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THE BEE: OMAHA. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1010.
QUAINT NEWS OF THE YEARir, .lERDMAN JURY IS STILL m'TZZ? rZZ Earthquake Reported y
thud hi-. vunert rti-lmnx1 Fredrick j , out amin." If T "I IT '(
iroui ituwur Otimui urn i
Odd and Interesting Hunnfnin
Bunched for Review.
Ilmt altered
Jr., ami
BARIOUS "BUGS" OF HUKASITY
(nlnrldfnm aad ( prr n f Infinite
Variety Wfclrh frif Hptrr
for C nrrfBl ,
'Ilumin Int.rMt."
Trin nwrpor rentier. conmioilv or
not. I ali" looking for II, aid it takes
no ln xrwr1nc to Kiio him tt.at li-
la not l't to find It "firM la(. top nil- ,
umn." Hint r y may b rlmmirlpil U.rre.
but, a nd Hannah Wore once wrote: I
" "Tla trifles make tlie tim of human
thlnfta." and "hark" In hl papt-r, half
burled, perhaps, among" the real estate
ItemK, will be uaually come upon the un
considered "little thins'" which beet tell
tha Joya and aorrowa In refpor.ae to which
the world's heart beat.
Nineteen ten hM proved thin over and
over again. January began the story on
It very first day when a Fhlladelphla
man. Frank Anelo. reported himself at
the Pennxylvaiiia hospital for treatment.
Ida heart waa giving; him. no end of trouble
evry time he looked at a pretty girl. He'd
turn dlniy and the pavement would rlae
and fall like the deck of a ahlp at aea.
Tha doctors sal.l they hadn't had a case
on the record like It sine '81. and Anajelo,
when dlamlaeed. took a aolemn row al
ways to look tha other way when passing
tha Quaker Ctty maldena.
To Jump acro tha continent, tha aame
Initial month of the twerve, brouKht tha
oddeat of happenlnRB to P. W. Severaon
of Portland, Ore. Back In '. rather than
Ion a week's wages and a shotgun, which
ha had lent hla employer, ha took (under
proteat) a corner lot. WxlOO feet. On the
day In question It aold for Just tO.OOO.
Looking for her ahare of something of a
Ilka sort, Mr. Bumeral Dennis of Pade
vllle. Ala., entered a claim for a pension
In January, and lo! the bureau's annals
showed that her very patriotic husband
bad died threa Umu; In U1S, after service
In tha war of 12; In '47, after having been
prevent at' all tha Mexican flrhtlng, and
now (again) a few yeara atto, with a civil
war experience for a grateful government's
consideration.
A Bolomoneaqa Rale.
Under the Identical date of this last dis
patch, Indianapolis told the world of a
local Solomon, Mayor Shank, hearing two
cases of violation of the saloon closing
law, ordered the saloons In question shut
up until the owners hod attended church
on at least one Sunday morning and had
remained throughout the service. The
clergyman mt atu t the fact In writ
ing. Alderman Donohue of Wllkesbsrre, Pa..
did as well as this when, last March, he
decided that John Buckson, arrested for
drunkennesa, couldn't fairly be fined the
usual dollar as he had a wooden leg, which
naturally waa not affected. "You're prob
ably two-thirds drunk," was the decision.
'It'll coat you Just 67 cents."
Wken Judge Mulowney of Washington,
examining William Thomas as to the state
of his mind, asked him the name of the
president of the country, and heard the
reply: "Ah doan rightly know. Jedge.
There's Mist' Taft an' there's Teddy!" he
found the .man wholly sane.
Most curious of all the legal causes of
tha year, however, was one reported from
Stockholm, where Albert Vystroem had
been fighting In the oourts for his skele
ton -Some years ago he signed a con
tract with the Royal Institute of Anatomy
making over hla body, after deatn, m re
turn for a present sum of money. Then
he oame Into an unexpected fortune and
tried to cancel the deal. The case waa not
only decided against hlna but he was or
dered to pay damages to mo pVj v
second part for having had two teeth ex
tracted without their permission.
