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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1910)
.TOONG WIFE RILLS HUSBAND Filet Divorce Suit, Then Shoots Man Who Sought Her Life. HE TEED TO KILL HUE MOTHER Some Things You Want to Know Halley and 'His Comet. Engrne Collins of Council Rlaffa, Col ored, Victim Bad Parties Wer I'ronlnrat la Their lo rial Bet. Kugfne Collins, a colored waiter on the Los Angeles Limited train, was shot and Instantly killed at 8 o'clock Friday morn ing his wife, Grace lielle Collins, at the home of her mother, Q South Eljht street, Council Bluffs.- la. Mrs. Collins, Thursday, filed suit for divorce from Collins, whom she married In Omaha, June ii, "1909, and the shooting of Cull Ins followed an attempt on his part ' to kill both Mrs. Collins and her mother, .Mrs. Jennie Powell. Collins called at the Powell home early In the morning; and Mrs. Powell rose to jet him In. He fired four shots at her, but all missed and she ran screaming from the house. Mrs. Collins then rushed out and Collins flrd twice at her, but neither shot hit her. Mrs. Col Ins then Van back Into her bed room, secured a revolver and returned, biasing away at her husband. Her first shot struck him In the temple and as he .wheeled around she fired again, the bullet striking him between the shoulders and passing clear through his body. Mrs. Collins was arrested and taken .before Judge Snyder, who Immediately re manded her to the grand Jury, which Is now In session. J Admits She Killed film. The postmortem examination, It Is said, , showed that Collins received three bullet , wounds, any one of which would have proved fatal. The revolver with which Mrs.. Collins said she killed her himband showed ithat only two shots had been fired from her weapon. When Coroner Treynor was called to the :house, he was first told that Collins, after 'doing promiscuous shooting . at the occupants, shot himself. Later on ques tioning the yourvK wife she-said: "I shot jbim In self defense." . Collins, when Dr. Treynor went to the 'house, was lying faoe downward In the 'doorway of an Inner room and the re ,'volver he had used, underneath' htm. 1 Major G. II. Richmond, chief of police, 'on learning the result of the postmorten 'at once ordered the arrest of all persons ,'ln the Powell home, where the shooting j occurred. Coroner Treynor Is highly displeased be 'oause Mrs. Collins and her mother, Mrs. j Powell, were taken directly to the grand Jury before the Inquent had been held, t Mr. and Mrs, Collins were married at the church of St. . Philip the Deacon In Omaha, by Rev. John Albert Williams. In 'her divorce petition Mrs. Collins accuses hlm of cruel and Innuman treatment. She 1 Is 23 years of age and he was 29. They were prominent In colored society in Council Bluffs. A Total Eclipse of the functions of stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels. Is quickly disposed of with Electric Bitters. 50c. For sale by Beaton pru Co. . . ' j Persistent Advertising ts the Road to Big Returna. CHECKER GAME ENDS SADLY Father Alleged to Hare Raided (Jnr. "e. rel by Injuring 1 3-Year-Old r Daughter. i. . Peter Hansen was tried In police court tax assaulting his step-daughter, Madge rBurchard, 13 years old. Madge and her sister were playing check ers and quarreled over the game. Hansen ordered them to atop and they complied -with his request. They then engaged in another quarrel and Hansen gave Madge ! a puBh against the door and her collar bone was' broken, so It Is said. 4 Hansen says he did not mean to hurt the girl and did not know anything ' ser!6us had happened till the girl was taken to the home of her aunt, who called a sur geon to attend her Injuries. Mrs. Hansen testified that Hansen was rough to the girls and that he had refused to call a phy slclan to attend to Madge after the girl was hurt. The Judge took the case under advise ment. WOMAN'S The astronomical world will pause today m Its study of the approaching comet to pay a mental tribute to the man whoee name It bears, for It was on the 14th of January, 1742, that Halley died. After he had recognised the cornet, and predicted It return In 1758, ha said that he would not live to see It return, but that he hoped an Impartial posterity would do, him the Justice to remember that he had forecasted Its reappearance. For the third tfme since then It Is now coming toward us, and for the third ' time the world will unite In honoring Halley for his astounding knowl edge In predicting Its movements. Kdmund Halley was the son of an Eng lish soap boiler and first saw the light of day In iocs. He was a mathematician from his cradle. The study of the universe of worlds was second nature to him, and by the time he was JO when the most serious thing the average boy thinks about la sweethearts he published a paper on the orbits