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Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-15
Hanscom Park District

includes some OF the finest homes in the
city. The car service is good. The pro-
perty lies high and the prices are reason
able which makes 1t good investment
proposition.
Alfred Kennedy.
George r. Bemis Co.
+. ID. Wead.
Garvin Bros.
George e. Company.
Byron Reed Go.
Russell-McKitrick Co.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-15
The South Part Of City

is being built up very rapidly. with sood
substantial homes, by class Of people
who make the best Of citizens. A good
many of these people are employed in
South Omaha.
McCague Investment Co.
George p. Bemis Co.
Kerr-ShalIcross Co.
f. ID. Wead.
Garvin Bros.
ID. v. Sholes Co.
Observation-Disclosures Co.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
PATRICK y. MEEHAN DEAD.
Editor OF the "Irish.American" Since 1857
Led In Many Irish 0vements.

Patrick j. Meehan. editor Of the Irtsh-
American, died Of bronchitis on Thursday
at his home, 500 Ogden avenue, Jersey
City, in his 18th year. He was born In
Limerick. Ireland. and came to America
in his youth. He was q writer for the
Scientific American for a short period and
later Joined the staff Of the Irish-AmeTiedn,
founded in is49 by Patrick Lynch, his step
father, who came to this country with other
Irish patriots in 1913. He succeeded Mr..
Lynch as editor when the latter died In
1857.
Mr.. Meehan declared for an unhesitat-
ing support Of the Union in the days
before the civil war and the stand taken by
his paper had a great influence upon lrish-
Americans. He took an active part IN
forming regiments composed OF his fellow
countrymen who went to the front and was
a conspicuous leader in almost all Irish
movements before and after the war. He
lived in Brooklyn for a number OF years. but
moved to Jersey City in 1884. He dwelt
in the same house in Ogden avenue
from that year until he died. He was one
of the founders Of the Catholic Church OF
st. Paul OF the Cross and served as a mem
Der Of every board Of trustees OF the church.
In recognition OF his services to. the
Church Bishop John j. 0'Connor OF the
Newark diocese gave permission for the
celebration Of a jubilee mass at MIR. Nee
hans home when he and Mrs. Meehan
celebrated their golden wedding anniver-
sary two years ago. Mr.. Meehan is sur
vived by his wife and eight children,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
REFUGEE KEATS TELEGRAM.
Woman Who Escaped Reaches Omaha
Before the Message.

OMAHA, Neb., April 21.-The first woman
refugee from San Francisco came in to-
night on the overland limited, She is Mrs.
William A. Aycrigg, wife of the assistant
chief engineer of the Union Pacific. She
and her husband were stopping at the Berk-
shire Hotel, at Suffer and Jones street, on
the night of the earthquake. Just as Mrs.
Aycrigg walked up the steps Of a friends
house in Omaha tonight a telegraph boy
bearing a message she had sent from
Berkeley on Thursday reached the house.
She says:
The most remarkable feature of the dis
aster was the quietness with which the
people accepted the tragedy. There was
no hysteria after the first few minutes.
For all the noise Of the falling buildings,
the blowing up of buildings, the ringing
of bells, the people walked around like
ghosts, like stricken things who knew not
where to turn. Every one seemed in a
hypnotic trance.
4On Wednesday night we slept at Fort
Mason, from where We could hear the con-
tinuous vibrations of high explosives. Ny
only luggage was a little hand shopping
bag. We left the city on the ferry Thurs
day morning and / got away on the Union
Pacific. My husband went back into the
city to assist, and l have not heard from
him since
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
GEN. MARTIN T. M'MAHON DEAD
LIVED SCARCE 36 HOURS AFTER
ATTACK OF PNEUMONIA.
Has %Tclephon;ng to The Sun" Thursday
Night for News OF San Francisco
Judge OF General SessiOnS-Onoe
Gen. MoClellan's Aide-U. d. Marshal.

