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RECALLS THE
LLOYD UURDER
One Sisfer Murders Another
And Then Dies in
Asylmn
In the county court of Otoe county,
O. J. Standly of Peru has filed a peti
tion to be appointed the administrator
of the Lloyd estate. This petition re
calls the murder of Delia Lloyd by her
sister late last spring on the farm near
the Van Wyek church occupied by J. H.
Miller. It will be remembered that
Lucy Lloyd strangled her sister Delia to
death, and that the murder was discov
ered by Mrs. Miller. She was tried for
lunacy and sent to the asylmn at Lincoln,
where she died a few days later, abso
lutely refusing to take any nourish
ment. O. J. Standley was appointed admin
strator of the estate and asks to have
the father of the two girls declared
Megally dead. There seems to be tradg
edy connected with this family all the
way through. The grandfather, old man
Adams, was a lunatic. The mother, at
the death of her mother, went to bed
and just died. The father of the girls
left home a number of years ago and
has never been heard from. It is re
ported that he went to Oklahoma or
Texas and that he was caught stealing
cattle and was hung, other rejorts said
that he was still alive, and others ver
ified the report that he was dead and
denied the reiorts of his hanging. This
action is to close the estate and distrib
ute it among the heirs, and before that
can be done the courts have to declare
him legally dead.
The estate will amount to about Sl.
( m h) and there are a large number of
heirs.
RETURN FROM
OKLAHOMA
The Visitors Dined With Mike
Swartzfisher
Frieay evening J. W. Sage and Wm.
Noxon returned from Mmco.Oklahoma,
where they, in company with Herman
Hohlchuh, Mrs. Geo. Hild and her son,
William went to look at land. Herman
Hohlchuh and James Sage had land there
and they were wanting to see it. They
found things looking in fine shape. They
took supper at the home of Mike
Schwartzfisher on Wednesday evening.
The corn is all out in tassel and eared,
with silk hanging down, and the corn so
high that one has to look up to see it.
Mr. Sage who has three hundred acres,
two hundred in one body and one hun
dred in another, for which he paid thirty-five
dollars per acre last November,
was offered forty dollars and allowing
him to keep the crop which was refused.
Jim let a contract for the building of
a house on the two hundred acre farm,
to be 24x24 and tw stories. Wm Nox
on has the refusal of two pieces which
join one containing seventy acres, at
$50.00 per acre and the other containing
fifty acres at $40.00 both of which he
thinks he will take.
Mr. Swartzfisher took a wagon load
peaches to market about a month ago,
and has another variety which are ripe
now and of which the visitors from here
partook and which are pronounced as
being very fine.
Formerly of Elmwood.
J. A. McLain, who lived at Elmwood
for many years and was the manager of
the Green Drug Co.. and the Tyson
Drug Co., at different times, but now
traveling for a Chicago Drug Label
house, was in the city today, and found
time outside of his business duties to
look in on his old friends. County Clerk
Rosencrans at the court house and Clay
ton Rosencrans in his new shop at the
Riley Hotel.
From Avoca.
Avoca, Neb., July 23, 1907 (Special
to the Journal.) The Odd Fellows will
hold their Fourth Annual Picnic at this
place on Tuesday, August 6. Gov. Shel
don will deliver the address. The Dun
bar Comet Band will discourse sweet
music for the enjoyment of all. A fine
program and a full line of attractions
has been secured for the event.
Gets New Tobacco
Julius Pepperbergreceived ,the first
shipment of the order ' for the tobacco'
this morning from New York which was
ordered at the time the flood destroyed
the stock he had on hand. The cigar
makers of the Pepperberg factory will
be started on this new shipment vthe
first of the week and will work on the
famuot"Buds."
Platsmoutuh Boys Do Good Work
The following from the World-Herald
speaks well for the Plattsmouth boys,
Graves and Fitzgerald, who recently
signed with Ulysses:
Ulysses, Neb., July ID. This after
noon Brainard and Ulysses crossed bats
and Ulysses won by a score of 3 to 2.
Ulysses is ready to meet all the fast
teams of the state. The features of
game was Graves' good work in the box.
Batteries Ulysses: Graves and Fitz
gerald; Brainard: Paul and Kabalec.
Hits Brainard 1; Ulysses 7.
Carl Graves is the making of one of
the best pitchers, not only in the state,
but in the country; that he allowed but
one hit in his first game with a strange
team, speaks well for his work, and
more so when it is taken into considera
tion as to the amount of practice he has
had this season. With him as pitcher
and Willie Fitzgerald as catcher, Ulys
ses ought to put up fast ball for a pure
ly amatuer team. We are well pleased
to hear of the good work the boys are
doing, and feel assured they will make
a good record. They received offers to
sign with Ashland, Wahoo and Grand
Island, the latter wanting them when
they make a three weeks' tour of the
state, while Wahoo also wants them to
go on a tour with them.
