Plattsmouth weekly journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1881-1901, January 31, 1895, Image 1
y :uU HI ;..il,- rt.., I, nn I MO A 0 "BE JUST AND FEAR NOT," VOL. U. NO. c. i'LATTSMOUTII. NEBRASKA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 31. 181)5. 1.00 n (Mill in adva.ncj:. PL A T ill r p y U 111 WEEKLY A SMOOTH SWINDLE. A Fictitious Newspaper Reaps a Rich Harvest of Suckers. AN ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING. A L4dd shot Can Vlmy llavc XVttU Son orn M. P. Set-lion llouOnlal Klmwuotl Various Int;' fat ing .lotting. A Smooth Swindle. The Ladies- Monthly Geni was the name of a publication at Cleveland, ., the publishers of which perpetrated a swindle, and reaped a harvest of suck ers who paid them the neat sum of 50,000 before th authorities put a stop l-y it. The Gem was extensively advertised at 50 cents a year. Prizes were offered for the successful work ing of a puzzle. A Miss Koffman of this city saw the ad. and wrote the publishers. She was then asked to send SO cents as costs for registering her application. This done, the puz zle was worked, the answer sent and then she was asked to send three sub scribers to the Gem at $1.00 each. Then she was aked to end 4.3.5 for some other purpose and then was to get a fifty dollar gold watch. This she did. aud today receive! notice that tlie affair was a swindle and the 1. O. D. had refused to deliver her money order to the Gem publishers so that the last payment she made will be re turned to her. Miss Koffman is a de vout Catholic and was drawn into the scheme by having seen the Gem ads in a German Catholic weekly , and pre sumed that the publishers would ad vertise notMcg that they would not iuarante. Miss Koffman could ill tfford the loss tf the money she ad vanced to the swindlers. Accidental hoUn; at Kim wood . William Howell, the thirteen-year-old sou of A. J. Howell, section fore man of the Missouri Pacific at Elm wood, this county, accidentally shot himself about four o'clock yesterday afternoon with a shot sun. lie had lid the gun, which was already cocked, down and when he went to pick it up it exploded and the charge entered his I-ft breast and passed out over his arm. lie whs unconscious when found. afew moments after the accident- A doctor was summoned who dressed the wound, and there Is a chance that he may recover. Urn .on iloj- t'nfort ua. The members of the Deoson family jest at present ar; somewhat unfortu nate in the line of injury. Fred Den tin is a switchmtu in the employ of th- B. fc M. in the local yards. On Tuesday he jurnejed up to Fort Crvk iih a tf'itcb engine thit was conveying some bad-order cars to the storage sid-tr.ck below the fort Fr-d was standing on top of the cars when h coupling was made and the jar threw him off his feet and he felltothe ground below. His leg struck a rail on an adjoining track and the muscles Wt?re bruised in asevere manner. Fred is confined to his bed at his home in this city and will not be able to report for duty much before two weeks. Jess Den-on, an older brother, has been employed for the past ten days at Deerfield, whre he has been assist ing Mc Maken & S n, thw Flattsmoutb ic de Vrs in cutttngand packing ice. YesterJ y morning a cake of ice weighing about thirty-five pounds fell off of a chute, distance of some thirty fe-t b ve the ground. The cake itru ?k Jesse on the i J and shoulders and indicted a painful scalp wound, the cut being m9 three inches in length Fortunately for Jesse his shoulder received the main force of the blow, but had it been his head, the aflair would surely have had a fatal result. Th injured m in is taking an nforcvI lay-off and is resting up at hit home tn thin city. ' V'nphr Fr Harry Hill. Kditoh Journal: I am glad that ne people of l'Jattsmouth did not mob Hill and his pal, yet, the two deserved to be taken onto Main Btreet and have their heads taken off. What sympathy . does a man deserve who will walk into f he house mt a worthy citizen, shoot him down, then empty Ids revolver, trying to shoot the other members of . the family, while his pal is using a club to help him? Juries are too easily swayed by bull-calf eloquence trying to get all the sympathy for the criminal, while none is left for the victim. 1). Headquarters for cheese at Weclc bach's grocery. A Tramp. HeroUm. John Garrity, a tramp bumming from town to town, prevented a hor rible railroad wreck on the Burlington Suuday afternoon. Garrity was counting ties betweeu Deuton and Crete when he came across a burned- out trestle. He rushed back to Deuton and had just enough strength-left to tell the operator of the condition of the trestle, when he dropped to the ground completely exhausted. The operator telegraphed ou to Crete just in time to hold the east-bound flyer No. 2 which was behind time and would have pulled out for Denton and certain destruction in about two minutes. All Garrity wanted was em ployment and the Burlingtou ofiiclals were only too glad to reward the fel low by giving him his much-coveted job. fUlUtuoulh