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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-24
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PLATSHEK'S.
iss BRoUGHToN STREET.
HOLIDAY WEEK!
Grand Csrnivs, for Close Buyers:
THOUSANDS and thousands OF Presents
l. have been sold by us IN the past ten days.
and still an enormous line of GiIts are TO be
found on our two floors of Monster Display.
No person-man, woman or child-can de-
eide upon their selection untll our Colossal
Stock is visited.
TIE REASON WHY:
Because Our Variety is the largest!
Because Our Selection ia the Besti
Because Our Prices are the Lowest (,
READ OUR PREMIUM LISTi
Satin Glassware. Rainbow Glassware, Dres-
den and Bisque Ware, Bohemian Ware In
every form of Vase Toilet Set or Orna-
ment Colored Cut Glass Novelties. Plush
and Russian Leather. Work Boxes,
Jewelry Boxes, Dressing Cases, Whist
and Glove Cases. Portfolios. Cigar
Cases, Necessarles, Plush and
Brass, Whisk Broom Racks and
Cases. the handsomest you
ever saw. Plush and Satin
Wall Pockets and slipper
Cases, Japanese trays
and Boxes, Olive Wood
Inkstands and Nov
elites, Brass Um-
brella Stands,
Holiday Handkerchiefs, in Silk and Linen.
Holiday Plush and Felt Lambrequins,
Table Covers and Scarfs, Holiday Neck
wear, Gloves and Ribbons, ETC., etc.
DOLLst DOLLS! DOLLS!
In Blsque, Wax. Indestructible, or any
make known.
A hundred times more dolls than any indi-
vidual dabbler in this city. This week will
witness our tremendous slaughter of the fin
eet and prettiest line of Dolls the human race
ever set eyes upon. We SAY it, we MEAN
it, and we WILL do it.
TOYsI TOYS. ToYst
A Giant department. Our Second Floor
(up stalrs) packed from one end to the other
with every conceivable Toy to please the little
ones, and prices to suit the elders.
OUR GROUND FLOOR OFFERS!
1000 pairs Ladies' Extra Length Kid Gloves,
in all shades and sizes, only 4gc, worth fully
6Ic, to reduce stock.
1926 pairs Ladies' 4-Button Genuine Kid
Gloves down to 73c, formerly 81 20, to reduce
stock.
1900 pairs Ladies' 5-Button Kid Gloves
scalloped top, heavy embroidered back, in
ten shades, down to re, formerly 81 So, to re-
duce stock.
$50 pairs Ladies' s-Button Length Nous
quetalre Kid Gloves, in blacks and tans. down
to Use to reduce stock.
Job lot Misses 4-Button Kid Gloves down
to 75c, formerly $50: never has such offers
been made in the Kid Glove line.
CLOAKS AT WAY DOWN PRIOEsi
Elegant Bargains In Millinery, trimmed
and untrimmed, Hosiery, Underwear, Dress
Fassementries, Fringes, Pendants, Fur and
Feather Trimming, Jerseys, etc.
GREAT AND GRANDi
Will be our Reductions this week. Bantering
competition VIII let out it's wall of woe,
for we intend to make Rome howl!
COME ONE! COME ALI
E@- Out Of town patrons, please send in
your orders, you shall share OF this great
Low Price Parade. Goods packed with care.
Correspondence solicited.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-24
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saws: II have used IL In nervous dyspep-
sia with success. II Is a good nervous
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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-24
GIrltrir Belts.
Electric Belt Free.

ITO Introduce IL and obtain agents we win
il for the next sixty days give away, free OF
charge, in each county IN the United states n
limited number Of our German Electro Gal
vanic Supervisory Belts, price 50. A positive
and unfailing cure for Nervous Debility. Vnri-
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not generate genuine electric current. Adj
drees Nc nnce ELECTRIC BELT AGENCY,
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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28
Not An Electrician.

