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1 1 it? -... .tea ft l-,Bloiiel bucivijf S't THE PLATTSMOTJTH WEEKLY OUffll JTOT .AiVD FEAR NOT.'1 . VOL. IU. SO. 4G. PL.1TTSUOUTH. NEBRASKA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8. 1894. Ifift PEH YEAR. UW IF PAID IN ADVAfiCE. 1 u V I A f u 4- FUSION 'IS DOWNED. Republicans Car.-y Cass County By An Overwhelming Vote. A BAD DAY TOE DEMOCRACY. Tefft. Davie. uolry and Orton Go To the L.eislitu-r. C. S. Folk Win. the County -Attorneyship and Out ton Is a Winner. t. Fusion in Cass county was given a verritic beating in Tuesday's contest tfi the polls, the republicans sweeping the platter clean. An occasional pre- cinct office Las been secured to tbe democracy, but all the county offices have eone to the republicans by good round majorities, the contest over the county attorneyship being alone close. The official canvass, printed elsewhere in these columns shows that i the entire republican ticket in this county is elected by a big majority. County Attorney Travis is beaten fer a re-election, his opponent, C. S. ilVJi, winning by 201 majority. In the ffaoe of the prospective majority of nverMC for the head of the republican iTicket in the county, Mr. Travis is d SrtTving of great credit. He was sii PJ rurwning in a bad year for a denwcrat. Any other time his per sona popn'arity and excellent official recoi d wouJd have won. Mr. Duttou was victorious over Mr. Falte r in the race fur the county com missi nrsl iip from thisdistrict. which comp "ise Plattsujontb city and pre- cinct. Mr.F aler receiveu iiBiifiiuK VOte i his borne n j ne preciud, uuu had t b -democrats ?n this -city "toiea fair." ims election woobf "ve been se- cured ter good majority. The vote on t ae ccmnuissionersnip -as as fol- lows: First ward Dutton 82, Falter C9. Second ward Dutton 141, Falser 121. Third ward Iutton 176, Falter 106. Fourth ward Dutton 113, Falter 6. Fifth ward--Dutton 67, Falter 49. Plattsmouth precinct Dutton H, Falter 170. T tal Dutton 660, Falter 601. Majority ior Dutton 59. Tbe FOle in the Eve wards and .Plattsmouth precinct as to governor,! 'congressman, members of the legisla ture and county sittorney. was as fol lows: First ward Majors 9S. llolcomb 52, Strode 72, Weir 71, Tefft 84, Allea 61, Oooley 6S, Davies 93, Livingston 7S, McCaig 46, Leidigh 56, Orton 76, Polk 77, Travis 78. Second ward Majors 160, llolcomb 97, Strode 161, Weir 95, Tefft 152,AUen, 168, Cooley 125, Davies 147, Livingston 123, McCaig 8S. Leidifrb 93, Orton 139, X J-Travis 156, Polk 108. '", ''Thiid -ward Majors 18S, llolcomb '.76, Strode 1S1. Weir 90. Tefft 171, . Allen 92, Cooley 156, Davies 171, Liv ingston 107, McCaig 81, Orton ICS, ILeidich 75, Travis 155. Polk 130. Fourth wivrJ Majors 150, llolcomb lai Strode 128, Weir 64, Tefft 122, Al- llei. 66. Cooley 102. Davies 122, Livings- Uojoy!6, McCaig 61, Orton 116, Leidigh '6ar2.ravis99, Polk 97. Fttth ward Majors 84, llolcomb 26, Strode 72. Weir 31, Tefft 70, Allen 32, Cooley 63, Davies 75, Livingston McCain 2G, Orton 73, Leidigh Travis 39. Polk 55. 39, Plattsmouth precinct Majors 93, llolcomb 154. Strode 100. Weir 148, Tefft 94, Allen 144, Cooley 72. Davies 8S. Livingston 148. McCaig 138,Leidigh 134. Orton 93, Travis 191. Polk 70 Official Can... Completed. County Clerk Dickson, assisted by ex-Mayor Butler of this city and Bird Critchneld, of Elmwood, completed the official canvass on all the state, -congressional and county candidates today. The result shows that all can- didates on tbe republican ticket, ex cepting county attorney, carry the - county by pluralities ranging from six . to eight hundred. Here are the official : figures: GOVERNOR. E. A. Grrad, prohibition ...105 ; Silas A. Holcomb, dem-ind 1884 Thomas J. Majors, republican 2573 . Phelps D.Sturdevant.straight dem.,140 Plurality for Majors 689. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Belle G. Bieelow, prohibition 130 Rodney E. Dunphy, straight dem. .137 James N. Gaftin, dem-ind 1655 Robert E. Moore, republican 2472 Plurality for Moore 817. SECRETARY OF STATE. "Francis 1. EUick, democrat 416 IL. Hompes, prohibition 110 II. W. McFadden. independent. . .1373 Joel A. Piper, republican 2526 D. Forest P. Rolfe, straight dem. . .235 Plurality for Piper 1,153. AUDITOR OF STATK. Otto Iiauman. straight dem 411 Eugene Moore, republican .2555 Lem J. Smith. prohibition.. 152 John W. Wilson, people ind. .... .1558 Plurality for Moore 997. STATE TREASURER. Joseph S. Bartley. republican. Lake Itridentbal, straight dem Gottlieb A. Luikart, democrat D. L. Pond, prohibition John II. Powers, people ind... .2509 ..304 ..422 ..127 .1301 Plurality for Bartley 1.208. 