Plattsmouth weekly journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1881-1901, April 05, 1894, Image 1
V Blftta IJJsloiIuul aocl. THE 1 WEEKLY JQUBNA mm P.LATTSI0 UT "BE JUST AND FEAR NOT." t ' . VOL. 13, NO. 15. PLATTSMOUTH. NEBKASKA. THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894. $1.00 w SJiJStS-c.. 1 J r 1 f ART COUPON. ("Midway Types" Coupon No. 11. The Coupon Number Changes Kvery Week. CBSend or bring toTns Joca sal this coupon, with ten cents In coin, and you will receive Portfolio No. 11 of the "Midway Types. -A-rt Coupon. THE Yanisling White City Send or trlng to The Jourxal this cou pon and ten cents in coin and receive portfolio No. 6 of "The Vanishlag White City." in either English or German. This coupon number changes evary week. Coupr-m Wo. 6. AKOC.NL THE CO! ft r ROOMS. COUNTY COURT. Tbe suit of the Tern Plow Co., V3. 11. J Edson and A. S. Cooley on a promissory note for $87.42, was filed in county court Saturday. County Judge Ramsey rendered an opinion Friday in tbe suit Mrs. Eliza Siebold vs. C. M. Graves in the defend ants' favor. Tbe amount involved was $10. Tbe last will and testament of tbe late Ann May Kern was admitted to probate in county court Thursday .and the hearing on claims was fixed for Oct. 5. The estate is valued at about $4,000. In the partnership suit of Geo. Bol len vs Geo Beam, wherein the plain tiff asked for a judgment for $100 alleged to be due bim from tbe profits of operating a threshing machine. County Judge Ramsey held that be had no jurisdiction in tbe matter, inasmuch as the district judge bad already appointed a receiver for tbe firm and if Bollen had any profits due him it was the place of tbe receiver to make the allowance. It was also held that the defendant could recover a judgment for the costs charged to him in tbe suit from tbe plaintiff. JUSTICE ARCHER'S COURT. 'has. and George Rollins, tbe two you tig men arrested at Nebraska City on a charge of burglarizing a freight car at Union, were given a hearing be fore Judge Archer yesterday. Tbe men claimed to bave came from Den ver to Omaha in search of employ ment, and got in a freight car at Union to ride south Tbe judge concluded that they were simply stealing a ride and discharged them. COURT ROOM NOTES. Y. A. Swearingen was appointed in county courtSat urday as administrator for the estate of the late H'm. Ince. See Brown and save money this year on jour wall paper, paints and oils. Giul Wanted A good girl for gen eral housework. Apply at residence of Dr. W. II Dearing. on Ninth street between Granite and Rock. 22-tf For farm loans see J. M. Lejda, Dover block, Flattsmouth. 12 Series IfcTo. G. Z ART COUPON. S S PHOTOGRAPHED. 2 Send or bring to Th Joi rsal this S S t'upon. ith ten rents in c-in. and (2 receive portfolio No. 6 of America S Photographed." This coupon num- ber changes every week. Be sme to 5 S clip it every week. 2 REPUBLICANS ON TOP. The Plattsmouth Democracy Given An Awful Lambasting. REPTJBS GET ALL THE PLUMS. Archer. Independent Candidate for I'ollre Judge, the Only Exception Oemncrats Kleet MeNsersmith, Nattier, Slater and Tntt to the Council and the Repuba Get Ilinnhaw and Kteimker--The Council Now Democratic. The New City Officials. Mavor W. II. Newell, republican. Treasurer Jno. I. Unruh, republi can. Clerk B. C. Kerr, republican. Police Judge M. Archer, citizens. Members School Board E. W. Cook and D. B. Smith, republican. The New Councllinen. First ward W. D. Messersmith, democrat. Second ward John Ilinshaw, repub lican. Third ward F. II. Steimker, repub lican. Fourth w ard Jno. 1. Sattler, demo crat. Fifth ward Wm. Slater and Jno. D. Tutt, democrat. Plattsmouth republicans had very much of a picnic Tuesday, almost everything going their way. Under ordinary circumstances the town is democratic this fact is conceded but the party was unfortunate in the pos session of factional differences due to primary and convention wrangles, and yesterday it went down in defeat. The republicans were not slow to take due advantage of the dissension and it was an easy matter for their can didates to pick tbe plums. The re-election of Police Judge Archer as an independent candidate after tbe democracy had turned him down at the city convention, was a surprise to many, but it only served to show that the town contains, enough unprejudiced voters to -elect a man who ha9 made a good official. The city offices, as will be shown by a perusal of the table elsewhere printed, all went to republicans by majorities exceeding one hundred votes, but in tbe councilmanic contest the democrats can take some consola tion in the fact that they came off first best by electing four of the six can didates, thus making