Nebraska Newspapers

    THE STOOGE TBIBUNI
F. in. KIMfllELL , Publisher *
McCOOK , : : NEB
STATE NEWS.
'NEBRASKA MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
The Western Printing Company at
'Omahahas failed.
A fine Danish church at Danebrog
is nearing completion.
The Omaha school fund derives
$277,000 from the saloons.
A Knights of Pythias lodge has
been organized at Geneva.
Gov. Thayer and wife will attend
the G. A. 11. reunion at Boston.
The corn crop prospect in Dakota
county is of the brightest kind.
Recent rains about Clay Center
have put the farmers in excellent spir
its.
Mortuary statistics of Lincoln
show forty deaths for the month of
July.
July.The
The M. E. church just completed
atHaigler , will bo dedicated on the
17th.
17th.A
A rain and wind storm did consid
erable damage in and around Peters
burg.
The Masonic order at Valentine
has received a charter from the grand
lodge.
lodge.Tho
The Saunders county agricultural
society offers over $500 in speed pre
miums.
Continued dry weather has very
much injured corn prospects in Chase
county.
county.The
The old settlers of southern Ne
braska will hold a reunion at Carleton
August 28.
There are 5,953 children of school
age in Seward county 3,097 males and
2,846 females.
The present outlook for corn in
the vicinity of Friend is from fifteen to
forty bushels per acre.
Denman Thompson will open the
new Kerr opera house at Hastings in
"The Old Homestead. "
A thirty-foot vein of magnesia has
been discovered by a well digger eight
miles north of Concord.
A thirty-foot vein of magnesia has
been found by a well-digger eight
miles north of Concord.
Adams county is indebted to the
great state of Nebraska in taxes for
the year 1890 § 27,328.78.
The low stage of the Republican
river renders the catfish and suckers
easy victims of the sportsmen.
The enterprising citizens of Lush-
ton have arranged for a big horse fair
and racing to take place August 16.
An original package house was
opened atBrownville , whereat the tem
perance people are greatly agitated.
. J. N. Horris , of Thayer county ,
was killed by lightning last week , be
ing near his house when the bolt struck
him.
John K. Clark , a wealthy and
prominent citizen of Lincoln , died sud
denly from heart disease .a few days
ago.
A David City man bucked the
tiger of the Chicago board of trade
and came out $10,000 ahead in a corn
deal.
Five horses belonging to E. L.
Haas of St. Edwards ran into a barb
ware fence and three were fatally in
jured.
The store of Gillan & Co. , Au
burn , was broken into and robbed of
knives , revolvers , a shotgun and some
money.
money.The
The school census of York county
ser 1890 shows 6,231 children of school
age , a gain of twenty over the census
of 1889.
About one hundred claims under
he dependent pension law recently
passed have been sent in already from
Lincoln.
Governor and Mrs. Thayer have
gone to Boston to attend the national
encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic.
At the election held in West Point
to vote on bonds for the new city hall ,
bonds for $7,000 were voted by a ma-
jo&ty of 8.
'
From Elkhorn City to Chadronthe
Elkhorn valley is said to be covered
with the finest corn fields ever grown
in that section.
The Catholic church is holding a
season of prayers every day for a cessa
tion of the present dry spell , says the
Friend Telegraph.
By the explosion of a gasoline
stove , Mrs. Frank Taylor of Adams
county , was terribly burned and her
life is despaired of.
The barn of R. A. Twiss of Fre
mont was struck by lightning during a
thunder storm and burned to the
ground. Loss $400.
Wilber boasts that there is but
one prisoner in the county jail at that
place. The others sawed through the
bars and walked off.
While Ollie Cowing was making a
coupling near Weston his hand caught
between the cars , crushing it so badly
that amputation was necessary.
George Harris , ( colored ) a barber
of Omaha , suicided at Spring Grove ,
Douglas county , last week , by shooting
limself through the right lung.
August 21 the old settlers of York ,
? elk , Butler and Seward counties will
jold their annual picnic in the grove
three miies northeast of Gresham.
The Lincoln Packing andProvis-
on company's smoke houses at West
lancoln were destroyed by fire. Eleven
thousand pounds of meat was consumed.
A > u Episcopal church will be built
tn Geneva this fall , in which will be
placed & beautiful memorial window
to Thomas H. Ferris , the honored
knight who was drowned at Milwau
kee last month.
