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Show ene eemmeermioecie enaeiemaeniameamammee eee eT a ROE por sean Sank tnt pet ain ent atin ern etnantncemsen Ei net nena otal nan mng tent, a me r WESTERN Era WITS Absent GO WOOL GATHERING. Mindedness of Business Men They Lunch Down Town. | The World's News When || >< <ii>—>—<—_____>>-—<¢ <i> >—¢ { \ | i | ‘Do you know that many business men are half crazy when they enter a restaurant at noon for lunch or dinner?” This was said to a reporter by the owner of a well known restaurant, who one cent at the WIFE. A Young American Who Receives a Cold Lead Reminder of His Infidelity. continued: | “Their minds are not upon what they are» doing; their brains are busy as can be figuring and planning. Their bodies left their counting. rooms, but theix heads remained. They, as a rule, eat hurriedly, and any number of them do so mechan. ically Ihave seen them do the most absurd things possible. Often’ it happens that one. will throw down KILLED BY HIS | One of those delectable atonements | | for domestic infelicity occurred at | last. Henry W. | Omaha on Saturday | King Jr., of the firm of Browning, King & Co., was shot dead by his wife. Young King, the victim of the murder easlricr’s desk with: a seventy-five cent | or fifty cent check, and wait for a minute | was about thirty years of age,and was a or tivo for the change. And these are | graduate of William’s College. Accord| ing to the story of his friends, he caused sharp, shrewd, calculating business men, who, if you entered their’ places of business, you would find alert enough, and who would never make a mistake in giving out or receiving money. ‘They show their mental abstraction in various ways. One will come in, and with deliberation place his hat beneath his chair, yet when he has done eating he will rush to the rack, and, scizing somebody clse’s hat, go out, probably not discovering his error fora day ortwo. Itis apositive fact that not long ago a man with a 7? head wore out of my placea ate ST ee VR A e ty 64 hat, which would scarcely stay on the top of his head. Nor did he discover his mistake until he reached his office. ‘‘One day aman stepped up to my desk and complzined that, he had lost his hat, a very fine one which had cost him $7 or $8. His hat had been stolen, he charged, and he. was excited and angry. Would you believe it? It was he who had stolen one. I discovered a few minutes later that two days before he had taken the hat of an- other, leaving his own. . The one he took was.of the same material, but had been ee a ee + ee worn an entire season, being greasy and soiled; still, he wore it without discovering the fact until the time he made the complaint, although his own hat wasa fine, brand new one. “It is truly odd how men will behave about hats. Frequently one will come holding one in his hand and tell me he did not wear that when he came in. the faces of these, and if they just been shaved, tell them they exchange at the barber’s and did cover their error until they came One man made a great I look at have but madethe not disin here ado because, as he said, some one had carried off his hat, when investigation showed that he had worn another man’s hat to the restaurant, picking it up as he left the office, but not detecting it until he had eaten. Going out-to eat at noon is not an interval of rest to most business men, because there isnorest. They must supply the wants of their inner man, but they do it without any rest of the brain Their occupation is before them all the while, as their fa away looksshow. They say and do things in the most mechanical manner, and will skip from twenty-four to forty-eight hour: in their computations. A level heade man of business insisted up and down while holding his own hat in his hand nice silk one—that it did not beiong tc him. He knew what he had worn dowii town—it was a white one, he declared He probably had done so the day before, but would not be convinced of his erro: until the name on the inside of the inne: band revealed it to him. A man picks uy, a heap of human nature in our business because all sorts of things occur, particu lavly at the noon rush, when men do some cf the most absurd things in the world, and are often most unreasonable becaus: of their self absorption.’’—Chicago Herald e a Tarring Philologists and Feathering. have 1ong observed that many words popularly known as ‘‘Amer icanisms” are really good old [Eng lish terms bruught over dy the Pilgrim Fathers, the early settlers on the Jaines, etc., and retained here when forgotien in the ceuntry of their birth. Similarly, not a few Dutch words—boss, boodle, ete. — brought over by the early settlers of New Amsterdam, have spread from their ~~ eee original American habitat, till they have become part of our speech. It is not less interesting to note that certain customs, forgotten in their home land, but re. tained here, and, therefore, characterized as ‘‘American,’ are really importations from Europe. Not one cf these customs garded than as more has distinctively the venerable one been re. ‘‘Yankee” of ‘‘tarring -and feathering,” and yet we learn from the ‘‘Annales Rerum Anglicarum” of the venerable English historian Hoveden (living in the Thirteenth century and: court chaplain to Henry III) that the custom is at least as old as the time of. Richard the Lion Hearted. He tells that Richard, on setting out on the third crusade, made sundry enactments for the regulation of his fleet, one of which wasthat ‘*A robber who shall be convicted of theft shall have his head cropped after the. fashion of a champion, and boiling pitch shall be poured thereon, and the feathers of a cushion shall be shaken out on him, so that he may be known, and at the first land at which the ship shall touch he shal! be set on shore.” -Whether the custom was earlier than this we have no means of determining. Itis at least close on to 700 years old.