Plattsmouth weekly journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1881-1901, February 14, 1895, Image 1
T n mi i-vr a mv M .1 - JJ O1 VOL. 11, NO. 8. PLITTSMOUTII. XE1MASKA. THURSDAY, FIMUtUVRY 14. 181)5. $1.00 i i ;i YKAU. IN ADVANCi:. if WEEKLY o MAL 4 l 31 JL i ' V I, I 4 if i i FILES HIS REFUSAL. Judge Duf5e Declines to Consider Criminal Cases. DEMISE OF CHAS. H. BABCOCK. On of tMattamoiith Mwt J'opuUr CUl irnt !' to Hu Final Krrkon-toc-HoM Kobbera at Fitlla City Other Not.. District court convened Monday with Judge Duftie of Omaha, in the ab sence of Judge Chapman, presiding. The entire business of the day was spent iu calling the docket, hearing motions and setting down the various cases for trial. The jury was called and its members dismissed until fo morrowvwhen the trial of cases willat once be commenced. Judge Dutlie ex pects to be here but a very tew days, but he proposes to use his best efforts to hurry along the business and have matters in .uch shape that Judge Chapman on his return will be enabled totafcwcn his labors without experi encing the usual arduous duties at tendant to the opening of court. Thecrimiual docket w ill not be con sidered until Judge Chapinan'sreturn. In the case of the slate vs. Griswold the defense has prepared to file a mo tion for a change of venue, and it was at first thought that the matter would Ik presented to Judge Dutlie, but that gentleman stated quite plainly that he wished to have nothing to do witli the criminal esses. In view of the Judge's decimation to hear criminal matters, the change of venue will not be pre sented by the defense until the end of the week, at the least- In the mean time 1'ounty Attorney Folk is sum moning the state's witnesses to appear on Feb. -th, and eerything goes to show that the trial of the case men tioned will commence on that date. llh of t'hmrlea II. lkalxocU. After a brief illness cf inilammatlon of the bj.Tels. Charles II. Babcockdied at his h. m. at Kr South Tenth street, at one o'clock Monday rooming, leavir g a wife and three children. He was born on the Jth of August, ISM, in the state of New York, and has lived in Kxeter, Nebraska, a number of years, comingto Plattsmouth two years ago. His business was that of hand ling real estate, at which business he was an adept. lie was a man wno looked on the bright side of everything, and those who knew him best appre ciated him most. The funeral took place from the family residence Tuesday morning at eight o'clock, from which place the re mains were taken to Kxeter for in terment. An M. I. Station liobbe.t. The Missouri Pacific night operator at Falls Cit) was held up by thieves early Sunday morning and the station robbed of some $17. While making up the station accounts and counting the funds on hand. Hurst, the operator, heard a peculiar noise out in the wait ing room. He hastily hid a roll of bills and reached for his revolver. In stantly there was a crash of glass at the rear office window and a masked man thrust a double-barreled shot-gun at him and commanded Lira to throw up his hands. Shots were exchanged and Mr. Hurst, thinking it was getting too warm for him, threw up his hands. He was requested to open the office door. When he had done so another mask man came in with a stranger that had been in the waiting room. He covered the two with a Winchester un til his pal arrived. After robbing the safe the robbers requested theorerator and the stranger to accompany them up the track. They did so reluctantly but without complaint were dismissed two mi!e3 out of town. No trace of the robbers has yet been found. Iaiii4ge Hint Olntnla.rtl. The. 5,000 dam.ige suit of Oliver O. Mays against the Burlington & Mis souri railroad in Nebraska was settled Thursday in the district court of Douglas county by dismissal in court. Mays is an infantryman who trav eled from Uellevue to Omaha and back. On his return he was ejected at Gibson and walked back eight mlies to the fort, lie asked -3,000 as he says he was subjected to the insolence, ty rauy and injustice of petty officers for this walk. He settled for t35. Another Nebraska Vlrtlni. A dispatch in Saturday's State Jour nal from Grand Island says: "Fred Kotu of this city ever since reading in the accounts of the Kibe disaster that one Carl Both was among the lost, lias tried to hear from his brother of that name who formerly lived at Holdrege. I Today he learned that his brother had not beeu in Holdrege for some months and he greatly fe us that his ' brother suddenly went to Germany and was on his way home when the disaster oc curred." The Fred Hath mentioned In the above is the husband of Annie, the eldest daughter of Jos. V. Week bach, to whom she was married in this city some six year ago. A raklra Mirk. Swim! I. An exchange relates how an old swindle is being worked in the we;t by an enterprising fakir. Fquipped with two watches one having a faint, the otter a loud tick and mauy bottles of liniment, he