E. O. Bartlett , P.M. How and
Jens Anderson of St. Paul are off for
Europe. Among other things they
will bring back is a herd of Shetland
ponies.
ponies.John
John Magrltz , the seventeen-year-
old eon of W. H. Magritz , a farmer
living two miles east of Fremont , was
fatally injured by being struck by a
wind mill.
The Hickman fair will bo held
September 24 to 26 inclusive. Pre
miums to the amount of $1,200 will be
offered , besides liberal purses for
speed contests.
A proposition to bond the city in
the sum of $7,000 to build a city hall
was defeated at the special election in
West Point , the majority being only
eleven votes.
A number of Juniata's citizens are
about to remove to western Arkansas ,
being attracted to that state by favor
able reports concerning its climate and
healthfulness.
Unadilla is putting in a system ol
water works on a small scale by the
construction of a reservoir upon the
hill. It will supply fire protection and
private service.
Considering the long period of
dry weather , corn in the vicinity of
Tecumseh looks very well. It will
yield a half crop in all places and in
some localities more.
The independent people's conven
tion for the Fifteenth state senatorial
district will meet at Sargent , Custer
county , on August 20 , to nominate a
candidate for state senator.
The Daily Omaha Republican , it
is said , will be revived by W. Morton
Smith and J. M. Gillan. The size will
be decreased one-half and the prohibi
tion cause will be advocated.
Owing to a short crop there will
be no corn canned at the Seward fac
tory this year , and if the season is not'
more favorable later on it is probable
that no tomatoes will be put up.
There seems to be a gang of horse ,
thieves loitering .around the vicinity
of Hastings. They are high-toned
cusses and their ambition seems to be
to steal nothing but blooded stock.
Barbers in a Lincoln shop went on
'
a strike the other day because the proprietor -
prietor refused to place the chairs so
they could look out of the window ]
while at work without turning around.
Unofficial returns give Sewardj
county a population of 15,588 , but the
official figures will probably raise the
number to 17,000. The town of Sew
ard is credited with 2,000 inhabitants.
Ruby M. Keaton , of Berlin , Otoe ,
county , has sued for a divorce from
her husband , A. B. Keaton , whom she ,
charges with disposing of her property-
for $1,000 and swindling her father
out of $1,000 more.
The splendid bridge connecting
O'Neill and Holt county with the tract
of lands , part of the ceded Sioux reser-i
vation , soon to be opened for settlement -
ment , was finished last week and
opened for traffic.
A crazy man named Hughes is at
large somewhere between Elm Creek
and Kearney. He declares his mis
sion is to kill six people and then him
self. He will be taken care of by the
authorities if captured.
While Thomas Woodson , a Platts-
mouth boy about twelve years old , was
practicing on a bar , he missed his hold ,
and fell several feet , breaking his right
wrist close to the joint , the bone pro
truding through the flesh.
During a storm the farm residence
of H. Madison , "living one and a half
miles east of Crete , was struck by
lightning and burned to the ground ,
the family only saving the smaller
part of their household goods.
It is said that the proprietors of
the Lincoln woolen mills will com
mence work at once rebuilding , and
that the capacity will be greatly in
creased. The mills had orders for six
months' work at the time of the fire.
George W. Packard , from St. Joe ,
Mo. , recovered a wagon and team at
Blue Springs , upon which he had a
$125 chattel mortgage. The party had
run off with the property from St. Joe ,
and Mr. Packard took out after him.
James L. Yost , a youth of sixty-
five summers and Lavina H. Girty , a
maiden of fifty winters , were given
permission to wed the other day at
Hastings. Lavina is a Pittsburg belle
while James is an Adams county gen
tleman.
Frank Scott , a switchman , had his
right leg terribly crushed in the B. &
M. yards at Plattsmouth. While cross
ing the track in front of a lot of mov
ing cars he was struck and thrown to
the ground , the wheels passing over
his leg below the knee.
The adjoining barns of Robert
Morledge and William Foley of Hast
ings were burned the other morning.
Mr. Morledge lost a horse , wagon , harness - ,
ness and other traps ! Mr. Foley suc
ceeded in saving his horse and buggy
but lost some other property.
