SALESMAN CHARGED WITH
LEADING DOUBLE LIFE
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The double life led by Charles
Payne, an Omaha traveling salesman,
has como to light in St. Joseph, Mo.
Payne is charged with having rob
bed two dozen houses there in as
many nights. He was arrested by de
tectives and two marked coins were
found in his possession.
The prisoner refused to give his
name. He said he came from Pitts
burg, Pa., and was a machinist. An
examination of his hands showed that
he had not been recently engaged In
manual labor.
After a long search the police locat
ed his wife in Omaha. A letter was re
ceived from her by Chief of Police
Frans asking him to make a search for
her missing husband, Charles Payne,
a traveling salesman.
The young woman described her
husband and said he had not written
her for more than a week.
Payne had been in jail more than a
week. He had not told his wife that
he was under arrest.
Mrs. Payne was told that her hus
band was in jail and came to him at
once. The meeting in the jail was
an effecting one. Payne had been a
traveling salesman, but he had also
been a burglar. The latter occupation
he had concealed from his young wife.
When she went to the jail she car
ried their four-months-old baby in her
arms. Payne told her he had been
leading a double life, and that he
would have to plead guilty. He said
to others that he had stolen for his
wife and baby, and not for himself.
He was in debt and his wife did not
have enough money to make her com
fortable in his absence.
Mrs. Payne will not desert her burg
lar husband in bis trouble. She has
refused to tell where her parents live.
She will work for her own living and
that of her child, and await the time
when her husband can rejoin them.
The officers believe Payne has been a
burglar many years, and that he tried
to reform when he married the young
woman who is now his wife.
Where He Was Black.
Bishop Vincent of the Methodist
church and one of the founders of
the Chautauqua circle, tells of an in
cident that helped to make interesting
a summer he spent in the mountains
of Tennessee. Strolling thoughtfully
along one day, he suddenly found him
self in the midst of a very active
camp meeting of negroes. Two or
three ministers present recognized
him. introduced him to others, and
soon the bishop found himself so
popular that he was fairly dragged
to the speakers' platform and asked to
say something to the assemblage. He
consented, and one of the blacks step
ped forward to introduce the unexpect
ed visitor. This master of ceremonies
went right to the point. He bade the
gathering know they were all of one
purpose and spirit, notwithstanding
the difference in complexion, and
wound up as follows:
"Now, brethren and sisters. Brother
Vincent, as yo’ can see for yo'selves,
Is white of face; but at heart, let me
tell yo’—at heart, I say—he is as
black as any of us.”
EXPERT ON STREET RAILWAYS.
Detroit Man Chosen for Head of the
American Association.
President Jere C. Hutchins of the
Detroit United Railway, who has been
elected president of the American
Street Railway Association, is a native
of Louisiana, 50 years of age and by
profession a civil and constructing
engineer. He had been for many
years engaged in heavy railway work
in the south when he went to Detroit
five years ago to reorganize the street
railways of that city, and in connec
tion with R. T. Wilson of New York
Jere C. Hutchins.
And Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland, he
lias built up what is considered a
model railway system.
MAUDE ADAMS’ HEALTH POOR.
Report That Popular Star Will Not
Act This Season.
Mi9s Maude Adams, the noted star,
about whose movements and concern
ing whose health there have been
Maude Adams.
much comment of late, ia said to have
left England on tho Kron Prinz Wil
helm for this country, listed under her
family name Maude Kiskaden. Miss
Adams has been located simultaneous
ly within the past week at London,
Paris, in the Adirondacks and at her
summer home on Long Island. It is
said that her health never robust, is
now seriously impaired, and that she
will not appear on the stage during
the coming season, though those who
ought to know are either reticent as
to her movements or they are not in
her confidence.
An Author’s Experience.
Will N. Harben. while gathering ma
terial for a novel in the North Georgia
mountains, had a queer experience, ac
cording to a literary exchange. “He
asked for shelter over night at a
mountain cabin. There were four beds
in the room and no curtains, and the
visitor wondered what they would do
with him. They ail sat cheerfully
around the fire after supper, and about
9 o'clock the mountaineer said: 1
reckon me ’n you’d better go down to
the spring and git us a drink.’ At
the spring the host obviously detained
his guest for a few minutes, and on re
turning to the cabin they found it
wrapped in darkness. The two men
went in and slept in a bed together.
The next morning before dawn the au
thor was awakened from the most de
lightful sleep he had ever experienced.
