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FHE ""OlvrAHA" IJTATLY BEE NEWS SECTION TOATIIXR FOBECAST. For Nebraska Cottier. For Iowa--Fair and warmer iAJLa ONE TO TEN. VOL. XL- NO. 1.MO. OMAHA. SAITHPAY MOUXIXO, MAKC'll ''."), -TWKXTY PAGES. SINGLE COPY TWO CENTS. OMAHA MEDICAL DILL IS PASSED House by Vote of 51 to 41 Acti Upon Hundred Thousand Dollar Appropriation. OMAHA CHARTER RECOMMENDED Substantial Cuts Made in Possible Appropriations. WATER BOARD AGAIN INVOLVED Senata Refuses to Make Its Abolition Impossible. OLLIS BILL PASSED BY HOUSE Mftiirr for gtrlet Herniation of Ktock Yards Will fin to liOTfrnor for Slaiiaterr rrlnre Boul of Control Bill ramri. (From Hlaff Correspondent LINCOLN. .March 24 (Special.) By the margin of one vote the Sim.ono appropria tion for the medical department of the state university In Omaha wan carried In the bonne this afternoon, rl to 41. The opposition to the bill waa well or ganized and the report of the standing committee was a cause of prejudice against It. A numerous delegation of Lincoln doc tors wax on hand to defeat it if possible. A call of the bouse was ordered and after It had ben raised they asked Representa tive Hatfield, who has led the fight against It, If there was no chance of a reconsider ation. Carrying the appropriation of $100,000 mill result In the establishment of the full four years' course in Cmaha. The Omaha Medical college will receive the entrants for the medical course when they finish their two preparatory yeara tn the academic department. All of the work for the medical degree will be In the laboratories and lecture rooms in Omaha. It is likely the bill will have a favorable reception in the senate. How (he ole Stood. The roll call waa aa follows: AYES. Ann Mailer. rlnn-ls-y. ItarleiB, llaaaetr. Honham. llulla, Htiahea, bum, (larks, lrt. Kani man, Kssanherier, Kills. Krlea. (Irotaman. timelier, Ouatataoa, Hardin, H. lllser, Howard, Jrthtv on. Kotnur, Lawrenra, Ixtl'llch, I. tver, MM mil. Melirer, Merer, Moody, Mnora. Mortarty. MrArdla, McKlaalrk, NOKS. 0ndy, tlerries. Haalk, ilaidela, Heraog. llnspodaky, llouah, Jones, Kent, Kirk, l,lndey, Vat, ' Mnrkatt, Murphy, Nlr. Nelaon, orfl Potta. Prints, Pula, xltiackenbuah. It I ha. lUtberta. Han born. Shrtemakar, Sink. Skeen, Smith, ' Htablilna. Taylor of iiltchgwk SL Allen, Anderf .n, tlaskr, Hrerht, (oIIimi, roiitn, inll, Itoalai, Kager, y.vana, Plllov. Ku Her, tiallaghsr, (.all. McCarthy. Vi-rl.llan, McKelvte, Norton, fteean, 8agl. HchtatlS, Hehuelh, fUndelsr. Swan, Taj kw (Mrr'cW; Watt. Spaaakr Kuhl 4L Absent and not voting: nolan, Clayton, Halltr. Hoi max, John. Hstamsn, WMtnaM, Minor, Omaha Charter Reeommended. Thw Omaha charter bill originating In the house with the amendment that were made by the senata committee waa ordered ngrnseed for third radlng by the senate cnmmlttte. In accord with the demand from the real estate men and others who have complained about the high assessment provisions of the bill, 'the committee recom mended tt for passage with cuts amounting to 00,(W in t he appropriation, for variou. my expenses. Theae cuts Include $10,000 from the gen eral fund. $6,01)0 from the fire fund and from the police fund, $10,000 from lighting, street cleaning and repair grading, each, and $60,000 from the bond sinking fund. Water Board Tangle. The Omaha Water board, which waa taved from destruction In the amendments made by the house committee to the com mission form of government, la aubject to abolition again by the changes which the Senate special committee made In the Ban ning bill. The apeclal oummittee, appointed to consider the three commlsaion form of government bills, recommended for third reading and passage the Banning bill, which la the same as the Metsger or Omaha Ad club bill and also the Tanner bill. The house bill waa changed through the efforts of R. B. Howell to exempt the water board from Its provisions In the event of the adoption of auch a government (Continued on Fifth Page.) THE WEATHER For jsrebrask a Cooler. For Iowa Generally fair and warmer. Shippera Bulletin Prepare thlrtjf-slx-hour shipments, north and west. for. tem peratures close to freealng; forty-eight - , hour shipments. In other directions can be made with safety Tessnyratnre at Omaha Teete rd" 1 Hour. Peg. t a. m a. in J." 7 a. m a. in M a. ra (- 10 a. in t: 11 a. in i.t l.' ni i . 