—American Notes and Queries. Tabooed by the Czar. Any book of poems which has the word “tyrant” in it cannot pass the Russian frontier The czar thinks it a direct hit at him An English book was lately tabooed because it had the sentence, ‘‘God's free air” All the air in Russia belongs to royalty.—Detroit Free Press. : Sie his relatives much tronble by contracting an unfortunate marriage a few years | ago which was succeeded by a divorce; and since that time has been living a life ; industry, having charge of | of honest several branch houses of the firm, whose headquarters are in Chicago. The Omaha branch, a.retail store, has been running only about six weeks. H. W. King, Sr.,the father, declares that the woman who killed his son was not the latter’s wife, but a woman named Beecher, living in Chicago, A representative of the Omaha hasinterviewed the woman, what she says about it: and Bee here is THE WOMAN’S STORY. “Tam the legal wife of Harry King. We were married about four years ago in church. We lived in Quincy, Illinois, fora time,and kept house at that time. We returned to Chicago and took up housekeeping at 210 Cass Avenue, where we lived happily and peacefully together until four weeks ago. Before the latter date Harry (the victim of the murder) came to Omaha and looked around for a place for the purpose of opening a store. He was with Mr. Andrews for a time. He returned to Chicago and informed me he had everything well under way. After remaining a few days he again started but giving me to understand he was going to Omaha. I heard nothing from him and became uneasy. Finally I observed a dispatch from Kansas City that he had married Miss Duffy of that place. The news almost bereft me of reason and to be candid I was almost dumb. We had a pleasant little home with all the money we wanted and everything that heart could wish for at our disposal. I loved Harry ‘asI loved my existence and to learn that he had betrayed me was more than I could bear and no doubt more than a loving wife’s heart can withstand. Well, Ilearned at once the whereabouts of the parents of the girl who unknowingly took my position beside my hus- band, and I telegraphed them that King had a wife living in Chicago undivorced. The parents of Miss King No. 3, reside at Duffy, alias Mrs. Louisiana, Mo. I WREKLY. the victim had met his death. information was imparted the As the woman land of an imperturbable and friendly attitude towards the United States. He When requested by the reporter to continue her story she said : “T did not come here with the deter- regarded the attitude taken by Mr. Cleveland, after the rejection of the fisheries and is now on her way to Chicago to learn the sad news of her husband’s infidelity, as I have learned it.” _ “Did you come here with the imten- tion of killing Mr. King?” “No, sir, that was not my intention. When I started I came here to have him prosecuted for bigamy. He had been married three times. Ora Walker, who fused to listen to me.. When I saw morning he re- He even: scoffed at my entreaties. I informed him that he would be prosecuted for forgery and bigamy, and he took -me by the throat and said for me to shut my mouth or he would choke me to death.” “Tf you did not intend to kill him why did you carry such a weapon?” “T carried it to protect my own person. When he treated me that way and pro- voked me, I concluded I would call it into other service, and in consequence I “T do not remember; every time. I was desperate attempts to frighten me out of taking action in the matter. The revolver was a 32-calibre self-acting, and was tested and found perfect before it came into my possession.” “Then you have been assisted in this undertaking?” “My father never refused to lend me assistance, even when a child at school, and he lives today. Does that explain?” Shortly after 20’clock Mrs. King No. 3, who had gone to Council Bluffs to visit, friends the night before, returned to the Paxton House with her cousin, Mrs. J. E. Snyder of Lincoln, Neb. Somebody had told the unfortunaté woman the particulars of the tragic event and she was completely prostrated. She had to be carried from the elevator to her room and since then has been raving insane. with lucid-intervals. Her physivians say there is little hope of her surviving the blow. influence At present, she is under the of chloroform. The lady has been, at different times, called Moore and Duffy. It was under the former, however, that she was best known. Her home is supposed to be in Louisiana, Missouri. Advices from St. Louis state paper. This reached the eyes of the murderess, who immediately went to Mrs. Moore’s family at Louisiana and informed them that the young lady was living with King, who was a The telegram When we were married, the fact that he had previously had a