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THE A LLI A NCfc-INDEPENDENT. 31 AY 18, 1893. ( I ti I t i THE LAW SATISFIED. MURDERER FRANK C. ALMY STRANGLED CO DEATH. CHXTIE WARDEN IS AYEIICSD. Tk Carrylaa; Oat of the Eieeatloe a MmI Handing Affair-The Kop Waa Too Long and When lb Trap Wu Baruug II M rt fclrack tke rioorThe Body failed I p Second Time Cokcord, N, 1L, May 17.-FranV G Almy, or he wu known in earlj life, George II. Abbott, a criminal who career waa more remarkable in many way than that of any creation of a novelist, waa literally strangled to death by the law here to-day for the murder of Christie Warden. Almy retired early last evening. He aid nothing to the death watch except to bid them good night in hi usual pleaaant manner. The watc-hera were unusually vigilant but nothing oc curred during their long vigil to indi cate that the condemned man was not resting welL At 6 o'clock this morning he arose and after cheerily greeting the watch dressed himself and ate a hearty breakfast with apparent relish. Chaplain Wilklns went to the prison early and he was with Almy until the end, but the condemned man paid no Attention to the chaplain's remarks. At 10 o'clock the warden with the death watch as witnesses, formally delivered Almy to the sheriff, who in formed the doomed man that he might ay anything he wished before going to the scaffold, but be said he had nothing to say. Meanwhile the wit nesses assembled in full view of the fallows, upwards of 150 persona being present At 10:13)1 the death march was taken up and in half a minute the scaffold was reached. The officers quickly strapped Almy'a arms at the elbows and then fasteued his legs. As the sheriff straightened up, Almy looked at the officers and said twice in an almost inaudible tone: "May I apeak?" The sheriff shook his head and as Almv even then appeared to want to speak the cap was hastily put over his face and he said nothing. . Hurlburt, after the cap was fixed, placed the hangman's knot under the left ear and at 10:10 o'clock touched the spring. The drop fell heavily and Almv's body went through the trap. To the horror of the spectators his feet struck the floor below, his knees bending under him. The rope was evidently too long as it did not stretch any. The body bent to the right and slurhtlv forward, Inside of a minute officers on the nlatform of the scaffold swung the rone and nulled the body up several . feet Another feature of the execution that caused the witnesses to shudder was the oositlon of the rope and the knot The former pulled over the left ear while the knot w s fully one foot above the neck. It was evident that the condemned man was strangled to death and that the execution was not a success in its details, though but one or two tremors or twitching mo tions could be seen and then an entire absence of struggling. At 10:30 Almy was pronounced dead The doors were then opened and the spectators filed by the gallows and left the prison. The gallows was re moved before the dinner hour. PLACED IN A BAD LIGHT. Ex-Patent ComntUiioner Hyraond Ac cused of Varlou Crave Shortcoming. ' Washington, May 17. For some weeks past rumors have been circula ting In the interior department serii ously concerning the official conduct of W. E. Symonds, late commissioner of patents. These were due to a letter from one of the most prominent firms of patent attorneys in this city to Commissioner (Seymour stating that they had re ceived i information from a source be lieved to be trustworthy that certain applications in the telephone case of Daniel Drawbaugh in the secret archives of the patent office have been copied, under the authority of Mr. Symonds, while commissioner, by par ties outside of the patent office, con trary to law. It U further stated that during the latter part of Mr. Sy tnond's adminis tration of the oatent office, he com piled a pamphlet containing ninety six paires of closely printed matter en titled "Condensed Treatise on the Law on Patent" . This contains approx imately 555,00 J words and Is