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The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-26
MUSLIN UNDER WEAR.

Quite number OF fine chances for the coming
week. On Monday we offer FINE CAMBRIA COR
SET COVERS, extra long waist, neatly finiseed V
neck, trimmed with elegant Hamburg (5oc goods, at
300 each
UMBRELLA DRAWERS Hamburg and cluster
tucks, soc pair
Lace Insertion and edge (ST goods 75c and 79c pair
IL new styles in handsome NIGHT DRESSES.
These are very slightly mussed and are all regular
good tSI. We give choice for 75c each
Several SI25 quality for 98c
Several SI.75 quality for SIPS
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-26
A BANNER WEEK,
Market Men Say That Last Week Was as
Good as Chris mas.

The market men say that this has been
banner week in the produce business. If
the sales for the next two weeks come up
to what they were during the past week
they will raise the average almost so per
cent higher than the same season of last
year.
There has been an unusual demand for
all sorts of eatables, and the only reason
that can be advanced is that people have
more money than they used to. The
clerks have been on a continual hustle all
the week, and the money has come into
the tills almost as fast as it did at Christ
mas or Thanksgiving.
There has been very little change in any
Of the prices of staples during the week,
though contrary to expectations, eggs
and butter went up instead of down.
Strictly fresh eggs are. selling at 50 cents
wholesale now though most of the re-
tailers are selling at cost or below to keep
their custom.
Oranges are still cheap, though the Bos-
ton sales are reported to be high. This
may be felt here soon unless fresh ship
ment is received this week. Bananas are
plentiful, and the price has gone up a
err The demand is larger than it was
when the snow was at its best, as the
peddlers are able to get about now and
wake people up In the mornings.
Vegetables are firm and the supply good
Strawberries have gone up, and 1t is very
probable that no more will be received
until April, as the frost in the south killed
all the early Florida berries. Apples are
still firm and the demand, is good. The
finer varieties are high and hard to get
Poultry in general is cheap, though not
quite down to the point of the holiday
season. Fowls are slightly up, while tur-
keys remain firm r-s
Beef is lower than it has been, though
there is no change in the general market
There is a large supply on hand in Wor-
cester. which has caused a temporary de-
cline in the price. Lamb is the same as
last week. and pork holds firm Fish are
reasonable, with a good supply on hand in
the local markets The storm seems to
have affected the fishing but very little, If
at all, and fresh fish are being received
Regularly.
The supply of game being received this
season has been fully adequate to supply
the demand, which is small in Worcester.
Rabbits, western grouse and quail are to
be had now, though there Is but little de-
mand for either.
On the whole the condition of the pro-
duce markets is encouraging to the con-
sumner as well as the dealer, for it is but
seldom that prices get so low, and the
quality of the articles sold remain so good
as they have been this season.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-26

for the use of the hall, and give the fire.
men the benefit of it.
1T was stated at the time Of the town.
hall-common-o the = Wabash agitation
that the present town building could be
rented for the benefit of the town If any
one portion of town hall could be rented.
why not the whole or any part of it?
Let me propose that a Zee of say 81 so be
established for the use of the firemen' S
hall, and that bills be made out against
the Webster republican town committee
and the electric company for the use they
have had of the hall.
AS things exist today the outside public
cannot help but get the idea that in order
to have free use Of town property 1t is
necessary to be connected with the repub-
lican party or the electric company,
and, to put the whole thing IN nutshell,
necessary to be connected with some such
concern, or is 1t sufficient TO be acquaint-
ed with a member of the ring, or, better
still, have some of de gang" in with us ?
Yours truly c., G., w,
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-26
NOT THE MAN,
But Foster Worked the Same Game as
Myers Who Was Known Here.

But Foster Worked the Same Game as
Myers Who Was Known Here.
The arrest of George Foster in
Wilkesbarre. Pa, few days ago, gave
rise to the belief for short time that
Foster and a man who victimized jew
elers throughout southern New Eng
land few years ago, are identical. The
man who created so much excitement
in New England visited Worcester dur
ing his canvass Of the east, and sue
ceeded in getting away with many dol
lars worth of jewels.
The stranger, who carried an air Of
prosperity. went into McFarland's store
one day and asked to look at some
diamonds. After a careful scrutiny of
the gems, he selected several Of the
most costly. and after conveying the
information that he was a son of the
late Judge Nelson and wished to take
the Jewels home for his fathers in
spection, he was allowed to depart.
The same general scheme was work
ed in various cities throughout New
England but no trace could be found
OF the individual. The thief left a
quantity of his belongings behind when
he left Worcester, and from marks on
some Of his linen, was evidently known
as j. l.. Myers.
The man who worked in Wilkesbarra
pursued the same tactics as Myers, and
for a tire the officers were inclined to
the belief that the men were identical.
Inspector O'Day of this city spent con-
siderable time trying to trace the men
who VOL ed here, and has secured a
photograph of Foster. He says Fos-
ter is not the man who worked here,
as neither photograph nor description
agree
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-26
DEATHS.

