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ON ALL STJZMZIMIIEIR, GOODS,
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Suitings the latest patern the market can afford, ranging in price to suit every customer. Also a large assortment of Dress Goods of all kinds. This department embrases
the largest stock carried by any store in the Elkhorn Valley, and the prices cannot be beaten in the State.
MY BOOT AND SHOE department is second to none
west of the Missouri river. Come and investigate and you will be eon
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$1.10 a pair? The same shoe is sold elsewhere for $1.50 a pair. I
have the Largest and Best collection of Fine Shoes .-md Fancy Slippers
to be found in the country. You will have no trouble to procure a
lit, having such a large stock to select from.
MY CLOTHING department is the most complete assort
ment in the Elkhorn Valley. Having recently made some very large
purchases in Philadelphia I am enabled to sell at less than the old
prices, I sell no goods except for CASH, or in exchange for produce
which I c^n use to advantage. You will save money by examining
my prices before buying your Spring and Summer goods. 1 will give
y'ou special prices on all goods during’this month.
SULLIVAN’S TRADE PALACE, O'Neill, Neb.
M. M. SULLIVAN, Proprietor.
BY THE GUILLOTINE,
FIRST CENTENNIAL OF THAT
WEAPON OF DEATH.
WAS FIRST USED IN PARIS IN
' 1793.
And Has Served to Rid That Country
of Kings, Queens, and Patriots, as
Well as Criminals—The First Victim
Was an Editor.
La Guillotine, La Guillotine, my in
strument of death.
La Guillotine, La Guilllotine sends
patriots to rest.
So wrote a French patriot just one
V
PELLITIER, THE FIRST VICTIM,
hundred years ago. A few minutes
later he was led to the Place de Grieves,
Paris, where he paid the penalty of
his offense against the despotic laws of
the France of that dark and terrible
period. Another patriot said to his
royal executioners a few days later:
“I die while the people of France are
mad; you will die when they
recover their senses.” Then the
knife fell and the patriot’s head
rolled over into the basket
where many had gone before it. But
his death sentence was carried out. It
was not long afterwards that Louis
XVI. and Marie Antoinette were led
DR. OUILI.OTIS.
to the same spot and beheaded by the
same identical process. “If the people
of France have recovered their senses
V
I
may they not retain them long.” said
Queen Marie to her executioners as shu
bowed to the will of the infuriated
populace. As her decapitated head
was lifted from the basket a calm,
sweet smile seemed to control her
features.
It is strange that Marie Antoinette
should become one of the victims of
the instrument of death that she- was
the first to advocate.
Many interesting questions have
arisen as to the origin of the guillo
tine. This month being the first cen
tennial of its existence, new interest
has arisen. Many haye been led to
suppose that the guillotine is named
after its inventor. This supposition is
inaccurate. The first inventor of the
guillotine was one Dr. Louis of the
Academie of Science and Medics,
who witnessed the execution of
Damiens on the wheel. The
shocking death induced Dr. Louis to
introduce a more humane means of
death. Ho accordingly struck upon
the guillotine and gave it that name
because one Dr. Guillotine condemned
I it as not attendant with sufficient hor
ror. Dr. Guillotine was afterwards
permitted to test its horrors as a vie
j tim, he having been executed a few
days after Louis and Marie Antoinette.
The first man ever executed by the
then new process was, we are sorry to j
confess, a newspaper editor by the
name of Pellitier. He was convicted
of highway robbery and treason to
the throne. The accompanying por
I
THE FIRST GUILLOTINING,
trait of the man is from a painting1 in
the Paris Salon.
Various improvements have been in
troduced into guillotining in the last
hundred years. The first knife was of
iron and often failed to sever the head
at the first fall. Finally a steel knife
was introduced which did good work.
Following fast on its in
troduction in France the guollo
tine became popular in Germany,
England and Scotland. The first victim
in the last named country was the
Duke of Argyle, in 1695. It was super
seded by Halifax gibbet and then by
the scaffold and rope. Lords and
Dukes were put to death with marvel
ous rapidity by its process. In Ireland
forty persons were once decapitated in
less than twenty minutes.
During the Napoleonic regime the
guillotine was made the legal method
of execution throughout France. The
law making it so has never changed,
but the present sentiment oi
the Republic is against it It is quite
likely that within the next few years
its usefulness will have vanished from
history forever.
RELIEF IN THE CRAVE.
The Toes of a Dismembered Limb Were
Crossed and Caused Deep Fain.
