Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 14, 1882, Page 4

3 I'HE UMAHA ‘DAuA‘ B_hl,. . TUESLAY MARCH 14 1882 e —————— ey CASIm— ;he Omaha Bee Published every morning, except Sunday. Che only Monday morning daily. TERMS BY MAIL — One Yaar..... $10.00 | Three Mmfih.l;.g 8ix Months, 5.00 | One MR WRERKLY BEE, published ev. ory Wednesday . (KRMS POST PATD:— One Year. Rix Mon 8 « 1,00 | One o JORRESPUNT ions relating to ot ers should be addressed to the EniTor oF Tur Bes, BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business {otiers and Remittances should be ad {racead to THE OMAHA Pupnisuine Cox PANT, aeder of the Comnany. 0MAHA PUBLISHING 00, Prop'rs . ROSEWATER. Editor. STAY AWAY. 3 Workingmen of Omaha must nof NCE—All Communi = ‘ews and Editorial mat- | themselves homas among our people. | authoriies, Last year 720,000 immigrauts wero | laughing stock of the whole country, OMAHA, Drafts, Checks and Poat- Ordeis to be made payable to the INCREASING IMMIGRATION. |of them are as well informed as Jim The stream of toreigners, which is | Stephenson or Guy Barton. abatement. further gain. 9,00 | Three Months., 50 | million permanent visitora Jrom lor-_{ discover that 20| ¢iga lands will land at our seaports during the present year and make for |imposed upon the state and ~ational - | Amid a population of fifty million peo of Boston, moving in a swifi and strong current towards our shores, shows no signs of | against our During the first month | frightened capitalists of Omaha out of the present year an increase of |of their wits, and made them im- thirty-eight per cont. over the corres- | agine they wore exposed to the hor- ponding month of 1881 was noted. |rors of San Domingo or ¢he terrors of Statistios for February show a still | the Paris commune. At this rate nearlya| Now they are registered as arriving in this country, [and inflicted Tt is this distrust of and prejudice workingmen that has beginning to they have made commodious asses of themselves, made Omaha the inoaleulable The working damigs | upon their own city. plo their coming was scarcely noticed. | mon of Omaha are its backbone. Yot if all these persons had settled in | They must remain here and thousands one place and built housos for them- | of others will have to join them be- solves and their families, it would |fore Omaha can become one of the have made a city larger than Brook-|great cities. = | 1yn or Chicago and just twice the size [ employment at living wages of these Placed in Wyoming ter-| workingmen the future growth and t! vitory, it would be entitled to five | prosperity of Omaha must depend, and Upon tho continued orowd around or congregate in the [members of congress under the new | (hosewho would oppress labor are short stroets or near the grouuds where |apportionment if ad with a population only a little less than Minnesota, and greater than that | quainted with our working people and soldiers are stationed. By keeping away you will deprive the authorities | & 1) p \yodsorien together. of every excuso or pretense that you| mpg mean to create disturbance or resort | will contribute to the mitted as a state | sighted and stand in their own light. It ia because we are intimately ac have the utmost contidence in their countries which this year | disposition to respect the rights of tide of | persons and property that we have to violence. Lot the expensive farce | immigration are much the same|seen no cause for alarm. of military occupation of a peaceful oity proceed. The stupid blunderers who have called for the army will in due time rue their folly. — AnrpiTrATION would have saved a human life in Omaha, So— as last. A fow ot our immigration. immigration of 1880, years ago the Irish constituted more than a half Last year it was less than a tenth of the whole, and | ernor Nance by Mayor Boyd and less by nearly 14,000 than the Irish|Sheriff Miller that they were power Troubles at |less to maintain order and cxecute home seem to have disinclined the |the civil laws, it became the duty of poople to immigration, and funds from | the governor to "eall out the state America which, in other years, have | military and if deemel imperative Ta responsibility for tho killing of been used to assist friends in the old taiti t Mr. Armstrong must rest with the to make requisition UNDER WHICH KING? When notice was served upon Gov- for national oountry to soek other homes, have|troops to aid in suppressing the al- men who called out the troops and|peen applied to making it possible to| leged insurroction in Omaha. quartered them on our city. m—————n A TexAs postmaster reports that in » recent oyolone all hisjpostage stamps were blown away. They have a ready way of explaining official deficiencies in Texas, ANY offense ugainst law and order now will give the enemies of labor in Omaha the very opportunity which they are auxious to improve with bay- onets and cartridg SrNATOR SAUNDER'S civil service sohomo does not seem to meet with general favor among politicians, The rewards of office are too sweet and too dearly acquired to be easily laid down. — AND what do the