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Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-13

THOMAS ]. FITZMoRRIS. NEW PRESI-
DENT UNITED STATES BUILDING N
LOAN ASSOCIATION.
in the state since 1888, when he Joined the
first association organized In Omaha. Having
had personal experience with the value OF
cooperation as a means of securing a home,
no became an enthusiastic advocate Of the
principle. In the early zoos he wrote a Sc
ries Of articles for The Bee, giving the his
tory and explaining the principles Of build
Ing and loan associations, and followed 1t
with others exposing the fraudulent charac-
ter Of the so-called national associations.
The expose resulted In the organization Of
the Nebraska State league, composed of local
associations, and Mr.. Fitzmorris was chosen
Its first president. Through the influence
of the league bogus foreign associations
were compelled to comply with the law, and,
refusing. were prohibited from doing busl-
ness In the state. Thus the people of the
state escaped the financial losses which beg
CARED thousands In adjoining states. Mr..
Fitzmorris has for years been and is now a
member Of The Bee editorial staff.
The United States league was organized
In Chicago in 1898 for the purpose OF ex-
tending the influence Of state leagues be-
yond their respective boundaries. Its
founder and first president was Judge Sey-
mour Dexter OF Elmira, N. T., a man thor
oughly conversant with cooperative princi-
pies and a staunch supporter OF the simple
business methods which have proven most
successful In practical operation. The chief
policy of the national body. as we'll as OF the
afiliating state leagues. is to conhne build
Ing and loan cooperation to the community
In which an association may be organized.
Experience has shown that this is the only
path to safety and success. When the
league was launched six years ago the coun-
try was oyerrun with organizations purport-
Ing to be building and loan associations and
seeking business In all parts OF the ma
ton. They were huge concerns, with high
salaried officers, gorgeous offices and an
army OF drummers supported by liberal COM
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-13

CHARLES e. ADY. NEWLY ELECTED
MEMBER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
NATIONAL LIE UNDERWRITERS AS
ISOLATION.
Ing longs and yet know absolutely nothing
o; draw poker.
Even the sue, essful dentist encounters a
snag occasionally.
TIL. original sin of a joke doubtless lies in
the stealing thereof.
No man on earth is wise enough to be
trusted with unlimited power.
The wall paper trust means a frieze-out
for the small manufacturers.
Some men who have more money than
brains are on the verge of bankruptcy.
A fool knows other peoples business bet
ter than a wise man knows his own.
Some of the modern society novels were
evidently written with a d~ecollete pen.
When a man has a clear field 1t means
there is nothing else in f.. When he has a
clear hand--welf, that's different.
The truly great politician is one who is
able 10 perform a clear public duty and by
the same act crafty a grudge against a po-
litical enemy.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-13

oSN ASSiS
-
Prof. Henry G. Bryant, president Of the
Geographical Society Of Philadelphia, who
is in Vancouver. British Columbia, prepar-
ing to make an asceR: CO Mount st. Elias,
in Alaska, has already gained some reputa-
ton as an explorer. He is about 33 years
old, and is a graduate of Princeton. He
made two trips north with Peary, but did
not spend the winter with him in the Arctic
belt. He headed the Peary relief expedi-
ton that was sent to Greenland a few
years ago to find the explorer and bring
him home.
Prof. Milton Updegraff, who for the last
eight years has held the chair of astronomy
in the University of Missouri, has been ap-
pointed professor Of mathematics in the
United States navy, with pay and rank of
senior lieutenant. He will be stationed at
the naval observatory near Washington.
The appointment is one held in high regard
by astronomers, being for life at a com
Portable salary and with large opportunity
for scientific research. Prof. Updegraff
will resign his place in the university,
probably to take effect in September.
General E.. Y. Mitchell, who Is slated as
a probable contestant in the race for the
democratic nomination for the house seat
of Mr.. Bland, Is Mrs. BANDS father. He
is 6S years old. and has lived in Missouri
all his life except during a few years. abb
sence while in California. General Mitchell's
title came to him through his service as
Governor Phelps a~djutant general; but his
civil war record is an excellent one, he
having been a colonel on General McBride's
staff, in which capacity he participated in
.--
home is at Rolla, Phelps county, where he
has practiced law for a number of years.
Mommsen, the German historian, in spite
# his SO years, is still a traveller. For some
days past" says the Paris correspondent Of
the London Chronicle, "the white-haired old
man. with clean-shaven face and keen eyes.
looking through large spectacles. might
have been seen actively employed among the
manuscripts OF the Bibliotheque Rationale
in Paris. From 9 o'clock in the morning
till 6 in the evening the only survivor of a
famous group of historians and archaefogists
has been busy reading and copying texts.
has also spent a great deal OF
time recently in Rome in connection with
the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum."
.
Robert e. M. Cooper, formerly a promi-
nent newspaper man and politician, has
fallen heir to $500 900. The estate was left
to Cooper by John G. Gregg, a miser hermit,
who recently died at Cripple Creek. Years
ago Gregg lived In the Panhandle country of
Texas. Cooper made a tour of that region.
Gregg was not inclined to make acquain-
tances, but Cooper found him about to
drown in a river and risked his own life
to save the miser. That resulted in a
friendship. Cooper returned to Springfield.
Mo-, and became prominent. He kept up a
correspondence with Gregg for son years.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-13

