Nebraska Newspapers

    The Valentine Democrat
VALENTINE , NEB.
) L M. KICE , Publisher
YACHT OYEETUBNED
FIVE PERSONS ARE DROWNED
IN NEW YORK BAY.
Eight Are Rescued by Sailors-
Heavy Storm Swept Over New
York Harbor and Capsized the
Boat Two Bodies Recovered.
Five persons were drowned in the bay
off Forty-seventh Street , Brooklyn , N.
< Y. , by the overturning of the eighteen-
foot yacht , Elsie and Katie , in a heavy
storm that swept over New York Sunday
afternoon. " '
Eight other persons who were on the
yacht at the time were rescued by mem
bers of the Second naval battalion , who
were out in whaleboats from their arm
ory at the foot of Fifty-second Street.
Those drowned were Mrs. Kate
Clarke , of Brooklyn , wife of Peter
Clarke , the owner of the yacht , her two
daughters , Lizzie , aged 10 , and Louise ,
4 her niece Mamie
aged , 2-year-old ,
Clarke , and Lizzie lason , 10 years old.
The bodies of Mrs. Clarke and Mamie
Clarke have been recovered.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
New York Typewriter Agent Kills
Housekeeper and Himself.
John M. Bell , an agent for a type
writer company , shot and killed a
woman generally known as his house
keeper and wife in the apartment which
they had occupied in West Eighteenth
Street , New York , Saturday , and then
turned the revolver upon himself , in
flicting a wound in his right temple which
caused his death in a few seconds. No
cause is known for the crime.
, Addresses found in a notebook in
Bell's pocket showed that he had lived
in Topeka , Kan. , and in Freetown , the
capital of Liberia , West Africa.
COLLIDE WITH CAR.
George F. Dixon and Wife Are Killed
in Chicago.
While crossing the tracks of the Au
rora , Elgin and Chicago Electric Rail
road in Austin , a suburb of Chicago ,
Sunday , in an automobile , Geo. F Dix
on , head of the George F. Dixon , Com
pany , manufacturers of heating appara
tus , and his wife were killed in a colli
sion with an electric car.
. Mr. Dixon's death was instantaneous.
Mrs. Dixon lived about five minutes
after the accident , but did not regain
consciousness. Her body was partly
burned by the gasoline that escaped from
.the automobile and caught fire.
INSANE FROM DRINK.
Kentucky Man Kills Girl and Fatally
Wounds a Man.
Robert Mathley shot and killed Emma
Watkins and fatally wounded James
.Gregson at the residence of Will War
ren , on West Main Street , in Owens-
bore , Ivy. , on Sunday night.
The act was that of a man insane from
a spree of several weeks , and jealous of
the man in whose company he found the
.Watkins girl. Mathley was arrestdd. He
is a widower with three children. He
made three attempts at suicide last
week.
Assault at Evansville.
At Evansville , Ind. , the entire police
force is scouring the city in an endeav
or to capture an unknown negro who
criminally assaulted Miss Clara Wcin-
, bach after forcing her escort , Harry
Smith , to retire at the point of a revolv
er. Miss Weinbach is in a critical condi
tion. There is considerable excitement.
New York Coroner Poisoned.
Coroner O'Gorman , of New York who
has handled most of the bodies recov
ered from the Slocum disaster , has con
tracted blood poisoning. He pricked the
finger of his right hand while removing
a breastpin from a body and the finger in
a short time began to swell and the poi
son spread rapidly.
Killed by Electric Car.
Christopher Preese , an ex-city council
man , and his wife , Louisa , both over GO
years old , were struck by a Lake Shore
electric car Sunday night while crossing
the tracks on the Clifton Boulevard in
Cleveland , O. , and killed. The husband
was killed instantly and the wife died
within a few minutes.
Mgr , Guidi is Dead.
Mgr. Guidi , apostolic delegate to the
Philippines , died Sunday in Manila of
heart failure. The funeral' will take
plac there next Friday and the remains
will be interred two months later at
Rome.
