The Evening Herald from Ottawa, Kansas • Page 5

THE EVENING HERALD, OTTAWA, KANJAS, MGN DAY, FEBRUARY. 15-1304. MRS. MARY RGBS DEAD. IflGLED BY GARS jquozone, IERS 3.50 La mb FUNERAL Licensed We have all the latest equipment of a first claSs' taking establisnment.

5ew Pheae 659, Loaj Distance Phone 334 S. Main. Th Rohrbaugh, THE SHOW THAT M0LL1E MACK INTKODUCE Tlxe Clearer Comediari mm 1 i 1 One of Ottawa's First Citizens Called Home to Rest Mrs. Marx. Robb yesterday evening about six o'clock at the family residence on South Oedaf: street-Death was due io cancerous troubles of long standing, and to old age.

The funeral will be held on Wednesday morning at ten o'clock from the house. Rev. H. G. Fraser will have charge, of the services.

Inter ment will be at Hope cemetery. Mrs. Mary Fox Robb, widow of the late James Robb, was born in Easton, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, April 4, 1820, died February 14, 1904. Mrs. Robb her girlhood days in Philadelphia, and in 1838 she went to Pittsburg, where she was married the same year to James Robb.

In 1S68 Mr. and Mrs. Robb came to Ottawa where she has resided at 618 Cedar for 36 At the age: of 16 Mrs. Robb united with the- M. E.

church. After her marriage she went with her husband to the United Pres byterian church. Eleven, children were born to Mrs. Robb, six of whom are living. A.

L. Stingley has been ill with pneumonia, out was reported im proved today. Dr. McCandless is moving today from his farm to'the Allisdn proper ty on Maple street, D. Crane was quite seriously ill yesterday.

He was able to be down town for a short time today. The next number on the university lecture course will be Mendelsohn's male quartette on March The name "Pickings from Puck stands for fun. That's what the play stand 3 for at the Rohrbaugh this evening. Oscar Frost, senior, father of the young man whose death from pneu monia occurred Saturday night, is al so seriously ill of pneumonia. The body of the late I.

I. Wagner was brought here at eleven o'clock from Topeka and was taken direct to Hope cemetery where the G. A. R. held services.

Mrs. Wagner and her daughter accompanied the body, returning to Topeka this afternoon. Prof. R. E.

P. Kline returned Saturday from a recital trip in Illinois. Mr. Kline reports a very successful trip, on which he gave three lecture recitals and addressed the ministers' union of the city of Chicago. He postponed his date at Hiawatha which he expected to fill on his return on account of throat trouble.

He will fill that date later in the season. CITY NEWS BRIEFS. Managers Tomlinson and Tucker, of he Western Union and McDearmott olSces, respectively, spent Sunday in Paola. A. who recently purchased the James.Lingard farm, southwest of Princeton, is moving his family here from the southwestern part of Iowa.

Rev, Cunningham who preached at the First tPresbyterian church yester day left this morning for his home at Wellington. Prof. R. A. Schwegler went to Kan sas City Saturday and preached yes terday at the Third Baprist cb urch there, occupying the pulpit of Rev.

Stevens, who preached in Ottawa. The Michigan Valley school has been closed on account of an epidemic of measles in that neighborhood. A nnmber of cases are reported among children of the Fairview school, and it will probably be closed this week. Oscar E. Frost, aged twenty-four years, died yesterday at seven o'clock at the home of his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. O. E. Frost, on Locust street. The funeral will be held from the house tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock.

Rev. Nusbanm will have charge of the service. When the body of R. J. Mantz, who was killed by the switch engine this morning, was prepared for burial to- aay a wallet containing $825 was found in the pocket of his trousers.

One check for a hundred dollars was found, dated 1902. The majority of the sum was twenty-dollar bills, rolled in a handkerchief and pinned with a safety pin. The funeral of Miss Julia Hornsby was held from the family residence near Peoria, at ten o'clock a. m. Rev.

Wilson, of Baldwin, conducted the service at the house and at the grave. The yonng lady friends of Miss Hornsby acted as pallbearers, and members of the Knight Templar lodge in Ottawa, to which her father as honorary pallbearers. They were H. J. Smith, John Hallor-en, Charles Esterly, "Judge Smart, P.

Harris. The body was broughs to Highland cemetery for bcriaL Beatty Williamson for insurance. PhsLrea Day, rsliatla Issrsaca. erurta, and all StapTe Patent Medicines Tm. F.R.

Miner standard insurance. Parker Hanson Abstract of Title Pickings from Puck." A daughter was born thia morning to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fleming, Pickings from Puck," a jolly thinf at the Rohrbaugh this evening. A.

S- Phillip's for short time loans. Lyman Dickey is quite Mr. and Mrs.iC. E. Gormly are parents of an eight-pbund boy baby, born this Will Angelo expects to move tomorrow from 730 Mulberry to 716 Hickory street.

Fire was started in a kiln of three hundred twenty-five thousand bricks at the brick plant today. Mr. C. Bearman shipped six crates of thoroughbred chickens to different parts of the state last week. Benjamin F.