said to have been typewritten by government clerks during office hours. Other alle gations of equally serious character are nimlo by persou who claim to be in a position to know the facts. rrealilontUI Appointment. . , Washington, May 17. The presl aent io-aay inatie me loiiowing ap pointment: A C. ltakrof Arizona, to lie chief justice of the supreme court of Arl sona. Kdward U Hall of New Mexlco,tob3 marshal of the I lilted Sutea (or the territory of New Mexico. Jtonjaiuin It Moore of New ork to in collector of custom for the district of Alaska, vice tUlwin T. Hatch, re moved. William II. Pugh. to lie etmiiuissloner Cf customs, vice Ji. , llultiday.rcslirtitut. lloUHrt M. l iiiiMT of leunesse to lie deputy first auditor of the treasury, vice Ale McMillan of PUlrU t of Columbia, reals ntL Secretary I'arlUU appointed httnuu'l tttNedft, Jr., of Mrtilehad, Mat, chief of the etattouvry division of the treasury department A Islal Jake. lit Tiini. Ok., May IT, At Cuhtug elrvty Hamilton aired i asked IUftMUr John William i hand out a drink of whUUy. tilUms aeeaealed a revwSrerand said, jokingly " Ur lu out of that, when tin re vulvar waa aoeldeaulty Uvltr,rfd. aaa a iuiim i4 through loa Usty, kllliag ktu lustaatly. THE WORST CITY IN ;NS Canadian ITnMbltl) IrBM" roanplnnrnl irr la rinn.na C.lr. Torr.K. Kan., XUy 17 .-The ( a dian eoturnUU-e iove-stiirat.a; . workings of prohibition, ao:i)paa.ti by Governor Ieweihuir, Untenant Governor lhtuirla, the Her. O. C. din ner and I. G. Noel, were driven ovt- the citv this morning. A nieinU-r of the eo imitlee saul that thus far their inv-stU..uou& had not btti erieouragiug Ur f.ioliibitiou as a mean of uppr-iifj.' -r even re ulating the liquor traCic lo Topck. all atfived that th taw wa Ul iy well en fur.ed that is m "il as it wus poix.ble to enforce i:. but evtn h,ere they gathered l.o.ii var.ous sources of information, ihnt there were forty places where iiu.jr could be obtained. The same visitor aid that the ob servations of the committee at Kansas City did not give thein Ly any means a favorable impression of the place. Aside from open violation, of the liquor law, they found enough vice to stamp the citv as the very worst place they had sen on their trip. They regarded the gambling dens in the bottom on the Kansas side as a disgrace to the community. They understood that this element of society had been emptied by Missouri upon Kansas soil, but they were greatly surprised that the authorities of Kansas tolerated it THE UNION TERMINAL CASE. Technical Objections Kalaed to Rehearing Politic Among tbe Attorney. Toi'KKA, Kan., May 17. Ilefore the state board of railroad commissioners took up the motion for a rehearing of the Union Terminal case this forenoon a 8. King of the counsel for the Union Terminal company interposed a demurrer, setting up that the board had no right to grant a rehearing of the case because the particular section of the statute referring to grade crossings was silent on the subject of rehearings. He argued the question until nearly noon when Judge Frank Poster of counsel for the Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific began his reply. Associated, with Mr. King for the Union Terminal company is O. A. Vandeever, also of Kansas City, Kan. Mr. King is a well-known People's party leader, offsetting Mr. Poster on the other side, who is also of that po litical faith. Associated with Mr. Poster are Judge David Martin and Judge David Kelso of Atchison, the regular Missouri Pacific attorneys. A STUDENT STABBED. rrobable ratal Catting Affray at the Chllllootbe Normal school. Ciiiixicothk, Mo.. May 17. A des perate cutting affray occurred here (Sunday night, in which a young man named Alpha Dean, a student of the Chillicothe normal school from Carroll county, was dangerously and perhaps fatally Injured, being stabbed no less than eleven times, the most danger ous being in the abdomen. His assail ants escaped in the darkness, but yes terday morning Charles Hefser, Dudley li. Ewing and William Kemp, three young men of the