Is Victim of Pickpockets.
John Krohn , a guest of the Iowa dele
gation at the convention in Chicago , re
ported to the police that pickpockets had
robbed him of $90.
Sioux City Stock Market.
Saturday's cattle market showed
jbutcher steers quoted at $5.35g5.45 ( ;
'top hogs , $5.12iA@5.17&
Ten Men Lose Laves.
A report has reached Kremmer , Wyo. ,
that ten men lost their lives at Kendall's
logging camp at the head waters of the
.Green River , sotithweast of that place.
It is said the accident was caused by the
bursting of a flume. The report -cannot
be verified.
Shoots an Iowa Girl.
W. N. Bowman , a street car conductor -
( tor , fatally shot Mollie Stuteville , of
'Pleasanton , la. , and then killed himself
in a rooming house at St. Joseph Mo.
FELL ELEVEN STORIES.
Awful Drop of Desperate Man in
Detroit.
Losing his grip particle by particle on
the smootk stone window sill of an office
on the eleventh floor of the chamber of
commerce , in Detroit , Mich. , Charles A.
Swayze , an insurance agent , Friday
plunged 1G5 feet to death on the pave
ment , after having tried to murder Miss
Eflie Alvord by throwing her out of the
window and by shooting her twice.
Swayze , who was a man of family ,
also shot himself in the nose before he
underwent the ordeal of slipping from
the high window.
The cause of the tragedy was the at
tempt of Miss Alvord to break off with
Swayze in order to marry another man.
Every bone in Swayze's body was brok
en by the fall and his fingers were lacer
ated by the bloody trails they had drawn
across the stone sill in his desperate ef
fort to save himself from the long plunge
to the street. Whether Swayze intended
to throw himself to the street or whether
he sought to escape detection by crawl
ing to another room is not known. But
he regretted the attempt in either case ,
for he clung to life as tenaciously as his
strength would permit.
.Miss Alvord will recover , in spite of
her experience.
FIRE AT WORLDS' FAIR.
Threatens to Destroy Many of the
Buildings.
A fire which threatened for a time to
destroy many buildings at the world's
fair Friday consumed the House of Hoo-
Hoe with all its contents. The loss is
$50,000. The fire is supposed to have
started from a defective electric light
wire.
The House of Hoo-IIoo was one of the
first buildings finished for the exposition
and was erected by the lumbermen of
the United States , but was under con
trol of the local board of the order of
Hoo-IIoo. It was divided into many
rooms , constructed of different kinds of
fine , expensive lumber. Aside from this
there were specimens of rare woods
which were valued highly. It has not
been decided Avhether to rebuild or not.
There were thirty black cats in the build
ing at the time of the fire and these are
believed to have perished.
NAVAL OFFICER KILLED.
Commander A. G. Kellogg : Falls from
Window at Portsmouth. Va.
Commander A. G. Kellogg , U. S. N. ,
fell from a fourth story window in the
Monroe Hotel at Portsmouth. Va. ,
Thursday uight , to the sidewalk below ,
sustaining injuries from which he died
an hour later at the naval hospital. He
had been in bad health for some time.
It is thought Commander Kellogg dur
ing an attack of vertigo lost his balance
and fell from the window at which he
was sitting. His wife and married
daughter were with him when he died.
MINISTERS ARE STONED.
French and German Representatives
in Hayti , Attacked by Soldiers.
The foreign olfice at Paris has received
a dispatch from M. Depreze , French
minister at Port ati Prince , liayti , saying
that while he and the German minister
were driving past the palace Wednes
day they were attacked and stone by sol
diers forming the palace guard.
Depreze was struck on the leg by a
stone and slightly injured. The minis
ters' wives were also pelted.
The officials consider it certain France
will make an energetic demand for re-1
dress.
DISAPPEARANCE IS A MYSTERY
A Brother of Assistant Secretary of
State Lioomis is Missing.
Apparently nothing is known in re
gard to the disappearance of Kent J.