Root a Candidate
The Lincoln Journalsays: "State Sen
ator Jessie L. Root of Cass county has
asked that his name be placed on the
primary election ballot as a republican
candidate for judge of the district court
in the Second judicial district." Attor
ney E. F. Warren of Nebraska City, is
also a candidate,
New Barber in Nehawka.
Newhawka is no longer a barberless
town. Mr. Kuhney from Plattsmouth
came Wednesday morning and as a re
sult there is a marked improvement in
the appearance of about 75 faces here
alouts. Dr. Wilcox caught the inspira
tion and "barbered" his calf. Regis
ter. This is John Kuhney, late of the
Riley Hotel barber shop, and the little
burg has a good barber, if they can only
keep him.
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nelious coffey
The Last Sad Rites Attended
By Many Friends
The funeral of the late Cornelius
Coffey was held from the St. John's
Catholic church Friday morning at
11 o'clock, Rev. Father Bradley officiat
ing. The remains came from Omaha on
the Burlington train which arrives here
at about 10 o'clock. The pall bearers
were Ed. Fitzgerald, Wm. Shea, Wm.
Morley, C, E. McEntee, M. Hobscheidt
ar.d Thomas Walling.
Cornelius Coffey was born at the town
of Rose Crea, Tipperary county, Ire
land in the spring of 1833, and came to
this country in 1854, landing in New
York, at which place he lived until the
war came, when he was employed on a
government transport. After the war
he stayed a year or so in New York,
coming to Nebraska and locating at
South Bend in the sixties. Here he
lived until in 1876, when he came to
and has since made his home in Platts
mouth, until within the last three years.
Mr. Coffey was a man loved and re
spected by all and those who knew him
the best loved him the best. His last
sickness has dated since the death of
his son, Con, which occurred last March.
At his death bed was his daughter,
Mamie; Daniel, who had been here at
the time of his brother's death, had re
turned to Ft. Worth, Texas, where he
is a conductor on the Inter-National
and Great Northern railroad.
After returning to the south, Daniel
Coffey was smitten with typhoid fever
and has continued to be sick since. He
had been apprised of his father's condi
tion but his health wouid not stand the
trip to come, though he wished much to
do so. In the father's death the two
remaining children lose a very kind and
indulgent parent, and every one that
knew him, a friend.
They Have the Grit
If the business men of Plattsmouth,
who entailed loss by the recent flood,
can be cheerful and continue at the old
stand, they deserve prosperity. It is the
old saying, "The place to make it is
where you lost it, " but the history of
Plattsmouth floods shows that their fre
quency hardly gives the merchants time
to break even. Weeping Water mer
chants may be thankful they have never
had a tasts of what the floods can do in
about five minutes time. Weeping
Water Herald.
The majority of the business of Platts
mouth are not of the class to "cry over
spilled milk," but "get up and go" after
more. They have the energy and grit
to never give up, and all are doing busi
ness between cleaning up hours.
HAD A MOST DE
LIGHTFUL TIME
Reunion of the Plattsmouth
Woman's Club in Lincoln
Big Success
. At the home of Mrs. S. A. Davis in
Lincoln, on Thursday last was held the
session of the Plattsmouth Woman's
club of 1895. The affair as described by
one present, and who voiced the senti
ments of all present, is that Mrs. Davis
and her five beautiful and accomplished
daughters are past mistresses in the art
of entertaining and making one feel at
home in their presence. The real secret
being that they were welcomed from a
true love and deep friendship for those
present. All the appointments were fine
and it was the studied care of Mrs.
Davis and her daughters to make each
one present happy. This effort was a
grand success, as was reflected from
the countenences of the hostesses and
the guests. One who was there says:
"It did not seem as though we could be
in Lincoln, but seemed as though we
were in old Plattsmouth for besides we,
who went from our homes here, there
were eighteen former ladies of Platts
mouth present. Reminesences of the
days gone by, when all lived in the old
town by the river, were told and when
the laughter did not prevail, as a result,
the relating of some amusing episode, a
smile of pleased satisfaction, held pos
session of every countenence. " Among
those present were Misses Helen Travis,
AnnaHeisel, Mesdames E. D. Cummins,
H. D. Travis, W. H. Newell, M. How
land. C. A. Rawls and Mrs. E. H. Wes
cot from this city, and from Lincoln
were Mrs. S. A. Davis and her five
daughters. Mesdames S. H. Atwood, S.