incendiary sheets who have been inciting violence in Omaha by inflaming the passions of thelaboringmen by their loud mouthed abuse think of the first results of _ their devilish work. Tax Mississippi legislature has a) them to remain in their own abroad. Nearly every country in Europe and Asia contributed to fill the total dan 95,188, The immigration from Germany was carried on in the face of every discouragement which official ingenuity could devisa. ing year 1t promises to be still greater, and the Hamburg steamers are already filled to overflowing a num- ber of passages in advance. Every influnence which has in times past impelled so many to seck homes in America is still at work. Industrial and commercial depression abroad, wars and rumors of war, enforced military service, high living and low wages, and more than all, the great difficulty in above the level of birth and surround- ings offer inducements to emigration. Our country is large enough for all and prosperous enough to maintain all when they get here. Of the hundreds| The Under this appeal for military pro- tection by the mayor of Omaha a large force of state militia and Uni- Gormany led with 250,000 England | ted States regulars placed at the dis- gave us 76,647, Sweden 55,808, Cana- | posal and under command of Gover- nor Nance are quartered in this oity. And now the questiun arises what functions can this military force ex- For thecom- | ercige legitimately, and under whose directions shall they act while thus employed! Both the national and etate consti- tutions Jeclare expressly in the bill of rights that the military shall be in strict subordination tothe cwvil power. This vital principle is the corner stone of every republican government. Civil power cannot be exercised ex- cept in strict conformity with con- stitutional limitations which guaran- rising | tee to each citizen the right of trial by jury, the habeas corpus, the right of free speech, etc., while military power is arbitrary, and governed atmost entirely by the law of force. commander-in-chief of the of thousards who yearly join friends | army finds himself* confronted by the propriated $50,000 to secure immigras [ana countrymen in the United States, tion to that state. The best induce- |none need starve or remain long in | exercise of civil authority. The civil ments that Mississippi oan offer to ins tending immigrants are free schools, want of active employment. The emi- fact that noobstruction exists tothefree and criminal courts of the city and grants of a few years ago prove the|ocounty have remained open and un- social recognition and fair play in | best immigration agents of to-day both by spreading the news of the advan- |process served by the sheriff and con- eleotions. THE increase in general business is forcibly shown by the increase in the ),y them, receipts of thirty-nine postoffices for February, which average. twenty-five Omaha shows up fourth on the list, with thirty-three and one- per cent. third per cent. NavoLEON once said that newspa- pers were more to be dreaded than bayonets. The law abiding citizens of Omaha may apply this to a paper which from the outset of the trouble has sought to incite violence by its loud mouthed abuse of working men in our city. Tax naval bill has gone to the bot- tom of the calendar and it is doubtful whether anything will be done to. comer. in dollars and cents. possessor and the state, OMAHA WORKINGMEN. 1 point of integrity they are as trust- The 5,000 workingmen of Omaha will compare favorably with anyequal number of mechanics and laborers in any city en the globe. They are in- telligent, industrious and sober, In obstructed. Nobody has resisted the tages of the United States and by as- | stabulary, nor has any resistance been sisting and persuading others to fol-|made by any person arrested on a criminal charge, either before orsince The west gladly welcomes eech and the advent of the army. It transpires every honest and indnstrious new furthermore that the sheriff has made Bone and muscle which will | no efforts whatever to co-operate with develop her resources cannot b valued ; Mayor Boyd in any attempt to sup- The power to | Press alleged riots, nor has the mayor oreate capital by labor resides in avery | or sheriff called upon citizens to aid newcomer and only needs to be put|them as posse comitatus. The ques- forth to the mutual advantage of the |tion therefore remains how can the governor use his military forces with- out violating the constitution, that re- quires the militury to be in strict sub- ordination to the civil authority. 