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    THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. JANUARY 22, 1000.
UBEL SUIT TO STATE COURT
tr. Jerome Will Preient World Mat
ter to Special Grand Jury.
IOOT AND KNOX TO TESTIFY
fen Who Conducted Negotiations for
Pnrchnse of Canal to Appear
In Inqnlrr at Wash,
tncton.
NEW YORK. Jn. 21. Speculation a to
s-hat action District Attorney Jerome had
lerlded to take In connection with the libel
' proceedings Instituted by the federal au
thorities tgatnst tlie New York World was
In no wax lessened today by. the admission
by that official that he had decided to pre
sent fho 'matter to a special Brand Jury.
Mr. Jerome conferred with Supreme Court
Justice bowling, at whose order the speelal
rand Jury was empanelled, but neither
would throw any light upon action contem
plated. The most persistant rumor was that
the presence before the special grand Jury
of Charles P. Taft' was desired bv Mr.
Jerome and that as aoon as his testimony
Is beard startling developments might bo
expected.
Among lawyer who, hare given particu
lar attention to I'nlted States law there Is
a growing belief that prosecution of the
Individuals responsible fur the publication
of the, alleged, libellous matter Is to he
based upon ari anrlent section of the federal
statute which empowers the federal au
thorities to proceed in criminal prosecutions
under state laws where the alleged overt
act has been committed on land ceded to
the United States, for use for a federal
reservation. In this Instance It Is tinder
stood tb? overt, art charged will be the
mailing of copies of the World containing
the alleged libel to a government reservation,-
such as Governors Island or West
Point. . The summoning of two of the
World's mailing room clerks before the fed
eral grand Jury yesterday would seem to
lend color to this view of the situation.
Law that May Be Invoked.
The section which It Is believed will be
Invoked i section W31 of the United States
revised statutes revised March 3, 1S25. Wil
liam J. Dempsey, foreman of the World
mailing room was the first of the World
men to be examined by United States dis
trict attorney Stelmsnn. Immediately upon
.the conclusion of DerfVpsey's examination
William Corcoran and Wlll'am Cull, two
other World mailing room employes were
taken before the Jury
Pending the decision of Judge Ward on
the validity of the subpoenas served on
J. Angus Bhaw, secretary of the Press
Publishing company, which company pub
lishes the World, and William P. Mc-1
LoughJIn, sporting editor of the paper, the
xamlnat(on of both of these witnesses was
deterred.
Root and Knox to Testify.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. -Secretary Root I
snd Senator Knox of Pennsylvania may be
asked to appear before the federal grand
. -v ", . tFROM THE NEW YORJC WORLD, JUNE 10, '0SJ
RUGGIST SAYS COOPER
WOKE UP RECENTLY
"(.in IS '
Westerner Claims Everybody Will Have To Take
His Medicine Eventually.'
New York has never before witnessed
uch a spectacle as may be seen every day
At Broadway and Ninth street. It is here
,'Jial L.: T. Cooper,, the Western stomach
ologist. who claims that stomach trouole
Is st the bottom of all chronic 111 health,
la meeting the public.
It would be difficult to estimate Just
how many people call to talk with Cooper
during a single day. The store where he
Is holding forth seems to have become the
Mecca for ailing people In New York, and
the amount of medicine he is disposing
is enormous. In addition to what he
self himself, druggists generally through
out New York are handing his prepara
tions out In unlimited quantities.
A. leading druggist said recently: "The
public seem to have lost Ha mind over
this man Cooper. Personally, I don't
know anything about hla medicine. We
bad nothing to do with his comlag to
Nw York and he h.as until recently sold
hts preparation entirely through one com
pany. I suppose he thought New York
was like one of his Western towns and
everybody could be supplied from a corner
drug store. He woke up about a week
ago and put It on sale everywhere. Since
then we have , been selling It. I' don't
know how long this demand will last, but
1 hsvo never before seen anything like
It." .
, In an. Interview Monday afternoon
Cooper said: "I am not making any wild
claims for my medicine. All it does Is to
stimulate the gastric Juices and regulate
the digestive organs, but people do not
eallsd how splendid their health would
be If only their stomachs were not lan
guldo and enfeebled by years of abuse.