of the principal planets, and had studied a sun spot so Intently that he was able to deduce from his studies the fact that the sun rotates around Its axis the same as the earth. By the time Halley was 23 he had com pleted a visit to St. Helena, where he made a map of the southern half of the heavens. He was only 24 years of age when he made his memorable tour of Europe, the result of which was his pre diction that the comet which bears his name would return on schedule time. He was the first man In. astronomical history who so far mastered the movements of a comet as to be able to say whether it went or whence It should return. It was he, also, who led the astronomers to ob serve the transits of Venus, In order to establish the sun's parallax. Upon the de termination of the parallax of the sun has depended more astronomical knowl edge than any other one thing. HalJey became the royal astronomer of England In 1720. and continued In that office until his death. One of the most in teresting coincidences In the whole history of astronomy and mathematics was tha fact that he and Newton,, working upon entirely Independent lines, had both un dertakers to prove that the centripwlol force In the universe was one. varying inversely as the square of the distance. When he vbited Newton for the Durnose of enlisting his aid in finally determining the truth of his conclusions, he found mat the discovery of the law of gravity had mapped out the same conjecture and had taken the same means to prove It. There Is abundant evidence that Halley was a much better astronomer and mathe matician than he was a sailor. In 1682 he had perfected a theory relative to the variation of the magnetic needle. Later he was given a ship and sent (nto the west ern seas to make the observations neces sary to the confirmation or refutation of his theory. His crew mutinied, and he had to put back to England with his work unfinished. But he tried again and his second trip was successful. But while his life was an. unbroken rec ord of things accomplished, his name will be perpetuated more through the periodic return of his comet than through all the other things he did. Think of itl A man still too young to be eligible to a seat In the United States senate, taking into his mental grasp a wandering object In space which goes more than 3,000,000,000 miles away from tha son, laying out its course as civil engineer might lay out a mile race track, and foretelling Its return with almost as much accuracy as one might forecast ths return, of a friend who had gone away cn a holiday vacation! To ac complish this he had to approximate its speed. Its diiection, the distance It had to travel, the shape of Its orbit, a dosen things which oven now are . beyond the grasp of the lay mind. The mind cannot conceive' of how far Halley's comet has traveled in the three quarters of a century since it last looked down upon the earth. During all these years it has been reeling off distance at the rate of more than 7. 000, 000 miles a month, or 2,600,000 miles a day, with never a stop for breath. It lety us so far be hind In space that tha little distance of 14,000,000 miles which will separate It from us in May seems no more than a step across lots to see a next door ' neighbor. Assuming that there Is the same propor tion of people over 80 living today as there was In 1900, and that every person who was 6 years old when the comet appeared can remember it, there will be about 300,- 000 people In the United States who will be able to say that they have seen Halley's comet twice. The last time it was visible CHARMS Of Skin, Hands and Hair Preserved by CUTICURA For preserving and purifying the skin, scalp, hair and hands; for allaying minor irritations of the skin and scalp and impart ing a velvety softness; for sana tive, antiseptic cleansing and, in short, for every use in pro moting skin health and bodily purity, Cuticura Soap and Cuti cura Ointment are unsurpassed. BnM througknul th world. riou: Lsmtoa. 37, CbwrkuuM tn i Psm, 10, Hut lU I Ih.iuM 0 Auun; Atumluk H. lowu a Co . frlsty. luuw, K. K. Paul. ticutt: CblM. Hons Kouf Uhll (to ; jiliu, Mftrur. I -Hi, Ttklo: Ho A Tin lronon, 1 id . Cr 1 'n. nc : V 8 A.NiinUniittiwB. Cufu . fct from . 