Another couple of Items of not dis
similar sort were these: Judge-Lea of El
Paso ahowed hla regard for Bt. Patrick
by releasing all Irishmen brought before
him on March 17 under bail of a sham
rock each, and an Eat Liverpool (Ohio)
grand Jury found George Brown's theft of
some ostrich plumes, valued ordinarily
at $50, only a petit larceny, as It was a
bargain day when he helped hlmeelf-th
plumes had been marked down to IJ3.
(And poasibly the figure suggested the
attempt!) ,
W Spencer Smith of New York, dining
at the St. Cnarlee at AtlanUo City, made a
yet better bargain on January . for In
a single oyster he bit upon no less than
nine pearls, which later proved worth
several hundred dollars. A fomlght
later, Andrew Carnegie announced. "I ve
mad up my mind not to make any more
money If I can help It." Us a matter of
polnt-of-vlaw as to which happening waa
the odder, ,
Navel Bargalaa.
Somewhat like the Swede and hla
skeleton was a Chicago man who offered
his eorpae (when there ahould be one!)
to the highest bidder, and a poet-chap In
Omaha who advertleed to lease hlm.elf
for a y' under reaaonable terma.
but Cornelius Pace of Beverly. N. J.,
went all these a few better. He was sell
ing a shoetnaklng bualnws to one Auto
Bl" Flourers. and his wife deciding that
rimirtri to Pace, she was
sua (n" -
thrown in" for full mea.ure: shop,
i,uMin( owners for S0.
This naturally brln.s the ladles Into the
ouasUon. and 1810 made aeveral entries
concerning them, in the firat place there
was Mrs. Elena 1. Smith, who for five
years posed successfully as a man. all to
. ifiin ht from a Boston physl-
Th. there was Mrs. Amy D. Win
ship of Racine. Wis., who. In spite of her
to years, entered the Ohio State university
at Columbus, electing pmu.i.-j. .- -chology
and literature a. studies best
suited to supplement the time she had
Just been spending at a summer school
near her home.
In October. South Bend, Ind.. witnessed
the marriage of U.ace Gilbert and Gilo.
K. CelV.n, the out-uf-the-ordlnary detail
hare being that the bride had a beard
eighteen inches long, while the groom
could boast of no more than a very elim
niualai iie.
Hut Dalhaxt. Texas, beat all of these
with a aew version of the widow's cruse
parable. Mra. Josle Pettis Uvea near
there, her lltUe farm barely supporting
her. Late lu January, during an unsea
sonable and aevere thunderstorm, a bolt
of lightning ripped up her hillside pasture
and uncovered a spring of cruds oil thst
has ever since been running a couple of
hundred barrels a day.
Yet another of the fair sex to figure tn
Uie twelve-months news was Mile. Olga
Preobralenskale, who has been appearing:
at the London Hippodrome, "supported
by twenty dancers." The number was not
much to be wondered at considering her
name, and yt she has not wished to
change it.
Not so with a lioston Norwegian (that
la he had been natual;sed In the Hub of
the lulverse. having given up the North
Cape for good, who applied to court to
change the name he had then chosen.
Kruse was he born, but Crusoe waa he
aaturallaed. ai'4 Robinson being hla first
earn be found the combination Ureaome.
''""k Thirey. and he had
thotifh tlie rw y l im John H
not Hohert Psry.
A Itlval f Kan M.
New Jersey liai always oefi almost as
prolific as Kansas In Its peculiar dolna.
and the last fw months have rod no i .
exception to that mlr. For a thf to
rrtnrn a stoh n pockithook. with Its $11 in
1 touched, the wi;ole accompanl by a con
j tritp apolosry (which was what happened
j at Newfleld ,'n the sprlnr) miRht have
j taken plar sn where, though It's not sn
; ever j day port of or-rurrence. after all. tvit
where rls- In the wiile world could a mem
oir of a sleeping hotisi-hold have heen
awakemd by a buxzing moS'piltn to find
out Jkat the bul'dl-vr waa afire? That waa
the exprrien,-.. of Chnrl.ji Brows.m of Hev- f'1 no,n- aflpr " oa" hd l,0Pn in
ReporU at Noon that it is Unable to
AgTee on Verdict.
