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NOTABLE ORATION.
Guy Livingston's Eulogy At The
Monument Unveiling Sunday.
PARK COMMISSIONERS NAMED-
Judge Kamey Appoint MtMM. Windham.
Guthe Mild Smith to Lool; AKit
Grnld Park Oilier Inter
esting Happf lnss.
The Monument Unveiled.
Last Sunday afternoon the members
of Evergreen Camp, Woodmen of the
World, unveiled the handsome monu
ment recently erected by that order in
memory of the late C W. Carbon. At
two o'clock the members, headed by
the Bohemian band, formed a line on
Main street and marched out to Oak
Hill cemetery, where the impressive
ritual of the order was read, ana the
monument formally unveiled to the
public. A large number of interested
visitors wit nested the ceremony. H
Guy Livingston. tllP orator of the da .
delivered a masterly oration, befitting
any statesman, and enlogized the de
p irted brother in the following well
worded speech:
"All through his long illness he bore
his suffering with heroic fortitude,
and when at last death came to his re
lief, he died as one might wish to die
who was as well prepared to die in
his own home, surrouuded by h
dearest friends with his beloved wift
and d.irling little ones about him
softly and sweetly, like a shadow
tormed by a passing cloud, death
fell up-'ii him and be slept.
"He was an honorable, upright aoo
just man. lie made many friends,
but no enemies. His fellow workmen
those who knew him in his every-daj
life speak of him in highest terms ol
praise. Me was uniformly pleasant
and obliging to all. But it was in hi
home life that he manifested those
rich qualities of mind and heart thai
make a home the dearest and most be
loved spot on earth.
'If I were permitted,even now,when
the soothing hand of Time has soft
ened the anguish of their loss, to lif
the veil of grief and enter the sanctitj
of that h me, I would find it fillec
with the sweet, sad memories of thv
never-ending acts of kindness done b
the husband and father for his loveo
ones.
'Tnis monument, erected to his
memory, is of granite, and will last
through ages of time. But Brothel
Carison, tnrough a long life of fifty-one
years, filled with acts of kindness to
his fellow man, filled with pure love
and devotion to the wife of his bosom,
tilled with tender care and affection
for his children, has erected a monu
ment for himself even more endurinu
than this granite shaft. Ii will stand
unaffected by the burning heat ot
summers tuns, unmoved by the ctiill
ling blasts of winter storms, but the
good deeds ana kind acts of his lite
shall live in warm and grateful hearts,
ami shall bear a golden fruit long af
ter this silont witness of his wor b
shall have crumbled into dust and
mixed forever with the elements.
"'Min'sltfe is tnsn's true monu
ment.7 "The inscription placed on the shaft
at the request ot his family, 'God
caHed -!ir lather early to his rei;
His H 1 will be dene; He knoweih
lest.' bears rileni testimonial of a
sweet, Christian-like resignation to
their great loss. It, is hard to part
with our loved ones, and if it were not
that we are comforted by the hope that
iu a realm grander and more glonout
thiu this, that witli ihem e will w;k
to -it-rnl pt-ce and joj , the griet and
h-ari-atfguish of the parting hour
could n ii be borne. All that live must
die. So much is certain. What lies
beyond? No one who passes that
Charmed boundarj comes back to tell.
The imagination visits the realms of
shadows, sent out from some window
of the soul, over Life's restless waters,
b u wii.gn its way wearily back with
no olive branch iu its beak as a token
of euierghg life beyond the closely
bending horizon. The great sun come
and t-ofi in the heavens, yet breathes
no secret of the e:ernal wilderness.
Th cresent moon nightly cleaves her
passage across the upper deep, but
tosses overboard no message, and dis
plays no signals The sentinel stars
challenge each other as they walk their
nightly rounds, but we catch no syl
lable of the countersign that gives pas
saee to tha' heavenly enmp. Shut in !