131 ColumbiM Ki., r-I-( Cuitram Hook, prm-rm a Onrt e lit Mat (.4U a4 I rttUMal el afcia 4 ci. Andrew Jackson was president of ths United Slates and In the very thick of his fight against the "money power." It then turned back, and Journeyed toward In finity until after the close of the civil war, when. In the middle of Grant's first term, It started back toward the earth at the same mad pace that had characterised Its going. , Each time one of these black sheep of ths celestial family, as the comets have been called, appears to mortal sight It is less .bright than It was before. As they fly through space the solid matter they cast of pours over them, with the result that . each succeeding . return finds them lets brilliant. Some of those with short circuits havo shown up as mere ghosts of their former selves, and have finally failed to return altogether. But about the time they were due to return the earth orossed their orbit and encountered a " meteorio shower, caur.Ing the scientists to under stand that meteors are but the flying debris of an exploded comet. . There has been some discussion as to our chances of collision with this returning vagabond of space. That we may grase its head by a miss of only about 18,000,000 miles Is predicted, and that we may even pass through Its tall Is said to be more than , a bare possibility. But as this tall la less substantial than the best vacuum man has been able to produce, there seems to be little possibility of serious damage even If we do sail right through it. It is recorded ' that our grandfathers went through the t.tll of a comet in 1S19, and that our fathers did the same thing In ISO. Some astronomers think we could collide with the very head of the comet Itself and still escape unscathed. Prof. Pickering thinks we have struck at least one im portant comet, and that it did no serious damage. He thinks the great hole in the earth at Coon Butte, Arlxona, was made by the core of a comet striking there. He calls attention to the fact that there have been 1S2 meteorites of iron found in the western hemisphere, as compared with seventy-nine on the eastern, and concludes that Inasmuch as they were most abundant in the country contiguous to Arizona, they are evidences of a collinluit In which the Coon Butte hole was the principal damage sustained. , . There were 232 meteorites observed to fall In the nineteenth century, and only twelve of these were of Iron. Most astron omers believe that iron meteorites are of cometary origin, while those of stone are of tesseslrlal origin, having at some re mote time In history been hurled away from the earth by some tremendous cataclysm. It must have been a terrific explosion that sent them wandering through space, for it has been proven by the scientists that if a terrestrial object Is to get away from the magnetism of the earth It must have an Initial velocity of seven miles a second. Of course, the highest explosive known has no such tremendous power. It Is one of those things which have been theoretically proven but not practically demonstrated. Comets have different gaits. Some move a hundred miles a second, and others loiter along at only ten to twenty miles a second. Some of them have to travel around such a vast orbit that It takes them thousands of years to make the curcult. Some of them fly In a straight line, perhaps. through unending years. It would take the kind which travel a hundred miles a second more than 8,600 years to reach tha nearest star. No men in all the world have such sense of man's littleness as those who are the sentinels on the astronomic watch towers. We think we are something, but they exclaim with a feeling that David never knew, "What is man that Thou are mindful of htm?" The earth looks big to the average mortal, but the astronomers know that it is smaller In proportion to the universe than the tiniest germ that dwells in our blood. They see one star so far away that although it travels 200 miles 'between clock ticks In 1,000 years It seems to move only through the diameter of three and a half moons. They know that this whole mighty universe ts moving onward at the tremendous gait of twenty-six miles a second, but when it comes to telling whether It Is moving in a circle or In straight line, where the end of the Journey will be, or what the source of the Infinite power that propels It onward, they stand as helpless and dumb as untutored children. They must confess that, there are realms in God's universe where human reason cannot go. By niDiBio z. HABKrar. Tomorrow TH1 STATUE OT I.EH. Old Glory Floats from Lofty Height Flag is Unfurled on Framework of sixteenth Story of City Na tional Bank Building. Two hundred and twenty feet above the street the Star Spangled Banner floats above the topmost point of the steel frsme- work of the City National bank building at Sixteenth and Harney streets. Following the time-honored custom of the steel work ers the flag was hoisted at noon Friday when the corner column of the sixteenth and last story was bolted Into place. Frank Lehman, superintendent of the steel gang, stood at the brink of the tower ing web of girders. Just 203 feet from the ground, waiting for the last bolt to be screwed into place. 