tbe complexion of the new council democratic by two majority. Weeping Water and Uavelock. Weeping WATER-Tbecity election passed off quietly. Party politics cut no figure. The issue was. as usual, on a "wet or dry" board. The result was: Mayor, Fred H. Goider. dem., 3 ma jority; clerk, Theodore Schaefer. ind. rep.; treasurer, T. M. Iloward, rep. ; police judge. E. S. Barnett, rep. Councilmen, first ward, Charles Bald win and S. Rector, rep.; second ward, William Marshall, ind ; third ward. E. J. Moeser, dem. The bold-overs from last year are James B Hungate in second and Wesley Davis in third ward, making a '"dry" council by 1. The usual number of votes was polled. IIavelock The election was the most exciting ever known. The main issue was license. Two tickets were in tbe field, citizens' and petition. The vote was as follows: Citizens ticket George Anderson. 117; T. Ballaid, 113; A. Emburg, 130; C. B. McCall, 87; R. O. Schleicher. 107. Petition ticket S. L. Brower. 86; II. P. Coolidge, 101; M. G. Lysinger, 100; J. E. Palmeter, 78; A. W. Ryan, 102; for license. 74; against license, 118. Thompson Case Dismissed. The well-known damage suit of Mrs. Amos Thompson vs. the Missouri Pa cific railway, wherein the plaintiff sought to recover $ 000 for damages by reason of the killingof her husband in a railway accident at Union, took a somewhat unexpected turn Tues day afternoon in district crurt. After tbe testimony of the plaintiff had all been introduced, counsel for the rail way filtd a motion to dismiss on tbe ground that the plaintiff's husband met his deat . because of contributory negligence and that the testimony in troduced failed to establish sufficient cause to recover. The question was argued at considerable length and re sulted in Judge Chapman sustaining the motion and dismissing tbe suit. Matthew Gering, the plaintiff's counsel, has avowed his intention of appealing the dismissal to tbe supreme court. A. N. Sullivan of this city and J. W. Orr of Atchison appeared for the railway company. folk Wins UU Case. The supreme court of the United States handed down a decision on Monday in the case of Alex A Robert son, trustee, vs. Saufl M. Chapman, Milton D. Polk et al, an appeal from tbe circuit court of the United States for the district of Nebraska, whose de cision was affirmed with costs. The allegations in tbe case are somewhat sensational. The appellant, Robert son, who was trustee of the estate of Ella V. Davis, claims that acting tin der the advice of Chapman & Polk his attorneys at Plattsmouth, be sold several pieces of valuable property in this city to Michael O'Donohoe for $10,000. He asserts that under an agreement with Polk the property was immediately turned over by O'Donohoe to Polk, and that the Davis estate w as defrauded by some $3,000 by the transaction. lie presented in evidence a letter from O'Donohoe to himself stating that Polk was agent fur the property and made the deal with him to purchase it and subsequently turn it over to him. lie asked tliit by reason of this alleged fraudulent practice the conveyance should be set aside. Chapman & Polk defended the suit in the circuit court and won. denying specifically all the. allegations and bringing O'Donohoe to the stand to contradict his own letter. They affirmed that Robertson examined the property and himself ordered the sale; that O'Donohoe purchased in good faith and transferred when he could not comply with the terms of sale. The property in controversy consists of the lot on Main street on which the Leonard building now stands, tbe lot and building on Main street wherein Max Lemm's saloon is now located. ti e old surveyor general's oflice and half block of ground on Elm street. the present residence of Mr. Polk and the dwelling house adjoining, and the half block on which the Drummond residence is now located. This de cision confirms Polk's ownership and removes the cloud from the title to the property, which has nearly all pissed int- tbe hands of subsequent pur chasers. He Never Came Back." A well-dressed stranger put in an appearance at the Jones livery barn Saturday afternoon and hired a horse and buggy. He left word with tbe stable hands that he would return in about two hours, but when Sunday morning rolled around and the horse had not yet been returned, the stable proprietor came to the conclusion that tiie stranger was a thief. The officers were put on the fellow's track and it has developed that he passed through Mynard at about six o'clock Saturday evening and was going west. Sun day morning at eight o'clock he was seen near Louisville and at about eleven o'clock he drove through Ash land. This is as far a3 the officers have been able to