1 p. m. i p. m S p. m 4 p. ui i p. in p. in ' I'- I" i in i.ut'al Iteeord. i ,:t j'l 1 U4U . Highest today lowest today Mean tempeiature . I'rwlpitalluu Temperature aud ,li, ..3 i3 v 4: r r depart- , l .Mil precipitation urea. Normal temperature Kxcess fur the !' Total excess sin. Aiarch 1 Normal precipitation )efUiency fur tu kiay Toial rainlail s.uce Murth 1 I tendency since Mar h 1 liefulan. y fur vol. period. lilO Usfl4eucy fur cur. pei lod. 1... He ports from Slalluas at T au nit a 1 Inch .63 Inch Station and Butte of Weather. Chtyenne, cloudy Itawnpurt, cloudy ltner. cloudy Ies Moines, part cloud Podge City, pert cloudy Temp. High. Haln I p ui. T o y. fail. i4 . tat .ui mi hi 12 0 1auidor. clear North Plane, part cloudy. t4 Itnisha, part cloudy n Pueblo, pjrt cloudy ivi rtapld City, clear en Sa t ).ake t'liv cloudy 4 snnta Ke. clear 42 Jloui Cliy, clear &s talentlne cloudy M U A. WELsH. Local Forecaster. Masked Men Blow Open Bank Safe at Hudson, Kansas Bandits Cut Telephone Wires and Stand Off Citizens with Revolvers. HI'DFON. Kan.. Mr:'n 24. -Five men blew up the safe of the Hudson fitat bank early today anil after seriously wounding I Max Hloe, a night watchman, who at- j templed to grapple with one of the robbers, i e.c.ped with tt.soo. ! Uefore the roliberK entered the bank they ' ere discovered by Night Watchman Ilice. The watchmnn struck one of the men over I the head with a lantern and ran. The) robber shot at the fleeing man. wounding him. The men then entered the bank and j blew the safe. The town waa aroused at the flrat ahot. but while two men worked ' Inside their comrades stood outside dis charging their revolvers to Intimidate the cltlxens. A woman, Mrs. Ous Witt, wife of a mer chant, alone retained her nerve. She heard the shot that wounded Ilice. flushing to the vicinity of the bank she saw Wire's body in the road. Vnder the fire of the j robbers she reached the watchman's side . land determined he was seriously hurt. 1 Then she turned and ran through the fire to a physician's 1 orat The robbers per mitted the physician to pass and to attend Wee's wound. Hefore entering the bank the robbers cut all of the telephone and telegraph wires out of the town, leaving no way for citi zens to alarm neighboring cities. After work of the men Inside had been finished the robbers rode away In a large touring car. According to officials the robbers took all the money In the bank except $40, which was overlooked. It consisted of Sl.TiOO in gold, 11.000 in silver and $2,000 in currency. TOPE.KA. Kan., March 24. Bank Com missioner Holley haa offered a reward of l.'iOo for the capture of the men who robbed the Hudson bank last night. Four Fire Fighters j Are Killed and Two Others Fatally Hurt Sixteen Men Working on Roof of a Burning; Building at Milwaukee When it Collapses. MILWAUKEE. March 24-Four fire flghtera are dead, two others are dying and several othere are Buffering from more or less serious Injuries the result of the raving In of the roof of the building of the Mlddleton Manufacturing company, wholesale hattere, XA Broadway, today. The dead: CAPTAIN JACOB HENTZ. RICH A KD BURKE. L.IKI TENANT JOHN HOOLJHAN. FRKD U KICIIEUN. The fire had been burning half an hour and between fifteen and twenty men had been fighting the flamea from the roof of the fqur-atory structure, when suddenly the roof collapsed, carrying them through to the basement. .. . f ' A number of tha firemen were burled tn the debris, while ethers eeacaped through baaement Windows. The money loss la plaoed at $100,000. , When the body of .Captain Jacob Hentl waa taken from the ruins, a brother, Cap tain Benjamin Henta waa on the ladder juat outside the window to receive the corpse In hie arms. Captain Henta did not know that the body he carried down the ladder on his ahoulders waa that of his brother until It .. ., In lha srma nf the other j on Moss Has Not .Made Report in Thomas Case Ex-Congressman David Mercer Visit Postoffice Department in Search of Paper. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, March 24 (Special Tele gram.) Offlriala of the Postoffice depart ment and Civil Service commission said today that the findings In the matter of the chargea of Pan Tlllotson against Post master B. F. Thomas of Omaha had not heen received from the special agent sent to Omaha to examine Into the case, but they supposed the findings would be re ceived some time next week. Kx -Congressman David Mercer waa an anxious Inquirer at the Postoffice depart ment today aa to whether evidence In the case had reached the department, but waa i Informed that there waa nothing doing after diligent search had been made to locate the report of Special Agent Moaa. who sat with J. C. Llndbland. a repre sentative of the Postoffice department, during the Investigation. John Broderick Not Guilty of Bribery T'.iry Out Only Twenty Minutes in the Case of Illinois State Senator. -t'Ki N, ;FI KIJ), III . March 24 -State l stnr John Broderick was f mnd not i ty bv a Jury In the iingunion county rcu't co'ft this afternoon. The Juiy was ;t t went v minutes. i'tode'icU huh clnrKetl uith hrlb.Ty in ' rounevt.on witu the election of United J 1911. 1310. 190 lft I States Senator ! airliner. Testimony was J 7k ul 4inrard st the trial tlsl he had given l-.V to former State Senator I'. W. Holtslaw f luka In consideration .f the Iuka sen ator's vote for Ixtrimer. 1 ...... i h.i.i 40 money In Broderlek's saluon in Chicago. ' 1 While the aenate aubcommlltee was In- .06 Inch Instigating tne iximnrr riruiun in -ui--uu tie ti cago last summer Uro.lcrlcki refused to 41 Inch Lnir some of the Questions sskvd hlin. taavlng refuge behind his constitutional p.lvllcge to decline to Incrtinluake himacUt. REFORM IN CUSTOMS HOUSES All tCwplsyes Must Do Work for Ki err Fall fell Hay's liar's Par. WASHINGTON. March ft. "A full day , ; work for every full day's pay," Is the order .' which haa been flashed in el ery customs house In the I nlted States by direction of (U ' Secretary MacVeagh. U cpplles to every ,,i0 1 man In the customs servk-e. from col .' I lectors holding choke appointments with V salaries running Into four figures to tbe Jtevdorn h8 M MEXICAN CABINET I KESIUNS IN Wv Diaz' Advisers Give N-' fill! Leave Governmes Special Met i at PRESIDENT POSTPONES ACTION Crisis Arises in Affairs of Republic to the South. . INSURRECTOS ARE HOPEFUL NOW Tnto of r, pQS pi...,,! .,ti, T, tOUT S NOdHieO. Statement, JTJAREZ EXPECTING AN ATTACK .. , tirntrr. n-Ve Hern Doubled and the Troops Are Actively I'repar Meet an Aa anolt. It til I.I.KTIN. MKXICO CITY. March 24.-The Oias cab inet resigned in a body at a special meet ing today. The president deferred action upon the resignation. F.T, PASO. Tex.. March H Min'ster T.l mantour's modified statement, published here today', created much satlsfarMon among the Insurrecto leaders. It was re garded as substantiating the hope, which had not been entirely ahiinclniird, that some form oi a peace proposition would soon emanate from Mexico City. The revolutionary Junta offlclnls think It Is likely that Stnor Llmmtour and Pres -dent Plas will grant all reforms demanded. "Whatever reforms are offered, they must be based on the agreement that War. shall be removed and that the Insurrecto shall maintain arms during negotiations." said Gonzales Garza, the Insurrecto secre tary of state. The Insurrectos fear, it was stated, that President Ila will grant partial reforms pertaining chiefly to the state of Chihua hua, which would have the effect of ap- peHshig a large element without enabling Madero to achieve a complete success. .las res Kipectlng Attack. The activity of Mexican troops at Juarez was continued today, the sentries having bten doubled last night In expectation of a possible attack by Insurgents who are known to be near the city. In compliance with a request from Wash ington that American prisoners Imprisoned at Juarei be given sanitary quarters munic ipal officers today had the Juarez jail whitewashed. C. P. Converse of Olendora, Cal., haa filed additional evidence that his son, I-awrence. and Edwin Blatt of Pltssburg. now In Jail here, were captured on Ameri can soil. He has forwarded to the state depart ment statements of county officials, line riders and customs guards that what la called Ancon de Ouadalupe, where Con verse and Blatt are said to have been cap tured is In the United States ' and that the government has exercised de facto Jurisdiction over that territory ' for two years; .. . -- These statements were filed with the State department to controvert the state ments of the Mexican Jefe at Guadalupe that he considered Ancon de Ouadalupe Mexican territory. Consuls Looking; Oat for Americans. WAHINUTON, March 24.