse of the plaintiff by which the lire was com municated to the building and the entire plant destroyed. The suit was brought last fall In the United States court , and after the trial had proceeded for nearly two weeks the attorneys for the plaintiff took excep tions to some of the rulings ot the couit and suspended further proceedings by uum- marlly withdrawing the case from the court. The motion to dismiss without prejudice was made In the morning and before the middle of the afternoon the suit was started anew In the district court , the damage being laid ut $140,000 , several thousand dollars more than In the original suit. To bring the case surely within the jurisdiction of the state court the plalntlfTtt made Slack Peterson , the flection or yard foreman , who had charge of the gangs of men engaged In the work of burning the rubbish , a co-defendant with the railway company. This raised an Important question concerning the jurisdiction of the state courts that had not been Involved In the other suit which was taken from the district Into the federal court. When the petition to have the case remanded to the federal court was presented nnd argued the new questlona were brought and taken under advlsctncnt by the court. In the order refusing the petition of the com pany the court sajs : "It Is ordeied by tiio court that the defendant's petition for re mand be denied on the ground that the tort of which complaint Is made Is the basis of the action against each defendant , and each defendant , If liable at all , Is liable In the same amount , and under the Iowa statutes the defendants can maintain an action against the defendants jointly. " The fire which caused the damage occurred on the evening of December 13 , 1895 , and was one of the most destructive conflagra tions that ever occurred In the city. In the report of the chief of the lire depart ment the lose Is placed at $147,800 , and the Insurance at $134,300. The suit will be tried at the present term of the district court and will be of general interest. The result will largely depend upon the showing that each side will make as to the direction of the wind at the time the fire started , for the plaintiff claims that the wind was from the southwest and carnml the burning rubbish across the street , wln'io the defendants claim that the wind was blowing strongly from the southeast and that It was consequently quently Impossible for the lire to have been carried from the company's right of way where the weeds were burning. Lobster 20c , halibut loc , black bass IBc , wall-eyed pike IS'/fcc , white fish lOc , trout lOc. J. Sullivan , grocer. Tel. 161. Money to loan In any amount at reduced rates on approved security. James N. Cas ady , Jr. , 236 Main street. Illlc-y OetN Another Coiitlitunncc. A motion for a continuance was made yes terday in the case of the State against Mc- Hngh , alias Ulley , charged with shooting ex-Deputy Sheriff Nick O'Brien. The case has been placed in the criminal assignment to be taken up next week. The man has been In jail hero now almost a year , con tinuances being granted at the request of his attorneys. During all ot this time. Me- Hugh has not bsen confined with the other prisoners , but has been kept In one of tbe front cells and by himself. He has taken his confinement good naturcdly. There la a good deal of speculation around the county court house as to what the real reasons for the delay In bringing the case to trial are , U has been noted by jail visitors that Hlley has changed greatly since his arrest. When first locked up ho was a strong , large-appear ing and stalwart man , full ot vigor and an ugly customer to handle ; now he appears to bo small and effeminate , and men who saw him a couple ot years ago would have some reason to doubt now that he was the same man. George S. Davis now has the prescription file of A. D. Foster and P. G. Schneider and can refill any prescription wanted at any time , 200 Bway. Wanted A good shoemaker ; must be rapid , a good workman and sober ; steady work the year round at Sargent's shoe store. \iitloiinl Drinocriif IMllllH. The national democratic organization will take an actlv * part ! i the state and local campaign here this fall and will bring speakers hero of national prominence. The campaign will bo opened on Friday evening , September 24 , and Hon. Joslah Patterson of Tennessee will bo the speaker. The Odd Fellows' hall will be used for the meeting. The local organization' Is In good shape am ? numbers among Its members and follow era all of the prominent and well known and life-long democrats in the city. The deca dence of the Bryan and free silver Idea has brought large oddltlms to the ranks ot the gold party , and by the time the campaign becomes well under way the organization will bo very much stronger. jon Knit A I'.u.vncn. KxpInliiM the . \cclili-nt Hint CIIIINCP the Drninnil , A Cleveland boy's letter confiscated by the Cleveland Leader furnishes a short-range view of a domestic picture : Dear Uncle Pred : Paw painted part of our stable day Before ylstady. Ho would a painted It all