The Herron brothers , the sup
posed train robbers , were arraigned at
Valentino and pleaded not guilty. By
agreement the preliminary examina
tion was continued until August 12.
The prisoners are said to have consid
erable property in Madison county.
The farmers in Johnson county
have begun to thresh their flax , and
find that the dry weather has almost
ruined the crop. Ihe county has a
larger acreage of Jlax this year than
ever before , but even the best will
hardly yield eight bushels per acre.
John and Mary Shay are under
arrest at Harrison for poisouing a herd
of cattle belonging to Dan Klein. They
lived for some years in the Klein neigh
borhood in Sioux county , had much
trouble and were frequently arrested.
They removed to Dakota last spring ,
but returned the other day and scat
tered salt mixed with Paris green on
the grass where the cattle would get
it. Several fine cows r.re dead and a
number of others ire dying.
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A SICKENING SIGHT
THAT AVTESDlSG T1IE ELECTROCU
TION OF W7LI.IAXKEXMr.ER.
Tlio Criminal Literally Boantcd , Not
Shocked to Death The Current
Turned on the Second Time as Sign *
of Life Were Detected The New
Mode of Taking Human Life Not
Considered a Great Success A De
mand for Repeal of the Law.
Sentence of the Law Visited Upon
Kemmler , the .llurdercr.
AUBURN , N. Y. , August 7. With a
short , sharp shock , painless so far as
the world will over know , the soul of
William Kemmler was separated from
his body at 6:40 yesterday morning1.
The cap was 'adjusted to the head of
the man bound captive in the strange
looking chair ; the lover was quickly
swung around the arc of the semi
circle ; a quick convulsion , a sudden re
vival o muscular action ; another turn
of the lever ; a pause , aroom filled with
the sickening fumes of burning flesh ,
and twenty-seven witnesses of the first
electricide in history knew that the
death of Tillie Ziegler had been
avenged in law and the crime of Wil
liam Kemmler expiated , so far as
human hands could force its expiation.
While Warden Durston could have
found hundreds of willing substitutes ,
for any one of the. twenty-seven wit
nesses the law had compelled him to
call in , it is safe to say that no one of
the twenty-seven found any pleasure
in the spectacle.
At 6:88 the door at the right of the
execution chair , leading towards the
execution room , opened and Warden
Durston's figure appeared in the door
way. Behind him walked a spruce
looking , broad shouldered little man ,
full bearded , with carefully ar
ranged hair clustering around his fore
head. He was dressed in a suit of
new clothing , sack coat and vest of
dark gray material , trousers of mixed
yellow pattern , a white shirt , whose
polished front was exposed directly
below the little bow of lawn , of black
and white check pattern. This was
William Kemmler , the man who was
about to undergo the sentence of death ,
Behind him walked Dr. W. E. Houghton -
ton and Chaplain Yates.
Kemmler was by far the coolest man
in the party. He did 'not look about
the room with any special degree of
interest. He hesitated as the door
was closed behind him and cavefully
locked by the attendant on the other
s\de as though he did not know exact
ly what to do. "Give me a chair , will
you , " said the warden. Some one
quickly handed him a wooden chair
which he placed in front of and a little
to the right of the execution chair ,
facing the little circle of men. Kemm
ler sat down composedly , looked about
him and then up and down without
any evidence of fear or of special in
terest in the event. His face was not
stolid ; it was indifferent. He looked , if
anything , as though he were rather
pleased at being the center of interest.
Warden Durston stood at the left of
the chair with his hand on the back of
it and almost at the moment Kemm-
mer took his seat he began to speak
in short quick periods. "Now , gen
tlemen,1' he said , "this is William
Klemmer. I have warned him that
he has got to die , and if he has any
thing to say he will tay it. " As the
warden finished Kemmler looked up
and said in a high key of voice with
out any hesitation and as though he
had prepared himself with a speech ,
"Well , I wish every one good luck in
this world and I think I am going to a
good place and the papers have been
saying a lot of stuff that is not so.
That's all I have to say. " With the
conclusion of this speech he turned his
back on the jury , took off his coat and
handed it to the warden. This dis
closed the fact that his clothes had
been cut from the band of the trousers
down so as to expose the base of the
spine.