81. Louis, Dee. 23.-Col. Fiad, presi.
dent VI the board Of public improvements
OF this city, suggests a new and somewhat
novel solution Of the telegraph and tele-
phone wire trouble In cities. Col Flad's
plan calls for iron towers 100 10 l35 feet In
height at each second street intersectieaI
the towers TO consist o: four wrought iron
columns, the base of each being planted al
the corner of the sidewalk, these columns
coming TO common center in thd
middle of the street and I'd
furnish resting place for all tele1
graph, telephone and electric light
wires. COlCnei Flad argues that this sys1
tenn would abate the wire nuisance, as ad
present exists and much more cheaply than
ii could be accomplished by placing wires|
under ground. His plan also embraces!
provision for electric lamps on the towers
for street lighting purposes and provided
wires by which to operate the street cars
on the Steimen's principle, as employed in
Berlin.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28
A Fatal Cutting.

Kansas, City, Dec Ca cutting ARRAY
in which Frank Mulligan was fatally in
jure3, took place at half-pa three O'Clock
yesterday afternoon AT the corner Of
Eighteenth street and Forest avenue. The
cutting was done by three unknown men,
who, from their appearance, were thou ght
to be farmers and who escaped after the
deed was committed. Mulligan in COM
pany with his brother Tom, the Allen
brothers and Ed French, had been drink
ing in saloon on East Eighteenth street,
when he quarreled with the unknown
parties over some slight matters.
They all went out on the sidewalk,
where the quarrel was renewed, and one OF
the farmers used knife with terrible effect.
Frank Mulligan was cut In the abdomen.
He was taken to the city hospital, and the
house surgeon gave it as his opinion this
morning that he could not possibly recover.
French escaped withut injury. Tom Multi
gan was cut in the left groin but will re-
cover. He was also taken to the city hos
pital. William Allen was cut in each
shoulder blade and the hip bone,
and his brother was slashed in the
back. Neither of them is dangerously
hurt. They were taken to their residence
on Harrison near Nineteenth street. Word
was telephoned TO the Central police station
and the patrol wagon was sent to the scene
with squad of officers. but too late to cap
ture the criminals who had hurried away
in wagon.
Chief Speers to-day ascertained who the
nen were who committed the assault and
early this morning Detective Greeley,
Officers Ahean, Ballard and McGowan
were sent after them. Two of them we're
laborers named s. S. Slower and James
Moser. They have been employed on the
Waldo race track on Troost avenue seven
miles south of the city. Slower has a wife
and three children who live at Butler, Mo.
Mosef's family reside near where he was
employed. Both claim that the cutting
was done in self defence, that the others
commenced the assault and without any
apparent reason. 1t seems that they were
all under the influence of liquor. Slower
and Moser were arrested and taken TO the
central station where they we:e locked in
cell No. to await the results of the
wounds inflicted by them.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28
A Bad Blaze.

Chicago, Dec. 22.-The Duily Neus spe
cial from Des Moines, Ia, says: 4 mos
disastrous FIRE, which is still raging, brok'
out at Oskaloosa in the postofice at
o'clock this morning, and despite .h
efforts OF the Ere department, assisted b!
the citizens, the flames are still beyon1
control and progressing eastward, enyelor
ing the entire block in which is locste|
the postofice. Thus far $4,000 worth d
property has been destroyed. The prosped
is that the entire block will be burned
down and loss of 100000 entailed. TIL
FIRE obtained full headwsy before benz
discovered, very few people being on hi
street at the hour the alarm was 6n|
given. At a. %. the FIRE was not undd
control.
4, The aggregated loss by the Oskaloo.I
FIRE amounts to $4,000, insured for S6s|
600. The principal loss is on the opei
house owned by the masons.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28
EXECUTION POSTPONED.
A Tender Hearted Governor asks
the Law Chan ged to Save a
Female Fiend.