'A workman laid down his wrench and the big flag started up the mast. The little knot of workmen raised a lusty cheer, which drifted down through the fog to ths upturned faces of the people on the street.. The flag looked like a postags stamp to tha sidewalk spectators, but It measures six feet wide and twelve feet long. "It's got to be almost a supersition with the steel workers," exclaimed H. T. East man, supervising architect, balancing him self on a wabbling plank at the edge of tha top story. "There's a lot of patriotism in these lads that clamber 'around up here off the earth, Ths flag always goes up on the buildings where this gang works and they wouldn't feel right if It didn't" ber were in attendance. Mrs. George Tllden, chairman of .he building committee, told them at the luncheon how the association had made use of the (163,000 which repre sents the cost of the building and Its furnishings. The report made to the business men. who largely contributed to the building project, precedes the annual meeting of the Toung Women's Christian association officers, which is to be held on January 24. ... - j- I Phone your order for Stors bottled beer to Charles Stors, retail dealer, next door north of Stors brewery. Phones Webster 1260, Ind. B-126L Prompt delivery and same prices as formerly. I Commencing at o'clock Saturday, ths Parisian Cloak Co. will sell their entire stock of over 000 women's skirts at Just half price. 8ee tbelr Adv. on page 11. BUSINESS MEN SHOWN "Y" Those Who Contributed to Vof Wouea'i Christian .tMoelattoa I aspect Completed Balldlaa. A gathering of Omaha business men was entertained at a luncheon at ths Toung Women's Christian association Friday afternoon. They heard a final report on the financial affairs of the organisation's new home and were shown about the build Ing. Invitations were Issued to 135 of the buslnsss men of the city and a large num- Mighty Problem Vexes Society Ponderous Proposition on Personal Privileges Wrinkles Many Young Brows Just Now. If a girl has accepted an Invitation to the theater, say for Tuesday night, Monday being the opening of the engagement, has she a right to accept the invitation of an other swain for Monday night? This momentous problem Is now harassing a number of young women known to fame so far as frequent mention In society col umns gives fame. There Is a sharply marked division of opinion ths young women Inclining to the affirmative and the other sex to the nega tive. Ths pros say that the first perform ance will dull the edge of appetiU and therefore ths girl will not enjoy perform ance No. 1 as much as she did tha first and that accordingly swain No. 2 who asked first will not- get full credit. For tha negative It la argued that some plays can be and are enjoyed as much the second time as ths first. ' All local records along this line were re cently broken by one popular young woman who went twice In one day,, one to a mati nee with one person and again In ths even ing with another. It will seem to some girls that there could be a little mora equitable distribution of invitations. There la no danger from croup when Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Is used. "Mian wants but little here below." The best way to let It be known ts through The Be Want Ad column Our Entire Stock of High Class Carme nts at Half Price 15 lO DOUGLAS STREET rrww )) 15 lO This l tha Greatest Clearance Sale Omaha Has Ever Known TTTTT T A noiifii as Saturday. Will Be the Greatest Day of ir WoiierM Clearance Final Closing Out of All Our High Class Tailored Suits, Coats, Dresses, Furs, Etc. sAsTT cJUST MAIUF IPIRICE All Our Furs At Half Price All our $125 Fur Sets, final closing out price. .$62.50 All our $85 Fur Sets, final closing out price. .$42.50 All our $50 Fur Sets, final closing but price .$25.00 All our $35 Fur Sets, final closing out price. .$17.50 Alf our $25 Fur Seta, final closing out price. .$12.50 Al Our $19.50 Fur Sets, final closing out price . . .$9.75 All our $125 Fur Coats, final closing out price. .$62.50 All our $75 Fur Coats, final closing out price. .$37.50 All our $50 Fur Coats, final closing out price. .$25.00 All our $45 Fur Coats, final closing out price. .$22.50 Tailored Suits v At Half Price All $05 Tailored Suits, final closing out price. .$47.50 All $75 Tailored Suits, final closing out price. .$37.50 All $65 Tailored Suits, final closing out price. .$32.50 All $55 Tailored Suits, final closing out price. .$27.50 All $50 Tailored Suits, final closing out price. .$25.00 All $45 Tailored Suits, final closing out price . . $22.50 All $39.50 Tail'r'd Suits, fin'l closing out price. .$19.75 All $35. Tailored Suits, final . closing out price. .$17.50 All $29.75 Tail'r'd Suits, final closing out price. .$14.85 All $25 Tailored Suits, final closing out price. .$12.50 All Our Dresses At Half Price All our $50.00 Dresses, final closing out price. .$25.00 All our $45.00 Dresses, final closing out price .-.$22. 50 All our $39.50 Dresses, final closing out price. .