POMEROY-In Washington, d. G. Nth,
Martha s., widow of the late Senator
Samuel c. Pomeroy.
sOUTHWICK-In Leicester, 2ith at his
home, Thomas Southwick, So yrs. 10
mos.
Funeral Tuesday, Feb. 2S, at p. m.
Friends invited.
sHEEDY-In this city 18th, Mrs. Mar
garet Ryan) Sheedy
Funeral from her late home, IS Temple
street, Tuesday morning at o'clock.
Solemn requiem high mass at st. John
Church at $3.50. Relatives and friends
are invited to attend. Kindly omit
flowers.
FLYNN-In this city 25th, Thomas A.
Funeral from his late home, q Fulton
street, Monday morning at S.l0. Re-
QUEEN high mass al st. Anne's Church
az o'clock Relatives and friends are
invited to attend
sYKEs-In this city. 2ith, Robert Sykes,
50 yrs. s mos, days,
Relatives and friends are invited TO az
tend funeral services at his late resi-
dence, "a Cambridge street. sunday at
2 p. m.
HowEs - In this city, sd. George ".
IIowes, rs yrs. mos. 10 days.
Relatives aud friends are invited TO at
tend funeral services at his late resi-
dence, S clayton street, Sunday at 2.@
p. m.
WILLIAMs--In this city. 25tb, Mary j..
wife )of Charles II. Williams, 65 yrs,
mos days.
JONES e. In this city 18th John Orus
Jones, 40 yrs. 2 mos, % days,
Relatives and friends are invited 10 at
tend funeral services at the residence os
hig daughter Mrs. Dr. J.. +. Comey, 81
Lincoln street, Monday at 2 p. m
KIRK-1n this city. 18th Mildred Louise.
Infant daughter of Frank snd Nettie g,
Kirk, mos % days
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-26
A PERT INQUIRY
Webster Man Asks Cues
tons About Town Hall.

Webster, Feb %.
20 the Editor Of The Spy;
Only q little while ago we were treated
to a large sized hullaballoo for a new
town hall and common on the banks Of
the local Wabash. it being argued that
the present town building is too small,
and the Chase estate was for sale.
The writer noticed a few weeks ago that
a portion of the present town building
viz: Firemen's Hall, had been used by
the republican town committee for parti-
san rather than public purposes l con-
tend the public are interested in ascer-
tanning just what rental the said republi-
can town committee paid for the use Of
said hall. If no rental was paid the pub
lie would also doubtless be interested in
learning why not.
Our comatose electric railroad company
in the past has held corporation meetings
in this same town building Did they ever
pay the town any rent for said use? If
not, why not?
Every little while the fire ladies are
interested In entering some contest with
neighboring towns and cities; they also
could doubtless use to advantage periodi-
calls, and perhaps more newspapers than
they have, so that If it is on account OF
the town having no use and no need for
any more funds that no charge Is made
against favored concerns for the use Of
town property, 1t would seem to be %
good idea for the town to establish a fec
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-26
HUM Phi REYS'
SIGNS ARE GOOD.
Promise of Lively Real Estate Market n
the Spring.