ESTELLE ORDERS THEM BACK
- n Made Dnrlna Twenty
One Hoars the Mew Had
Been .
Hotelcfs dis?crenint over the orestlon
tti'lVr or not Frank K'flm.in Is irulltv of
: attempt na to murder Tofit lennisnn with
I an Infernal n-ar'-'ne n Mar 21 w;i rc
IK.rted hy the Krdman rae Jury to Jtidgo
i R-i( lie In rilstiict coJrt at li;1 Tuesday
wife
erly. aa told by the morning paiwa of
September 10.
It Was left to Jersey, too. to set the
hardp't of all questions askrd sppll'mnts
for pos tiona as enumerators. It ran: "How
would you rliysifv a child born on the
hlxh seas of a French mother, to a Gtrman
father, and brought to Atlantic City to
liver-
Caldwell. N. J., has announced the find
ing of an albino muskrat. and at the Wfst
Jersey depot of Vlneland the freight hand
lera had roast chicken, thanka to the third
rail system. Biddy happened along P o';
ln up stray gralna and atepped on (hat
rail ami before a wooden pole could he
secured to push her body away. It was
done a rich golden brown.
But Rocksburg, Warren county, takes the
palm. The cover was left off the apple
mash trough at the cider mill In fctoher
snd ten up-to-the-then Innocent cows got
at It. Their frlskings, their attitudes, and
at last their don't-care lethargy was the
talk of the country aide, and a nearby
"vet" had a busy hour bathing bovine
heads In Ice water.
Hew llanpenlnas.
Vlneland and Rocksburg do not. however,
monopolise the chicken and cow dlapatchca.
Half the country has been Interested in
Washington's riddle, "Is a hen a bird?"
raised by an egg Importer who wanted to
get around the Payne-Aldrtch tariff tax.
Then came Michael Singer of Chicago with
a hen minus the beak. Instead of which the
lady had almost human lips, with a first
rate Imitation of a human nose above
them; she had to be fed by hand, quite
naturally. Finally, Tomklnsvllle, Staten
Island, produced a socialistic tale Of a
partnership home run by a hen and a cat.
There were eight chicks, and there were
four kittens, and these, with the two fond
mothers, shared one, and when pirate rats
came nosing after grain Tabby took them
in, thereby both protecting one act of
youngsters and feeding the others.
As Nfor cows, what could be more sad
Oan the story Stamford. Conn., now
tells of Maude, onee owned by Dairyman
William Olmstead? She had been deserted
by her husband, her only child had been
rudely torn from her, and as melancholy
settled darkly down she came upon a box
containing four sticks of dynamite. What
followed waa a foregone conclusion. Maude
ate the dynamite and that's all. '
The comet brought yet another ben-hap
pining. William -Scott of Ithaca keeps
chickens and never have they acted as
chickens should not till the Ilalley talk
began to fill the papers.' Then a hitherto
perfectly proper member of the flock laid
a oomet-egg, with a well-developed tall of
a good two Inches, covered with something
noticeably harder than mere shell. '
Adam Toms, residing in the outskirts of
Budapest, committed suicide because of the
aerial visitor, leaving a note saying he pre
ferred to die by his own hand rather than
be killed by .a wondering star.
(taatat MUobi. - -
Lawrence, Mass., set! a record In July,
when Mayor .White went to Jail for three
years, convicted of conspiracy to bribe,
and there continued to fulfill the mayor
alty duties, even to appointing an excise
Commission within an hour of being locked
up. In September a record of another sort
was announced from Bowling Green, Ky
when -the hair of 7-year-old Walter Coving
ton turned pure white without rhyme or
reason, and Richmond, Ind., has produced,
In Mrs, Everett Parker, a grandmother at
28. Herself married at 13, her 16-year-old
daughter, now Mra. Charle Lane of Indian
apolis, became a mother In March. Mrs.