If It Undent a Bin for a accident. When Ho got About three Boards painted uiaw come out to sea How he was gltten along and when she looked at Him she saya. " 1 thot you was agoln to paint the Stable. " Paw was up on a ladder and he stopped and looked at Her like If He dlden't no What she ment. Then He says : "Well , ain't I palntiyi It ? If you Dent like this Here jab , mobby you Better take Hold and finish It yonrsel. " "Oh , you're doln all rite , " says maw , "only It seems to mo It would Bo a little Better If you'd git moru paint on the Barn and not quite so much on yourself , ' "Huh ! " paw growled. "I s'poso you Think that Blame funny , don't you , Why , I seen that old gag In The papers twenty years ago. " "Oh not that long ago , " says maw. "Why not ? " Paw ast. "llccos you never read tbe Papers , then , " cays maw. "It's only since we Got married and 1 want to Be Sociable or they's some thing > ou ought to Do around the Housu that you git so Dlizy readen papers you Don't Have no Time for anything eUe. ' "That's What Thanks a feller gits , " Paw nays , "for tryln to Do things. If you told the truth , How does It Come I'm Up Hero now ? " Paw was tickled by that chot and Ho kind of Whirled around on one foot to Sco How maw was agoln to Take It. But the ladder give a slide , and Down she Went with Paw hollorln for Maw to ketch the Blame Thing. Maw she jlst yelled and ran away , and paw Come Down kersmash on the Paint Bucket , and upset It , and the stuff run all over His neck and nearly smothered Him Before Ho Could git untangled out of the ladder. Wo was all purty scared. But It Didn't Hurt him much so when we was leaden Him Into. the House ho says to maw ; . " .Well , 1 Uojpo you're Happy IKJW , you i Couldn't a stayed In the House Where you Belonged became they wancn't nobody In there to make your tongue naggle. I s'pcri the only thing you re Sorry about Is that I didn't alt my neck Broke. " Maw she Didn't say a word. I Guess She must a Been purty full of remorst. There's a Job Here fer some painter now. GKORQIK. YOUTH in i , oi.n .ur. . Artlinr I'rt'Korx p * flip Chorum of llniij- DnuKhlrrN of tin' StiiK < < . Acting Is "the nrt preservative" of the charm of many faithful daughters ot the stage , relates the Boston Transcript. With what perennial refinement and vivacity has Mis. John Drew held the hearts of theater goers , literally , for three score years and ten ! From the first childish efforts ot little Louisa Lane , on the London boards , until Mrs. Drew's latest Joy-glvlng Interpretations of Mrs. Malaprop there has been a period of years equal to the tenure ot the life ot man. Yet , what pleasure there was for all who saw her ! It seems only the other day slnto , with the great east , "The Hlvals" was given at the Boston theater In June last year under Mr. Jefferson's direction. Custom only makes more fruitful of satis faction the Infinite variety or the art of old actresses who wear their years as graces and count each new birthday as an added dignity to bo observed with honor In pride of peren nial charm. It Is doubtless the necessity of putting away self and the sorrows and worries of self and living before the world for even a few hours now and then In the life of some creature of comedy or rpmance or melodrama or tragedy which keeps the fountain of health and life Insplrlngly sweet and refreshing. Ot course , there are midnight suppers and late hours and many other dis tractions which might undermine the health If the mind were allowed to dwell upon them. But In these latter'days , when all the world knows how the mind and the will can rule the bodily health or wreck It , the secret of the perennial youth of aged actresses Is more an open secret than of yore. For no woman takes better care of her health , be- cfaiiso she will keep young and facile In adap tation , than the daughter of the stage , whose love for It lasts her past her COth birthday. And U Is only the women who really love and honor their art , who really care for the stage by grace of nature and endoxvment of the gods , who are found acting still at an age when caps and chimney corners are the refuge of those who played only for money and renown , and having gained them quitted the scenes of their triumphs whlls still comparatively young. There 19 a lovable list of actresses who have been before the public until at least 60 years of ago. Fanny Keniblo , It Is true , was rather a dramatic reader than an actress In her later years , but until she died In 1893 , at the age of 82 , she kept much of the old attrac tion which In her "Juliet" turned the heads of all the youth of the land when she first came to this country as a young girl with her distinguished father. Mrs. Slddons lived to be 76 , and although she retired formally from the stage at the age of 57 , she was for nearly two decades the Inspiring won der of the dramatic world whenever she chose to come out of her seclusion to read 'Macbeth , or King John , herself a whole com pany ot stars In her own support , her dra matic power peopling a platform with the full pageantry and