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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.
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