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u ' -i J. - . -4 i Ji V S'ula Historical hOLiily THE PLATTSMO 0TB WEEKLY RIAL JOU " BE JUST AND FEAR NOT." VOL. 13. SO. 9. ' PLATTSMOUTH. SEBKASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1894. $1.00 ?SSy5&-. 3 V MIDWAY TYPES. Special Art Coupon This coupon and 40 cent !n coin if brought to The Jocbnal office will entitle you to portfolio No. 1.2,3 and 4 of the ' -Midway Types " The cou pon for Portfolio ?o. 5 will appear thin week. Clip tnem and by taking advantage of this offer to secue Now. 1, 2, 3 and 4 you can get the entire set. The Journal still has a few port folios Sbs. 1,2, Sand 4 of the "Midway Types" which can be secured upon ap plication at this office. If you have failed to clip the coupons which have appeared before in these columns, be sure 'hat you clip the special coupon which appears in this week's issue. It will entitle you to portfolio Xos 1, 2, 3 and 4 of th "Midway Types" and should be accompanied by 40 cents in coin. The coupon for No. 5 will run this week. Clip them every week and by taking advantage of today's special coupon you can secure the full set of 16 portfolios as they are run from week to week. ART COUPON. "Midway Types" Coupon No. 5. The Coupon Number Changes Every Week. fSSend or bring to The Jora sai. this coupon, with ten cents in coin, and you will receive . ortf jlio No. 5 of the "Midway Types. For particular! read below. SCENES FKOSI MIDWAY FLAIS AN CK." T .IE Weekly Journal is permitted to iu trod uce its readers to anumerosity of scenes of tuat famous side- bow to the lAte Columbian exposition Mid way Plaisauce. You will not be forced to travel, like last summer to Chicago, to see these scenes, but you will be privileged to sit in your own home l with your wife and children around , you, aud come face to face with ue j engravings and photographs of the many queer people and quaint scenes which interested more people than did the big fair itself. With the old Greeks to see was to know. The same word which expn-Bsed the act of vision denoted also the pre cept ion of the mind. Nor may it be doubted that of all the avenues be tween th6 inward and spiritual bou) of man and the outward and visible world of tangible things, the sense of sight is the brightest and most delightful. Visi n is the snse alike of informa tion and ideality, the open way of knowledge and of dreams. The advantages of pictorial repre entation as a means of informing and verifying can hardly be exaggerated. Wherever travel is practicable there is a lense with its quick flash of light and swiftly caught image of nature and man has come in to supply the defi ciency and to transmit to distant homes the picture and vision of reality. Listen: Each week cut out the art coupon printed in this papei, beginning on Thursday, January 25. and put it aside. Each of these coupons and ten cents in coin will obtain for you one portfolio of the world-famous '-Midway Types" Each port folio will contain 20 pages and 16 portfolios concludes the set. The whole series will make you one of the most valuable art collection such as an not be often secured. For your own pleasure and for the education of your children, yon should have the complete series and you should seize the opportunity now. If you are already a subscriber for The Journal all that is re quired is to save your coupons and pennies. If you are not a regular sub scribT send us your name and address and the paper will be sent to you everv week for one dollar per year, if paid in advanc, or tl.50 if paid at the end of the year. The Jourkal. A New Ferry Boat. The ship building industry is about tn hfl revived in Plattsmouth. and a new ferry boat will be built here dur ine the coming spring. Capt. Pease, of Blair, is here and is preparing the nUns and getting the material for building a new horse-power ferry boat for Messrs. O'Neill & Thomas We have not le rned the dimensions of the new craft, but it will doubtless be a larger and more pretentious boat than the present horse-power ferry. This s a good time to renew your subscription to the Wfekly Jour nal. A dollar paid in advance will be as good as a dollar and a half at the end of your time. PROSPECTS BRIGHTEN The Distillery Project Can Still be Made a Success. A FEW THOUSAND YET NEEDED The Ways and Means to Kame It Will be Discassed at a Mass Meeting at the Court House Tonight still at Large Other Notes. The distillery project, which for a tima seemed practically abandoned, has suddenly gained new life and The Journal is now enabled to state that there is every prospect for the town to secure the industry! The unfortunate missending of a letter delayed the dealings just when the local committee had almost raised the required bonus, while an unfavorable proposi tion from the agents for the industry also had effect to discourage the men who were straining every nerve to raise the subscription to the