Parker's mother and grandmother are both
living, so that five generations now figure
In the family's present-day history.
L. M. Raynor of Rlverhead, L. I., away
back ln,190 lost a watch and chain to the
woods hear his cottage, nor did aeveral re
searches bring them to light Last June,
passing through the grove, he suddenly
saw the watch dangling from a stout twig
at about the level of hla eyes. He believes
he must have bent the branch down when
passing there eighteen months, ago, and
that It picked his pocket for him.
A Detroit woman, with a new hat In
mind, drew $10 from a bank, and a gust of
wind drew It from her and sent It flying
across the street. A small boy, driving a
goat, chanced by, and Nancy calmly and
expeditiously ate the ten. The woman
charged the small boy with the theft A
policeman. y called In, and the youth
proved his Innocence by killing the goat
Then the Treasury department, issued the
woman a new bill. No one has as yet
issued the boy a new goat
In October there were married In the
national capital a couple who separated
within an hour of their nuptials, never In
tending to meet again. Mlaa Eugenie Sauer
of Vienna found herself helreas to a dead
uncle's fortune, but It was stipulated In
the will that she should become a wife
within forty-eight hours of the announce
ment of her legacy In order actually to ob
tain possession of It. She adve. Used for
a highly temporary husband, offering $J0
ror his brief services at the altar. Seventy
eight offered to accommodate; a likely fel
low was chosen; the service was read:
chilly good-by s were exchanged (and two
new $lu bills) and the bride started for
the steamer which waa to take her to
Austria.
If there Is here obvious material for a
new novel under the well-worn title of
"Maid. Wife or Widow?" surely, too. It
must appear that there Is much raw ma
tenai lor romance as well as humor
through all the "little events" of an av
erage year. New Orleans Times-Democrat,
SASONEFF DEAD IN PRISON
laferaaatioa Give Oat fcr
Officials that Death Is Dae
la Salvlde.
ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 11. The report
that M. Sasonoff, who on July tt, 1X4, as
sassinated Minister of the Interior Von
Plebve. had died In the prison at Zarantul
waa offual.y confirmed today. The death
Is attributed to suicide.
Recently rumors that Sasonoff bad beaa
fatally Injured by a flogging were Id cir
culation. According to the governor of the
prison, the officers discovered a plot to
release the political prlaonere en masse,
A large sum of money had been collected,
of which 2.4 had been amuggled lo Saaoo
off. The authorities thereupon reinforced
the prison guarda and stopped all communi
cation between the convicts and the outer
world. They also ordered corporal punish
ment of two convicts. As a protest against
these measures, three of the prisoners sev
eral the arteries In UitJr wrists and three
others. Including aaouotf. took fatal doses
of murptilue.
Jury's hands for twonty-on hours and
forty t-iinutes. Judjre Es'.elle Instructed the
Jury to resume its rftorts to airree and
sent tt out again. Jury Haillif Klrkendall
then took the twelve men to lunch, the
rarty returning at 1 o'clock.
The Jury'a report confirmed the "dope"
of speculators on the result who at t
o'clock Monday night declared 'their belief
that the jury would "hang." The theory
was thst the jury became so divided Mon
day afternoon that there was but one hope.
that being that inspection of the Dennlson
and Deutsch premises might change the
opinion of one aide or the other; that In
stead of so doing the Inspection merely
convinced each side more firmly that Its
view was the correct one.
Judge Estelle. John O. Yeiser, attorney
for Krdman, Sheriff Brailey and Deputy
Sheriff Mead were In the court room when
Jury Bailiff Klrkendall, under Instruction
of the court, brought tn the Jury. When
Judge Estelle aaked If a verdict had been
agreed upon George T. Zimmerman, fore
man of the jury, arose and gave a negative
reply.
"What are the prospects T" qeuettoned
the court.
"There are none," was the answer. "It
Is hopeless. We have made absolutely no
headway since wa ent Into the Jury room
and took the first ballot yesterday."
"This Is a aerlous case," said the court
Mny Kers Jrr I ons Time.