goes to core deal people. The particular individual worked from a carriage. By offering to cure one or more free, he gets his victim up in the buggy, applies the watch having the weak tick to his eai. returns the watch to his pocket, applies some of his "lightning liniment," does consider able talking and winds up by applying tho other watch the loud one to the ear. Af tr this cure he makes probably a dozen sales and then excites f miner interest by making auother cure. Fat.il Shooting In Hurt Cnnly. The warring elements of Burt county have at last brought battle aud blood shed. A long-time feud over river ac cretion lands has caused shooting be fore, but Friday night produced the first death. Five miles east of Tekamah is a tract of accretion land, the title for which is now in contest in court. While the litigants were legally set tling the dispute, a young German by the name of Fred Lass and some com panions placed an SxlO hut on skids nddrew it onto the disputed land, aiming thereby to hold the land by lijht of possession. Friday night J. I. Blann and four associates went to th cabin to chase the land-jumper off. and found him surrounded by a trio of pals at card playing. A quarrel en sued and the outsiders began tiring into the building. Bbert Phillips, an inmate, sought to escape and was shot in the right breast, from the effect of which hfc died Saturday. He lived to say Blann shot him. Officers are after Blann and it is thought they will effect bis captun?. Both factions are hard citizens, snd while Phillips was not implicated in the trouble over the land, hiii reputation was none of the best. It is not three years since a man was sent to the penitentiary for shooting another almost on the game spot. Phillips leaves a wife and several (mall children. A ltlkr Commute ml Murray. At a meeting of the citizens of Mur ray and vicinity the undersigned uere appointed a committee to solicit re ceive and forward contributions for drouth sufferers. Grain, tlour, meal, clothing and cash will be taken if con tributed. Persons who desire to help can receive information at Kdrnunds& Boot's store or of either of the com mittee. Goods may be delivered at the Modern Woodman hall. JJ. Sikiiolii, J. A. Walkki:, Jas Boot, Belief Committee. Hank VmII ry. I'srilonrd. Governor Holcomb issued his first pardon Saturday. It gave freedom to II. W. Vallery. who was serving out a sentence of six months in jail, having been convicted in Saunders county on the charge of slandering a young woman. The case was tried some two years ago. and an appeal taken, and in the meantime tho prosecuting witness died. The supreme court, however, affirmed the decision of the lower court and the prisoner was foiced tu go to jail. Vallery formerly lived for many years in this county and has many relatives who stand high in this com munity. His trouble had its origin in his everlasting penchant to talk too much in every other respect Hank" Vallery, as he is well-known hern, is a first-rate sort of fellow. His friends will rejoice over the governor's actiou. I)ath of Mr. Cecil. Mrs. Amanda Cecil, aged soventy two years, departed from this life Sunday morning at her home on West Elm street, after an illness with heart failure. Tho deceased removed to this city from Illinois some fifteen years ago.and during that period has formed many acquaintances, all of whom have learned to respect and revere' her as an old lady uf strong character and good traits. Her death is mourned by four children Stephen, Jaspur and Isaac and Mrs. Virgil Mullis, the two last named being residents of thiacity. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, nt tho family residence, and the remains were laid at rest in Oak Milt cemetery. ONi: TIIINU AMI ANOrilKll. S. i:. Hall, the Sixth street hard ware rnercnant, who was taken sick last Friday with pneumonia, fs re ported slightly improved. F.Jitor Graves has stopped tlie pub lication of the I'nion Ledger. Lack of patronage is thecause ascribed. I'nion, without a news-paper, is now in the same predicament as the rudderless ship progress is an absolute impossi bility. The Ledger was a live and en ergetic country weekly, and the town deserves to suffer for refusing to give it enough business to make It an ob ject for its owner to continue in busi ness. We trust that the bnsiuess men of Fniou will come to their sense and make it an Inducement for the Ledger to resume. ?! In speaking of the recent fire at Ne braska City the. News of that place says: "L K. Brown had his safe, which was in the ruins of the Press olfi.M. opened last evening. While the contents were intact, the whole was a frozen mass of ice. The safe, which was an old one. had fallen face upward nnd the same had filled with water during the fire ind Wednesday night frozen solid. The safe hd to l- taken to ji warm place and thawed out le fore the lKH)ks and papers could be taken out. Here is a safe rtory that will do to tell in the summer