A few weeks ago John Honker, a
Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad flre
| man, had a leg mangled while switch
! ing cars at Iloonville, Mo. The limb
was amputated and burled in Boon
viile. For some time he improved rap
idly, and then a feeling that the absent
limb was in its accustomed place over
took him.
A sensation of deep pain in the foot
troubled him night and day. He was
unable to sleep at nights. The pain
increased, and yesterday his father vis
ited Iloonville, opened the grave and
found that the toes of the foot were
crossed.
The toes were straightened, the
coffin closed and again buried, and al
most instantly young Bon ker experi
enced a sensation of relief, and he has
not yet had a recurrence of the pain.
BHH WAS HE BURIED ALIVE?
Evidence That Private Devlney Met a
Horrible Death in His Grave.
A ghastly sight met the eyes of
parties engaged in removing the re
trains of a soldier from Fort Lowell to
the National cemetery the other day.
The evidences were plain that James I
Deviney, a member of E Troop, Fourth
Cavalry, who died there four years
ago, was buried alive. The head of
the body was turned over to the left,
and the right arm lying straight down
by the side. The left arm was thrown
over the left thigh and the lower limbs
were crossing each other. From the
appearance and position of tl£ lower
jaw and portions of the face, which
were yet intact, it is clear that anima
tion returned after burial, and that he
subsequently died in great agony.'
Deviney’s suoposed death was caused
by a kick from a mule.
The principle that the farther the
team is placed from the load the
greator the force required to move it
has been pretty well proven. 1 saw a
practical application of this principle
the other day. The hind wheels of a
wagon had dropped into a deep rut
and the team was unable to movq it,
jhough pulling honestly and welL
The driver finally shortened the traces
and slipped the neckyoke back on the
pole, hitching the .horses as closely as
possible to the wagon and still allow
ing them to work freely. The result
was that a good strong puli moved
the wagon out of the hole. When
hitched "long” a part of the power
was expended in pulling again#*, the
front side of the rut. When tho hitch
was shortened there was no energy
j wasted and the force was upward and
j forward so that every pound counted,
i There is an immense amount of
! energy wastod every year because
this principle is not understood as
well as it should be. The closer the
team is attached to the load the less
is tho work necessary to move it. Not
half the teams seen in the country
are hitched so they can work to the
best advantage. — Stockman and
Farmer. .
THEY DWELL IN CAYES
MOUNTAIN OUTLAWS OF THE
JERSEY COAST
WHO STAND BETWEEN GREATER
CRIMINALS AND THE LAW.
The Magnitude of Their Offisnse* Jiu
Coming to Light—The Abduction of
Women le Part of Their Dullness—
History of a Dangerous Gang.
The city of Orange, N. J.j is the
headquarters of all the bad characters
of New York, Brooklyn and Boston,
who find in its vicinity serene seclusion
from the authorities. The mountains
south of West Orange are thickly
wooded and contain many cavities that
have been utilized by criminals for
THE LIZARD'S CAVE.
many years. The Lizards, a famous
band of thugs of the lower order, have
held possession of the caves for many
years. It is a local] organization.
When a gang of safe crackers come to
the caves from the big cities just after
working a big haul they are required
to divide the spoils in return for pro
tection from the police. The plan
works admirably for both parties to
the contract.
Many Attempts have been made to
break up the Lizards but signal failure
characterized them alL The gang are
masters of the situation and have been
since their organization several years
ago. They still have all their provis
ions and cavern utensils as well. It is
not an unusual sight to sec a wagon
load of hypothecated furnishings un
loaded In close proximity to the
caverns. The farmers as well as the
respectable residents of Orange are in
constant dread. A woman would not
walk the roads alone. Mrs. Charles
Klinger of Orange, who was recently
terribly assaulted by the gang, was
the third victim within a month. Lilly
Cavanaugh and Kellie Cyan, who are
mysteriously missing from their homes
in West Orange, are believed to have
been abducted by the Lizards.
The gang was organized on Jan. 7,
1885, when Michael, alias “Sleepy”
Burke, James Edmonson, a wayward
young man of good family, and Pat
McKoune, the present leader, stole a
keg of beer in Orange and carried it
into the mountain. The polioe traced
the ' young fellows and caught them
drinking the beer. The worst that
could be said against the prisoners at
that time was that they were a shift
less lot of good-for-nothings. ^Their sen
tences were light, and after they had
been liberated they found a secluded
cave in YVilmerdlng’s woods, just off
the Northfield road, which runs up the
side of the mountain, fitted it up as a
rendezvous, and used it for a hiding
place for whatever they could steal.