Albany, y. Y, Dec. Ex-Governor Hill
to- .ay issued an executive order postpon-
Tag the execution of Mrs. Roxal Ann
Druse under sentence of death for the MUIR
der of her husband from Dec. 29th the date
fixed in the sentence to February %. The
governor says he does this In order to give
the state legislature an opportunity II
modify the law of capital punishment in
is concerned the case is closed
and the woman must suffer the
penalty of her crime on the day fixed I'M
less In the meantime the laws shall have
been changed. The governor says that il
was a clear case of murder and that he can
find no reason for interference with the
penalty except the sex of the condemned,
which the Law does not take into account
He says: The evidence shows that the
killingiwas most brutal and atrOcioas in
its character. The family consisted of the
deceased and Mrs. Druse, the daughter,
Mary, aged nineteen years, the son George,
aged ten years, and nephew Frank Gates,
aged fourteen years. A quarrel had occurred
in the morning OF the homicide between the
deceased and the defendant at the break
fast table. The deceased was still at the
table and during the quarrel of words,
the defendant went into another room and
took loaded revolver which was there,
and putting il under her apron returned
and whispered 10 the boys to go out doors
which they did leaving herself, the daugh-
ter Mary and deceased In the room. Mary
then placed a rope around her fathers
neck while he was at the Ia BILE and the
defendant fixed the revolver once
or twice at him, wounding
him and he fell over sideways in his chair,
while the defendant being unable to make
the revolver go off again, called to the
nephew, Frank, who came into the house
together with the boy George, and where
upon the prisoner gave the revolver to the
nephew and under threat of killing him,
compelled him to fire it off two or three
times, and the deceased being hit by the
shots rolled off the chair upon the floor,
and then she seized an axe and hit her
husband on the head with it and
continued hitting him on the neck until
she chopped his head of. She then caused
the head as we'll as the body to be taken
into The parlor, and during that day and
evening the body was cut up with an axe
and was burned in the stove. She threat
ened to kill the boys if they told what Oc-
Cured. During the evening Mrs. Druse
and Mary were amusing themselves by
playing checkers in the adjoining room,
where the murder had been committed,
thus showing the uReoncern and utter lack
of feeling of the whole family. Mrs.
Druse had previously made threats against
the deceased. There are other facts al
most too horrible for description. The
daughter Mary, aided and assisted her
mother in the murder, and pleaded guilty
to murder in the second degree. She
was sentenced to states prison for life.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28
A Strange Suicide.

Chicago, Dec. 23.-Mrs. Jennie Johns
daughter Of Henry c. Munich, former
wealthy board of trade Spectator and vi
Of a young lawyer at Knoxville, low
threw herself into the lake at Thirty-nini
street to-day. Her rich apparel an
beautiful face attracted the attention of
srnup of boys who saw her Fastening d
ward the breskwater. The saw her Jump i
to the ice and drf, that was dashing again
the pier. A rope was thrown to her
the boys, but she refused TO grasp it, III
body was rescued by a policeman befo|
life was extinct, but efforts to resuscitate
we're of no avail. She had visited Il
Office of DR.. Chamberlain half an hol
previous to her death But he was So bu|
and she was so agitated, that he told her
come TO the Office tomorrow and explsI
her case. IL is stated by frienI
of Mrs. Johnson, that n
intellect, previously brilliant, has bel
more or less unbalanced since her adm I
lance to the Iowa bar four years az
Over study is the cause assigned. M
johnson came to Chicago only short til
ago to place herself under the care of
physician. Her husband was to have be
hereto morrow to spend the holidays
her company.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28
A Queer Divorce Case.

Chicago. Dec. 22.-Jndge Sheppard is
just now ransaeking the law library in
search of authorities hpon one of the most
knotty questions which has ever demand
ed the attention of the county divorce
court. 1t appears from the evidence thu;
enc William Oldberg, being in straight
ened circumstances took his wife to ques-
tionable house and there left her expect
ing her to support him on the income
from her shame. She did so for while
but finally tired of the life, and entered
suit for divorce In the hearing of the
case the above facts were proven the divorce
asked for upon the ground that whether she
went into the house in question willingly
or not, the fact that her husband took her
there and lived upon her income was suf-
ficient ground for the annulment of the
marriage. But ii occurred to the Judge
that the complaintant's voluntary infdeli-
ty to her husband, even at his instance,
formed bar in law granting a divorce,
and although the woman's attorney vigor-
orsly combatted this view, the Judge pre-
ferred to look up authorities. So far he
has not found any, and it is believed that
this is the first time in the history of the
legal Jurisprudence of the country that
a similar case has been brought before a
court fer adjudication. The decision,
therefore, when made will take high rank
as a precedent.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28
No Use For Highwaymen.