Decline. The Lincoln Journal, in its report of Tuesday's doings of the state senate. says: "When senate file No. l,by Watson, cime up lor tutrd reauing, atson amended by making It apply only to cities having less than 2.,ooo inhabi tants and more than 10.000. He had intended to fix the maximum at S,oOO, so as to let in South Omaha and Platts- mouth, but it is understood that the lattercity is not desirousof complying with such a law. The bill as it now stands permits cities of less than 2.5,- C.X) and more than S.ooo to incorporate as first class. A second bill has been introduced to legalize acts of cities of this class which incorporated under the act that was declared unconstitu tional by the supreme court." Iturlkn tlarnlng lccrc.v The total net earnings of the Chica go, Burlingtan & Qulncy for the month of Drceml-er, l'.OI. w ere t2nS,ll2, a de crease from the same month of 1S13 of !:0,122. Freight earnings for the month decreased 167.151. Passenger earnings increased $!,( and operat ing expenses fell ofx.S522.ci71. For the jear from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, the total gros earnings of the road were 5H.S77, a decrease from IS'.G of iii..vtl,-eC-5. Freight earnings were S 20 ,200. 75, a deciease of .'.1,0 -33,011.; passenger arcings were 17,211 ,3-S. a decrease of 12.544.023; inisoelUoeous. fl.OXi.7tt;; operating expenses were $19,111,307, a crease cf 5f3o7,JS2; net earnings were !2,$4)0,71, a decrease of ll,17J,152. Everything considered, however, and as compared with other roads, tLe showing is an excellent one. A roooth tel Gwathmey fc Donelan. the Glen wocd druggists, were the victims of a very smooth game on Monday. A stranger walked into their store, say ing he was employed on the new depot at Pacific Junction that they had rnn out of paint and became to purchase a sufficient amount to complete the job He purchased the paint and Uiauc UUb all lutuiic iit trKUidt paper, signing the same to be approved by the assistant superintendent at Creston. The paint was hauled to the depot, placed in a Pacific Junction car and went to the Junction. On Tues day morning a telegram was received from Sup't Duggan saying that the man was an i in poster, while it was also discovered that the car bad been entered during the night and a portion of the paint stolen. Why the man chose this method and what he was going to do with the paint after he got it Mill remains a mystery. Glenwood Opinion. DUirrm I. 3!cnlfled. The Lincoln Journal says: 'Os car Callahan of Henkelman, Dundy county, was In the city Thursday and had occasion to report to members of th'i state relief commission the condi lion of affairs in his district. Mr. Callahan said he was satisfied the com mission was doing all in its power to relieve suffering and was doing it well. Dundy county, he said, was as bad off, probably, as any county in thedrouth stricken region, but it was folly to say that peoplo were starving. There were many people in need of help and they w;re getting it. He said the commis sion was imposed upon to his certain knowledge, but it was hard to prevent it In one town in a northwestern county he knew of a man who was act ing as a sort of a distributing agent, who had 200 bushels of potatoes in his cellar, and yet had complained to the commission that nothing had been se nt to the town. There were similar cases all over the district; not many, but enough to show that some of the reports sent to Lincoln w ere not to be rolled upon. Mr. Callahan thought the work of the commission was as thorough as it well could be." The best Iowa sorghum at oO cents a gallon at Mr CouitT'H. O.NK TIIINt AND ANOTIIKIC. A Mrs. Johnson, who resides in the ' Kngel property, corner Fourth and ; Elm streets, reports that her husband has decamped with her little girl and some $200, the latter sura represeutiug nil her ready money. She is after the recreant husband with a real ven geance, and offers a reward of $50 to the party who furnishes the informa tion which will result in hia apprehen sion. Representative Davies of Cass was a member of a house committee ap pointed to look into the matter of em ployes, and the committee reported in favor of cutting down the fore. 1 lie report was filed yesterday and the party of reform (?) decided that it would not do to let out any of the place-huuters by voting to indefinitely postpone any action on the report. Mr. Davies made a strong plea for the re port's adoption, but it was without avail. If Mr. Davies is a real reformer he will forsake the party which preaches that doctrine but never prac tices it. A man steals a horse, sells it to an innocent party, who buys it in good fa:th. The owner comes, takts away his horse, and the man who has bought it is loser to the extent of the purchase price. A knave prcures a farmer's signature to u paper purjuurtlng to be an agency coutract for thesale of some machine. Hy tearing off a part of it, the remainder with the signature le comes a promisory note, ltascal No. 1 sells it to llasca! No. 2 and the latter sues to recover. The