The disappearance of the young
men from the local bar-rooms
was commented upon by everybody,
and West Orange thought that it had
rid itself of three very undesirable res
idents. Shortly afterward, however,
stores and houses in Orange and West
Orange were broken into nightly, and
hundreds of dollars' worth of goods
were stolen. The police had no diffi
culty in tracing the burglaries to the
three young men in the mountain, but
the capturing of them was another
thing. Shiftless characters in the
neighborhood joined the men, and a
regular gang was formed. Owing to
their habits and modes of living, the
residents called them “Lizards."
When three places had been entered
by burglars in one night the residents
organized a posse to find the Lizzards,
located them in an abandoned hut,
back from the road and in the 'wildest
part of the mountain, and arrested five
men, including Edmonson. All were
tried and sent to prison for two years
and a half each, but were pardoned be
fore they had served half the time.
That was a severe blow to the Lizards,
and they disbanded- for a time. After
coming out of jail Edmonson went to
work in a hat factory, but he gave up
his job soon to reorganize the Lizards.
That was about two years ago. The
gang found a new cave, and began
operations on an extensive scale. For
I
SIMEON IIAIUIISON'S BARN
a time Edmonson had lnck, but on*
night he was arrested for stealing a
horse from Samuel Jones of Orange.
His family furnished bail, and he was
liberated. When he left the jail he re
marked to his late keeper: “I’ll never
be taken alive by the police again. If
they should catch me again it would
mean one or two deaths, probablv the
latter.”
Edmonson was arrested two days
later while stdhiing a clock and
while in a cell was visited
by his mother, lie asked her for
a drink of water and she handed it to
him in a tin cup. lie emptied a white
powder in it and drunk it. That night
he had convulsions and was removed to
the Memorial hospital in Orange,
where he died a few days later.
Since Edmonson’s deatth his lieuten
ant, Pat McKoune, a wicked young
loafer, has been at the head of the
Lizards. lie bus kept them quiet, anil,
beyond one or two small robberies,
they were not very aggravating1 during
the past winter.
In the Orange Mountains are places
that are us wild as the wildest outlaw
could wish for, and tbo Lizards are
located in one of them. They have a ,
cave in the sido of the mountain that
is hidden from view by trees and vines.
A casual observer would ride by the
place a dozen times a day and never
note anything out of the ordinary, but
a little poking in and out among the
vineB will soon disclose to view a good*
fisted hole surrounded by rocka That
is the Lizards’ cave, and in it they ex
pect to store away a lot of plunder this
summer. The road beside it is old and
used seldom. About half a mile from
the cavo is a barroom in a little wood
and stone hut that is frequented by
the gang. Whether its proprietor is a
Lizard or not is not known, but it is a
fact that the Lizards were seen there
frequently. It is a ramshackle affair.
The foundation is of stone, and granite
blocks, rudely mortered together,
form the first three or four feet of the
walls of the building. The rest is logs
and rough boards, making the build
ing in its wild location a picturesque
object.
Simeon Harrison, an eccentric old |
character* whose grandfather pur
chased almost all of Essex county from
the Indians more than ISO years ago,
died about a year ago. In his will he
put aside enough money to keep in
order a big barn for the accommoda^,., ^
tion of stray tramps. The Lizards ta-Jie
advantage of that, and from two to
ten of them sleep in thp barn every
night. They drink, fig hV and raise
tremendous disturbances, annoying
everybody in the vicinity, and allow
only their own friends to sleep in the
barn. The policemen have been petl
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THE BAR-ROOM.
tioned to put them out of the place, or
at least to keep them quiet, but
nothing has been done.
Slgu of the Cross.
There is a usage general in France
that bread before being cut must be
marked with the sign of the cross. The
neglect of so marking the bread is sup
posed to involve misfortune. In Lille
to step on bread is a blameworthy act.
It is a common superstition that the
falling of a piece of bread on thd but
tered side is fatal^t^ lm-k._
A Confedsrat Aleneral’s Unmarked Crave,
The people of Galveston pre endeav- *
oring to raise money to build a monu
ment to the memory of Gen. Bankhead
Magruder. The remains of that dis
tinguished confederate chief now lie in
the Galveston cemetery without even
a marble headstone to mark the grave.
