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Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
ENGLISH CAPITAL FOR alaska
Buy Out the Alaska Commercial
COmnnnY.


Company.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30.--The Chronicle
says: The dispatches received some weeks
ago announcing the sale OF the Alaska Com
mercial company's property to London
syndicate are confirmed by the prospectus
OF the British-American corporation pub
lshed in London. The selling price is
not given in the prospectus. but it can be
surmised approximately. The British-Amer-
lean corporation is capitalized for Fl 500, 900,
of which 1t offered for subscription at par
100000 shares of fl each The new COM
pany was financed by the London and Globe
Finance corporation, of which the marquis
of Dufferin, formerly governor general of
the Dominion of Canada, is chairman, and
Lord Loch late governor of Cape Colony,
and G. II. Macintosh. lieutenant governor
OF the northwest territories are directors.
The English company will carry on the
mercantile and transportation business of
the Alaska Commercial company and will
also engage in banking and mining.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Novnls Goes to Prison.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Dec. 30.-(Special Tele-
gram)-Sheriff Metcalf of Benton county
left this city at o'clock with Frank A.
Novak for the pententiary, where the con-
victed murderer of Murray will have to re-
main pending the hearing of his appeal to
the supreme court. 1t was reported yesterday
that the $4,000 bond would surely be fled
today and Novak liberated, but many now
think that not nearly that amount was Sc
cured. On the other hand it is reported that
Novak's wife has been doing her utmost all
day to raise the remaining $4,000, but with
out success. She and her husband met to-
night at the hotel, where very affecting
scene was enacted. Novak absolutely re-
fused to say anything tonight He will be
placed in a cell at Anamosa tonight and
regularly enrolled in the morning.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Real Estate transfers.

The following transfers are reported from
lhe title and loan office OF ]. w. Squire, 1O1
Pearl street,
B. ]. II. Boysen to Caroline s. Boy
sen, lots ! and 2, block 2, Hughes Il
.Doneghans add, W. d. ...:...,..,....$ !
!, neh. 2l-76-4i, q. d.......,.....:.......,...
Same to same, VIA nwh nwh, 2T-75-i4,
Same TO same, neA sell, l6-74-44, q. a.. 4
Same to same, WIZ nwA nwA,A 2T-75-A
Pioneer Savings and Loan Co. to John -
Knickman and wife, lot 8. block 49,
Howard's add. W. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 800
y. n. Owens and j. II. Farrell and
sss 81 Carson rs 'ay " DUNCAN, 10. . oio1s 100
9. p. Kemp and wife to Thomas Rish-
ton, lots ? and 4. block I, Wright's 80
eharles Foote and wife TO Samuel c.
Foote, part sell neh and neA SEA,
12-50-4i, 80 acres, W. d................. 800
Nilhelm Welke and wife to Independ-
ent German Church of Christ, / acre
In SEX nwh, 25-A-S, W. d.....,....
s Ten transfers. total..................s2. .s6l
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Domestic soap wrappers call for spoons.
Dcnth of DIR. Allison.

DR.. Thomas Allison, for thirty years a
resident OF this city, died yesterday morning
at his country home, in Crescent of dropsy.
He was "a years of age, and came to this
city from Florence in 1861. He formed
maintained until the latter's death. A few
years ago DR.. Allison's advancing years and
infirmities caused him to retire from an
active professional life, and he removed from
his home in this city The funeral will be
held from the residence at Crescent this
afternoon at o'clock, and the body will
be inferred at the cemetery there.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
BAND OF RopBERs BROKEN UP.
Northern Iowa Thieves who Carried

NorsheEh w ho
On Big business in Their Line.
SPIRIT LAKE, Ia, Dec. 3O.-(Special)-
Charles Baldwin,, recently arrested at Lake
Park for the theft of 100 bushels Of oats from
Henry Farr, has made a confession that in
terests the farmers in this part of the state.
He confesses that he is one of a gang of
thieves that has had headquarters near Lake
Park for some years and has been engaged
in stealing all kinds of farm produce and
machinery and selling the stolen stuff in
distant towns. Lue Bennett who was re-
Gently arrested for larceny, is reputed to be
the leader of the, band and the raids were
generally made by, starting from his prem
ises. A man named Beard is ringleader of
a similar band over ip Minnesota, operating
in connection with the Iowa band. NJ The farm
ers of Dickinson county and other counties
in this part of the state have been losing
large quantities of goods for several years.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Domestic soap wrappers call for spoons.
Accuse Him of Being n FIR

