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P III!? y ITT" !T v f fl n 4 iL "Z?i? JUST AND FEAR NOT." VOL. 14, SO. ). PIATTSMOUTII. X EH It ASK A, THURSDAY, FtillltUAHY 21. 18.15. $1.00 ,p IIilt "V" 10 A It. I'AIU IN AOVANCK. PU'f T8M0 nil W jMjW I V ni ww Hi Hi ft i 1LjLL V I u A 11 Ji Li iLJi u t ...1 3' THE STATE SAYS NAY. Prosecution Refuses to Nolle the Griswold Murder Case. i SOME COMPARATIVE FIGURES. AVhst Electric Light Synteiu Coat Other Citle atnl nttmtulh I'MpIe Cn Juil( Thereby IIoflmn Co tii lug II out e. Sandy Griswold, defendant inoceof the criminal prosecutions commenced by the state growing out of the Hob-bins-Lindsay prize fight in this city last August, iu which the former was killed, was iu town Thursday. Gris wold and his counsel, Matt Geriug, sought out County Attorney Polk and made proposals locking to the nolle of the charge of murder filed against Griswold in case the defendant would plea J guilty to the charge of referee ing a prize fight. The county attor ney refused to consider the proposition. The trial of Lindsay as principal in the murder is fixed to occur in district ciirt on Feb. 2th. If the prisoner is held by the jury for manslaughter, the question of accepting Griswold's pro posal may be considered, as there is nothing uuder the law which permits a prisoner to be held as an accessory to manslaughter. If Lindsay is found guilty of murder, the state will doubt less insist on prosecuting Griswold on the same charge, if sufficient evidence is obtainable to substantiate such a proceeding. In the meantime Gris wold must patiently wait. As to Klerirlc Light. The Lincoln News publishes the list recently printed in Fublic Opinion and read to the board of trade in reference to the cost of electric lights in various cities in the country. It further says: In addition to the above the News has private advices from the clerks of the following cities where private corpora tions operate the plants, showing the cost of lighting: New Orleans, 1127.50: Minneapolis, I12.1; Saginaw, Mich., SIGo; Indianapolis, Adrian, Mich., S'-O; Terre Haute, Ind.,370; La Fayette, Ind., 575; Keokuk. Ia.. !; Sedalia, Mo., o7.20. In Yksilanti, Mich., tLe city owns the plant and the lights cost the city but ?34.GT per annum. The city clerk of Adrain writes: "We advise you by all means to own your own electric plaDt. We have three Jenny dynamos of thirty lights each, 2,000 candle power to each light, five towers, with four lights on each tower, and sixty eight swinging lamps. You can in stall ajplant like cur9 for from Slo.OuO to tlS.OuO." In Topeka, Kan., appears to be lo cated a plant that is not quite so economical to the ciW, for the lights under its operation cost the city, run ning all dark nights, about S93 per lamp in 1S92, and the city clerk writes that they are costing about the same now. The city clerk of Hannibal, Mo., writes: We had first seventy-five arc lights that cost to run the first year $50 each. We have added an incandes cent plant and the revenue from it now juat about pays all running ex penses." The city clerk of Aurora, HI,, writes: "Own and operate your own electric light plant by all means without fail' In Aurora the city owns its own plant and has IG2 street lamps that burn an average of seven and a qaarter hours per day during the year at a cost of 58 44 per year per lamp. The plant C03t $11,000. Crl MotTinau Is Home. A telegram from Grand Island, dated Friday says: A touching scene occured this evening at the Union Pacific depot upon the return of Carl Hoffman, survivor of the Elbe di3a3ter. who with his wife and son left here in October for a pleasure trip to Europe, but -hose wife and boy were lost in the late disaster. Relatives who had been advised of his return kept the matter very quiet'and only a few of them were at the depot when Hoffman stepped off the train. Mr. Timpk- his aged father-in-law, was fitst to greet iim. The two men tem porarily gave away to grief, clasped in pi,ch others arms. Not a word was spoken u'ltil noticing that attention vras beinu attracted to the sorrowful gr.Hip they harried away and went to the iarrn of Mr. Timpke. Hoffman's relatives will see that before doing one other thing he is given an oppor tunity to rest." The"PlanSifter"fiour is the popular brand. Ask for It from your grocer. Tli Ac of Cormeut. Lincoln Net s. A determined effort that promises to be successful is being made to pass Benedict's bill raisiog the ape of con sent from fifteen to eighteen years. One of the most powerful petitions comes from Omaha, the product of Mrs. Ella Y Prattle, and is as fol lows: "The women of the department of applied economics of the woinau's club of Omabii urge ujon you, their repre sentatives, the justice of raisiug the age at which girls may legally sell their virtue. As you are well aware, the age at which a man is punishable for the offense cf rape is eighteen. Is man so much duller of intellect that he is to hiive