ances with success In Lincoln, and for
several years was a member of the Lorelli
quartet of Omaha. The company OF which
Miss Oakley is a member ranks in the first
class OF light opera companies and during
the last season 1t had an almost unprece-
dented run in Chicago, the standing room
only" sign being displayed at nearly every
performance.
Miss Oakley has spent considerable time
in the study Of music with noted instructors
in Europe, including Nine. Celleni Of
London and Sbrigila of Paris. She is we'll
known in Omaha and Lincoln society circles.
At the tenth annual convention of the
National Association of Life Underwriters
held at Buffalo last month Charles e. Ady.
Nebraska general agent for the National
Life Insurance company Of Montpelier, VT,
at Omaha, was elected to the executive CON-
mittee of the national association for a term
CT three years.
Mr.. Ady was born May 10, 1862, on a farm
near McConnellsville, o., where he spent his
boyhood years, working on his fathers farm
during the summers and attending the
district school in the winters. In 1882, after
having taken a high school course, he en-
gagged in teaching for four years in the
public schools Of Ohio and Wisconsin.
Leaving the schoolroom In 1886, he en-
barked in the fire insurance, real estate and
loan business at Bowdle, s. d. In July,
1891, he removed to omaha as a special
agent and adjuster in Nebraska and Iowa for
one of the fire companies represented in his
agency. January, 1893, he resigned his
position to engage in the life insurance bust
ness as special agent for the Northwestern
Mutual Life of Wisconsin. AS a personal
writer Mr.. Ady ranked we'll up among the
host NJ NJ HE cpv,nar anl NJ To- aI1,o
touch with the home Office management.
Late in 1895 he accepted a position as
superintendent of agencies, which required
him to remove to Chicago, where he had
jurisdiction over fifteen states, and in which
capacity he remained until last fall, when
he resigned to return to Nebraska as general
agent for the National Life.
Mr.. Ady has been an active member of the
Life Underwriters association OF Nebraska
for the last six years and has been a dele
gate to the meetings of the national associa-
ton several times.
For the photographs usei to illustrate It's
pictorial history of the First Nebraska, The
Bee is greatly indebted to a number Of
members and friends of the regiment who
have kindly furnished or loaned photographs
to whom 1t owes Acknowledgements. Among
these to whom 1t extends thanks for such
favors are Captain w. e. Stockham, Lieu
tenant Jesse Thompsett, Elmer A. Johnson
and Miss Julia Leeder of Omaha, Photo
grapher Wood and Charles A. Jones of
Beatrice, and friends Of the volunteers from
York, Geneva, Bennett and other owns.
-
Readers Of The Bee are able to see what
a wrecked fast train looks like from the
views Of the Northwestern wreck that took
place near Boone, Ia, August 1, in which
unfortunately the lives of four persons were
fost. The locomotive and mail car were al
most completely destroyed, almost nothing
worth saving being left of them.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-13
Pointed Paragraphs

An idle rumor is nearly always a false
hood.
sound.
Chicago News: A man a. 81 may be a
fool at 40.
It's much easier to run UP a hill than it
is to foot 1t.
A girl may pc an expert at handling curl
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-13

but they finally lost track of each other.
Gregg left Texas and was a pioneer pros
pec.or at Cripple Creek. He cleaned up
$500, 900 and quit. Thereafter he lived in alb
solute seclusion. So far as he knew, Cooper
was still in Springfield, and a few days be-
fore he died he sent for Justice Martin and
a will was drawn up leaving everything to
Cooper.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-13

Colonel Charles e. Jones, the Georgia his
torian, has compiled a list OF the surviving
confederate generals, which show that out
of the original nineteen lieutenant generals,
seven survive; Of the eighty-one major gen.
erals, sixteen are living, and of 1865 brigadier
generals, 92 survive. The living lieutenant
generals are James Longstreet. Alexander
p. Stewart, Stephen d. Lee, Simon B. Buck
Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-13
About Noted People

Bourke Cochran tells a story which shows
that in his early days he was much dis
couraged and went to a friends Office high
up In a sky-scraper to ask help to leave
New York for Deadwood. The friend took
him to the window, which commanded a
large view Of the city. and remarked:
"There are twenty Deadwoods within your
range of vision"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-25
FArnna Hroxrs,s OPINIONS.
He Himself Repudiated Those Condemned
By the Pope, Says Archbishop ireland.
Special cable D,ips,eA to THE Sun.