'S'HSV VI GN0ly hodl CSkdLe maTkeI n
the Spring.
Prominent and experienced real es.
tate dealers in Worcester say there
can be no doubt but that there will be
a large degree of activity seen in that
line in Worcester in the spring. Wor-
cester is a conservative city, not giver
to booms, which usually end in slumps
but goes ahead slowly and surely. A
sudden rise in reaL-nsA ate usually
means an equally rapid deIune, and the
result is never beneficial to COM
munity. There is some very desirable
real estate to be had in Worcester. and
there are rumors that the early spring
will see some decided changes in own
erShip.
The building conditions made bad by
the storm are becoming better now
and 1t is possible to do outside work
A few Of the structures now going uI
are being rapidly pushed, though fol
the most part contractors are waiting
till warm weather sets in for good be.
fore attempting to do much.
There were but four building permits
taken out last week and none fol
buildings of any prominence. The
largest was to Arthur E. Stanhope, IL.
story dwelling on Chandler street, neal
Mill, cost $500.
Architect E. T. Chaplin has prepared
plans for department block to be
erected on Queen street, for Mrs
Pauline Gould, of 6 Penn avenue. The
flats are to be of and rooms an6
will be heated by hot MR.er.
The same architect has prepared
plans for the proposed Emmanue
Church addition, and estimates will be
had soon.
NH O,,;,,ni..o,..e..1 c,.---- /. -
Church expects to erect a new building
soon, which will probably cost S12,O O(
to $4,000
Bids for the Quinsigamond schoo
house will be called soon from the
plans by Barker & Nourse.
No architect has yet been selected fol
the new wall paper factory, which may
be located at Barber's crossing. Rough
plans have been made by number Of
local builders.
The building on Chandler street oc.
cupied by the Newport Bicycle Club i:
to be raised up one story and two .bricl
stores put in on the ground floor.
Howard Frost, of the firm of Fuller
! Delano & Frost has been selected t.
prepare the plans for the new chapter
house of the Phi Gamma Delta Frater.
nifty, which is to be erected near the
Tech. No definite plans have yet beer
decided upon, but it is thought that tn,
building will be started this season.
The Page Electric Company will in.
stall the electric lights and telephone
in the new hotel which is being bull
at North Adams. There viii be abou
1000 incandescent lights and $50 tele.
phones which will connect the rooms
with the office.
The contract for the brick building
to be erected for A. H. Inman has beer
awarded by Architect George H. Glen.
ence to Herman G. Hadley, the lowest
| bidder.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-26
Beware Of 0intmentS for Catarh that Con-
tain Mercury.

of smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering It through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles should
never be used except on prescriptions
from reputable physicians, as the damage
they will do is ten-fold to the good you
can possibly derive from them. Hall $
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by +. j.
Cheney e. Co, Toledo, Ohio, contains no
mercury, and is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. In buying Hall s
Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine
1t Is taken internally and made in To-
ledo, Ohio, by T.. j. Cheney e. Co. Testi-
monials free. Sold by druggists price.
75c. per bottle.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-26
MRS. MARGARET SHEEDY.

Mrs Margaret (Ryan) Sheedy, widow
of the late John Sheedy, died at her
home, IS Temple street, Saturday af-
terpoon, after short illness. Mrs.
Sheedy was one of the Oldest and most
devout attendants Of st. Johns Church.
She was also a member of the Married
Ladies Sodality connected with that
church. She leaves two sons Patrick
and John, also two daughters, Mary,
who is employed as cashier in the Bos-
ton Store. and Catherine, to mourn her
less.
The funeral will take place Tuesday
morning, with a solemn requiem high
mass at st. Johns Church at $50.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-26
cHoKEs TO DEATH.
Bread Goes Down the eaby's Windpipe
With Fatal Results.

A sad case Of strangulation occurred
yesterday morning, when the infant
child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kirk Of
SIS Park avenue choked herself to death
while trying to swallow a piece of
bread. The child, whose name is MIL
dred l.. Kirk, has always been deli
cate child. Yesterday forenoon at
o'clock, the child's mother gave her
q piece of soft bread. The child ate
IL and Immediately began to choke. Her
mother did everything in her power to
relieve the child. but to the mothers
great anguish and sorrow, the child
expired within a few moments. Medi-
cal attendance was summoned, but TO
no purpose. DR.. r. II. Baker, medical
examiner, was called, and viewed the
remains He ascribed the death to be
due u choking, the bread having gone
down the child's windpipe.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-26

Hoods Pills cure liver illsi the nonirrtating and
only ca.hars!e to take With Hoods saT.apaEIlls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08
IN WYOMING WILDS.
40 Persons on a Snow Bound
Train Nearly Starve.