He sat down in the electric chair as
quietly as though he were sitting down
to dinner. When the straps had been
adjusted about the body the arms were
fastened down , and then the warden
leaned over and parted Keramler's feet
so as to bring his legs near to the legs
of the chair. While the straps were
being arranged Kemmler said to the
warden and his assistant : ' 'Take your
time ; don't be in a hurry. Be sure
that everything is all right. "
When the straps had been adjusted
to the body and the limbs the warden
placed his hand on Kemmler's head
and held it against the rubber cushion
which ran down the back of the chair.
Kemmler's eyes were turned toward
the opposite side of the room ; before
they had followed the warden in his
movements ; then the condemned man
made one or two remarks in a perfectly
clear and composed tone of voice.
"Well , I wish everybody good luck"
was one of them , and "Durston , see
that these things are all right , " was
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another. When the cap had been ad
justed and clamped in place Kemmler
said : "Oh , you'd better press that
down , " so the head triece was unclamped -
clamped and pressed further down.
While it was being done Kemmler
said : "Well , I want to do the best I
can. I can't do any better than that. "
Warden Durston took in his hand the
leather harness which was to be ad
justed to Kemmler's head. As the har
ness was put in place Dr. Spitka , who
was standing near the chair , said
softly : "God bless you , Kemmler , "
and the condemned man answered
'Thank you , " softly. Hardly a min
ute had elapsed since the adjustment of
the straps. There was no time for
'Kemler to have weakened , even if his
marvelous counvge had not been
equal to the test of further delay. ]
He was as calm in the chair as he had
been before he entered the'room , and
during the process ofhis confinement
by the straps which held him close.
At the warden's question. Dr. Fell step
ped forward with a long syringe in his
hand and quickly but deftly wetted two
sponges which were attached to the
electrodes , one on top of the head and
the other at th.e base of the spine. Dr.
Spitzka answered the warden's ques
tion with a sharp "All right , " which
was echoed by the others about him.
"Ready"said Durston again and
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then "Good bye. " He stepped to the'
door and through the opening said to
some one in the next room , but to
whom will probably never be known
with certainty , "Everything is ready. "
In almost an immediate response the
electric current was turned on.
There was a sudden convulsion oi
the frame in the chair , and a spasm
went over it from head to foot , con
fined by the straps and springs that
held it firmly , so that no limb or other
parts of the body stirred more than a
fraction of an inch from ite resting
place. The body remained thus rigid
for seventeen seconds. Dr. Spitzka
looked at his stop watch , and as the
tenth second expired he cried out ,
"Stop ! " "StopI" cried other voices
about. A quick movement of the arm
and the electric current was switched
off. There was a relaxation of the
body in the chair and the quiet little
group around the chair grew business
like. "He's dead"said Dr. Spitzka ,
calmly. The rest of the witnesses
nodded their acquiescence. There was
no question in the mind of any one but
that the stiff , upright object before
them was lifeless.
Dr. Balch was bending over the body
looking at the exposed skin. Sudden
ly he cried out sharply : "Dr. McDon
ald , see that rupture. " The index fin
ger of the hand had curved backward
as the flexor muscles contracted , and
had scraped a small hole in the skin at
the base of the thumb on the back of
the hand. The little rupture was drop
ping blood. "Turn the current on in
stantly , this man is not dead , " cried
Dr. Spitzka. Warder Durston sprang
to the door way and cried , "Turn on
the current , " but the current could not
be turned on. When the signal to
stop had come the operator had pressed
the button which gave the signal to the
engineer to stop the dynamo. The
dynamo was almost at a standstill.
The operator sprang to the button
and gave a sharp quick signal. There
was a rapid response , but quick as it
was it was not quick enough to antici
pate the signs of what may or may not
have been a revival of consciousness.
As the group of horror-stricken wit
nesses stood helplessly by all eyes fixed
on the chair , Kemtnler's lips began to
drop spittle and in a moment more his
chest moved and from his mouth came
a heavy stentorious sound , quickening
and increasing with every respiration
if respiration it was. There was no
voice but that of the warden crying to
the operator to turn on the current ,
and a wheezing sound , half groan ,
which forced itself past the tightly
closed lips and sounded through , the
still chamber with a ghastly distinct
ness.
ness.Some
Some of the witnesses turned awny
from the sight. One of them lay down
faint and sick. It takes a long time to
tell the story , it seemed a long time in
reaching the climax. In reality there
was but seventy-three seconds in the
interval which elapsed between the
moment when the first sound issued
from Kemmler's lips until the response
signal came from the dynamo-room.