The police have been notified to warn the
ministers OF the city to be on the lookout
for pious fraud. who represents himself to
be a reformed pckpoeket. He is known as
]. ]. MeMasters. and his graft is working
the ministers of the various churches with
profit to himself, but no credit to the cloth.
His plan is to solicit opportunities to occupy
their pulpits at regular and special meet
ings. The chief eyangelizlng work he does
Is directed to the contributors to the special
donation funds that are advocated at each
meeting He manages to appropriate all OF
the money collected and to make trouble
for the church in other ways. The secretary
OF the Omaha Young Mems Christian associa-
tion In notifying the police yesterday la
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
whisky Dispute Results in Death.

MARION, o., Dec. 30-Two farmers named
William Sorden and Daniel Patchet of De-
cliff, this county, quarreled last night over
n bottle of whisky which Sorden accused
Patchet of having stolen. Blows followed
and Patchet struck Sorden on the head with
heavy stick, fracturing his skull, from the
eHects piro dr1n Si wnich ne ded h S ths morning
went to Patchets home and beat him al
most TO death. The murderer was brought
here by the sheriff, as a lynching was
freely talked of
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Postomce Robbers Captured.

SIOUX CITY, Dec. 3O.-(Special Telegram.)
Tho Sioux City police have succeeded in
capturing Thomas Meek and A. j. Drake
and have fastened the crime of robbing a
postoffice at jefferson, S. D., upon the men.
Tho crime was committed on the night OF
December 2S and the small booty was
brought across the river to Iowa. Drake,
who lives az Clarinda, Ia, has made full
confession of the deed and says Meek put it
UP and even wanted to burn the building to
cover up the crime. They also robbed an
other store in the town and this property
was also recovered. The men were turned
over to the sheriff of Union county, South
Dakota. Meek also burglarized store at
Gayville, Ia, on the night Of December 20
and the stolen property was recovered by
the police in Sioux City.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31

SIOUX CITY, Dec. 30.-(Special Telegram.)
Senator Pettgrew of South Dakota passed
through Sioux City this afternoon en- route
from his home at Sioux Falls to Washing
ton. In an interview he said he was very
well satisfied with the results of his trip to
the Orient. Speaking of the movement to
annex Hawaii, he says he spent ten days
there and could find practically nothing. He
says there are about half million acres of
fair lands, but there are also 100000 acres
of useless volcanic formation. The senator
says he is still standing by his speech OF
1894, in which he opposed annexation. He
intimated he would have something to say
if the question is called up in congress.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Anxious About Joe DnImnn.

The friends OF Joe Dillman are somewhat
anxious about him, and their anxiety is
shared by the young mans employers, Nc
Pherson g. Reed Dlllman has been In the
employ of j. II. Mcpherson for several
years, and has been trusted employe since
the firm changed. Yesterday he was en-
gagged in delivering goods and making col
lections, About O'clock he telephoned to
the night fireman at the greenhouse, telling
that he was about to leave town and that
the team he had been driving would be left
et Younkerma1's seed store. He also said
that letter OF explanation would be found
t the same place. A messenger was dis
patched to the place and found the team, but
not the letter. The greenhouse people noti-
led the police OF the occurrence last night
Ind asked for assistance in locating the
missing man
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Domestic soap wrappers can for spoons
Presents for the children.