Loomis , a brother of Assistant Secretary
of State Loomis , who was a pasenger on
board the steamer Kaiser Welhelm II. ,
which left New York June 14 and ar
rived at Bremen Wednesday.
. Inquiries made at Bremen show that
Loomis was seen at midnight Sunday on
board the steamer , and that he Avas miss
ing on Monday morning. Ts'o one seems
to know what happened in the interval.
Lightning : Set Off Blast.
As a result of lightning during a thun
der shower at the quarry of the Toccoa
Ruck Crushing Company near Atlanta ,
Ga. , one man is dead and another is dy
ing , four are seriously , and several other i
slightly , injured. The men had just prepared - j 1
pared to set off a dynamite blast , which i ;
is done by electricity , when lightning
struck the wires , and before they could
get away huge fragments of rock were
showered upon them.
Girl Saves Babe from Fire.
A chowd which had gathered about a
burning cottage in Philadelphia Friday
afternoon , was thrilled when a young
woman emerged , with hair and clothing
aflame , and with a young child safe in
her arms.
Missing Man Dead.
The body of Charles H. Schad , of Ter
ry , S. D. , was found in Nevada Gulch ,
two miles from Lead , S. D. He has been
missing since June 10. He was financial
secretary for several years of the Terry
Peak Miners' Union.
Hawaiians Sentenced to Prison.
Jonah Kumlae , a member of the house
of representatives , Houololu , and John-
stone , a lawyer , have been sentenced to
imprisonment for one year at hard labor
for conspiracy to defraud the territory
through the collection of fraudulent
vouchers for expenses incurred by the
house of representatives.
American Yacht Wins.
In a race for big yachts at Kiel Friday
the schooner yacht Ingomar , of New
York , came In first.
MAKES A CONFESSION.
Marcus Crahhn Admits He 3Zad
Bad Bill * .
Marcus Crahan , arrested tv.-o week *
ago at the Dehnar race track with coun
terfeit bills in his possession , Thursdaj
confessed to Chief Wilkie , of the federal
s'ecret service , and was indicted by the
federal grand jury at St. Louis on the
charge of cbunterfeiting , having in his
possession counterfeit bills and passing
the same. Several thousand dollars in
counterfeit $100 gold certificates were
found ii * the possession of Crahan , who
had passed a number on bookmakers at
the Delmar track.
Crahan lived in Providence , R. I.
Crahan's confession and indictment fol
lowed in rapid succession upon the visit
of the Washington detectives to St. Lou
is , and came as such a surprise that Cra
han's friend from Providence , W. C.
Dart , fainted in the secret service office
shortly after learning the truth.
Crahan also surrendered $12,400 of the
bad money to Chief Wilkie in $100 bills ,
making nearly $20,000 recovered all told.
Crahan's confession was made after a
lengthy "sweating" process -by Chief
Wilkie and Col. Murphy , the St. Louis
representative of the secret service bu
reau , in which he was given an idea of
the amount of circumstantial evidence
gathered against him.
"Crahan confessed to me voluntarily , "
said Chief Wilkie. "He admitted that
he made the notes himself , and also ad
mitted that he begun counterfeiting by
making $10 'Buffalo' bills , which he af
terwards abandoned.
"He also voluntarily surrendered 124
bills which he had in a small grip wliich
he checked at the union station on the
morning of June 4 , after he arrived in
St. Louis.
"lie admitted that he made the bills
in the east , just where I do not care to
say. That phase of the matter will be
worked out in a day or two. "
Chief Wilkie will return to Washing
ton Sunday. There are some other
phases of the Crahan case , it is saiu ,
which he desires to work out.
FATAL FIRE IN QUINCY HOTEL
One Person Suffocated by Smoke and
Others Injured.