Va TCleph0n;ng to Tho Sun" Thursday
Night for News OF San Francisco
Judge OF General sessiOnS-Onoe
Gen. McC1ellan's Aide-U. q. Marshal.
Con. Martin T. McMahou, Judge Of the
ColIrt of General Sessions, died at $50
O'Clock last night at the Hotel Grosvenor,
where he lived with his two sisters, the
Misses Ella and Mary Mcmahon. His
death was caused by an attack Of pneu-
monia, which lasted barely thirty-six
hours. On Thursday night he had tele-
phoned to THE SUN to get some deatails
of the San Francisco disaster.
Gen. Mcmahon had not been in good
health for some time. About a week ago
he adjourned his court for the April term.
1t was said then that he had official business
in Washington to attend to.
Gen. Mcmahon was born in Canada in
1888. His parents were Irish, and When he
vas three weeks old they fled to this country
in the last days of the Canadian Rebellion
For a time his parents lived in Philadelphia,
and then they came to this city. The son
was educated at Fordham College, and was
graduated in 1855.
AS soon as he completed his studies he
went to Buffalo and studied law In the
office of Eli Cook, then Mayor OF the city.
He was too young to be admitted to the bar,
and he became a correspondence clerk In
the General Post Office at Washington. In
President B%uchanan's administrator he
was appointed special post Office agent TO
the Pacific Coast. He was admitted TO the
Bar at Sacramento in 1861.
AT the first call for troops at the break
ing out of tho civil war he raised the first
company of cavalry on the Pacific. He
was elected Captain Of the company. but
when it was decided that the company
should not go to the front be resig ned and
went to Washington. He was made a
Captain in the Regular army and an aide de
camp to Gen. George B.. Mcclellan. He
served in every engagement in which the
Army OF the Potomac tool part. When
the Sixth Corps was disbanded be was
Adjutant-G General and Chief of STAFF. He
also served uader Gems. Franklin. Sedg-
wick. Baldv Smith and Wright,
At the close OF the war he was assigned
as Adjutant- General under Cen. Dix, to the
Department Of the East. FL resigned in
1886 and became Corporation Attorney OF
this city. President johnson made him
Congress against Robert b. Roosevelt and
was defeated. Two years later he was
appointed receiver Of taxes by Andrew II.
Green, then Comptroller.
DE was Unitel states Marshal for the
Southern District Of New York under Presi-
dent Cleveland. After that he was an As
semblyman and a State Senator
For years he had been one of the man
ayers Of the National Home Tor Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers. He got the Congress
medal Of honor for bravery at the battle Of
White Dali Swamp.
In 1895 he was elected Judge of the Court
of General Sessions. His term expires In
1909.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
MRS. COOPER ACQUITTED.
Wept When the Jury Pronounced Her Not
Guilty OF the Charge OF Murder.

AUGUSTA, Me-, April 21.-Mrs. Alice f.
Cooper, wife OF Edwin J. Cooper of South
Windsor, who has been on trial here for
the last six weeks on the charge OF murder
ing Charles D. Northy, Jr., at her home
last October, was acquitted by the jury
this afternoon.
Northy was formerly employed by Mrs.
Cooper's husband and lived at the Cooper
home for more than a year. For a long
time he was infatuated with the woman
and they were constantly together at
church sociables, berry parties and other
social gatherings. The young man be-
came engag ed to a girl living In the neigh
borhood, and the State e~ndeAvorod to
establish jealousy as a motive for the
charge brought against the Cooper woman.
She asserted that Northy tried to Induce
her to elope with him and that he shot
himself in the head when wrestling with
her to get possession Of a revolver which
she had in the pocket Of her skirt. She
purchased the revolver In his city the
day before Northv was killed, teedfying
that she got the weapon to defend herself
from Northy.
When the verdict was announced Mrs.
Cooper wept. She kissed her counsel and
then her husband, and shook hands with
each Of the jurymen. On motion OF
County Attorney Leigh she wa discharged
at once, and after receiving congratula-
tons left the court and returned to
her home.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
WORK OF THE COURTS.
Judges OF Criminal Branches Meet ana
Agree IN a Lin Of Action.