1t is self evident that troops cannot legally be used except as a mere sub- ordinate police force where the regu- lar police and constabulary are power- less to enforce law or protect prop- wards the reorganization of this branch of the service before the next session of congress, Meantime we are paying dearly for a navy depart- mont with no navy back ot it, revulsion of morality and a bill has been introduced in the state legisla- |)ihe], ture to fine every one who tellsa lie or every one who by word of mouth attempts to deccive his fellow wman.” It is understood that the provisions of thisact will not apply to the state press, WHxoEVER publ Rosecranz letter'which was a private communication of one friend to an- other was guilty of an offense against the memory of the dead president which is inexcusable. Nothing has given a better illustration of the im- portance under some circumstances of baing preserved from ones rriends ghouls, Ee— du not com pete any more than they do worthy as any of their employers, and in point of morals they excel the most M ny of them have estab- lished homes in Omaha, and nearly all of them intend to remain here as long NP——— as they can earn a livelihood, To de- KeNtooky has exporienced a sudden | ounco these men ss a red-handed, of them, blood. thirsty mob is a most atrocious A more law-abiding class of workingmen cannot be found any- During the agitation since the recent labor strikes and military ocoupation of this city, they have shown more patient forbearance than was ever exhibited by any equal num. dbiad ' 'ihe GlarAAld ber of ln\\lv-ring men under such in- tense excitement and aggravation. Whatever may be said about incen- diary leaders and threats of arson and murder, the fact that life and property remained perfeotly secure and unmo- lested in Omaha during the exciting period that followed the disturbances ou the Burlington & Mi R e e Tt Raan speaks volumes for their disposition to respect the rights of property and the rights of free speech and a free Comritive railroads in Nebraska |speech. whera. ouri dump erty. No such resistance has yet boen offered since the troops came to Omaha, and as long as no such re- sistence to the police or sheriff is made the troops have no legal right to intetfere. Even their presonce at the dump, except as spectators, is illegal, and they have no right whatever to block- ade streets or interfere with pedes- trians walking through the streets. 1t is plainly the duty of the mayor to station police where police sur- veillance is needed. All that the troops can legitimately bo used for is to sustain the police in protecting property or life in case they are as sailed or endangered. Any other as- sumption of power is clearly in viola- tion of the state and federal consti- tution as well as congressional law. ———— MARTIAL LAW. Alexander the Great talks about proclaiming martial law in Omaha, And what power has the secretary of state to place this city under mar- tid law, Wiias power Las Governor Nanco The ignorance, brutality and preju. i proclai in other states. Oun Thursday the gen- | dice exhibited b’y many of Lhdl:.:,m- O 4nah Duenidgnd Artkms o ] martial law in the peaceful city of eral freight agents of the Union Pa- | ployers in dealing with these laboring | Omahat oific, Burlington & Missouri River|men is lamentable. Jim Stephenson and Central Branch of the Union Pa-|and men of his stamp treat them as cific hald a conference in Chicago, in|s0o many wmules or cattle, while men order to agree as to what portion of | like the business criginating in Nobraska [ with Texan cow-boys or a gang sud Northern Kansas tributary to the (of road agents. Burlington & Missouri River railroad, [of these workingmen are foreign- shall be classed as competitive and|born; they are looked upon as not|the rules of military law, Guy Barton them | gtate to the military. Such talk is sheer bosh, Martial law is the complete subordi- nation of the'civil authorities of the Itis the sus- pension of all law but the will of the Beoause many | military commander, Martial law is not even bound by It is & set- pooled in the southwestern pool. Re- [ much above the scale of the gorilla or tled question that martial law cannot ports state that they were unable to| Hottentot, when in fact more than |pe proclaimed in a free country. agroe, and the matter will be referred | ninety-five por cent. of the dispised In the Milligan case the Supreme for arbitration under the terma of the | Germans, Bohemians or Scandina- | Qourt of the United States denied the vians, can read and write, and many .hhwlulnu- of martial law in the new pooling contract. United States excepting whera the civil courts were entirely displaced. Does Alexander pretend to believe that the civil courts or any other branch of the atate, national or muni- cipal governments is displaced in Omaha. Let us hear no more senseless boasts about martial law in a peaceful city. it A COWAROLY MURDER. George P. Armstrong, & defenseless old man, has been bratally butchered, it not maliciously murdered in the streetsof Omaha byour ‘‘military guar- dians.” The blood of this innocent victim justly rests upon the heads of the men who have caused the military occupation of this city under the groundless pretext that the civil authorities were powerles to exe- cute the laws and preserve order. Such a cowardly murder cannot be justified by any known military code, even if this city had been under martial law. This deplorable affair should serve as a memorable lesson against the rash resort to military force to suppress municipal turbluence. The bereaved family of Mr. Arm- strong have