In a fire in the Tremont House at
Quincy , 111. , Miss Elizabeth Welsh , prin
cipal of Jefferson school , met death by
suffocation , and her sister , Miss Mary
Welch , principal of the Jackson school ,
was probably fatally burned. Mrs. The
odore Valiant Avas taken from a fourth-
floor AA'indow of the hotel unconscious ,
but will live. Edith Simonds , a coolc in
the hotel , Avas badly burned and may
die.
die.The
The Tremont house is a five-story
structure and the oldest hotel in Quincy.
The tire originated from defective electric
wiring on the third floor and spread very
rapidly.
The Welch sisters were caught by the
flames and smoke Avhile they were in
their room preparing to' leave for the
St. Louis exposition. ' Ladders were
raised to the fourth floor to rescue them ,
but Miss Elizabeth Welch was dead be
fore the firemen could reach her. The
flames AA'ere confined to the hotel build
ing and the loss is $75.000.
SHAFER MURDER CASE.
An Arrest is Expected at JJawrence-
ville , lllf , Soon.
"An arrest is anticipated in the Shafer -
fer murder case within the next twenty-
four hours , " is the statement a Bedford ,
Ind. , official made AVednesday. Officers
of two states are directing their ener-
j I gies toward apprehending the Avriter of
! the mysterious letter received by May
or Smith during the McDonald trial , un
der the alias of John Brown , in which
letter Brown said he was employed to
commit the crime , and.described IIOAV the
teacher was waylaid and assassinated.
Apparently the letter was Avritten a
Lawrenceville , 111. , but was mailed at
Vincennes , and was receiAed by Mayor
Smith May 20. The Illinois officers , to
gether with two detectives , were inter
ested in the effort to arrest "BroAvn. "
Word has been received from one of
the Lawrenccvillc officers that "Brown * '
has been located and ms arrest may soon
folloAAIt is believed he and another
man Avere employed to commit the mur
der.
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Slocum Relief Fund.
Jacob Schiff , treasurer of the commis
sion appointed by the mayor of NCAA *
York to solicit subscriptions for the re
lief of the A-ictims of the General Slo
cum , has reported that the commission
has received over $90,000 so far. Contri-
buttons , he added , have been on such a
generous scale and the amount is already
so large that a further swelling of the
relief fund seemed to him both unneces
sary and undesirable.
Test Submarine Boat.
The submarine torpedo boat Adder , ac
companied by the gunboat Siren as ten
der , sailed Wednesday from the naval
torpedo station at Norfolk , Va. , for mid
dle ground in Chesapeake Bay , where it
will have a thorough test under the su
pervision of Lieut. Frank L. Pinuey.
Dakota Merchant Burned to Death
O. A. Hirengen , a prominent mer
chant , Avas burned to death in his store
at Nonvich , N. D. , Friday night. The
cause of the fire is a mystery. Hirengen
Avas not known to have been in the build
ing until his charred remains were found.
Montana Cowboy Kills.
A special dispatch from Helena , Mont. ,
says that Henry Grammer , a coAvboy ,
shot Leonard Hoehling during a fight at
Malta. Hoehling dipd soon afterward
and Grammer was arrested. He was re
leased on $5,000 bond.
Battleship Oregon Gets Prize.
The navy department aAvardcd to the
battleship Oregon the lrophy : for excel
lence in gunnery in , the target practice
for Avhich. the ships of- the navy have
been in competition.
STATE Ol1 NEBRASKA
NEWS OF-THE V/EEK IN A CONDENSED -
DENSED FORM.
Schuyler Has a Sensation City's
Guardians Charged with Having
Repeatedly Plundered a Store-
Nebraska News Notep.
Nothing in many years has excited so
much wonderment and interest among
the people of Schuyler as the reported
and apparently well confirmed action of
the city's night police and watchmen ,
Charles A. Sherman and Ted Croshaw.
During many mouths past the Wells
Grocery Company has been missing
goods , which were evidently taken by
midnight marauders.
Determination was made to find the
culprit , if possible , and last Saturday
night , Alonzo Wells and one of the
clerks , W. L. Micjiaelson , secreted
themselves in the store. About 3 o'clock-
Sunday morning parties were heard to
enter the store. The watchers deter
mined from their talk who they were ,
and saw clearly when matches were
struck that the parties were Sherman
and Croshaw. The former ran from the
store when the watchers advanced.