three years the advantage of woman in this regard? Or, con sidered from another point of view, is it just that a woman should be deemed incapable of caring for her property till she h:is reached the age of eighteen and yet le thought competent to care for her soul and her body at the age of fifteen?", "It is said that the one fixed objec tion to raising the age of consent for woman i.s that the unscrupulous may prey upon men and that blackmail may be of more irequent occurrence than now. Hut it does uot seem likely that men will need to bo protected from the injustice or trickery of girls of eighteen years of aire. This argument appears to have (or its end a desire to protect men from the consequences of their vires. The legislature of Nebraska cannot wish to go upon record as fur nishing u means of escap for guilty men or for offering to their sex the sort of protection that should be ac corded only to the half-witted. It is no compliment to the intelligence of men to frame laws upon the supposi tion that they are not more intelligent at eighteen years of age than women at fifteen. "The records of the dally papers. the knowledge shared by all thinking men and women of the ruin, misery and corruption that spring from the un punished betrayal of joung gir.'seffer stern and tragic arguments, to which, in mercy and justice, responsible legis lators cannot be oblivious. The houses of prostitution are recruited from the rauks of these young girls. The homes of refuge are filled with them. It is safe to say, that nine-tenths of the women whose lives are wricked ate tempted to their downfall before they reach the use of eighteen. As the representative of a commonwealth which we all love and desire to elevate, we beg you, our representatives, to consider this plea." How Llaola It. The Lincoln News says: "it trans pires that Lincoln lost the reunion to Hasting by the merest flunk. It ap pears that the first vote was by ballot, in which it was announced that Lin coln hal won. It was discovered that a number of fraudulent votes had been cast, and Hastings demanded a new ballot. It was ordered taken standing, and as it was then about one o'clock in the morning and many of Lincoln's delegates had gone to the hotels and declined to be rounded up agaiu, the final rote gave it to Hast ings by 35 votes. Lincoln was handi capped by the fact that she had but a few workers present and her delegates were tied up in the commander fight to her disadvantage. The delegates elected to the national encampment are: T. J. Majors, delegate-at-large; J. II. Wescott,of Lincoln; O.F.Uorne, of Syracuse; J. D. Woods, of Lincoln; II. E. Pond, of Red Cloud; J. U. Heine, of Fremont; Dr. S. K. Spaulding, of Omaha; Dr. Pillsbury, of Fullerton; J. K. Paxton, of Hays Center." Common courtesy dictated that Church Howe, ex-department com mander, should have been named as delegate-at-large, but Tom Majors had to have a "vindication" and that ended the matter. Representative Robertson of Holt county ha introduced a bill providing that "each county shall be entitled to that number of students in the State university that will bear the same ratio to the total number, that can be accommodated by the university, that the total assessed valuation of the county be as to the total assessed valu ation c;f the state of Nebraska." Any county that sends more students than it is entitled to shall pay to the state an amount equal per student for each and rvery student in excels of the number to which aid the county is en titled. The city schools this afternoon in dulged In exercises appropriate to the celebration of Washington's birthday, and were dismissed at an early hour. ONI: TlUN'U AM) ANUrilKK. The will of the missinglda R. Not sou was filed iu the Douglas couuty court Friday by her stepmother, Mrs. Cook. The will was executed March, H0'X The proceeds of two life insurance policies, aggregating $3,000, are bequeathed to her two childreu. John Rush is named as executor. There will be a light over the will, as it will be necessary to prove positively that Mrs. Notion, her two childreu and her father are dead, betore the policies will be paid. Mrs. M. L Hradford, mother of Mm Frank Kauble, within a few days of eighty yeaisof age, died at alout fy.TM o'clock Sunday morning. Mrs. Hrad ford was born in Maine, where she married. With her husband she im migrated to the territory of Nebraska in 1S5V, settling at Nebraska City. Mr. Hradford died some twelve jears ago. For the past four years Grand mother Hradford has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Kauble. She had been in failing health for some time, but was better up till Saturday. At five o'clock Sunday morning her daughter waited on her and found her feeling comfortable. A little le fure six she again arose and weut to her bod, to find that the vital spaik had just lied, and Iter body was still warm. The funeial occurred at 2:20 o'clock Monday, Rev. Van Fleet offi