trace the man. Deputy Sheriff Hyers and Mr. Jones went to Fremont Sunday night in the hope that tbe man would bead in that direction, but they telegraphed to Sheriff Eiken bary Monday noon that no further trace of the fellow's whereabouts have been learned. Tbe stolen horse was valued at about $30. Burglars at Work. The residence of Joe McMaken on North Eleventh street was entered by burglars sometime last Friday night. and a silver watch stolen. Joe bad bis watch in his pantaloons pocket, and upon retiring bad folded that part of his apparel and placed it under his pillow. But the nervy burglar secured it just the same, and Joe is very fortu nate to have them leave the pants. An attempt was made to effect an entrance at the home of Mrs. New- land, who lives in tbe same vicinity, but the burglar was frightened away. The Mortgage Record. Cass county's mortgage 'ecord for March is as follows: Farm lands filed. $114,250.17; satisfied. 62 913.90. Town property filed, $7.7S3 88; satisfied, $9 634 23. Chatttle mortgages filed, $21,085.47; satisfied, $12,r31.14. The distillery project which has been under discussion in Plattsmouth for some little time, appears to be on the eve of a consummation, and the inhabitants of that picturesque town are in daily anticipation of a big. solid boom. A genuine boom at the present time would astonish the world and at tract sight-seers from the four quarters of the globe. Junction Recorder. SAD CASE OF SUICIDE. An Ex-Plattsmouthian Takes His Life At the Lincoln Asylum. THE BUSINESS MEN'S BANQUET Landlord Hamilton Of the Hotel Riley Provides a Bounteous Feast Fire man Rutherford's Close Call f Other Jottings. Robert Donovan Suicides. Word was received in this city on Saturday night that Robert J. Dono van, who has been confined in the hospital for tbe insane near Lincoln, had suicided by hanging. The Lin coln Journal has the following to say of the sad affair: lie retired to his room at eight o'clock Friday evening, in apparently his usual spirits, but when the attendant opened h's room Saturday morning at o:30 he was horrified to see Donovan hanging from tbe bars of his window by a curtain cord. Tbe body was cold and death had evidently occurred sev eral hours previous. Donovan, who was thirty-seven years of age nnd married, was a loco motive engineer on the B. & M., with his home in Plattsmouth. He was sent to the hospital October 10, 1886. and has been in what is known as tbe quiet or chronic ward for sometime. He ran away twice and was captured each time at bis former home and brought back. A close watch was kept on him on that acconnt. but none of the attendants or officials at tbe hospital believed that he was dangerous or apt to commit suicide. Last week he was assisting in house cleaning and it is thought that he se cured the curtain cord at that time His act was evidently premeditated and carried out with tbe recognized secrecy of a crazy man. When the remains were cut down and a search made, a letter addressed to the superintendent and others was found in an inside pocket. It was composed of tbe usual mixture of sen tences, but contained one which showed that he had evidently been thinking of taking bis life. It said: I amnot hungandtbisisnotsuicide." The letter also referred to Charles Marshal and J. W.Irving in a discon nectedway. Coroner Crim visited the hospital Suturcav. but on learning the facts of the case he concluded that'besewas no necessity for an inquest, and so in formed Superintendent Hay. The remains were brought to this city Sunday forenoon and taken to the Livineston residence, where funeral services were held Monday morning, and the body interred at Oak Hill cemetery. A Sumptuous Spread. Saturday night's banquet at the Ho tel Riley was certainly an enjoyable affair, the attendance numbering some fifty or sixty of the town's business and professional men accompanied by their wives. The fore part of the even ing was given up to social converse, cards, dancing and other amusements and at eleven o'clock the party ad journed to the dining ball where Landlord Hamilton bad prepared a feast which did great credit to both himself and his excellent bote!. Supper over, an hour or so was given to toast- making, responses being made by Messrs. A. N. Sullivan, Matthew Ger ing. x . x.. w nite, w . u. eweu ana II. D. Travis and the Mesdames C. S. Sherman and H. D. Travis, the fes tivities being concluded by extending a unanimous vote of thanks to tbe host and hostess for the agreeable manner in which all had been entertained. He Missed Hla Mark. Cbarley Rutherford, the fireman on the switch engine in the B. & M. yards. had an adventure early Monday morning that came near causing him a