Shut in ! Between ihis life and tb,
other lite therp is a great gulf fixed
across which neither eye nor foot can
travel. But there is a God above the
soul, and there is something within us
wmcu pnopnecies or imotner lite be
yond the grave. We believe that
la that great cloister's stillness and seclusion,
by guardian angels led,
Safe from temptation, aafe from tin's pollu
tion, they live, whom we call-dead.
"The olive wreath and dove, so skill
fully wrought ou the monument are
emblems of peaca and love. May the
white winged dove of prayer. Bent up :
to God's throne by the bereaved wife
and children, return to them with an
olive branch as a sweet message of i
love, that will bring peace to their sor
rowing hearth.
When the wail of the orphan shall be
heard no longer; when the tears of the
widow shall cease to fall; when the
poor unfortunate ba3 not to ask for
alms; when from every mountain's
I row, and every green valley, and ev
ery island that sets like a gem on the
bosom of the ocean when from ev
ery city, village and farm shall go up
the glad song of the universal brother
hood of man, and shall be echoed
back the j yous anthem of 'Peace on
Earth, Good will toward Man,' then.
nd not till then, will the mission of
the 'Woodmen of the World be com
pleted, and the order shall fold its
rms and sink to rest upon the bosom
f an eternal peace."
Park Commlsttoner Appointed.
Judge Ramsey, of the district court,
Monday performed his first official act,
'y appointing park commissioners for
Plattsmouth and Nebraska City, as
provided by the law passed last year
The gentlemen appointed for this
ity were: Messrs. R. B. Windham for
three yearn, John A. Gutsche for two
years, and Washington Smith for one
year. Messrs. P. Rohe, W. L. Wil
son and J no. G. Stroble were appointed
for Nebraska City.
The appointees for this city are rec
ognized as first-class men, who, in a
personal sense, could hardly be im
proved upon. The commissioners will
probably find little to do in this city,
however, except to draw their salaries.
Judge ton't Annual Settlement.
"County Judge Raton in compliance
with the state law yesterday made his
annual settlement with the board ot
county commissioners, lne receipts
tor the y ear, including marriage licen
ses and fees of every description ag
gregated $2,0o9 08 and as the law re
quires that all over $2,000 be turned
into the county treasury. Judge .baton
turned in So9 08. This is the only in
stance of a county judge turning in
money Into the treasury in the state
Nebraska; even in Lancaster and
Douglas counties the excels is swal-
'ovred up in com0 unaccountable man
ner. Nebraska City Press.
Judee Ramsey has been doing bet
ter than that. Bro. Brown. During his
term in office he has paid a clerk's sal
ary outof the fees of the office not call
ing upon the countv commissioners for
4 penny. This item saves the tax-payers
of Cass county about $600 a year.as
compared with the $59 08 which was
turned over to the Otoe county com
missioners by Judge Eaton.
A CASS COCNtr COKCEBN.
The Annual Meeting of the Farmers'
Mutual Insurance Co.
The stockholders - of the Farmers'
Mutual insurance company met on
Saturday last in this city, and after
listening to a report of the secretary,
Mr. J. P. Falter, the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
President Jacob Tritsch.
Vice President J. II. Becker.
Secretary J. P. Falter.
Treasurer A. A.Scbaefer.
Directors J. M Meisinger, J. H.
Becker, John Albert, Henry Horn, M.
L Frederick, Albert Pappe, J. C.
Hayes. C. F. Lau, and Gottlieb
Sprieck.
The secretary's report showed that
there were 241 policies in force.
raunting to an insurance of $320,
789; that do losses occurred during the
past year; $36 15 were expended and
there is $18 50 in the treasury.
Know How to Entertain.
The ladies of the M E. aid society
certainly have the right idea about
pleasing the appetites of people in
general. The stage at Rockwood hall
last Thursday resembled a genuine
Vew England home, spinning wheels J
and all. But the most interesting fea
ture of the entertainment was the
supper. The tables were laden with
the choicest of delicacies, and the
more substantial articles were not
lackine. The hall was comfortably
filled, and, as a result, the ladies net-
ted a neat sum of money.