O0 h"hc W Wv
OAKLAND, Cal, April 2l.-A meeting Of
the Superior Judges Of San Francis 20 was
held to-day to settle several legal questions
arising from the interruption of judicial
proceedings. 1t was agreed that no further
says of executions be granted in the cases
of convicted criminals who already have
been sentenced and have secured stays for
definite periods.
This order applies to George D. Collins,
the attorney sentenced to fourteen years
impris onment for bribery, but the order
in his cas-, must be signed by Judge Bur
nett of Santa Rosl, who was the trial
Judge. Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, convicted
OF the murder of Mrs. j. P. Dunning, is
exempt from the order, as her case has
peer appealed to the Supreme Court.
She will emain in custody Of the Sheriff
until a decision is rendered, but Collins,
with other prisoners, will be sent to tie
State prison.
Some trouble was anticipated by the
Judges in the criminal departments on
account Of the destruction of all their rec
ords, but Attorney-General Webb an
nounced that certified copies were intact
in his Office in Sacramento, and these can
be sui stituted for the original documents.
The Judges made an oroer extending tie
time of filing papers for thirty days from
April 81.
BY order of Gen. Funston 160 people have
been arrested on criminal charges during
the day. These prisoners have been sent
to jails in n~eighboring counties.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
RECESS FOR ""- ROB ANMON.
To Spend ~ HOms -. Il Library Instead
OF In S.ng Sing Prison.

MOUNT VERNON, y. Y, April 2l.-Under
an order issued to-day by Justice Keogh,
Col. Bob Ammon, who is serving a sentence
in Sing Sing on a charge of having received
stolen goods from the Miller 500 per cent.
syndicate of Brooklyn, will at least have
a suggestion of liberty. F!=s order directs
that he be left at the law library at the
White Plains court house for a period of
forty EIGHT hours to give him an oppor-
tunity to prepare a brief covering irregu-
~larities in his sentence which he alleges
exists.
The convicted nan will work all day
Sunday on his brief and the libraria rs
have been ordered to supply him with
any books or documents that he may re-
quire. His wife will remain with him for
the purpose Ct assisting in the preparation
OF the brief and operating the typewriter
at night time. Anmon will sleep in the
county jail, guarded by keepers.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
AUTOS WHERE IRVING PLAYED
Famous Lond0n Lyceum to He Turned
Into n Garage.

spsoa! Cable Despatch to THE SUN.
LONDON, April 21.-The famous Lyceum
Theatre, the scene of the triumphs Of the
late Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry,
closed its doors tonight after fifteen months
of consistent failure as a music hall.
1t was opened in january Of last year
for vaudeville after costly reconstruction
and no handsomer or more commodious
building for variety entertainments existed
in London, but the public did not %patronize
it to the extent of making it profitable.
Attraction after attraction failed TO draw
the public and tonight saw the final full
flment of lrving's prophecy Of 1908 that
if the Lyceum we're diverted from its or
iginal purpose it would not succeed.
The building is now in possession of the
mortgages and its future has not yet been
decided upon. One report says it may be
reopened with grand opera. Another Is
to the effect that it will be abandoned as
a theatre site and used as an automobile
garage.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
Army and Navy Orders.