WHEREVER THERE'S PAIN APPLY AN
Ann szizx z&vfT
The onlGenuine
ROUS
Brandreth's
The Gnat Laxative and Dlooa 1 Tonic
iv NONE BETTER MADE
FOREIGN
Eflypl-IIoly Land-Mediterranean
Pleasure Cruise of ss. Grosser Kurl uerst
Leaving New York February 11th, 1989,
touching at 23 Paris of Call. Carriage ridti and
aiibt-steing at ports of call. No extras except side
' rs mi "'P- Tickets for the cruise have privilege permitting
ffvCfl passentets to return before August 1st, 1909, without
$0 1) V ltri charge, by any of the steamships of the Company.
JLVBt'P WRITE FOR BOOKLET
North German Lloyd
OELR1CI1S & CO General
. C&AVaaSsTTOa ft CO., tS Dearborn BX-,
Jury ri- Investigating -in- the District of
Columbia the nli-d Pennsylvania lle
esse Involving the New York World and
the Indianapolis Nes. 1
Secretary RO"t mas secretory f war
and Senator Knox wss attorney ' general
ai the time of the purchase nnd conducted
tlie negotiations for the property In behalf
of the 1'nlted States government.. Their
knowledge of the history of the purchase,
It 1s believed, will lead the Jury to ak
them ro testify. ' ...
AVIlllan Nelson Cromwell probably also
will be subpoenaed. While Mr. Cromwell
himself would not discuss the matter it
has hem learned from an authoritative
source that be win be glad to give the
grand Jury the benefit of any information
he may hive concerning the purcha.se.
As he represented the French Tanama
Canal company In the deal, It Is likely that
the grand Jury will ask to have him ap
pear before the hearing, which it was
aiated tonight may last, a week or longer,
is concluded.
'Sn "es.lon Today.
Owing to the fact that District Attorney
Baker and Assistant District' Attorney Mc
Namara, will be engaged In court tomor
row the next sitting of the grand Jury will
be on Friday and will he continued on
Monday. , ,
Attorney General Bonaparte declared to
night that the statement whlch be will
Issue concerning the case will not he ready
before Friday night and probably. not until
later.
"The grand Jury can take Its own time In
conducting the Investigation," said Mr. Mo
Namara tonight. "It Is not a summary
matter."
It is believed, that on Friday oUier wit
nesses from Indianapolis will appear bo
fore the Jury' In addition' to those who have
already been examined. - Their names have
not been learned. In fact It Is not know
that subpoenas have been prepared.
MAYOR HITS ATREALTY MEN
Dnhlmnn Declares Time Not Now
Hlpe for Bill' Consolidating
Omaha nd "oath Omaha.
"Toe democratic legislature is not so
gullible as some members of the Real Es
tate exchange stem to think arid C. F.
Harrison is mlghtfly mistaken If he thinks
that now is the time to 'butt In'' with a
bill to consolidate the cities of Omaha and
South Omaha," said Mayor Dahlman. when
he read In tho pajiers of the decision of
the exchange to draft a bill. to consolidate
and present It to the assembly. The theory
of the exchange was to fret Mr, Bryan to
O. K. the measure, his. approval being con
sidered as practical assurance' of Its pas
sage by the democratic legislature'.
The mayor said that the democratic leg
islative candidates made promises during
tho campaign, that no annexing program
would bo attempted in the present session
if they were elected, "and they Will keep
their word." The executive Is of the opin
ion that the best way to go about consoli
dation business is to put the proiwsltlon
In a platform and let the people vote
whether they want the legislature to make
Omaha and South Omaha Into one large
city.
"Nino out of ten people who have called
today have been sent here ' by others.
Sooner or later every tired, half-sick man
and woman In New York Is going to try
my medicine. They can't help It. After
I leavo New York I shall take two
month' rest and then go to'. London to
Introduce Cooper's New Discovery In
Kngland "
Among New Yorkers who have recently
beccnirt enthusiasts on ' the subject of
Cooper's medicine is George J. Scott, of
No. 274 West Nineteenth street, who said
Monday afternoon: t'lt Is hard to realize
that any medicine will do all that Is
claimed for It.