Jmiee ltelle Old not ask how the Jury
st.md. After the Jury had been taker! to
hineh he was asK-d how long he would
have ihe Jury de'lberate before accepting
a verdict of disagreement and dinrhargliig
it. "I have not decided." he said. "1
have known Juries to be kept out sixty
or seventy hours."
lHputy I nlttd States MuiKhal Tom Clatk
of Cation (Ity, Colo deputized by tlie
warden of the Coloiado state penitential y
lo rot.ie to frnaha and take Eidman buck
to the western state penitentiary to serve
1:0 Mtuaininti two yer.i-s or a 8 ntence Tor
Kiaut larceny, was not in tiie court room
Tifiiay.
To:n Pfrmlyon and Detective Steve Marine.-
upt-nt a.i hour waiting f ir a verdict
Mr. I'rnnlscn raid tint MapK'e Smith,
hi servant, who left his service the day
after the finding of the dynamite suitoafe,
hm returned. She has asked him to tele
phone her immediately If Krdman Is ac
quitted and given his liberty, declaring
she will leave the house again If such Is
the result
"I am a goner In this trial." Erdtnan Is
quoted a having remarked shortly before
the case went to the Jury-. "But that won't
hurt; I'll get pardoned out by the gov
ernor." The prisoner msde these observations to
a deputy sheriff at the county jail In the
course of a discussion of his cae.
Erdman Is said to have pointed out how
the evidence against 'him appeared con
clusive and conviction certain.
"I am a good Judge of testimony and I
can see that I have no chance," he said.
Sine Shocks B'-orded by the Seismo
graph at the St. Louis
University.
ST. LoriS, Dec. 11 Nine earthquske j
fhockr were recorded by the St Louis ,
1'nlvfis'ty seismograph between 6:10 and i
7.3H o'clock this morning. The center of ,
the disturhance was estimated ti be 110'
nile southwest by west of the lower!
coat of California. I
Washinalna llecords Karthanake.
WAMIIMSTON. lec. 13 An larthquakel
of moderate intensity lasting over an hour j
and a quarter was refolded today by the
seismot-'inphs of the weather bureau. It j
btgan at 7;0J o'cl K-k this moining. Oft!-4
cia's estimated the orinln of the disturb- j
anre was at a distance exceeding i,JV0 or
6.W0 miles from Washington. An accurate
estimate could not be made owing to the ;
absence from the record of certain charac- j
tcristic features. The motion was chiefly
in the east-west direction and maximum
occurred at 7:36 a. m.
BARBER SHOT IN THE BACK
Peter Betolml Instantly Killed When
He la Oat Trrlasr to Collect
a Bill.
GREENSBCRG. Fa.. Dec. 15-Peter
Petolml, a barber of New Madison, Pa.,
went to a boarding house early today to
collect a bill. A quarrel ensued and he
was shot In the back, killing him Instantly.
Troopers raided the house and arrested
twelve.
THREE MIGHT RIDERS GO FREE
(Irar. Boaart llavrkloe Aeqeltted
on Charge of Helping to M or
der Cooper.
EDPYVILLE. Ky.. Dec. lS.-The Jtrry
trying the "night rider" cases this morn
ing returned a verdict of not guilty as to
Part Creek murder, Alonto Gray, Jim Bo
xart and Rryan Hawkins.
The men were charged with being ac
cessories to the murder of Axiom Cooper,
a witness for the state.
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS
F. A. Sesman, claim agent for the Great
Northern railway company, Is In the city
on company business.
Colonel 1. C. Galhip, who haa'been at
Excelsior Bprlnga several weeka for his
health, returned last week greatly Im
proved. Colonel Gallup la one of the most
popular and most successful stockmen of
Nebraska.
of the
Court
illsBMaS
Boo Building
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Will Qe Held in Large Room South of Court
The Following Churches
la at TSiesr
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Ilavo Their Fair
rid 11 D
Omaha's
New Cafeteria
Formerly Robertson's Cafe
308-310 South 15th street,
Will open Wednesday,
10:30 A. M., on a
Quick, Clean, Pure Food Plan
"So different from
others." Once tried
will give you the
habit.