required amount. Yesterday Messrs. W. II. Newell, Chas. D. Cummins and S. 11. Atwood journeyed to Omaha to con sult with the agents for the industry, and when they returned in the even ing they brought cheering news the distillery would come if a guaran ee was given that the first-mentioned bonus would be forthcoming when the industry was constructed and readv for business. The amount subscribed already ex ceeds the required Donus, but those of our citizens who are expected to make the guaranty want the subscription to ex ceed the bonus to such an extent that the subscription lists will "pay out" the required amount. The thing which now remains to be done is to proceed with the circulating of the subscription lists and increase the do nations to Mich an extent ttat the guarantors will be safe. Only a few thousand are needed and the goal will be reached. The town's advancement is dependent upon the succes of the project. Let no stone be unturned. The executive committee in charge of the project have suggested the hold ing of a mass meeting of business men and citizens in general, to devise ways and means to raise the bonus, and with this end in view a meeting will be held at the district court room to night at 7:30 o'clock. The meeting certainly deserves a liberal attendance. Lancaster County Murderer at Large. Sheriff Miller of Lancaster county wfcs engaged yesterday in sending out telegrams to intercept the flight of A. S. Jones, who shot and killed Con stable l'eck at Martell Tuesday even ing The shooting was witnessed by several persons, but Jones bluffed them off by flourishing a gun. Pour shots were fired by Jones. One of them entered Peck's chin and came out of his shoulder, while the other three went into 'bis back and reached vital spots. After the shooting Jones sought the protection of Agent Clark of the Missouri Pacific, but he soon left, leaving his wife and small child ren with Mr. Clark. Peck was a son-in-law of J. II. Buell, a well-known farmer in Lancaster county, while Jones is from Missouri, where his father is a pbvsician. The Otoe Grand Jury. The Otoe grand jurors after a two week's session found themselves un able to successfully combat all evils existing in that county, and adjourned upon making the following report; "We. the grand jurors, lind from the evidence, though hardly sufficient to convict, that there have been gross violations of the law in the way of houses of prostitution and selling beer and other liquors without li censes; also gambling in violation of the law, and we very much deplore the evident laxity of city officials in regard to the enforcement of said law." Clip the art coupon In today's paper. The annual encampment of the G. A.R. and W. R. C. for Nebraska is now in session at Lincoln Church Howe will probably be elected com mander for the G. A. B. for the next year. DR. POWELL'S GRIP Will Remain in Possession Of the Sheriff For Security. DOUGLAS SHINN A BENEDICT. W. H. Odell's Bh1 Hd'ord at Gleuwood Secretary Morton Is Hanged lo Ef figy at Nebraska City-That New Trial For Hill. Dr. Powell's Valine. Dr. L. F. Powell, the strange young physician who attempted to bluff the public some four weeks ago into be lieving that he had been robbed at the Goos hotel, was again in the city last Thursday. It will be remembered that he brought suit against the hotel pro prietor for SS0. which sum he alleped represented the value of the stolen i roperty. When the case came to trial the doctor was missing, and his ab sence completely coniirmed the already general belief that the doctor's story of being robbed was a dream. His mission yesterday was to reclaim the valise full of surgical instruments which Sheriff Eikenbary has levied upon to insure the payment of a judg ment for costs entered against him by reason of his non-appearance at the trial. He besought the sheriff to give up the valise, but that official wanted the $4 75 which represented the judg ment for costs before producing. Th doctor had not the required sum, so he wa3 forced to depart minus the prop erty, lie left town in the evening and before going conveniently omitted to squkre the $S hoard bill owing to the Goos hotel. W. U. Udell's Bad Record. Readers of The Journal will no doubt remember a young man named V. II. Odell, who made this city his abiding place last summer, and who left town rather suddenly to avoid ausweringin court for his participation in the "washing out" of the negro houses. Odell formerly lived atGlen wood, and the Mills County Tribune last week contained the following ar ticle concerning the ouuguiau: It would appear as tho' the last chap ter had not jet Ueeu written in the case of Glenwood'a erstwnile "lire chief," X. 11. Odell. Elsewhere in tuis issue appears a nonce that bis wife has brought action for divorce which w ill come before the May term of court. As must of our readers in this vicinity are doubtless aware, Odell is the miserable