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PIATTSMOUTH, NEBKASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 23. 1890.
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A VERY SPICY CASE
Three Residents of Louisville Play
To a Crowded House -
"WILL PROBABLY HAVE TO MOVE
Mercerville Citizens Make a Kaid Upon
the Home of David eal Mr. Ifald
win Kewardtid for haiC
K. A M. Train Nets.
An Interesting Case.
From Friday's Daily.
A very spicy and interesting case is
on trial before a jury in county court
tiij -ifrirnnin tthprin Mrs. Marv
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Gritlin seeks to recover one thousand
dollars damages from M. D. Ruby and
.lord Stevens All of the parties re
hi.le iu Louisville, and Mr. Ruby is
city inarshall of that bailiwick, while
Mis. Gritlin and Mr. Stevens are sister
and brother. Mrs. Griffin keeps a
lodging house, and it seems has been
on bad terms with her brother for
home time. Last February, the latter
made up his mind that Mrs. G. was
not conducting herself as she
should and that she was harboi int'
gentlemen iu her house, who could
have uo valid excuse for being there.
He accordingly repairtd to the
domicile one night about eleven o'clock
and demanded admission, which was
refused. Thereupon he aroused the
cit marshall. Ruby, who proceeded to
the house, demanded and gained ad
mission, and searched the place. His
ssarcb, according to the testimony,
developed nothing Unseemly. For
this trespass, indignity etc., Mrs.
Gr-.Ciu asks the above amount of dam
ages. Make Life Uurdeusome.
David Xeal has more grief probably
than any other man in town. It will
be remembered that some time ago he
procured a license to marry a woman,
bat. at the eleventh hour, discovered
that his would-be bride had not yet
secured a divorce from her husband,
and David was loser to the extent of
1.50, which sum he paid for the li
cence. He tried various means of per
suasion to induce Judge Spurlock to
refund the money, but as the law
makes no provision for such cases,
that official did not refund the said
81.50.
Since then a woman of rather uncer
. tain age has been keeping house for
e,T)avid and his children, being com
pensated to the extent of one dollar
per week for her services, so David
jays. This arrangement evidently
Joes not suit some parties residing in
the neighborhood where he makes his
home, out in Mercerville, and they
have been vainly endeavoring to make
him "move his freight." David says
that last night at about half-past
eleven o'clock a gang of people crawled
up to his place of abode, armed with
shot-guns, clubs, brickbats and other
weapons of warfare, and, after hurl
ing several brickbats through the win
dow s and firing a volley into the house,
they yelled: "Come out, you
m
Of coure, David didn't come out,
but proceeded to hug the floor a little
closer. According to David's tale, the
gang have notified him that unless he
moves away from the neighborhood.
he will occupy a prominent place in a
funeral procession in a very short
lime. David was around today en
deavoring to ascertain the best means
of exterminating the gang, without
haiug "the law on him." He says he
is getting tired of haviDg his slumbers
disturbed in this boisterous manner,
and says that last night's occurrence
was not the first by any means, as he
has already received several visits.
ileroirm Bewarded.
Headers of TnE JOURNAL will re
member the exclusive account in these
columns of the heroism of a fisherman
and farmer named Lewis Baldwin,
living near Ashland, who, by timely
warning, saved a 15. & M. train from
dashing into a pile of rock and dirt
that bad caved down on the track near
a high embankment, west of Ashland.
Had the engineer not been flagged jaBt
at the time he was, the train and its
human freight would have been dashed
down the embankement into the
Platte river, and the loss of life and
damage to property would have been
terrible.
The B. & M. officials, not unmindful
of the great service rendered them by
Mr. Baldwin, notified him to call at
headquarters in Lincoln Thursday,
and he was presented with a fine team
of horses, a new wagon, new harness
' and a new breaking plow. Mr. Bald
win, who is a poor man, greatly ap
preciated the gifts, and is the proudest
man in Nebraska today.
Will Move Up Town Agalu.
A very desirable change in the loca
tion of the Adams Express company's
local office will occur in a few days,
and that company's headquarters will
be removed up town from the depot.
To Henry It. Gering is due the credit
for this change, as that gentleman has
been energetically working to that
end for some time. Last Friday J.
II. Vance of Lincoln, route agent for
the Adams company, was in town and,
with Mr. Gering, made a canvass of
the business houses to ascertain their
sentiment with regards to making the
change. The result was almost unani
mously in favor of moving the office
back up street, where it would be
more convenient for all purposes, and
Mr. Vance gave the assurance that the
people's wisbts would be regarded in
the matter and the change made in a
few days. Hie company willl also
maintain an office at the depot, in
charge of Agent Pickett, of the B. &
M., while George Freer will occupy a
similar position in the up-town office.
