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The herald., 1896-05-04
CRIPPLE CREEK VICTIMS
Thought to Be More Numerous Than
Heretofore Reported
Church Hsmbers and Theatrical Performer s
at Denver Join In Providing Relief
for the Destitute

DENVER, Col, May 3.-A special to
the News from Cripple Creek, COL,
says:
1t is feared that the loss of life from
the last fire here will be found to be
greater than was supposed and it is
likely that search of the ruins of the
old Portland hotel will disclose the
burned remains Of two and possibly
more people. Inquiries started here to-
day developed the fact that a shoe
a--.------~s 1~ar, C'i.> >ei--.ssti, ouPp~saa tn
represent the Standard Shoe company
OF that city, was occupying room IA in
the 1ll-fated hotel. A woman who oc-
cupied the room adjoining reports that
about half an hour before the fire start
ed she heard some one fumblng with
the lock of the adjoining room, and look
ing out saw man apparently under
the influence of liquor entering the
room She did not hear him go out be-
fore the alarm was given and 1t is sup
posed that he went to sleep and per-
ished IN the flames. Today woman re-
siding on the hill reported that during
the fire two big travelling mems cases
marked IS. S. Co.. Cincinnati" were
brought from the Portland and left in
her care. The reports that DR.. Bacon
had been seen in Gillette and also in
Colorado Springs have not yet been YER
ihed, and 1t Is now believed that his re-
mains will also be found in the ruins.
BENEFIT PERFORMANCES
DENVER, Col, May 3.-Four leading
theaters of the city tonight gave bene-
fit performances for the Cripple Creek
sufferers. At the Tabor was Hoyts A
Trip to Chinatown. Peter r. Daley.
the comedian, who last week sent sew
eral thousand loaves of bread to Grip
pie Creek. also appeared and was Wild
ly cheered. There was large audience
as was also the case at the Lyceum. Or
pheum and Broadway theaters. The
benefits will net about $10OO Each
church in the city also donated the con-
tributions to the Cripple Creek people,
and in this way very large amount
was secured.
The herald., 1896-05-04
The London Markets

LONDON, May 3.-The unexpected
South African developments for the
week have proved a check to the specu-
lative tendency recently developed in
the stock market in other directions in
addition to the African market. The
demand for investment securities at
the present prohibitive prices has tenn
porarily ceased. Home railroad securi
ties, after sharp decline on the Pre-
toria news, were again advanced on ia
vorable traffic reports. Italian and
Spanish securities were firm. South
Americans were strong on the, settle-
ment of the Argentine Chill dispute.
Mines soon recovered from the fall caus-
ed by the Pretoria news. The condition
of the market appears to be that the
favorable news, such as the granting of
the Uitlanders' demands by the Trans
vaal government will produce a sharp
advance.
Grand trunks were easy on the bad
traffic returns, and Americans were ad-
versely affected by the threatened gold
shipments. But better feeling prevails
regarding the financial situation in the
United States. Except for fall of two
per cent in Atchison preferred, the
changes for the week were only fraction
al, but were generally downward.
The herald., 1896-05-04
GEORGE S. coz DEAD
A Famous Finsncier Goes Over to the
Msjorlty

NEW YORK, May B. George S. Coe,
who was for thirty-seven years presi-
dent of the American Exchange bank.
died today at his home, The Cliffs, at
Englewood, N. J. Death was from pa
ralysis. He was stricken for the fifth
time on Saturday.
George S. Coe was born in Newport,
r.. l., in 1917, of New England family,
Of which Priscilla Mullins. the heroine
, of Miles Standish's Courtship, was the
most prominent ancestor. He came to
this city in 1888 and was in the banking
concern of Prince. Ward and King. It
was largely owing to Goes mastery
financial ability that the scheme of issu-
ing clearance house certificates was first
resorted to in 1873, to tide over the
money stringency. This at that time ar
rested the threatened commercial ruin
at the time of the failure Of Jay Cook
The herald., 1896-05-04
A Missing Man

NEW YORK, May 3.-Adolph Comins, a
travelling salesman employed by M.
this city, has not been heard of Since the
2sth of February last. He left his wife and
chiidren & at their s. home in Roslindale, Mass,
on November rs, to go on the road, and
wrote regularly to his wife two or three
times week up to the latter part of Feb
ruary; His latest letter was written from
the Pfister hotel. Milwaukee, and dated
February 20. He disappeared mysteriousiy
from the hotel, leaving his trunks filled with
samples ims ppnfseaa and "a satche behind. Mrs Com
ms hotinea the police department in Mil
WauKee. put up to the present time the au-
thorities have not been able to locate the
missing man. His wife believes that Com
his prolonged absence as he was in no WA "
financially embarrassed. '
The herald., 1896-05-04
THE SULTAN SCARED
Newspapers Are Forbidden to Refer to the
Subject

