HIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SVVPAY. MAY in. IPOfi.
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HENRY PLAYS A BAD HAND
Husband Fall Down Miawrablj Tryinc to
Blindfold Eli Wife.
FOILED BY LITTLE STREET CAR TRANSFER
Tw DMrHltri Oo to HI Hows la
Rmuoiis to Womna'n CaJI
ti4 Prncff ta t'n
(T Henry.
A woman Intuition, a resourceful hus
band and a street car transfer check
caused domestic wm to the man tn tha
oase, agitation to the woman and a fruit
less trip for two detectives from the city
Jail Saturday morning. The name and ad
drees of the man who la now buying a
new Icebox and other seasonable tokens
for his wife, are suppressed for charitable
reasons, but the whole affair Is on record
at police headquarters.
Mr. Msn went down town the previous
evening to see the passing show. He drank
often and late and lost his regard for the
flight of time and a waiting wife. Ha
took the Inst car into the suburbs and
then walked back to his horn to prepare
his system for tha home going. Just about
tha time a crate of chickens on the walk
In front of a Howard street commission
house wm- announcing the advent of an
other new born mom, Mr. Man rang the
bell of his own door with much timidity
and a "well defined rumor" that he had
been slugged and robbed.
The wife met Mr. Man In the regulation
manner. She had already divided the
property. Henry could have the boys and
she would keep the girls; the oil painting
of both In the heyday of their young love,
she would cling to for the baby's sake,
while he could have the new suit case,
tory Does the Business.
"My dearest one, I've been slugged and
robbed. At the corner of Twenty-third
and Seward streets I was stopped by two
bold, bad men, who hit ms with a club and
took all my money except SO cents. I lay
unconscious for hours and finally dragged
myself home," said Mr. Man, with a
supreme effort and some show of righteous
ness. Womanly sympsthy Immediately came to
the surfsce with Urge bubbles.
"My poor Henry! And I judged you so
hastily. If you had only telephoned me
or sent a messenger boy, but how could
you when you lsy nearly desd In the cold
night alrT What time was you held up?"
"It wss Just 10 o'clock. I remember hear
ing the town clock striking the hour."
While Henry was making a noise In the
kitchen like a man trying to eat his break
fast the wife took It unto herself to tele
phone a report of the robbery to the
police. Detectives Malnney and Drummy
were sent out to get descriptions of the
culprits. While the detective were on
their way to Henry's house the wife be
thought herself to ransack Henry's coat.
She found a street car transfer check
punched at 10:80 Saturday night. Observ
ing the transfer check she went to Henry
and asked him whether he was sure he
was held up at 10 o'clock.
How Could He Forget It.
"And don't you suppose a man ought to
know when he was held up? Do you
think hold-ups are of such frequent occur
rence In the life of a man that he would
forget the time?" he replied, with a show
of Injured Innocence and an effort to drink
out of an empty cup.
It was all. the woman's light hand could
do to restrain her left hand from flashing
the transfer check, like the stsge heroine
who shows a document Just in time to foil
the villain and arouse tha gallery.
Then the detectives arrived.
"Madam, we would like to ' see Henry
8o-and-So, who waa robbed," said Detec
tive Drummy, politely.
"Henry, here are two officers of the law
to see you. They have come In their store
clothes so the robbers would not recog
nise them." explained the woman.
Henry began to wish he had accepted the
terms offered by his wife at the front door
a few hours before. He felt like a drown
ing man grasping at a floating pop bottle.
But he resolved to face the situation like
a man and make a full confession if pressed
too hard.
Henry Picks Oat Bad Location.
Detectives Maloney and Drummy took off
their coats, opened their kit of tools and
went to work on the case like a pair of
sleuth, trying to find out why father does
not work. They asked Henry the usual
questions covering a case of assault and
robbery. Detective Drummy called the
woman Into the front hall and said he
smelted a rat, as Henry said ha was held
up at the corner of Twenty-third and Sew
ard streets, there being no such Intersec
tion. Then the woman told about the
transfer check.
"What kind of a stall are you giving us?
Do you think we are a pair of yokels?
Don't you suppose we saw you at 10 GO
last evening at Seventeenth and Cuming
streets with this transfer check In your
right hand, and yet you say you were
slugged and, robbed at 10 o'clock," said
Drummy.
Henry had no reply to offer. After a
minute's silence he confessed all.
Henry promised never, never again to
stay out late and said he would buy his
wife a new Ice box and a new front door
with an oval glass If she would forgive and
forget. . t ' .
8 he said she would.
Then the detectives nocked up their tools
and returned to the police station.