WASHINGTON, Apnl 2i.-Thcse army orders
were issued 10 day:
Major ormond NJ, IAsssE Ordnance Department.
to San Francisco.
Capt. Frank G. Boggs. Corps Engineers. from
Washington Barracks TO Pitisburg.
Capt. Frederick T.. Johnston, Artillery Corps,
10 Twentieth Company Coast Artillery.
Capt. George II. pcnTose, Quartermaster, from
Port Townsend, Wash. 20 Fort Wayne.
Capt. Frank TompkirS. Eleventh Cavalry, to
Washington Barracks General Hospital for treat
mcDt.
tailed as member Board Of Ordnance and Fort
cations vice Lieut.. Gen. John {. Bates, U. S. A.
retired.
First Lieut.. Samuel w. Noyes, Thirtleth Infantry.
TO San Francisco General Hospital for treatment.
These navy orders were issued:
Rear Admiral W. r. Bayley, placed on retired
Capt. J. p. Merrell, from command Of the Oregon
Pay Inspector G. W. Simpson, from the Maine
TO home.
Pay Inspector J.. Hunt, TO the Maine.
Passed Assistant Paymaster n. W. Nesbit, from
the MayfoweT 70 home.
Ass slant Paymaster q, II. Adee from Washing
ton TO the Maynower.
Passed Assistant Paymsster F. r. Holt, from
Navy Pay oticcr's School 10 Navy Department.
Washin ton,
Assistant Psymaster r. II. Johnston, from wssh
ing'on to the Maine az commlssepy ohhc.'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
LITTLE GIRL IS REALLY DEAD
COroner's Physician Sent to Settle It--she
VIII Be Buried To-day.

VIII he Buried TO-uay.
Veronica Mccain, the eleven-year-old
girl who was reported as having died last
Wednesday, but whose body had since dis
PLAYED what the medical attendant thought
might be signs Of life, was examined by
Coroner's Physician O'Hanlon last night
and pronounced dead. The condition OF
the body indicated that the girl died last
Wednesday, as first reported.
Veronica Mccain was always a frail
child. Recently she developed a severe
heart trouble. DIR. Joshua Frazer attended
her. o Wednesday the heart stopped
beating and respiration ceased. DR.. Fra
ger %thereupon issued a death certificate.
The BODY was not embalmed. but was placed
in a coffin.
Peculiarities of color and lack OF rigidity
suggested to the relatives the possibility
Of a trance. Father McGrath Of st. Fran
els Xavier's church on seeing these strange
symptoms advised that the doctor be sum-
moned again before burial should be al
lowed.
When DR.. Frazer examined the body
he was surprised at its condition and ad-
vised against immediate burial.
Last night the matter was brought to
the attention Of Coroner Hamburger. He
asked Capt. Kruse of the West Twentieth
street Police Station to investigate. De-
~tectives were sent around to the McGann
house, but they could not determine whether
the child was dead or not.
Then Coroner Hamburger sent Coroner's
Physician 0'Hanlon to the Eighteenth street
house. He found decomposition already
we'll under way.
The coroner will order immediate burial.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
obituary Notes.

The Rev. David A. Merriok. S. j., died at
the st. I~gnatius Loyola Rectory, $50 Park
avenue. yesterday morning. Father Mer-
rick was an old New Yorker. He was born
in Cherry street February 10. 1888. In lsI7
he entered 81. Johns College. Fordham
which had been Just taken in charge by the
Jesuits. He was graduated in 1850 and read
law for a year In Charles O'Conor's ONCE.
For a while he studied medicine, but finally
was sent to France to make his novitiate and
to study philosophy, In Amiens and Laval
BE- rs Saaiosics SIX ,i yeSsT :: q. In F lsSt he G0 amp xsd
ordained priest BY Archbishop, Bayley in
the old 81: Patrick,s Cathedral Mott street,
ddsellp6ia, but his most noteworthy work had
been done in this city at the churches of St,
| sRathi s cs isS9it in ths ST df9 hssRG sn6 HSyisPi Up Df
his entrance into the Society Of Jesus.
Henry james Gibbs, a prominent citizen
Of DupkiEk, n: " and a veteran Of the fiyil
Mer, ot Of psfsiyst. He was born in st rEne
ford -on-Avon. England, in 1871, and came
to this country in 1850 with HE parents, who
The sse.t civil war IN Company X. Ninth View York
eega > a. H'f Bexeriy Ford and discharged as ssi
XIX iir co@msndery No. 20, Knights Tsmpiar,
and had held ONCE i1, the several Masonic
bodies Of that city He W, wSs 2 mneppber Of
lhldlh VI. hNpN ~, VI 80 I'VE dllb
had served the post several terms as COM
mander. He Is survived by his WE, one
Gister and two brothers.
As a result of Il stroke OF paralysis on
Wednesday. Mrs. Catherine Nelson Brocken-
brough, widow. of Dr. william g.. Il. BrG0xen-
brough, died this morning Ut the Home for
Aged Confederate Women. Al a young girl
she knew personally Calhoun and Clay. She
is the original of tho centre figure in the
painting The Burial of Latene." a copy of
which hangs In thousands of homes in yir-
gjnia and thron ghout the South. IL was
Mrs. BrockcnbrouRh who received the body
Of Lieut.. L.atene. and with the aid Of a ser
burial. She was one OF the most popular
women in Washington during the admins
trstion Of President Tyler.
Col. Orville William Leonard. a veteran
Of the civil wtr,. died az Hackensack. y, j..
on Friday morning last u his slxty-st1th
the historic Sixth Massachusetts under the
Presidents call Of April is, 1881 and later as
brevetted Lleutenant-Colonel. He was q
member Of the Loyal Legion and Of George
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
no INSURANCE LIBERALlrr.
Underwriters win Pay Only LOSSES FOR
Which They Are Legally Liable.