the sincere sympathy of this whole community. E— Some of the eastern press are howl- ing agalnst the passage of the bill to limit and restrict Chinese immigra- tion. They object to it as contrary to the spirit of our institutions and with- out precedent in any civilized govern- ment on the globe. Neither of the objsotions will hold water. The spirit of our institutions is to make of every immigrant to our shores a good, intel- ligent and industrious cit’zen whose honest labor shall contribute to the common welfare, The experience of years has shown that this cannot be done with the Uhinese,whose only ob- ject in migrating to the United States ia to acquire money, which is to be ex- pended in their own country, from which they never divorce themselves, erther politically or sucially. From the labor side the question is even stronger. By our tariff we are pro- tecting American mechanics from the pauper labor of Europe, while we permit Mongolian serfs to land on our shores and drive our own citizens from their honest callings. It is untrue that no other countries have laws against the coolie deluge. Victoria, Australia has just passed a bill restricting Chinese im- migration, which is even more strict in its provisions than the one passed by the senate. It forbids any vessel to land more than one Chinese to every 400 tons, and imposes a head tax of 860 upon every immigrant on his arrival. The Upited States en- courages immigration. It holds out every inducement to prospective ociti- zens. But it does not desire to en- courage the immigration of aliens who intend always to remain as such, and whose only intention in landing onour shores is to take bread out of the mouths of our honest and hard working laboring men. WorkiNGMEN of Omaha will do nothing to precipitate trouble with the troops now quartered in this city. They will db nothing to menace prop- THE CORONER'S COURT. The Testimony in the Arm- strong Murder Case. Unanimous Ignorancs as to the Quilty Guard The Jury Adjourns Until 10 O'Clock Tuesday. Following is the testimony elicited at the inquest yestorday afternoon, the investigation not being concluded, however, but is to be resumed at 10 a. m. today, at the undertaking rooms of Coroner Jacobs JOHN CURRK, the firat witness sworn testified: Am resident of Lincoln; am super- intending the stone quarries at South Bend; came to Omaha Saturday; went to scene of difficulty to see Secretary Alexander, Dept. Sec. Rogen and other friends; also to see what the la- borers were doing for themselves; saw the killing of Armstrong; was a eol- dier myself during the war and was afraid there was going to be trouble; there was a good many roughsaround, not workingmen; these militia men had not seen much service and were liable to be irritated more or less; these roughs were calling the soldiers “'8. 8 of b——s,” ‘‘hay seeds,” ‘‘tow heads” and 8o on; these men were a low class of people and not people who work for a living; I told Roggen and Captain Baird that if they let their men talk with the citizens there would be trouble; these individuals commenced throwing clods of dirt and an officer standing near me was hit; with that I got away and pretty soon I saw a rush from the op- posite side of the street, in front of a schoool house near the dump. This old gentleman seemed to be taking the lead. he seemed to be under the influence of liquor; there was so much stirring there for a fow minutes that you couldn’t exactly locate things; the soldiers took their guns to get them away and this old gentleman got in the way; a soldier took his gun and knocked him down ard the others came rushing over and surrounded the old gentleman and at that time the bayonetting wae done; this was some- time after supper; couldn’t tell ex- actly when; I saw the man WIPE THE BLOOD off his bayonet, and I knew by that that the old man was killed, or, if he was not, that he would die shortly. Afterwards, a man I knew told me that he was killed right off, and T thought that if a murder had been committad it ought to be made public, and so I went to Tue Bek office and told the editor. Mr. Rosewater was very much surprised. T believe that the man who drove the bayonet in him wore a black hat and held his head down, and had a long nose. The officers very promptly relieved the men there and told them they ought not to be in sucha hurry. The crowd separated quietly. There was proba- bly 500 in the crowd. One of these roughs ran around and hid behind a a woman, when the soldiers crowded forward, and that saved him, One soldier put a shell in his gun. DR, P. M. CHADWICK testified: T held the poat mortem over the body of the decaased; his death was brought about. by a punc- tured wound that entered the aixth iutercotal space three inches belowthe left axilla, and passed beneath the skin downwards and forwards about four inches, entering the cavity of the thorax at the sixth rib, two inches be- low the left nipple in a direct line, and then punctured the pericardium, !a erating the apex of the hear:; then, emerging by the peridium 1t passed erty or threaten the public peace. They will refuse to