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The record-union., 1897-12-25

SAN JOSE. Dec 24.-This afternoon
the plant of the Standard Oil Company,
on the grounds of the Southern Pacific
Company, went up in fire and smoke.
There were two warehouses and some
outbuildings, the whole resting in
sink about $50 feet square. In the
warehouses were stored eight tanks,
with an average capacity Of $1,000 gal
Ions each, containing coal oil, gasoline
and benzine Besides, there We're
many cans of oil and other commodities
used in the business. About half
stock was carried.
At l o'clock in the afternoon Emil
Carrillos, one Of the employees. went to
the rear for the purpose Of filling can
of gasoline. While thus occupied he
saw flames issuing from one Of the
warehouses, and after shouting an
alarm to the bookkeeper, who was alone
in the office, he hurried to the nearest
fire alarm box and turned in an alarm.
The bookkeeper heard the roar of the
flames, and snatching UP what books
he could carry, hurried away from the
scene as fast as possible. And he had
not a moment to spare, for he had
scarcely reached a place of safety be-
fore there came a loud explosion, quick
~ followed by another and another,
and broad sheets of fame shot upward
into the air, followed by dense volumes
Of black smoke, which ascended to a
high of many thousand feet.
The firemen responded promptly to
the call, the second and general alarm
having been sent in at 80. But their
efforts, so far as saving any of the
property of the Standard Oil Company
was concerned, could be of no avail. All
that could he done was to turn the
stream Of water on the railroad round
house, thirty or forty feet to the east
of the fire, and the warehouses situat-
ed al about the same distance in
northeastern direction.
Even in these undertakings the de-
partment was handicapped by the lack
of water facilities, and the long dis
tance from the nearest hydrant. In
order to reach the roundhouse and the
warehouse 900 and 500 feet of hose
respectively had to be used.
The fire burned steadily and with lit
tie decrease in volume from l o'clock
until I.
1t was at 3:45 o'clock. however that
something occurred which transformed
the scene from one of magnificenca to
one Of horror. While playing the hose
in the roundhouse jerry O'Brien, vol
unteer fireman. aged 3S and unmarried
was fatally injured. A gasoline tank
Of 10000 gallons exploded by the gen.
Grafton Of gas. and was carried sixty
feet through the air. II struck O'Brfen
and covered him with burning oil, SO
that he was mass of flames when
rescue came. After living in terrible
agony until 7:45 o'clock. he died
Several others were slightly injured.
The loss is about $4,000, fully COW
cred by insurance.
The record-union., 1897-12-25
MURDERER HOFF.
The Preliminary Hearing Begun
Before Judge Joachimson.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24.-The pre-
ininary hearing in the case of Albert
Hoif, charged with the murder of Mrs.
Clute, was begun this morning before
Police Judge Joachimsen.
"A disposition to make a persistent
technical fight was shown by Attorney
Schooler, who appeared for the defense.
Nearly an hour was occupied in verbal
battle on the question of a continuance,
when Judge Joachimsen had denied the
defendants motion, and a sort Of COM
promise was the result. Two witnesses
were examined, and then a continuation
to next Wednesday was ordered.
The record-union., 1897-12-25

ed New York, December Is, 1897, sign
ed by c. s. Lake, assistant treasurer;
Stephen A. jerks, President, and in
dorsed by the Herring Hal Marvin
Company by c. S. Lake, assistant
treasurer.
Plaintiffs also say the company has
a factory and place Of business in New
York; that most of the stock is con-
trolled by a Committee of Trustees for
the purpose of voting the stock and
controlling the business, and that they
pledged and delivered a large part of
its personal assets for the purpose of
preferring creditors other than Ohio
creditors; that they threaten to have
a receiver appointed for the Ohio assets
and thereby to place them under the
control of a foreign Jurisdiction where
they will be frittered and wasted away.
The plaintiffs say the real estate and
assets ought to be appropriated to paw
the Ohio Indebtedness, about $780, 600.
They also say the total Indebtedness is
about $500, 900.
They therefore, ask for receiver to
take charge and conduct the business
in Ohio under order of the court The
]. Z. Bender & Brothers Company of
Hamilton are made a party to the suit,
by virtue of holding a merchants lien
on the buildings in Hamilton The as
sets Of the company, the receiver says,
are $3.50 coo, and there is no danger
of insolvency. The fight is between the
Eastern and Western creditors, who
have been unable to effect an organiza-
ton.
The Moslers own 153 shares of the
capital stock. at 500 per share. The
receiver is in full control of the plants
of the Ohio plant.
NEW YORK, Dee. 24.-The Herring
Hall-Marvin Company was organized
under the New jersey laws on May i,
1892 with a capital stock Of So. .30O. 600,
of which 81 100000 was preferred, and
81 500, 900 common. The company alb
sorbed the business Of Herring & Co.,
the Marvin Safe Company and the
Hall Safe and Lock Company of Gin
cinnati. No dividends have been paid
since 1898. Although the company was
organized in 1892. it was not until 1893
that it got we'll under way. Then the
panic Of 1893 occurred. While the com.
pany did a large trade, it was said the
concern operated at loss. The result has
been to accumulate a large debt which
on June 1st last was S2T0,936. Since
then the losses have continued and the
liabilities now exceed 1915, Zoo. About
100000 of the indebtedness matured
since June 1st and remains unpaid.
Within the next thirty days notes to the
amount Of $4,000 will mature.
The record-union., 1897-12-25
A FRESNO MAN MISSING.
Supposed he Was Mistaken for an
Officer or Spy and Murdered.