Sinn cf the base of the brain, from the re.
suit nf which Ms ability to earn a ltvlnq
has been greatly Impaired.
LOCOMOTIVE MAKES LEAP
Big F.istae Strikes Rear, of Pynn
mtte mm fpeef tarried
Train Over Role.
It Is thrilling enough to see a bicycle
or an automobile leap the gap. hut think
nf a great railroad train performing the
feat! Thle extraordinary adventure has Just
befallen the 'Frisco Meteor, one of the
fsstest trains In the southwest.
The Meteor was running south a mile a
minute through southwestern Kansas. It
wss flying through the outskirts of Turck.
a flag station three miles north of Colum
bus, when a terrific shock and explosion
ahead strnck terror Into the hearts of
trainmen and passengers. The train lifted
as If running upon sir; then It struck
with a gilding, running Impact, rorked vio
lently for an Instant and then resumed Its
smooth snd even gnlt. The air hissed, the
speed slackened, voices shouted and doors
banged, and the Meteor stopped.
The engineer climbed out of the cab and
leaped to the ground. As he walked back
to meet the trainmen and passengers who
had swarmed out of the cars, he said:
"Dynamite!"
Men shuddered at thought of their nar
row esca.pe.-but they knew little of the
remarkable feat of the train the thing
that had saved them.
"I think they tore the track out under
us some," the engineer said, and the train
was barked up to see. A single glance was
sufficient to show what had happened.
Train wreckers bad placed dynamite upon
the rails. The forward truck wheels of the
great engine hsd fired the explosive, which
had torn a great hole in the roadbed, cut
ting a three-foot gap In the track.
The Meteor had leaped the gap!
What might have happened the 'Frisco
Meteor the other night la happening trains
In the United States with the frequency of
things that are commonplace. But whst
actually did happen Is a remarkable
story.
The wreckers thst plotted the destruction
of this splendid train were making an ex
periment. There here been all sorts of
schemes for wrecking trains, but rarely
have men laid dynamite upon the rails.
The effect could not be easily foreseen.
The speed of the train might ssve It; or
It might the better serve to smash It up.
That the explosion would blow out a sec
tion of the track before the drivers of the
engine passed was reasonably certain.
Quick ss the train was. It could not be so
quick as the explosive.
Granting that the dynamite would tear
out a section of trsck In front of the
drivers, what would be the result? Would
the great weight of the 10o-ton engine force
the drivers Into the gap, or would the
engine leap the gap? And If it did leap
the gap would the wheels track?
A train wrecker Is not a student of nat
ural laws, but he has that native sense of
things which served In his desperate busi
ness. He knows that a very little thing
will sometimes wreck a train, and that
there Is a well known list of things which
will certainly throw the fastest and heav
iest train that runs. He might reasonably
have counted upon his dynamite to wreck
the Meteor.
But It didn't. When the great drivers left
the rails and flashed through space there
was a terrible chance that they would not
return to the rails upon the other side. Just
what the chance was It is Impossible to
know. Study of the subect might reveal
the surprise that If the track were perfectly
straight and 'the train were running fast
enough It would always return to the rails
after leaping a gap of any reasonable
width. , . t
' Upon the other hand. It could have been
a whim of fete that the Meteor was saved.
It might rush upon the same conditions a
thousand times and never repeat the feat
of leaping the gap and escaping with noth
ing more than a few bent rods and a little
dlaxlorcd paint.
The engineer went over the engine care
fully, but he could find no greater damage
than the loss of a cylinder cock. This
slight Injury to the engine was due to the
fact that the explosive force of dynamite
Is downward. An equal explosion of giant
powder would have wrecked the great mo
gul's vitals.
The only other scratch upon the train
waa a broken window In the baggage car.
It waa smashed by a piece of debris. Who
plotted the destruction of the train and for
what purpose are mysteries. Railroads
have frequent mysteries of this sort.
A few months ago there were such per
sistent and successful attempts to wreck
trains on the Santa Fe lines In Ksnaaa that
a reward of $5,nno was offered for the con
viction of the vandals who were doing the
work. They were never caught, though
the Santa Fe worked In the Held for
months with all the Ingenuity known to
detectives.
The feat of the Frisco Meteor astounded
the trainmen and the passengers. To look
at the hole blown In the track by the dyna
mite one would ridicule the Idea that a
train could fly across there without Injury.
To be sure, the gap wss not wide, but
even a single yard seems a big matter
when one considers the tremendous weight
of a train, and especially that of a train
drawn by such engines as those that pull
the Meteor.
If the train could lesp.that gap, what
more could It do? Could It do twloe as
much, or three, or four, or perhaps five
times? St. Louis Post-Dlspatcb.