It was the mountaineer bending over
him. ‘I reckon,’ the man said, that
me ’n you’d better crawl out an’ give
the women folks a chance to git up
an’ cook breakfast/ ”
NEBRASKA IN GENERAL
A VALUABLE PUBLICATION.
Book Showing Nebraska’s Industries
and Resources.
Labor Commissioner C. E. Watson,
assisted by Chief Clerk R. A. Hodge,
has issued a large book entitled "Ne
braska's Industries and Resources."
Ten thousand copies have been print
ed.
A chapter is devoted to each coun
ty in the state, and a minute descrip
tion of the soli of each township is
given. The leading industries of the
various counties, the cities of Omaha,
Lincoln and South Omaha, are given
must space and fine illustrations set
forth facts better than wofds could
possibly do. The farm and the fac
tory both come in for elaborate de
scriptions, and pictures are used to
portray the growth of the state and to
present its present advanced position
in the agricultural and industrial
world. The educational Institutions of
the state are also described.
THE NEBRASKA ODD FELLOWS.
Election of Officers at the Session Held
in Lincoln.
LINCOLN—The grand lodges of Odd
Fellows selected officers for the ensu
ing season as follows:
Grand Master—W. J. Wolf of Fair
bury.
Deputy Grand Master—C. H. Ellis of
Laurel.
Grand Warden—Walter Leese of
Lincoln.
Grand Secretary—I. P. Page of Fre
mont.
Grand Treasurer—F. B. Bryant of
Omaha.
Representative to Supreme Grand
Lodge—C. A. Randall of Newman
Grove, past grand master.
Member of the board of trustees to
fill the vacancy caused by death of
Arthur Gibson, George A. Loomis of
Fremont.
Judges Suggest Code Revision.
A committee of the State Bar asso
ciation. consisting of District Judges
Holmes of Lancaster. Letton of Jef
ferson, Grimes of Lincoln, Baxter of
Douglas and Good of Saunders, met in
Lincoln and discussed plans for revi
sion of various laws. Another meet
ing is to be held December 1, at which
each judge is to present the draft
measures intended to be presented to
the state legislatures.
It was decided that in the absence
of any code commission revision there
were some laws that needed immedi
ate attention. One of these is that re
lating to divorces. One plan is to pro
hibit remarriage of the party at faulL
making it bigamous to do so. Anoth
er contemplates prohibition of remar
riage within six months of both par
ties.
Morgall Goes to Prison.
Ed Morgall, who was sent to the
penitentiary October 10, 1901, from
Douglas county to serve seventeen
years on conviction of rape, is again
within the state prison walls after an
absence therefropi since last Febru
ary. In the latter month he developed
a clear case of insanity and upon the
finding of the insanity board of the
penitentiary was removed to the in
sane hospital for treatment. Upon the
certificate of Superintendent Greene of
the insane hospital to the effect that
he had recovered his mental health
Morgall was ordered back to the prison
by the governor.
Prisoner Refuses to Eat.
Bud Harlas, the man who is in jail
in Plattsmouth charged with shooting
a liveryman named Q-kmI at Union, has
been acting very queer since being
brought there. He has taken no food
of any kind, and when Sheriff J. D.
McBride goes in with the meals for
the prisoners he always finds this fel
low standing like a statue in the cor
ner of his cell. The physician is of
the opinion that the prisoner is try
ing to work the insanity dodge. Sev
eral years ago, it is said, in a fit of
insanity, Haralas cut his throat, but a
physician was near and saved his life.
Later he was sent to an asylum.
Accidentally Shoots Himself.
Iver Campbell, living in Nance coun
ty, not far from Genoa, while getting
into a buggy with a loaded double
barreled shotgun, accidentally dis
charged both loads into his right arm
just below the shoulder, literally tear
ing the arm into shreds, the shock
and loss of blood before he could be
tnken eight miles for medical attention
being such that he is not expected to
live.
Badly Burned with Acid.
Lester Champney, the 10-year-old
son of F. E. Champney of Nebraska
City, had his eyes badly burned with
carbolic acid. The mother was reach
ing for something on a high shelf and
overturned the bottle of acid, which
fell on the boy’s head, throwing the
contents into his face. It is feared his
eyes aro permanently inju—•*
SL Mary’s hospital at Columbus was
dedicated by Bishop Scanned.
The dead body of Andy Svec was
found on the railroad near Milligan.
Milkmen at Lincoln have organized
to raise the price of their product.
