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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1903)
T October 4, l'.KKV. TI1E ILLUSTRATED REE. 27 Tribulations of Some Couples Getting Married A brave little schoottna'am, Miss Ullie Taylor, llvln at Cairo, 111., started last week on a lO.UOO-mlle trip to Join the lover of her childhood days. She resigned her acfcoot In Jackson county and started for San Francisco, where she will sail for New Zealand, to become the wife of J. Hi'll lloos. Tears ago these two young jteople were playmates down on the Ohio river in Qol conda. Pope county. When he was In short pants and she wore short dresses they plighted their troth and planned what they would do when they were crown-up people. Her family moved to Carbnndale, and she attended the southern Illinois normal, then began teaching school. He drifted from one thing to another until he landed in New Zealand In a lucrative position with the Peering Harvester company. Time and Ul tunco did not leeaeri their attachment for each other and when lie had provided a home for her she quickly dropied her work .ml left her friends at his bidding. Flies with Mother-ln-Law. Charged with eloping with his mothcr-ln-law, James Allen of Allegan, Mich., win arrested as he alighted from a train at Chicago Saturday night with the woman, Mrs. Mayme Johnson. The man was taken to the central police station. Mrs. Johnson registered at a hotel, where she told the police che would wait until Allen was re leased, after which they Intend to be mar ried. Allen Is said to have married Mrs. John son's stepdaughter a year ago in Al'egan. Mrs. Johnson and her stepdaughter were about the same age and equally charming, Allen told the police, and at the time he married the woman Allen declares that he Was half Inclined to change his mind and be wedded to the mother. Mrs. Johnson lived in the same house with her son-in-law and Allen's affections for his wife cooled. His attentions to hts mother-in-law are said to have attracted the notice of the daughter, his wife, and they quarreled frequently. A'.len and Mrs. Johnson left Allegan, and it was learned they had bought tickets for Chicago. Mrs. Allen swore out a warrant for her husband's arrest and an officer was sent to the railway etation, and as the man and woman stepped from the train they were arrested. Mrs. Johnson, when she saw the plight of the man, burst Into tears and en treated the detective to release him. A romantic marriage took place Septem ber 19 at the home in Washington of Sen ator Charles W. Fiilrbanks of Indiana. The contracting parties were Ensign John W. Timmons and Miss Adelaide Fairbanks, daughter of tluj senator. The words from a line In the verse of a hoosier poet won for the ensign the heart and hand of the senator's daughter. The Bent once was: When Care has cast her anchor In the harbor of a dream. Knslgn Timmons had been ordered aboard Ma ship for a foreign cruise when he wrote those lines. The answer came back from Washington that Miss Fairbanks, dreaming of the old days at Ohio AWsleyan, had ac cepted the proffer of Ensign Timmons and Would become his wife. Years ago Miss Fairbanks and John Wes ley Timmons were students together at Ohki Wesleyan. Congressman Grosvenor secured Timmons" appointment to the United States naval academy and the young man left the Institution with the rank of ensign. The young officer's love for Mias Adelaide had not cooled, but in the meantime she had married aaother man. So Timmons apparently put away all thought of ever wedding Miss Fair banks. Iast December the social circles of Indianapolis were shocked by the an nouncement that Mrs. Allen had secured a divorce and that her maiden name had been restored to her. Shortly after the divorce was granted Miss Fairbanks went to vUlt at the home of Senator Hanna. There she renewed her acquaintance with Ensign John Wesley Timmons. Wanted to Die for Love. Hecause his sweetheart objected to an Immediate marriage. Onefry Hopka of South Chicago is said by the young woman's friends to have attempted to kill himself at the letter's home Monday night. Miss Kolossa, the girl of his choice, says tliat she expressed a willingness to be his wife if he would wait. She is only 19 years old, however, and considered herself too young to wed. Upon hearing this. Miss Kolossa asserts, Ropka drew a revolver and swore