town, were arrested on a warrant sworn out before Justice J. C liarkley, charged with assault to kill. They waived examination and were held to bail in bonds of 93,000 each. Heiser and Ewing gave bonds, but Kemp went to jail in default of balL Their preliminary trial will occur next Monday, May S3. The trouble is un derstood to have originated about a young lady. There Is much indigna tion in the community at the outrage. Kemp was the one who is supposed to have done the cutting. . Kubbcil Senator Quay' Daub. riTTSDCHfl, Pa, May 17. An at tempt was made by burglars at o'clock yesterday morning to biow open the safe of the Heaver Depot bank, at Heaver, with dynamite. The robbers succeded in forcing open the outer safe, but the inner one, contain ing over 820.000 in cash and valuable securities, withstood the shock The bank is known as "Senator Quay's bank." Escaped Only to III. Sisg Sing, N. Y., May 17 A body was found in the river off the prison this morning and was identified by Keeper Connaughton as that of Pal- lister, the condemned murderer, who escaped nearly a month ago with Iloehl, another condemned murderer, whose body was found last week. Governor llolae lu Deep KaruetU Dks Moines, Iowa, May 17. Gover nor Boise, who returned this morning from Muscatine where he was called to investigate the attempt to blow up three families recently, said that no stone would lie left unturned to ferret out the perpetrators of the crime. NEWS NOTES. About S.ihmi Indianapolis union strike street teamsters and laborer are on for eight hours and all public work is at a standstill. The White Star Line intend .build ing a mammoth steamer to rival the Campania. It is to lie called the til- ganliu and will lm Moo feet long twenty feet longer than the Great Eastern. the r.xenange iaiK ot formal, a suburb of lUooiuiittfiou, III., cUmhhI Its tloor. It was a private banklug in stltution conducted by W. II, fehurr- ti tan, ad the cause was doing bust- ncM without adequate capital. The di-poalts are fftNi,(ssi and the capital slock was supposed io le suvoou. The City of Melbourne Wok ha appended. It paid dividend of ten per cent in lw on a capital of .MV ism anl had a reserve I una of l.'.i.M,- wi iH'piMit on ikHctuiwr SI were nearly tn.uno.oou, It was eleventh on the list of Australian bank as re trd deptadu and paid up capital. while a party of children were In the wood at Gtifow, Mo, tllte Isieliimetc, a young girl, too a target fait HhUh had Imh-h enapi't several time without tiptodtnf and plav fttllv placing 11 near the head of Howard Uigga, snaptt the gun. ThU time (t ttploded and the ball entered the back rt the boy's head. prtl paralysis fallow au4 the Utile fellow U', dla NEBRASKA NEWS. Abbreviated News Prom All Parte ol the State. Twenty men have petitioned for as A. O. U. W. charter at Scribner. Ihe proposed bonds for a new school heuse at Wakefield were defeated. There is a class of people in Me Fherton who eat sauer kraut all sum mer. An effort ifl being made to raise funds for erecting a Methodist church at Sargent Cedar Rapids will vote June 5th on a nroDosition to bond the village foi water works. John Jones, living near Atkinson, is out of a home. As usual it was a defective flue. - , There is a prospect that Pender may manage to worry along tbe coming year without a saloon. , - According to the Cedar Rapid Re publican winter wheat in Boon coun ty is in splendid condition. Frank Ramsey of Banner county broke his shoulder while trying to break his horse. Custer county farmers will try the experiment of raising a few acres of millet for winter feeding. A. D. Graham of Shelton has hipped the last of 11,000 stall-fed sheep to tbe eastern markets. Tbe marshal of Scribner has been arrested for an alleged assault, and will plead "justification'1 in the courts. Charley Msronville living near Lamar killed thirty-five rattlesnakes in one day in a prairie doj town near his farm. Samuel Seydel of Hitchcock county realized $1,600 from his last year's crop of corn by feeding it to a bunch of steers. J. C. Werber