FRESNO. Dec. pit Z Jones. who
headed searching party to Los Banos
to hunt for T. F. Porter. who disap-
peared from here last month, returned
TO Fresno last night. Nothing could
be learned of the missing man
just at present the pot-hunters in the
vicinity Of Los Banos are having much
trouble with the officers who are at
tempting to enforce the law against
hunting with guns of a bore larger
than number ten. The guns used by
the pot-hunters weigh about thirty
pounds. An officer Of MADEIRA County
was almost killed by the hunters re-
q atty. 1t is supposed that Porter
v as mistaken for an officer or spy, muir
esred and sank in the quicksand
The record-union., 1897-12-25
ALASKA LAND QUESTION.
Sub-Committees of the Senate and
House Discuss the Subject.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-The sub
committees Of the Senate and House
Committees on Public hands appointed
to consider bills dealing with public
land questions in Alaska held brief
session to-day, devoting themselves ex-
clusively to the question Of rights Of
way for transportation companies in
that territory. No conclusion was
reached on any point, except that a
general bin should be formulated COW
ering this phase Of the public land
question in Alaska, instead of taking
action upon each of the rights Of way
bills before them The intention in
pursuing this course is to avoid grant
ing monopolistic rights.
The record-union., 1897-12-25
Pe1agic Sealing Act.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24-Assistant
Secretary Powell has instructed the
Collector Of Customs at San Francisco
and Port Townsend, Wash, to notify
all persons in their respective districts
contemplating engaging in pelagic seal
ing of the passage OF a bill prohibiting
sealing in the Pacific Ocean north OF
the thirty-ffth degree north latitude.
under penalty of forfeiture and fine
of $1,000 and Imprisonment for not
longer than six months.
The record-union., 1897-12-25
A Murderer Confesses.

ST. LOUIS. Dec. 24.-Last Tuesday
Jacob weinand, aged 50. was found
brutally murdered In his home A wad
of hair cloth had been forced down his
throat and then he was bound and
strangled with a towel. Late this af-
ternoon VIM. Roberts. alias Doyle. alias
Dublin. a levee roustabout, was arrest
ed and confessed the crime. He said
he knew Wenand had some money in
the house, and laid plans to commit the
robbery Weinand fought so fiereely
that he killed him. Roberts is an Irish
man He laughed while telling the
story.
The record-union., 1897-12-25
One Hundred and Ten Years Old.

OAKLAND, Dec. 24.-One hundred
and ten years old. That is what the
printed funeral notice and invitation to
the obsequies over Mrs. Madeline Rita
Silva, held at Pleasanton, in Alameda
County, to-day stated, and the family
of the old woman adhere to that story.
They claim that she was born in the
Azores Islands more than a century ago.
Death was not from an acute disease,
but from extreme old aSe. She leaves
one son, four grandchildren and three
great grandchildren.
The record-union., 1897-12-25
Murderer Owens Held to Answer.

MODESTO, Dec. 24.-The examina-
tion of George C. Owens, who killed his
wife, shot his daughter and then tried
to kill himself on the 18th of this month,
took place to-day before Justice Towner.
He would not make any statement, and
was held to answer without bail The
defendant appeared in court with his
head bound up to protect the wound
made when he attempted to blow his
own brains out, after shooting his wife
and daughter.
The record-union., 1897-12-25
A Will Filed for Probate.

FRESNO. Dec. 24-The will Of Fan
ny Holmes Oothoute. wealthy widow
who died here recently. was filed for
probate to-day The estimated value
of the property is $4,000, although it
is said to be worth three times that
amount The estate is divided equally
among her daughters, Susan Elizabeth,
wife of Victor MacLamont; Emily Nj
coll Oothoute and Helena L. Oothoute,
who are made executors Of the will.
The record-union., 1897-12-25
Mrs. McKinley's Will.