LONDON, May A Constantinople
dispatch to the Times says that the
murder of the shah has thrown the sui
tan into a state of excitement. Foreign
kilograms are excluded and the local
papers are forbidden to refer to the sub
ject.
The Times has a dispatch from Te-
heran which says that Mozafer All Din
has confirmed the present grand vizier,
the Sadir Asam, with full powers.
Arrests have been made in connection
with the assassination of the shah. The
murderer states that he is an emissary
of Jem Aleddin and other well known
Persians. 1t was intended to murder
both the shah and grand vizier. The
news of the murder led to disorder and
the looting of bazaars at Shiras. The
governor took prompt measures to pay
arrears of salaries to the troops and to
assure the people. Quiet is now re-
stored. The shah has confirmed his eld-
est brother, Zil Ed Sultan, as governor
of ISpahan.
The herald., 1896-05-04
AN ACTIVE VOLCANO
rIauna Loa's Worst Crater Resumes Active
Operations


HONOLULU, April 23, via u. S. s.
Concord to San Francisco.-Mokuaw
weo, the long inactive crater on the
summit of Mauna Loa, 5000 feet above
kilauea, and over $4,000 feet above the
sea level, became suddenly active on the
morning of the23rd instant. This is the
first disturbance in Mokuaweoweo since
1885. These manifestations in the past
have been the most destructive of any
on the big island. From them all of the
big lava flows have resulted.
The first of great Importance of which
there is any record occurred in 1845
In 1855 there was a tremendous lava flow
that came within six miles of Hilo
There were other flows in 1856, 1859.
1868, 1880. 1881 and 1886. The one of 1880
81 lasted nine months, an unusual length
of time, and came within half mile of
Hilo town, ceasing after all had prepar-
ed to move.
This government has decided not to
allow any more than 700 immigrants to
be landed at the port Of Honolulu, or
any other port In the Hawaiian islands
at any one time.
The herald., 1896-05-04

& Co. Mr.. Coe was chosen president of
the National Bankers ASSOCIATE In
1881. He was treasurer of the Children's 8
Aid society, the senior director of the
Mutual Life Insurance company, direc-
tor of the Fidelity and Casualty Insur-
ance company, the Postal Telegraph
company and trustee of the board of for
eign missions of the Presbyterian
church. Mr.. Coe was a well known writer
on financial topics and was thoroughly
versed in financial history. President
Lincoln consulted with him in the days
of the war and it was Mr.. Coe who came
to the rescue of the government on the
first bond issue during the civil war.
The herald., 1896-05-04
Ball Games

CHICAGO. May 3.-The Colts made 1t
three straight today. The batting was
about equally divided, but Briggs had
the better of it in keeping hits scatter
ed Attendance 17,231. Score:
Chicago 16, hits TO- errors 5.
ST Louis T. hits IA, errors 2.
Batteres-Briggs and Donohue; Hart
and Douglas.
LOUISVILLE. May 3.-The CoIoneis
lost another game today through their
if ability to bat at critical stages and by
bad base-running. Fraser pitched good
ball, but received poor support. At
tendance S000 Score:
Louisville 3. hits 8, erors 4.
Cincinnati 5, hits s, errors 1.
Batteries-Frase and Warner; Dwyer
and Vaughn
The herald., 1896-05-04
4 Sjo DjsfjlIerv

TERRE HAUTE. Ind, Nav s-Georpe
L. Wolsey of New York, who built here
about year ago the largest dstillery in
the world. which was afterwards purchased
chased grounds and will at once begin the
construction Of another distillery with
capacity. of 5000 bushels. 1t is understood
dicate outside of the trust that has al
ready made contract for placing the out
Put Of the plant The new distilIery will
and will cost over 81. 600, 900. 1t is expected
to have the plant in operation by October l.
The herald., 1896-05-04
New York Temuerprce

NEW YORK, May S.-There appea9 led
little change in the situation in the en-
forcement of the Raines liquor law
today the first Sunday under the state
board. The saloons throughout II" g y
were closed such business as was W :
done in the direction of selling liquor being
hotel licenses. The police contented them
selves with finding out all places of the
"hoter' class which ventured to sell liquor
without meals and unearthing back and
upstairs rooms in which beer was being
sold in violation of the law by owners of
saloons in the same building.
The herald., 1896-05-04
The Cruise- Needs Clea,,ro