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Io MscOuIre, one of the victims of the
street car collision at Thirteenth and J
streets. South Omaha. March 13, has filed
suit In district court satirist the Omaha
Council Bluffs Street Hallway company for
ll0O for Injuries he received. The suit
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The petition states he had his ribs snd
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the dispatch from l-lma. O. says thst
County lrosecutor Wehtier lias created a
sensation here by the declaration that
when the grand Jury sought to look Into
the bridge contracts with the Bellefontaihe
Bridge company everv scrap of written evi
dence waa found to be missing. The records
sre said to have disappeared within the
past few days, or since the grand Jury
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trust. The contracts that have disappeared
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BEFORE THE PEOPLE'S BAR
Colored Man Will Not Let Black Cat
Cross His Path.
HIS COMPUNCTIONS CAUSE TROUBLE
Running; from feline He Creates
False Impression In Colored
Woman's Mind and K
plalns la Conrt.
Jerry Blllntt, colored, related before the
people's bar Saturday morning the various
tilings he would stand for before he would
allow a black ret to cross his path at
night. He said he could overlook such
trifles as a gasoline stove explosion, a
broken mirror, opening of an umbrella In
doors, falling while going upstairs, or the
flight of a bird through the window of
his study, but when it csme to a black cat
trying to give him the double cross at
night time, he said he believed It time to
take notice and kill the feline If necessary.
Elliott lives at 11)15 Capitol avenue and
manages a lunch stand in the east end.
Shortly atter midnight Friday Rlllolt was
walking home, viewing the starry firma
ment and fondling the days receipts In
his pocket. While thus deeply absorbed
with the things of earth and sky Elliott s
atentlon was engaged by a large black cat,
which Jumped from an alley and tried to
cross the colored man's path.
The sight of the animal was Immediately
a token for action on Klllott's part. Elliott
set all his sails, threw off his cont snd
rtarted up one side of the street, with the
cat doing the rapid sprint on the other
side. Every time Elliott would stop to
rest tha rat would stop. Finally the tired
lunch man becsme real cross and picked
up Isrge stones, which he hurled at the cat.
A belated colored woman passing at the
time mistook Klllott's intentions snd wildly
called for help. The woman directed her
flight toward the police ststion, with the
rat In close pursuit. F-lliott continued
throwing aolid matter at the cat. Detec
tives Ferris and Dunn, attracted by the
woman's exclamations of dlnturbed thought,
plunged themselves Into tha troubled night
air and caught Elliott. The woman kept
running. Her body was not found. The
est did not succeed In passing Elliott.
When arraigned before the people's bar
Saturday morning Elliott told the police
judge he was more afraid of a black cat
than a corpse.
Jedge. Ah s mnughty skeared ob a
corpse, hut de black cat hab deni all
skinned forty ways. Ah thought Ah was
giiln' to hab de agje when dat cat 'peered
'foh me last night, but when Ah looked
mshself ober Ah found dat Ah only had a
nervous chill. Inok out for de black rats,
Jedge; dry means hahm, dat a what doy
does." said Elliott when asked If he hnd
anything to say why sentence of the court
should not be pronounced upon him accord
ing to the city ordinances.
Elliott convinced the court hs was a hard
working man, whose chief weakness was a
fear of black cats.
Elliott was discharged.
Paul I-atihech. Emil Valeln, Gladys
Thompson and Ixttle Iubsch, the objects
of a hurry csll by the police patrol Friday
evening, were fined t6 and costs each Sat.
urday morning when arraigned before the
police judge on charges of disturbing the
peace by righting The disturbance oc
curred in a room at 411 North Fourteenth
street. 8rgesnt Vanous, Detective Ferris
snd Patrolman Klsaane broke up the little
party, which waa a frce-ff -U-Aas 1
the police arrived. Three blackened eyes
and a broken pitcher represented the per
sonal and property damage. The tight is
said to have started when all of the party
tried to drink beer out of the pitcher at
the same time.
Leo Guy, Chinaman, was convicted of
vagrancy In police court Saturday morning
upon the evidence of three of hla country
men. The sentence was thirty days.
The upshot of Guy's present troubles was
a complaint he registered a week ago
against Wing Kee, charging him with as
sault and robbery. Guy did not get a com
plaint. Ta le. Win Chee and IJn Wah testified
against Guy Saturday morning.
"No goodee Chink; no workee filteen ysr;
al lee time eat," testified Ah Ta.
Guy entered objections by saying: "Mo
workee lestlants and laundry; ask alloe
Chinee boy."