Ben Hempel, the court house jani -
tor, was seen on upper Main street to-
day i.ht first time in several ye;;rt
that ha I; been that fur away fiotn
his charge.
I TTJ IV f rq PAITPHT
J lillXLiYiLO IjiUUni .
Kansas City Officers Think They
Have the Harness Thieves.
IS A VERY INTERESTING CASE.
Dr." Neligh and 111 Wonderful Hog
Cholera Remedy Amuse a Large
Crowd iu Justice Archer's
Court-Other Ooinjrs.
Harness Thieve Captured.
From Wednesday's Dally.
Sheriff Ilollotvay received a telegram
last evening from the authorities at
Kansas City, informing him that two
brothers, named Gillispie, had been ar
rested there, having in their posses
sion a quantity of harness, supposed
to have been ctolen in this vicinity and
in Sarpy county. The description of
the men tally with the fellows who are
suspected of having committed the
thefts here, and Sheriff Holloway de
parted for Kansas City on the M. P. at
noon today. Before going, he tele
graphed to the sheriff of Sarpy county
for a description ot the harness stolen
there, and will probably return with
all of the stolen property. If the men
are the right parties, and agree to ac
company the sheriff without requisi
paper9, they will probably arrive in
this city tomorrow night.
X)r." ligh'a Cae.
Justice Archer's court was crowded
all day long Wednesday, the drawing
card being the celebrated case of
A. E. B. Neligh vs. A. S. Will.
Mr. Neligh professes to be some
thing of a hog doctor, but Mr. Will
evidently does not agree with him.
He got a recipe from somebody in Cal
ifornia bome time since and last fall
prevailed upon several farmers in the
neighborhood of Eight Mile Grove,
and among them Mr. Wills, to let him
experiment on their hogs which were
dying of cholera. There was no writ
ten contract between the parties and
as moie than half of Mr. Wills' hog's
that were doctored died and as the
Dr. put an extravagant figure ou his
achievement, Mr. Wills declined to pay
it. Hence the suit. It was tried to a
jury of six men.
The crowd of attendants enjoyed
the scone and the testimony to a rare
degree, A. B. Taylor remarking that
"there is no use of bringing a circus to
town to compete with Doc. Neligh on
the witness stand." It was a picnic
and no mistake, and the whole ase
partook of the nature of a farce.
The testimony showed that the
"medicine," which was put up atOma
ha was different from that which had
been used a year agj by the same
party under the same prescription, and
most of the hogs it was given to died,
while others that took none of it got
well. The testimony of Neligh brought
out the fact that he knew nothing
whatever of the composition of his
prescription, and could not tell the
physiological name of the hog's parts.
The case was given to the jury about
four o'clock, and after deliberating a
6hort time a verdict was returned for
the defendant.
Makes the liext Showing.
At last evening's session of the state
horticulture and historical society,
held in Lincoln, an interesting paper,
by J. Sterling Morton, was read by
Mrs. A J. Sawyer. The subject was
'TheCot.of Local Government Then
and Now," and gives many interesting
facts about the history of Nebraska,
from the territorial dajs up to thepres
ent time. In quoting some sample
counties. Cass shows up aw follows:
"Cass county makes a better show
ing for inexpensive local government
than any of the older counties of the
territory and state. as her annual levy
has averaged only 1 per cent from 1&G5
to 1895, and in the latter year it is only
a little over 1 cent on the dollar.
Wants h Small Fortune.
In January, 1891, Henry Steele had
both feet cut off by the M. P. train and
now he wants that company to pay
him $25,000 damages for the injury.
It is claimed that Steele was intox-
jCated at the time he was hurt and the
company was not in the least to blame.
Steele claims he was forcibly ejected
from the train. From what we can
j learn there will be some interesting
j testimony taken by the lawyers who
' are now here. Nebraska City News.
. ; : , r, , , - , ,
! Jude PurIock Friday decided three
! suits on promissory notes against
: Fred and Emma Schroeder, in the
! plaintiff's favor. Two were filed by
! Gottlieb Sprieck and one by John
Ahl. T lis was Judve Spurlcck's first
j official business in county court.