ciating. Fremont's tax rate is higher than that of Plattsmouth, but fortunately they have some tl&,ooo in the treasury and the council has evidenced its iu tentionof investing the funds in an electiicilight plant and thus will take the question of city lighting out of the hands of a private corporation. Platts mouth deserves to make the same move. The local lijht company will sell and the council' first attention should be directed to ward raising the funds required to make the purchase. A new lighting contract should be n after consideration. The storien lint get into the eastern newspapers about the destitution in Nebraska would It very amusing if they were not so serious. Picking up & Columbiana county, Ohio, paper le cently. we notice that it publishes the substance of a letter from a man cauud Edward C. Lng, said to live at Ilogan, Nebraska, who unfolds a tale of woe that fills one with horror. Hear him: "There are families in this county that have not had a bite of anything from three to five weeks ex cept bran, which they mix with warm water, if an j thing possible can be ob tained to produce a flame; if nothing, then with cold water, into a sort of mush. And for meat they sometimes straggle onto the carcass of some poor, unfortunate broncho that has died or Is kicking its last. This they devour with avidity," and much more of the same sort. "There are 7,000 souls en tirely destitute, and unless succor comes to them within the next few weeks," the writer goes on to say, "in the way of food, fuel and clothing, fully two-thirds of these w PI succumb." And again, writing about thu scramb ling after food or fuel when a little has been furnished, he says: "Quite a number of persons have been injured, and a few killed, during the rush after eatables." For the sake of the truth, and to put these Ohio people right, we will say that this picture, to say the least, is greatly over-drawn. No doubt there has been some suffering in the drouth-strickrn belt of the west ern patt of thu state, and but for timely aid there would have been mich more, but there lias not been any occasion for such horrid stories as this man Long has sent out, aud we can not ac count for that over-drawn picture un less it be the hope of securing aid that was not needed. The wants of these sufferers have very largely been tmy plied. lh Papillion Times says: For sev eral weeks past considerable comment has been occasioned by the large cracks in the earth iu this vicinity, but the cause is accredited to the fact of the extreme dryness of the ground and the sudden changes in the temperature; from mild to extreme cold and frosty weather. On the old Guthardt farm, not theastof Papilllon, there is an open ing several yards long and over a foot wide at its widest place, aud the story is told that a twenty foot pole has been let down into the opening without Btrikingbottom. A large porkerstepped into thu opening and it required con siderable strength and trouble to ext ri cate it. A horse also became fastened in the same place and came near losing a leg. ; CASE OF HARRY HILL. Interference Of the Governor Is . Hardly Probable. ALMOST A CONFLAGRATION. A Itltse In the IVllir of McConrt' iro erjr Hut frumpt Action bjr the Klr Companion KxllnguUhea It Other Jotting. Thii was the day purported to have been fixed by Gov. Holcomb to show cause why the death penalty in thecase of Murderer Harry Hill should not be inflicted on Friday of next week in ac cordance with the decrees of the vari ous courts in which the prisoner's cause was considered, (bounty Attor ney Polk forwarded a request to the governor several days ago that if the question of commutation was to be con sidered, he would like to be heard on behalf of the couuty. So far nothing has been heaid In response, and from that it is concluded the governor is disposed to allow the sentence to be carried out. The governor w, until lately, a district jude and being thereby acquainted with the usual practice, his first move in the matter would be to seek the opinions of the members of the supreme court and the trial judge. No such move has been made, aud it is quite safe to argue that Hill's case will be let severely alone. In the meantime Sheriff Likeubary is making his arrangements for the ex ecution. The construction of the scaffold will be commenced next Mon day looming, and cm that same day a guard will W continually placed with in HU cell, to preveut any possible attempt which the prisoner might make to take his life. Alimwl 4 C .mil e ration. About 10:31 o'clock Friday night the hie alarm was sounded, bringing out two f the h e companies in a trice. Smoke was seen issuing frni the front basement at Mcl'ourt's grocer store, in I'nton bloce, adjoining the Methodist church on Sixth street. N llatue could be rtn but it dene volume of smoke came out through crevices and a broken window glass. The fiie lUtfli soon h.id the hose laid and two streams pouring through the front basement