headache, to say the least. During the night he and the engineer, to gether with several switchmen, were in the switch shanty, where they were comparing time by their watches, leav- ng their engine standing on the track near by. Kutnerroru naa lett tne shanty and climbed aboard the engine and was shoveling in coal when a coupling-pin whizzed past bis bead, just missing him and striking a lan tern sitting in the gangway of tbe en gine. The coupling-pin bad been thrown by someone on the other side of the engine, and Rutherford looked out in the darkness and just made out the outlines of a man disappearing over the embankment toward tbe river. His vision was obscured by the fact that he had just been looking into the fire box, but be pulled his re volver and fired three shots at the re tiring figure, but without effect. The coupling-pin was evidently thrown by some tramp, but what tbe purpose was cannot be surmised unless be intended robbery. The police overhauled a fel low Mondav. but Rutherford was unable to identifv him as the man who attempted tbe assault. Murderer McGinn's Sentence Suspended The supreme court yesterday sua Dended sentence of death in the case of Barney McGinn, who shot and killed Edward McKenna on the streets of Omaha July 29. Attorneys for McGinn filed a petition in error yesterday and in consequence the court issued an order of suspension, to remain in force until further orders. The accused was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree before Judge Scott and sentenced to be hanged April 13. Mc Ginn's case is peculiar in that the de ceased had a dog and the killing of tbe owner seems to have resulted from this fact. McGinn was formerly a work man in the Union Pacific shops at Omaha, and at the time of the killing was janitor at the Saratoga school Tbe deceased was a carpenter living near McGinn's boarding house. Mc Kenna was arrested by McGinn for keeping a cross dog. A few days after ward tbe two men met and some hot words passed. They met again on tbe street, a scuffle ensued and McGinn killed McKenna instantly by shooting. He walked to the police station, gave himself up and was tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged. His at torneys' petition sets up sixty-five errors in the court proceedings, the document comprising eleven typewrit ten pages. It Causrs Them to Worry. Plattsmouth's new free ferry across the Missouri seems to worry the mer chants on the other side of the river The Junction Recorder views tbe mat ter as follows: "The inauguration of a free ferry across tbe Missouri river by the enter prising merchants of tbe neighboring Nebraska town, has awakened the county seat merchants to a realizatioi of the importance of the trade of tbe farming community along and con tiguous to the 'bottoms.' As an off set to tbe free ferry, the discussion of better and improved highways to the county seat has received vreat im petus, and without doubt tbe energy and enterprise of Mills county's busi ness men will be directed to that im portant movement with the prompti tude ana decision of which tbey are famed. Good roads will bring greater returns than new railways." Bryan Bothered By Delay. Representative Bryan is somewhat at a loss to know what is the cause of the continued delay in the filling ol the Plattsmouth and Pawnee City uostoffices, writes Billy Annin to tbe Lincoln Journal. He made another trip to the postoffice department on Monday and earnestly interviewed Mr. Bissell upon the subject. This is the third visit which he has made since his return from Nebraska, and the results were not any more definite than in the two preceding instances. Mr. Bissell stated that he had not yet reached these cases, but expected to soon, and with this assurance Mr. Bryan was forced to content himself. Will Deliver Glasses Monday. Prof. Ponder, the Omaha optician, closed his engagement in this city yes terday, after fitting quite a few of our best known citizens with glasses. The professor will return on Monday next to deliver glasses, and all parties wish ing their eyes either tested or fitted will find him on that day at the Hotel Riley, between the hours of 10 a. m. and 6 p. m. CARD OF THANKS. To the many friends whose kindness was so sympatbizingly bestowed dur ing tbe sorrow attendant to the death of our little daughter, Florence, we desire to extend our smcerest thanks. Mr. and Mrs. Joel Messersmith. This morning's Lincoln Journal says: Tbe state board of public lands and buildings held a meeting yesterday and a report was formulated in regard to tbe suicide of the patient from Plattsmouth, Robert G. Donovan, who banged himself with a curtain cord which he bad secreted in his cell. The