Entry had been made , it is said , by the
front door , with a key which was not in
their possession by authority of the firm.
The oilicers claimed that they had heard
a noise inside the store and entered to
investigate. Sherman , so they stated ,
ran to the rear door when they found
someone inside , to head off escape.
The entire ffair seemed to so shock and
stun all connected with it and the whole
community that nothing was done until
Monday , when the two Avere arrested
and taken before a justice of the peace
for a preliminary hearing. They plead
ed not guilty and were placed under $500
bonds each for appearance in one week.
A search warrant was sworn out
against Sherman and twelve cans of
Monarch brand of canned goods , carried
exclusively by the Wells Grocery Com
pany , were found in his cellar. It is said
that besides these there were thirty-sev
en other cans.
DEAD IN THE PASTURE.
Lincoln Woman Expires While Look
ing i'or Cows.
Lying in the grass about 100 yards
from her home , the body of Mrs. Fred
Wagstaff was discovered by her husband
upon his return from work at the Bur
lington coal chutes , where he is a night
foreman.
It is supposed the woman had died ear
ly in the evening , as the body was near
where a number of cows were grazing ,
having been staked out. and it is thought
she had gone out to bring in her cow
when she was attacked with heart fail
ure. As there was nothing to indicate
foul play , no inquest was held. The wo
man was 82 years of age. She lived in
the suburbs of Lincoln.
BLOWS HIS HEAD OFF.
Wealthy Saundcrs County Farmer
Goes Suddenly Insane.
During a fit of temporary insanity Jacob -
cob Shattik , a well-to-do farmer living
two miles east of Linwood , went into a
grove near the house and with the muz
zle of a shotgun placed in his mouth
pulled the trigger with his toe and the
discharge of the weapon blew the top of
his head off. Death was instantaneous.
He was . ' { 0 years of age and leaves a
widow and three small children.
Shattik's father took his own life and
a brother tried the same manner of death
not long ago , but failed in the attempt.
Fined for Abusing a Horse.
Interest in the case of J. F. Walsh ,
cashier of the Ilumboldt State Bank ,
who was fined a few days ago for an as
sault upon the person of .Toe Carsh , was
revived by the appearance of Carsh in
police court , Avhere he paid a fine of $10
and costs , amounting to over $10 , which
was assessed by Judge Thompson when
the young man pleaded guilty to a corn-
paint charging him with torture and tor
menting of dumb animals. A colt belong
ing to Mr. Walsh was doped with some
kind of acid during a band concert at
Ilumboldt.
Search for Boy's Body.
After persistently searching divers
have failed to locate the' body of Willie
Stahl , the 14-year-ofd lad who was
drowned in the Elkhorn River at Nor
folk. Dynamiting the river did not , as
had been hoped , bring the body to the
surface , and the swollen channel still re
tains the lifeless form of the lad who
swam into a whirlpool. His mother , Mrs.
Katherine Stahl , has been in a very seri
ous condition since the shock and has
been kept under chloroform constantly.
Horsethieves at Springfield.
A team of mules , top buggy and two
sets of harness were stolen from the
farm of A. C. Ileacock , five miles north
west of Springfield. The parties , who
ever they were , were well acquainted
with the premises , as they put a tongue
in the buggy and had the wrenches out
and other tools. A former hired man is
suspected. They went east and are sup
posed to be heading for Sioux City , la.
Mr. Heacock will pay $100 reward for
capture of team and conviction of thief.
Lincoln Man is Killed.
Strange and mysterious was the death
of William H. Hiskey , a Lincoln team
ster , at 11 o'clock Monday. In some
manner he fell head downward from the
rear of his wagon , breaking his neck.
Hiskey leaves a wife and child. Hiskey
came to Lincoln from Davenport about
a year ago.
Store at Cody Burned.
Cole's general merchandise store at
Cody was burned : loss , $10,000.