It was stated Guy worked on the sympa
thies of the local colony of Chinamen for
years, threatening to ex pone their fan tan
game If they did not give him money and
clothes.
PROGRESS M INVENTIONS
Varlons Oevrlopmen ts of Human
Skill and Intensity In Many
Fields.
A common nail Is an excellent illustra
tion of the difference between old snd new
methods. Formerly the metal was cut Into
strips and then forged Into shape with
hammers and an expert took about one and
one-half minutes for each nail. Today they
are made of steel and are lighter and
stronger. Strips are cut with steam shears
and fed into automatic nail machines.
One man tends three machines, each ma
chine dropping a nail every second.
May Island, Great Britain, now possesses
a foghorn which ran be heard eighteen
miles away. Several similar onea are to
be Installed in neighboring lighthouses to
safeguard the uhlps entering the Firth of
Forth.
Prof. Cerebotani. a Frenchman. Is said
to have perfected an apparatus which will
transmH by wire all the peculiarities of a
man's handwriting or drsm'lng. enabling
him to sign checks l.Onn miles away or
write a legal document or draw a picture.
But on aire Is needed, and the machinery
Is quite simple. There is a clock move
ment controlling a wire, and one rod makes
a circular movement, while another makes
direct perpendicular and horizontal atrokes.
On the hand of a man who had lost a
middle finger by accident, Prof, von Eifela
berg of Vienna has succeafuily grafted one
of the men's toes, which it Is thought he
will shortly be able to use as a finger.
Prof. Classen of Alxia-Chapelle, has
brought out a process of making alcohol
from sawdust. The cellulose is treated with
gaseous sulphuric acid and glucose formed,
snd Is converted into alcohol by fermenta
tion. A ton of sawdust yields about fifty
gallons of crude alcohol, or twenty-five
gallons of absolute alcohol. It Is expected,
however, that in time thirty gallons or more
will be obtained.
A new type of engine, known as the
"monkey-motion" pattern, which. It is said,
will revolutionise steam locomotion on
railroads, liss been successfully operated
on the Southern Pacific. A train of 1.5c0
tons was hauled from Ogden to Wads
worth, Nev., by one of the new engines.
All the driving-mechanism is on the sides,
making It easy of access. The steam ex
hausts very rapidly and there Is no back
pressure. It is estimated that the new
engine will save from X to 40 per cent In
coal consumption, being able to run fifty-
iour one with on tun of coal, as against
twenty-five to twenty-eight miles under
the present system.
According to a German publication,
Sweden Is planning to use for electricity
every ounce of water now going to waste
over its falls and In Its rivers. Engineers
are In the hills making surveys, and capi
tal is getting ready for the call that Is
sure to come Just as soon as the surveys
are completed. The same may be said
of Norway, where the wnters have shorter
distances to run, but are often of tre
mendous volume. In Sweden the power
wilt be put to work In all manner of mills;
in Norway In the mines Iron and copper.
Geographers, representing the principal
nations, are at work upon a map of the
entire earth on a scale of 1 to 1,000.000,
and Prof. Penck, the German geographer,
reports that sixty-nine sheets, out of 437
planned, have been completed; A distance
of one mile will be represented by a spar
about one-sixteenth of an Inch long. There
are, of course, many maps of small areas
on a much larger scale than this, but to
represent the whole face of the known
world on this seal Is an undertaking of
vast interest.
One of the Berlin papers tells of a new
device for catching herrings. A German in
ventor places a microphone In a metal
box perfectly water-tight and plunges it
into the sea In order to ascertain If the
fish are passing that way. A wire con
nects the submerged microphone (which
greatly increases the volume of small
sounds) to nn ordinary receiver, with
which one liKtens to what Is going on in
the depths of the sea. Excellent results
have been obtained In the North sea by
the Invention for signaling the passing of
the herring shoals.
Clocks are now being made whlrh speak
the hours, -.natead ot striking them,
through an ingenious application of tha
phonograph. They are arranged to call
out In various degrees of modulation, some
loud enough to rouse the soundest sleeper.
The making- of glass bricks for buildings
ss well as paving has become a recognized
European Industry. As usual, the Germans
have carried the Inovatlon further than
anybody rife. In Hamburg glass walls are
erected where light is needed, yet where,
by police regulations, walls must be both
wlndowless and fireproof. Three firms
make such bricks In eastern Germany.
Theso bricks are translucent, admitting
light, but permitting no view of the in
terior. A new desth-deallng Instrument has been
Invented. A Lithuanian gentleman, Theo
dor Troltx, has contrived a gun. worked
by electricity, which will Are from 4.000 to
12.000 shots a minute. The range of this
new weapon Is three miles, and Its destruc
tive rower, If all claims on Its behalf Is
genuine, should put In the shade seh
trivial toys as magazine rifles. The gun
only requires one man to work It.