PACIFIC GROVE, May S-The flagship
will leave Monterey harbor
tomorrow morning for Mare Island. where
she will be entirely renovated. She will
be put into the dry docks and the barnacles
from her hull. All day hundreds
of people have visited the cruiser, which
was thrown open to the public. Admiral
Beardslee has been confined to his cabin
for the last few days, being seriously iii.
The herald., 1896-05-04
Trouble ktIIed Hin,

NEW YORK May s.-George II. Osborne
of Wellsville, N. Y, and Bloomdale. O.,
shot and killed himself at the Hotel Broe-
Eel today. Osborne was a travelling man
for the firm of Very & Osborne of Wells
Vile. and also was an operator in gas and
Oil land in the vicinity of Rloomdale. He
is supposed to have committed suicide
while in state of insanity caused by busi-
ness troubles
The herald., 1896-05-04
preparing for the Inauguration of gen.

eral strike tomorrow.
The strike will tie up the entire cleo
tric street railway of the city. Unless
the company is prepared to man the
power house the city will be without
light tomorrow night except for gas.
That serious trouble is expected is evil
denced by the activity at police head
quarters and the sheriff's office. Up to
midnight tonight 100 special policemen
had been sworn in and will go on duty
tomorrow. The troops will not be called
out unless the local authorities find
themselves unable to protect the prop
erty of the railway company.
The herald., 1896-05-04
Electrical Workers Strike

MILWAUKEE,, Wis. May "a strike
of all the electric railway and electric
lighting works in this city now seems
certain. The company has rejected the
demands of the men and tonight Ital-
ans and negroes to man the cars and
lighting plants are arriving from Chi
cago. The motorman who handled the
car conveying the new men to the East
Side barns deserted the car Special
policemen are being sworn in and the
The herald., 1896-05-04
Killed His Wifo

IRONTON. o., May S.-James Beal. a
stove dealer, shot and wounded his wife to-
day. The couple had been out walking and
Immediately upon their return home he
drew q revolver and fired four shots at
deed was actuated by jealousy. Beals es-
capped. but II closely pursued by officers.
The herald., 1896-05-04
A Theosnnillcs, unln1

| NEW YORK. May Claude Falls
wrights. the Theosorhist was married o.
| day to Miss Mary Katherine Leoline Leon
ard of Boston, who is also an enthusiasts ic
| member of the Theosophical society. Tile
marriage was performed according to the
ancient Theosophical rites To make the
marriage valid the contracting parties
were afterwards united in wedock by AL
derman Robinson.
The herald., 1896-05-04
A r,odei CITY

NEW YORK. May 3-It is announced
that company Of which M. r. Arnot.
Elmira, N. Y, man worth $4,000 ooo is
treasurer. has purchased 5000 acres Of land
located Twelve miles from New York city,
j.. and that manufacturing plant. which
Will be capable Of sustaining a Population
of $1,000 inhabitants. will be constructed
city In much the same manner as Puiimsn
ILL.,, was built.
The herald., 1896-05-04
R,ron Hirsch's Will

PARIS, May 3.-The Temps says the will
oof the late Baron Hirsch has been opened
at Bruena. His wife is made the reSdu-
ary legatee. One million pounds is set
apart for charities in Moravia- Another
important legacy is left to Baron Hirsch's
cdopted daughter. The will contains no
other dispositions.
The herald., 1896-05-04
Commando McCurley Dead

PHILADELPHIA, May 3. = Com
n:ander Felix McCurlcy U. S. N, cap
tain of the navy yard at League Island
this city. died at that station of hear
failure today.
The herald., 1896-05-04
An Awful Jump