lend their approval to'any words or acts which can be twisted into indica€hns of violence. Let them take the advise of their friends and stay away from the neigh- borhood of the militia and soldiers. Nine-tenths of the militia are work- ingmen and sympathize with every lawful effort to better the condition of Omaha laborers, They are mnot responsible for tbeir position, but must obey orders. Do not force them to acts which they will regret more than the laboring me S— Mavor Boyp has doubtless discov- ered by this time that an armed sol- diers’ mob is more to be dreaded than an unarmed strikers’ mob, Omuha gin mills aud other resorts have thor- oughly demoralized our gallant militia- men and they have become as danger- ous as an old flint lock musket, which generally does more effective exeou- tion at the breach than at the muzzle, Wiar excuse there for putting the state to the expense of transport- ing 500 militia men to Omaha, when a squad of these home guards sup- ported by Gen. Orook and his regulars would have answered every purpose for suppressing the bloodless riote! e Wi a marshal and deputy marshal whuse time is mostly speut in holding up the walls at the loafers’ corner on upper Farnam street, Mayor Boyd never will be in condition to maintain law and order in this city without military intervention. - Waicn would you rather face, a equad of swaggering soldiers primed and charged with forty rod lightning, or a gang of sober and unarmed work- ingment Yeo Gods, my stomach is heavier than a load of lead. —[Shakespear, Honry TV, Jack Falaaff had evididently been guarding a steam shovel in riotous Omaha. How' “‘How's the baby?" ter this morning, thank you. We ga him some of TroMas' EcLeormic Oiu you advised, doctor, sud shall gve b Sowmie more in an hour op so.” Next day the doctor promounced” the younf-w cured ., 141w through the diaphragm, through the left lobe of the liver, passing down- wards, backwards and forwards; then passed through the interior lobe of the liver, lacerating the portal vein, and then passed through the lobe of the liver, impinged against the right wall of the abdominal cavity, about two Linches above and across the ilium. The stab was on the left side. It was necessarily a fatal wound. I foundno other marks except a wound upon his forehead that did not amount to any- thing; at the time the wound was re- ceived the man must hayve been dou- bled up. JAMES RICHARDS Testified: Ilive iz the city; am & pattern maker; was down on Eighth street very near what is called the dump at the time of this difficulty; T saw an old gentleman leave the crowd and start across the street; he had one hand in his pocket; one of the soldiers had a rifle holding it in his two hands beckoning him back;the old man took hold of the rifle and kept hold of it and then the soldier took his fist and knocked him down; the old man kept hold of the riflo and the soldier kept striking him over ihe head; another gentlemsn stepped up and said “‘for God's sake don’c kill the man; they said that was Mr. Dohle but T don’t know him; any- how they kept striking him and a soldier rushed out and rushed at him with his bayonet; a woman behind me kind of swooued and I looked away for a moment and they took the man into the school house; it was another soldier than the ona.that struck the man that bayonetted him. T seen the man just in the act of thrusting the bayonet just as the woman behind me screamed, but 1 did not see the bayonet thrust into him, There was no crowd and no talking, it was all striking; the man was endeavoring to cross from the west aide to the east side of the street; the picket line was on the east side of the street; he had mot got to the picket line; would recognize the man who bayonetted this man; Isaw no de- monstrations there on the part of the crowd except by some boys who threw some sticks and hard mud; didn’t see any bricks thrown, MAJOR GEORGE D, ADAMSON testified: I reside in York, Nebraska; all T saw of this difficulty was the man grabbed the bayonet with both hands, and the sentinel shoved him back and ordered him to liberate his piece in order to get possession of it; ihe mob got around him and I couldn’t soe any more of it; the sentinel was on duty; the sentinels had orders generally to keep the mob back and fo keep the streets free so that there woula be room for teams to pass and | under the influence of liquod; the for passev'gors; the people had right | party T noticed particularly seemed to go alony the streets peaceably; to be young men or boys; saw sticks they had no right to pass inside eur and clods of dirt thrown; heard no line; our enmpini‘ grounds are on |violent language more than a general what is ealled the don’t know to which company the [ diers names, &o. man who did the bayonetting belongs & M. dump; I|flinging of evithets. calling the sol- As they droye this ;| expressman acroes the street one of don’t know what orders the sentinels | the officers slapped him across the got yontvrdli as to using foroe in & |back with his sword. i case of this ernment property in view. CAPT, OLIVER M, ENLOW testited: T live