The postofllce at Wood River was
robbed of 3200, the safe having been
blown with dynamite.
A stranger placed In the jail at
Friend sot fire to the same and was
nearly suffocated when rescued.
William Rutledge's barn in Burt)
county war, burned. The total loss isj
3500. A fine span of horses perished.
The Knox county bank of Verdigre
has filed articles of incorporation plac
ing its authorized capital stock at ?30,
000.
Mrs. Henry Hartman of Syracuse,'
who was seriously burned by the ex
plosion of a lamp at the family home
stead, died from her injuries.
The fund for the Young Men’s Chris
tian association building at York has
now passed the 315,000 mark and the
erection of the building is thereby as
sured.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed by tile National Investment com
pany of Omaha, the declared purpose
of which is dealing in real estate. Its
capital stock is plated at 1600,000.
Five of Spalding’s substantial men
have applied for a charter to conduct
a banking business under the name of
the Spalding City bank. The bank
will be ready to operate December 1.
Jacob Newman, a pioneer farmer of
York county, having lived on his
homestead near Bradshaw for thirty
years, was tried by the insanity com
mission and will oe sent to the asylum
at Lincoln.
Frank Meister and Patrick O’Brien,
who were found guilty of stealing hogs
from Adam Molu, in Sarpy county,
were sentenced by Judge Head. Meis
ter got three years and O Brieu two
years and six months.
Fourteen war widows got off the
train at Ainsworth the other day and
the real estate men took them to the
country and they all located land. They
were from towns in Iowa and were a
fine looking set of ladies.
Mrs. P. F. Venner was brought to
Kagle from Lincoln, where was at the
hospital the past ten days. She stepped
on a rusty nail, causing blood poison.
It was feared for a time she would lose
her foot She is gradually getting bet
ter.
The Small Hopes Mining company is
the name of an Omaha concern that
has filed articles of incorporation. Its
incorporators are Samuel Rees, C. D.
Hutchinson, John A. Wakefield and
George E. Gibson and it authorized
capital stock is $500,000.
James Morris, a young man residing
in Beatrice, was seriously injured by
being thrown from his horse while
chasing jack rabbits. He was uncon
scious for five hours after the acci
dent happened, and for a while his life
was hanging in the balance.
A. L. Garrison, while hunting along
the bluffs south of Nebraska City,
discovered a cache containing a silver
watch, five revolvers and forty-two
pennies. There is nothing to indicate
where they came from, but it is sup
posed they were buried by. thieves.
A well attended meeting was held!
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in York to hear addresses on the coal
strike situation and to raise money
for the benefit of the strikers. In a
short time $50 was contributed and a
committee was appointed to see all
sympathizers of the strikers and col
lect from them for the strikers’ ben
efit
A good many loads of wood are be
ing hauled to Fremont and from all
indications more of it will be burned
than during any season for some time.
Four-foot hardwood, oak and maple, is
selling for $7.50 per cord. A farmer
in Elkhorn township has 4,000 cords,
which he expects to find a market for
before spring.
Frank lams arrived in St. Paul with
a special express train carrying his
latest and largest importation of
French and Belgian horses. There
were four cars of beauties—all black
except five boys. They consist of 2
to 4-year-olds and weigh from 1,700
to 2,400 pounds. Mr. lams spent four
months in France making tnis selec
tion.
Edward D. Brodboll, a banker oi
IJndsay, Platte county, secured the
appointment by Judge Holmes of the
local district court of a commission to
examine into the sanity of Mrs. Henri
etta Zessin, who i3 a large land owner
near his town and who has a deposit
ot between $15,000 and $20,000 in hif
bank.
As the result of a runaway through
the main streets of Aurora, Frank Fen
ster, a well known farmer, lies at the
point of death with a concussion oi
the brain and Fred Jeffers, clerk ol
the district court, is confined to hi*
room with a couple of broken rib*
and many bruises, thankful that he it
alive.
METHODIST LAYMEN CHOOSE
JUDGE HORTON FOR HEAD
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Judge Oliver H. Horton, elected
president of the Laymen's Association
connected with the Rock River confer
ence of the Methodist church, has
been on the circuit bench of Cook
county, Illinois, since 1887, and for the
past four years has occupied a seat
on the appelate tench. He began his
official career as corporation counsel
of Chicago, under Mayor Roche, and
though a Republican in politics has
boen the candidate of both parties in
the three elections with which he
has been honored. Judge Horton is
an alumnus of the Union School of
Law, member of a number of social
organizations, and is deeply interested
in mission and other works of the
Methodist church. The selection has
met with general approval.