scoundrel that left town about a year ago w ith more haste than formality to escape punishment that was about to overtake him forvillainy of various kinds in which be had figured hp principal. lie left his wife and children at that time in utter des titution, a condition in which they had been for several weeks before his de parture owing to Odell's shameful neglect to provide for them in anv wav. It is safe to sav tnat Mrs. Odell will get her divorce without any fear of molstation from her worthless husband as he will hardlv care to ven ture back to Glenwood again. If he dos he will find the atmosphere will be made several degrees chillier than the mercury has yet made it. Morton Hanged In Effigy. The bitter feeling of the democrats of Nebraska City against J. Sterling Morton, secretary of agriculture, de veloped in a sensational manner, when it was discovered Friday morning that the secretary and his youngest son, Carl, had been banged in effigy in the park in that city. A placard stated in effect that the figure repre sented the remains of the democratic marching club. The figures were soon removed and the city talked of nothing else all dav. The act it the result of the appointment by Morton of a life long republican to the position of tag ger in the Nebraska City packing bouse. Dong'. Shinn Married. According to the Nebraska City News the county judge of Otoe county has issued a marriage license to Doug las W. Shinn, formerly of Plattsmouth. and Angia M. Bruce, of Nemaha county. The license was issued last week, and we suppose that ere this the nuptial knot will have been tied. News of his marriage will no doubt be quite a surprise to Doug's many Plattsmouth friends, and The Jour nal joins with them in extending congratulations and best wishes. -Tf-i ; Wants a New Trial for Hill. Matthew Gering. attorney for Harry Hill, believe that he has discovered additional irregularities in the trial of his client that will secure for him a new tria,l. Just what the nature of the irregularities consists of is not known, but the general public senti j ment is that Harry Hill was given a fair and impartial trial, and the great expense of another trial would be an injustice to the tax-payers of the county that would not be countenanced. Charity Work Progressing. We are glad to rote by the report of the Associated Charities that the gen erosity of our people is keeping apace with the increasing needs of the desti tute around us. A great deal of good work has been done by the Associated Charities, as well as by private charity. Cold weather like the present finds a great many who must either receive aid or suffer, and we are glad that means Lave been provided whereby all such, who are deserving, may find temporary relief. Very few realize bow much has passed through Mr. II. J. Streight's hands as steward of pro visions for the Associated Charities, but a perusal of his records will show the great amount of work done. We add today a few more names to the benevolent list. Among the donations is $10 from the 1. E. O. society, $5 from Dr. Marshall, $5 from Judge Ramsey, one cord of wood from J. W. Hendee, one ton of coal from O. H. Snyder, and ten more sacks of flour from C Ileisel. This makes twenty sacks that Mr. Ilei&el has seen fit to place in the hands of the Associated Charities. These, together with the $2-5 received from Mrs. Dovey's, enter tainment, $25 from the city council, and the same sum from the Tumverein entertainment, place the resources in a safe condition for the present. A great many others have been equally as generous, whom we cannot name at present. Let the good work go on. Horsewhipped a Aladison Editor. J. II. Mackay, editor of the Madison Republican, was horsewhipped Satur day night by Mrs. Peter Rulf, the wife of a prominent citizen of Madison THe weapon used was a big "black snake" whip, which the woman wield ed with effect, inflicting severe pun ishment. Mrs. Rulf added to the edi tor's discomfort by setting her dog on him when 6he was tired. The dog chewed Mackay's leg considerably. The trouble arose over an insinuating article published in Mackay's paper concerning Peter Rulf, the woman's husband, which aroused her ire and led brto seek vengeance. The Exact Figures. The Courier-Journal prints more home new s each week than any weekly paper published in Cass county. No ne will deny this. Louisville Courier Journal. . According to exact measurements the Courier-Journal, in its last week's issue, contained 49 inches of home news, while the last issue of The Weekly Journal contained 185 inches of home news. Advertisements, clippings, commissioners' proceedings. etc., were excluded in both measure ments. The Courier-Journal's claim is thus susceptible of proof. A Plattsmouth Boxer Bested. A telegram in the Chicago Tribune from Streator, Ills., tells of a boxing bout at the latter town between "Mys terious" Billy Smith of Boston, the world's champion