-laaing cogni zance of the press reports that four Amer icans had been executed by Mexican sol diers in Chihuahua and four others at Agna Prleta the State department today Instructed the United States consular offices in the vicinity of the two places to Investigate the reports Immediately. The consul at Chihuahua was Instructed to I squire Into the report that John Ham ilton IHgnowllty and three other Americans had been shot to death In the state of Chi huahua under the orders of a Mexican court-martial. The consul at Nogales will Investigate the reported execution of four Americans, Adams, Young, Howard and Shanley, after having been captured with the insurrectos at Agua Piieta. State department officials today an nounced they had no official information of the reported execute. Last Victim of Explosion Found. OOM'MBCS. Kan., March 24 Crushed under an enormous rock. Indicating that lie was running fur safety when killed, the I body of Thomas Cheek, a miner, last vic- tim of the explosion In mine No. 16 of the Southwestern Coal company last Satur day, In which Superintendent Jopllng and three miners lost their lives, waa found by searchers today. Scene at the Court House After - .-- .- -r- . -.(WW! -- Hr" ( - , yU cV ii-f n H V v- - i, n u ... -'- w j ? eAfNT- ; FIRST FLOOR OF ' I !ij Y ' Prom th Chicago Kvnlng Put. "This is a deuce ROBBERS MAKE RICH HAUL1 Iron Mountain Train Held Up Near Coffeyville, Kan. THB0UOH SAFE IS BLOWN OPEN Bandits Delay Train More Than Two Hoars and Make Their Ksrape from Scene In Two A n tomobfles. COFFEYVITjLE, Kan., March 24. For two hours laat night six masked men held St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern passenger train No. 104 at a standstill on the prairie about six miles south of this city while they blew open a safe in the express car and escaped in (wo automo biles, carrying with them money and val uables, which It is believed will amount to $20,000. ' V The train left Little Rock at 1:30 a, m yesterday, bound for Kansas City. It waa made up of a combination, barrage and ex press car. a day coach, a' chair car, a sleeping car. a dining car, an observation and smoking car. The train was a "slow one. It reached Lenapah, Okl., just south of this city, over the Oklahoma line, about 10:30 last night, three-quarters of an hour lata. ' Bandits Are Methodical. Just after the train left Lenapah Engi neer Lynch heard a sharp cry: "Hands up!" Turning, he saw a masked man sitting on the tender pointing a revolver at him. "I'm going to ride a little way with you," said the man. "Prlve on!" The engineer drove on. About four miles out of Lenapah the man made the engi neer atop the train at a place where the tracks crossed - a small culvert near a clump of trees. Five more masked men came out of the clump, and, taking posi tions on either aide of the train, began to shoot Into the air and along the sides of the train. Then, while two of the men stood guard to prevent any passenger front leaving, the other four marched the engi neer and fireman to the day ooach uaad as a "Jim Crow" car and locked them In there. One man then took a position , to guard the rear of the train and three went into the express car, forced the two express men to Jump out and stand where one of the side guards could keep them covered with a revolver. After nearly an hour s work the men (Continued on Fifth Page.) x" .'S X."''' ' - h;. f " iV'." ' A -i. ' DTNAMITED BUILDING. WHERE GREATEST DAMAGE WAS PONS Out of the Game . , . l I . i -J of a time for a fellow to cut his George A, Pearson of Fort Dodge Found Dead in Washington Brother of Widow of Late Senator Dolliver Dies Suddenly in His Room at National Hotel. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON. March 24. (Special Tel egram.) Oeorge A. Pearson of Fort Podge, assistant clerk to the senate committee on agriculture, was found dead In his room at the National hotel this morning. Mr. Pearson was a brother of Mrs. Jonathan P. Polllver. widow of the late senator. and had been a guest at the National hotel for several months. Last night he retired at the usual hour and aome time after reaching his room railed for a .bowl of milk and crackers.- These were pro cured, placed beside his : bed and this mortng !heh discovery of ths demise was made, the food waa found untouched. Mr. Pearson had been In poor health recently. It Is stated, and death was supposed to have been due to heart .failure. Mrs, Pol llver has been notified by wire and pend ing the receipt of a reply Manager Wood of the hotel is having the remains pre pared for burial. It Is believed by friends here that directions will be given for shipment of the body to Fort Podge for Interment. ANOTHER MARTYR TO SPINAL MENINGITIS Dr. Raymond W. Brown. Who Waa Treating; Greek Immigrants, Dice addealr of the Disease. NEW YORK. March 34.