$19.75 All our $35.00 Dresses, final closing out price. .$17.50 All our $25.00 Dresses, final closing out price. .$12.50 All, our. $22.50 Dresses, final closing out price. .$11.25 Capes at Half Price All our $50.00 Capes, final closing out price. .$25.00 All our $35.00 Capes, final closing out price. .$17.50 All our $25.00 Capes, final closing out price. .$12.50 All Our Coats At Half Price All our $05.00 Coats, final closing out price. .$32.50 All our $59.50 Coats, final closing out price. .$29.75 All our $50.00 Coats, final closing out price. .$25.00 All our $45.00 Coats, final closing out price. .$22.50 All our $35.00 Coats, final closing out price. .$17.50 All our $29.50 Coats, final closing out price. .$14.75 All our $25.00 Coats, final closing out price. .$12.50 All our $22.50 Coats, final closing out price. .$11.25 All our $19.50 Coats, final closing out price. . ..$9.75 All our $17.50 Coats, final closing out price . . . .$8.75 CLEARING THE DEC KS OR ACTION December, just passed, totaled the greatest Dzctmhzr in sales in ths history of our business. All departments - retail, branch stores, wholesale (by thz way we have nearly 160 wholesale agencies' in "Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota) contributed their share in sales-breaking all previous records. Quite naturally in moving in one short month such an immense stock of High Grade, World Famous Pianos of such makes as ' ; The Steinway, Weber, Steger, Hardman, Emerson, v McPhail, Mehlin, A.B. Chase, Wheelock, Steck, Stuy vesant and the Hand Made Schmoller & Mueller We were frequently obliged to Accept in exchange on these new pianos used Instrument. v From all of our branch stores, from every wholesale agency, we have assembled here at Omaha these Taken-in-Exchange-Planos, have put them through our factory, thoroughly overhauled them. Where necessary they have been rebuilt. Each Instrument has been repolished, tuned, and made near-to-new. Placed on our floors for prompt inspction and sale Saturday morning are these, the best values ever offered music lovers in Omaha or neaT vicinity. These are not hold-overs from our recent record breaking Golden Anniversary Sale, for that sale cleared our floor of every used piano. We could have sold twice as many to interested purchasers if we had them in stock at that time. You will positively save in purchasing now all the way from $75.00, $100.00, $150.00 up to $200.00 on the BARGAINS IN PIANOS TAKEN-EN-EXCHANGE as compared wiU the regular retail prices when new. There will be no neec to urge Piano buyers to hasten. They will snap these values up. The reputation of this firm insures a square deal on every instrument offered. Lowest prices, and terms that you couldn't begin to secure except at Schmoller & Mueller's. HERE FOLLOWS A LIMITED NUMBER OF THE Pianos received in exchange, slightly used, ' but guarauteed to be in A-l condition $140.00 Columbus $ 65.00 400.00 Davis & Sons 125.00 375.00 Kimball r 150.00 350.00 Mueller, mahogany 175.00 400.00 Knabe 175.00 590.00 Mueller, oak 175.00 425 00 Krakauer Bros 190.00 400.00 Adam Schaaf 225.00 450.00 Chase 238.00 450.00 Corl, new , 250.00 400.00 Kurtzraan 250.00 500.00 Harrington, art style 275.00 600.00 Checkering, new, only 375.00 '750.00 Hardman Grand 400.00 650.00 Knabe, large size 600.00 Art Style Hardman 1,500 Steinway Grand 750.00 Steinway 250.00 Pianola, walnut SQUARE PIANOS. . 400.00 Pease & Co 500.00 Steger, mahogany 375.00 Farrand 500.00 Steger, walnut 600.00 Fischer 600.00 Chickerlng 650.00 Steinway ORGANS $10.00, $15.00, $20.00 AND Packard, Mason & Hamlin, Story & Camp, 400.00 285.00 450.00 ,450.00 175.00 40.00 260.00 265.00 205.00 50.00 65.00 75.0O UP. Kimball. Not to be matched terms of sale are these: No Money Down, Free Stool, Free Scarf Thirty Days' Trial Then $1.00 a Week. Please understand in considering this opportunity now presented that this sale must clear the decks for action by making room for our season's stocks of new 1910 styles. To secure the benefit of the best value of this sale you must come tomorrow, that's certain, and select the instrument which meets you approval. You will find one in our stock that meets your desires in tone, construction and finltdi, . And , more than you expected to receive in the great saving in price. You'll discover what thousands of piano buyers every year have discovered, that QUALITY, PRICE AND TERMS always bear a most intimate relation in the instruments offered and sold from our salesrooms.' These v .lines will not wait. The instruments offered, the money to be saved, the not-to-be-equaJUd term granted U make necessary speedy action. Come Early Saturday 'Morning Doors Open Promptly at 8:00 U clock. SCfSMOLLEH Ik MUELLER PIANO COMPANY 1311-13 Farnam St. Phones Doug. 1625; Ind. Al 625 OUR 61st YEAR OF BUSINESS a fw- Blllilfe; : Tie -Btt-Tle Best iirSmr V