Waugh, W. McLennen. S. A. Traver,
Dr. A. Clark and Misses Margaret How
land. Mrs. Henry Hempel of Havelock,
and several others whose names we did
not learn.
VERY GOOD FOR RURE
R. V. Hyres Appointed Deputy
Game Warden
The Sunday State Journalsays: "R.
W. Hyers of Rock county, former war
den of the penitentiary, has been ap
pointed by the , governor deputy game
warden, the appointment to take effect
August 1. Mr. Hyers is father of Post
master Gus Hyers of Havelock. The
two deputies who have served during
the past two years are E. Hunger of
Lincoln and D. E. Smith of Polk coun
ty." The Journal congratulates Rube,
and we feel satisfied he will make good
in his position as he has m every posi
tion he has held. He served as sheriff
of Cass county for several years and
was chief of police of Plattsmouth for
two years, in both positions performed
the duties remarkably well. Governor
Sheldon made no mistake in this appoint
ment.
Does Your Conscience Hurt?
If our subscription list were as large
as the number of families who read our
paper, our income would be raised quite
perceptibly. So common is the custom
of reading someone else's paper that
our attention is called to it nearly every
day, and it really surprises us occasion
ally to learn that some who are abund
antly able to subscribe and who by good
reasons ought to have an interest in the
success of the paper, will wait until the
next morning for a second-hand copy in
stead of having their names placed .on
the list. The worst part of it is that
many of these borrowers are the ones
who knock on us continually, yet if they
missed seeing it a single day, they would
wear out a quarter's worth of shoe leath
er hunting a subscriber who would loan
his paper to them. We get more than
a little satisfaction however, out of
hearing that our subscribers and friends
occasionally turn down these gulls as
they should be. We don't expect every
one to take our paper nor to agree with
us in all things, but to those who borrow
we would say, if you have interest in
the city and what we work hard every
day to publish in the interest of her peo
ple don't your conscience hurt you a
little when you eagerly scan the columns
of a paper for which you have not paid?
Terrible Hail Storm
A letter from Gregory, South Dako
ta, where Robert Troop lives, tells of a
hail storm which almost devastated the
country up there. It said that in some
instances where the hail stones were
exceptionally large that they pierced
the shingle roofs and went into the
buildings. The windows on the west
side of the houses were broken out in
most all cases and the crops seemed
for the time to be wiped off the slate.
In many instances the hail stones were
as large as hens' eggs.
Bounty On Wolves.
Mr. Salterfield, of Sarpy county was
a caller at the Courier office Thursday
morning. He showed us a petition
which he will present to the county
commissioners of that county asking
that the question of paying a bounty on
wolves by the county be submitted to
the voters at the coming election. He
states that the wolves along the river
are! very destructive to the poultry in
dustry and believes that the only remedy
lies in paying a bounty on scalps. It is
understood that a similar petition is to
be circulated in Cass county. Louis
ville Courier.
Fnor.l A REPUB
LICAN SOURCE
Commissioners and County
Superintendent.
The following is from the Louisville
Courier, and while it expresses our
opion in regard to the matter, we pre
fer to have a republican paper express
our sentiments, and we . believe the
opinion of two-thirds of the voters of
Cass county. The question right here
is: "Was the county commissioners
justified in making the oppointment of
a man who has had no experience in the
school room for ten or fifteen years, to
that of experienced teachers and those
who hold life certificates;" But then
we will let the Courier tell the story:
"A great deal of comment has been
made among the teachers throughout
the county regarding the action of the
board of county commissioners in ap
pointing a successor to County Super
intendent Gamble. While the Cour
ier likes to see the newspaper boys
get a slice of the pie occasionally and
felt a sense of pride in learning that
Col. Geo. L. Farley had been chosen to
one of the fattest offices in the county,
yet we cannot but recognize the injus
tice done the aspirants who are actually
in the work and are devoting their lives
to the school room work. There are a
number of competent teachers in Cass
county who should have been given the
preference over one who has been out
of service for a number of years and
only comes back when there is a salary
to be" grabbed. The Courier believes
that the action of the commissioners in
this matter is an insult to the teachers
of Cass county, not that Mr. Farley is
not an exemplary young man and is per
haps competent but because of the light
it throws upon some of the best instruct
ors in the county who had asked for the
appointment. As one teacher said to
the Courier today: 'I was not a candi
date for the appointment and had no
favorite but I feel that it is not treat
ing the school men of the county right
when the commissioners had to go out
side and pick up a man for the only pay
mg omce we have ana hy so doing say
that among the army of instructors there
are none competent for the position. '
"The appointment is for but a short
period but it is naturally supposed to
carry with it sufficient prestige to secure
for the appointee easy sailing for the
nomination at the coming primary
election, but unless Mr. Farley can sil
ence the teachers and their friends
throughout the county he may yet find
it difficult to again break into the pro
fession on which he turned his back a
number of years ago."