"I have taken all kinds of medicine for
ten years and this js the first I, have ever
found that wua worth two cents.' ' I have
had rheumatism constantly. tor ten ycara
and have spent a quarter of what . I made
for doctors and medicine. I might have
taken so much rain water for all the good
they did me,. Before 1 had. taken this
Cooper's NewDlscovery a tt'eek I realized
It was worth something. I have taken It
a month and I am as well as I ever was
In my life. I have no' rheumatism and
eat llko a horse. I feel like doing some
thing now, where a month ago hated to
walk a block. When I first bought It I
thought it was another f,ake, but now I
know better. All the other stuff' I have
tak.in was worth nothing;' this ' la worth
ten, yes. twenty times what they aak for
It."
Cooper's New Discovery Is now on sale
at loading druggists, the country over. We
will send a booklet in which Mr. Coopor
tells the. reason for -most 111 Wealth, to
anyone upon request. . The Cooper Medi
cine Co., I-ayton. Ohio.
PLASTER
Pills r"-"M
TRAVEL
74
BAYS
Agents; 5 Broadway, N. Y.
Chicago, Z1L, or the local agent la your oity.
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
First Cqtting of Ice at Seymour Lake
Completed Wednesday.
H0USE3 ABE ABOUT HALF FULL
ret Vladart to Re Thrown Open
to Foot Panama-era TodayLive
toek Men Ootns; to Den
ver Meeting.
Ice cutting has been proceeding steadily
at Seymour lake by the Cudahy Packing
company. Testerday practically finished
the cutting of the first crop. It usually
require two crops off the greater portion
of the lake's surface to fill the large
houses. The Ice Is still good, the warm
weather of the last few days not having
damaged the quality. This is explained.
rirst, trom the fact that the Ice was
ccered with snow. Secondly the sun has
not shone on the Ice since the warm
weather was so pronounced. . For this rea
son the product has not honey-combed as
It usually does under a warm sun. The
tracking company has been running a good
force of men and making the best of the
cutting for over a week. There Is enough
Ice In storage to Insure ngalnat any In
convenience In the packing housj for the
ensuing year.
Yladort Open to Footmen.
The contractors announce thnt the Q
Btreet viaduct will be thrown open to foot
men some time today. Considerable com
plaint has been heard at the alleged delay
of the contrsctors In making the viaduct
safe for the use of the throngs of punple
who crosa daily under the structure upon
the railroad tracks. With the opening of
the viaduct one of the best Structures of
the kind In the west will oe completed.
Tho subfloor of the roadway Is nearly all
laid and the city has been noti'ljd of home
grading to bo done In the street.
Presbyterian Brotherhood Organise.
The South Omaha Presbyterian F.rother
hood was organized at a meeting last night
at the Presbyterian church. It begins with
a charter membership of about twenty-Mve.
The meetings are to be held ,'he third
Monday evening of each noiu!i.
The following officers were elected:
Charles- Mahl, president; J. - D. Courtney,
vice president; J. L. Roberts, secretary;
Andrew Barr, treasurer, and W. 8. Nichols,
Bible leader.
Lit e Stock ' Men to Denver.
South Omaha Is sending a number if
commission men and representatives of
allied Interests will be In the roil of visitor
to the live stock show In progress this
week In Denver. This show Is one of the
best stock shows of the country.' It 'is
attended by cattlemen from hundreds of
western ranges. The prize cattle seen thers
are not excelled In the west. The-Omaha
commission and live stock men ;n general
annually visit these shows, which uro suid
to Improve annually. F. J. Moriaity left
yesterday afternoon. J. J. Fitzgerald,
John O'Hern and a number of. others will
leave Friday or Saturday. The South
Omaha delegation which went to Pocatello
stopped over In Denver on the way home.
? Donovltt'h la t'aptnred.