-Dr. Raymond W. Brown, house physician of the Hudson Street hospital, It was learned today, died of spinal meningitis yesterday within twenty-four hours of the appearance of the first symptoms of the disease. His Is the second death within a few days of a physician who la believed to have contracted the disease through contact with Infected Greek Immi grants. Pr. Brown's death followed closely that of Pr, Edward F. Ashley, the bacteri ologist on Swlneburn Island, under similar circumstances. , Physicians could not re member a rase of meningitis where death followed so quickly the appearance of the diseaae. Pr. Brown waa 26 yeara old and was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania In the class of 1909. the Explosion . ' ''- 'x. right thumb!" CONTRACTORS' OFFICE BLOWN Attempt Made to Destroy Caldwell & Drake Plant at Columbus, Ind. "V smmsmmss-S TWO CHARGES ARE EXPLODED Office Bnlldinsr Is Badly Damstrd and Bla Derrick Tartly Wrecked Bloodhounds gent from Indianapolis. COLUMBUS. Ind., March 24.-(Speclal.)-Tho office of Caldwell & Prake, contract ors and builders here, waa wrecked with dynamite last midnight. About five min utes later a dynamite charge was set off under a big derrick 100 feet away and it was partly wrecked. It is believed here there is a conspiracy to do the firm dam age wherever It has work. The firm has contracts In various places. It has no labor trouble and it is stated here that no men have 1een - discharged. The night watchman is Wesley Weaver, who makes the rounds regularly. At mid night he had rung In an alarm for the back, office and had gone only a short dis tance away when the dynamite charge exploded under the desk of Frank Hanlka, the superintendent of the plant. The desk was demolished. Everything in the room was smashed by the explosion except a large picture which hung over the desk, The glass of the picture waa not even cracked. Immediately after the explosion Ambrose Mathla, a grocer who lives a short dis tance from the office, thought he saw a man In front of his store. He fired five shots at the man, who disappeared. A moment or two after the explosion a car riage drawn by two white horses and with ths aide curtains closely drawn drove away rapidly from the scene. Indianapolis bloodhounds havs been sent for. The damage waa moatly to the build ing. Blue prints and valuable papers es caped. HEARS TWO DISTINCT It WORTS Man on West Farnam Street Noted the Concessions. 'I was on Farnam street about half way between Twentieth and Twenty-fourth," said a gentleman whose experience has made iiim aomewhat familiar with dyna mite and other high explosives, "when I heard the explosions. The first sounded like two five-Inch sticks of dynamite, but they did not go off together. They made distinctly separate reports, a very .appre ciable Interval between the two. They were sharp and clear, sounding like good dynamite, well detonated. The second ex plosion came quite a little later, should say two or thres minutes after the flrat. It had a muffled sound, as if the dynamite had deteriorated." ROOIBVELT'I PICTIHK JAKRED Chromo of Streauoas lx-Presldent Is Thrown from Wall by Shock. A picture of Theodore Roosevelt over the transom of a door In the office of the clerk of the district clerk was practically the only thing in the old court house be sides a few windows that was disturbed. The picture waa found In the morning by the janitor lying on the floor fare down ward with the glass smashed. While the picture of the former chief executive re posed in Its ruin on the floor a picture of Lincoln smiled serenely out of its frame on the well nesrest the court house not even moved out of line by the force of the shock. WILBUR WRIGHT TAKES STAND IN PATENT CASE itor of Aeroplane Testifies Salt Against Farmaa and Illerlot. In PARIS. March 24 -Wllbur Wright was a witness today before the civil tribunal of the Seine, which Is hearing the ault brought by the French ownera of the Wright Bros ' aeroplane patents against Farman, Hlerlot and others for Infringe ments. Mr. Wright traced the efforts of the brothers first with kites snd then with planes until finally they Invented the mo-blie-vertlcal