Kansas City, Dec. 22-Henry Thomas,
colored, was tried before Judge Worthen
to-day for highway robbery and discharged.
The prosecuting witness is a colored man
named Henry Williams, who claims that
another individual walked up to him last
evening, took S2S from him and handed it
to Thomas. He caught the latter but the
other got away. When the court asked
him why he did not follow him, he re-
piled:
"Your honor, once | had a suit of
clothes stolen and l followed the robber
fifteen miles. When | met him he had
pistol and made me get down on my knees
to beg his pardon and then go home"
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28

Berlin, c.'23.-The snow storm wh
caused the railroad blockade at ORES,
and Leipsig continues. A postal serv
by sledges was started to-day betw,
Chemnitz, Penig, Leipsig and ott
centers.
A telegram from Chemnity says I
coal and provisions are very scarce tn
and that there is great want of cattle
slaughter.
The Bourse to-day closed depressed I'm
the influence OF a renewsl of the sales
realize dealings together with an incre
ing demand for money. The Church
incident has shaken confidence in the 1
bility Of the Salisbury government and
vived fears of impending war. 1t it
ported that Dr. WindthOrst has inform,
General Van Schellendorff, minister
war, that if the government should proca
with the formation OF new cadets for
first of April, the Reichstag would be G!
tain to give bill of indemnity, but
center would 60 no further
The commission of staff officers continu
making arrangements for new troops n
as If the bill was already passed.
The war ministry is Fastening the n
duction OF repeating rifles.
The Post states that the workmen
the factories at Spondon have been refuI
the usual Christmas holidays.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28

amounting 70 nearly SIC per day fol
his services?
docs any one suppose that distric
or local assemblies would have ap-
proved of the adjustment Of the in.
surance secretary, and the placing OF
the moneys with a former secretary
who. in one short year, fell short in h:s
cash accounts s536.35.
docs any one suppose that district
or local asse blies, with knowledge
of mans defalcations and embezzle-
ment Of money, would instruct their
delegates TO vote that man into q po-
sitiOn in which he would handle all
the money and be wholly and totally
irresponsible for its safe deposit with
the proper officer?
"An secret circulars go first to the
press.
"Place hunters and mountebanks
abound.
Emergency means Doodle for the
general officers.
"Ten Thousand in two years will
set Terry up as nabob.
1.-THE new assessment will buy
houses for each one of the new board.
Hurry up, boys!
Every dollar taken from the treas
ury, based upon the unlawful action
at Cleveland and Richmond, is that
much money stolen from the order.
Mark that
st is not a matter of discussion as
to what wac involved in the Missouri
Pacific strike. Its success was as
sured but for the arbitrary interfer-
ences OF Powderly, who declared it
off
1.-The rank and file of the order
must be set Of fools if they will con-
tribu:e to the deliberate steal con-
cocted by Litchman and approved by
Powderly and the corrupt cabinet at
his elbow.
"Will come one Of the pioneers of
Michigan be kind enough to commun-
icate with this Office and tell, if they
can call 10 mind, when our Uncle
Dick Trevelick did an honest days
work? Give the exact number Of
years, please"
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28

; AFTERNOON SESSION.
Promptly at 100 o'clock the court recon-
yened and the work of enpane.ing the
! jury was aenewed. A large number were
f. called, but objections being raised all we're
rejected. Finally at $3.50 o'clock two more
men without convictions of any kind were
found, and their names are George Nc
Dougall, a farmer, residing In Shawnee
township, and j. X. Barbee, farmer, living
six miles from Wyandotte. At the close
OF the day five men, all farmers, had beer
passed by both sides and FIVE more had
been accepted by the state. When thirty
men shall have been chosen to constitute
the panel, jury OF twelve will then be Sc
lected from among them. Thirty-Dine
persons were examined to-day and Judge
Hindman stated that he would order
another venire to be issued returnable on
Monday next to which time the court adj
journed. 1t is thought that the jury will
not be completed before Wednesday next.
In Newport's case q change of venue
was granted to the Psola court which con-
yenes in February.
Following are the names accepted Tor the
panel by both sides:
j. &. Barker, III. Schlagel, Geo. Nc
Dougal. j. B. Tabler and Joseph Com
stock.
The Judge stated that in selecting names
for the new yenire be would draw from the
remote districts Of the county. The crowd
in attendance to-day was not as large as
usual.
One great question which is attracting
much attention in the selection OF jury is
the knights of Labor question. One Of the
attorneys assisting the state in the case
said this morning: knights OF Labor are
orn in their organizations that they
must not divulse the fact that they are
Knights When they go on the stand they
say they are not Knights. | know of at
least two, now on the panel, whs swore
yesterday shat they were not knights, who
are IN nesiity members of that organiza-
ton.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28