The day after It had been announced
by thd police that, they had no trace of
the mar. who shot Dan Miller, the Aus
trian, on New Year's night, the police
deportment received a quiet, tip that he
had gyne to Kansas City. The police
worked on the ..suggestion .and Chief
Bnjggs warned the police in Kansas City..
With th ald'of an Austrian whom It Is
sai Donovlteh had anV ctit up badly
with--'a butcher knife,, the Kansas offi
cers were able to locate Donovltch Mon
day night. P. H. Shields waa dispatched
to Kansas City Tuesday and reported
that he had the right man. He will re
turn this morning". '
There seems to. be two sides to the
story of the shooting, and It is said Miller
was making a threatening advance on
Donovltch when the shot was fired.
This point of the case does not concern
the activities' of the police.
Bishop Williams Released.
BIhop Williams of the African Apos
tolic church, who has bderi In' Omaha and
South Omaha for some, time soliciting
for a child saving Institute for negro
children and who has been arrested In
Omaha for alleged fraudulent practice,
but who was exonerated of the aame and
who was later arrested In South Omaha
for, alleged wife desertion, was released
after a call directed to Kansas City,
where his wife lives, had failed to show
that she felt any grievance toward him.
It Is now considered that the bishop ha
been trying to do-a fair work In the city
and that he has been unfortunate, if not
persecuted, in his relations with the police.-
About a year ago a colored man
succeeded in beating a number of peo
ple out of some niony by fraud, and this
case, it appears, has resulted In the dis
crediting of a man whose Intentions were
good and whose methods and accounts
are correct. The bishop has rented quar
ters and expected, with the arrival of his
wife, to open the home.
Snlt Involves- Karhange Membership.
A. A Nixon has commenced suit against
Casslun W. Sparger for the recovery of
the amount of a promissory note which
was said to have been secured by the
deposit of a membership In the South
Omaha Live Stock exchange. Sparger,
through his attorney, attempted to re
plevin the membership, but it failed from
the fact thrft the deputy sheriff gave
hack the certificate after he had had it
In his: possession. He claims, however,
that, he has contracted prior lien hold
ing good before the promissory note. A.
A. Nixon wants the Interest of Sparger
in the certificate foreclosed and the bal
ance of his note, amounting originally to
$1,116, awarded to him in judgment.
Defends O Street Grading;.
Dr. W. J. McCrann of South Omaha de
fends the propoaed plan for the grading
of O street from Twenty-second street to
Twentieth In the following letter:
SOL'TH OMAHA, Neb., Jan. W.-To th
Kiiltor of The Bee: I have noticed several
articles in our dally paprrs lately regard
ing the grading of O street, and while
they are trying to be fair in furnishing
their readers with news, they are writing
altogether from one side. Kindly let your
papers hava the (ruth and facts regarding
tl.e grading and opening of other streets
In our city. When they read aueh facts
ar.d figures it will not be such a btig-a-boo
or look ao bad to them. First, great
stress is put upon the expense, which is
quoted at X21.oui. This Is quoted, as
strange as it, may appear. IIO.OO too high,
as the present bids will indicate when they
are opened. Only 90.000 yards of dirt is
lequlred to make the flil at thirteen cents
a yard It amounts to 111.700. Deduct the
croMtngs. aud Intersections which the city
st large pays and It will lsve bet we -i
ax.Oto and SH.0O0 instead of S21.O0O. As re
gards Mr. Hoetor'a veto of the grading
and opening of O street I wil simply sav
the long.-r he lives the more plainly ha will
be convinced of his error in obstructing
the development in the heart of our city
of one of its most eaetttiMal thoroughfares.
At the same time he will learn the hard
ship It has worked upon hundreds of men,
women and children, east of Twentieth
from O to Q streets, who are compelled to
walk from one to six blocks out of their
way In the early morning to reach the
various places of their dally occupation.
All those living esst of Twentieth on O
snd P streets mum go to Q street before
they can reach Twenty-fourth street, and
come back to Twenty-fourth and O streets
if they sre working In the Omaha Pack
ing house, the xchsnge building, In Ion
stock yards or the Independent packing
house on I street. One block nut of the
way tn men, ahd .Women who must go to
work - early mana a great deal ai any
time, but when they are compelled to make
these trips through snow, mild and sleet
It means a grest desl more to them.