8UPERINTENENT OF rCBLIC IXSTR AC TION. Henry R. Corbett, republican 2604 Milton Doclitte, straight dem 358 Wm. A. Jones, dem. peoples ind.. 1542 F. Bernice Kearney, prohibition 146 Plurality for C orbett 1 ,062. ATTORNEY GENERAL. John II. Ames, straight dem .344 Dan'l B. Carey, dem-peoples ind. .1631 Arthur S. Churchill, republican. . .2573 J. L. Mack, prohibition .125 COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC LANDS AND BUILDINGS. Jacob Bigler, straight dem 33S Henry M. Hill, prohibition 130 Sidney J. Kent, dem-peoples ind. .1646 Henry C. Russell, republican 2538 Plurality for Russell 892. FOR PREFERENCE U. S. 6ENATOR. C. E. Ben tly. prohibition 494 William J. Bryan, democrat 2103 J no. M.Thurston, republican 143 CONGRESSMAN FIRST DISTRICT. R. A. Hawley, prohibition 12S Jesse B. Strode, republican 2617 Austin II. Weir, dem-peoples ind. 1817 Plurality for Strode S00. STATE SENATOR. B. F. Allen, dem-peoples ind 1895 William Coatman, prohibition 155 Orlando Tefft, republican 2491 Plurality for Tefft 580. R EPRE3 E ST ATI VES. Noah demons, prohibition 150 Alfred S. Cooley, republican .2336 John A. Davies, republican. 2493 H. Guy Livingston, dem-ind 1S27 David McCaig, dem-peoples ind. . .1672 W. O. Tucker, prohibition 151 Plurality for Cooley 509. Plurality for Davies 666. FLOAT REPRESENTATIVE. George W. Leidigh, peoples ind... 1558 Stephen W. Orton, republican 2557 A. P.Seymour, prohibition 106 John Sinclair, democrat 3b9 Plurality for Orton 968. COUNTY ATTORNEY. Qry S. Polk, republican 23. o II. D. Travis, democrat...::. 2169 Plurality for Polk 201. COUNTY COMMISSIONER. S. W. Dutton, republican 660 J. P. Falter, democrat G01 R. L. Propst, independent 13 Plurality for Dutton 59. Tbe total number of votes cast in the county was 4SG8 a gain or 449 over last year. Firn at Bethlehem . The residence property belonging to tbe late Charles Ault, over in Bethle hem, la., was burned to the ground at 11 o'clock Sunday night. The bouse was old and burned like tinder and the blaze was easily discemable from this city. Ault is the man who contracted small pox several months ago as the result of burying one of the patients who died from that dread malady dur ing its reign on the other side of the river. He died after an illness of about two weeks, and several of his children also contracted the disease, but the little oneB all recovered. Since then the house has not been occupied. The origin of the fire is unknown, but tbe general supposition is that some one purposely kindled the blaze with tbe express intent of removing a men ace to the health of that neighborhood. A Nebraskan Foolly M ordered. Benjamin Merritt, a wealthy and prominent merchant in Fillmore county, Nebraska, with a bullet hole in his skull and another in his lung, was found in a buggy Friday morn ing near the town of Atlantic, Iowa. Merritt had gone to Iowa to look atter some business matters with his father in-law. He alway3 carried consider able money, and as only a small amount of silver was found robbery seems to have been the object. He was a candidate for the state legisla lature in Fillmore county, this state, on the populist ticket. He was about iorty-hve and leaves a wife and sev eral children. His brother, living near Griswold, la., died several years ago and left considerable property and the deceased was acting as guardian of tbe children, but the condition of the es tate under his management is now not known. C. S. Polk was elected in spite of the ' eneral belief that be is incompetent ONE THIN li AND ANOTHER . Louie Camp, tbe Lincoln bicyclist who started on a trip to Galveston, Texas, last week, has returned home, having gone only as far as Perry, Okla. About twenty miles this side of Perry he was held up by two mounted out laws and robbed of a gold watch and $46 in cash. And he concluded life was loo rapid down that way for him. Lincoln News. The Burlington railway has given notice that it will shortly revise the schedule of its fast mail train from Chicago, thus bringing the train into Nebraska every afternoon at 3:00 o'clock instead of 4;30. The North western aimed to steal a march on tbe Burlington, but the latter road, even though its mail contract with the gov ernment does not compel it to make such a change, does not propose to fall behind any of its rivals. A dastardly murder was committed at Whiting, a station on the Rock Is land near Ilorton, Kas., the other night. About 11 o'clock that night W. U. Early,night operator at the station, was confronted by a fellow who com manded him to hold up his hands. In stead of complying Early began firing at the would-be robber who returned the fire. Several shots were exchanged, Early receiving a wound in tbe groin. from which be died about 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Hi3 murderer has not ye been captured. Hugh Murphy, the Omaha paving contractor, is taking a piece of flag stone from his quarry in Colorado that will be