.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