It came with the same suddenness that
had marked the first shock which
passed through Kemmler's body. The
sound which had horriiicd the listeners
about the chair was cut off sharply as
the body once more became rigid.
Slimy ooze still dropped from the
mouth and ran slowly in three lines
down the beard and ofi to the gray
vest. Twice there were Iwitchings of
the body as the electricians in the next
room turned the current on and oil' .
There was to be no mistake this
time about the killing. The dynamo
was run up to its highest .speed and
again and again the full current of
2,000olts was sent through the body
in the chair. As the anxious group
stood silently watching the body sud
denly there arose from it a white va-
po- . bearing with it a pungent and
sickening odor. The body was burn
ing.
ing.The '
The current was stopped 'sind again
there was a relaxation of the body.
No doubt that this time the current
had done its work , if not well at least
completely. Dr. Zell , who stood at
the side of the special correspondent
of the United press , turned and said :
' Well , there is no doubt about one
thing , the man never suffered one iota
of pain. " In after consultations the
other physicians expressed the same
belief.
The President Invited to Grand
Island.
WASHINGTON , August 9. Mr. Dor-
soy called on President Harrison , and
on behalf of the managers of the Grand
Island sugar palace exposition invited
him to attend the exposition to be held
at Grand Island during the month of
September. The president said it gave
him great pleasure to note the interest
that Nebraska was taking in the beet
sugar industry an 1 predicted that
within a very few years Nebraska
would supply a large portion if not all
the sugar consumed in the great north
west. He could not promise to leave
Washington while congress was in ses
sion , and from the present outlook he
did not see how it was possible for
congress to adjourn for some weeks
yet. The president stated that he could
not go west this summer or autumn
and would have to decline a number of
invitations , but he intends to make ar
extended western tour next summer.
The Rev. Dr. E. B. Hurlbut of Chicago -
cage has declined to accept the presi
dency of Colgate university , Utica ,
N.Y.
LOTTERY SWINDLERS
4HOWN UP iy AJf ADDRESS TO TBE
COVXTRY.
finormons Revenues That Enables
the manaceri * to Corrupt Legislators
and Override the Wlitlic * of the People
ple A Strike on the New Yorlt Cen
tral Road Gen. Butler Gives Ills
Views In Reference to Electrocution
Aiitl-Lottcrjr Convention Mr. and
Mrs. Cleveland.
The Lottery Swindle Shown Up In an
Address to the Country.
BATON ROUGE , La. , August 9. The
anti-lottery league has issued an ad
dress to the people of the United States
reciting at length the history of the
lottery in Louisiana , its corrupt puijn
chase of legislators to do its will arid
to override the wishes of the people.
Because of its enormous revenues ,
greater than all the banking capital of
the state , it is in every available way
calculated to hold its monopoly by the
corruption of the moral sense of even
good people and its utter carrying away
of the ignorant , many of whom suffer
privation or steal to get money to play
the lottery. "The aggregate of the
scheme of the monthly and semi
monthly drawings is the fabulous
* 8um of $28,000,000 per annum , and
the aggregate of their daily drawings
is over $20,000,000 more. They re
ceive annually $1,250,000 from written
policies sold on the numbers of the
daily drawings , aside from the sale of
the regular printed tickets. The
schemes of the last drawings are so ar
ranged that they can sell 75 per cent
of their tickets , pay 10 per cent for
selling them , lose all the prizes pro
vided for in the scheme , pay $1,000-
000 for expenses , and still make ? 3 , -
000,000 profit per annum.
This , the address says , shows the
scheme is fraudulent and unfair. It
pays but 68 per cent of the money re
ceived , while tne licensed lotteries of
other nations require the payment of
70 per cent. The address recommends
to congress the immediate adoption of
an amendment to the federal constitu
tion prohibiting any state from char
tering or licensing any lottery or gift
enterprise , abolishing those already
established and giving congress power
to enforce the prohibition by appro
priate legislation ; pending that , that
all lottery matters be excluded from
the mails and express companies.
The New York Central Tied Up.
NE-W YOUK , Aug. 9. The rumblings
of the expected storm among the thou
sands of employes of the New York
Central and Vanderbilt lines , owing to
the discharge of Knights of Labor and
Brotherhood men , broke like a flash
from a clear sky last night. All the
length of the Central was tied up.