Again, between Vi and 300 school children
Sre dally attending 'lie Jungmnn school
on Twentieth and O streets A large num
ber of theee children sre living on the
west side and are compelled to ao all the
way from -one to six blocks o'.it of their
wav each dsy. To them this means a
great desl in' iinesonnbl weather. All
this hardship forced upon our fellow-cltl-tena
for the sake of filling and grading
two blocks. hv should these tax-payers
snd home builders be considered less
worthy of the benefits of city Improve
ments? While it Is stated their taxes do
not amount to much, yet, when you con
sider they sre bulldltig homes. paying
taxee and supporting families out of their
small earnings, they are contributing much
to the city and are worthy as much con
sideration aa the citizens that are living
on the following streets, which have been
paved and graded by the city at large:
Twenty-fourth street, being paved twice;
I street. Missouri avenue. J street. Thir
tieth street, snd Twenty-fifth street.
Of course, as above slated. It Is said
their taxes do not amount to much. Well,
the laboring clsss of any tlty. as a rule,
are not big taxpayers ss individuals, but
aa a whole they amount to a great deal
and they pay very liberally for the mu-nh-lpal
advantages furnished them, espe
cially In this part of the town east of
Twentieth street, when you consider the
ract mat iney naj;e ncitner sewers, iignts,
streets, or the proper fire and police pro
tection. It should not be a question with
progressive citizens about paving two
blocks on O street, but every cross street
from A- street to the county line and from
Twenty-fourth to Thirteenth should meet
early attention, while all efforts should be
centered at the present time to force
through M, N. O. P. and Q to Thirteenth,
and the grading of all five of those stre-ts
would not amount to the expense of one
grading of Twenty-fourth street.
W. J. McCRANN.
Magle City nossip.
Store room for rent, b2A N. I4th St., A.
li. Bcrgquist.
The Eastern Star will hold an Initiation
ceremony Saturday evening.
The 4-yar-old daughter of Mr. and Mra.
C. W. Sears Is reported ill.
O. F. Olbbs has gone to Grand Rapids,
Mich., on a business trip.
Joseph F. Mtirphv Is reported ill at his
home, Twenty-third and Q streets.
H. W. Carey of Des Moines in paying a
professional visit to South Omaha.
Jetter's Gold Top Beer delivered to any
pri or tne city, lelepr.one no. s.
COAL! Try Howland's celebrated Silver
Creek. Office, 438 N. 24th St. Tel. South 7
The social bv the Women's Mlssloniry
societies of the PTesbyterlan church will
be held this evening.
Dana Morrill Is recovering from a hurt
received from a falling piece of Iron cast
ing in his new building.
' South Omaha dairymen, eleven in num
ber have taken out permlta. Almost every
name so far has been that or a uane.
Fred Brown, formerly of South Omahv
Is visiting friends In South Mmaha for a
few days before proceeding to Denver,
F. A. Fowler of the beef department of
SWirc and company will arrive in Bout.i
Omaha from Chicago today on a business
trip.
Charls Dunham, assistant cashier of the
Packers' National bank, has completed his
new residence at Twenty-sixth and D
streets.
The women of the Christian church will
give a parlor musical at the home or Mrs.
Hancock, 84 North Twenty-second street,
Friday evening.
The following births have been reported:
J. E. Wallace, Seventeenth and Harrison,
a boy; Patrick Corcoran, Thirty-ninth and
T, a girl: Adrian U 8mlth, 2207 M, a girl;
James B. Minor, 240ti U a boy; Anton
Skecs, Fortieth and J. a boy.
The wedding of Roy O. Finch to Miss
Cora Grelst took place last evening at the
home of John D. Cook, Slti North Twenty
first street. Dr. H. D. Wheeler performed
the ceremony. The couple will make their
home at 1318 North Twenty-seventh.
The examinations of the first semester
will be compieted today in all the South
Omaha publlo--schools. A class of about
sixty will enter the high school from the
grades. Trie averages usually snov uiai
20 per cent fall In the semester's ex
aminations. '
Jerry Howard has called another mass
meeting for the city hall Sunday afterno-in.