Number Thirteen
There is a good deal of superstition
still lurking around in some peopler The
Burlington railroad used to have a train
on its main line numbered 13. It was
one of their best trains, but lots of folk
refused to ride on it because of its num
ber, and the officials had to change it.
It is said that when the U. P. put on its
Los Angeles limited, the west-bound
narurally would have been No. 13, but
because of the prevailing prejudice
against the number in was changed to 7,
a local train being given 13. Whether
there is any truth in the report or not
we do not know.
Eats Between Meals
The Missouri river is the hungriest
river ever created. It is eating all the
time eating yellow clay banks and corn
fields, eight acres at a mouthful, wind
ing up its banquet with a truck garden
and picking its teeth with the timbers
of a big red barn. Its yearly menu is
10,000 acres of good, rich farming land,
several miles of railroad, a few hundred
houses, a forest or two, and uncounted
miles of sandbars. American Magazine.
They Are Wed
James Elkins Banning of Nehawka,
aged 27, came to the county seat Friday
afternoon and made an application at
the office of the t ounty judge for a per
mit to wed Miss Nealie Maude Humph
rey, aged 19. The permission was grant-
ed, and he went away happy.
A MIXED PICKLE KEG
Caused Considerable Trouble
at LaPlatte a Few Days Ago.
A cow kicked a lamp over in Chicago
in lh71, and created a gd deal of
trouble for a number of insurance com
panies. A man in LaPlatte (we shall
call Mead) wanted a jar to put pickles
in and went to the store of J. O'Leary,
and not being able to get one, was of
fered a beer keg which sat at the door
by the affable merchant, who said he
had no farther use for it. Mr. Mead took
it and was soon at home cleaning it up
for the reception of the pickles which
he was going to put into it. He had a
neighbor who was inquisitive, and her
name was Barr. She peered over the
fence and spying the keg laid claim to
an interest therein. But as Mr. Mead
had made peace with the merchant for
the keg he did not consider her claims,
and told her that as he had gotten it
from the merchant and would not listen
to what claims she asserted to the pro
perty. This provoked a storm of abuse
from the lady in question, and with a
tongue well trained in the use of adjec
tives, expressing more than is ordinarily
intended when one is not in anger, gave
Mr. Mead to understand that her sup
posed rights would be enforced at the
point of a bayonet if necessary. She in
her earnestness crossed the boundry of
their respective homes and approaching
Mr. Mead, shook her finger under his
nose and said that she would have the
keg or satisfaction. Mr. Mead angered
by this close proximity of the enemy,
and being on his own bailiwick, pro
ceeded to let go a backhander and the
claret poured from the lady's nose in a
crimson tide.
Time was called for the occasion, and
nothing more was done then. At the
first meeting of Mr. Mead and Mr. Barr,
the lady's husband, an explanation fol
lowed, which seemed to he satisfactory,
and nothing was done for two or three
days. When, one evening, while Mr.
Mead was sitting on the edge of the
platform at the Burlington station, Mr.
Barr came up behind him and adminis
tered a blow from behind which felled
him to the ground, and then it was that
Mr. Mead 'was made a present of a
number of very severe kicks which soon
put him "hors de combat."
The interference of bystanders pre
vented further mutilation of the man
who wanted to make the pickles. A Dr.
was called to patch up Mr. Mead, who
looked like he had been in c lose cc-ntact
with a Kansas cyclone.
A Cannon for Syracuse
A special from Nehawka, under date
of July 22, says. "Congressman Pollard
has just secured the donation of a con
demned connon through the office of the
chief of ordnance of the war depart
ment for the use of the G. A. R. post
at Syracuse, Neb. It is an eight-inch
Columbiad gun weighing about 0,200
pounds and is to be placed in the Sold
iers' burial lot at that place. Some years
ago congress passed a law authorizing
the donation of certain condemned ord
nance to G. A. R. posts, soldiers' mon
ument associations and municipalities
providing the expenses involved in
shipment and setting were paid by those
receiving the same. The supply of avail
able cannon is now practically exhausted.
On the recommendation of Mr. Pollard,
however, this gun, which is now at the
Watertown arsenal, Watertown, Mass.,
was secured. It will be shipped at once.
A blue print showing such a gun mount
ed on a masonry foundation -wath in
structions for mounting the same has
already been received."
In the Supreme Court.