tall and forward rudder, "utter which." said Mr. Wright, "the prob lem of equllitrlum ess solved and the era of human flight arrived." These principles, the witness said, were I patented in 1M and were nut divulged, as tbe defense contends, before the patents I were granted The case was adjourned un it II 111 arch 30, a hen arguments will be j made. DYNAMITERS DAMAGE NEW COURTHOUSE Two Charges Are Exploded in the Building a Short Time Apart. v. - REWARD OF $1,000 TO BE OFFERED County Board Takes A:tion to Bring Capture of Criminals. BLOODHOUNDS ON THE TRAIL Try to Follow the Scent to Find the Perpetrators. LOSS PLACED AT SIX THOUSAND 1 Ml 'Police Say the Job is the Work of Amateurs. ANOTHER PLANT 13 DAMAGED lminilte la Ki ii -! in Hie Indiana Plant of t ulilncll .V llrnke, t n trneture of llullillua, at the Manic Hour. Suspected of being Implicated In the dynamiting of the new court house, George liixhop, alias llcrt Thomas, a plumber, was arrested at 7:l o'clock last night. He was put through the "sweating" process three times last night and was un- al.le to give u clear account ot hlmaolf. Significance Is nttachi-d to the fact that he admltw having slept In a boxcar In South Cmaha lai-t muht. for the blood hounds on the trull yesterday led the de trctive to a enr In the lower railroad ards. He claims to have lived In Louisville, Ky., up to seven years ago. It Is In Louis ville that Ucoigc W. Caldwell Is located at the present time. Hlsliop says that he has been in (iinalu for four years, though he la not able to account for any length of residence. When pressed he claims to have been in Kaiirin City recently. When arrested he had Mime clothes wrapped up In a Denver paper. What Caused Arrest. Bishop's arrest followed a conversation he had with A. J. Ailler of 415 South Nineteenth atreet, at Seventeenth and Harney. He accosted AOler and asked hlin where he could get a battery to fill bis searchlight, insisting thai he needed it Immediately. His actions were so suspicious that Adler called for the police and this caused Bishop to take flight, orflcer McUougat Went in pursuit and located the suspect at Sixteenth and Howard struets. Bishop la a mush appearing fellow and ia Judged to be between 21 and 30 years old. i hough he claims to bu a plumber his hands are aa soft as a woman's. When searched a revolver was found on his per son. t tactically simultaneous explosions did damage to the new Pouglus county coutt hcuse in Omaha and wrecked the uttlees of Caldwell & Prake, the constructing con tractors in Columbus, Ind., yesterday m irn ing. He ward of l,(l(IO Offered. A reward of 11,000 has been offered by the county commissioners for the arrest and conviction of the perpitrators of thi dynamite explosion. This action waa taken at a committee meeting yesterday after noon. The resolution as drawn Is unani mously favored by the board and Is sure of passage at the regular meeting today. Hloodhonnds on Trail. Bloodhounds were put on the trail ot the dynamiters at 8:30 o'clock in the morning. After a scries of trails the dogs followed the scent about the city to a point In Rivervlew park. Estimates ot damage vary from Sii.OOo to 115.000. A rigid examination of the ateei work will be neceNsary before accurate estimates can be made. Two Separate ( llaraes. Two chargea ot the explostve placed in the aouth and southwest parts ot the basement of the building blew out lour partitions on the tirsl and aeconu floors and caved In fifty square feet of floor space, causing a damage estimated last night on hasty examination, at from $10,000 to Slfi.000. Witnesses to ttevond Shock. The first explosion came at 12:66 o'clock. Firemen from the No. 3 fire station across the street west of the court house ran to the street and stood for a second before the proximity of the explosion could be learned. They hurried to the basement ot the court house from which a light smoke, smelling of dynamite, emanated and were searching for the damaged part when the second charge at 1:10 exploded. Fearing that a fuse to a third was burn ing, they ran from the building and stood American theater tickets free today Sec if your name ap pears in The Dec's want ads of today offering American Theater tickets free. You don't have to advertise to get these seats. Findyourname and the fjift is yours. The Bee is also giv ing away today O'Brien's delicious, candy. FurrelPa fine tjyrup. Updike's fine flour.