one of the largest single blocks of natural stone in tbe world. It will be sixty feet long by twenty inches thick. If the immense stone is suc cessfully quarried it will be shipped to Chicaeo where it will be set as a side walk in front of the establishment of Marshal Field. The stone will be shipped on three flat-cars and it is pos sible that tbe width may have to be cut to sixteen feet in order to pass the bridges and overhead constructions. A letter received by The Journal from M. O'Connor, of Missouri Valley, Iowa, brother of Con O'Connor, the engineer, whose actident in a lexas railway collision was reported in these columns last week, states that the man injured was another O'Connor and not Con O'Connor. The Journal received its information from the press dispatches, and is pleased to learn that it was only another case of mis taken identity. Election Whiskey Ha. a Bud Effect. Dave Hall and Mat Carth, both of Ashland, were in South Bend on elec tion night and proceeded to conrtact the customary election jag. They en gaged in a quarrel while in a saloon and the affair culminated in Hall whipping out a pocket-knife, with which he stabbed his companion. Hall was arrested, but Carth, whose injury was not serious, refused to prosecute and the man was accordingly dis charged. Work For Pnllman Employe. No. 92, the Missouri Pacific's south bound forenoon passenger tram, due here at 10:06 was two hours late Monday. The train was held at Om aha for the purpose of taking on board a car-load of mechanics who came from Pullman, Ills., and were enroutw to Hiawatha, Kansas. A new stock company has been foimed for the con struction of passenger cars and coaches in Hiawatha, the plant being a sort of co-operative concern, the employes sharing in the profits. All of the men who passed through here today were former employes of the Pullman Car company, luey wiu be touowea in a short time by another company of Pull man mechanics and bv next summer it is expected that the Hiawatha con cern will have in its employ over five hundred of tbe Pullman company's old employes. Yictorion. Assessor. The vote for assessors in the various wards of the city, Plattsmouth pre cinct included, shows the election of tbe following: First ward Homer McKay, repub lican. Second ward P. E. Ruffner, demo crat. Third ward C. S. Twiss, republican. Fourth ward W. S. Purdy, repub lican. Fifth ward C. Aley,rppublican. Plattsmouth precinct Will Adams, republican. It is now evident that Grover is not as big a man as be thought he was. A HOLCOMB YIGTORY Almost Complete Beturns Make His Election Sure- SOUTH OMAHA'S BIG BLAZE. Loss to the Hammond Paokln" Company Will Ran np Into the Haodndi of Thousands Work. Will be Kebnllt Other Note. Holcomb'. Election a CertaJnty, Omaha, Neb., Nov. 8, 4 p. m. Special to The Journal Official returns from all the counties in .Ne braska, except fifteen, and partial re turns from the latter, including con servative estimates tn the unreported precincts place Holcomb's plurality at 2,871. Olficial canvass will doubtless 6how an increase over the above figure. Holcomb's election is now a certainty. South Omaha1. Hlg Fire. The burning of the Hammond pack ing house at South Omaha was one of the biggest blazes in the history of the state. Tbe fire started in the beef packing house and this mammoth structure was completely destroyed. The flames were then communicated to the hog packing house, and one half of that structure is now in ruins. At one time Saturday over thirty streams of water were playing on the flames, but low pressure prevented the firemen from doing good work. The loss is variously estimated at from $300,000 to 400,000. The total amount of insurance upon the property des troyed or damaged is 8670,000. The origin of the fire is unknown. It is quite likely that one of the workmen dropped a lighted match or sparks fell from his pipe, while chanzinc his clothing in this room. This is the' theory that is most generally believed : by the men who are interested. The , Hammond company paid out annually in wages in South Omaha about $300, 000 and employed over 300 men. The annual capacity was about 125,000 hogs, 170.000 cattle, and 10,000 sheep. There was a great improvement made in tbe houses and tbe machinery, and it was known as one of the best, as well as one of the largest establish ments of its kind in America. The total amount of insurance carried by the firm is $1,500,000. AnotheT attempt was made Sunday night to Bet fire to what is left of the Hammond packing house in South Omaha. Tbe fire was set at the back of the box factory, in the midst of a mass of dry pine shavings and had the whole room ablaze in less than five minutes. The night watchman turned in an alarm and the depart ment put out tbe fire with small dam age. It was discovered