All meal books honored at our
16th street basement restuarant.
C, W. Robertson, Prop
pas
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For
First 1
English Lutheran Church of Benson
Home-made quilts, comforters, aprons, and many other useful articles of varied de
scriptions. Excellent home-made bread, cakes, etc.
.Sanscom Park ?I . Church
Kimonos, dresses, coats, kitchen and fancy aprons, corset covers, dustless mops, Chinese
drawn work, doll's kimonos, fancy work of all descriptions.
Art work scenes of Omaha in water colors and oil, hand-painted dinner favors, original
designs.
Chicken sandwiches Wednesday noon. Oyster 6tew, Thursday, 25 cents.
.orth Presbyterian Church
Home-made handkerchief aprons of various 6izes, fancy articles, home-made candies,
hand-painted china, Chinese drawnwork.
'A beautiful Mexican drawnwork table cloth on which they hope to realize $50.00.
Silk quilts, etc.
Don't Forgot to Take Your Lunches Vith ths Christmas Fair
ot tho Churchss Served Evory Day From i 1 :30 to 2
Last Two Weeks
in the Old Building
Help us move and at the same time get the benefit of a
big 20 per cent discount on nearly everything in our store.
SUGGESTIONS FOR GIFTS
Nirkfl Plated Cast Steel, Hard
ened Runner Skates, regular
price, 11.75, leu 25 per rent,
at 81.32
Rarer and Coaster for boy and
girls, regular price $2.00, less
25 per cent 81.50
$3.AO Scroll Saws complete with
stand and patterns, less 15 per
cent $2.98
Chafing Dishes, good lamp, nickel
or copper, regular price i&.ou,
less 20 per cent 84.00
Coffee Machines', complete with
alcohol stove, nickel or copper,
6.50 value, less 20 per cent,
at 85.20
Towel liars, all brass nickel plated
regular price" $1.25, 20 per cent
off 81.00
Five O'clock Teas, nickel or brass,
with b6t lamps, regular price
$4.75, less 20 per cent 83.80
Brass Andirons, regular 915.00,
less 20 per cent 812.00
In all of these we have less expensive Items at the same discount.
KITCHEN UTENSILS
20 PER CENT OFF.
STOVES AND RANGES
15 PER CENT OFF
Fireless Cookers 10 ff
Mnl
CO. ;
It AND FARNAM STS.
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Thursday is Home Day.
Don't forget the list which dealers
will have for you.
You will no doubt find suitable prop
erty for a home.
Why not make the whole family a present of a home for Christmas?
This is probably a more expensive present than you figure on, but you cau
buy on the easy term plan make a payment of a few hundred dollars dowo
balance in monthly payments like rent. It will only take a few years to pay
for it and then they have a present that will be Increasing In value aU the
time.
In the real estate columns of Thursday's Bee will be found a great many
choice home bargains advertised for sale on the easy term plan.
, Got them a present they will be grateful for for the rest of their lives.
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Onihe WjO Trail j
All winter long, In Sunny California, you may play
golf, or tour in an auto over ideal roads. Try your luck
at deep-sea -fishing, go sailing, or bathe in the Pacific surf. Visit the
old missions, too. And you can stay at great resort hotel world
famed for their luxurious service.
Just ona best way to "Santa Fe ill ths Way" to Loa AnieK
nKm Dirgo, ban Francisco. Juu ona bM train to take The California
mrted. Exclusively for firu-rlaM travel. Krrd Harvey duuna-car
meais sod Pullman lor Grand Canyoa of Aruons.
I will fltiij mi r M rcqwn thrrt an booklet, of till, inla ass trip.
femud Lanaer. Cracral Afcac 406 iuoa AmuM. D Molaca leva
- (alirniajimited
Measure The Dee against other oca)
papers m respect of quality as well as
quantity of timely news and interest
ing articles from day to day and The
Bee's superiority will be demonstrat '