Not Here For Trial.
Fred Esch , who was convicted in a low
er court on a paternity charge preferred
by Lizzie praue , and whose case is now
pending in the supreme court , has shak
en the dust of Lincoln from his feet and ,
from the best information obtainable , is
now sojourning in Germany.
J. H. Hallnday Dead.
Col. J. H. Halladay , one of the best
known theatrical men in the west , died
at his home in Beatrice , aged 64. He
was for a number of years owner of
Halladav's colored minstrels.
POISONED LEMONADE.
Charged with Attempting to Ad
minister Cantharides.
Two young men named Frank Valenta
and Edward Divoky were charged before
Justice J. V. Shcstak at Wilber on the
complaint of John Kubert with admin
istering to him a deadly poison called
cantharides , mixed with lemonade. A
continuance of thirty days was taken ,
the defendants giving a bond of $1,000
each for their appearance.
On the night of May 14 , while an en
tertainment was in progress at a Bohe
mian hall near Wilber , some parties
mixed two ounces of the above poison in
the lemonade. From twenty-five to thirty
people of both sexes partook of it , some
of them being made dangerously sick.
For their supposed connection with the
affair the above parties have been ar
rested , the complainant being one of the
victims. It is understood that a number
of other arrests will be made.
FIRE AT HAVELOCK.
Burlington Railroad Shops Have a
Narrow Escape.
The Burlington blacksmith shop at
Havelock was destroyed by fire at an
early hour Tuesday morning and it was
only by heroic work on the part of the
fire department that other of the shop
buildings were saved.
The building was 80x75x200 feet and
was merely a brick shell with a frame
roof. The fire originated in the east end
of the building in the furnace flue and
was only a small blaze when first seen
by the watchman. Almost instantly ,
however , it spread over the oil soaked
interior and completely enveloped thereof
roof , which was totally destroyed , as
was one of the interior walls. It is not
believed the machinery is seriously dam
aged. Because of the fire ninety men arc
thrown out of employment , but these wil/ /
all becared for.
MARRIED NINE TIMES.
A Nebraska Woman Has Unusual
MatriujFmial Venture.
A matrimonial record , believed to be
without a parallel , has been made by a
middle aged woman who has sold her
ranch in Scott's Bhrff County , north of
Ilarrisburg , and gone east to join her
husband , whom she married in fulfill
ment of a promise she made when they
were boy and girl together in Ireland.
The woman has the distinction of hav
ing been married nine times. She has
been married to seven men , was divorced
from four of them and was remarried to
and twice divorced from two. She had
children by every one of the seven hus
bands save the present on * . Seventeen
children , nine sons and eight daughters ,
are living and all except three have ehil
dren of their own.
BOY SHOOTS FATHER.
Omaha Lad Claims that He Fired in
Self Defense.
At Omaha , John Ilrock. aged IS years ,
shot and fatally wounded his father ,
John M. Ilrock , who , is is alleged , was in
the act of inflicting injuries on the son ,
which the latter declares endangered his
life. Young Ilrock came home and found
his father beating and abusing his moth
er according to the boy's statement , and
when he interfered the father assaulted
the young man. He says he was being
beaten into insensibility when he fired
three shots into his father's body.
The elder Ilrock was taken to a hos
pital , Avhere the physicians declare he
cannot recover.
Young Hrock's story is corroborated by
his mother and neighbors.
Kills a Monster Snake.
Last Friday Andy Songer was fishing
in the Missouri River , a few miles below
Plattsmouth , on the opposite side of the
river. While Andy was sitting in the
warm sun watching for his cork to bob
under he was nearly startled out of his
wits at the sight of a huge snake which
prtruded its head over the bow og the
boat. The reptile had drawn nearly its
entire body into the boat and was mak
ing for Andy with extended jaws , when
a well directed blow struck its head and
it was soon dispatched. Mr. Songer
brought the reptile to IMattsmouth and
all who saw it declare it was the biggest
snake they ever saw outside of a show.