time, of a s ife going through a lire and coming out frozen full cf ice." Wisen charged with being in league with Kose water as "an enemy of the educational iuterets of the state," Kepresentalhe Davie is actually guilty of smiling. '1 he Lincoln Jour nal is the author of the charge against the Cass county representative, and who dares say that the man who pre sumes to question the motive. of the organ of the state house Sunday school is not the enemy ot public vtelfare? Mr. Davies might j jst as well resign. Dr. A. B iwn wa before thcom-jf missioi.eis insanity at Nebraska City Friday for examination as to his meutal condition. and was pronounced insane. About a year aso the doctor was thrown f rem a buggy, sustaining injuries about the head, !ince which he has failed rapidly. The doctor Is the oldest practicing physician in Otoe, county, locating there in and is well known all over the slate. He tock a prominent part during the Nebraska Kansas troubles. The doctor was a member of the state senate in 1ST1, and intioduced the bill providing for the institnte for the blind at Nebraska City. The senate committee, consisting of Senators Teflt, McKeeby, McKesson, Smith. Black, Bressler. Sloan, and Bathburn, inspected tie institute for the blind at Nebraska City Friday. The pupils rendered an excellent pro gram for their entertainment, and the committee was most favorably im pressed. The committee also looked into the condition of the Otoe county jail, at the request of Senator Watson, and the result will probably be favor able to his bill requiring all jails to be above ground. ' Taken walk through a cemetery, re marked a contemporary, and you will pass the last resting place of the man who blew into a gun to see if it was loaded. A little further down the slope is buried the crank who tried to see how close he could pass in fiont of a moving railroad train. In strolling about you pass the modest monument of the hired girl who started the tire with kerosene, and the grass covered knoll that covers what is left of a boy who put a corn-cob under a mule's tail. The tall shaft of the man who blew out the gas casts a shadow across the bosom of the boy who tried to jump a moving train. Side by side the ethereal creature who always had her corset laced to the last hole, aud the intelligent idiot who rode a bicycle nine miles in ten minutes, sleep on un- disturhed. Here reposes the remains of the young doctflT who took a dose of his own medicine, and just over there, with the top of a shoe box driven down at his head, lies a rich man who mar ried a young wife. Away over there by the side gate reposes the remains of the boy that went fishing ou Sun day, and the old woman who kept tier strychnine side by side with her bak ing powder in tho cupboard. The man who stood In front of the mowing-machine to oil the sickle is quiet now, and he rests by the side of. the careless brakeman who fed himself to a seventy ton engine. The fool-killer is gather ing them iu one by one, still he is tometimes behind with his orders. HIS WIFE CAME BACK Shoemaker Napravenek's Spouse Re joins Her Husband MANDERS0N WILL BE S01ICIT0R. rrmi.laiit IVrkln Cliooae th i:-S-nUr Aa the 1 1 rati uf I ! Hitr llngtou'a l.t Icirtmwiit A l.r liirr t'ourNt. Ilia YVlf Caintt llat L . Todiy's Council Bluffs bureau of the World Herald says: "The woman of the town, Ida Strong, alias Sharp, alias Mrs. Frank Napravenek, who skii jt d the town the other day with about ?'" in cash belonging to her liece lord, returned suddenly last evening. The first news of her return was when she appeared on up per Broadway with the delighted Napravenek about o'clock. Where she tiad leen and what induced her to return, or what she did with the inoney.no one seemed to have learned, not efii Napravenek, who was too de lighted at getting back "My Ida" to care what had become of the money. They went to the Neuruuyer hotel, where Napravenek inscribed on the register a lot of hieroglyhics supposed to be his name. He and his bride were promptly fired out of the house, and went together down the street and disappeared. A short time later two unknown men, evidently supposing Napravenek and his wife had gone to his little shop at III Broad war. crept to the window opening on the alley and threw two large bricks or stones through the- w indow, which was seri ously damaged. An officer nailed the shutter tight." Tl. II. X I. lrttorhl. A dispatch from Washington to the Lincoln Journal s iys: "Senator Man deia ha he en tendered by President Perkins uf ti.e Chicago. Burlington & tjuincy railroad the position of solicitor of the Burlington A Missouri railroad in Nebraska to succeed the lateT. M. Marquett." Senator Mandi rson has ac cepted the offer and will assume his duties about the middle of March. His headquarters will be in Omaha, prob ably in the Burlington building. It is not expected as a result of the change that there will be any changes lu the stall of the legal department