The General Dodge Christmas tree and en-
tertainment at the Christian tabernacle last
night drew large audience. Every child in
the city that had any of the old soldier blood
In It's veins was present and received a
generous remembrance from Santa Claus
The entertainment furnished In addition to
the tree was OF high order and very enter
tanning. One of the most Interesting features
of the program to the old soldiers was the
reading Of a letter written by General Dodge
describing one of the famous charges of his
brigade during the battle of Pea Ridge.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Accidentally Kills His Father.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 3O.-A Special TO
the Times from Charlottesville, Ind, says.
This morning at Linden, Orin ,Stingley, a
prominent citizen, accidentally shot and
killed his aged father, John Stingley. Mr..
Stingley had started to leave the house with
q rifle and in passing through door the
weapon was struck against the casing and
discharged, the load entering the back of
his fathers head as he sat between his
daughter and granddaughter.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31


new $4,000 elevator is talked of in Keo-
kuk for next year.
Muscatine has just paid $4,000 in outstand-
ing railroad bonds.
The schools Of Charlottesville are crowded
beyond their capacity.
The Womans Relief corps Of Iowa Falls
proposes to erect building next spring.
A poultry show is in progress in Iowa Falls
with large number Of fowls ON exhibition.
Town property has been sold at good prices
in the town of Geneva the last week or two.
There is a rumor in Carroll that third
bank will be opened there early in the new
year.
carload of turkeys and another of chick
ems were shipped from Wall Lake one day
recently.
new line of river steamers has been pro-
jected for next year to ply between st. Louis
and st. Paul.
Waterloo ice men are cutting the crop for
the selson and expect to put &c, 900 tons in
their houses.
Lumsford is the name of a new town in
Davis county that is at present only site.
The location is convenient to an important
discovery of coal.
The fact that nearly every family In the
town of Sioux Rapids had turkey dinner on
Christmas leads the republican of that town
to the conclusion that prosperity is abundant.
A produce company doing business in the
town of Hampton employs regularly fourteen
persons, and in one week OF December
shipped to market 1900 pounds of dressed
poultry.
AS an indication of prosperity the Post
office department has directed Postmaster
Riachon at Algona to raise on the price for
call boxes from 10 to 121a cents quarter on
lock boxes from a5 to 35 cents, and on lock
drawers from 25 to 80 cents.
One OF the institutions in prospect in Des
Moines for next year is typewriter factory.
typewriter company with headquarters
there has been having some parts of the
machinery made in the east, but will build
a complete factory and employ $50 men.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31

MARSHALLTOWN, Ia, Dec. 30-(spe-
cial.)-J. M. Cook, German farmer living in
Grundy county, committed suicide because of
grief over the death of his wife. He was rs
years old. He sent for his son, then took a
dose of strychnine and started for the ceme-
terry mile distant, where his wife had been
buried. He attempted to keep his son at
bay with revolver, but he was overtaken
and efforts made to save him. 1t was his
intention to go to the cemetery and kill him
self on his wife's grave.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
bound to Get Married,

BOISE, Idaho, Dec. 30.-Willam Ide and
Miss Lizzie Nelson, youthful clipping cou-
pie from Glenns Ferry, have returned to
Boise from Oregon, having been refused a
Idaho and Oregon, owing to the tender
years of the girl Yound Ide has now en-
ployed counsel to attack in the supreme
court the law requiring the issuance of
marriage licenses, asserting it was uncon-
stitutionally passed, under the supreme
courts recent broad decision. The girl is
16 Nears old and the boy 90
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Slot Machines Must Go.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, Dec. 30.-(Special Tele-
machines in the future are
under the ban of the law in Cedar Rapids.
Today warrants were served on all business
men who had been operating them to take
them out under pain or being prosecuted,
the punishment being a fine not exceeding
81 900 or Imprisonment in the county Jail not
exceeding one year.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Mrs. Cady Asks Divorce.