ccutts decide that the farmer must pay the "inno cent holder of the fraudulent paper Is there anything cut cf joint in these caes ? Dr. Cook aud wif ru;med hoa.e Sunday from Chu-jgo, whither thry journeyed twt wtek ago to consign the tre tiuent ! their little daughter. Janet, to : specialist for dialetis. The little girl returned with the par ents, and the pecialist has ftrong hops of her rre vcrr. Diabtlis in children is ery rare, and recovery Is rartr stiil. b it 'I e siciaht acriUs s a reason for the hopelul condition of the little girl, that the nature cf her complaint was discovered before it had progrt'!f d to any gleat extent. The paticMt will be trealrd white at her home in this city, and her recovery may be a matter of many months. George Dodson, the eighteen-year-old boy who was arrested on Saturday for robbing postoClce boxes at Lincoln, has been bjund over to answer before the United States court in the sum of l,Oo). Dodon, In making his confes sion, told thit there was a man en gaged with him, but he did not know his full name, the only name this con federate had lnen know by being 'Dan.' He gave a description of his confederate and says he can identify him if he ever sees him. The officials think the boy's story of having a con federate is true, and that they know the man. Dodson went to jail In de fault of bail. Black Hills miners w ill have another opportunity to ote on the prohibition question, the South Dakota legislature having voted a few day a ago to resub mit the question. At the statehood election in 1S9, which adopted the constitution and prohibition, the joke of the day was to take a long farewell pull out of a bottle and then vote for prohibition. But it win not such a joke when the votes were counted and it was found that thn umeudment had a majority of about 5,000. In some of the small tow ns in the cistern part of the state, which were always temper ance towns, prohibition has worked very well, but in Pierre, the stato cajv Ital, Sioux Falls, Yankton, Huron, Watertown and other large towns it resulted in the establishment of "blind pig3," and original packnge houses. In the mining districts the law has been openly and flagrantly violated. The taking off of the $1,(HH) county and city license resulted In doubling the number of saloons in the towns and big camps, and the opening of sa loons in all the? small camps and at the mouths of nearly evety gulch. The only capital required being $25 for Uncle Sara and credit fcr a five-gallon keg of liquoi, a lot of the old boys opened up saloons. The general opin ion i? that prohibition will bo knocked out by a majority five times as great as the one by which it was carried six years ago. Mr. and Mrs. hum Itadke of the Fourth ward are rejoicing over the ar rival of a healthy boy baby their first born at their household. A Frightful Injury. Henry Hayward, a young man who has been employed on a farm down in Johnson county, near Tecuroseh, was tbo victim of a terrible acciderft Fri day which will, in all probability, cost him his life. Together with some other men he was engaged in sawing wood with a power saw. In some way a stick of cord-wood was caught in the machinery and thrown around with terrific force, striking the unfortunate young man squarely in the face. His upper jaw was broken on both sides, his nose broken and smashed into his head, the bones of his face broken in several places, his lower jaw torn from its bearings and the teeth thereon wern driven into the roof of his mouth A hemorrhage followed which was so great that, together with the injury, the attending physicians think that death will ensue. Young Hayward has no relatives in the state. I j jr i r Hartlgn' 11 y polhtial. M. A. llartlgan, the former Platts mouth 1 iwyer, has a theory of his own in regard to the Barrett Scott tragedy, and the following in Saturday "a Omaha Bee will better explain It: "M. A. Hnrtigan of Hastings, who Is viMting Omaha, adds a new page to the history of the Barrett Scott affair. Mr. Hartigan was formerly a resident of western Pennsylvania, where the famous Mollie Maguires tramped upon the dignity of the law for years. Mr. Hartigan says that after the Mollie Maguires were broken up and driven out of thi country through the vigi lance of James McParland of the Pinkerton detective agency the. mem bers of that murderous secret organ ization who were not put in jail scat tered. Many of them, it is said, came west and located in Holt county. Mr. Hartigan lelieve that the seeds of crime w hich were nursed in western Pennsylvania during the reign cf Mol lie Majuirism hve blossomed alter thee mmy years in Holt county, and that among the vigilantes who killed Barrett Scott were several former members of the gang that terrorized the mining regions of Pennsylvania years ago The platform of the Mollie Ma- gmres contained two pianos, tine was death to the people objectionale to the organiz itian. The other was i"e.recy as to who did the cold-blooded act. The numWr of su4den deaths In Pennsylvania was frequent, and the fame of th