The RHtcllff-Rotherliithe tunnel, now be.
Ing built under the Thames, will take five
years to construct. Its length will be
ISM feet, with an external diameter of
thirty feet, which will allow a carriage,
way of sixteen feet and two footways four
feet eight and one-half Inches wide. When
it Is finished there will h three tunnels
under the Thames at 1-nndon.
In porous g!itts, which is made In France,
the holes are so small that neither dust
nor draught tan enter, and yet the ventil
ation Is said to he excellent.
It is announced that a Lancashire, Eng
land, mechanic has invented a machine
which will sew direct from two reels of
thread, thus obviating the winding of spools
and threading of shuttles. Philadelphia
North American.
coal sheds. When there Is a goat playing
in the streets you can taste him a mile
away. He is sometimes familiar with th
human species, but not friendly. I have
heard that goats are fond of beer, which
they drink while standing erect on their
hind legs, but it is wrong to drink anything
stronger than soda water with a large
spoonful of Ice cream stirred into it with
a spoon. Nobody ever ought to be a drunk
ard If he can help It. Once there was a
man who went out to Kansas to raise
gnats. I guess he did not tike the business.
He came back In about a year and went to
mending shoes. The goat has fewer stom
achs than a cow, but It can eat more kinds
of things. Chicago Tribune.
NEWSIES GET ANNUAL TALK
Little Fellow Are Decked Ont by
Tolonel Homeland with Hlb
hons and Lecture,
Saturday wns silk ribbon day for the
newsboys. The chief spirit of the move
ment is President Hogeland of the Nntlonal
Curfew association. The newsies assembled
at Fifteenth and Farnam streets at 9:J0
a. m. and were led to the city hall by
Colonel Hogeland, who addressed them.
Mayor Zlmman responded with a short talk
to the boys. The mayor Impressed on their
minds the Importance of thrift and honesty
and told them that by doing tho smaller
duties well they would prepare themselves
for the more Important things they would
meet as they grew Into man's estate. Each
boy wore a silk ribbon hearing tha Inscrip
tion, "Good Boys Make Good Men."
BALDWIN BACK FROM EAST
l.rnrral Solicitor of I'nlnn Paelfle Re
turns from Washington
11 red from Trip,
John N. Baldwin, general solicitor for the
I'nlon Pacific, has returned from Wash
ington, where he has been In the Interest
of the I'nion raciflc railroad In some rail
road litigation. Mr. Baldwin came In on
the Northwestern Saturday morning, and
went Immediately to his home In Norman
dle, on Park avenue and Pacific street, and
did not report at headquarters during the
day. He said he was unable to discuss
the rsto bill snd the Allison amendment,
as he was tired out from his Journey.
"I feted to call you ni by telephone this
morning, but I didn't ft any response."
"You tried to call nit up by telephone?"
"Tea; I wanted to ask you. a Question,"
"Why, I haven't any telephone numbor."
"Oh, yea, jrou have. Double six four
sevan."
The young man mad a rapid mental cal
culation. "Twenty-three!" he gasped, reaching- for
hi hat. Chicago Tribune.
REPORTER HAS CLOSE CALL
Fred Cobnrn Durst Artery and bat
for Mnrse May Have Bled
to DeaiJi.
Fred Cobum, a reporter for th World
Kerald, and a son of William Cobum,
narrowly ejcapnd death following an opera
tion at Mercy hospital. Council Bluffs, to
remove a growth from the side of his neck.
The operation passed off successfully, but
Mr. Cobum was made sick by the anaes
thetic. In straining and turning, he burst
an artery close to the Incision. But for tha
timely action of his nurse, who seised tha
artery with her fingers, he would have bled
to dciih. Prompt effort put him out of
danger, bt7t not until after he had a very
close call. H has been removed to hln
bom and is ronyutaiHciwt.
ALLEN SAYS FENCES ARE GONE
General Manasrer of Standard Cattle
Company Submit Demurrer to
Indictment Acatnst Him.
Th attorney for R. M. Allen. general
manager of the Standard Cattle company,
were present In the United States district
court Saturday morning to argiie a de
murrer to the Indictment returned against
Allen for Illegally fencing public lands,
which Indictment wss returned aa-amst the
defendant at the November, 1906. session of
the federal grand jury. The demurrer al
lrgrs that the fences complained of have
long since been removed. The court being
engaged in the trial of a case before a Jury
could not hear the argument and th caaa
went over until next week.
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