Omaha daily bee., 1891-05-30
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS SHIP
Plans Being Perfected to Construct an Exact
Duplicate Of the Vessel.
SENATOR POWERS STRUGGLE FOR LIFE,
\ Difficult Operation Performed and
the Patient VIII Probably Re.
Covcr-Discovcry of Well
Preserved Corpse.
CurcAeo orrrcr OF rnr BEE. !

INltNttl WAY ~ ,
Lieutenant Little OF the navy, who has
been detailed 10 supcrintend the construction
OF the vessel that will TO an exact rcproiuc.
tiou OF the one on which Columbus sailed TO
the new world on his voyage OF discovery,
has gone to New York to consult with shtp.
builders. Lioutenau: Iittl nas in his pos.
session the Measurements and outlines Of tho
vessel derived from authentic sources, but
it will be necessary for him to so to Europe
to obtain accurate descriptions of the in
terror. The vessel must be constructed
within the next year, as she is intended to
lead the procession Mt the great naval review
in front of New York in Otlobor 1872 Tho
vessel Will be towed through the Wcland
canal and TO Chicago and be exhibited dur
ing the exposition. The contract for the con-
structon of the vessel has not yet been
awarded, but will bo soon aftor Lieutenant
Little returns from New York.
SENATOR POWER WILL RECOVER
For three long weeks Senator Power Of
Montana has been trcadng the line between
life and death. Last evening his physician
called upon him at the Auditorium and per.
formed very linicult operation with sue
cess Today he sat up in his bed for the
fir st time in twenty-oue days. HIS life has
been dcspaired of day after day, but now 1t
is thought that he will recover. When ho
was taken sick Mrs Power came east at
once, and she did not leave his bedside
during his sickness. She thinks that he
will be able to walk around in n week or SO.
REMARKABLE PRESERVATION or \ CORPSE
The body of Mary Ann Gricr who dislp-
peared from her fathers house near Wanna
tab, Ind, nearly forty years ago,
doued IRON ore pit near there
Some peculiar quality of the water has kept
the body in n wonderful state of preserva-
tion, although tho clothing is completely de-
stroyed. Not only is tho contour OF the form
as perfect as in life, but even the color has
remained unchanged. The arms and shoulders
are as white as marble, the hands are brown,
and one of them still bears the STAINS of the
berries with which she was working tho
afternoon of her disappearance.
PRIEST CAUSES AsENsNrIoS.
Rev. Thomas f.. Cashman pastor of
st. Jarlath's Catholic church ut Jack
son street and Ogden avenue, when asked by
one of his parishioners TO christen child
Garfield" refused and gave rs the reason
for so doing that ho knew nothing in the life
of Garfield that stamped him pre-eminently
as Christian. Then he added:
81 do not remember, either, that Garfield
died with the consolation of any church A
Catholic who dies without extreme JUNCTION
or the last rites of the church. dies the death
Of a dogh
St Jarlath's is one of the wealthiest Cath
olc parishes in the city and also one of the
most fashionable, and the utterances Of
Father eastman have created great SenSa-
ton.
ODDS AND ENDS.
Carter Harrison, in speech last night, in
timated that if Mayor Wash burne concluded
not to run for a second term he might be in
duced to take the office again himself
Frank Rose, the patent medicine man, who
was arrested, charged with forcing his wife
TO drink poison and released because she re-
fused to prosecute, tried to cut her throat
with razor yesterday and was again taken
into custody.
gypsy whom Mrs S. M. Walker of 2iS
Indiana street has permitted 10 tell her for
tune as matter of charity, informed her two
weeks ago that she was about to come into n
fortune. Mrs. Walker has just received from
firm of lawyers in Brockton, Mass, $4,000
inherited from an uncle.
The authorities have decided to inaugurato
n warfare against swinging signs, wooden
Indians and similar street obstrucuops ana
nuisanccs.
WESTERN PEOPLE IN CHICAGO.
Among the western people in Chicago to-
day were the following
AT the Grand Paclfic-Charles Turner,
Omaha; II. II. Clarkson, Mr.. and Mrs. G.. X.
Mead, Das Moines Ia; Miss Nettie King,
Rapid City, S. D.; Hon. j. l.. Doliver Fort
Ogden.
AT the Palmer-J. II. Millard, Mrs Frances
Hopkins, Omaha.
At tho Audtorum-A. - Van Kuran, Miss
Van Kuran, Thomas H. McCague, Omaha;
MIR. and Mrs. Russell b. Harrison, Helena,
Mont
At the Shcrmau-W. Stull, Lincoln, Mob
AT the Tremont-P. Pavesich Omaha.
ATKINSON.
Dyspepsia has driven TO an carly and even
suicidal grave many man who, if ho had
tried tie virtues of Aver Sarsaparilla,