waiter-weight, and Fletcher Robbins, formerly of this city, but now of Streator. Smith had the best of the bout, but Robbins made a ceditable showing. The police were present and when Smith knocked Robbins down in the fourth round, they interfered and stopped the affair. The Coasters. Saturday night's coasting carnival on High School hill was a grand suc cess and was participated in by some two or three hundred merry coasters. The track was in excellent shape and several of the large traverses went to the B. & M. tracks at the foot of Main street. A few accidents occurred, but none of tbem were of a serious nature and, altogether, the carnival afforded no end of first-class amusement. Will be Decided by March 5. The attorneys in the Filbert case argued the case before the supreme court on Tuesday, and a decision will be rendered by March 5. It is thought that no matter what may be the der cision of the supreme court, the case will not be terminated, but the attor neys will r&new the case by adopting new legal tactics and fight it all over again. Killed on the It. & M. Sunday morning at eight o'clock an incurable insane man named Hop kins stepped from a B. & M. train, two miles east of Oxford, and was killed. Hopkins was about fifty years of age. He had been insane for about twelve years and was returning from a visit in Denver to the Hastings asylum. . A. " ' jtr In Lancaster County. The town of Martell in Lancaster county, was the scene of a fatal shoot ing affair Tuesday afternoon. About 5 o'clock in the afternoon, as A. S Jones of Sprague arrived at Martell, on his way home from Walton, Neb., where he had been agent for the Mis souri Pacific railway, he was met by Jerry Peck of Sprague. The two men got into a quarrel over their respective weights, when Peck slapped Jones in the face. Jones immediately pulled his revolver and shot Peck four times, killing him instantly. Jones went on home and taking his family, went to a section house on the Missouri Pacific. He declared that be would kill the first man who attempted to arrest him. Peck was the constable, and his killing left the town without an officer, conse quently no attempt was made to arrest him. There is great excitement in Sprague over the affair. News of the murder was sent to Sheriff Miller of Lincoln, but at last accounts Jones bad not been placed under arrest. Lancaster Licenses Don't Go in Cass. The wedding of Mr: B. F. Parmeter and Miss Cora Coleman was booked to occur at the home of the bride at Greenwood this forenoon, and a goodly number of the relatives and friends of the contracting parties had assembled at the household to witness the auspi cious event. Rev. Cyrus Alton of Elm wood and a former county super intendent for Cass county, was to officiate in the tying of the nuptial knot. One of the minister's pre liminaries, very naturally, was to ex amine the license, and when he glanced the document over he dis covered to his consternation that the groom, instead of securing the Bame of County Judge Ramsey, had spent his ducats with County Judge Lan sing at Lincoln, and thus had a Lancaster county license. The minister, of course, was aware of the statutory requirement that all mar riages to be legal must be had in the county in which the license is is sued. Here was a pretty mess. The groom and bride wanted to be mar ried at home, as per arrangements, so the rattled minister rushed to the tele phone and, after a weary wait of an boar or more, managed to secure telephonic connection with County Judge Ramsey in this city. The reverend . gentleman explained the situation, but as the judge was not aware of any statute author izing him to issue marriage ther mits by telephone, he forwarded the unwelcome news that the best hecould do was to issue the license and send it on to Greenwood by tonight's mail. To fly across the line into Lancaster county was a trip which the parties in terested did not contemplate with any extreme degree of satisfaction, so it was decided to await the forwarding of the license from this city. Judge Ramsey mailed the document this af ternoon and on its arrival at Green wood at about eight o'clock this even ing the marriage will be consummated. barring, of course, railroad wrecks or the discontinuance of the "wagging of this cruel world." Looks Like a Murder. Officer Harding last week found a dead girl babe, frozen stiff, in a new market basket near the fence that sur rounds the St. Mary's cemetery at South Omaha, where it had been placed by someone, evidently to bide a crime. The babe waB wrapped in an old gauze undershirt, and from all ap pearances had been born alive. The basket waB taken to the police station and by Jailer Emerick turned over to Brewer & Sloane, the undertakers, and Coroner Maul was notified of the find. The police have been unable to get any trace of the persons interested in placing the child where it was found. The chances are that the