windows, but it was so smoky below it was a full half hour before the lire was fully located Meantime the cellar w as deluged with water. Finally a hose was laid into thestore aud through a hole in the tljor, and the fire w as .oon quenched. It was the lowest b'az- ever seen. The bi itk w alls of the cellar kept the fire from communicating with the floor above. Heyond the damage from a flood in the cellar and some upstairs, tho datuage w III be slight, and is amply covered by insurance. The explosion of an oil stove iu a back room in the c?llaris supposed to have caused the fire. The North Hrit ish, Springfield and Firemen's Friend are the companies interested repre rented by Thus. Pollock. Had the fire gotten under good head way the whole of Union block and the Mtthodist chinch might have gone. To the splendid pressure from the watt r mains may be attributed the putting out of the dre w ithout great damage. The recent cold weather has caused several of the hydrauts on Main street to rreeze up tight notably the Riley hotel and at the Sherwood block cor ners. Train Kohber Catiffnir. Charles Uatemnn, tiie ex-Wabash brakemau who was arrested on suspi cion of having beeu out? of the "(J" robbets near Otlnunva, on tho night of January 12, confessed to the robbeiy and his attorney entered a plea of guilty in the districtcourt in that town Wednesday morning. He was at once sentenced to live years in the peniten tiary at Fort Mudhon and was taken there this week. Ilateman im plicates lily, who, hecl.iiuis, instigated and planned the whole affair, and the detectives believe Hateiuan was only a tool iu tho hand of Kly. In his confession to the grand jury he declared he had recovered only $111, ami Fly took tho reft, but in an inter view h significantly asserted that when he finished his sentenco at Fort Madison he would sleep on a feather bed all right. He dis claims any knowledge of F.ly's where ubotits and says that Fly will never, be taken alive?. ClV.eeis believe- that they will locate Ely soon. AltOttNlt till: lill Jilf U'liMIS, lUsiTiiicrr co u jit. In the Carrol'.-Ritchey damage suit tried Friday iu distiict couit, the iurv fouud for the defendant, allrr a session of four or Gvm hours. In the I three jury trials had at the pi e. sent term of court, all have resulted favor ably to the defendants. Tho suit of Julius Lunghorst vs Wm. Coon was occupying the atten tion of a jury in distiict court Monday. Langhorst claims a judgment for H'-O as commission earned by negotiating a sale for Cjon's farm, in the trial of the suit in county court the defendant won. Jury fouud for defendant. The suit or the Ptattsmouth Street Railway vs. S. I). Mercer of Omaha was grinding away in district court to day before a jury. Some $';,(0 is in volved it being the object of the plain tiff to compel defendant to pay up his subscription on stock as did all the other stockholder. The same suit was tried at the September tenn of court, but the jury disagreed. CO-NTV COUKT. The office of County Judge Itamsey was the scene of a double wedding Wednesday in which the judge offici ated. Mr. Jos. M. Phil pot and Miss Clara D. Reed, and Mr. Calvin U. Amick and Nettie Doty were the con tracting parties. All are residents of the vicinity of Weeping Water. COUIiT ROOM NOTES. About three-fourths of the votirjg population of Liberty precinct was to be found in attendance at county court Monday. The damage suit of Howe vs. the Union bank, the same beingatiial before a jury, was the drawing caid. County Superintendent Farley was examining the following applicants for teacher's certificates at his office in tne court house Saturday: Anna C. Lewis, Rock Rluffs; Ethel Perry, My nard; Aaron Pahr, Fugle; S S. Cooley, Fagle; Ro3ie Jackman, Cedar Cutk; Grace Gerkicg. Union. Sheriff Eikenbary is having printed a lia-lted number of admission tickets to the hanging of Harry Hill on March 1st, at the county jail in this city. The most recent calculation is that there will e alotit five hundred ap plications to every ticket issued. Vis iting sheriffs and a limited number of newspaper reprteiitatlvf s will have the preference. Killed hy the ar. Jacob Kobes, a wealthy farmer liv ing in Saline county was instantlj killed Tuesday morning by Hurllng tou train No. 1C, near the town ot Wilber. Kobcs was driving along a road running parallel to the track. A sud den turn leads across the track and he reached that spot and attempted to cross just as the train' reached the same spot. Theeucine cut the horses loose from the buggy, smashed the rhicle and threw Kobes high in the air. When the trainmen reached him he was dead, though he was not man gled at all. The buggy had a top with the curtains up and Kobes probably did not see the train. The trainmen say that the smoke of the engine ob scured their view of the bugpy and they supposed he had stopped. The body was taken to Wilber,where an inquest was held The verdict of accidental death was