In the supreme court proceedings in
this morning's Lincoln Journal the fol
lowing appears: "Plattsmouth lodge
No. 6, A F. & A. M., vs Cass county.
Reversed and remanded. Barnes J.
Letton J. concurring separately.
"Underthe agreed statement of facts
in this case the property of Plattsmouth
lodge No. 6, A. F. & A. M.. is not sub
ject to taxation for the year 1905. "
Will Stay a While
John Kuhney, who went to Nehawka
last week, with the intention pf em
barking in the barber business, has
tested the matter of":the volume of
trade at that point and has rented the
shop 'there, and will conduct it for a
month and by that time determine what
he will do in regard to the matter in
the future. John spent Sunday at
home.
Announcement
" I hereby announce that I am a candi
date for the office of County Judge, sub
ject to the will of the republican voters
of Cass county expressed at the primary
to be held under the new law,1 Septem
ber 3d, next. J. E. Douglas.
A TALE NEVER
BEFORE TOLD
Herold Streight Saves An M.
P. Freight From Wreck.
An incident of the flood, caused by
the waterspout on the? (ith of July,
which had not before appeared, cameb
our notice yesterday. On the morning
after the flood, as Herold Streight was
coming to town early he discovered a
landside in the big cut north of the M.
P. station, and noting that it filled the
bottom of the cut in suc h a way that it
would easily derail a train if it ran into
it. As he was examining the obstruc
tion he heard the whistle of the through
freight, which was coming from Omaha,
and knowing that the signal given
meant that they intended to go through
without stopping, he ran back along the
track as fast as he could and as he
rounded the curve the engine showed
up. He hastily signaled them to stop,
and they were able to do so, but not un
til they had came nearly up to the ob
struction. Had he not have noticed the
landslide and ran bac k to give the alarm,
they would have been too near the ob
struction when they rounded the curve
to have stopped. There was a set of
well pleased men on that train crew
when they found what they had missed.
And the manner in which they expressed
their apprec iation of the kindness of Mr.
Streight was not slow. The Missouri
Pacific train men have enough grief and
enough things to encounter which are
dangerous, without running into any
thing that can be avoided.
THE TREACHEROUS
OLD MISSOURI
Completely Wipes Gut Tcwn
in Otoe County
A special from Nebraska "it y nays:
"The Missouri river has been doing con
siderable damage hereabouts of late.
At the town of Barney, south of here,
the entire town has Ikm-ii cut away.
The stock yardu were moved last v;ck,
and the elevator is being moved back
to the bluffs. It is feared that it will
not be possible to su,e the elevator, so
fast are the banks cutting away. Wal
lace Brunsdon had fiftv-six ac res of
land before the cutting began, but now
he has twelve ac res and ir is fast falling
j into the turbulent stream. He had as
line a field of wheat as one could wish
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for, but the river got all hut nmeot the
thirty acres. The machine went into
the field at fi o'clock one evening, and
men worked all night, but nine acres
were all they could save and get to
higher land. The ground was soft be
cause of the rains, and the machine
moved slowly. Other farmers in the
vicinity fared no better. The railroad
is experiencing trouble in keeping its
tracks from going into the river and
has to move them back almost daily s
as to make them safe. Some are in
clined to the belief that if this keeps up
for a few days that the Nemaha branch
of the Burlington will have to be dis
continued until the line can be rebuilt
high up on the bluff."
Gets Out Attachment.
J. W. Wilcox, who has chosen tf
make this city his abiding place for
some time past, concluded that he would
go elsewhere to live, and accordingly
had his goods packed and taken to the
Burlington depot for shipment. The
point of destination was unknown, but
the goods were to go to Omaha, where
they were to be re-shipped. During his
stay here he had seen fit to do some
trading with the firm of Kunsman &
Ramge, and when he had began prepar
ations for the making of his home else
where, he had not liquidated the bill
which he had made with the above
named firm. In order that their ledger
might balance Kunsman & Ramge had
an attachment issued for the household
goods, and a legal bout will be required
to tell how they stand.
-'" The New Culvert Tile
A shipment of new culvert tile has
been received by the county commis
sioners, which is being placed in the
creek near the brick school house, west
of Mynard. One of the conduits will
be twenty feet in length and the other
twenty-four. The tile is manufactured
from cement and has iron eyes with
which it can be locked. Commissioner
Fredrich and County Clerk Rosencrans
were out this afternoon viewing the
placing of the tile in position. -
'Suffered day and night the ' torture
of itching piles. Nothing helped me
until I used Doan's Ointment. It cured
me" permanently. "Hon. John B. Gar
rett, mayor Gifard, Ala."-
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