Cheyenne, Wyo., March S.-Telegraph-
ic communication was established yes
terday with Superintendent Rasback, in
charge of the Cheyenne & Northern
train which has been showed in at Iron
mountain, fifty miles from here, for the
past seven days.
He reports that forty-nine persons,
trainmen and passengers, had been hv-
ing several days, until Sunday morning,
on beans and coffee. Sunday two range
steers were captured and killed and the
danger of starvation aVerted.
Iron Mountain is simply a station,
with several ranches in the vicinity
The ranchers were short of supplies
and would care only for the women
passengers, five in number.
Seven passengers left the train Fri
day. when the prospects for securing
food were slender, and walked into
cheyenne Three of them-John Nc
Dermott of the state legislature and
John and George Foxton-reached here
Sunday. They had walked thirty-five
miles and hired a ranchman to bring
them the remainder of the distance.
They reported the passengers and
trainmen remaining with the train in q
pitiable condition through lack of food
and the loss of sleep, and a relief train
was at once made uD and sent out
with provisions and several hundreo
shovelers.
The train proceeded twenty miles and
was forced to return, the deep cuts be-
ing frozen solid with ice and snow
Four of the party who left the train
Friday reached here Sunday after a
periIous trip. They had wandered from
-fhe track in a blizzard Saturday night
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08
KANSAS NEWS.
Two CimarrOn Men Make a
Rich Gold Strike.
Discover the Vein on a Claim at
Dawson, Colorado.
ASSAYS $4,000 A TON.
Is a Red Jasper Rock Full of
Wire Gold.
Said to Be as Rich Almost as
the Pure Metal.

Cfmarron, March ST. NJ. Luther of
this place has made a tremendously rich
strike on his claim at Dawson, Col,
near the Copper King"
The claim is located on metamorphic
ridges extending from Grape creek in
a northeasterly direction and five miles
from Canon City.
Mr.. Luther has returned from the
mine and tells of the discovery. He
says:
THE presence of pay dirt was first
discovered by John Sallee's son Frank,
who picked up a piece of rock which
had been thrown aside by his father
and Mr. Luther in their search for gold,
and carried it to Canon City where it
was seen by old miners and it's value
estimated at from $4,000 to $4,000 per
ton. Mr.. Sallee has sold his interest in
the mine to Messrs. Luther, Warner
and Parke.
1.-The vein is two and half feet wide
and the richest portion is eight inches
wide. 1t is claimed that the hole out
of which the ore was taken is only eight
feet deep. 1t is granite quartz con-
tanning native gold in cubes and wires.
Several assays have been made from
In connection with the discovery the
Denver Pest says:
Now I'm not going to tell you it is
the biggest strike of the country" said
Canon City, in speaking of the very
latest excitement at Dawson, Col, but
I will say that the specimens showed
me this morning by the men who made
the strike were as fine as any 1 ever
saw in my life
1t was in the Albany hotel rotunda,
and a group of eager listeners sur
rounded him.
These two fellows, Luther and Sal
lee, came out from Kansas a month or
so ago." Mr.. DeWeese continued, and
they are tenderfeet of the most pro-
nounced type. but the stuff they broke
into yesterday, if it's anything like
what they say it is, will make them so
rich that they won't know themselves.
THE specimens were red jasper rock.
full of wire gold. I never saw anything
like it, and it was oubtedly about as
rich it could be without being the
pure, unadulterated stuff.
mo assays had been made, but no
body who guessed at it's value put it
at less than $4,000 per ton. These fell
lows say they have an eight-inch streak
of this mineral. and if they have they
ought to be millionaires in no time;
but you can't always tell about these
things added Mr.. DeWeese with a
sigh
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08
BELoIT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
Visited by the Board of Charities
Mrs Bare's Good Work.

Beloit, March s.-The new board of
charities made their first official visit
to the industrial school for girls, located
in this city, Monday night and Tuesday.
In the evening the superintendent,
Mrs. Phoebe Bare, gave them an in
teresting programme, consisting of a
drill by the scholars, singing, music and
declarations, followed by short talks
from the members of the board and the
painstaking superintendent. Many rep
resentative citizens and business men of
Beloit, including the mayors S. H. Dodge,
Judge A. H. Ellis, ex-senator L. D.
Young and Postmaster w. G. Perdue.
The growth of the industrial school
there now being about $50 scholars
present necessitates the enlargement of
the building, and an appropriation of
$4,000 was asked of the state to meet
the requirements. The committee, how
ever, saw fit to cut it down to $25, 900.
During the winter committees from
both legislature and senate have visited
the institution on two different &C.
casions, and in both cases have found it
well disciplined and in the best order.
1t is conceded by all that Mrs. Bare.
as superintendent, is the right person in
the right place, and the people of Beloit
wish the new board will let her remain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08
HE COULDN'T GET THEM.
The State Journal Created the De-
mand But the Grocers Couldn't
Supply 1t.