It is believed that tb Pacific Ex
press company will consolidate with
the Adams company in the operation
of their office here in the near future.
Had Him "I'ulse" With Hitn.
Some people are possessed of an un
limited amount of gall, but one of the
worst cases of that kind occurred in
one of the local barber shops laBt
Saturday afternoon. Everybody knows
that Saturday is the barber's busy day,
and he usually does more work on that
day than in all the others in the week
combined. On the afternoon in ques
tion a certain well-known young far
mer, living not many miles from
Plattsmoutb, came into the barber
shop and exhibited a pair of new hair
clippers, which he had purchased at
a hardware store, intending to do "all
his own" hair trimming (and probably
that of his neighbors). The clippers
were not iu good working order,
this modest young tiller of the soil
wanted the barber to set the clippers
and then cut his hair with them, just
to see how they worked. The barber
informed him that he would accom
modate him, providing he would "dig
up" the necessary "two bits," but the
aforesaid modest young farmer was
shocked at the idea, and was compelled
to leave the shop without being "ac
commodated."
An Interesting Session.
Those who stayed away from the
'Round Table" session Tuesday
missed a rare treat. Professor Mc
Clelland gave a most excellent talk on
"Heredity, Environment, Prenatal In
fluence and Education" from a practi
cal and scientific standpoint, which
was interesting and convincing. If
part nts knew the benefits to be de
rived from these meetings, they would
not absent themselves. These are
vital questions, and, if they were
better understood, the physical, men
tal and moral nature of the child today
would not be so deformed and dwarfed,
as many of them are, and there would
be less need of aylums and peniten
tiaries. It is astonishing to the aver
age mind how perfectly indifferent
the husbands and fathers of Platts
mooth aparently are to these subjects
which are agitating the minds of
thinking people everwhere. Food,
drink and clothing does not consti
tute the sum total of existence.
Come out to these monthly meetings
and lend your influence and encourage
ment. Death of An Old Resident.
James M. McCulloch, a resident of
Cass county for over a quarter of a
century, died suddenly at one o'clock
Saturday morning, at his home in
Rock Bluffs precinct, of paralysis. De
ceased was eighty-one years of age,
and was a highly-respected farmer,
having always lived an honest and up
right life. He leaves a family of sev
eral children, all of whom are married.
His wife died some ten years ago.
Right Tou Are, Neighbor.
Thepeopie of Plattsmoutb are ex
ceeding happy because the B. & M.has
promised to build a new depot at that
place. If there is any town in the
state that needs a new depot, it is
Plattsmouth. Nebraska City News.
Melville Ruble, white, and Henry
Ware, colored, have been lodged in the
jail here by United States Marshal
White, to wait the action of the feder
al grand jury, being charged with
stealing flour from the Rosebud
agency. They were arrested at Valen
tine. World-Herald.
HE LEFT QUIETLY.
Max Lemm Takes His Children and
Walks Ont.
THE WERE TWO S. A. DAVISES.
The Reason Why Stephen A. Davis of This
City Has Xot lteen Receiving a
Pension Other Local Hap
penings Around Town.
Max Wanted the Children.
Max Lemm, formerly of this city,
but now of Pekin,Ill.. dropped iuto
town Saturday and left Sunday via
the ferry down by the bridge, without
saying good-by to anyone. It seems
that Max' two children, since the
death of his wife, have been left in the
care of his wife's relatives in this city.
Max wrote here a short time ago and
requested that the children be sent to
him at Pekin,but as he owed consider
able for their board, and also because
they were too young to be sent on
alone, his request was refused. Sun
day morning Max stated that he de
sired to take the children down town
and have their hair cut. and according
ly they were dressed in their best
clothes and started out. But, alas.
they didn't get their hair cut. Max
eloped with them down to the ferry,
crossed the river, and. it is presumed,
went east to his home in Pekin Sunday
night.
The Catte of a Double.
A special agent of the pension
bureau was in town Friday. He
came especially, so it is said, to see
Stephen A. Davis, who has had a claim
pending for some years for a pension.