child was placed there during the night. Whether it was alive when left and froze to death, or whether it was dead, will probably never be known. It looks, however, I.ke a cruel murder. Not Yet Settled. According to reports received from South F&rk the troubles in the Baptist church did not terminate with Mon day night's meeting, and there is now a movement on foot to hold services at the home of one of the former mem bers of the church to open an oppo sition church. Chauncey Doty, the aged Betble hemite who was struck by B. & M. No. Sin the local yards last week, is not finding it quite so easy to recover. At times be is delirious, although his spells of this nature only effect himin the forenoon. His physician, however, is hopeful that the old gentleman will safely pnll through. A PLEASANT EYENT. Mr. and Mrs. I. S. White Celebrate a Wedding Anniversary. THE TURNER ENTERTAINMENT The Program Was Excellent and the At tendance Large Proceeds go to Charity-Water Company Suits Withdrawn Notes. Their Fortieth Anniversary. The comfortable farm home of I. S. White in Rock Bluffs precinct was the scene of a happy gathering Monday, the occasion bein z the fortieth anni versary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. White. Some ninety-two guests were present, and among them were Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Patterson, Sheriff and Mrs. J. C. Eikenbary. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Jones and Fred Stadel- mann, sr., of this city. Mr. and Mrs. White are pioneers in this section of the county, and were among the early settlers at the town of Rock Bluffs, where they are the pos sessors of a fine farm of some eight hundred acres. They were remembered by their guests Monday with a present of an elegant solid silver tea set. Mrs. Hiatt, of Iowa, and Mark White, of Eagle, daughter and son. were present Monday. Turaverein Charity Entertainment. The charity entertainment given on Sunday evening by the Tumverein society at their hall on Washington avenue for the benefit of the poor of Plattsmouth, attracted a large au dience. The program consisted of musical selections, recitations, etc., and every number was creditably rendered. The debate was probably the. most interesting feature. The discussion was bad as to which was more to be sought "Wealth or School ing." Messrs. Paul Gering, J. B. Lob man and P. C. Hansen argned for wealth and Messrs. Sam Gutmann, Fred Ebisger and Jno. Sattler were arrayed on the side of schooling. The debate, like the other numbers on the program, was held in German, and at its conclusion the committee of judges decided that the champions of school ing had made the best argument. The proceeds reached a neat figure and will be tendered to the Associated Charities-for the purchase of food and cloth ing for the poor. Water Company halts Withdrawn. The two suits of Thos. L. Murphy and Mary C. Murphy vs. the Platts mouth Water company, commenced several weeks ago in County Judge Ramsey's court, have been settled without going to trial and the cases wit hdrawn. The actions were brought for damages done to the residence property of the plaintiffs on North Sixth street, by the overflowing of the water company's stand-pipe. The first case, in which $200 was sued for, was settled for $25, and the second, in which the amount sued for was 4S0, was settled for $50. The water com pany will pay the costs in both suits. Mr. Ikenbarg March 10. Sheriff Ikenbarg, of Cass county, was in Omaha Friday and spoke in the highest terms of the conduct of Harry Hill, the condemned murderer in the Plattsmouth jail, who is to be hanged March 10. Hill has professed religion and has become a devout Catholic. Mr. Ikenbarg says Hill is a model prisoner. World-Herald. A farmer, while fitting a loaded shell in a shot gun at McBride & Palmer's hardware store at Nehawka on Tues day, let the hammer slip from his band. The contents of the shell tore a pannel out of the door, but as there was no one on the sidewalk at the time, no one was hurt. When the farmer recovered from his fright he said that in the future he would take the advice that bad just been given him, to always experiment with empty cartridges, and after showing his will ingness to pay for damages dune on the door, he departed for home. A firm of Chicago manufacturers are looking for a location in the Missouri valley for a mammoth glucose factory, with a capacity of using 40,000 bushels of corn per day. All the towns along the river are making a bid for the factory, Sioux City offering $150,000 in cash and a site. Omaha will also put in a bid. What is the matter with Plattsmouth offering a few suburban town lots. Clip the art coupon in today's paper. f .-, - I : - Ska.;. M or e I cn at? i" T- -v nd Drices. 1 1 5VAUBOS. I orks. Omaha, Kfe- " -'fir jl: s'- ..lJ to I session "of nolice clr lualice cour Ww..-- . ucala odor in per T.fl f onrt S r Sold only by GeiVn i & Co I o