It was a water moccasin , of a mottled
brown color and over * six feet long.
Tried to Wreck a Train.
Jacob Both , a laborer , is in the coun
ty jail at Lincoln charged with attempt
ing to wreck the Denver flyer on the
"
Burlington. The attempt was" made near
the town of Denton. The section fore
man discovered a rail lying crosswise of
the track and wired down. He tore the
obstruction loose and barely had time
to remove it before the train came by.
Suspicion was directed toward Both and"
his capture followed.
Both has since been discharged , no ev
idence being shown that he was connect ,
ed with the affair.
Plead Guilty to Asaault.
The two Bohemians , Brehm and Flas-
ka who stabbed and
, beat their room
mate named Laka , near.Wymore recent
ly , pleaded guilty to assault in the dis
trict court. As the two had served sev
enteen days in the county jail the court
released them upon payment of the costs
in the case , which amounted to $00. La
ka has about recovered from his" in.
juries.
Shocking Accident.
While the eastbound freight was
switching at Ainsworth Monday the
hind trucks of a flat car ran over the 3-
year-old son of Mrs. Ellis , killing him in
stantly ; also a IG-raonth-old babe , who
died an hour later , and badly mangling
the foot of another child , a 5-year-old
girl.
Gets Three Years.
District Judge Hostettler at Lexing
ton sentenced A. F. Glass to three years
in the penitentiary for stealing a span of
horses from the ranch of II. L. Williams.
Glass entered a plea of guilty. He had
an accomplice , who so far has eluded ar-
rest.
Wanted for Raising Check.
T. B. Nolan , a baker who has been
employed by D. C. Chamberlain & Co. ,
is wanted at Beatrice for raising a check
from $3.15 to $13.15. The check was
drawn in his favor for $3.15 and signed
by Mr. Chamberlain.
Will Build an Jce Plant.
Authority to erect a $0,000 brick ice
manufacturing plant at Twenty-fifth and
Martha Streets , Omaha , has been issued
to the Omaha Distilled Water Ice Com
pany. The building is to be 71x140 feet
in size and one story high.
Short Notes.
The members of the First Presbyterian
church observed the twenty-fifth anni
versary of their organization at Osceola.
last week.
Eugene Thackaberry , a young mau >
who mis been employed in the olliee-s or
the Dempster company at Beatrice , bas.
disappeared.
J. B. Davis , of Humboldt , has filed
with the city clerk of Table Kock hi *
petition asking for a license to run a sa
loon at that place.
At the opening of bids for the con
struction of the federal building at Guthrie -
rie , Okl. , Robert Butke of Hasting. , was *
the lowest bidder.
Jacob Savlik. Jr. , committed suicide-
at Linwood with a shotgun , blowing the-
whole top of his head off. No cause for
the deed is known.
James Mahaffa , a young man who es
caped from jail at Ogalalla , was cap
tured and returned to jail after being :
gone twenty-four hours.
Because he got drunk and misused his.
wife William Sage was arrested at
Plattsmouth and confined in the county
jail. He was fined $100.
A fortune at Tallahnssie , Fla. , await *
Luther R. Wright , or his family , and the-
Omaha postoflice has been asked to locate-
either Wright or his heirs.
Iris Peturka , of Niobrara , dropped' '
dead. She was making preparations for
her wedding , which was to have taken
place in twenty-four hours.
The proposition for issuing bonds for
$7,000 for a lighting plant "for Oakland1
Avas submitted to the people at a spe
cial election and carried by 37 majority. .
A burglar entered Ed Fischer's butcher
shop at Nebraska City and secured $ G ini
pennies. The police have a clew to the
robber and expect to have him under ar
rest soon.
Will Wherry , who has been an honored1
and highly respected citizen of Fall ?
City for twenty-five years lias removed
to California , where he expects to make
his future home.
Cattlemen around Scott's Bluff report
the range in better condition now thai *
it has been for several years. The ranch
men have all dipped their cattle'and they
are in fine condition.