HE WOULD HANG OPERATORS.
Mayor Hurley of Salem, Mas*., Ex
plained Plan to End Strike.
Mayor Hurley’s talk at Salem,
Mass., when he told a mass meeting
Mayor Hurley.
that the mine owners ought to be
hanged, has caused much comment in
that city, of which he is the chief ex
ecutive. The mass meeting had been
called to collect funds for the anthra
cite miners. In soliciting subscrip
tions Mayor Hurley said: “I know of
only one way to help this matter, and
that is to hang those people who are
the cause of it. I do not mean to kill
them, but just to ‘yank’ them up and
let them drop two or three times, and
I guess they would cry quits.”
Their Odd Protest.
The waiters of Trieste, Austria,
have gone on a strike in order to force
their employers to abolish the custom
of "tipping.” In the old country the
giving of tips to waiters and others is
universal, and virtually compulsory.
The result is the employers give their
servants small wages or no wages, or
even make them pay a bonus for the
privilege of working—on the expecta
tion that patrons will make up the
deficiency by liberal tips. The tipping
system thus is of little and uncertain
benefit to the waiters, and they in
sist upon being paid regular wages.
There is no ikelihood, however, of
the custom being changed, as it is too
deeply rooted.
WOMAN FILLS STATE OFFICE.
Mias J. N. Bishop, First of Her Sex
on Public Board in Alabama.
Miss J. Nicholene Bishop, who was
recently appointed a member of the
state examining board of school
teachers to fill a vacancy, is the first
woman to fill a state office in Ala
bama. Her appointment caused as
much surprise as gratification. It is
known that State Superintendent Gun
nels is favorably disposed toward the
idea of promoting women to county
superintendents and a departure in
Mis# J. N. Bishop.
that line may be expected now that
the Ice has been broken in the state
offlee.
Father of Steel Magnate.
John Schwab, the father of Charles
M. Schwab, Is the nabob of Loretto, a
little Pennsylvania village on the crest,
of the Alleghany mountains. He is
the richest resident, ltc only retiredl
merchant. Several years before his
son had managed to creep very far
up the ladder in Braddock, Schwab*
by means of a livery business aud a
farm, got together a comfortable sumi
for use in his declining years. He is)
now 65 years old, but his six feet oC
spare body remains as straight as an
arrow, and not a gray hair shows In
his black hair and beard. The mother
is the opposite of her husband. Sho
is typically German. Her figure is
short and stout, her face round and
full, and her complexion and hair fair.
She is exceedingly affable. The vil
lagers say that ‘Charlie takes after
his mother In everything except his
nose,” whch is prominent, “like his
father’s.”
TO DEAL WITH PHILIPPINES.
General Smith Will Serve on thd
Isand Commission.
Gen. James F. Smith of California,
who has been appointed a member of
the Philippine commission to succeed
Bernard Moses, who is to retire Jan.
1, is at present associate justice of
the supreme court of the Philippine
Islands. He was formerly collector of
customs for the Islands, in which posi
tion he showed marked ability. Be
fore the war Gen. Smith was a lawyei
Gen. Jamei F. Smith.
of San Francisco, and under Cleve
land s administration was deputy coli
lector of the port of San Francisco.
He is a prominent Roman Catholic
layman and accompanied Gov. Taft to
the Vatican.
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Temperance Experiment.
In the little town of Thorley, Eng
land, the duke of Bedford has estab
lished a model public house. It is a
large, airy, attractive building, a regu
lar workingman’s club. Beer is not
prohibited, but only a very good
quality is sold. Instead of being
leased it is put in the hands of a
manager at a fixed salary with cer
tain commissions. He receives a
handsome commission on everything
he sells except beer; so that it is to
his interest to induce his customers
when they require stimulants to take
food and mineral waters instead of
beer.
Governmental Economy.
The Gaulois of Paris tells a story
relating to the recent visit of the
Duke de Sexto, who was sent by King
Alfonso of Spain to bear the insignia
of the Golden Fleece to President
Loubet It states that the ambata
, 7lra?. ry waa "considerably
astonished” to be called upon to „av
600 francs for the hire of carriages
which coneveyed fcim and his suite
t(® a“d f.rom the Klysee. The Gaulois
added that this was the usual prac
tice when embassies were reeefveS