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i F J I WEEKLY EIAL sl. , TUT? P.LATTS10UT1 JOU VOL. 13. 30. 18. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1894. $1.00 wVxStSe.. V ( Series IkTo. S. AET COUPON. PHOTOGRAPHED. Send or brine to The Jocrxax thin coupon. w ith ten cents in coin, and receive portfolio No. V of -America Photographed ." This coupon num ber changes every week, lie sure to clip it every week. -A-rt Coupon. -THE Vanishing White City Send or tring to The Jouenal thin cou pon and ten cents in coin and receive portfolio So. 8 of "The Vanishing White City," in either English or German. This coupon number changes every week. Coupon "No. 9. Committer of the Council. Miiynr-elect Newell Las made up his committees of the city council as fol lows: Finance Bridge, Grimes, Steimker. Judiciary Griines,SattIer,Hawkins. Fire and -water Smith, Ilinshaw, Bridge. Claims Sattler, Smith Slater. License Jones, Steimker, Messer smith. Streets, alleys and bridges Steimker, Slater, Ilinshaw. Police Slater, Jones, Bridge. Gas and lighting Ilawkins, Smith, Messersmith. Hospital Messersmith, Grimes, Ilawkins. Cemetery Ilinshaw, Slater, Jones. Several months ago The Journal printed an item to the effect that the ii. & M. railroad company would build a new iron bridge across the Platte river at Oreapolis during the coming summer. This item was reprinted by the state press, and in a few days the Omaha World-Herald declared, on the authority of Mr. Iloldrege, that the company had no such intentions. If Mr. Iloldrege authorized the World Ilerald's denial, he is evidently not posted on the doings or intentions of his road. On the day before the item was printed in The Journal Messrs. Olsen and Woodring, of the bridge de partment of the road, were at Oreapolis making soundings in the river, and just now the ground is being cleared for the construction of spur tracks on both sides of the river for the purpose of handling the material for the new bridge. Haw's Thin ! We offer one hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's catarrh cure. F. J? CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last fifteen years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transaction and fin ancially able to carry out any obliga tion made by their firm. West & Tkuax, wholesale druggists, Toledo, O. Waldixg. Kinxan & Marvin, wholesale druggists, Toledo, O. HalTs catarrh cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, l'rice 7fc. per bottle. Sold by all drug gists. Testimonials free. Silver novelties at A. L. Coleman's. "She Stoops to Conquer," the home taleut play which has been in progress of rehearsal for several weeks past, will be presented at the White opera bouse on Friday evening. May 4. The daie w as originally fixed for April 27, but has been postponed until May 4. Remember the date May 4. To Iti kt torn. The Plattsmouth Canning company desire to contract for 1 (mi acres toma toes at $7 per ton. If you have only a small piece of idle ground plant it in tomatoes: it. w ill i:iv vim . Fnr tiar- ticu'ars enquire at ihe hardware store m W T II i a See Brown and save money this year on your wall paper, paints and oils. AGAINST THE COUNTY Judge Chapman Holds the County Liable for Bridge Repairs. DID NOT OBEY THE INJUNCTION Father Corbett Hold services in the 1'al uiyra Church Punday in Spltt of Judge Cbapuian'i Restrain ing Order otes. Decision Against the Couuty Judge Chapman has rendered his decision in the somewhat celebrated Louisville bridge case, in which the citizens of Louisville precinct sought to compel the board of commissioners to cause repairs to be made in the ap proaches and wagon bridge over the Platte river at Louisville. The case was heard on February 9th, and the decision rendered is against the county commissioners, and is as follows: "It is therefore considered by the court that the petition of intervention filed herein be and the same hereby is dismissed at the costs of said inter veners, taxed to the sum of $10.35, to which the said interveners except. That a peremptory w rit of mandamus issue against said county commis sioners of Cass county, and the com missioner for the second commis sioner's district, commanding them to at once proceed to repair the wagon bridge across the Platte river near the villaze of Louisville, in Cass county. Nebraska, and to repair the southern approach to said bridge and to place both said bridge and said approach