Mollie Maguires soon spread and created a reign of terror Mr. Hartigan i positive in his belief that the Holt county vigilantes are simply a band i f murderers which is an offspring from the pared organiza tion mentioned. Southern lenarsitr nil ?Cbrk Wit The Atlanta Constitution is pur ported to be responsible fur the follow Ir.g over-drawn account of the destltu lion which exists in western Nebraska 'In that bleak ml blighted land cf drouth and desolation, thousands of farmers are literally starving to death. The crops have failed for two j-easons. the farmers Pave no money and no credit and can not get employment. Families die in their lonely cabins for want of food. Even water is hard to get, the ground being frozen solid to a depth of I V) feet. The level prairies look like hard and smooth asphalt pavements, and the cultivation of the soil yields no return.' And then that well-known wit, Walt Mason, comes back with the following: "The editor of the Constitution means well, but he doesn't do justice to ti e situation. The winter has been so severe so lar, the thermometer ranging from forty to seventy above zero, that the ground is frozen clear through to the other side, and three inches of ice maybe seen on boiling water. In this bleak and blighted land of desolation thousands of farm ers arc starving to death, having uoth ingbetter than porterhousesteak, fried eggs and potatoes to keep soul and uody together. I he prairies are so level ami bard and smooth that the people can travel anywhere on roller skates, and it would be foolish to try to raise crops on them. Why destroy the greatest natural skating rink in the world, that pura kins may be raised? The farmers would rather starve three times a day than to go without their skating. If some of the easterners and southerners would come here on an excursion train they would then bo able to see to what des- perate straits we are reduced, aud they wouldn't have to depend for in- lormatiou upon gentle-hearted cor respondents who hate to tell the whole truth." Geo Ballance, the well known B. & M. engineer, whs down from Lincoln yesterday to visit with his family in this city. akocno tuk cornr KOO.M. COuNTY COUKT. Wm. E. Exline and Miss Buth A. Trook of the vicinity of Union were granted a license to wed by Judg Ramsey. JUSTICE COUKT. John Carnes, for indulging in an al tercation in a lower Main street sa loon last night, was fined to the tune of $9.03. Carnes was short on financee and went to jail to !oard it out. The suit of Harvey Carper vs. Henry Clapp, on trial before a jury in Justice Archer's court Tuesday after noon, was contested with considerable warmth by the opposing attorneys. Carper sued to recover toO. the penalty fixed by the statutes for Clapp's fail ure to release a chattel mortgage within ten days alter Carper had sat isfied the same. J. II. Haldemao ap peared for Carper and Allen Be?son and son for the defense. Tlie jury found for Clapp. COL'UT KOOM NOTES. The Missouri Pacific railway. through its local treasurer, D. b. Smith at St. Louis, paid' into the county treasury Wednesday its check for $11,819.33 In payment of its taxes. Sheriff Eikenbary made a levy yes terday on eighty-three lots in Mercer- ville addition, the same being taken as trie property or v m. Ij. urowne io satisfy a mortgage for $0,000 held by Harriet A. Townsend. Anthony Yo3t,by William Yost, his next friend, has filed his petition in the district court of York county against the Chicago, Burlington & Qulucy railroad, asking $00,000 for damages received by being struck and run over by a switch engine at Alger, 111., while employed as a section hand. II Joined lUm Jap. Louisville people will remember Dr. J. A. Scbuelka, who wasatoje time a physician in this place and then tnoved to a town in the western part of the state where he got tangled up in a murder scrape, mention of which was made in thse columns atthe time. Some time ago he sailed for Europe to further advance his education, mean time leaving his wife and family at Lander, Wyoming. Mrs. Scbuelka lias I een visiting in this city with friends for the past month but re turned to her home in Wyoming last Saturday. Before leaving she received a cablegram from her husband stating that he had joined the Japanesearroy, and we suppose the man of medicine Is now busily engaged amputating pig tails somew here in China. Louisville Courier Journal. At the election of officers by the Ne braska Editorial association at lork yesterday, Charley Hubner cf Ne braska City was chosen president, the same being a good selection In every paiticular. The correspondent of the Lincoln Journal at York, however. re ports that Mr. II. is editor of the Ne braska City Press when he should have said the News. Such is fame! Another Cahler I Short. W. J. Zlrbut, cashier of the state bank of Mllligan, a small town twelve miles southeast of Fairmont, Fillmore county, has seemingly skipped. Mr. Zirhut makes his residence at Fair mont, and as far as can be learned is short to & considerable amount. The exact figures of the