Special Cable Dsipa,eA to The SUR.
ROME, Feb. "a. - The 0sSe'pdtore Romano
publishes a letter written TO the Pope by Arch
bishop Ireland, thanking his Holiness for his
recent encyclical on A~mericanism.
The Archbishop also thanks the Pope for his
esteem and love, not only for American Cath
olics, but also for the entire American nation,
Archbishop Ireland said to-day that It was
impossible to confound the true Americanism
with the false. There was confusion. especially
in France, concerning the Life OF Father
Hecker." Father Heoker himself repudiated
all the opinions condemned In the Papal letter
on which certain persons bestowed the name
OF Amoricanism. The entire episcopate OF the
United States was ready to condemn these
errors.
A decree was issued yesterday by the ConRre-
cation OF the Index placing upon the list OF
forbidden books two works of DIR. Schell. a pro-
lessor in the University OF Wurzburg. 1t Is
alleged that these books propagated "Amerl-
canism" In Germany.
Mgr. Isoard, Bishop OF Anneoy. has written
to thank the Pope for his letter on American
ism.
He says he recognizes its timelinoss. and
welcomes 1t as allaying the anxieties felt by
many French ~prelates over the matter.
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and she has only to guard against her too
ardent friends. Their besettinR fault is that
under the pretext OF protecting her against
imaginary perils they are ready 10 resort TO
exceptional laws. which might be turned
against tho very liberties they are designed to
safeguard"
The Figaro says that Gen. Roget probably
saw before his eyes the drama which followed
the attempt OF Gen. Malet, and did his duty.
The French Army has not ret descended to
pronunolamentoes.
NJ, Cl6menceau says In the Aurore: Tho
scales have fallen from my eyes. A greatillu-
sion is gone. 1 no longer believe in Jules
Lemaitre."
President Loubot has sent a letter to the
Minister of War complimentinR the troops
upon the faithful execution OF their duty yes
terday. The President has also sent 1000
francs to the police fund in recognition OF the
arduous services performed by the police. The
troops from outside Paris will remain In the
city for the present. They occupy improvised
barracks in the railway stations. the Bourse,
the Central Post ONCE. and other places.
The U correspondent received to-day a
notice from the Government that one OF his
dispatches filed last evening had been stopped
by competent authority" In seven years
during which THE Sun correspondent has
been present in Paris at all important crises
this is the first time that the public authorities
have assumed TO interfere with the transmits
sion of news to an American newspaper. The
notice Of suppression probably refers to the
first despatch announcing the arrest OF Derou-
lede and the others. II so. 1t failed OF It's OBJ
Ject, for the writer, suspecting the interference
Of censorship. adopted a second means to Sc
cure the quick transmission of the news to
New York.
NJ. Constans. French Ambassador TO Turkey.
has teleGraphed from Constantinople accent
ing an invitation to be a candidate for the
office Of President of the Senate. He will ar
rive in Paris on Monday and the election will
be held on Thursday. The indications favor
his success.
Among the comical incidents yesterday was
the arrest of a son Of Ferdinand de Lesseps for
shouting Panama"
NJ. Gigot, e1-Prefect OF Police, has seeded
from the League of the French Fatherland.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-25
BIT oFF Il Po1IcEMAN,s F1NeER
Italian Burglars Teeth Went Through
Flesh and Bone.