in Beatrice, nd; the general orders would be to take charge of all gOV-| . .1ed. testified: JOHN CUKRY, T wish to make little additional testimony. After taking the matter into comsideration, Gage [T remember that the militia in clear- county, Nebraska; saw only part of |ing the streots held their guns ‘‘kind- the diffionlty; just after dress parade er” this way (crosswise) in front of T was called down to the guard line 1n | them; T guess the street were about front of company quartors; some one [ clear and the old gentleman come told me there was a disturbance on |over and got hold of a soldier's gun the guard line; when I got there I'!and held on so tenaciously to it’ atter saw two ‘or three persons scuffling: | he knocked him down,with one hand, onecilizen and two or three dressed in | that that was the mainspring of the hand and the bayonet part with the another; from what I couldj see I concluded the man was trying to take | uniform; one man had hold of the|trouble. Then the other party runout {nusket, the musket part with one|and ran the bayonet in him. Q. Was this party that run the bay- onet in him on guard? A. Presumably he was; I saw him the qun from the guard; don’t know | on guard afterwards. who this soldier was; that was all I J. B WIGWAM saw of the trouble; T was on duty as | testified: Before beginning this drew officer of the guard; my instructions|on the floor with a piece of chalk a to the guard was to see that the [ diagram representing the intersection guard line was kept clear; this | of 8th and Howard streets, the Catho- disturbance occurred on the guard | lic school building and the guard line line which was just outside the fence; 1 have not: a list of the guards on duty in question. I stood near the school house; it yosterday; I don’ know whether the |seemed the military wanted to form a adjutant’ kept a list of the guards;|line, and the people in the way of the there was a list given the sergeant of [soldiers were orderod to clear the the guard; there were some stones|way. The first I seen of the deceased and sticks being thrown by the citi- zens; there had been violent language | the jabbing of a bayonet Isaw a soldier doing this &indicltli:lg ownwards used by the citizens almost all day;|and to the left]; I saw the man was it woul be the duty of the guard to |an old gray-headed man. A gentle- arrest a man that was crowding on [ man rushed towards the guard and I him and take him to the headquarters, | think a young man; the gentleman, I and not to kill him; I did not see|think, was Mr. Dohle. He made a this citizen fall; didn't see any vio-| move as though he would like to res- lence used towards him besides this |cue the man that was down; at that scuffle over the weapon; there were [ moment another guard came up and two soldiers inside the guard line|shoved a bayonet towards him so that guarding some guns that we had|he could not get any nearer; the stacked inside the fence; the name of [ young man was treated in the same the sergeant of the guards on duty|way; they kept shoving at the old yesterday was Morrison, of company [ man, and they dragged him across the G, W. 8. POST street. There was a good class of people there, ladies and gentlemen, testified: T reside at Beatrice. If I|and there was plenty of room for the had been a private it is probable I |soldiers to march past two and two. would have seen more of this diffi- HENRY DOHLE, culty, but being the regimental dram- testified: When I got on the grqnnd mer of course I was not supposed to [T saw somebody lying there; didn’t be there. Idon't know who was on duty there. ALONZO COMBS know who it was at first, but finally he turned around and I saw it was Mr. Armstrong; I tried to go to his testified: T reside at Benne t, Lan- | assistanco bt the roldiers held me caster county, Nebraska; I was de- tailed on guard yesterday; we had orders to keep the strect clear; was walking my beat when I heard a racket; I looked around as T walked my beat, and I saw a man holding on a bayonet; there were two or three soldiers and two or three citizene: T started towards them, but this rais.u an excitement and I had to go back 1 my beat; T didn’t see the difficul y: don’t know who the soldier was that inflicted this injury; he was not on the next beat to me; was on duty twenty-four hours, two hours on and four off; this must have been about & o'clock; there was a good deal of ex- back; couldn’t see that they were doing anything to him just then; they were just standing over him with bayonets over him; six or eight of them; Ididn't see him struck; I could identify one of the soldiers if I should see him; at the time I went to the assistance of Mr. Armstrong he told me to stand back; some little boys threw clods, I think; I didn’t hear any orders given by the guards to the citizens; I saw the guards han- dle Jacob Sclesch, a stone mason, pretty rough; he looked as if he was sober. GEORGE D. ABMFTRONG testified that he was a son of the de- citement; T was 100 or 125 feet from [ Ceased; that he saw him lying on the the man; there were a good many cit- izens around; I didn’t hear