returned. James Priddee, the ball grounds keeper cf Pittsburg, Pa., has turned up at St. Louis ragged, hungry and footsore, to learn for the first time that there is a fortune of "o,000 in Scotland uwaiting his pleasure. He tells a remarkable story of his suffer ings. When he left Pittsburg several weeks ago he went to Cincinnati and took passage on the steamer Missouri, intending to go to Memphis. The boat was sunk and Priddee was one of the unAccounted for. He became uncon scious aud when reason returned last week he found himself in a small Ken tucky hamlet, robbed of money and clothing and cared for by poor river men. Pegging what clothing he could he started for St. Louis on foot, riding when chance offered. The blizzard made travel slow aud his sufferings from cold anl hunger were terrible. A farmer read in an agricultural journal: "A side window iu a stable makes a horse's eye weak on that side; a window In front hurts his eyes by the glare; a window behind makes him squint-eyed; a window on n diagonal makes him shy wheu bo travels and a stable without widows makes him blind.' The farmer has written to the editor of the agricultural paper asking what effect a window without a stable would have on his horse's eyes. DAYLIGiiT BURGLARS. They Rob the Money Drawer Of a Murdock Saloon. THE SALOON MAN GIVES CHASE. Il Mount u llor muI Overhauls tin Thlee In in S UM Two MH Ff.iiu row ii-Vi iui )ilirr '! and .lttuco. A. W. Campbell, the Mun!o k a-loon-keeper and ex-shexill of Sarpy county, came to tmvn Monday in charge of two strangers who burglai ized his saloon Sunday. An en trance w as effected at about liveo'clotk in the afternoon ai d the thieves se cured cash to the amount of $7. They were seen making their way out of tLe rear door of the saloon, and Mr Camp bell, upon being informed, hastily mounted a horse and after a chase of a mile and a half overtook the robbers, made them return his money and then forced them to accompany him back to Murdock. They are now occupying a cell in the county jil on Pearlstreet. Uoth are well dressed and give their names as W. F. Sims and Fnnk Thompson. The fact that the burglary was com mitted in daylight ar,d that the stolen property was k-ss than f-3-j. makes it impossible to give the prisoners a sen tence to the penitentiary. Skeleton keys, files aud other burglar's utensils were found on their clothing.and theie is little doubt but w hat both are accom plished crooks, but the worst that can be accorded them in the way of pun nishmeutisa jil sentence for petit larceny. W. F. Sims and Frank Thompson, the two crooks wno burglarised Lee A; Campbell's saloon in Murdock on Sun day last, weie taken before Judge Chapman Tuesday ami fined SIU and costs and further sentenced to board w ith Jailor Iensoa for thirty davs. Neither man has money and it will be ooe forty-five days before they agaiu w ill breathe free air. A Iirentatt Melchbrhool. The squatter's shanty of Fred Lass, on the disputed laud east of Tekamah, Hurt county, the cau?e and scene of Hubert Phillips' murder, was burned Friday night. It is thought to be the woik or the gang that committed the murder. Yo ing Lass has not remained in the cabin since thj murder, and through fear of threats made has re mained on guard at his fathei's home at night since. The gang infesting the accretion hu d is said to lfave organ ized in secret to keep all others off. Lass was in Tekamah esterday, aud took the train for Iowa to endeavor to have Iowa authorities take up and prosecute the murderers of Phillips. When asked about the murder and the threats made againt his life he said he, and not Phillips, was the man they were after. Among the Siek. John Ilohlshuh, of the precinct, is kept at home by illness. "Dad' Purdy, much to the surprise of his friends, was down towu Mon day. F.J. Morgan has recovered suffi ciently from the grip to com down town again. Mrs. C. W. Sherman is able to sit up a part cf each day. Sh- wishes to ac knowledge the kindness of many frieuds. Thomas Woodson, the son of J. M. Woodson, of the Cottage house, com monly called kHabe," is down with pneumonia. Hally Johnson is a very sick boy so sick that it is doubtful even if the buoyancy aud warm blood of youth will save him. Typhoid fever has him in its grip. Since the report has gained currency that a young lawyer was to be married soon, Messrs. Spurlock, Grimes and Wiles are kept busy explaining that it is the other fellow, but from some testimony of Sheriff Eikenbary ,Georg Spurlock is thought to be the guilty party. Tuesday evening's News. And why not John Davies, Matt Gering, Allen Jacob Iteeson or County Attor ney Polk V All four are down on the list of eligible am) on is even spoken for. Col. IVlk should-remember that lawyers dislike to be slighted. Judge Holmes of De9 Moines has de cided that a law has become valid by reason of the lapse oT time, although it was unconstitutional when passed. This U u new kink in legal rulings. V