thereto in safe condition for travel. and that the respondents pay the costs of this action, not taxed to the inter veners, and amounting to . The respondents except and forty days from the rising of trie court given in which to prepare bill of exceptions. "Saji'l M. Chapmax, Judge." This finding will probably not be ac cepted as final, and an appeal will be taken to the supreme court. Italeyed Judge Chapman's Injunction. Last Sunday was a remarkable day for Palmyra, both on account of the peace and quiet prevailing and the number of worshippers attending ser vices at the various churches. Father Corbctt held services in the Catholic church, notwithstanding that Sheriff nuberle and Deputy Thomas were present with an injunction from J udge Chapman restraining him from offi ciating. Father Smith and Bishop Bonacum held services in Bell's hall. There was a large crowd in attend ance. Father Smith and Deputy Sheriff Thomas went from Nebraska City and Bishop Bonacum and Father Corbett from Lincoln. Bishop Bona cum proceeded to the church and de manded admission. He was refused by the guard and Father Corbett in a speech not complimentary to the bishop. Bishop Bonacum asked the deputy sheriff to open the door. The deputy sheriff said he had no authority to compel the opening of the door After a short conference the bishop concluded to keep within the law. There was no trouble and none was anticipated. The controversy has been long and annoying to all parties and the people have to much respect for law and order and the good name of the community to act rashly. Father Smith will hold services regularly as soon as he gets possession, as he has been stationed at Palmyra. Uaa Wheel, in Hi. Head. U. J.McCorkle was examined by the commissioners of insanity last Mon day and adjudged insane and ordered taken to the insane hospital at Lin coln, to which institution he was taken Tuesday. Mr. McCorkle has been making his home with Stephen Wiles, three miles southwest of town, and has been laboring under a delu sion for a number of years, and for a period of eight years was an inmate in an insane asylum in Texas. One day last winter he appeared at these headquarters and submitted a start ling proposition, which he wanted published in the paper, as follows: "I claim that the true church of God is of man and his wife. All other churches are of man and the devil." He challenged contradiction of this statement, and as the debating editor was out when he called, he carried his point. Some ponderous topic of simi lar nature has evidently become clogged in the wheels in Mr. Mc Corkle's head, w hich accounts for his presert unfortunate condition. 1'olunri Chilis rigs for Sale. Thirty two head of full pigs, both sexes, weighing from 100 to 150 lbs., price $15 each. Eli M.Smith, Union, Neb. 6t-w AKOCNU THE COl'KT ROOMS. DISTRICT COURT. The transcript in the appeal case of Eliza Siebold vs. Calwin Graves was filed in district court Saturday. Ten dollars is the amount involved. County Attorney Travis submitted a motion for a new trial before Judge Chapman in the Louisville bridge case, and the same was over-ruled. The county commissioners have an nounced their intention of prosecuting an appeal to the supreme court. Judge Chapman decided the man damus action yesterday wherein it was sought to set aside the county bridg ing contract recently let to J. II. Sheely & Co. The judge denied to issue the writ and entered a judgment against the relator, II. A. Booth, for the costs. COUNTY COURT. License to wed was issued in county court Friday to W. J. McNaughton and Miss Maggie Corbett, both of South Bend. The case of Mrs. Etberide vs. Carnes was being argued before County Judge Ramsey last Saturday. The litigants both reside in Greenwood. Only a small amount is involved. Another election contest has been filed in Judge Ramsey's court. It has its origin in Weeping Water and a perusal of the petition shows that Geo. W. Haywood is contesting the seat of Wm. Marshall, the newly-elected councilman from the second w ard in that town. Haywood brings the con test as an elector and alleges that Marshall is not a f ull-tledged elector by reason of his still being a subject of England. If Marshall's election is eventually disproven, Jno. Donelan will fall heir to his seat in the council, as John received the second largest vote for that oflice in that town. JUSTICE AKCnEK'S COURT. The Omaha fire insurance company have commenced au action in Judge Archer's court against Chas. Murray, to collect a promissory note for $33. 