That Hanquet.
Kx-J udee Chapman was tendered a
complimentary banquet at the Hotel
RileyThursday evening by a number of
friends. The affair is said to have
been quite n success, and the ex-judge
was presented with a silver jug. Those
present were: S. M. Chapman and
wife, Johu J. C. Watson and wife of
Nebraska City, Editor Brown and wife
of the Nebraska City Press, Samuel
Waugh and wife, R. B. Wind
ham and wife, George E. Dovey
and wife, A. N. Sullivan and wife,
John A. Dempster and wife of
Lincoln, C. F. Stoutenborough and
wife, W. H. Dearing and wife, C. M.
Butler and wife, G. F. Houseworth
and wife, G. F. S. Burton and wife,
Mrs. It K. Livingston, Mathew Ger
ing. II. Guy Livingston, Miss Barbara
Gering, Henry It. Geting, Judge G.
M. Spurlock, Miss Gresham and Miss
HtiHish of Wabash, R. W. Hyers aud
Miss Rose Hyers, John A. Davies and
.Miss Bertha Hyers, Will Hyers and
Miss Sullivan. As the newspaper
men in this city who did not support
Chapman during the campaign were
not present, The Journal cannot
give a detailed account of the af
fair. 1'hotogrnphiii;; Criminals.
Officer Jack Farley for some time
has been trying to arrange for the
erection of a photograph gallery for
all criminals sent to the penitentiary
and a slight investigation shows that
his proposed scheme is a good one.
For the ninety and more counties in
this state it is proposed to send a pho
tograph toeach sheriff and he to file it
in his office, making a "rogue's gal
leiy" so when any stranger is arrested
the officers can immediately take the
suspect before the aforesaid gallery
and see if he has ever served a term in
the penitentiary. If he has he can
easily ba identified and the judge w ill
know vshttt to do with him, but if they
do not have sis picture he may escape
easily.
As to the cost of this proposed gal
lery, it will amount to but little, some
thing like $7 for the entire state, and
as soon as it is known that the picture
of every criminal is in the rogue's gal
lery in each county there will be an
exodus from the fctate that will sur
prise the police. It seems to be a great
scheme. Nebraska City News.
Aloiu.o Moore in Jail.
Ex-Sheriff Eikenbary returned from
Sidney. Iowa, Sunday morning, hav
ing in custody Alonzo Moore, who es
caped from the county jail here a cou
ple of months ago. Moore was placed
iu jail again, but he will probably stay
there thi3 time until next May. when
he will have to answer to a charge of
rape. The young man evidently used
ery bad judgment in escaping, as he
will have to lay in jail several months
longer thun he would had he stayed
hereas his trial was booted for the term
of court just closed. "Lonnie" says be
didn't do any more than any other
person would have done under the
circumstances, as the kevs were left
within easy reach, and be simply
picked them up and walked out.
Veroncia Patterson, the young girl
with whom Moore eloped, came home
with her father, aDd was in the city
Mondav.
Another Hold-up.
Agent StoutenDorougb of the M. P.
this morning received a telegram from
the supermtendent'soffiee at Atchison,
Kas.. informing him that the crew on
an extra M. P. freight train had been
held up and robbed last night at
Nassua, near Nevada, Mo. Conductor
Tricket was shot through the nose and
cheek. Among other things taken
from Engineer R. C. Campbell was
pay check G.725, amounting to $100.45.
Mr. Stoutenborough was in3 ructed to
notify the local authorities, and to
stop the payment of the check at the
banks here. Two men were impli
cated ii: the robbery.
Agreeably Surprised.
Henry Hempel was agreeably sur
prised last evening, on the event of
his thirty eight birthday. The happy
epoch was remembered by an elegant
present of a fine easy chair, and some
other gifts. After a very pleasant
evening of progressive high-five, re
freshments were served and the guests
departed at a late hour, Mrs. C. M.