Mrs. LiddIe Cady yesterday applied for a
divorce from her husband, T. j. Cady, al
leging cruel treatment and the fear that her
life was in danger If she coutinue to longer
live with him. Both are among the best
for many years. They were married in Craig
Mo-, in August, 1880. Sac asks for the Gus
tody Of their only child, Master Jack Cady.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
vASDpHDltr pAoS N SOCIETY.
Comes Out of His Retirement Due TO
Divorce procecdInts

ONorce froCecdtn0s.
NEW YORK, Dec. S0.--willlam X. Wander
bilt has blossomei out as cotillion leader
and society clape It's gloved hands In demure
appreciation. The Innovation means great
deal to society. It means that the most
sprightly and by far the most popular mem
Der OF the Vanderbilt family has finally cost
behind him the matrimonial griefs which
found their climax In the divorce court. II
means that the owner OF superb town aud
country houses and Of the renowned yacht
Valiant has fcrsworu sackcloth and ashes
In favor OF beaus career. II means that the
most eligible "catch' In the matrimonial
market has placed himself in rivalry with the
bachelors. And society is at loss to name
nny one who can compare with william X
Vanderbilt Ia wealth, good looks, jollliy ant
personal charm.
MIR. vanderbiirs debut as cotillior
leader was made at surprise party at th,
home OF Mr.. and Mrs, Henry Sloane
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Foley wears a Troubled Look.

LIBERTY, Mo-, Dec. 3O-William Foley,
on trial for killing his mother and sister,
wore a troubled look when he entered the
courtroom today and as evidence damaflng
interest. Deputy Sheriff Ed Cave told OF
a conversation had with Foley the night of
the murder, in which the defendant in
timated that Earl Hoover, who had
formerly worked for the Foleys as a farm
hand, was connected with the crime. A. j.
Beckett, a farmer from near Princeton, Ill
identified uooYer'S picture and said Hoover
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
FOght-Robbins.

ORD, Neb, Dec. 30.-(Special MIR. Harold
Foght and Miss Alice M. Robbins were mar
ried yesterday evening at the Methodist
Episcopal church, Rev. w. e. Hardaway
officiating Mr. Foght is a professor in col
lege in Atlantic, Ia, at which place they will
make their home.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Spnn of Mules stoIen.

Thomas Egan has notified the police that
span OF valuable mules was stolen from his
barn at California Junction night before
last, and that yesterday afternoon a man was
seen passing through Honey Creek leading
couple of mules that fully answered the dis
cription Of those stolen. The police were
asked to catch the fellow when he reached
Council Bluffs. UP to a late hour last night
he had not been located.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
GriMfh-HnicIi.

HURON, S. D., Dec. 30.-(Special.)- .)-Hugh
R. Griffith and Miss Anna E. Haigh were
married Wednesday afternoon at the homo
of the brides parents, twelve miles north of
this city. Rev. M. f. Montgomery of Grace
Episcopal church officiated and large COM
pany of friends witnessed the ceremony.
The couple will be at home in a pretty cot
tage on the corner of Beach and Second
street after January 1.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
sufYocnted by Coal Gas.

FINDLAY, o., Dec. 30.-The dead bodies
of Henry Behner, boiler maker, aged 80,
and Joseph Browneller, a tool dresser. aged
%, who had been missing since last Satur-
day night, were found today at the home
of the former. The men had been suffocated
by coal gas which escaped from stove.
Browneller accompanied Behner to a dance
on Saturday last and it is supposed they
went to Behner's afterward and retired for
ba Mi
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
CnndemneI Mnn is Insnnc.

COLUMBIA, Mo-, Dec. So.-John Hunt
sentenced to be hanged here January 13 for
the murder of his daughter. Matte Rea
Hunt, was today declared insane by a
sherlff's jury. Hunt is 70 years old and lay
unconscious on litter during the time the
of the jury will be communicated to the
governor, who will be asked to suspend the
execution and send Hunt to an insane
ASYLUM.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Sues Durrant juror FOR SANDER.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3O.-Mrs. Isabella
NJ. Durrant and William A. Durrant
mother and father of Theodore Durrant
have brought suit for SANDER against ex-
Juror Smyth and demand $4,000 damages
from him. The complaint was sworn to
by Mr.. Durrant General John H. Dckin-
son and w. w. Foote are the attorneys
representing the Durrants in the litigation
The suit grows out of remarks made by
Smyth about Durrant, whom he accused Of
heinlr q moral monster
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31

poultry. He fred two barrels OF the gun into
one man, who proved to he John Bryant.
The other man escaped. The wounded man
was recently discharged from the Adams
county Jail for stealing dog. lie Is badly
vountpd
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Tries the strychnine Route.