WASHINGTON, w. Va, May 3.-Mary,
wife of William Shore leaped from bridge
into the Elkhorn river, fifty feet, today to
escape passing engine. She was rescued.
but will die.
The herald., 1896-05-04
STAR 0AzERs

wl'' Make . Careful Search Of the Southern
CHICAGO. May 3.-Sixty thousand
dollars has been expended in the con-
structioH and equipment of a great OBJ
servatory, and number Of years of the
valuable timeof two noted astronomers
and their assistants will be devoted to
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-07

an achievement quite in character with the
| last leap year of the nineteenth century.
Mrs. Balls record reads like one of Bret
Harte's sstories, and she. has seen life in
many and varied phases She was born in
little, double log cabin in Putnam county,
Illinois, near the old Grove meeting house
where the cousin of Vice President Adlai
e. Stevenson used to preach. Raised in the
thick Of politics, her father being the we'll
known lawyer and politician, James Purcell
Worrall, she Is as erudte concerning the
doings Of both the republican and democratic
parties as the best man among them.
She says Of herself. "Of thc knowledge
learned in schools, l have limited supply.
The world has been my school room and
men and women with eyes and ears and
Judgment enough to use them properly will
get a liberal education in that way. Later,
In Kansas, herded my fathers cattle, and
saving the hire Of a man earned the money
necessary for course in the state normal
school, 1t was a wide, new world that
dawned upon my wondering eyes, when fol-
lowing my father who had gone before u.s.
we set our faces toward the western sun
and followed 1t till it led us to Pawnee
county, Kansas, away out on the prairies.
The jack rabbits and prairie dogs had held
almost undisputed possession of the territory
to the west of us. For weeks l lived out
OF doors, on my mustang, racing over the
prairies, herding cattle, and living an ideal
life with my father as my close companion"
change then came over the spirit of
this daring young womans dream, for she
was offered the position Of "school marm'
to the county, with an abandoned saloon
wherein to domicile the young idea and
where an occasional cowboy burst in upon
her and her charges to inquire what she had
to drink, or where the cry OF panther could
be heard as he drank from the creek nearby
Her career went on broadening from this
point and she passed through all the gamut
of positions from that of a clerk of the dis
trict court to place in the state historical
rooms, meanwhile finding time to marry
Harry M. Ball,-a studlous, quiet and re-
served man who thinks his energetic wife
a marvel os cleverness. With him she went
to New Mexico to live where they led a
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-07

points on that And the wrapping is the more
important thing; pin towels or sheets Of It's
sue paper about your garment. but remember
that newspapers are what you should fold
betweens each layer OF pretty things in the
trunk, Nothing else is 80 good. II is so un-
yielding that wrinkles and protuberances can
not make themselves felt through IL to mark
the fabrics beneath them any more than IL
you had used sheet iron. 1t Is useless to
try to arrange heavy things at the bottom,
llsht on top; the baggage smashers know no
top and no bottom; just concentrate yourself
on keeping smooth, even surface for each
stuffed out with newspapers better than any
thing else. De sure that your wrappings are
pinned frml4is1 that there will be no coming
undone; thetlfre your bulwarks
In packing breskable articles 1t Is as
tonishing how many people will Jam them
down in corners and sides where they get
the full foce Of every concus@ion against the
unyialding walls. Tie on your corks well with
bits OF rags and twine and put your bottles
near the middle of a compartment and you
may carry ink and shoe dressing in safety
around the world.
In packing such things as delicate hats,
bonnets and fancy waists of such frou-frou
nature that no pressure can be allowed on
them 1t is still better to fill up the empty
boxeh allotted them with lightly twisted
sheets of tissue paper than to give them a
chance to move and with all due respect to
the best packing in the world it is still well
to unpack as soon as you can.
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wild life often ftn danger from the hostile
Indians. MrsIl Ball had taken to the pen,
and found fine material in the scenes and
dangers encountered -...
In time she became city editor of a Kan
sas journal. and after serving four-years'
apprenticeship went to Washington, d. c.,
to try her fortune. Success has met her on
every side, as her strong individuality, brill
lianey and original way Of viewing matters
In general gained her immediate recognition.
Her early mingiing in political matters
has stood her in good stead, for she is in
the midst of the American world OF politics
and much OF her work Is done in the po-
litical arena. She 10 telegraphic correspond
ent for a western paper, wiring to II every
day and that is how her name came TO be
chronicled1 in the annals of history. She
fufills the laws lad down by the committee
ON press privileges, and has been given a
seat in the male press gallery. whose other
occupants are uniformly kind and courteous
to her.
But honors are piling in upon her. she
has been asked to represent her Journal at
the national republican and democratic con-
ventions TO be held In st. Louis and Chi
cago in June and July AS she has her ere
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-07
vALEDICTORIANs DOOMED.
Crusade Against Elaborate Com
mencement Exercises.