Butler won the prize a beautiful bou
quet. The following friends were
presrnt Mr. and Mis. Clel. Morgan,
Mr. and Mrs. II. D. Travis, Mr. and
Mrs. J.N. Summers, Mrs. John Kline,
Mr. and Mrs. A. Clark, Mrs. C. M.
Butler, Mr, and Mrs. Frank Morgan,
Mrs. Ilouk, Mr. aud Mrs. Ben Elson,
Miss Berta Hyers, Mr. John A. Davies
and Rev. Freund.
A MAD MAN'S DEED.
Joe Draego, While Temporarily In
sane, Creates a Sensation.
WANTED TO KILL HIS FAMILY.
Crazed Hy Suffering Produced Ity the Grip
Family of Fremont Ilrown Thought
They Were Poiaond Other
Local Affairs.
Wanted to Kill His Family.
Jos. Drcega,a machinist employed in
the B. & M. shops here, created quite
a sensation this morning at his home,
over on East Vine street. Mr. Dnega
had been suffering for some time with
an attack of the grip, and this morning
at about six o'clock, just as the family
were getting up, he became suddenly
violently insane. He seized his little
baby, about a year and a half old, and
smashed out a window light, intending
to throw the little one outside. When
he commenced his ravings a couple of
his children, aged about four and six
years, ran screaming out of the house,
barefooted and in their night clothes,
and alarmed the neighbors, who hur
ried to the scene. Mr. Droega was
overpowered before he had injured
the baby, aDd finally quieted down.
He is resting quietly today, and it is
hoped that he will recover again. In
the meantime several men are con
stantly with him to prevent any vio
lence to his family.
Thought They Were Poisoned.
The family of Fremont Brown were
very badly frightened yesterday morn
ing, and they had very good reasons
for believing thev had been poisoned.
The night before last Mrs. Brown pur
chased a quantity of granulated sugar
from Messrs. Zuchweiler &Lutz,and
made some candy with a part of it.
That evening the family nil ate quite
freely of the candy, and early the next
morning Mrs. Brown was awakened
by her husband, who was vomiting
and complained of violent pains in his
stomach. He was as white as a
corpse, and showed every symptoms of
having been poisoned. Several of the
children also complained of not feel
ing well. Restoratives were given Mr.
Brown and everything possible was
done to aleviate the pain. Mrs. Brown
sent word to the grocery store, and an
investigation was made. Some of the
sugar was put in a tin cup, containing
water, and was boiled. This, together
with some of the dry sugar, was sent
to Mr. Fricke's pharmacy to be ana
lyzed. The latter gentleman made a
thorough test and reported that he
had found no traces whatever of
poison in the sugar. Some of the
sugar - boiled by Mrs. Brown had a
slight, greenish tint, and this caused
the family to believe it contained
poison. Mr. Fricke stated that this
condition was caused by the ultramarine-blue
used to color the sugar,
and was perfectly harmless.
The sudden illness of the family was
probably caused by eating a little too
much of the candy.
Messrs. Zuckweiler & Lutz, as soon
as they learned of the matter, gave
orders to sell no more of the sugar
until the investigation had been com
pleted, and are deserving of credit for
their prompt action.
Will Kecommend Kepairs.
The Cass county board of commis
sioners, in company with the Rock
Island railroad's civil engineer, Mr.
Dey, went out to view the crossing
between South Bend and Murdock,
yesterday, where several fatal acci
dents have occurred recently, with a
view of fixing up the dangerous place.
After viewing the crossing, Mr. Dey
said that he would recommend to the
company the repairs needed to put the
crossing in a safe condition. How
ever, it is not probable that anything
will be done at present, as the com
pany will await the outcome of several
damage suits now pending in the
courts, resulting from the accidents
at the crossing.
Delegates Selected.
President Grimes, of the fire depart
ment, has selected the following dele
gates to the State VolunteerFiremen's
convention, at Grand Island, on Jan
uary 21 to 23: F. J. Morgan, Sam Pat
terson, R. B. Hayes, F. G. Morgan, F.