Glenn was tried for insanity in probate court today. He was adjudged insane and will be sent to the asylum. Royal Crawford, of Millersburg. who has been visiting relatives here for a short time, left today for Cam bridge, to visit friends. Mrs.

Anna Gates, who has been visiting her daughter Mrs. J. N. At kinson for the past week, returned to her home at La Crosse today. Six dosen new polished oak chairs arrived today and were placed in Shaner hall.

The- chairs are of the best quality and greatly add to the appearance of the hall's interior. Superintndent Charles of the Topeka reform school, was here today to look after the two Wasser boys, who are said to have run away from the school. The boys are at the home of their grandfather, "Doc" Bixler. A new switchboard and test station are being installed at the Western Union office. The test 'station for locating difficulties on the wires will be the only one of its kind in this territory.

The annual convention of the state temperance union meets at Topeka tomorrow. The most of the churches of the city elected delegates to the convention 'and quite a number of Ottawa people lare expecting to All churches and temperance organizations in the state are supposed to be represented. A herd of a hundred and four western horses was sold at J7 P. Kerr's barn Saturday at public auction. They belonged to S.

L. Fllson, who brought them here from Scott and Lane counties last falL Most of them have been broke since. A. A. Lath-rop and Hal Green acted as auciton-eers.

B. F. Wheeler, living ten miles east of town, held a sale last Friday selling all his stock and farming implements. He expects to move the first of this week to a home at the corner of Seventh and Princeton, in Ottawa. Mr.

Wheeler is moving in town on account of his wife's ill health. Colonel. W. C. Parks is advertising an auction of thirty head of Oregon horses.

The sale will take place at the Missouri Pacific stock yards, February 20, at one o'clock. The horses are advertised a3 all good colors, heavy bone and good fiesh. They will be sold to the highest bidder. The terms are eight months time, four per cent off for cash. All kinds of complaints have been made on the Herald, and the force knows how to meet the common kind wiui coiacisaain.

iut a new one came in today and that so far-seems to have the force bested. This is it: A party of young ladies came in from a trip down street through the wind. Their locks" were very much raving as. a result of their out-door experience, and they complained be cause there was no Joking glas3 in the front office. Anybody who has seen, the editor of this paper with hi3 hat off knows why the papejr does not maintain a looking glass, for hair oresfiins purposes- AsIc your grocer for bottled milk and cream.

Barker's F. R. Bliller. headonartera for stand ard insurance. Make Life's easy hen Always Open 1 1 i't i DRAWS THE CROWDS and JOS.

M. GAITES IN MUSICAL COMEDY, 13 it Magie by BEWITT C00LMAX TALEHTED CHORDS 30 SUPERBLY COSTUMED SONG HITS MIRTH FU AND TUN EFU Prices, 25; 75; 500" Eat at Fowler's. I Ransom villa coal by the load, 4. GO per ton phone 776, Robinson "Bros, leave orders at Jack eon Palmers. The second Greefc art lecture will be given tomorrow evening at the conservatory.

Parker it Hanson slnds Insurance, all Cut flowers at Miss Kittredge's 42S Locust street, Phone 763. Wanted. We. would like to ask, throughr the columns of your paper, if there is any person who has used Green's August Flower for the cure of indigestion, Dyspepsia, and liver troubles thatjhaa not been cured and we also raeaa their such as sour stomach, fermentation of food, habitual cosfive-ness, nervous dyspepsia, headaches, despondent fact, any trouble connected with stomach and liver? This medine has been sold for many years' in; all civilized and Jwe wish to correspond with yon and send" ydu one of our books free of If you xev-er tried August Flower, try a 25 cent bottle first. We.

have never kndwn of its failing. If so, something more serious Is the matter' with yom x'The 25 cent size has just been introduced this year. Regular size 75 cents. "At C. L.

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MILLER A The Evening Telephone 47. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1904. WEATHER. Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday.

Slowly rising TWILIGHT. When darkness fettles dowa. And the fire's burning low, "When mother takes you in her arms. And rocks yon to and fro, Ah, theOa the time for seeing What you can't see otherwise; For that's the time for apookies. And thing with staring eyes.

The spookiea dance and Sicker With the shadows on the wall. While the otkers, leering, staring. Beckon from the hall You- wonder what they're doing They're waring to you yet And you still are wondering They half begin furget They seem to grow blacker. To creep op on tiptoe, You wish they'd take you with them. And then that '8 all you know! Ella Kellogg Burnhaza.

CITY HEWS BRIEFS. Carey Porter is the fire insurance man. E. J. Calvin went to the country to-.

day to cry a sale for John: Callan at farm northeast of Centropolis. The Epworth League will hold a valentine social at the home of Rev. Ttfusbaum tonight at seven o'clock. The second lecture on Greek art, by Prof es3or Schwegler, will be held tomorrow evening, at the conservatory. The Ladies' Aid society of the North Ottawa M.