He will be present to deliver a phtlllplc
against the eMirter revision delegation,
which passed, him up and delivered the
Sotith Omaha charter amendments to
J. M., Tanner fif, the senate.
SALESMEN ' 'IN HERO ROLES
Bold. Han" Man Acts M sterlonnlr at
thief Donatoe's Home and Kelsh-hors-
Go to Rescue.
' This' is the atory of the capture of the
bold, bad man by William tiaskili and Bam
Dresner. ..
Gasklll sella cigars for Myers-Dillon and
Dresher sells clothes. Gasklll has recently
been married and1 Tuesday night about 9.30
his wife happened to look out of the win
dow of their residence at 1708 Burt street
and saw a man peeping In the window of
the resilience of J. J. Donahue, chief of po
lice, who Jives Just around the corner at
812 fs'orth Seventeenth street. Mrs. Gasklll
called her husband to see mm and v imam
stepped 'to the telephone to tell the chief.
Mr. Donahue was not at home, but Mrs.
Donahue was-all alone and waa at once
considerably excited. She asked Mr. Gas
klll to come over to the house until the
police could he called.
Gasklll called up his friend. Bam Dresner.
and also Wilbur Bmlth and they went to
the residence of the chief.
From behind the drawn curtain the watch
ers could see the bad man going- from win
dow to window and trying to look In.
'Why don't you men go out and try to
scare him awy?" asked Mrs. Donahue.
who feared he might have a bomb or some
thing of the sort.
"He Isn't my burglar, salT Gasklll aa
he took another peek at the outside.
Mrs. Donahue' had telephoned to the po
lice station as soon as she had heard that
the burglar waa on the outside and soon
hurried footsteps were heaj-d as a squad
of police approached.
That waa the cue for Gasklll anl Dresher
and Bmlth and they charged forth. The
man, too, had heard the thundering ap
proach of the squad of police and was at
once on the run.
The police and Gasklll and Smith and
Dresher followed him to Twentieth and
Cuming streets, where he was captured and
sent to the station.
Captain Dunn says he knows the poor
fellow was more scared than was Mrs.
Donahue, but he cannot vouih for Gasklll
and Dresher. The man said he waa a por
ter In a saloon at Nineteenth and Cuming
streets and he was discharged by Judge
Crawford.
SHOT FOR TALKING TOO MUCH
Flora WIIIUsii Victim of I'lslol Prac
tice fcs- Daisy Thomas of
the Midway.
Flora Wllllsms. s young colored woman,
a resident of the Third ward, waa ahot
and aerlously Injured sbout S:ii o'clock
last night, by Daisy Thomas, also colored,
who lives at the Midway, Twelfth and
Capitol avenue.
The women met In a restaurant con
ducted by Mrs. Lawler. SOi North
Eleventh atreet. It Is alleged that the
sheeting was the result of an old grudge,
the Thomas woman accusing the other
of talking about her.
According to the story told to the po
lice, the injured woman was sitting in a
chair when the other approached and fired
two shots, the first of which took effect.
The Williams woman ran Into the street,
where a third bullet was sent after her,
which also failed to reach lis mark.
At the Omaha General hospital, where
the woman was taken, ahe was treated
by Dr. Fltsgtbbons, who found the bullet
had entered the left side of the chest,
about two Inches above the heart and,
passing through the lung, had lodged
against the shoulder blade.
The Thomas woman waa captured by
the Council Bluffs police and returned
without a requisition. 8h li now In the
city JalL.
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LINCOLN UNIVERSITY FUNDS
General Howard Announces Generous
Subscription.
ME. ROOT JOINS MOVEMENT
Secretary of 9tnle Accepts Place on
Committee and Sobncrlbes, 1,000
Pinna for Centennial
Exercises.
NEW YORK, Jan. 21. At a meeting to
day of the Lincoln Centennial Endow
ment committee, which is raising a JfiOO.