New York, Dec. %. General Master
Workman Pawderly has written a letter
TO the secretary of good templar lodge in
Brooklyn in which he says: L am pleased
to know that my humble efforts in behalf
Of the sacred cause OF temperance meets
your approval. have never said any
thing upon the subject that did not mean
and the sentiments that / have expressed
fail to convey the full depth of what l
do feel upon this subject.
regard the use Of strong drink
by men and women as the greatest curse
that can befall them. To the use of IL
guor can be ascribed nine-tenths of the
ills that befall our working people, and
while onr working people are always held
up as most likely TO be injured by the use
Of rum, il is only because through poverty
their faults are more easily discovered
than those on the other side, who drink
fully as much and are as much the slaves
of drink as the working people. the only
difference being in the quality of the
drinks. One has to content himself with
ive-cent beer, the other with fifteen dollar
champagne. The effect is the same and
the use OF both should be abolished if We
hope TO have strong men and women for
the future"
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28
Crenated.

Cleveland, o., Dec. 23.-The farm he
OF Caleb Russell, near Saybrook, o
caught FIRE at an early hour this morn
When the neighborslarrived, Russell,
was 80 years old, and his wife, aged
had escaped from the house, but they '
so much overcome by the heat and SIN
that they died shortly afterwards.
demented son, who slept up stairs,
burned to death.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28
More War RumOrs.

London, Dec. 23.-The resignation
Lord Randolph Churchill from the c
net, has caused sensation. The desir
increase the expenses of the admir-
and war offices to which Lord Randolp
opposed, indicates, it is believed, that
government is OF the opinion that E
pean war is imminent.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28
Abolish Girl.

Wiikesbarre, Pa, Dec. 23.-Miss
thilds Meyrack, daughter of Robert I
rack, superintendent of the mine at
wardsyille, committed suicide yesterds
taking chloroform. The cause was
disappointment about her marriage,
the prediction of fortune teller that
would be miserable for life if the mar.
did not take place on certain day.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28
Locked Out,

Fall River, Mas, Dec. 22.-The en-
ployes of the Wamsutta wooden mills were
paid in full this afternoon. The finishing
department will be run until the work on
hand Is completed, but the other depart
ments we're shut down tonight, pending
the settlement of the strike of veavers.
This action is the carrying out Of the de-
eision announced by the managers not to
recognize any labor organization or treat
with any committee.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28
LABOR LOOTERS.
The ''N0ble Order Getting in
Their Work i'm New
York Again.
An Anti P0wderly MOve-Lock-
ing Out the knights.

New York, Dec. 22.-The employees on
the central cross town road have been
dissatisfied with their treatment for long
time and the district assembly of knights
of Labor, have decided to ''tie up" the
road tomorrow morning unless an agree
ment is signed. A 'tie up" is also antici-
pated on several of the Brooklyn roads
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28
The Coal Miners Strike.

Lstribem, Pa, Dec. 22.-The coal
miners assembly of the knights OF
Labor is in session here. The
strike that is threatening the
COnnellsvllle coke region will probably be
averted. Tomorrow a conference will be
held in Pittsburg between the coke work
ers and coal operators.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28
Horse Thief Captured.

Mcpherson, KS, Dec. 23.-Johnsc
horse thief was arrested here Yesterday
made his escape. 1t transpired tina
has dispose I'd of seven head OF stolen ho
in that vicinity. He is supposed to be
OF an organized gang.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-28
Ripe For The Rome.

Little Rock, Ark, Dec. 2S.-Threats of
lynching are being made against VIM Per-
~ a..rd Jas. Graham, in Jail at Fayette.
vile. There are eight indictments agains
them for murder and arson. They have
killed eight or ten men, including deputy
sheriff Mounts and Marshal w. D.
Patton.