Trains were left by the crews where
they stood when the order came. Two
passenger trains were left at Eighty-
sixth street in the tunnel. The latest
report is the West Shore is tied up
throughout its length , as well as the
New York &New Haven road.
Great throngs of people crowded
into the Grand Central depot trying to
have tickets exchanged. No one
seemed to know how it was or who
had ordered the strike. Even J. J.
Holland , the labor leader , dened that
ho knew who ordered it or even that
it was ordered.
A representative of the railroad com
pany called upon Acting Superintend
ent of police Byrnes for protection and
all the reserves on the east side above
Forty-second street to Yonkers and on
the west side from St. John's park to
Yonkers were placed on duty guarding
the tracks and property. The depot
at Forty-second street was under the
protection of a full force of police , as
sisted by members of the boat patrol.
Inspector Byrnes' detectives guard the
switches and signal stations along the
road to Yonkers.
After these arrangements had been
made word reached police headquar
ters that some of the strikers intended
to take possession of the switch house
at Seventh street and Fourth avenue.
Inspector Byrnes immediately detailed
two detectives to watch that part. The
inspector himself decided to remain at
headquarters all night.
Butler on Electrocution.
BOSTON , Mass. , August 9. General
Butler , when asked his opinion of the
Kemmler execution , said : "I think it
was a cruel and horrible punishment
and one which never ought to be re
sorted to again with similar appliances.
If the newspaper reports are correct
the man Kemmler never received any
absolute shocks. A sponge was put on
his head and another one on his back ,
and the electric current passed through
Mm and flowed flour minutes before he
was dead. He was literally fried to
death. The intention was to kill
Kemmler instantly , making his death
as painless as possible , and yet the ap
pliance was so constructed that his
body served as a conductor on the cur
rent instead of retaining it. If he had
been put into my hands I would have
had him insulated or I would have put
a conductor in each ear , one conductor
smaller than the other. It might have
stove his head to pieces the same as
lightning staving the side of a roof ,
but he would have been killed in
stantly. "
General Butler believes the guillo
tine is the best instrument of judicial
death. _
Cleveland Training : Himself Down.
MABION , Mass. , August 9. Grover
Cleveland is growing thinner. He has
since he came here eschewed all meats
and he and Mrs. Cleveland are confin
ing themselves entirely to fruits and
vegetables. He goes out daily to fish
and insists on doing the rowing him
self. Many say he takes only one solid
meal daHe has lost over twenty
pounds and hopes to make ltjBf.tyj.be.-
fore ho is through. His walks an4
rowing tire out his companions and his
staying powers under his exhaustive
exorcise cause general comment.
Ami-Lottery Convention Adjourn * .
BATON ROUGE. La. , August 9. The
anti-lottery convention adjourned eino
die to-day. "Among the resolutions
adopted is one to boycott the Tinaes-
Domocratjind Daily News of New Orleans -
loans on account of their pro-lottery
sentiments. The newspaper commit
tee reported $80,000. guaranteed for a
newspaper to be published in New Or
leans in opposition to rcchartering the >
lottery.
Press Comment on If cmmler's Death *
NEW YORK , Aug. 9. Commenting
on the execution of Kemmler at Au
burn , the Sun says editorially : "The
first duty of the next legislature wilt
bo to repeal the electrical execution , law
and to restore the old method of the-
administration of the' death sentence-
by hanging. Scientific curiosity has
been gratified sufficiently by this one
awful experiment. The present gen
eration is not likely to hear of another
such scene of horrible uncertainty end
unknown torture and heart sickening1
circumstances as was witnessed yes
terday morning by the assistants at
the judicial experiment upon the body
of William Kemmler. Civilization will
find other lines on which to manifest
its progress. "
The Press says : It will not mend
matters at all to say that there was ig
norant bungling on the part of the ex
ecutioners ; that the first current was ! . ! l
not kept on long enough or the last
current too long. It was argued , in i
behalf of this mode of execution , that
death was to bo instantaneous , light
ning like , painless.and that the maud ; :
lin hero worship attending the dramatic
r
atic march of the nervy murderer to t
the scaffold was to be done away with
and the secret and mysterious taking
off devoid of sensational features.