CANTON (O). Dec. 24-President
Mckinley and his brother Abner are
named as executors Of the viii of Nancy
Allison Mckinley. The will was filed
in the Probate Court to-day. It bears
date of May 20, 1895. All the prop
erty. save little gift to a faithful SER
want. is bequeathed to Miss Helen Nc
Kinley, the daughter, who lived with
Mrs. Mckinley at the old homestead
The record-union., 1897-12-25
Fatal Crossing Accident

WILMINGTON Del.). Dec. 24.-Mr.
and Mrs. Wesley Mcbride Of Stanton
were killed and their daughter, Carrie,
aged 6 years, fatally injured this morn
ing at the Stanton crossing Of the Phil
adeiphfa, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad, five miles below this city.
They started to cross the railroad track
Just as the Washington and New York
express, due here at 2:55 O'Clock. reach
ed the station, and the locomotive
plunged into the vehicle.
The record-union., 1897-12-25
Accidentally Killed.

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 24.-Henry over.
father of j. F. Over, a well-known
contractor of this city, was accidentally
killed tonight. He was standing up in
his wagon, when the horses took a
step forward, causing him to fall, injur-
ing his spine so badly that he died an
hour later Deceased was - years
old. He came TO this city from Ster-
ling, Ill, about four years ago.
The record-union., 1897-12-25
The Steamer Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz while on her downward trip
from Alaska ran aground on Dahl
patch Reef. arrived here to-day. The
vessel has a large hole in her huh. She
viii be taken to Tacoma and placed on
dry dock for repairs.
The record-union., 1897-12-25
Pacific Railway Bonds.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-United
States Treasurer Roberts has mailed
checks in redemption on bonds issued
in aid of the Pacific Railways matur-
ing January 1st aggregattng $1,732,-
$50. The remaining 'S7,0000OO viii be
redeemed as fast as presented.
The record-union., 1897-12-25
Not Up TO Date.

"We are going to send our son to
Harvard University"
Harvard? Oh. yes. that's one OF the
old-fas;foned universities that you
can get into without subscribing to
magazine"
The record-union., 1897-12-25
Silver Going to Europe.

NEW YORK, Dec 24.-The steam
ship Lucania, sailing for Europe to-
morrow, will take COS coo ounces OF sill
yer and 25,000 Mexican dollars. The
Normandie will take 10000 ounces Of
silver
The record-union., 1897-12-25
Street Railway Deal.

SANTA ROSA. Dec. 25.-The Union
Street Railway Company bought the
Mcdonald Street Railway Company's
line of cars. including horses and all
property. this afternoon. This deal puts
all the street railways in the city under
the same management, greatly simpH
fying matters
The record-union., 1897-12-25
Riverside Murder Mystery.

RIVERSIDE. Dec 24.-It has now
been pretty definitely learned that the
name of the man found dead near this
city couple of weeks ago was A L.
Mode. The officers are in possession
Of further facts which 1t is thought will
fully clear up the mystery in a few
DAYS
The record-union., 1897-12-25
Heavy Railroad Traffic.

CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-The amount Of
business, both freight and passenger,
handled by the Western lines thus far
In the holiday season has been at least
60 per cent above that of last year
The bulk of the passenger traffic is yet
to come, and ON many of the roads more
people have already been handled than
were handled throughout all the season
last year. The freight has been very
heavy.
The record-union., 1897-12-25
A Theory.

Towne-I don't believe that alinony
can be legally collected.
Browne--Why not?
Towne-Well, marriage is generally
recognized as a lottery, so alinony must
be 4 gambling debt.-New York Truth
The record-union., 1897-12-25
Snmmer Pessimism.

'arhere is no such thing on earth as
retributive justice"
why do you say so?"
1.-The person who leaves dypaper on
a. chair is never the one who sits down
ON it."-Detroit Free Press
The record-union., 1897-12-25
A Populist Appointed to Office.

SAN LUIS OBTSPO, Dec. 24-S NJ.
Findley. a Populist, was to-day elected
on the fifth ballot by the Board of Su-
perYisors as County Tax Collector to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the
death of George w. Ramage, a Repub-
The record-union., 1897-12-25
Brainless.

The Customer think I'll take some
calves brains to-day.
The Wafter-Sorry, sir; but l haven't
any brains to-day, sir.-Yonkers States
man.
The record-union., 1897-12-25
Threats of Rain at San Jose.