He was a member of company II. of
the Second Nebraska. After making
his application years went by but no
word came to him about the matter,
and some months ago be sent a letter
to Mr. Strode asking him to inquire
into the matter. Not long after this a
replv was received stating that the
records at the pension office disclosed
the fact that he had been receiving a
pension for years. Mr. Davis was
astonished beyond measure at this and
wrote back that there was some mis
take about it, as he had never applied
for a pension but the one time and
had never heard from that. A further
investigation followed, and it was dis
covered that there were two Stephen
A. Davisesin company II. Second Ne
braska, and that the man who was re
ceiving the pension was a resident of
Blair, this state, and that he was ten
years older than our own Mr. Davis.
Hence delay in replying to his applica
tion and the visit of the special agent
of the pension office. Friends of S. A.
Davis of this city are hoping that he
may be successful in his application.
Petersen- ix.
Rev. H. B. Burgess officiated yester
day afternoon at the marriage of Mr.
Win. A. Petersen and Miss Matilda
Nix. The ceremony was performed,
in the presence of a number of relat
ives and friends of the contracting
parties, at the future home of the
groom, on Fourth and Pearl streets,
and a sumperous wedding feast was
spread during the evening. The bride
is an estimable young lady, who has
been employed as cook at the Riley
hotel, and the groom is the eldest son
of C. II. Petersen, and is an industri
ous young man.
TnE Journal extends congratula
tions. Cass County Double Wedding.
There was a double wedding at the
county judge's office yesterday morn
ing, when Edgar A Fletcher and Miss
Mary A. Clarence ; Sanford W. True
and Miss Laura F. Surface all of Cass
county were united in the holy bonds
of wedlock by his honor Judge Eaton.
The young people belong to the Cass
county "400" and the Press joins their
many friends in wishing them much
happiness in their new life. Ne
braska City Press.
B. & M. Ticket Agent Pickett has
secured an improvement in the freight
service here that places this city as
close to St. Louis, in point of time, as
to Chicago. Arrangements have been
made whereby freight for this place
is sent up on No. 81, the St. Louis fast
freight, and unloaded on depot plat
form, making a saving of about thirty
six hours.
Mrs. Geo. S. Smith and daughter
came down on the noon train today
and will be followed this evening by
Mr. Smith. Tbeywill visit for a few
days with relatives and friends, pre
vious to their removal to California.
RUMP MASS CONVENTION.
Col. Ruftuer and His Clevelandltes Fur
nish a Rich Farce.
Col. P. Edward Ruffner, the "head
push" of the Cass county goldbug dem
ocrats, was the most nervous man on
earth for a few hours yesterday. That
was the day set for the mass county
convention of the followers of G.
Cleveland, Euclid Martin, et al., and
the wily colonel and his little band of
patriots were fearful lest the harmony
of his meeting would be disturbed by
the 16 to 1 advocates, which, by the
way, are quite numerous in these pa"rts.
P. Edward even went so far as to en
deavor to secure police protection,
thinking that his "pets" would be ex
terminated or carried bodily to some
secluded spot.
In pursuance of Committeeman
Ruffner's call and a personal or written
invitation to every Cleveland democrat
in Cass county, the entire fifteen were
on hand yesterday afternoon. The
hour set for the convention was two
o'clock, but Col. Ruffner was afraid to
open up meetin' then, as he only had
about a half dozen of his braves on
hand. At about three o'clock the
colonel was ready for the fray, and his
handful of followers assembled at
White's hall. Some thirty-five silver
democrats, who didn't object to "sound
money, were also on hand and pur
chased a stack of "chips," but, sad to
relate, a number of these "chips" were
ruthlessly brushed off the table, unre
cognized. Col. Ruffner called the "convention"
to order, stating that the purpose
would be to elect eleven delegates to
the ' democratic state convention" at
Lincoln on April 29th. Nominations
for chairman were then announced in
order, and D. S. Guild was named by
Postmaster Fox. The nomination
was seconded by one of the Cleve
landites, and the yeas and nays called
for. Notwithstanding the fact that the
nominee was defeated at least two to
one. Col. Ruffner announced Mr. Guild
as being elected, and he at once as
sumed control, and his rulings through
out the session would make "Czar"
Reed appear as a pigmy compared
with him.
June Black was then named by the
"rumps" for secretary, and the silver
men nominated B.L. Kirkham. When
the vote was announced, the chair
man, to the surprise of everyone, con
sented to allow Mr. Kirkham to act as
secretary, he having received a ma
jority of votes.
This was an acknowledgement on
the part of the goldbugs that the sil
ver men were entitled to vote in the
convention, although every motion
made by the latter was prompted ruled
"out of order" by "Czar" Guild.