000 endowment for the Lincoln Memorial
university at Cumberland Gap, Tenn., the
treasurer, General O. O. Howard reported
that generous subscriptions to the fund
were dully being received. A letter from
Secretary of Ptate Root accepting mem
bership on the committee and donating
$1,000 was received. It was decided to
day by the executive committee of the
Llr.colK centenary committee appointed
by Mayor McClellan to prepare plans for
the celebration February 12 of the lOfith
anniversary of Lincoln's birth, to abandon
the tentative plan for the erection of a
permanent memorial to Lincoln In view
of the fact that congress probably would
assume this work. Instead an elaborate
program for the celebration of the day
was discussed.
Wisconsin Centrnl Transferred.
Transfer of control of the Wlsconnln
Central Railway took place today at the
Carnegie Trust company office. Newman
Erb and associates, who some time ago
acquired options on a majority of the
company's stock, paid for these securities
today. The dear Involved between 14,000,
000 and 15, 000,000.
It Is understood that the Wisconsin Cen
tral will hereafter be operated In the in
terests of tho Minneapolis, 8t. Paul &.
Sault Bte. Marie road, both Is controlled by
tho Canadian Pacific railway.
Following his retlicment as president of
the New York Cenrrel and other Yan.lorbilt
roads, W. H. Newman retired today as
piesldent of the Michigan Central Railroad
company. W. C. Brown, president of the
New York Central, being elected as his
successor. Mr. Brown was also today
elected president of the Rutland Railroad
company.
Officers Leave for Canal .one.
leaving for their new posts today by tho
steamer Alllanca were Grosvenor Porter,
chief of police of the canal lone, and
Lieutenant Charles W. Barber, second
I'nited States infantry, assistant chief.
Mr. Porter is an old friend of President
Roosevelt with whom he once took a long
horseback ride In Wyoming, covering the
alxty-etflht miles between Cheyenne and
Larimle in eight hours. He hss been a
cowbc.y In the west nnd l'nlted States mar
shall In the Indian territory. He Bald he
was gMng to find out in Just what condition
the canal zone was and then do his htst
to malts them as nearly perfect as good
police work would do It.
His assnlant. IJemenant Barber, has
been on duty In the Philippines and Is held
by his army assticlaU'S to be a highly ef
ficient officer.
Jewish Farmers Organise. '
The Jewish Farmers' Federation of Amer
ica was organized today at the conference
of Jewish farmers from several eastern
states. It Is planned to make the organi
sation national In scope. The purposes
were declared to be Improvement of the
condition of the Jewish farmer and
stimulation of the movement of Hebrew
families from congealed quarters of the
eltta to the country.
Ferryboats Collide.
" In a collision between the Erie railroad
ferryboats Goshen snd Bufforn in the
North river bit the Jersey l!pa one pas
Bought
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this stock for less than i actual value.
less than i regular prices.
Women's New Spriog Waists
Fine Muslin 1 n 9Rp IflP 70
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Steinfeldt
senger was Injured and both boats were
damased. Scores of paasengiM-s were
thrown to the decks by the Impact but
only one was badly hurt, his hfp being
broken. ' ' ' '"
.' Plntt nefa'ss""to raf. '
Through his counsel before the appel
late division of the supreme court. Sen
ator Thomas C. Tlatt today disclaimed
all responsibility for personal debts con
tracted by his wife, Mrs. Lillian Janeway
Plait, from whom he separated In 19n6,
and sought to hve reversed a Judgment of
the lower courts which condemned him to
pay an assignee 12,-471.60 as part of such
debts.
NEW C0UNCIL0F FINE ARTS
Thomas K. Kimball of Omaha Mem
ber of Advisory Bonrd treated
by President.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. President Roose
velt today created a council of fine arts
and directed that hereafter the heads of
legislative departments, bureaus and com
missions before any plans uro formulated
for publio buildings or grounds or for the
location or erection of any statue must sub
mit the matter to the council and follow
their advice unless for good and sufficient
reasons the president directs otherwise.