tragedy of the life that her single voice and action described and made to live. Charlotte Cnshman was within a year of her sixtieth birthday at the time of the great farewell demonstration In her honor at the old Globe theater ; she died In less than a year thereafter. Rlstorl , the Marchioness del Grllla , who Is now living in retirement on her Italian estates , Is 76 years of age , and was well Into the honorable list of aged actresses before she quitted the stage. Madame De- iazot , the famous Parisian , was 77 when she died , and she had left the theater but a com paratively short time. Mrs. Robert Kcelcy , he English farce player , celebrated her nine tieth birthday not long ago. Clara Flsher- Maeder is 86 , ant within a very tow years las charmed audiences with as much vivacity as In the days of auld lang syne. She was the toast of all the lads In London , or Boston , or New York as a young girl , and the wonder of the critics as a child actress before she was n her teens. Mrs. Gilbert Is rtlll with us In active life , " " In of the pleasant as "Penelope" as any : omedy wlfehoods when with James Lewis she used to draw the parents ot the young leoplo who go to see her now. Mrs. Gilbert and Mrs. John Drew ! What happy memories , what cheerful thoughts come trooping to the mind at mention of cither the last or the first ! And to crown the list Is the name of Mrs. Vincent , dearest to Boston of all actresses who have not known age In the lasting youth of a good heart. Mrs. Vincent was a year and a fortnight on tl'c sunny side of 70 when she played in her last role , "Kezlah Beckman , " at the Bostcn museum. Then , after her more than half a century of stage life , came the ast curtain and the call to another llfo within a week of the opening of September , 1887. Her farewell was the silent one that went deep into the hearts of her public in Boston , where for more than thirty years she had proved how "honor , love , obedience , troops of 'rlends" ' may accompany the actress who has the art to grow old with grace Increasing with her years. NO LIMIT TO LIFE. Tcnln Sny * Men Mny Yet l.lvc for CeiiturleH. "There Is absolutely no doubt In my mind , " says Nicola Testa In the New York World , " "that the latent power fully exists n man to gicatly prolong the average length of IIH | life by the exercise of extra ordinary care and the proper utilization of ; ho various Instruments which science , day by day , Is placing at his disposal. A large proportion of the people who die nowadays Dcfore reaching what Is commonly called old age can truce the cause of their death to the fact that microbes of every kind are allowed by them to enter their bodies through the mvallowlne of microbe-laden water and food nnd through the Inspiration of microbe-laden air. How many people are really caicful today about the water they drink , the food they swallow and the air they breathe ? And how many millions of people would be careful If they knew the difference between microbe-laden food and air and those which are really pure ? "Now , Instead of whole armies of us plunging Into the disgraceful and contemp tible task of killhiK each other In battle , Instead of thousands of our master minds spending all their lives In the Invention and construction of some terrible machines to kill other human beings , why should not nil of us Join hands toKi < tn < > r and shoulder to shoulder turn nil our physi.af and mental energies to killing nnd warding off all our common enemies and dangers as men ? I refer to the perils that are all about us , that threaten us In the air we breathe , the wated we drink and the food we consume. "Is It not strange and shameful that human beings , creatures In the highest state of devvlopniHiit in this world , beings with hueh Immense powers of thought and ac tion , the masters of the globe , shculd bo absolutely at the mercy of our unseen foes , that we should not know whether a swallow of food or drink brings us Joy and life or pain and death ? "The economical production of hlfh-fre. qupncy current ! ! of electricity , which Is now an accomplished fact , enables us to generate euHlly ami In large quantities ozone for the disinfection of the water and the air , while certain novel radiations recently discovered give hope of llndtni ; effective remedies against Ills of mlcroblc origin which have hitherto withstood all efforts of the physi cian. "Let the whole world turn against our real foe disease. Then , with the certain discovery of hundreds of such secrets as the Roentpen rays In their various forms , und countless other means of detecting the presence of bacilli and microbes In the blood , the disordered conditions of the tie- sues and vital parts , with the legal Inter marriage of only such ns are physically iierfect down to the smallest detail of tissue , blood and bone , nnd with the proper ob servance of the laws of health , it Is by no means too much to expect that man fan ultimately prolong the average length of his llfu to 100 yours. I believe we are learning to live more Intelligently every year. It Is very fe-rutlfylni ; . for one thing , to tlnd that children are being brought up more care fully than ever before. 