that the place had been set on "fire and that kerosene and gasoline had been poured over the place where the fire started. This was in a building in the center of the packing plant. Tbe police are inves tigating the affair. A night-watchman named Caulson has confessed to setting fire to the second blaze at the Hammond pack ing hou'de in South Omaha the other night. Caulson said he started tbe fire ir. order to turn in a quick alarm and thus prove his trustworthiness to bis employers. It is not thought that the man was responsible for tbe first fire which resulted so damagingly. The Cannon Blew Up. Meager particulars come frm Glen- wood, Iowa, of abad accident. A party of republicans were enthusing last night over the election and were siiooting off a small cannon. Tbe piece of ordnance was old and an extra heavy charge blew the cannon into pieces. Several of the fragments are said to have struck- one of tbe party, which gave him injuries from which he has since died. Train I&obber. On the B. & M. The westbound passenger train on the Black Hills line of the B.&M. rail road was stopped Tuesday evening one mile east of Hyannis by two high waymen. The would be train robbers had secreted themselves on the blind baggage and climbing over the tender, revolvers in hand, demanded the en gineer to stop tbe train. The high waymen were masked and evidently had confederates who were expected to be at that point, but who failed to show up. The robbers jumped off the tra'.n and ordered the engineer to pul out. No clue to them has been ob tained up to this time. AROUND THE COURT ROOMS. DISTRICT COURT. Judge Chapman was holding district court Wednesday and beard motions in various matters. Tbe term will come to an end in a short time. county court. In the divorce suit of Margaret Leuchtweis vs. Jos. Leuchtweis, Judge Chapman Wednesday gave the plain tiff a judgment by default. License to wed was issued in county court Monday to Mr. J aman Smith and Miss Carrie E. Tapper, both of the vi cinity of Weeping Water. JUSTICE AHCIIER'6 COURT. Jim Stewart, in the language of the court, was like unto a "biled" owl Saturday night and Monday morning Police Judge Archer decreed that Jas. should visit with Jailer Denson for a period of some seven days. Jacob II. Denson has commenced replevin proceeding in JusticeArcher's eairt to get possession of a plush-covered couch, the same now being in the han&s of Alex Graves. Denson claims that tbe couch is his property, Wm. Wagner having sold it to Graves with out hm, Denson's, consent. Denson ia Wagner's brother-in-law, but he threatens to make the latter stand trial for BteaJing the couch. COURT ROOM NOTES. The county commissioners met in regular session at the court house Wednesday and were grinding away on the usual allotment of bills. The Louisville bridge case, with the county commissioners of ttiis county on one side and the citizens of Louis ville on the other, was argued and submitted before the supreme .caurt yesterday. The case has been ad vanced on the docket and an early decision is expected. Oscar Thompson was taken before tbe insane commission Monday ana adjudged insane. Thompson created a disturbance on the streets Saturday night by making indecent proposals to two girls, and the officers housed him in jail over Sunday, where it was dis covered that the young man bad be come lacking in his upper-story. That Elmwood Elevator Case. In reference to the somewhat famous case wherein the farmers alli ance of Elmwood, thi3 county, sued to enforce the Missouri Pacific railway to provide the alliance with ground ad jacent to the tracks for the building of i elevator; the Lincoln Journal -has tbe following to say: Att'y Gen. Hastings has received no- tire that the Elmwood elevator case will come up for final hearing in tbe Uaited States supreme court Decem ber 3, and as the representative of the state he will go there to appear in be half of the board of transportation, which is defendant in the suit, tbe Missouri Pacific Railway company be ing the plaintiff. General Hastings is now preparing a brief to submit to the court. The case started before the Nebraska board of transportation on complaint of a lodge of the farmer's alliance. which demanded an elevator Bite at Elmwood. The board ordered the road to grant a site, which order was not obeyed, and the board instituted man damus proceedings to compel compli ance. The Nebraska supreme court sustained the order of the board, and the road took the case up to the United States court. A brief prepared by Judge John F. Dillon, Winslow b. Pierce of New York and Harry Hub bard has been served on General Hastings on behalf of the road. The argument of the railway com pany, in substance, is that the land taken is the private property of the railway, purchased and owned by