00. The hearing of the case is stt for next Saturday. The suit of Bates vs. Applegate, wherein the sum ot $120 is sued for. was on trial before Judge Archer yes terday. The litigants reside at Nehawka and some ten or twelve of the residents of that enterprising vil lage were on hand as witnesses. COURT ROOM NOTES. John Hennings and Clarence May field, two of Eight Mile Grove's best known farmers, were callers at the court house Saturday. P. S. Barnes of Weeping Water was a county court caller Friday on busi ness connected with the Decker estate, of which he is administrator. Wm. Dellesdernier of Elmwood was formally admitted to practice in dis trict court yesterday. Mr. D. will open an office in Elmwood and TnE Journal has no fear but what he will be a credit to the Cass county bar and to the profession. Want, to be City Marshal. II. M. Maguire, of Havelock, has been circulating a petition for signers asRing the incoming administration to appoint him marshal of Plattsmouth. Until last week Henry occupied the exalted position of chief of the volun teer fire cohipany in the village of Havelock, and therefore was probably a resident of that place. He formerly lived in this city and at one time was a member of the police force here. It is not probable that Henry will receive the appointment, because Mayor Newell will rot be compelled to go to Havelock to find a man to accept the place, when there are so many patriots who live in Plattsmouth just dying to serve the dear people in the capacity of city marshal. Murder in the Maud Hill.. A mysterious and cold-blooded mur der was committed forty-five miles south of Rushville, Neb., in the sand hills Saturday afternoon. The mur dered man, John Mushfelt, was plow ing in his garden patch some distance from the house when his wife heard a shot and going to the door saw near the team, a stranger on horseback, who, upon seeing her, rode rapidly away. She went at once to where the team was and found her husband lying on his face with a bullet hole through his forehead. No motive for tint crime is known, and altogether it is very mysterious. $1,500 to loan on farm security on 1st or 2d mortgage. J. M. Leyda. Hymeneal. The wedding of Mr. Hans II. Goos and Miss Annie Guthmann was con summated at noon yesterday at the home of the bride in the Second ward, Rev. H. B. Burgess officiating. A small audience, composed of the im mediate relatives and friends of the contractingparties, witnessed the cere mony, and at its conclusion were seated to a bounteons wedding din ner. The groom is well-known in and about Plattsmouth, and has estab tablished a reputation for honesty and integrity of which he may justly feel proud. His bride was reared in this city and in her the groom may con gratulate himself in securing a young lady who will certainly make him an excellent wife. They will make their home at the City Hotel, which hostelry the groom has contracted to operate after May 1st. They have the best wishes of The Journal that their wedded life may be replete with much joy and pros perity. Sitziuan Wm Discharged. The preliminary hearing of Henry Sitzinan, Ed Robinson and Oswald Schubert, charged with burglarizing freight cars in transit between this city and Pacific Junction, and who were taken to Glenwood last week, oc curred at the latter place on Saturday before a justice of the peace. After listening to the testimony the justice concluded that there was no evidence against Sitzman, and he was dis charged. The case against Robinson and Schubert was taken under advise ment until this week, when they will no doubt be given their liberty. These boys have been once tried for this crime, were found guilty and sen tenced. They have served their sen tences, and the attempt to punish them again is contrary to law. Trouble lu the Kelly Rank. The Kelly army has reached Atlan tic, Iowa, minus some 200 men who de serted along the route from Council Bluffs. Yesterday's newspaper reports say that the Sacramento division, which numbers almost half the army, is out on a strike, the men claiming that the general shows partiality in the distribution of food and clothing by giving the San Francisco division the best of the supplies. It is also claimed that a plot was discovered Tuesday which bad originated in the Sacramento division to take the life of Kelly, and but for a letter of