1 belltve that with the most careful scientific msn-lape a race of men and women may In time he devel- voped In which Individuals will live and retain their faculties for centuries. " All Oiiiliioim I'hrilke. Washington Star : "I hope you will ex cuse what may seem to you to be a liberty , " said tbe young man. ' "Certainly , " replied the merchant , "I am sure that you will not presume on your posi tion as a trusted employe " "It Is just that that I desire to mention. I heard you speaking of me to one of your friends the other day as 'a muted em ploye , ' and I wanted to ask you as a special favor to call me something else. After all that's been happening I can't help feeling tbit It causes me to be regarded with a suspicion which I do cot deserve. " ifTRUST Coneys in a Failed Ennlt Declared to Bo n Frier Lion bd tBo Assets. DECISION 13 REACHED' IN PELLA U'oolion IniKeoVrnl Canrl nl Ilex MMncH A iioitncoH u .New , Principle nnil ihr Mutter Will lie ' .Vm.i-uU-il. . DBS MOINES , Scnt.1l7.-Speclal Tele- gram. ) Judge Woolson m the federal court today handed down a decision of great Im portance to bankers. A bank at Pelln failed several years ago , having on deposit nt the time nearly $5.000 of money deposited there by thu treasurer of the Independent school district of Pclla. The school district brought an action against the receiver ot the bank to require him to regard the funds of the school district as a special ttust fund , which must bo paid In full before any ordinary claims should bo paid. The decision Is that the deposit shall be BO regarded , and Is based on the statement that the treasurer ot the district had no authority to make a deposit subject to the ordinary uncertainties ot business transaction ; that he was the representative ot the public and absolutely liable for the money ; that when the funds were placed In the bank the fiduciary respon sibility was transferred to the Institution which must now pay this claim before any others. The case has been pending In dlt- fcrent forms for several years. It will be appealed , as the decision announces an ab solutely new principle. CONTEST FOIl TIII3 IMUTY'S .VI.1113. .Slntc HleeTToii Hoiiril I'roinlMCN 11 UeelHloii in n FCTV Dnyn. DCS MOINES , Sept. 17. ( Special Tele gram. ) The State Election board was In session several hours today , listening to the arguments In the controversy between the regular and middle-of-the-road populists to determine the use of the name of people's party on the ofilclal ballot. Chairman Weeks of the mlddle-of-the-roaders made a long address. He argued that the fusion which was effected between democrats and populists at the convention of Juno 23 amounted to a betrayal of the populist party Into the hands of the democrats ; that It was done deliberately with the Intention and the expectation that the populists would not have a ticket on the oulclal ballot. He con tended that the principles enunciated In the platforms of the populist party have been abandoned In effecting this fusion ; that those principles were represented now by no party except the middle-of-the-road organ ization. Ho quoted .the statements of the officers of the regular organization that they did not expect to place their ticket on the ballot this year , but Intended that all popu lists should vote the democratic ticket and argued that the maintenance of a paity without either a ticket to vote or a name on on the ballot as evidence of Its existence was impossible. Judge Cole for the , regulars maintained that the state convention , of a party is its highest tribunal and that If that convention had enunciated a new'sfet ' if principles , as In this case , and adoptcxl A iicw line of policy It was nobody's business.Ho showed that thu regularity of the convention of June 23 , which entered the fusion 'arrangement ' , was not seriously questioned , , that the bolting leaders all took part In. Us. deliberations and tried to control It till after they had been defeated and then withdrew and organized their Independent party. The board took the matter under advise ment , and will hand 'down a decision In a few days. Judge Cole said If the decision was against him he would take the matter before the supreme court at once on a writ of certlorarl and have a new hearing there. He also Intimated that an assault will be made on the new anti-fusion ballot law on the ground that It Is unconstitutional. FKANCIIISI2 FIGHT IX SIOT.Y CITY. CltlziMiH 1'rotCNt AKnliiHl Proposed Extension to Trnetlon Company. SIOUX CITY , Sept. 17. ( Special Telegram. ) Another bone of contention In the manage ment of the affairs of this city appeared to night when a mass meeting of about 300 property owners was held to protest against the extension of the franchise of the Sioux City Traction company. The meeting was held In front of the Federal building and right across the street was the city council In meeting assembled and presumably acting on the very thing the citizens were protestIng - Ing against. A