| Crusade Against Elaborate Com
mencement Exercises.
| The fiat has already gone forth that along
I with other time -honored customs, "the sweet
| girl graduate must go, at least so far as
| gaily illuminated halls, brilliant audiences
trailing garments, showers of bouquets and
| learned treatises on the problems of the ages
by immature maidens OF IS are concerned.
Even the class history, poem and vaiedictory
are tottering on the brink Of dissolution.
Nothing indeed, Of the old order retains its
pristine glory, except the white muslin gown,
which continues to hold its own triumphant
against boomers short skirts and other in
novations
A trip to every fashionable school in New
York reveals the fact that the chief aim OF
teachers In all high-grade schools Is to re-
duce to the simplest possible form the ex-
ercises of graduating classes. AT swell
school on Fifth avenue, / was told that they
are eliminating as rapidly as possible every
especial feature Of the occasion; but they
have found it impossible to make sudden
drop from all the old-time parade and dis
play to nothing but staid address, their
western contingency in particular desiring
something more elaborate.
1--WE still allow them the salutatory.
poem and valedictory." said the precep-
tress, but we shall ultimately do away
with tnat, ana we CAN Dc oniy loo thahh-
full that the days have gone by when
young maidens are expected to hold forth
on subjects that they don't know any more
about than rabbit knows about war
horse"
Vassar, too. has petitioned for change
and for the first time in it's history will
this year have mo exercises beyond the
address and the presentation of the dip
Tomas.
The feeling seems to be very general
among teachers that while there were no
doubt sweet and stimulating features in
the old way, 1t was not without certain
pernicious elements
With some 1t was a question in ethics
as to just how far "the sweet girl grad
uate" had a right to bore a long suffer
ing public with that same little essay tied
in its huttering blue ribbons Then too,
this inoffensive production was often
source of dire distress to It's fair perpe-
traitor and only achieved by the might
lest throes at a season Of the year, too,
when she was already tired with her years
work AS one teacher said to me, the gem
eral work of the whole spring term was
more or less sacrificed to these elaborate
preparations for the closing week, Now
regular rectations go on in the usual man
ner up to the very last day.
The moral influence. also, was thought
to be not altogether of the highest. There
was an increasing tendency to display, not
only in the matter of gowns and decora-
tions, but in the equally dangerous ten
dency to grow self-seeking in the desire to
shine intellectually.
1t was under stimulating influences such
as these that Thanatopsis and many an
other important work has been given to
the world
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-07

dentist. 1t requires two years in the study
of medicine and the incidents Of the dis
secting room are very trying on woman
student Second, the scarcity of women in
THE strange profession 1t is hard to get the
confidence Of the people. this being so far
out Of the ordinary walk for woman. Then
another met by both men and women
dentists is the woefu ignorance of the medi-
cal profession In the dental subject. AS the
medical schools do not give the proper
amount Of importance to the dental studies
leaving II In the hands Of the dental schools
to teach the dentist, they are the ones to
be relied upon. After a patient has con-
suited a physician they think it entirely out
of place for dentist to say anything con-
trary on the subject The public not being
conversant with the fact that dentist stu
don't now is compelled to study mere medi-
cine to procure the ID. ID. s. than the physi-
clan did a few years ago to procure the
NJ. D.
Dentistry, as all other professions or vo-
cations in life has niche to be filled by the
woman practitioner, but it is not free from
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-07

lightful creations were made of taffeta silks
in striped figured and chine designs These,
In the daintiest instances, ran to tulle deco
rations, narrow fluffy quilings on the skirt
tule sleeves, and some pretty arrangement
of the same caught down with small flowers
on the bodice.
An occasional low "baby' body was en-
tirely of tulle, and this, as we'll as other full
little bodices of chiffon or elk muslin, would
be- shirred simply at the neck with three
heading A short puff, finished at the bot
tom with twist OF ribbon and bow, was the
usual sleeve for. a stulIe5 bodice. Then there
would be a belt or perhaps coquettish
Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-07
A CHARACTER.

Frank l., Stanton In Atlanta Constitution
He was always a-sayin': "It's all for the
beSt;''
No matter what fortune was bringin'.
He did what he could-.eft to heaven, the
rest,
An went on his pathway a-singin!
BY day and by night-in the dark, in the
light,
You'll find him serene and contented;
The world, to his notion, was treatin' him
right,
An his way with it's roses was scented.
EIis life was a lesson all comfortn'-sweet!
life that was kind and forgivn',
For who, when the sharp thcrns are piercin'
his feet
Can thank the good Lord that he's Hvin'?
But sometimes 1 think when the heart in the
breast
Is sick with it's sorrow and grievin',
If things never happen at all for the best"
We can make 'em the best by believin'!