August Johnson , a solid farmer liv
ing near Osceola , was brought before
the board of insanity. The board orden-d
him to be sent to the asylum at Lincoln , .
and Sheriff Uartman took him dowu.
there.
Joe Cannon , aged about 30 years , was
brought to Sheriff Ilansen at Dakota
City for safe keeping. Cannon seems to >
be unbalanced , imagining that he con
trols the earth and nil thereunto be
longing.
Mayor Freeman has removed Chief of
Police Frost at Auburn. The reason for
this step was not neglect of duty on the
part of the chief , but on account of his
inability to properly control the rowdy-
element.
Frank Easter , 5G years of age , white
plowing corn on his farm west of Ayr ,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed. The team he was driving was
untouched. Mr. Easter has been a resi
dent of Ayr for seventeen years.
William Miller , of Ogalalla , a young.
man about 25 years of sge , has been *
pronounced insane by the insanity board , .
and will be taken to the asylum at Lin
coln. He has been a resident of the-
county for the last fifteen years.
A house belonging to F. Pierce in Fre
mont caught fire from a defective chim
ney and before it was extinguished the
attic story was gutted and the lower f
story damaged by water. The loss ort *
the house is $400 , with $800 insurance. .
Ed Gordon , convicted of robbing the-
postoflice at Newcastle , appeared before-
Judge Munger in the federal court at
Omaha and was sentenced to pay a fine-
of $100 and costs and to four years' im
prisonment in the Sioux Falls peniten
tiary.
The first accident in the work of build
ing the new Nebraska state hospital for-
the insane at Norfolk occurred when/
Frank Hawshaw. Avho was carrying -
brick up an incline , received a falling-
bat upon his head , which knocked him ;
senseless.
John Wiltse , who has been reading-
law in the office of C. GSIIespie at Falls.
City for the last two years , went to Lin
coln last week and took the state exami
nation for admission to the bar. Out of *
a class of fifteen he made tiie best rec
ord. He was complimented by the com
mission.
While at his farm. Fred Claussen , a-
groceryman of Beatrice , was attacked
by a ferocious bull and" narrowly escaped ;
being killed. When tjio animafcame Vor-
him he grabbed it by the horns and held
on until a farm hand came to his assist
ance. Aside from a few bruises he es f
caped being injured.
The eighteenth annual meeting of the- r
Richardson County Farmers' Mutual In
surance Company was held at Verden.
The secretary's repdrt shows over $200-
000 new insurance written last year.
Amount in force nearly $1.500,000. Loss
es paid last year , $1.0&S.GS. All claims
of the company are paid with a balance-
of $1,503.99 on hand.
Lightning killed Mr. Lemke , who lives-
five miles south of Lawrence. Youngr
Lemke was in the field at work when a
heavy thunder storm came up. He start
ed for the house and had just stopped to-
close a wire gate when a heavy flash of
lightning struck the wire fence a few-
rods away and was carried by the wire-
to the gate , killing the boy almost in
stantly.
Affing Commissioner of the Land Of
fice Fimple has ordered the withdrawal
from all forms of entry of 1,013,000 acres.
of public lands in Nebraska on account
of the North Platte irrigation project. .
The lands thus ordered withdrawn
com
prise thirty-seven half townships in the-
North Platte land district covering SG4 -
000 acres , four and one-half township's.-
in the Sidney land district , 103,000 acres-
and two townships in the Alliance laud
district , 40,000 acres.
The Packing Trades Council of South ,
Omaha held a picnic north of Nebraska-
City in Alettes Park. About 4,000 vis -
itors came from Omaha and vicinity in
three special trains. A beef dressing con
test and outdoor games comprised the-
day s entertainment.
Edward M. Cuthberson , of "Omaha , will
not have to go to the penitentiary for a.
while yet , though sentenced to imprison
ment for wife desertion. Chief Justice-
Holcomb has granted a stay of execution
and the case will come up at the first
term of the supreme court in September
when the law will be tested.