few days ago the traction company in a very quiet manner Introduced an ordinance In the council meeting asking that Its franchise be extended to 1983 , which is about thirty years longer than the present franchise runs. It contends that it must bo granted this extension to go on with its Improvements end cannot sell Its bonds unless It Is allowed. The citizens protest , saying It Is wrong to the future generations , and that the com pany Is trying to rush It through before the new law on franchises goes Into effect October 1. Several red-hot speeches were made at the mass meeting , and the city council was bitterly criticised for entertain ing the idea for a minute , and serious charges were made against both the com pany and the council. The ordinance has not passed Its first reading yet , and tbo meeting adopted a resolution condemning the ordinance and urging the council to re ject It. It is liable to develop into a serious fight if the company continues Its request. Another meeting will bo held on Monday night. UUKUSK TO FAY FOIl THE I'AVIXtS. .Sioux City People llnUe 11 Flu lit on the Ilnrher ANpliult Company. SIOUX CITY , Sept. 17. ( Special Tele gram. ) It looks very much as If the Barber Asphalt Paving company had bumped against a snag In this city , and eoiiio of the troubles will likely bo aired In court before a settle ment Is reached. This company had the contract for paving a number of the streets ot the city with sheet asphalt. It Is con tended by a number of the property owners that the work has not been performed ac cording to the contract , and they have pro tested against Its acceptance by the city council. It Is claimed there was favoritism and fraud In the letting ot the contracts and that there was no competition against thin company ; that the price Is exorbitant and that there was collusion to let the contract to the Barber company. Part of the fuss lutf been raised by the fuel that Omaha i < i getting some of Its streetu paved for a far Icfcs sum than Sioux City Is paying , and the fpcal property own ers hope to got out ot paying the paving assessment. Two onthree companies put In bids to do the work'put ; it Is alleged that all are one and tho'.sujno outfit and tbe property owners refuse , tu pay for the work pn the grounds of collusion. IIECHIFTS FAY $ IFF THU IMCIIT. lown State 'Fair the Ureiitext .SueueHM In Slv YOUTH. DBS MOINES , Scp . J7 , ( Special Tele- gram. ) The State faff 'ftnd carnival closed tday with the record of being the most successful In six yecrb1 'and one ot the best In the history of th'q 'ai oclatlou. The at tendance was the largest since 1891 and the receipts will put the , association out of debt for thu first time In. five years. .MX is YEAIIS KOI i it IK ; ic MUUHAV , Convleteil I'M don llanlc llolilier IB Ti-Uen to the Peiilteiillar , ' , OTTUMWA , la , , Sept. 17. < 8peclal Tele- gram. ) Buck Mur'ay , convicted of the Kldon bank robbery , was zentenred to nine years In the penitentiary today and was taken to Fort Madison this afternoon , . \Heit ClKiirtinker CoiiiinltH Sulclile , CEDAR RAPIDS. It. , Sept. 17. ( Special Telegram. ) Joseph Krcmar , a Bohemian cigar maker , C6 years old , who has been 111 for a long time and whoso mind was slightly affected thereby , committed suicide this ni'rnliiB by swallowing a vial of carbolic Add. His death was altuout Iustuntaneou . Tim iiKTinun IUIUII.AH. A l.lrelixirrlcmr thnt AVnn All OvoV lit a Illttntp. "I never netiully # lld down n toboggan slide , " sold the tetlred burglar to the New Ycrk Sun man. "but I think I eun form a o city fair Idea of what It's like from an exoerlcncc that I hod oner. 1 was poking ar.und In a house that 1 was In and t had lint come out of u room on the second floor where there was a man asleep that struck me somehow as being pretty icstless , and 1 hadn't moro'n got through the door Into the hall nhcn I heard this man holler ; " 'Here he l . Jim1' and taw him Jump ojt of bed anl come h'llln' after me , and ? t the same minute 1 saw a man eoino rlppln' end ranuiln' out of n door down by the other end of the hall. "Now the thing that I'd ha' done under ordinary circumstances , or course , would have been to run dowiulalrs , but the door that Jim was coming out cf was right by Inn head of the stairs , and It wasn't possi ble. But right back ot me there was an attic stairs. I knew , because I'd opened the dnor whrn 1 fi.st came up , and tin- only way out for mo was that way. It wasn't a wav I'd ha' picked out , but It nan narrow stairs , boarded on the sides , ami I knew that It I could ot.co get Into It and faced to the front. 