of the road. Senator Mauerson, in his ac ceptance, reserves the right to retain the presidency of the Omaha Savings bank and to engage in such private practice as will not interfere with the duties of his new position. This ofiice was tendered to Senator Maudersou a number of weeks ago and has been held under consideration with some six or eight others of a legal nature." A iJiimt Mrt or Iniutulljr. Henry Smith, the Lincoln youth who borrowed a horse and rig from Livery man Jones in this city last summer and atterwards sold it ont in the western part of the county, is again in the toils of the law. Sheriff Kikenbary captured the mau at Kansas City and brought him to this city for trial, but Smith played the insanity dodge and it worked very nicely, and as a consequence he was sent to tho insane asylum instead of to the penitentiary. Smith's mother secured the young mau'srelease early this week and he had been free only two days when lie entered a house in Lincoln during the night and attempted a burglary. The man of the house nas aroused by his wife's screams and grabbing a stick of wood, chased the bad burglar into u closet and beat him nto submis sion. The authorities have turned the prisoner over to the sheriff of Gage county on the charge of stealing a horse down at Wjmore. The mother used her endeavors to have him sent back to the asy lum Imu tho authorities have refused point-blank to grant the re quest. The chances are now excellent for furnishing the prisoner with a cell in the state penitentiary. The field notes of a recent survey of the northern boundary of the state were filed Monday with the commis sioners of public lands and buildings at Lincoln. The notes were approved by the department at Washing ton in December, 1801. The boundary line from the initial point on the Keya Paha river was run to the Wyoming houndry, miles, 12 chains and 13 links. The line from the initial point east to the' Missouri river was resurveyed, being practically n new line, and is fiftyeven miles and seventy-three chains long, or a total length of about 2SJ miles. This new survey of the line from the Key a Paha river eait will enable the unoiguiiized townships on the northern boundary of the state tocomplete their organiza tion. The monument stones placed on this line from the Missouri to the Keya Paha riverare elaborate affairs, being made of quartzite.or Sioux Falls granite. The half-mile monuments are six feet long and three feet square, sunk three feet in the ground. The mile monuments are sveri feet long, same diameter, and sunk the same distance. Attorxti tiik corner ftonvt. jtsn:icT col' nr. Thejury in suit of Milton Lvvin vs. Clark Wilcox, tried yesterday in dis trict court, found for the defendant. Fred Brockmanii of Avoca took nut his final naturalizati u papers iu dis trict court Wednesday and thereby completed his citizenship. It required just five minutes for the jury in the auitof B?ed vs. Buesching. on trial in district court today, to find averdict for defendant. In the suit of Carroll vs. Bitchey, the jury was empanelled this after noon and the ttiil of the case will be takeu up tomorrow. The suit of U?ed vs. Buesching is booked for trial Thursday, the action growing out of a personal encounter between the two men and for which Beed claims damages. Both litigants reside in Avoca precinct. Judge Duffie gave Mrs. Annie C McDaniel a decree of divorce Tuesday in her suit ajainst her husband. Mar tin McDaniel. The defendant de faulted and a judgment was entered against him for costs. The trial of the suit of Krwin vs. Wilcox was grinding away in district court Wednesday before a jury. Krwin claims damages in the amount of SL. alleging that Wilcox ran over him with a sled in Jannary. IS'-C. by which he sustained injuries which bate incapacitated him for work. In the case of Oscar II. Goodwin vs. C. II. Partnele, J. M. Craig, et. al, the defense lias filed in district court a dis missal signed by the plaintiff. Matt. Gering, attorney for Tioodwin, has given notice that he intends to attack the dismissal, and some fur is booked to My when Judge Chapman hears the motion. CCwNTV COl'KT. Final settlement was effected in county court todav in the estate of the late Jno. Gilmore. In the suit of Louis liiwe vs. the Union Bank was booked for trial in county cout t Monday, but on motion of the defendant, a continuance was granted until next Monday. Uowe sues to recover some I 72,which sum he alleges is due him as damages by reason of the bank selling his live stock below its real value to satisfy a chattel mortgage. COURT ItOOM NOTES. Fred Buesching, one of Avoca'a enterprising merchants, was a caller at the court house Wednesday. Deputy Sheriffs Ilyers and Holloway and Geo. Poisatl and Jas. Newell will act as bailiffs during the ptesent term of district court. The county commissioners ad journed their February session Tues day aud Commissioners Hayes and Young returned to their homes out in the