Policeman Coliskey OF the Fifth street sta
ton found Raba Ricci Of 112 East Eleventh
street at Seventh street and First avenue try
ing to force open the doors Of stores that had
been locked for the night and attempted to ar
rest him. The Italian at once drew a knife and
made a vicious lunge at the policeman. With a
blow with his night stick Coliskey knocked the
weapon from Ricci's hand.
The Italians hand moved toward an inside
pocket Of his coat as if to draw another wea-
pom. Coliskey grabbed it. Ricci. reaching
down. seized in his teeth the policeman's little
finger. He bit until his teeth went through
flesh and bone. and the first Joint of the police
mans finger was completely severed.
Coliskey used his club literally in his pain,
beating the italian until he was partially un-
conscious. Then re raped for assistance. and,
when Policeman Clark responded, Ricci was
carried to the Fifth street station. An ambu-
lance surgeon from bellevue Hospital declared
that he had sustained a slight fracture of the
skull. He was taken a prisoner to Bellevue
Hospital. On the station house blotter he Is
charged with feloniops assault and with at
tempting to commit a burglary at the house of
Joseph I; Slater. Il cloak manufactured at 317
East Sixth street.
The surgeon cauterized the policeman's
wounded finger. When this had been done
ColiSkey went back on post.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-25
cARBo11C ACID For RErENGE.
Woman Threw 1t at n Toy Dealer at 9
Harlem Ball, but 1t Was Diluted.

Woman Threw 1t at a Toy Dealer at \
Harlem Ball, but 1t Was Diluted.
A charge Of felonious assault was preferred
by Otto Herschman. a dealer In toys at 223S
Third avenue. in the Harlem Police Court
yesterday against a young woman who gave
her name as Bessie Herschman and said she
lived at ia East 128th street. Her real name
is said to be Bessie AnsorGe. She is p years
old and good looking.
Herschman told Magistrate Mott that he at
tended the French Students ball at Sulzer's
Harlem River Park on Wednesday night. and
was seated at one of the tables with a party Of
friends when the defendant ran up and threw
the contents OF a bottle OF carbolic acid in his
face. There are several bad burns on the
mans checks and lips. but the acid was diluted
and he will probably not be SCARED for life.
met this man three years ago" said the
prisoner, and he promised to marry me. He
broke the promise. and when | sued him in
Special Sessions to force him to support our
child the case was dismissed. Later the baby
died. | am now suing him in the Supreme
Court for breach of promise. | was feeling blue
on Wednesday night and went to the ball to
cheer up q little. ! saw Herschman there, and
the realization of how he had wronged me grew
30 strong that | went homo and got tho acid
and | threw IL in his face"
Magistrate Mott held her In 81, 900 bail for
trial.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-25
THIEVES, BOOTY FROM CINCINNATI.
$4,000 Worth Found Here Whore Burglars
Had Sent 1t for Safety.

So, 900 Worth Found Here Whore Burglars
Had Sent 1t for Safety.
When the Cincinnati police. after a recent
raid Of burglars upon their town. caught two
Of them. Joseph Williams. alias Simon Moses.
and John Sutton. alias Southgate. they found
in the pocket of one a letter in Hebrew. which,
translated, read:
Much Joy to you. my dear Simon. | have
fulfilled your wish and made a post-mortem
lin thieves slang, buried the stuff as you told
me to. 1t is all right. but the other things
will be with my sister. Everything is all right.
Simon. come home! Come to your everlast-
ing Sadie. who wants to be with you
mond. 161 East Houston street. New York.
Th Thse Fies2 insinnS TfrG p6 Ssw S sent t th.eS SSdjre., to
Capt. McClusky. who had the house searched.
It is a tenement. Instead of Sadie there was
vice Of Capt, McCiusky the Cincinnati .,ddetec-
found a lot Of stolen goods which they h had
upon their list, Capt, McCluskv's men. hear
ing this. resumed their watch upon the Hous-
ton street house.
After ten days the woman with the babies
came out, They followed her across 10 Brook
Ign to n Hamilton avenue basement and there
found the track of two trunks, received by ex-
press from the West. They had been taken
away AZ again; but the deteftiyes ran them down
Brooklyn. When opened they were found to
contain the proceeds OF the last two robberies
glasses. lorgnettes and pocket knives stolen
from L. n. Princes ,jewelry, store. on West
Fourth street; the other held Jacob Bieden-
bender,s stock OF kid gloves in original pack
ages; Together there was more than $4,000
The detectives are looking for the e~verlast-
ing Sadie yet. but do not expect to find her.
Ihey don't care as long as they
have the goods. They will be sent back to
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-25
rAMMANY's RULE IN MULBERRY ST.
Police Board Meets in Secret and Doesn't
Tell Much-Request 1t Didn't Reveal.