The Herald sajs : While the exper
iment was a failure , it does not show-
that fhis mode of inflicting the death
penalty is not a success. The failure
.1
was due , not to the system , but to the .
bungling , inefficient way in which the
execution was managed. The fault
was with the doctors and electricians.
The bungling W9rkdoes not prove that
execution by electricity is a failure.
It does not warrant a return to the
barbarity of the gallows. Had the ex
ecution been properly and efficiently
managed it would have proved the suc
cess of the new system beyond all dis
pute. The electric light concern
should not be allow * ! to take advant
age of the failure to further its own.
ends.
ends.New
New York Times : It is unfortunate
for the cause of execution by electrici
ty that its first trial was badly bungled.
No doubt advocates of this method of
executing the death penalty are for the
moment put on the defensive , but they
have not the failure of the method to-
face. It would be absurd to talk of
abandoning the new law and going-
back to barbarism of hanging , and it
would be as puerile to propose to abolish
ish capital punishment because the =
new mode of execution was abolished
in its first application.
Nebraska Out of Debt.
WASHINGTON , August 9. The show
ing made by the census report issued ,
by Superintendent Porter is the subject ,
of congratulation on the part of every
Nebraskan who has seen it. It shows
that Nebraska is absolutely without a ,
debt. Ten years ago Nebraska had a
bonded debt of $500.000. To-day her
bonded debt and floating debt are rep
resented by blank spaces in the table
of indebtedness with a letter "A , "
which refers to a foot note indicating-
"No debt. " Only one other state in
the entire list is in this happy condi
tion ; that one state is West Virginia. \ 'i
There are half a dozen with no bonded
3nbt , but they have floating bills , and
there are several with no floating debt < I
but with a bonded debt. But when
you combine both these happy condi \ \
tions Nebraska and West Virginia
stand alone. Iowa has no bonded debt
but her floating debt is § 284,823.
The total number of deaths by wind
storms and lightning since Junuary
last is estimated at 1,100. as compared
with only 163 deaths from the same-
causes during the whole of 1889. This
is a record which will make the year-
memorable in the annals of meteorol
ogy. I
Lira STUCK Afn FROIHICK
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OMAHA.
Wheat No. 2 75 © C5V5
Corn No. 2 mired C8 © 40
Oats Per bu 33 fo 55
Barley 35 fe 40
Bye 37 &
Butter Creamery 16 ©
Butter Dairy 12 < &
Mess Pork Per bbl 9 75 fclO 75
Eggs Fresh 10 4J 105
Honey , per lb. , comb It &
Spring Chickens per doz I & @ . 2 00
Lemons Choice , per box 8 00 & 9 CO
Onions New , Per bbl 4 00 j 5 00
Beans Navies 1 75 < & 2 00
Wool Fine , unwashed , per a . . . J4 < & 18
Potatoes 5 00 @ . I 50
Tomatoes Per bu 2 50 Q 3 0)
Hay Per ton 700 Ct 9 03
Hogs Mixed packing 3 42& ® 3 47
Hops Heavr weights 3 50 ( < 3 . " >
Beeres Choice steers 4 00 fe 4 30
NEW YORK.
Wheat No. 2 red 83J ' < t M
Corn No. 2 4C fo 46& .
Oats Mixed western 34'/J . 35
Pork 1150 © It 75
Lard 600 © 0025 ;
CHICAGO.
Wheat Per bushel 93J 't& ' 01
Corn Per bushel 48 @ . 48 ; " .
Oats Per bushel 34K ® 3S
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Lard C 05 @ 6 17 J
Hogs Packing and shipping. 3 55 & 3 S2y , r
Cattle Stockers and feeders 2 25 ft 3 50
Sheep Natives 3:50 < & 5 30
ST. LOUIS.
Wheat Cash 9I ? J 92
Corn Per bushel 445J ® 45
Oats Per bushel 33 < & 23 { -
Hess Mixed packing 3 55 Q. 3 65
Cattle Feeders 3 00 fe 3 00
SIOUX CITY.
Cattle Stockers and feeders 3 55 Q 3 65
Hogs Mixed 3 60 fo 3 67
KANSAS CITY.
Wheat No.2 83 © S3&-
Corn No. 2 45 ® 4514
Oats No.2 3 © 35Ji
Cattle Stocken and feeder * 2 25 Q 3 25
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