of any vi- olence; don't know who was the cor- ground and rushed up, calling out to the guard, ‘‘My God! Hold “Fi\ that is my father; I will take care of him;"” poral on duty then; I am a stranger but that they would not listen to him; here, and don’t know anyof the other companigs; we were not allowed to conversn with the citizens while ‘on duty, except what liberties we took ourselves. JOSEPH B. PORTER that one of the guards shoved a bay- onet at him, and that he jumped aside, repeating his request to the guards to hold on, and that he would take care of his father; that one of the soldiers said, *‘put him under ar- rest;” that he saw them holding back testified: I live on South Eleventh |4} "% 1a of his father, and then drag streot; saw part of this difficulty; T him en_the ground. It seemed as if saw the guards running & man off at | 4o oldier had his gun caught in his the point of the bayonet; didn't see this until the man was out in the mid- dle of the street; he was then knocked down and tried to raise himself, and coat and was dragging him. on the ground. Q. Hadn't pulled the bayonet out? A. No, sir; I was excited and was hit again: then I saw a man start n across the street to help him, but he ::Ll::d ::‘fl;m;:li;"e.?t:::nfim:::;}é;:ll was driven back; I was looking 8| hat'is to0 bad;” T said “‘Yes, it i!'; him, and when I next looked around | 4i4 you see tho first of it, ing the injured man|y, ‘aiq he did; his name is Pat. they were ca! Pat?” and into the old school house, or up into|(y;pynel or MoConnel, and he is an the grounds. ANDREW BOARDMAN engineer working for the U, . The witness then described his visit testified: I live in this city; was at | to the soldier’s camp in search of his the scene of this trouble; the first I|father,as given at length in this morn- observed of it was two soldiers takin a man across the street into the ya ing’s Bxr. Seargant William A. Morrison tes- after it was all over; I had been down |tified that he lives in Beatrice; was a there half an hour or more; was fool- | seargant of the guard Sunday; that ish enough to take a lady down to see | he had twenty-seven guards but did the dress parade, and I didn’t go |not take their names and could not down into the orowd; didn’t see_any |give the name of the sentinel who did sticks thrown. WILLIAM H. KENT the stabbing, 2 Adjourned till to-morrow morning testified: T saw the last part of this |84 10 o'olock. trouble; don’t know who it was that inflicted his injury; it was in the cen- ter of Eighth street, and I saw no one T e ALMOST CRAZY. How otten do we see the hard-work- ing father straining every nerve and except Mr. Armstrong and four (£ |y ele and doing his utmost to sup- five soldiers; this happened just after port his family. Tmagine his feelings they had driven an express man 0cross | Uyon returning home from a hard the street; there was considerable ex- citement; T didn't see them when they started toward Mr. Armstrong; T saw him lying in the street; there was sev- eral started towards him; I saw a man that T recognize to-day as his son,rush across the street to take his part; one of the soldiers drew his gun, cocked it and poluted it scross the street, and they all started _ to run; afterwards T saw Mr. Armstrong either get up or was as- sisted up and taken across the grounds day's labor, to find his family pros- trate with diseasn, conscious of unpaid dootors’ bills and debta on every hand. Tt must be enough to drive one almoat All this unhappiness could be avoided by using Electric Bitters, which expel every discase from the system, bringing joy and happiness to thousands. Bold at fifty cents a bot tle. Tsh & MeMahon. 8) ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE towards the schoo! house; T was close MASI]NIG TEMPLE anFT, enough to hear any remarks or orders given by the gnards to Mr. Arm- strong, but I didn’t hear anythinz said; there was 1wo or three disturb- ances there; it was just after droes parada; the . soldiers weroe marched through the crowd on that march they made up throuzh the wwn_; the crowd was g0 great they couldn’t get the soldiersSout at first; therc wae & considerable number of sticks and clubs thrown and they staried to drive the crowd back; they drove this expressman across th atrect and I started down there, then 1 saw Mr. Armstrong lying in the street aud saw the erowd there and the dust flying; don’t know the name of the express- man; he had his wife with him and started to get out to whip some of them; think he was an Irishman; in driving the crowd back the guards pointed their bayonets at them and drove them back just as the drove men back who attempted to drive through with their carriages: there were men marching up and down through the streets all the time; when they drove the first carrage back they were all at charge bayonets; the feeling and disposition of the citizens standing there seemed to be very hos- tile to the soldiers and they were quite insulting; did not seem to e OF'OMAHA, NEB, pr. | Or. 916,526.00 78| 0,748.72 175.00 519.06 $42,673. 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