wife from whom he was divorced, was never made yesterday, and was only delivered in the morning. Soon after, Mrs. King No 3 left the hotel, but without telling where she was going. An hour later a note from King to his wife was received by the clerk of the Paxton.. Mrs. King’s It was sent to room, but she was found low it to weigh upon my mind in the presence of Harry. My maiden name was Eliza Beedler, and my father is a retired capitalist. Harry’s father is quite wealthy, and lives on Randolph street. It will drive him crazy when he learns of this. The statement that he got a divorce from me is untrue. He never intimated he was desirous of separation and I always thought my womanly affections were rightly bestowed when I confided them to Harry until I learned fof the facts that resulted in this.” “But have you seen Harry since?” “Ts he dead?” These words®were uttered by the woman to thefreporter, who replied that to beaway. The note was returned to the clerk and placed by himin Mr. King’s box. There it was found by that gentlelast night who marvelled greatly had unby her rival’s telegram which contained the information that she was coming here to prosecute King for bigamy. i <p known to me. It came to me in all its horrors when I was his wife, but I overlooked all of it though it was hard, and never did [I al- be more dangerous than since God created the earth. government’s policy Washington with Americans our best any war He trusted towards the administration conserved, a view to new wouid be making the allies on all ques- tions, and to producirg a desirable friendship between the English speaking races, thus guaranteeing to humanity in turn the blessings of liberty and peace. Being Sold SENSIBLE RANDOLPH Is not Yearning for War United States. with the GOODS AND CHATILES. Out Under the Hammer Washington Home. at Gis house. The main hall, ball room dining room were thrown open to part of the public having cards of mission. The master of ceremonies the auctioneer. The assembly was in killed aseventh. The shooting was accidental. The dead man is supposed to be a bank burglar. The Proposed New ' Territory. Five hundred delegates to the Oklahama convention from Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska, met at Wichita, Ks., on Wednesday. The following resolutions were adopted: Resolved. That we urge most impera- tively on Congress the duty of passing at once the substantially pending bill now well advanced in the House of Representatives to organize the Territory of Oklahama. Resoloved. lency, the That we call on his excel- President of the United him vested to render efficacious the laws now existing or to be enacted, looking to the establishment of the proposed new Territory. Jnvestigating the Beef Monopoly. The Vest committee to investigate the alleged dressed beef monopoly, held a preliminary meeting Wednesday. at Senator St. Louis Vest on explained the immense ball room, with china to the transportation of beef cattle, and whether a combination existed on the Central Traffic Association, or other agencies of transportation or among those eugaged in buying and shipping the meat product, whereby the price of beef and beef cattle had been so con- trolled as to diminish the and glass-ware on tables against the wall. producers without Hundreds of people could: not get near enough to see what was being sold, but there were plenty of buyers who didn’t Jail seem to care especially what they. bought. Even three old china covers the dishes to which covers were broken or lost were bid for quite actively. Many people will show their regard for Lord new. prices paid lessening the cost to consumers. ae Brakers. A bevy of convicts recently attempted to escape from the Tennessee penitentiary by cutting a hole through the roof. The plot was disclosed to the warden, and guards were stationed at the place where the opening was to be made. After several had come out, a halt was ordered. No attention was paid to the officer and a load of buckshot was distributed where it would do the most good. One of the convicts came down the others came back to quarters. Idiotic Belligerency. Louis XV. and some dress-goods old and The London Standard is still raving over the dismissal of Sackville West. <> <> The Pope and the Knights. Following is the text of the replay sent by Cardinal Simeoni, Prefect of the Propaganda, to Cardinal Gibbons: “It is my duty to inform Your Eminence that fresh documents relative to the association known as the Knight of Labor forwarded to this sacred congre- gation were examined by it at the sitting of the 16th of August of the current year. After having attentively studied Alluding to speech, it says: Randolph Churchill’s “The knuckling down pol cy isnot the best nor the wisest policy in notorious and repeated acts liness as we have recently at the hands of the United face of such of unfriendexperienced States govy- ernment.” | Indian Civil War. Private advices from Tishomingo, the capital of the Chickasaw nation, are to the effect that a conflict between the fol- the whole subject the sacred congregation has directed me to reply that so far as at present appears the association of the Knight of Labor can for the moment be tolerated. The sacred congregation merely requires that a necessary modification should be produced in the rules of the society to make clear whatever