The chairman then requested the
secretary to read the following
"pledge:" "We, the undersigned,
agree to support the nominees of the
democratic ticket and pledge our faith
to the support of a sound currency and
opposition to the free silver 16 to 1
fallacy; to take part in this mas con
vention, in good faith agreeing to the
above principles."
"Czar" Guild asked the secretary to
sign this paper, but the latter took the
matter under advisement, and the
paper as yet does not bear a single
signature. If it was the intention of
the "bolters" to step up and place their
names to the "pledge," it was evident
ly overlooked in the hurry to get
through with the farce.
A resolution which had been handed
the secretary by one of the anti-gold-bug
delegates was confiscated by the
"Czar" before it could be read, al
though repeated calls were made for
its reading.
Col. Ruffner then moved that a com
mittee of three be appointed to select
the delegates and an amendment
was offered to the effect that the
convention make their own selections.
The amendment carried with a whoop,
but at the request of Col. Ruffner, it
was declared lost, and a self-appointed
committee, headed by the latter, re
tired and selected the following dele
gates: Sam Waugh, W. D. Jones, A.
W. White, Geo. Amick, J. A. Pollard,
Walter Failing, D. S. Guild, P. Ed
ward Ruffner, J. N. Black, Peter J.
Vallery and John Shaw. These dele
gates were unanimously endorsed (by
the fifteen goldbugs), and the biggest
farce in the history of Nebraska poli
tics came to ap end.
NOTES.
Judge Sullivan and J. K. Pollock
were among the goldbug democrats at
Col. Ruffner's farce yesterday after
noon. It is reported that Chairman Guild
is preparing a book entitled "Gag
Law," which will soon be put on the
market.
SOME MORE GRIEF.
Mercerville Again Shows Up With
Another Scrap.
TWO OF THE MEN ARRESTED.
One Stands Trial and Is Convicted and
Fined Ten Dollars and Costs The
Others to be Tried SaturdHy
Other News Notes.
The Mercerville fight has broken out
in a new place. Monday afternoon a
man named Eckard, living in that
peaceful (?) burg appeared before his
honor Judge Archer and swore out a
warrant against Frank and Cbas.
Totten and Bob , "last name
unkown," charging them with shoot
ing and throwing brick and bats at his
house and otherwise "conductingthem
eelves in a vicious and affensive man
ner." One of the parties named in the
warrant, Frank Totten, need fifteen,
was arrested about five o'clock last
'evening, and after an examination, in
which it appeared that he knew abso
lutely nothing about the affray in
spite of its having occurred within two
blocks of his home, he was held in the
sum of one hundred dollars to appear
this morning at ten o'clock, aDd placed
in the 'custody of an officer. He ap
peared before his honor this morning
and bad his case continued till Satur
day, while "Bob," whose last name
proves to be McConnell was arrested
this morning and stood trial. He was
found guilty ind fined $10 and costs,
and in default of payment went over
to stay with Mr. Holloway for a time.
The other man named in the warrant,
Chas. Totten, has not yet been ar
rested. That Itethlehem Scrap.
Arch Hammers was the name of the
young man cut up by Geo. Little Sun
day night at Bethlehem, and he is re
ported as quite seriously cut. Little
suffered also to the extent of the loss
of two front teeth,.. Little, who has
the reputation of beihga sober and
and peaceful citizen, if left alone, is
nevertheless a "mean" man when he
does get into trouble. It is reported
that the sheriff of Mill3 county was
over here yesterday afternoon looking
for him, but George awaited not his
coming but vanished. His friends say
that he is working out iu the country
and will come in if he is wanted, as
he acted entirely in self defense.
Wanted to Get Married.
A young man went into a bank in
town this morning and wanted to
borrow $5 "to get married with." The
bank clerk, to whom he spoke, hap
pened to be a married man, and the
way he talked to that y. m. ought to
have made him ashamed of himself.
He told him he had no objection to
loaning him the money, but cot for
such a purpose ; that a man ought to
at least hare a situation (which the
y. m. didn't have) upon which to sup
port a wife before he married, and he
had no right to make a poor woman
miserable simply because be wanted to
marry and she was willing. He went
awav sorrowful.
Henry Didn't Go.
Henry Snyder had an experience this
morning that nearly proved serious.
He intended leaving on No. 5 for Om
aha, but a lady arriving on that train
for a visit with his parents, he took
time before getting on the train to put
her in a hack. The train was pulling
out at a lively gait when he turned to
catch it and having a bundle in one
hand he attempted to grab and swing
on with the other. The result was
that he gave the onlookers a fine ex
hibition of ground and lofting tum
bling, and after the fourth sumersault
he arose to his feet in time to see No.