OAKLAND, April 2i.-1hat the insurance
companies will not pay any losses for
which they are not legally and technically
liable was made known to-day, after a
meeting of the San Francisco underwriters,
held here.
The sense Of tho meeting was that the
impression should not be given that the
insurance complnie5 had money to throw
away or that any losses would he paid
until they had been properly adjusted,
and only such losses ~ the companies are
responsible for, will be paid.
This matter was brought to tho attention
Of the'board by Rolla V. Watt, manager Of
the Royal and Queen insurance com
paniee. He said: 4 met former Mayor
Phelan on the street yesterday, and he
asked me to get some sort Of a notice given
out to the public that their losses would
be paid. l do not believe that this is the
proper thing, and I told him so. The COM
panies / represent will pay what they are
liable for and no more. 1t is better for
those whose spirits are dropping to allow
them to droop rather than to buoy them
up with false hopes
This sentiment was general. From tho
remark made there is no doubt that the
companies will draw n fine distinction in
the way Of loss 10y earthquake and that
by fire, and will only pay for what was
actually burned. The question Of property
devastated by dynamite was not touched
upon and will probably be the cause Of end
Iaao I;tioot;on
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
HAS HER SHADOW ARRESTED.
Private Detective Follows Mrs. ~strindberB;
Even Into Police Station.

ENOl bHVo hOucS bt0bOu.
A woman who satd that she was An1lie
S~trindberg Of Al West Sirtieth street, walked
into the West Sixty-eighth street police
station last night, closely followed by q
man.
sergeant she said, q wish to make q
complaint against this man, and have him
looked up
Mrs. Strindberg explained that the man
had been following her for several hours.
She said that abe bad fist noticed him on
a Broadway car, and that when she changed
at Columbus Circle he followed her. Al
though she changed car several times,
she was unable to throw him OF, e when
she went to the station house.
The man was arrested. He said that
he was William Harron Of 105 Sanford
street, Brooklyn, and that he was am
ployed by a private detective agency 70
shadow Mrs. Strindberg. Mrs. Strindberg
said that her husband, Alec S~trindberg,
began q suit for divorce against her last
Monday and that since then a had her
Swallowed in an attempt to obtain posses-
sion of their only child, a boy.
Harron was locked up charged with dis
orderly conduct. He WAS bailed out shortly
afterward.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
FINDING HOMES FOR REFUGEES.
GOV. Pardee Asks Mayors TO Arrange to
Care for Sufferers.