alleged shortage cannot be learned. Those concerned are reticent, but circumstances point to some interesting developments con cerning the missing cashier. Specula tion ou the Chicago board of trade is reported as being responsible for the trouble. Manager Babcock of the stock yards company has been figuring on the dif ference in price of hogs in the South Omaha and Chicago markets shipped from Iowa points. During the first fifteen days of the present month the Chicago price averaged 91.151, while the South Omaha market stood $1,111 for light and mixed hogs. Thus there was a difference of four cents per 100 pounds in favor of the Chicago mar ket. Tho freight rateftom Iowa points to Chicago is $37.23 per car. To South Omaha from Iowa points the rate is from $10 to $20 per car. This shows a net difference in favor of South Om- aha of from $12 to $20 per car. A ship- per thus gets more for his hogs here than if he sent them to the WindyClty. -Omaha Bee. Miss Lulu Knight, Instructor in phy sical culture, will be in the city Satur day and give her class its first lesson in physical culture at Waterman's hall after 1.15. I4ady visitors aro welcome. A BROKEN BRAKE ROD It Causes an Engineer! Eeath at In cite Junction. NUMEROUS OTHER JOTTINGS. Ware IIou Slnll-i Will l on TH! Th JIlMf flullivait AJToril flr-m- iil Cntertftlnment for Tlilr lleul Note. Engineer Burns, an old employee on the Burlington, and who has pulled the throttle on a switch eiigiru-in the yards at Pacific Junction r.rtl.e ps?t six or eevei years,.! : L his !if- tAU on uuty .uur3.iv iitf rM.'i. ; r.-' fast mail train fi':a H ? tat wa late Saturday. ;d i-. rit it d-p-ti:ed fur Council BluiXa. Burns engine Lad been hooked on behind to give it a f at start out of the yard. Burns shoved the mail train for some distance and ap plied the air to stop his engine, but when he endeavored to reverse the en gine aud move back la the other direc tion, the air-trak rod was foucd to be broken and the ;.g:r- would net move. Burns climbed -'cwn out of the cab anil proceed i tw '-xarrdne the broken brake rod. In so d.it ? L w as compelled to get under the ec'i.c when, without a moment's vrarntng. the ponderous machine started to move in the direction which Burns had before attempted to make it. and the unfortunate man was mangled and cut to pieces before the very eyes of his fellow employes.. Burns was a married man ana the fathered thiteor four children. He was a popular railroad man and his sad death is e!ep!cred by a host of ac quaintances and friends. That Hrboa(windl. The case of the state vs. X. P. Ken dall, charged with selling to the Ne braska City National back false ware house receipts, which was to have been heard Saturday in Judge Eaton's court, has been postponed until next Saturday on the motion of the state. It is claimed by the defendant's at torney that he will be cleared of the charge, as his books and other things show that the grain was in the eleva tors when he gave a mortgage on the same. The state, however. Is confi dent of being able to convict. Ne braska Citv News. Ilntcrtftloed Their Friend. The Mi.e3 Harriett and Annie Sul livan entertained a parly of friends at their home Saturday evening in a man ner which was tht roughly enjoyed by the guests. Card playing and dancicg were indulged In. and the serving of an excellent luncheon brought the af fair to a pleasant conclusion. Those present were the Mi?ss Gerinj, Wright, Leonard, Clark, Hyers, Richy, Leist. Heisel. Cook and Annie Mamie and Harriett Sullivan, and the Messrs. Gering, Hayes. Bichey, Cole man, Spurlock, Livingston. Eaton, Hawksworth, Hyers, Parmele and Sullivan. A South Dakota newspaper delivers itself of the following at the expense of the supreme court of that state: With a crank hunting for one of the members of the supreme court of this state with a gun, another member under indictment in his own county at the time of his election for alleged crookedness in connection with a bank failure, and the third member so far In his dotage as to be almost childish. South Dakota supreme bench is in deed in a pitiable condition. Judge Fuller should go back to Faulk county and resume his former occupation, that of looking after a horse during certain seasons of the year. Judge Kellam should go back to Brule county and stand his trial, while Judge Cor son should be retired on a pension." The anti-toxin treatment for diph theria has been tried in the town of Tekamah the past week with good re sults. The five-year-old daughter of C.A.Jack was very low with diph theria, and since the injection of the anti-toxin there has been a steady im provement, until at the piesent time she is considered out of danger. Plaltsmouth physicians have some of the medicine and will give it a trial when an occasion first presents itself. It is hoped, however, that tho town will escape a visitation of this dread disease. Hons Weduesday, to Mr. and Mrs. II. J. Helps, a daughter. Mother and child doing well. Congratulations are extended. Limberger cheese ten cents a cake at Weckbach's.