board attaches no blame to anyone at the asylum and reported that every reasonable precaution had been exer cised by the superintendent and at tendants. In the case of Cowin & McHugb against Setb T. Winch, tried in tbe court presided over by Judge Blair, tbe jury yesterday returned a verdict for $2,657, the amount being the bill for attorney fees in a case which was hotly contested some years ago. Omaha Bee. TWO IRATE HUBBIES. They Cause Much Grief to a Platts mouth Young Man. THE DISTRICT DECLAIMERS. Plattsmouth Falls to Secure a Place In the Contest For Oratorical Honors at Beatrice A Mock Trial Threatened Notes. Whe Is Frank Rrlgham? Last Thursday 'sCouncil Bluffs Globe says: One of tbe Bluffs hotels, tbe Ogden house, was the place wnere an interesting scene drawn from an ex cited little coterie of real actors was enacted Wednesday evening, that gave every promise for a few minutes of de veloping into a decided and most em phatic sensation of a racy nature. t he Missouri Valley train brought in two of the actors, who registered at tbe hotel as Mrs. A. C. Johnston and Miss L. Carleton, of Missouri Valley, both young women These ladies were shown adjoining and connecting rooms at the hostelry, and for the minute disappeared from the horizon, inside ibeir apartments. About an hour later a young gentleman, bailing from Plattsmouth, and registering, as did tbe ladies, under the assumed name of Frank Brigham, sent his card to the ladies' apartment and desired to see them. The young man was received, and later the three made their debut in the dining room and took supper. Nothing more was heard of the actions of the trio until about 9:45 o'clock. when the hotel clerk and proprietor were surprised to see stalking into the hotel office a couple of young gentle men, both apparently under twenty five, and both still more apparently laboring under very perturbed and ex cited spirits. They walked up to the register, scanned down the page and neof them finally remarked, "that's my wife's hand-writing, and no mis take." He looked at the number of the room and demanded of the clerk to be shown to the apartments in stantly. This was at first refused un til be would explain his actions, which he very peremptorily did by putting his finger on the registered nama. Mre. A. C. Johnston, and saying: "That woman is my wife; we reside in Mis souri Valley. She told me when she left this noon that she was going to Plattsmouth to visit friends. This Miss Carleton registered here with her my friend's wife," he continued, getting more and more excited over the complicating situation. "We wish to be shown to tbe rooms immediately," said the first speaker, shaking omin ously a big heavy cane. Finally, after a little further parley, the clerk agreed to show them to the rooms, providing they would not arouse the house, which they promised not to do. In the meantime the young man from lattsmouth had rustled out and picked up a well-known local character, and the two bad proceeded to the ladies' room, and a carnival a la quar tette was in progress. When the clerk knocked at the door there was a rust ling racket, followed by silence, and then the click of the key as the lock was snapped back. The clerk im mediately pushed open tbe door, and a sight of the four was obtained, the ladies in evening dishabille and the gentlemen badly disconcerted. The local character made a desperate rush and disappeared down the stairway, eight steps at a time, dragging some of his clothes with him. One of the husbands cried out, "That's my wife's voice," and the two hubbies made a rush, got on the inside, closed and ocked the door, and tbe five bad a most interesting session, lasting nntil 11:30 o'clock. A confused babble of talking, crying, begging and penitent groaning was audible all through tbe hallway and finally when tbe meeting broke up tbe Plattsmouth young man came out with feathers dropping and a much sadder and wiser specimen of masculinity. About 12 o'clock tbe two married couple came down stairs paid up the bills and disappeared from the scene of action. Today, however, the hubby that did tbe most of the talking the previous evening to tbe hotel clerk, is out on a still hunt for the local gen tleman who made the run against time ast evening, and vows there will be blood shed if tbey meet. Tbe ladies in question are said to be well known in Missouri Valley, and are quite hand some. If you are worn out, rnn down and nervous, Magetic Nervine will restore your health. Sold by Fricke & Co. m ' s i v so 57 2? 41 rv? j - ) hundr - r.w- -'xiouisville a mp 'Ijilac I and wa df 'TkS. i More I n seiaV ""paint-- "uid prices. I For p.u-ti. faeteitr.i 9 to',l'S"SSMBMBmBnsBWB