1 could stand off both men easy enough till I had time to think , anyway , unless they had a cun. with my jimmy. So I opened that door and jumped up the stairs about four steps and slewed around to face 'em. "I was carrying my bag by a strap over mv shoulder , nnd I had my lamp In my left hand. I turned my lamp up for juct n fraction of a second when I went In , to see what was above , and I saw almost over- hpad the Rtnittlo In the roof and the ladder leading to It from the garret floor right nl the htvid of these attic stairs. Scuttle held onlv bv a hook hooking Into a staple , I could see that easy. A man can see a hnao under some circumstance * . "I made a swing or two at the boys with the Jimmy and stood 'cm off easy at first , because It sounded very BORgy when slugged Into the side ot the stairs , but I know they'd rush In pretty quick , and I glvo 'cm just one moro vicious pass with the Iron and then I turned and bolted for the scuttle with them after mo. I'd dropped lamp and Jimmy In my bag , and I used both hands on the scuttle ladder. Darkcr'n Egypt now , but I knew where that hook -was Just as well ns though thcro'd been 'n electric light alongside of It. " 1 throw back the hook and throw the scut tle up bang over ontn the loot and caught the frame and raised mjsclt up. It was on old-fashioned house , you've seen 'em , two stories high In front and one In the back , \ylth a long , sloping roof running down from the ridgepole , with a sort of bend or valley In It about two-thirds the wny down , where the one-story part began. "As 1 looked out on It the roof looked to bo about a mile long and steep as the side of a mountain. There was a fag end ot a moon just rising. I could see It from where I was through the tops of the trees , and It made a little light , but it would have been all the name If there hadn't been any. I stepped out and sat down on the roof and started , all In one motion. The foremost of the two men reached for me out through the scuttle and missed me by about a hair , but that was as good BS a mile , because I was going then a mile a nilnutc. Where to I didn't know , but I knew I wouldn't have long to wait. "Jioop ! and away I went down the roof and off the edge Into the air. That lower part of the roof , you remember , was flatter than the upper part , and that threw me off nto the air kind o' horizontal , and that saved me a heap. I'd ha' been smashed flat if thereof roof had been steep and straight. And right back of the house there was a terrace across the yard , maybe three feet high , with thick grass on It that hadn't been cut for a month at least , and I was shot off so fur that I dropped finally just below the crest of that terrace and slid down the face ot It on the thick grass and come to a stop on the level ground below and never starteda , rivet. "The two men was standing looking out the scuttle , and never saying boo. but when they saw me get up and walk off they laughed till you could hear 'em all over the country ; and I laughed a little rujeelf then ; I'd had worse things happen to me. " Too Much ImaKliintlon. A remarkable caee ot Imagined sickness resulting In death has ( jome to light In Sotnerdale , 0 , , where Matthew Blanks died ot what he believed to be hydrophobia. Banks was bitten by a dog last spring and Immediately became very frightened. He got all the books he could that described hydrophobia In Its various stages and since reading them had brooded over th ( ! matter until he became exceedingly nervous and weak. Finally he succumbed to what he asserted was hydrophobia and throughout the slckncus Insisted upon Imitating tbe symptoms of the disease as he had learned them from the books. Several physicians took charge ot the case and after a. critical and severe examination decided that Banks was simply a prey to his Imagination. A Unique Pipe. A novel pipe for transmitting hydraulic pressure Is In use at the Victoria bridge , near life mouth of the River Dee , England. As described In the Engineering News , It consists of a solid drawn lead pipe , cov ered with close cells of copper wire , and 16 used for conveying water at 750 pounds po < square Inch pressure from ono side of the river to the other to operate the machinery of a span of the swing bridge. At first a copper pipe one and a half Inches In diameter , Jointed with screwed unions , was used , but tbo scouring action of the tide washed out the bed of the river , left the pipe unsupported In two places and caused It to leak. The new pipe made of lead , wrapped with copper wire. Is more flexible than the old one , and it Is expected It will woik. more satisfactorily. STATE ABOUT READY TO REST Luotgert Trial Progressing with Satisfactory Rapidity , ONLY TWO MORE WITNESSES TO TESTIFY Cro N-Kinnilnnlnn VortlUr * the Ton Iliiinny of I'rof. Dorney 1.net- Bert Determined to ( io on the \Vltne.iN Stntiil. CHICAGO , Sept. 17. The prosecution wll rest Its cose In the I.uctncrt trial tomor row , after three weeks Riven to the presonta tlon of evidence against the prisoner and four weeks spent In the trial. The prosecution , will close Its case will some strong evidence tending to prove the motive for the alleged crime. The state will endeavor to show that Infatuation to Mary Slemrlng , the acrvaht girl In the Luet gert household , was the cause of the murder U Will ho .chimed that the big sausage maker desired to make the girl hlu wife and that he put Mrs. huclgcrt out ot the way In order to penult his marriage will the girl. To prove the story , Frank Blalk and Frank OdoroCs.ky , employes