warning the commander w ould doubtless have been killed. Altogether the prospects for the army reaching Washington are considered extremely slim. Kose water Held For Contempt. E. Rosewater, editor of the Omaha Bee, was Tuesday morning adjudged guilty of contempt of court by Judge Scott and sentenced to thirty days in jail and to pay a fine of $500. The contempt consisted of a statement made in the court report of the paper, for which D. W. Percival, the court reporter, was fined some time since, appeal on which is still pending. Mr. Rosewater was remanded to the sher iff's custody. Meanwhile Attorney E. W. Simeral was speeding to Colum bus, w here he secured a stay of pro ceedure from Judge Post of the su preme court ; where the case will be heard. District Court in Se.slou. Judge Chapman convened district court for a short session in the equity court room last Monday for the hear ing of several cases. In the case of the Phoenix Life In surance company vs. Peter Merges, Parmele and Craig were allowed to in tervene, and a judgment for $770.00 was granted. A divorce was granted to Petrie Beal against Hiram W. Beal. The case of P. S. Barnes, adminis trator of the estate of Rosan Decker, deceased, vs. Frank Massie, was on trial Monday afternoon. Miss Grace Post, a former resident of Beatrice, was married recently at her home in Jerseyville, 111., to Mr. C. II. Calling of South Bend, Ind. The wedding was the sequel of a romantic love affair which began by young Mr. Calling falling in love with a photo graph. While living in Beatrice Miss Post sent a photo to Chicago for en largement. It went to a studio owned by an uncle of young Calling,wbere he saw it and was smitten. Securing the original's address, a correspondence followed. The rest has been told. They will reside in South Bend, Ind. You will be pleased with the mild and lasting effects of the Japanese Liver Pellets. Try them. Sold by Fricke & Co, Murderer Debany Insane. That Debany, the Nance county murderer, confined in the county jail at Columbus under sentence of death is insane can no longer be doubted by the most skeptical who will take occa sion to visit the jail and witness his strangle antics. One of his country men, a Pole, visited him Sunday and tried to converse with him, but could get nothing intelligible from him. He imagines everything he sees has come to destroy him, and even a dog passing the jail recently caused him to quake with fear and seek protection in the cage. Several times lately he has at tempted to take his life and last week a night watch was placed over him, Nance county paying the freight. Ills nights are passed with fretful naps and pitiful mutterings. A prominent physician of Columbus said Sunday that he thought Debany would not live many months even if taken to an in sane asylum at once. Th Ex-President in Omaha. Ex-President Harrison passed through Omaha Friday enroute east from his recent trip to California. He arrived on the 11:55 a.m. Union Pa cific train and made a stop of about twenty minutes. Ilia time was spent in shaking hands with the crowd. The ex-president is travelling in a private car. He expressed himself as having had an agreeable stay in California. The party consisted of Mrs. McKee, her two children and Mr. Harrison's private secretary, E. P. Tibbott. The crowd at the dopot numbered perhaps 500 people. Among them were repre sentatives of the Hamilton club.promi nent republicans and other citizens. The ex-president did not make a speech. Morton la SUty-Two. A Washington dispatch to the Lin coln Journal says: Secretary Morton celebrated his sixty-second birthday Sunday in the quiet of his rooms at the Portland. The founder of Arbor day received many telegrams of con gratulation, the most prized one being from Arbor Lodge, Nebraska City, signed by his children and grand children. John Mattes cabled con gratulations from Vienna. In the evening several friends called to per sonally pay their respects. The news paper notices which Arbor day and its founder received would fill a good sized volume. A Bad Man Suicides. George Co veil, a ranchman, residing near Carnes, Nebraska, cut his throat with a table-kaife Thursday and died soon after. Covell is the man who shot and killed Dayton and Rivers, two neighboring ranchmen, two years ago. He is also thought to be the man who killed a man named Shelly five or six years ago and threw the body into the Niobrara river, where it waB found a few