Tell ch-ReQu 1t Didn't Reveal.
The Tammany Police Board announced
when it went into office that it was going to
put an end to the scandal" caused by tho
%ructions Of the previous administration 1t
did it by meeting behind closed doors. There
has never been a public meeting of the Com
missioners since Tammany came back to Null
berry street. Such Jews Of the boards doings
as it considers At for publication is doled out
to the reporters by the clerk. and it is very
little which is not saying that the rest is unfit
for publication. but simply recording a fact. A
month or SO later the Citv Record prints what
Is left.
Yesterday the Record contained the report
of the board meeting of Jan. 80. 1t was at
that meeting that the promotion Of Inspector
Mclaughlin to be Deputy Chief and of Capt.
Kane to be Inspector was rescinded. because
the Civil Service Board had refused to consent
unless there was a competitive examination.
as the law demanded. That fact was made
known to the reporters.
CITY Record; had more to it. however. Here is
the rest, which was suppressed for reasons
"kesotred. That the President OF this de-
partment be and he is directed to communi-
cate. in writing. with the Civil Service Commits
said commission to place in the non-competi-
tive class of the civil service regulations the
spector Of Police in the Police Department. for
the reasons aSeaas that nb6u Il the the opinion o 10 of OF this hi ! board card
petitive examination, as the incumbents Of
them are charged by the board and the
Chief with the supervision of subordinates
and the performance OF duty OF a delicate and
confidential character: that they should be pos
sessed OF great experience in the WORK Of the
department: also that such persons should have
the full confidence OF the board and. the Chief
OF Police. and that in the Judgment of the board
GERS Of these grades. but without competitive
examinations"
said yesterday that the request had not been
acted upon. Nothing at all had been done
about IL,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-25
WoM4N PRISONER GOES cR.4zT.
Knocks Down the Doctor and Gives Hor
Keeper n Wild Chase.
Leonard and Broadway.
Prince and Broadway.
Thirty-second and Broadway.

Keeper n Wild Chase.
Mrs. Annie SchlOh. 30 years old. Of 81 Washs
inGton street. Hoboken. was arrested in Gem
trail Park yesterday for intoxication and was
fined SIS by Magistrate Mott In the Harlem Po-
lice Court, Being unable to pay. she was
locked UP in the prison attached TO the court.
At 6:3O O'Clock last night she became violently
insane and an ambulance was summoned
from Harlem Hospital.
When Mrs. Schloh was being led to the am-
bulnnce by DR.. Neafscy and Keeper Brunette
Of the prison she knocked Dr. Neafsey down
and broke ava from the keeper. Then Bha
dashed through l2lst street toward Lexing-
ton Avenue, shouting at the top Of her voice
that she was being murdered. keeper Brun-
ellie pursued her, and was about 10 catch her.
when she made n ~uuick'dodge and he ran into
a fence So hard that he was knocked down and
bit his tongue badly.
Brunette filled the air with manv ponderous
German oaths, but aguin pursued Mrs.
SchlOh. and soon overlook her. He managed
10 hold her, with the aid OF DR.. Neafsey and
two policemen, until tho ambulance could be
driven to where they were. In the struggle
the woman Bit one. policeman's hand,
At the hospital Mrs. Schloh refused to leave
the am bulance, and IL REQUIRED five men to
carry her into the hospital. Her cries re-
sounded through tho building for moro than
an hour a'terward. Then she became ex-
hausted.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-25

AMSTERDAM. N. Y. Feb. 24.-The broom man.
ufacturers OF tho Mohawk Valley have again
advanced the prices OF brooms because of the
sharp rise in during the past week
Last November corn was selling at $40 per ton
in Illinois. To-day it is at $50 to SI5O. with
prospects Of a still further advance. 1t is esti-
that II will hs consumed some time before the
new corr, can be received, some eight months
hence. This advance in price. 1t Is said, has
come about without effort on the part OF
brokers or dealers, and IL is generally under
stood that the, amount Of stock in the manu-
oldest and largest brokers in Illinois says the
tonnage is the smallest in twenty years, and
predicts an advance in price of corn 10 5000.
In, that case the cheapest grades OF brooms
will wholesale for about SO per dozen.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-25
Rose seEal Absents Herself from Court.

A hearing was to have been held in Chancery
Chambers. Jersey City. yesterday. in the habeas
corpus proceedings in the case Of Rose Segal.
daughter of Rabbi Joseph segal OF Newark.
Rabbi Segal. his wife and a lumber of relatives
were in court. DIR. Reiner OF Elizabeth. from
whose house the young woman was iorclbly
taken last December by her father and brothers,
was also present, but Miss Segal was not there
Chancellor McGill asked where she was, but
nobody could tel him. Her father and mother
she was. and DR.. Reiner professed TO be In n
similar condition of ignorance. Chancellor
McGtll said he did not care to hear the argu-
Journed the case for u week. He intimated
very strongly that 1t would be advisable for all
week.