G. Egenberger, Phillip Thierolf A. II.
Weckbach and Frank Green. In ad
dition to these gentlemen, Chief
Schmidtman, Secretary Miller and ex
ChiefClifford will be delegates.
Maor Newell went up to Omaha
this afternoon.
Farm loans made at lowest rates
T. II. Pollock, over First Nat'l Bank,
PERSONAL, POLITICAL AND PERTINENT.
Senator Orlando Teff t of Cass county
was in town yesterday. Mr. Tefft's
executive ability, business judgment
and force in debate during his several
terms of service in the legislature have
drawn to him a great many admirers
who are inclined to the belief that he
would make an excellent governor.
On this subject be had little to say. 4tI
do not know whether I can financially
afford to be a candidate duriDg these
times," was his laconic remark.
Whether this statement was prompted
by a desire not to neglect his business
or by a wish to keep out of competi
tion with the candidate who is re
ported to be worth a quarter of a mil
lion dollars may never be explained.
Lincoln Journal.
Many farmers are getting rid of the
osage orange hedge fence. There was
a time, a third of a century ago, or
about then, when hedge fences were
in vogue with the farmers, and no man
thought he could possess the entire es
teem of his ueighbors unless he had a
mile or so of hedge plants growing
along the rail or board fence of bis
farm. The invention of barbed wire,
its cheap price and small need of re
pairs, and the law that compels own
ers of hedges to keep them trimmed to
a certain height, are all the causes
that operate to check the spread of
hedge fences and to deter farmers
from planting osage slips. The osage
hedge is not gone but it is going.
A feeble minded boy was taken in
charge by the police last Friday and
taken before Mayor Bartling. His
clothes were ragged, his person filthy
and the ends of his fingers frozen so
that they sloughed off. He was found
wandering about the Missouri Pacific
yards and looked like he had received
severe punishment from seme one.
The mayor did not know what to do
with him, so had the officers look up
his parents, who reside in Greggsport,
and ordered them to properly care for
the boy. . It is thought that he will be
sent to the feeble minded asylum at
Beatrice, if his parents do not care for
him better than they have been doing.
Nebraska City News.
A party of thieves stole a trolley car
that was standing at the starting sta
tion in Cincinnati a short time since.
The motorman and conductor were in
the station warming themselves pre
paratory to their trip. The object of
the thieves was to run a trip, collect
the fares, and then abandon the car.
They were caught, howevar, by a pur
suing car before pocketing any fares.
An affecting incident occurred at the
county jail Monday. Morris Conuell,
who is being held charged with ap
propriating a diamond pin, instructed
hrs attorney to write to his brother, in
Chicago, for assistance. The letter
was sent and arrived in Chicago the
same day the corpse of the beloved
brother arrived from Freeport, 111.,
where he had met with a fatal acci
dent in his capacity as railroad bridge
builder. The letter was answered by
an only sister imploring the unfor
tunate man to come and attend the
funeral of his favorite brother, but the
meshes of the law are heartless and
the victim of bad company had noth
ing to console him in his grief but the
cold bars of the steel cage in which ho
was confined. lie professes his inno
cence and vows that once he gets his
freedom he will turn to honest labor
and hew out an honorable and worthy
record in future years. Nebraska
City Press.
The war department is experiment
ing with rubber heels for shoes. And
the tests made by troops at Fort
Leavenworth indicate that the new
heels lessen the jar to the body in
marching, and thus add comfort to the
wearer. If they are good for soldiers,
why not for civilians who have much
walkiDg to do especially letter car
riers and policemen? New Ideas.
Three masked men entered the Mis
souri Pacific depot at Falls City last
night and held up the. agent and one
man in waiting and got all of the
money that the agent had and $15
from the man who was waiting for the
train. This is the second time in this
month that this agent has been held
up and the company have their special
men out today looking everywhere lor
the bold robbers. Nebraska City
News.
Miles Standish, the lineal descend
ant of the Puritanic captain of that
name, who lives near Murray, in this
county, was a Plattsmouth visitor Friday.