of I.uet- gcrt , who have already testified In the case will bo put upon the stand and will give evidence relating to the domestic affairs o Luotgert. They are exported to testify as to the friendliness of I.uetgcrt for Miss Mary Sienirlng nnd the Indignant oppoaltloi to the girl's presence In the house made b > Mrs. Luotgert. The frequent visits of Mar > Slemrlng to huotgcrt In the satisage factory at unusual hours ot the nliht ; will be do tailed. Both men will tell of sci-lng Luct gert chase his wife upon one occasion wltl a revolver , nnd they will tell of threats which they heard htm make. With this evl dcuco In , the state will rest. Today was glvei up to technical evidence. When the trKU of Adolph L. Luct- gcrt opened today tht cross-examlnatloi of Prof. Dorsoy was icKUmed. He was questioned : is to the comparative nature of the flestmold and femur bones ot a calf , a sheep and a human bring. His answers were technical and were of a char acter that supported his original Identifica tion ami testimony with refcicncc to the bones in evidence. When Attorney Vincent completed his cross-examination of Prof. Dorsey ho moved that the court exclude from the record all of the evidence of the witness and also all of the evidence of Dr. Norval Pierce In con nection with the Identification of the femur and temporal bones on the ground that the Identifications wore not based upon a legiti mate or substantial basis , but .merely . uptn the opinion of the experts based upon cer tain alleged conditions. The motion was overruled. The attorney then moved to ex- cludp all of the evidence of Prof. Del a Fen taine , In which the latter had stated "these may bo human bonce. " This was approved and sustained , and the motion allowed. Captain Schucttlcr was called to the wit ness stand to testify as to collateral facts. During the closing cession of court police men were called to the witness stand to Identify and describe where they found the various exhibits which have figured In the trial up to date. The closing hour of the afternoon session was devoted to the Identification by Prof. Delafontalno , Prof , Hnlncs , Sergeant Spang- ler and other witnesses of the prosecution of exhibits used In the .trial , all of which will go Into the Jury room when the case Is submitted to the jury. It was the opinion of the attorneys In the case today that the trial would last at least three weeks longer. There Is said to be a difference between Luctgert's counsel with reference to the de fendant taking the witness stand In his own behalf. Attorney Vincent Is not Inclined to permit Luetgcrt to do so. Attorney Phalen believes the sausage maker should tell his story to the Jury. Luetgert himself Is quite determined to go upon the witness stand. He not only desires to tell his story , but he also wants to address the jury. In all like lihood be will testify. \VAIl CAUSISIl IIY OM3 WORD. Yenrn of Strife the Iteniilt of n Trillins ? Verbal OmUxloil. In 1C54 a Polish nobleman became obnox ious to the laws of his country by reason ot a crime , says London Answer. Ho fled to Sweden , whereupon John Casslmlr , king of Poland , wrote to Charles Gustavus , king of Sweden , demanding the extradition of the criminal. The king of Sweden , on reading the dispatch , noticed that his own name and titles .were followed by two etceteras , while the name of the king of Poland was followed by three. The missing etcetera so enraged the king of Sweden that he at once declared war against Poland. This was carried on. with great bitterness until 16CO , when a peace was signed at Ollva , near Dantzlg. A contemporary writer , Kochowsky , poured out bis lamentation on the war In these terms : "How dear has this etcetera been to us ! With how many lives have these two potentates paid for tb ni'.sslng eight letters ! With what streams of blood has the failure of a few drops of Ink been avenged ! " In article three of the treaty It was ex plicitly laid down that the custom of short ening titles by ' "etceteratlon" should hold good , but for the future each of the two parties should give the other three etceteras. MBS. LYNESS ESCAPES The Hospital and a Fearful Operation. Hospitalsingrcatcitiesare sad places to visit. Three- fourths of the patients lying on these snow-white are women and girls. Why should this be the case ? Because they have neglected themselveslVomen as a rule attach too little importance to first symp toms of a certain kind. If they have toothache , they will try to save the tooth , though many leave even this too late. They comfort themselves with the thought that they can replace their teeth ; but they cannot replace their internal organs ! Every ono of those patients 5n the hospital beds' had plenty of warnings in the foim of bearing-down < feelings , pain at the right or the left of the womb , nervous dyspepsia , pain in the small of the hack , the " blues"or some other unnatural symptom , hut they did not heed them. Don't drag along at home or in the shop until you are finally obliged to go to the hospital and submit to horrible examinations and operations I Build up the female organs. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will save you from the hospital. It will put uuw life into you. .Tho following letter shows how Mrs. Lyncss escaped the hospital nnd a fearful operation. Her experience should encourage other women to follow her example. She bays to Mrs. I'inkhum : "I thank you very much for what you have done for me , for I had given up in despair. Last February , I had a miscarriage caused by overworkIt affected my heart , caused me to have sinking hpells three to four a I day , lahting sometimes half a day I I could not bo left alone. I flowed con stantly. The doctor called twice . day fora week , and once a day for four weeks , then three or four times a week for four months. Finally he said I would have to un dergo an operation. Then I commenced taking Lydia E. I'inkham's Vegetable Compound , and to and steadily improved until 1 was cured after one week I began recover completely. IJy taking the I'inhhara medicine , I avoided an operation which , he doctor said I would certainly have to undergo. 1 am gaining every day done for . " Mita , Taoa. and will cheerfully tell anyone what you have me. LVHEBS , 10 Frederick St. , ttochebtcr , N. Y. After July ist my father , Dr. E. I. Woodbury , will have charge of tlio plate work In my otllco and 1 will give my entire attention to Operative Dentistry , Crown and Bridge Work. No. 30 Pearl St. , D.D.S H. A. WOODBURY Next to Grand Hotel , . . , . . Death Is looking in at the window at thousands of suffering , pain * racked women , whom the proper measures would , render healthy and Chappy. Hverv wo- /vuian should know > t h c importance ) AO > of keeping in a AVI healthy condition 1 tuo e organs that make her a wo man. If she neglects this , she will be a burden to herself , her husband and her children. She will grow old bcfoic her time. She will lose happiness and love and life. It it easy for a woman to keep herself well and sttong in n womanly way if she will only take the proper care of herself and me the right remedy for her peculiar trouble ? . Dr. I'icrcc's 1'avorite Prcfcription is a boon to Riifferlnfr women. It cure.i all dis ease and weakness of the organs distinctly feminine. It acts directly on those organs and makes them strong and healthy. It allays infl.ininutioti , soothes pain nnd stops weakening drain * . Taken during the pe- Hod preceding motherhood it docs away with the usual discomforts and makca baby's coming cniy and almost painless. Druuglsts sell it. Substitutes arc dangerous. Miss Udilli Cnin , of Clinton , Allegheny Co. , Pa. , will's : "I lake plriiMiic In cxprcs'lng my faith III jour'I'avotltc Prescription. ' After two years ot sufTcrltiR I licfrnii tnUltii : Dr. Plcrce's medicine nnd uow I cm entirely cured. 1 hnd l en troubled with female weaXuess for some time and ahci with a troublesome drain on the system , but now I urn hnpny and well. I will cheerfully recommend Dr. Pierre's 1'avorllc lre- scrlptlou to nit Invalid ( .idles. " ce's constipation are cured In n thorough , iiutuiat. scientific way by Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They clear the superfluous bile out of the blood ; tone the stomach and cause the bowels to _ . < act comfort ably mid fPSGilQ'inr regularly. r l SlSaiJl Headache , icnrt.urn , sour stomach , foul taste in the mouth , biliousness , pimples , nnd palpitation of the heart are nil caused bv constipa tion , nud constipation is cutctl positively and pcrnritKMitly bv Dr. Vicict-'s Pleasant Pellets. For hrndncho ( whether sick or ncrvaun ) , tooth ache , nc r.ililn , rhcumatlcm , luinl-nKo , imlni and wenkMcFs of thp bncl : fplue or kidneys , pslns aromut tlio liver , pl-mlsy , sncllliiK of the ) olmn nnU imlns of nil kind * , thp application of Itadnny's ItfnJy Itrilef H | | | afford Immedlnto eape , ami Itn cnnttnui'tl ut for n few Un > s ef fects a permanent euro. A Cure for all SUMMKIl C-0.1IFIjAl\TS , DY.SI2XTI3UY. DIAHItlinA , ( IKM.KHA MOUIU1S. Jnternnlly A Imlf to a tcurpioful In luilr a tumbler of wnttr will. In a few minutes , cure Crumps. jgpasniB , Sour Stomach , Xauica , Vom- 1 ttlnc. Heailbmn , HU'lt Ileaduclic , Flatulency ana alt Roucl imlns. Mularia In UN Various Form * Cured anil Prevented. I 7 There la not a remedial wilt In the world that will cure fever anil IIKUP and all other malnrloui , billons nnil other fexett. aided by UADWAY'S PII.I.S. PH qiileUy ns UAU- WAY'S P.--DV IlKLlKP. Price Me per boltle. Sold by nil ilriiBKlst.i. llll hlUK TO HKT \D\V.\VS. . " Itiiuway & Co. . New Yoil ; City. a well Man of Me:1 TJlUliUEiT - ± w. r HI NDOO REMEDY V3 > ,1 H yiionuqEHTnK ABOVE XljJ / ? nil Nerrous Ul oa tre. FollincMemory \ I'Aroflto. Slesplo snesB , Nightlr nro- ! BlonR , nto caused liy pftft nbucais aifon ricoraudalzu tn clirunkoa oruanii , and quIcUli bat urulj reitoros Lotl Ulanhootfln old or ) ounir. natllycArrlnd In vo&t pocket. Price fl.Ot ) n packacfl. Hl > for $5tO iclth a written guarantee to cursor money refandnl. DON'T unr AN IMITATION , but ln mt OQ Lstlns INDAFO. 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