ELDORA, Ia, Dec. 30.-(special Telegram)
-Crazed with grief over the death of his
wife j. M. Cook committed suicide on his
wife's grave at Reinbeck yesterday. He took
strychnine and died in intense agony.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
shootn q Chickcn Thicf.

vILLISCA, Ia, Dec 30.-(Speciel.) David
Russell, living on THE edge of Montgomery
county heard ear I spGq % hs hen n. house
gun along. Twos men were stealing his
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Boy stnbs His Companion.

VILLISCA, Ia, Dec. 3O.-tspeciaL)-On
Sunday Amos West, about 13 years old, in
quarrel with companion drew two knives
and stabbed him once in the leg and once in
the arm.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31

mented the fact that he did not possess a
few hours earlier the information he then
had, which would have enabled him to have
had the man arrested
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Double Hanging, Postponed.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Dec. 3O.-Jim Redd
and Alex Johnson, the condemned murder
ers of w. e. Skipper, will not be executed
at Monticello tomorrow. The supreme court
has issued a stay of execution pending an
appeal.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Domestic soap wrappers call for spoons.

Tor Rent or Sale-240 acres in Crescent
township; baled hay for sale. Lougee &
Lougee, 235 Pearl street
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
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Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Domestic soap wrappers call for spoons.
WARRANT BROKERS HOLDING OFF.
Not Inclined to Take City Orders
Pending Shea's Suits.

Not Inclined to Take City Orders
Pending Shen's Suits.
There will be no warrants bought by the
warrant brokers at the beginning of next
month and the city employees and the other
people among whom is distributed the
monthly batch of the city's promises to pay
are in a condition of more or less despond-
ency. The determination was reached last
month not to purchase any of the future is
sues of the city warrants while the suits of
]. j. Shea were hanging over the city. The
suit decided by Judge Green to the discom-
feiture Of Mr.. Shea few days ago did not
cover the salient points in controversy be-
tween Shea and the city, but was based
largely upon the grounds that he had no
right to maintain the suit for the reason
that he was not taxpayer and that his
application for restraining order was
against public policy and the interests Of
all Of the citizens OF the city. Shea is en-
deavoring to have the case reinstated by
means of an amended petition, bringing in
Mrs. w. c. James as the chief party. The
warrant brokers fear there is something also
substantial In the threat made by Shea that
II he Is defeated in the state courts he will
bring the action in the federal court at the
coming spring term. While there Is any
tangibility In these threats, the buyers OF
warrants will keep out OF the business.
Firemen, policemen, sewermen and other
employees of the city dependent upon their
daily earnings for the support of their fam
lilies will be obliged to sell their warrants
to somebody willing to take the risk of fu-
ture less or trouble and take what is offered.
lAll OF last months warrants were sold i'm
mediately after their issue on the strength
OF Judge Green's decision, but all who bought
then announced that they will take nothing
more until the question is finally settled.
City Auditor Evans report for December
will show that the total expenditures for the
month were considerably less than the esti-
mated income for the same period. The
total warrants to be issued will amount to
Sc, ,03S.45. The total drawn upon the police
and general funds approximate $5,66S 20.
This is less by $1,000 than the income in the
various funds estimated at the be-
ginning of the year. The excellent
financial management OF affairs is shown
by the fact that for the last three years the
total amount of warrants drawn was within
the income and with one exception these are
only the years in the past ten when such has
been the case. One of the heaviest items of
expense that must be borne each year is the
interest account, which last year footed up
s44, ,S67 40 OF this amount $34 900 was raised
by direct taxation from property owners in
the payment of special taxes for paving,
grading and sewering. The interest account
for the year on the outstanding warrants will
not exceed $500.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31

TACOMA, Dec. SO.-The steamer Topeka
has sailed for Alaska with full cargo OF
freight and 200 passengers. many of them
bound for the interior.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-31
Life Sentence for n NIurdere,

KEOKUK, Ia, Dec. 30.-Alonzo Robbins
was found guilty of wife murder today and
sentenced to life Imprisonment.