5 disappearing around the curve by the
pump house. He took a later train.
Rev. G. W. Damon of Battle Creek
has retired from the ministry for an
indefinite time and notifies the public
that be has become an auctioneer.
Prominent Druggists of Hlair, Neb., Writes
Magnet Chemical Co.
Dear Sirs: The goods which we
bought through your salesman are
sellers; the Magnet Pile Killer es
pecially sells good and gives excellent
satisfaction. We have re-ordered
through our jobbers several times.
Respectfully yours.
Palmer & Taylor.
For sale by Gering & Co.
To farmers' wives: Ed
Oliver wants all your best
batter and eggs, at the
highest market price.
They Sank the Decoys.
Old Man Jackson put out a string of
decoy ducks early yesterday morning
in front of the depot, and thereby
caused trouble in various places. The
first person to come to grief was Chief
Dunn. lie drifted down to the depot
about eight o'clock, and spying the
choice collection of nice fat ducks
waiting there to be slaughtered, he
hastened back to police headquarters,
grabbed his dog exterminator, and
loped down to the depot again. When
he discovered that the ducks were not
of the kind generally eaten he was
quite vexed.
But there were others. At eleven
o'clock G. W. Noble and Israel Bates
went gunning for these ducks, and
after shooting at them for about half
an hour, asked "Posey" Messersmith
why they didn't fly away. He assured
them that the wind was too high and
there was no danger of their leaving,
and for them just to go ahead and kill
them. Thinking they were out of
range, the hunters made shift to get
out to a patch of willows about fifteen
yards away from the game and con
tinued to pump various kinds of lead
into them for about an hour longer.
By this time some of the ducks had
been sunk and others had had their
heads shot off, ar,d still the hunters
didn't catch on. 2s ot till the owner of
the ducks arrived on the scene with
a large supply of forcible language,
did the hunters realize their mistake.
They Milked the Cow.
For some time past J. M. Woodson,
of the Cottage house, has noticed that
the amount of milk given by his cow
was a little, "shy" and was unable to
ascertain the cause until Tuesday af
ternoon. It seems that several young
boys have been in the habit of getting
a few biscuits at their homes and then
milking Mr. Woodson's cow, after
hich they would repair to some
secluded spot and partake of their
"lunch." Jim caught the boys in the
act of milking his cow Tuesday after
soon, and was going to have them ar
rested, but finally relented and told
their parents of the boys' actions, and
it is presumed that their pants were
properly dusted. Mr. Woodson says
he will have them arrested if they re
peat their devilment.
Captured An Engle.
It was well that Wm. Neville took
his gun with him in his trip over the
county Tuesday, for while he was not
attacked by any ducks, a large eagle
made a fierce assault upon him and
was only conquered after a desperate
stauggle. After breaking one of his
wings, Billy succeeded in throwing
him down, and wrapping a gunny sack
around him. He brought his captive
home and is exhibiting him as a speci
men of his prowess in single combat.
Arbor Day.
Arbor Day was celebrated in a
quiet manner in this city yesterday.
Interesting programs were rendered
at the different schools, and Prof. Mc
Clelland made an excellent talk to the
high school students. Miss Mc
Clelland's botany class put in the day
botanizing. A number of trees were
planted several days ago. The news
papers and banks of the city observed
the day by taking a rest and the em
ployes went fishing.
NEBRASKA NEW!.
Fifty people in Broken Bow have bi
cycles. The horses have been turned
down.
Personal taxe3 in Nance county are
to be collected by distress. Every
thing goes.
The Star of Jupiter is a new order
that is having quite a run in some
parts of the state.
John Falk, an early resident of Mad
ison county, died last week at the ripe
age of eighty-eight.
The Custer County Chief has
rounded the fourth year of its ex
istence and enters the fifth with leath
ers flying. .
A new biography of the later years
of Col. W. F. Cody has been begun by
Col. Prentiss Ingraham intheDuluth
Press.
Palmyra talent has engaged Kene
saw post, G. A. R. No. 123, to render
"Defending the Flag" at Elm wood on
the5thinst.
The Oxnards have contracted with
Hall county farmers for 600 acres more
of beets than were ever before planted
in that county.
County Judge Garlow of Grand Is
land is writing to the various county
judges in the state asking them to
meet at Lincoln the latter part of next
month in order to confer with each
other about some necessary changes in
the laws more particularly affecting
that office. Mr. Garlow expects to
have quite an assemblage present at
that time. The meeting will beheld
the latter rart of May.