it, and like any other private property, cannot be taken except by due pro cess of law; that the legislation of tbe state of Nebraska, as construed by the judgment or decree of the supreme court, took the land of the railway company for private use, contrary to the fourteenth amendment of tbe United States; that private property cannot be taken under tbe pretense of "regulating" the affairs of railroads, except (as other property) for a public use, and on just compensation ascer tained by due process of law. General Hastings will maintain that an elevator site is a facility that must be furnished under the charter of tbe road to shippers tbe Bame as platforms or depots; that it is not confiscation, inasmuch as the road does not abso lutely own the right of way, but holds ft merely under franchise, and when a ite is furnished to one it must be granted to other applicants. MOST BE ENFORCED, Supreme Court Decides That Harry Hill Shall Hang. DATE OF EXECUTION IS FIXED. The Conrt Decree. That the Prisoner Shall Give rp Hi. Life On the Gallows On the First Day of March, 1898. Other Notes. Harry Hill Will Hans;. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 9 rSpecial to The Journal The supreme court of the state passed upon tbe appeal case of Murderer Harry Hill late yes terday afternoon and affirmed the de cision of the lower court, which called for Hill's execution. Tbe court fixed tbe hanging to occur at the Cass county jail on March 1, 1S95. The news of the action of the supreme court reached this city last night and little else has been talked of since its reception. The prisoner and his coun sal, Matthew Gering, have been hope ful all along that that the verdict re turned by the jury last December calling for Hill's execution would be either reversed or commuted to life imprisonment, but tbe general public did not anticipate any such result. As a matter of fact there is no grave doubt as to whether the people of Cass county would have tolerated any judg ment by the higher court other than the one given. The murder of Matt Akeson, for. which Hill was sentenced to be exe cuted, was committed some sixteen miles southwest of this city on the evening of Nov. 1, 1893. He and his accomplice, Benwell, were captured three day's later in Lincoln. Public sentiment, it will be remembered, was strongly against the prisoners, and the authorities confined them in the Doug las county jail at Omaha until Decem ber 11, when trial was commenced in this city before district Judge Chap man, the proceedings ending in Hill being sentenced to death and Benwell to the penitentiary for life. Since that date Hill has been kept in close con finement at the county jail. He em braced the Catholic faith shortly after his trial and his action in that regard has doubtless had the effect of lessen ing the awful suspense attendant to tbe tedious prosecution of the appeal to the supreme court which has just been decided adversely to the prisoner. Hill was not informed of the action ot the supreme court until this morn ing, and the authorities were careful to search his cell and remove all im plements which might assist the man in suiciding, before tbe information was given him. It was the lot of his counsel, Matthew Gering, to convey the news to the prisoner. Hill re ceived it without any outward signs of emotion. He has continually expected the supreme court to bold against him and the decision occasioned him little surprise. His vindictiveness is still apparent, and to the authorities abont tbe jail this morning he refused to say anything in regard to his now certain execution. Sheriff Eikenbary went before the county board this morning with a re quest that an extra guard be stationed at the jail until March 1st, when it will become his unpleasant duty to ex ecute the man. The board granted tbe request, and from now until the date of hanging Hill will be kept under close watch both day and night. Nebraska is the one gieen spot in this entire republican desert. Hurrah for Nebraska! The Hortc.ce Record. Cass county's morteatre record for October is as follows: Farm property filed, $25,050; released. $23,040.85; town property filed, $9,153.91; re leased, $7,482.09. Chattel mortgages filed, $9,312.54; released, $4,027.95. ABBistant U. S. District Attorney Smith of Omaha was in the city today taking depositions on behalf of the government in the matter of the Indian depredation claims filed against the government by J. R.Porter, W. B. Por ter, J. C. Gilmore, Moses Dodge and Wm. Wettenkamp. The claims amount to some $53,000, the claimants alleging that the Indians made away with property in that amount while they were driving cattle across the plains in 1867. The matter is In the hands of the proper officials at Wash ington and an early adjustment seems probable.