he would take his life. Fearing that she might be included In the program, the young woman fled from the house. Upon hearing the Btory Mrs. Urbanskl hasteoad to the Kolossa home to prevent the tragedy. "He'll . be frightened when he sees my elxe," said Mrs. Urbaaskl, who weighs 200 pounds. Her prediction proved correct Ropka Changed his snlad and bagged for mercy. A most romantic wedding took place at Newport. It. I., on the 18th. A visit to the city hall brought out the fact that a mar riage license had been taken out and the couple married. The parties interested were Samuel Coleman of New Ynr!;, a well known portruit painter, and Mrss Lillian Margaret Qaffney. MIhs llaffney is a professional trained nurse, and for a number of years was at tached to the Newport hospital, and whs looktd upon as one of its In-st nurses. Two years ago she was engaged to nurse Mrs. Coleman, and after her death last winter there were repented rumors that Mr. Cole man was engiigtMl to Miss Oaffoey, but each time the rumors were denied. Mr. Coleman nun a residence in New .ork, and for some years hud a cottage at Newport. He is 69 years of age, while his bride is but 37. William 1. Harding, recently of Louis ville, Ky and Mil's Alice Talley of SI. Paul, Minn., met with nothing hut disap pointment Thursday night when they went to Clayton, Mo., to lie murricd. They started early enough, they supposed, but they did not reckon on the Clayton "calam ity line." One delay afler another made It so dark by the time the couple reached the county seal that they could not recOR nisse the court house, and they were taken to the Log Cubin club, the terminus of the line. It was nearly 10 o'clock when they finally found leputy Recorder J. H. Si hurdler, and were told tha no license could be Issued until the young woman's age could be proven satisfactorily. Itosella 11, i lues of Topeka. Kan., 12 years old. filed a suit In the district court asking a divorce from her husband, Francis Gaines, aged W). The girl alleges nonsup port and cruelty. She says she was mar ried when she was 11 years old. General Grant's grunddaugtiter Is to marry the son of a Tennessee confederate colonel. There is no deferring the final re union of the blue and the gray. Porto Rico's Sad Hlisht Porto Rico is not prosperous. Wheu the United States took possession of this island Its inhabitants lost their market for coffee and their market for tobacco. These were commercial losses Incident to the change of government. Thaai came the hurricane, which devastated the remotest corner of the island, laid bare paying estates an. I turned rich men into bankrupts over night. Porto Rico has been left to work out Its own salvation a thing It is eminently un fitted to do. It Is on the verge of financial ruin. Its rich soil Is not yielding products which might be turned Into money. The local bankers will lend money on gilt-edge securities at 12 per cent Interest and then loans are hard to make. Coffee beans, ripe and ready for market, are left in the trees; vast expanses of tobacco lands are running to seed, and sugar alone, of all the things that Porto Rico grows. Is holding its own. The sugar lands, however, are not held by Porto Rican. Americans, living In New York and Boston, control the major part of this paying industry. It is safe to siy that only 9 per cent of the gross capital Invested by these American corporations holding sugar lands is reinvested In Porto Rico. The result of all this is that the Porto Rican laborers are without work and starving, ijocal papers teem with re ports of persons dying from starvation. Only the other day six persons died in front of the gates of Ponce. Everywhere there is abject poverty. Tax receipts reflect the conditions of Porto Rico very well. More than one-half of the taxes are unpaid, and not a few of the owners of valuable estates are In ar rears more than two years. Their borrow ing ability is thus more limited, and the auctioneer's voice will soon be heard, for governments need money. It Is possible that In this Porto Rico's future prosperity lies, for properties that six or seven years ago represented values of SKI and $90 an acre will go under the hammer for $10 ot $12. and from their very cheapness will at tract American capital. That living conditions have become un bearable in Porto Rico can be seen from the constant flow of emigration of