SAN JOSE, Dec. 24.-The cold wealth
or has given place to close clouds and
threats Of rain. The minimum tenn
The record-union., 1897-12-25
WINEMAKERs' ASSOCIATION.

perature this morning was 43, at the
same hour yesterday it was "a
The record-union., 1897-12-25
Washington, Dec. "a, 1897.

ISJI.
"By direction of the President, the
public is informed that, in Difference to
the earnest desire Of the Government
to contribute by effective action toward
the relief of the suffering people IN the
island of Cuba, arrangements have been
perfected by which charitable contribu-
tons, in money or any kind, can be sent
to the island by the benevolently dis
The record-union., 1897-12-25
FATAL FIRE
At SAN JOSE.
The Standard Oil COmpany's Plant
Goes Up in Smoke.
Jerry 0'BTien, a Volunteer Fireman, Burned
to Death.

A Woodland Citizen Struck by a
Train at Oakland and so Badly
Injured That He Died Shortly
After-Fatal Shooting ARRAY at
San Francisco.
The record-union., 1897-12-25
SUFFERERS IN CUBA.
An Appeal to the People Of the
United States.
Department of State,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24-The fol-
lowing appeal to the American people
has been issued:
Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-07
MUSIC.

VI w NNM w Va W
The Music Teachers National association
will hold it's nineteenth convention at the
Grand Central Palace, New York, June "a
to 2S inclusive. This organization has been
one of the II ot valuable in the development
OF American music that has ever come to
bless this country. 1t has encouraged Its COM
posers by producing their works, and its
players and singers by listening 10 their
performances. 1t has broadened out the
teachers mind by putting him to writing
essays and making speeches, the preparation
of which necessitated extended research and
reading. 1t has brought the leading musl-
clans of the whole country together and
made them acquainted with each other. 1t
has tried to give America a standing among
the musical nations of the earth and 1t Is
trying yet. 1t is a national institution and
Is working along the broadcast lines aud
always for national good.
For the present year its officers are as
follows: President, Mr.. Herbert w. Green,
New York; secretary, Mr.. IL. S. Perkins.
Chicago; treasurer. Mr.. f. A. Parker, Madi-
son, wis.
DR.. Henry C. Hanchett of Brooklyn is the
chairman OF the program committee and he
has planned for a performance Of the Mes
slah," by Handel, concerts OF prize works
by American composers. orchestral concerts,
chamber music concerts, piano ~recitals, organ
r~ecitals, conference upon music in public
schools and colleges. and numerous expedl-
lions for pleasure and profit In and around
New York. There VIII be a musical ex-
hibit" Of musical instruments, ancient and
modern, and all the up-to-date improvements
in musical instruments.
Prizes are offered to American composers
for the best ~cantsta, unaccompanied part
Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-07

o QUICKLY does
time fugit. One
week from We'd
nesday next those
two giants of Fistl-
ana, F~itzsimmons
and Corbett, will
meet In the
squared circle and
once for all settle
the disputed point
of superiority.
One week o
this morning the
Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-07
Local MusicaI Mention.

Mrs. C. L. Slemmons, nee Miss Jessie b.
Johns. Is expected to arrive in this city
this morning to visit her sister, Mrs. A. Il
Ely. Miss Johns was organlst and chols
director OF the ST. Matthias church for No
years and proved herself a thoroughly com.
petent musician. She has been engaged 10
musical work In Portland, Ore, since sf4
left Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-07
THE FIGHT.

-
Say, whatm you bet
On the fight that's comin'2
Now put up somethln'
That's good M stunnin'.
DO you think FIFTH win,
Or is Jim our man?
Why don't you answer
A Teller, If you can?
i wan ter bet
A hundred or two
And I'd like ter bet
Mr.. Man, with you.
For long. lean Fftz.
With his kindly smile
Shows EN- just how
Ever once in a while.
You won't bet, Ell?
Well, all right,
j guess you know
Fitz Is out o. sight.
But two short weeks
Will end the story
Of Jim knocked out, and
Fitz covered with glory
LOU preston
Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-07