of Sargent is out of doors for the first time ia three months. . He was bedridden over twenty waeks. Platte Center is again without a newspaper. It bas been found that the tows is hardly large enough to keep an editor out of a poor house. The seoend aanual exposition of the manufacturers' and consumers associ ation of Nebraska will bo held at Omaha, from May 22 to Juno 3. F. F. Roose. formerly of Lincoln, has sold bis interest in the Lincoln Normal university and purchased the Omaha Business college. Some thousand hogs were marketed at South Omaha Saturday and brought an average of 17.35 per hundred. No wonder the farmers are getting rloh. The small boys of Blair have slain nearly all the singing birds in the for ests round about with murderous air rifles. One or the other should be suppressed. Of the Rhoney family, seven in num ber, who went from Waterloo to Okla homa last March, five were killed by the recent tornado. Mr. Rhoney and one child escaped. A pupil of the Genoa Indian school, while stealing a riae on a freight train slipped under a car and his leg was so badly crushed that it was necessary to amputate it above the knee. The Rook Island bas hit upon a combination which beats the recotd by naming a town Kanorado, which is located on the state line between Kan. sas and Colorado. Tbe late warm weather has so af fected William Gregg of Washington county that he has lost twenty-five pounds of flesh, but as he still has 325 pounds to fall back on he feels no alarm. Mayor Morgan of Fullerton, who la himself a lawyer, has decided to get along without a regularly appointed city attorney. If the board wants any legal advice he is ready 'o furnish it at cost. Thomas Andrews, one of the slippery twaia who broke jail at Nebraska City, March 19, while awaiting sen tence for grand larceny, was captured at Oklahoma the other day by the deputy sheriff of Cass county. Eight months ago Banaard Sweanay of York got a silver in his eye and the subsequent Inflammation destroyed the sight. The ether day be had the optlo removed, and will hare a new one put in with the optic ncrvo loft out C. W. Orr is being prosecuted at Niobrara for having sold a pint of oh- be-joyful to a red-skin named Elk, whereby the noble son or too torest be came unduly boisterous for Mia. Elk and the little Elks. Rev. M. Theresa Allen has justgrad uated a clam at Pender in the mystlo philosophy of spiritual manifestation. They are, in fact so proficient as to make a table danco on it nina legs and produce other psychic whoop-em up without the application ot physi cal or mental force, so far as the eye caa dUcover. . Wm. C. Miller, cashier of the Crof- ton State bank, at the time Crofton was laid out made the r mle that, to the first baby born in tl e new town a town lot would be given. On April IUt a handsome pair of twlndaugh ters were bora to Mr. and Mrs. Ed ward Hutchinson of Crofton. and now Mr. Milter will have to consider the problem on the basis that if one baby Is worth one town lot. to babies mutt be worth two to a Iota ChrUtlaa lllpoe of Seward eouety has aoovaled to the courts to save hi from the fun of hla fethr-la-U whom he eoi'iutte of Uiubaatinf Mm with aa aim club. The o!4 otaa U uader heads to appear In Ihe district reurt a4 shew taue mhj he sheuU at pa ft Ane aa he seat to jail, or helh. for ' assault Uh latest Is) d ho4Uj lojttiy." Thetriuhlereoar the cattle ef one trislr Oft the tern erlb of the other. BEST Ul COLD FILLED LUil.N IMK YVALTnAM TBI. WATCH QIO 7C , m. . on O I L I 0 Meatiou Alllance-IodependeDt when answer- T KIRKVOOD H E $JtL WlHO tHOIhC. Baa been In ne -nra ixfS It as uie Pieueer 8f I Mli4 Iibieuo,ti'reDK-b, 0ur abi.ItT rower : It i tbe beat; r.enre tb mill tor you to buy Tbniauda b taem I OCHST8EL TOWERS Have 4 angle tel eorDerpoatt uljsunttated Meet tiru sua bra ce: not fence wire. Thej are light, ftroim, Sim pi in OoDsbuctloD, mocb eheaoar ttar wood ana will la it a life t.mt! Our mills and tower are ALL STBKL and KUlLY ouabantfed. Writ (or price. n1clrriar. Address MeDtlonlng