natives to other Spanish-speaking countries. Not a steamer leaves Porto Rico for Mexico, Cuba or South America that does not carry laborers who have scraped enough money to go to other shores. Spain was a large consumer of Porto Rican coffee, and the price was sufficiently high to net large profits on money Invested In the lands. When the Americans took over the island Spain ceased to be a buyer, and Porto Rico looked to its new affiliations to take the place of Spain and buy its coffee. But Porto Rican coffee at from 10 to 14 rents a pound meets strong competition In the 4-cent c-f-fee of Iirazi), which is its Inferior many times ever. Porto Rican coffee today com mands but a very small market la Kuropc, with Its price down to 8 or 9 cents. Kve i at that price, say the planters, It might pay them to cultivate coffee, but it tnkes maney to cultivate. San Juan tetter to Nw Yor,: -Herald. Electrical Energy More than ordinary Interest attaches In reviewing and classifying the separate in stances of Omaha's th-ve'upment to such a concern as the Grand Electric company, an enterprise which occupies a foremost place among the successful electrical houses of the middle west. Not only as a siMHtly d-pot for everything ehctrical, but in the constructive depart ment of the business as well this company Is widely recognised as a leader In Its line, It being exceptionally well equipped to un dertake the whole of any contract for con structing and equipping an p net rim I plant whatever the sise or wherever located. A specialty Is made of the repairing and building of dynamos, motors and transform ers, the building and refitting of commu tators, the rcixiiring and making over of arc lamps, as also the designing and build ing of switchboards, besides which they re pair and Install electric bells, burglar alarms, thermostats, fan motors, medical batteries, do electric light wiring and elec trical work in all of its branches. Iteside this extensive transaction as elec trical contractors the company has built up a very large general business in elec trical goods of every description, the store at KM South Sixteenth street carrying a stuck of dytiamikS, motors nml electrical machines and specialties from the best makers, both in the light, power and sound transmission departments of the trade. The proprietors, Ashmusen Hros., are. practical electrical engineers of good stand ing and wide experience, having connected the largest power switchboard In Germany, also telephones, test boards, storage bat teries, machines, etc., In France during 1!00 exposition, work on Ferris wheel, Chi cago, and for eastern contractors and New York state institutions, and have of late after an absence of several years been allied with the progressive element of Omaha and are accounted valuable units In all projects for the advancement of the city and the upbuilding of its material prestige. , FULL O fl QUARTS 0i3l n pure ) WBIS- t ' ' ""fW I I as. i "MIS KB NjBOLOSTROl ritaiifc sW CHARGES PREPAID. Send Money Order or Draft. SOL. S. COLDSTROM, References: Any bank or Express Co. Orders from states west of Nebraska must call for 12 to 2U $3. SO a Oal. quarts, freight preu'd. WOOD'S ICE KING Whether yon are an Ak-Sar-Ben vUItor or not, w waat you to in pct tir stock of W. T. WOOD & CO S CELEBRATED Bee Tools. licst tools ma le and we are ex clusive western agents. Then w: carry the largest line of Builders' Hardware Contractors' Supplies Tools for all Trades Pocket and Table Cut lery In the West. JAS. MORTON & SON CO. 1511 Dodge St. The Indian Beads The Fad of the Day We curry 1!io ItirgeHt lino of eol orn In BKAIS of uny house. Send un your mail orders of any color Mssible; we can till your wants. Ioomn to weave bendwork, pattern book, needle, everything pertuln in to IIRADWOItK. Also the la ' gent utid moat complete Yum Do purulent In the west- We WHOLE HALE Oil KKTAIL and can hit your wants for any quantity. Joseph F. Bllz, 322 S. 16th St. Omaha, Neb. Do you know there is but one house 4 in the United States that trims, ties and washes ! f more GKLERY than David Cole Company Oystern and Celery. OMAHA. Get A "Pappoose" Blanket For Your Horse The "Pappoose" trade mark stands for the best in horse clothing. Ask for thewPAPPOOSE" blankets. If your dealer hasn't them, write us and we'll tell you of one who has. "Pappoose" Blankets are Made On'v bv th (111 II ii