Interest In the four great intercollegiate
boat races that will be rowed on the Hud-
son at Poughkeepsie between June 23 and
July . is already qulckening the pulse Of
the amateur athletic world. II is safe TO
predict that no such season for aquatic
sport has been recorded in annals of the
past. There will be ten crews, each conf
posed OF eight oarsmen, a coxswain, and
four substitutes at that delightful little New
York burg when the month OF roses draws
near to Its close. 1t has been a long time
since such an aggregation of oarsmen has
been seen anywhere in the world, except at
Henley, England. As announced last Sun
day there will be a varsity contest and a
freshman contest between crews represent
Ing Harvard, Cornell and Yale. The Cornell
Columbia-Pennsylyania varsity and fresh
man races will follow soon afterward, and
will be OF equal interest, The Cornell crew $
IL Will be seen, will be called upon to row
two races each, and will therefore meet their
fellow colleglans at a disadvantage. Were
II not for the stubborn exclusiyeness of
Yale and Harvard the two series of races
could be condensed into one, and we should
then have the pleasure of seeing the crew.
OF Yale. Harvard, Cornell, Columbia and
Pennsylvania rowing down that beautiful
four-mile stretch side by side.
Harvard's English coach Is still abroad,
but his oarsmen are being we'll looked after
by the old Harvard crewmen. An English
shell has been ordered from Cambridge, and
Mr.. Lehman is giving the construction Of 1t
his personal supervision. The Harvard men
have, during the past week. been enabled to
get on the Charles river for practice. This
Is much earlier than usual, The men are
now rowing as follows: Stroke. Bull. 1854
and Boardman. 1851; Z. Goodrich, l75 aud
Moulton. he; 6. Thomson, IT'S; 3. j. II.
Perkins, lS6h 4. Sprague. 1877; 8. Hollister,
III; 2. J. u. Perkins, 172i bow, Marvin, 161.
1t will be seen that the above crew is al
Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-07

Just what the extra fights at the Carson
carnival are going to amount l do not feel
justified in saying, but I will say that I think
the mysterious Billy Smith-George Green
match a mighty poor one. Nobody wants
any of Smith and nobody would back him il
the referee allowed him to use an ak. He Is
a VIGOROUSLY foul fighter, and should not
have been given a look-in at an affair like
the coming one at Carson. Out of Smiths
last six fights he has lost five of them on
fouls, and he is not the kind of a pugilist
the crowds who journey to Carson will care
to see. AT himself Billy is a great fighter,
and with the weight and height and reach
be will enjoy over Green he ought to put
him out In a %canter, that is If he behaves
himself.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-07
SPECULATION ON THE FIGHT
WHEN FTTz AND JIM COME TOGETHER

Result of what VIII Happen When
the PuRs Put On the Mitts on
st. PatrIck's Day Is some-
what Problemntic.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-07

A beautiful entertainment Is to be given
at Boyd's theater on Saturday evening, March
10. under the direction of Mrs. Jennie Wertz.
The production Is called ''Elma in Fairyland"
and the proceeds are to go to the Child's
home.
Established in May, 1895, and since that
time fostered by a band of benevolent and
devoted women, the Child's home has under
taken and carried on a work not embraced
I'm the scheme of any other charitable insti-
tuition in Omaha conducted under protestant
auspices. Begun with many misgiyings and
seriously hampered at first by lack of funds.
the enterprise was set securely on it's feet
by generous donations from the society OF
Elks and from other sources, and up to the
present has maintained and increased its
efficiency, If not upon an ideal scale at least
in a manner creditable to it's promoters and
and vastly helpful to the objects Of it's care.
A small house in the rear of the Old Ladies'
home on Burt street was dedicated to It's
uses, and for nearly two years the twin char
tiles have been conducted successfully side
by side.
Two classes of children are received into
tho home: those abandoned by their natural
protectors and those simply deposited by their
parents until better times, Children Of the
former class are placed in good homes, so
far as possible; for the maintenance Of those
OF the latter class their parents are some
times able to make partial provision, All
children are subjected to refined Christian
influence in the home, and are sent to the
public schools and taught to do the simple
PRACTICAL things which II is well for all to
know.
The quarters occupied by the Child's home
have become crowded and well-nigh made
quate. 1t is to enlarge them and to pro-
Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-07

At the First Methodist church tomorrow
evening Rev. Frank Crane of Chicago will
deliver his famous lecture on america
An admission fee of rs cents will be charged
for the benefit of the Chautauqua college,
DR.. Crane having kindly offered his services
to that institution free of charge. The lee
ture is very popular in Omaha and will
doubtless be greeted by a crowded house.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-11-13

A REMARKABLE discovery has just
been made at the village of Orton
Longueville, near Peterborough. Sew
eral workmen were engaged in excav-
atory work under some old and dilapi-
dated outbuildings on a farm, when
they came across a well-made floor,
about six feet below the level. On a
minute examination being made, they
found that the floor was entirely con-
structed of knuckle bones. supposed to
be those of sheep and cattle. 1t is es-
timated that the singular work is at
least $50 years old.