Tills action is In accordance Willi the
presldent'a announcement a few days ago
and la the outcome of suggestions mode to
him by tho American Institute of Archi
tects. The council is made up as follows:
Architects: Cass Gilbert, C. Grant La
Farge, Walter Cook, William A. Boring,
8. 8- P. Trowbridge, John G. Howard,
Glenn Brown, Thomas R. Kimball, John I..
Mauran, D. H'. Burnham, John H. M. Don
aldson, George B. Post, Arnold W. Brun
ner, Robert 8. Peabody, Charles F. Mo
Klm, W. S. Kemoa, James Rush Marshall,
Abram Garfield, Frank Miles Day, William
R. Mundle and C. Howard Wnlker.
Painters: John la. Farge, F. D. Millet,
E. H. Blashfield and Kenyon Cox.
Sculptors: Daniel C. French, Herbert
Adams, II. A. McNeil and K. T. Bitter and
Landscape Architect Frederick Law Olm
sted, Jr.
The president named a larger number of
architects as members of the council of
representatives of other arts for the reasm
that the number of architectural questions
Involving not only buildings, but the selec
tion of sites, treatment of grounds and land
scape accessories will largely predominate
all other problems likely to uome before
the body.
tuple Remedy for l.a Grippe.
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Mas ' l.arieloiv'a "chnmnnn Ite-rltal.
Etudes en form -cle VariatliwiH. o. 'i
(XII Etudon SymphmikjucB.)
NachtKtuei'k. op. '3, No. 4
Knmanze, op. No. '2.... '....
WnldHc enen, op. K, No.' 7. ' Bird hs
Prophet 4..i.... .,
Aiaheminc, op. ii
Carenval, op. 9..., ,
iSceties mlynonncs sur quatre notes.)
Preiimhuli". Pierrot. Arlenuin. Value mini".
EuKebliis. Flnrests-n. Cnuuctte and Jti
pllque. I'aplllous. Lettres dunsiites.
Cliiarina. Chopin. L'stiella. Reconnais
sance. Panlalon et ; 'olombinc. 'Valse
alleniande. I'aganini. Aveu. lYome na.le.
Puuse et Maruli des Davidsbundlur
com re les I'hlliKtins.' ......
Concerto In A minor, op. 61.'. ' ..........
Allogru Affcttuoso.
Interim T.t'i. . -
Allu8.ro Vlvave. ,.
For the second time Oil season -at tin
BVnmoller-Muellcr. .auditorium , Mr. - Max
Landow gave a program of. pianoforte
music which evoked great enthusiast from
an audience which filled the hall.
A program of the- music of Robert Schu
mann! Schumann, who treated the fields of
composition as thnnph they were ' gardens
filled with fragrance and with the beauteous
blossoming of muny flowers, through which
birds of song and birds of paradise sanK
and shone Schumann, who could ketcli
pictures of Pierrot unci Arlequln, Pantalon
and Columbine, ami makf them true to life.
Schumann, who could reproduce the sun
shine with his visions of butterflies, or glvo
us back tho memory of a cloudy moonlit
night In the tender tones r.t a dream-woven
nocturne.
Schumann "llctened a,nd smiled, for hi
was man and woman and child ail three"
and then he wrote, what he hearij. and gave
to the world "God's own harmony."
To enter Into the details of the program
Is unnecessary" f.ir nothhtg new can be
said of the colossal memory 'and technical
equipment of Mr. Max Lftndnw. As he un
folds program after program of tMe music
of the great composers one becomes more
and mire surprised at the capacity of the
man. '
Last night tho audience was unrestrained
In Its enthusiasm: the most 'energetic and
enthusiastic applause greeted number after
number, and the artlft received beautiful
roses. - .
LITTLE F0RP0LIC BOARD
Hearing of License Protests' Post.
poned I'ntll Another , .
Meeting;. ,,.
The Hoard of. Fire and Police commls.
aioners held an adjourned aieetlug. Ll
night, but beyond the examination ot s
number of applicants ' for positions, on th
fire department, qo business was trans
acted. The hearing of protests against the grant.
Ing of a saloon license to Klmer Welmer,
151J Howard street, which was announced
fur the meeting, was contlnyed until to.
night, when another meeting will be held.
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