might seem obscure or might be inter- The U.S. Marshal has been authoritatively notified that all reports of the am- perted in a bad sense. These modifications are required particularly in the icable adjustment of the troubles is incorrect, and passage ing local associations, and then the words Agent Owens has been appealed to for assistance to settle the impending diffi- savoring culties. of preface to the rules concern- of socialism be corrected and in such communism cempted <i. Se Tramps. A gang .of Aboard. twenty-two tramps at- to board a freight train‘on the Boston and Albany fight ensued. men off with Railway and a brisk The train hands beat the coupling lowers of .Guy and Byrd are inevitable. In a personal encounter between two of the belligerents, the Byrd follower was killed and his friends swear they will have vengeance. Chickasaw that Indian a way that. ple were essentially yo in this part of the Trunk Line Association and once did service for a British Minister. A large number of Washington’s society people who want something “English you know” paid high prices for the glassware and china. The auctioneer stood by God on man of the acquiring property by using legitimate means and respecting the property rights of all other. their relations with other countries. He deprecated the insulting and menacing articles of the English press since Lord Sackville’s dismissal. He said Englishmen ought to inform the Americans that they cherish no ill-feeling toward them. (Cheers,) . shot and pelled, partly from curiosity, and partly from adesire to purchase something that they shall only affirm the right conferred in captured that the substance of the resolution under which the committee had been appointed was to make an investigation as hope that and justly proud Six were way, and City Marshal Clune and that adwas im- the post of minister at Washington would. soon be filled. There was no doubt but Lord Sackville had been primarily indiscreet and made an inexcusable blunder. No fault could be found with the action of the United States toward the minister. The American peo- expressed the outaman. : At his grandest reception the British Minister never had a larger crowd than was there this morning. Neither Lord Sackville nor any member of his family were present to receive lhe callers. They were barred out of a large portion of the Lord Randolph Churchill, in a speech- muct at Paddington, summoned from the city. A special train was made up with a force of policemen on board. The tramps were met just west of Indian Orchard station and the officers gave chase, each singling | States,to exercise all the authority in <i> <S- married reached here at the absence of his wife who questionably been frightened acquainted with me. declared, would and Sackville by their collection of momenthat she was married to King last Aug- toes. Some who did not care especially ust. Since her return she has moved in the for china-ware waited in the dining highest social circles as Mrs King, and it room where some valuable and attractis reported she had been welcomed to the ive paintings, embroideries, bric-a-brac, family of her father shortly after the etc., were sold. Among the items were Although an attempt was} a silk court dress, finely embroidered, marriage. made to keep the matter quiet, the an- worn during the time of Louis’ XVL., nouncement of the fact appeared ina some antique brocade of the time cf man became he atrocious to it by his in Chicago, was his first wife. tained a divorce from her on the of infidelity and some time afterward he States, SACKVILLE’S but I shot to kill driven utmost allowance ought to be made for America’s position on the Sack- shot.” “How many times did you shoot?” is preparing to go on the theatrical stage He obground important ville affair, in view of the time at which it occurred. Cleveland’s action has been rather sharp, but it did not justify the menace, sneers and sulksin which the newspapers of England had indulged. A war between England and the United Mrs. King. I suppose that she got the dispatch as an blighted my life but he has invaded the sanctity of other homes. There is fickleness of woman behind all this and the public should not be too hasty in condemning my action. him in the parlor this The Senate, one. forming her was a bigamist. treaty by the mination of doing anything else than to bring him to justice. He not only man in this city. She telegraphed also to King greatest by Eng- reeled in her chair and fell into a semiconscious condition, but soon recovered. also sent a dispatch hereto the wife inthat Lord Randolph attached the importance to the maintenance pins and the ruf- fians retaliated by throwing stones until the train got out of reach. They then terrorized the community, and threw stones at the depot. Help was The ‘Umbria’ Breaks The Record. The Umbria has made the fastest eastward passage across the Atlantic on rec- jord, the running time being six days, two hours and twenty-two minutes. The best eastward passage hitherto was made by the Etruria, April, 1888—six days, four hours and forty minutes. best westward passage on days, one hour and fifty minutes Etruria. According to brought in by ships from ern ocean, the Umbria northwest gale to boom whole week through, The record is six all by the accounts over the westhad a howling her along the v, 2) OS |