E. church will hold a supper and bazaar tomorrow evening at the north K. P. hall. Mr.

C. C. Wade and wife, of Schell City, who have been visiting H. A. Collins and family, left yesterday for Parsons, where they will spend a G.

M. Humphrey came in from Bak-ersfield, Saturday to visit his brother J. G. Humphrey. He left this evening for Chanute where he will make a visit to the Southern Kansas oil fields.

Dan Kinney, an employee on the Santa Fe rip track, was accidentally hit in the right eye this morning by a heavy iron bolt. He sustained a very painful injury and one that may result in the loss of the eye. A large number, of the Elks. were photographed by Martin recently. The Elks will decorate one of the rooms of their suite with a colletion of photographs, personally signed, placed ju3t above the chair rail.

The senatorial committee has called the convention to meet in Burlington on the seventeenth of March St. Patrick's day. Franklin county gets. thirteen delegates and Coffey eleven. So far as reported there is no opposi te Horace J.

Smith, of Ottawa. few days before returning home. Mr. Wade attended the stock sale3 while here. He also visited the stock farm of Manrose and made the purchase of a thoroughbred calf Word was received this morning telling of the death of John F.

Leach, formerly of Ottawa, who has lately been at Kansas City for medical treatment He died at the Women's and "Children's hospital at Kansas City on February 12. and was- buried at Kansas City yesterday afternoon. Mr. Leach leaves a wife and a daughter thirteen years old. He was a member of Franklin camp M.

W. of Ottawa, and carried a thousand dol lars insurance in that order. Or, Begin the New Year by supplying your wants. in 'Diamonds, Watches and Sterling i 1 verware AT HOMO'S N.S. FSA3IKU, Wakluaaker.

moh, a R. J- MAKTZ, SWITCHMAN, i'XH- STAUTVT KILLED THREE CARS PASSED 0YERHIM Having Thrown the Switch Mr. Mar.tz Started to Cress the Track But' and, Fell and Waa Instantly Crushed to Rudolph Mantz. was killed this morning in the Santa Fe yard3 near the at about ten minutes be-fore seven o'clock while at work as a-. freight cars passed over his "body" "aid he was killed almost Mr.

Mantz has. been employed as a and had justturned- a switch and: attempted to -cross the track when he fell and three cars had passed over his body before the en gineer, could be and stop the train. It. is believed was tripped by his long overcoat: When taken out from under the train, his body was in a horribly mutilated condition. One foot had been cut off, the bones of his legs broken in several and his -body and head showed marks of the car wheels where they, had passed over him.

A stretcher was sent for and the body brought to the station where it re mained for a few minutes till the am bulance arrived and it was taken to the undertaker's rooms. The train that killed him was drawn by switch engine number 2396. It was switching three cars in the yards. The engineer in charge was Arthur Hill and the fireman Charles North- way. The accident was seen by but ne man, Al Hale, foreman of the rip track.

"I was coming to work about ten minutes before seven," said Mr. Hale, coming from the- north on i the east side: of tracks, when about torty feet north 6frthe switch which Mr. Mantz wa3 operating to throw the on to track twelve The cars were backing north, the enT gine being on the south end of them, Mr. Mantz had just thrown the switch from the east side of the track, gave the signal to the fireman, and started to cross to the west side of the track so that he could signal to the en- ry-J ti An 1 vn nrAm Mn 4tp mg, ana ne reii wrniie crossing the track and the three cars passed over his body before anyone could do any thing. I yelled te the.

fireman, and he signalled the engineer to stop. By that time the body was between the wheels of the coal car; Just as the first trucks passed' over his body I heard him scream, God and that was all he said. I think: he was killed The coroner was called, and a cor oner's inquest was held over the. body. The coroner's jury selected to hold the inquest is composed of Gardner P.

Walker, P. Miller, Henry Durst, John Collins, Joseph Cusick, and John Halloren. The jury viewed the body and the grounds where the acident occurred and adjourned till Wednesday morning, when it will meet at Lamb Chenoweth's undertaking rooms, and witnesses will be examined and a verdict returned. The funeral of the late Mrs. Robb Wednesday afternoon will be private.

Lawrence Smith sang a soprano solo yesterday morning at the Congregational church. The Epworth League social which was to hae been tonight at the parsonage has been indefinitely postponed. About fifty members of the G. A. R.

many with their wives, attended the First M. B. church in a body last evening to hear Rev. Nuabaum's address on Abraham Lincoln. The speaker said that Abraham Lincoln's life and work were an evidence that America is God's chosen people of the present day, and the success of Lincoln's efforts are evidence that God is with hi3 chosen people.

He, said that Lincoln was raised up by God to deliver a race from bondage as truly as was Moses. He said that Lincoln was not only the greatest American, but the greatest character of profane history, and placed him as a great triumvirate of Christ and Moses as benefactors of the human race. Don't forget the second Greek art lee tnr at the con servatory tomorrow evening. Miss Kittredge will fill promptly all orders for flowers and fern plants. 428 locust streeL Phona 7SS.

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