days after, bruised and bleed ing. Covell was a small, cross-eyed and inferior looking man, very irrita ble, and having no control of himself when angry. Larger Than all Combined. Eight hundred samples of the new est and tastiest styles in wall paper. This is a larger assortment than can be found in all wall paper stocks in the city combined. Samples can be seen at Pettee's music store. Paper delivered to any part of the city one day after order is given. Also calso mining and paper hanging given prompt attention. dtf Selwin Kinkead. Watches and jewelry repaired in a first-class manner. A. L. Coleman. Spring, House-Cleaning'and New Furniture GO HAND IN HAND. Nature supplies the first, the Busy Housewife must attend the second, but for the last. Pao to yY Q VI ,s the Careful !l Odl lllldll Buyer's Refug PEARLMAN has the Stock, his Prices are Right and Sure to Suit. If you want anything in the way of NEW FURNITURE, for either Parlor, Bed Room, Dining Room or Kitchen, PEARLMAN has it at the Lowest Price. S PEARLMAN, The House Furnisher. OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE, PLATTSMOUTH. Those Ordnance Tests. The Lincoln News in an issue of last week published a purported account of how C. W. Sherman, The Journal editor, who is now at Washington, at tempted to impersonate Congressman Bryan in order to witness the govern ment ordnance tests. Mr. Sherman denies the affair in toto and penned a letter to the Lincoln News requesting that the latter paper publish it. After perpetrating a fake the Lincoln paper refuses to make a correction, and for this reason The Journal reproduces the letter which it was requested to publish. Here it ib: Editor News: It is not a pleasant task to spoil a good story, but for fear that some of my Nebraska friends might conclude that I was running a race with Col. Breckinridge to see who would get to the fool-killer first, I am constrained to allude to your recently published story in relation to the part I played in the expedition to witness the test of Uncle Sam's big guns at Indian Head, some forty miles below this city. The article in question is all true except that I presented a ticket bearing Mr. Bryan's name; that the official taking up the tickets said to me: "You are not Mr. Bryan this card admits only Mr. Bryan;" that I "withdrew from the scene somewhat abashed," without explaining who 1 was, and that I "didn't witness the test." But for these little inaccuracies the story might go unchallenged. If that story is true I must be in the at titude of the man who asked of him self: "Am I Ami, or ain't I Ami; and if I ain't Ami, who the devil am I?" I have a very distinct recollection of being a member of the party on that jolly expedition; of hearing and seeing the big guns fired, just as did other members, but if I wasn't there it was the most remarkable case of som nambulism I ever heard of. The fact was, I went to the Dolphin that morn ing bearing a letter to Secretary Herbert from Mr. Bryan, asking that official to take me aboard in his stead, as he could not go. This letter I pre sented to the official at the gang-plank, and ha referred it to the officer in charge of the quarter-deck, who gave orders to have me admitted, and I walked aboard, just as the others did, and my right to be there was not questioned from that on. Except for the mud at the testing place and the rainy weather, we had an exceptionally pleasant excursion. The only ex planation I can think of why your in formant could have imagined the story given you, was the abundance of "re freshments" served, and that he par took so freely as to become befuddled. As to the fact of my presence through out the trip, I would refer you to Con gressmen Pence of Colorado, Mc Keighan of Nebraska, Bell of Kansas, and Messrs. P. E. Cox of the house folding room and Tom Cokely, house messenger. I also met Secretaries Morton and Herbert and many others while enroute. This may seem a good deal to say about a small matter, but I trust your sense of fairness will suggest its publi cation. Yours truly, C. W. Sherman. The Bethlehem correspondent of the Pacific Junction Recorder says: A party of unknowns fired up the saw mill one night last week, and with a fearful gauge of steam on, tied the whistle down and skipped out. There was great danger of the boiler explod ing, but little did they think of that when perpetrating the rash act. Dr. Marshall, DENTIST" Fitzger ald block. Buyer's Refuge.