county Wednesday. Sheriff Kikenbary went to I'nion Friday to replevin some prop erty from K. J. Norton fc Co., the same being takeu fur the benefit of Herman Bros, a merchandise firm in Lincoln . The latter people claim that the sum of $-72.0.1 is due them from the Fuion firm. Dr. J. F. Brendeil, Avoca's genial physician, came to town Wednesday to attend district court as a witness. The doctor reports that Avoca has lately been visited with a diphtheretic scourge, he having treated no less than eighteen patients forthatdisease during the past few weeks. He has boen using anti-toxin, the new remedy for dipththeria, with fair success. Messrs. II. J. Streight or this city, Thos. Mullin of Stove Creek precinct, and J. II. Davis of Avoca precinct, members of the Soldiers Belief com mission, were in sessiou at the county clerk's otlice Monday, the same lieing the commission's annual meeting. The commission baa distributed funds to ttie amount of almost $1,000 among tho families of needy soldiers and widons of soldiers. A GOBBLER'S GRIEF. His Yoans Wife Steals His Idoney and Then Forsakes Him. BOLD ROBBERS MAKE A HAUL. A Jewelry Store l Kl k la l.'utered My Tliietrea Ami I-t r alitM- Forcibly TkM Another Nrdratka Victim. Took tltf Hliottn ikrr Kull. Following, from Tuesday's Council Blulfs department of the Bee. is in re lation to a .shoemaker who is well known in this city, h iving lived here for many years whih? in the employ of Peter Merges, the pioneer boot and &hoe dealer of Plattsmouth: "Frank Naprovenek has been run ning a tiny shoe shop at 1 14 Broadway for the last eighteen months, but yes terday he left his shop in the hands of an employe and devoted all his time and energies to the accummulation of a jag that should outshine anything in local annals. List Friday he and a denizen of a houe at Io7 Pierce street went over to :n iha and were married by a justice ot the peace. They had been constant in their attentions to one another, but l iter developments have shown that his bride, who was known as either Ida White or Ida Strong, as might be most convenient, was smitten more w ith the glitter of the old man's gold than with bis charms cf face or manner. "They returned to the little shop on Upper Broadway and spent three nights there. Yesterday morning Naprovenek awoke to find the partner of his joys ami sorrows lied. She had arisen in the stilly night, opened her liege lord's trunk, abstracted V of his money, and skipped out for no one knows what destination. The old man. when he made the discovery, was La'.f wild with anguish,- ana spent a good share of the morning telling Ids sorrows to his sympathizing friend During the afternoon Naprovenek was found at the former home of his wife on the row. and there with a voice that sounded very much like limbur ger, with beer and whiskey on the side, he poured out the story of his woes. He denied the report that he had lost $:I,(oti of his hard earned wealth, and said that 5 was all he lost, lie had plenty more, but how much, or where he kept it, were two questions which he declined to answer. He said he intended to put the police on the unfaithful lady's trail, but up to a late hour last evening he had done nothing more than entrust his message to the birds of the air." llol.l Kobbrry t Keri Oak The local authorities are keeping a close watch for two fellows who com rnlted a bold robbery at the town of Bed Oak, la., Friday night. The pair walked into a jewelry stoie in that town and while one covered the cleik with a revolver, the other dumped a lot of valuable watches, diamonds and other effects, the whole amounting to several hundred dollars, into a sack. The two then beat a hasty retreat, jumped abroad a west-bound Burling ton freight train and made their es cape. The local authorities were in formed by telegraph Saturday cf the description of the thieves, and as they were headed this way, it may fall to the lot of some Nebraska officer to effect their capture. The Lincoln Call very aptly remarks "that the system of assessment in this state should be changed Is conceded by nearly everybody except the few who escape a portion of their just bur den. Our present system is all wrong from the ground up, and all the penal ties the leeislature may see fit to pro vide will not reach the root of the evil. So long as assessors ludd their offices by virtue of the votes cast, so long those assessors will endeaver to please the citizens of their district by assess ing it so much lower than the remain der of the state as he dares. A state commission of assessment with branches ramifying into every precinct of the state might arrive at a fair as sessment. A local assessor never will." W. A. Gilmore, the absconding ex postmasterof Broken Bow, who Is idiot t about f 1,700, h is been arrested in Pennsylvania and will le brought h:ic" i tn Vlrnt-n fr trial. ail i lv ' I Henry Behn of the vkioi' lorn will s.V.t audio- iust, "l Of I cow, .AT m i s i ! J .1 - "X c