BAKERSFIELD, April 81 The following
telegram was received by Mayor MCDONALD
this morning:
ena.. ~ s,,,c. OAKLAND Cal
How many people from Sar Francisco
can 20 taxe care ( /, 'Nur community!
The ELI /, gr at. Ia e care T S ma as
Won an. A.nsw r Immediately to Oakland
GEoRi c. PARDEE.
G vernon Ct I te OF G liiornia'
The following telegram was sent to all
agents Of the Santa Fe, the main line IN
California:
To all A ents:
T e com ittee of relief in San FIR ncisco,
at t e cad of which is May r Sc mitH'
a vises me t at it is of 70 emost imp T ance
that the homele s people in Sal Francisco
shall be diminis ed and aid ca . fur, lsned
by the towns OF the San joaquin Valley taking
care of the homeless people than in any other
way. Please canvass among your cltlHehS
and wire me at Point Richmond how many
people can be housed and fed in your city.
A. G. WELLS,
General Manager.
A meeting Of the leading business men
OF Bakersfield was called at once and sub
committees on commissary and shelter
were appointed. Another committee OF
three of the largest merchants was &c
spatched tonight 10 San fTdncisco W
bring 500 refugees to this city Immediately.
They will be cared for directly by the COM
muuity and will be placed in spare rooms
throughout the city.
The Southern Pacific and Santa Fe vii
haul the refugees to this city free of charge,
and every other city an town in the great
San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento Valley
is preparing to take care of as many OF the
earthquake and fire sufferers as possible.
The S,uthern through wires OF both the
Western Union and Postal Telegraph COM
rariss rass thru ugh this city, and they are
carry ir & messages in the East to relatives
and friends Of the stricken.
Whenever there is a message filed at any
point in the United States addressed to the
Mayor of San Francisco the operator
saws Relief" and the message to the execu-
tive is cut ahead Of all other important
dispatches.
John D.. Rockefeller telegraphs z. D.
Schofeld, his general manager, with head-
quarters in this city, that he desires the
Company's attorney in San Francis % TO
spend 500, 900 as he secs fit Tor the home-
less in a Francisco.
Later another despatch from New YORK
from the Standard Oil Company to officials
in Bakersfield rendered a donation OF
100000
Clarence H.. Mackay telegraphed 5000
70 Mayor Sohnitz to-day for the poor people
Of the metropolis.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-22
MILES'S CLERK MAY "SQUEAL.s
Asks the District Attorney for Gods Sake
to Come to Him.


Frank NJ. Wandell, Jr,, who, with Lawyer
William o. Miles, in whose office he was
clerk. and four others, was convicted OF
conspiracy in connection with the eve
claim frauds and who was sent to Raymond
street jail to await sentence in the County
Court, Brooklyn. tomorrow, seems to be
willing to "squeal." Late yesterday after
room this letter was received at the Office
O? District Attorney Clarke;
Mr.. Clarke or Mr., Ed r:
Will you kindly call at the jail, as ! have
something very important TO say to you, and
1 ask YOU. for Gods sake. I com = to me.
was Ike I On the stand. from testifying
and have been treated with threats, where
il was thrown UP TO me that If ] went on the
stand | would get twenty years. where If l
stayed. r. would only get sentence IS
me and Come TO me at once.
FRANZ VI. WASDELL, in.
p. S.-Or please have orders given 10 have
me come to our ONCE.
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Washington Post OF the Grand Army of the
Republic. His wife. two sons. Orville H.
and Robert c. Leonard. and a daughter. Mrs.
81. John Alexander. survive him.
Alfred Fernandez Criado, who died on
Thursday at his home. ps Sixth avenue. Brook
Ign. In his forty-ffth year. was assistant
superintendent OF a branch OF the Metropol-
tan Life Insurance Company In that borough.
he leRYeaa widow md thrnR acns.
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LOADING UP A STEAMER.
Captain Puts II AZ Relief Service without
Consulting Owners.

SAN PEDRO, Cal, April 2i.-Fully 400
volunteers, including bankers, merchants,
pastors, besides longshoremen, are tonight
loading a steamer from a special train OF
supplies sent here by Los Angeles.
Fires kindled by the women are keeping
coffee boiling while the men do the heavy
work. The owners of the steamer do not
live here, but its captain took the RESPONSE
bility of having her loaded free and will
carry 100 volunteer nuns s to Frisco.