To the Editor of the State Journal:
1 have called on four grocers today
for the "Uneeda" biscuit advertised in
the State Journal Monday and Tuesday
and none of them were able to supply
me.
Will you please ask some grocer who
has these crackers to say so in the Jour-
nal?
-FOUR correspondent will find one
grocer in our advertising columns who
says he has them.
The "Uneeda" biscuit, which is fine
article of cracker, has been advertised
just two days in the State Journal and
the demand for the goods has been
enormous.
Those grocers who had them found
their supply melting away like snow
flakes as soon as the Journal came out
Monday evening.
For some reason the wholesale grocers
of Topeka do not handle the 'Uneeda'
biscuit and the retailers are compelled
to order from Kansas City. One mailed
an order yesterday and doubled it by
wire today A well known dealer said
he has many orders booked ahead. He
borrowed ten packages from a neigh
boring dealer and they lasted just ten
minutes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08
LANDED WITH $40.
Now a Cloud County Citizen Owns
1000 Acres Well Stocked and
Cultivated.

Concordia, March SC. ]. Ballou has
bought 800 acres of land in Cloud coun-
ty, know as the Frank Wilson farm
or stock range, consideration $4,000
With the home farm, this will make
Mr.. Ballou a little patch of nearly d
thousand acres, besides two or three
hundred more which he cultivated for
a relative living in Wisconsin. The
home farm is we'll improved, has a fine,
new, large house. with many conven-
fences, fruit trees in abundance of every
description, large barn, rOOmy cattle
sheds, granaries, out buildings of many
kinds. probably 5000 bushels of wheat
we'll binned, a large and valuable herd
of Hereford cattle, probably twenty
head of good horses, a couple of car
loads of implements. and other belong
ings of a well appointed and complete
farm. Mr.. Ballou is yet a young man
and is what might be called as just get
ting fairly started.
1t was perhaps twenty-five years ago
that. as a boy, with his father, young
Ballou landed at his present home. A
careful invoice of their possessions re-
vealed the handsome capital of a noisy
wagon, a rheumatic span of horses, and
$40,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-08
NEW CITY HALL.
Ordinance Providing For It and an
Auditorium Is Prepared.

City Attorney Bird has prepared the
ordinance allowing the proposition Of
issuing bonds for the erection of a new
city hall and auditorium to be voted
on at the coming city election, and it
will be taken up at an adjourned meet
ing of the council next Monday night.
The ordinance would have been pre-
scented to the council last Monday night
had the auditorium bill been published
in the last issue of the official state
paper.
At the meeting OF the Commercial club
tonight the new city hall matter will be
thoroughly discussed. All the members
of the club are urged to be present, and
all citizens who have the betterment of
Topeka in view are invited. The amount
of bonds to be voted for will be talked
of, and $4,000 probably fixed upon as
suggested by Mr. Bird.
The matter of q location for the new
city hall is to be left out of the Ques-
ton for the present President Brigham
of the Commercial club said today:
Il think the people of Topeka have
sufficient confidence in the city council
to leave the matter of location with it.
There is not now time to settle on the
location in any other way before the
election, and for two reasons it would
not be good business. In the first place,
the present city building will have to be
sold before new property can be bought
and secondly, to settle on a location be-
forehand would mean that fancy price
would have to be paid for the property.
Competition should be an important fea-
ture in locating the new city hall, as
1T will undoubtedly help adjacent prop
erty wherever located. The only re-
quirement is that it be centrally located,
and by competition the city will be
enabled to purchase property at a lower
figure
After discussing the proposed new
building, the Commercial club may take
steps to have plans submitted. The gem
eral opinion is that the fire department
headquarters should be maintained sep
arate from the auditorium, and the sug
gestion to erect a suitable structure in
the rear of the city prison is looked
upon as a good one.
1t is believed that the present city
property at the corner of Seventh and
Kansas avenue can be sold for at least
$4,000. With the bond issue this will
give the council 800, 600 for the new hall.
A site can be secured for $4,000 or less,
and the remainder devoted to the build
ing.