tbn pa KIRKWOOCiWINO EH61KE 60.. ArkeneaeClty. Kaneao, IIOHTIHO PLATER n lultilatlnJwaln UUiteaan, a, tl toaH af Jcwrl a at icwrlr mmi at , aa all kiaifaf awul alts fold, atinr r alcHel. Ma npcriaaaa. Va aapltai. Svery aouw kaa tood acr at, 3 IBpialliig. waoMaawta aaaalafa. Wrluforeirea. lu. H. B. DELNV aV V,iMBaba. CHEW and SMOKE untaxeu NATURAL LEAF TOBACCO BUST IN THK WORLD. YOUR GROCER SELLS IT. Save the tax, cost of manu facture, and moid adulteration. Ask your grocer for , Famers of the West! tAVETH! FREIGHT tod DEALERS PROFITS -OH- WALL PAPER. TJAPER st Retail and Wholesale Prices. P per 4c and up. Borders lc sod up. Send 5c for samples of tbe most beautiful design ever off ered In tbe west. Side walls, celling and bor der to matcb. Our shipping facilities are un equalled, we simply save you tbe freight rrom cnicago. Ed. Monroe; 6(6 Second Street, - - Hastings Neb. 'THE HANDY" FORCE PUMP. For spraying trees, washing windows. Has two brass nozzles, sprayer, hi as p linger, cross handle and brass vatves. Price $2.60. Works just as good and lasts ss long us a pump for eight dollars or ten dollar, write for circu lars. Agents wanted, we can supply agents witn a variety oi utucK-sei.inK uouhenoia arti cles. Address, CHARLES SCHULTHEISS, Council BiufTs. Iowa. Bipans Tabules a-siht diiroMon; sweeten a sour sloraacb; cure liver troubles. The Aultman V '9 race IfawX V ' VtA " 4 "" ft" ' ' V iiiri''1"' i!V""' "" f , v iVl s f f C la ml a, I J H'ili BaXxOUXUtl l-r 7 TJJ wu taut Aitvt. " ft. ?'P Tji fit wmmmmm JfV 'T ("' 7 t7 m n m r m ,,. 1$S9'r y SEARS, ROEBUCK A CO, t ' C jf aosiiAroua bus. . ' '-JjrV a sin I, w arCkA caaSea SaaaS1 m aaito hm mm Ml lamia ber. MS-A For Catalogue and Prices addroas HAWTHORNE Sir J-' 9 rr'icf ' ' mi mm 26S Feet Front. . Sd Lard Normal College in America. rpHIS SCHOOL Is now In full operation in all it i1er-Ttrren fcetwern H nd frTO n'nti irt - sctnsl st'endsnre. Tb-re bs been at lesrt t :l n t f 1 1 1 m 1 1 1 u i u. i il e uet-A sn equal amount In 1HD3. e need now 60 to 7 bousr to acr-op niYi 'h tMCrnu. We are felling loU from ffiOOOto H00 on ey term and it I a fim class bim e todoul.le yanr money within (he next 12 month. But a lot. build a house: It will ia for lUelf wiiM. the THE WESTERN NORMAL, Is situated on high rolling ground overlooking the fapilol c!ty-a city of 6 000 pople -anlit connected with the city by electrle cr. Hawthorne tiroj ert ! e finest property around tbe city of Lincoln and I tbe place to educate your children. Yoa hsve city sdvsntaeei with country u,x-.. u, 0H ".re '"'"king of sending your children to school buy a lot, build a bouse and rent a psrt of It it will pay all eipene, and will pa; for iiself in athorttlme. We also have some smsll tracts of land nesr tbe college from one to thirty acres luat tbe thing for gardening-, an near tbe W't tern Normal will sell cheap and on easy terms, tor any lnforii'StloB in regard to. loll and land at or near Western Normal call on or write, BARBER & FOWLER, ROOM 10-1041-0 St , - - Lincoln. Neb. J r ilf I 3i -v. " Wk XMMsj Onaa My WmuM .flr Bn M Price, SEND FOR CATALOGUE. NAgents Wanted for the & Taylor Machinery Company. x vTy.W. ' Jf e XLle ON THE HILL jLEGE teat of OMAHA COLLEGE ' -OF-Shorthand and Typewriting. A. C. 0o, A. M , Principal and Proprietor. An Exclusive School of Stenograph. Experienced and practical stenographers as Instructors. The only exclusive school la imiaua mat gives a iree Kngiisb course. Mays John s. Hart, Principal of Philadelphia High School: "Home of our students not yet turned twenty are making more money by shorthond than the principal of the high school after having given hlmseif for more than twen- ly years w me proiession." s The Standard Reminc-ton is the Tvpe- wilier usea. oaorinana writers com mand from $50 to $150 per month. For further particulars call on or address, Omaha College ol Shorthand and Typewriting, Boyd'sNewThealreBldg, OMAHA, Cor. ii ax iiarney bis. NUB. Kimball Pianos and Organsv A HOSpE, Jri rnaha, fteb. Western Managor, OMAHA, NEB. v: 1 .