Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 2, 1885, Page 4

1 N MANUAL TRAINING. effort to compel the rallror to farn TH E DAII‘Y B*“ E ¢| In Denver last Sunday, Bishop War-|double-deck ears will bo suocessfal, Oxana Orrion No. 914 Axp 916 Fanvax St, |00 of the Methodist church, preached a — Oryion, Roow 8 Tarsone Bumo- | Vry practical sermon upon the subject| Mavor Boyp has seen fit to veto the ”'lgm of ““The Caltured Mind and the Skilled | pound ordinancs, giving ae a reason that Hand.” After dircoursing st some length | such an ordinance would work a hard- Published every morning, Sundeg. “he only Mondey mormiig Sulls pobimed |t sate upon mental tralninz, he demonstrated |ship upon owners of caitle and stock. m.u";n‘; Monha.....8 900 | by apt illastrations the Importance and | Mayor Boyd thinks that cattle and hogs .00 | One Month....... 1. i b A nenessity of manual tralning, This is aJought to ranat largsin the strects of ' The Weekly Bo, Published overy Wadnesday | o roctlcal age, which haa to do with the |Omaha, and have the prlvilege of luxutl- ©One Year, with premima. 4 2c0|mastery of materlal forcee. In the|ating In the lawns and gardens of our omi 19 “A man|cltizens, Tt strlkes us that It is about s |language of Bishop Warren, 10} glven to abstruct 1deas is not to bo Ig- |time that a city of 60,000 people should nored, bat we don't need one such in ten|cesse to be a cow pasture. In many thonsand people, for weare In a work-a- | citles, notably Minneapolis, the fences day world, and we must do {ta work to |have boen entirely taken down, as no succeed.” Graduates very often g> out [stock is permitted to run at large. The Drafte, Checks and Post offica crdars 4o be made pay- | 10to the world green In practleal fnforma- | ontlay for fences 1s a very great expeuse, bl6 10 he ordet of the company. tion, feellog that mon liks Professor | bul aside from this the removal of fences THE BEE PUBLISAING (0., PROD3. |Harkness or Peofessor Hadley are tho|gives a plossing effoct to reridence lots, E. ROSEWATER, Enrron great men of the age, while|Omaha certainly ought to follow sult in A. H. Fitch, Manager Daily Circulation. |they know very little about Horace | this matter, but it never can bs done o S Graoloy, Bell, the tslephone man, and [until a stringent ordinance {s passed, If . MoCormick, who has coined millions by | Mayor Boyd should some morning find o L O e "M% [Shudlng Bl sanpere lnto muatly | Xik benuiirel yard all of oown wnd Hogy, We ehall soon have more market|every farm in the country. |he would probably change his mind on nths, withou premium One Month, on trial... All Communloations relating to News and Editorial matters should be sddressed o the Eviror or un bea BURINESS LETTRRA. All Business Tetters and Remittances ehould he addrersed to Tt BrR PUSLISHING COMPANY, OMATIA, Sumrri has created about as big a sen- Tae Untversity of W 00! forred npon Postmaster Gereral Vilas the degree of doctor of lawa—postal laws, we suppose, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Lord of Himeelf and Leader of Others A Number of Oapital Anec- dotes, — Gen. James B. Fry, who was adjutant general at Washington daring Lincoln's administration, relatesin the New York Tribune & number of capital anecdotos of the great president, from which we select the following s samplea: 1 hoard a conversation between Lincoln and Stanton in relation to the election of brigadler general. The many applio- tions and recommendations wers ¢x- amined and discassed. Lincoln finally said; *'Woell, Mr, Secretary, I concar in pretty much all you say. The only polat I make is, that there bas got to be some- thing done that will be unquestionably in the interest of the Dateh, and to that ond I want Schimmelpfennlg appotnted.” The secretary replled, ‘*‘Mr. President, perhaps this Schimmel-what's-his-name is not as highly recommended as rome houses than we know what to do with, Combination of hand and mind ls a suc- [ this question, and favor the passage of —e . cess in stern practicality. In Germany |an ordinance that would putan end to Arrer all, there are o greav many | ths Imperial family are all versed in the |such nuisances, strong attachments in this oity for the [trades. Peter the Great bronght great. — = doparted Smith, ness to hls empirs by his exparlence in ‘We are poritively azsared by responsi- ] the ship yards and shops of other nations, | ble cltizens of Norfolk that tho reports, Dur the campaign last fall the |Tho vast improvement In the last thirty circulated through the state, represent- democrats wers working for bread and |years and the diveralfy'ng of Industrles |ing that there was coneiderable opposi- butter, but now they all want ple, have greatly raised the purchasing power | tlon at Norfolk to the invitation extended — e - of wages. In thls country etaam does|Senator Van Wyok to dellver the Tue deata of Emperor §William, of [ work for nine out of every twoenty per. | Fourth of July oratlon at that place are Gormany, Is evldently near at hand. [scns, leaving nineteen persons fzoo to ex- | untrue in every particalar, Thereis just His death will be a grave political event |tend their varlous oapacliics In other di-|one person in Norfolk who was dis- in Europe. rections, to ralse mora money, to reach [gruntled over the actlon cf the committee to more comforts. One man can now | that invited Senator Van Wyck. That ralse moat for nine peopls who can work [ person is Dr, Peter Schwenk, but he has in other trades. Bishop Warren showed [subsided, The extersive preparations how, by application of intelligence, the [ which the people of Norfolk have made Suez canal could be utllizad to irrigate |for the senator’s entertainment would in- lower Egypt, instead of the natiyes|dicate that he Is sure to meet with a very spending so much time in dlpping from | cordial reception in epite of the malicious the Nile; and how In Mexlco City, by | predictlons of certain maliclous papers sotting up windmills, all the ped-|tothe contrary. Tho fact that three dling of water through tho streets |special excurslon trains have been char- could be avolded and ths water carrlers | tered to accommodate the visitors from put to somethlng else more profitable. | the neighborlng t>wns insures an im-. This is the age of materlal forces which | mense crowd at Norfolk next Saturday, we can handle only by practical ekill. In |even if it should rain hailstones and concluding his sermon, the bishop an- |pltchforks, nounced hls intention of stariing a man- —— ual training school in Denver, suchas| THE proposltion of the Unlon Paclfic ho had successfully established in Atlan- |in regard to the brldge over Thirteenth ta, Georgle, where boys wera studying |street Is decldedly In keeping with the aud working In ehops at the same time. | conduct of that company towards Omaha. In a single term boys who were previous- | Instead of lengthening the bridge to the ly earning forty cents in the cotton fields | full width of the street, it now proposes could earn §1 75 par day incarpentering, | to excavate on each slde of the stone andthey could geo that the great reward |abutments to make room for a twelve- of labor lay along the line of practical |foot sldewalk. This would not remove efficiency. Great Incomes, said the bish- | the obatructions, and would leava the op, are no more in the realms of pure |street In not much batter conditlon than intellectnality. The president of Har-|{t now fa. When the bridgo was con- vard ccllege and the chief cook of the|structed over the street, the company Parker house, in Boston, draw the rame |agreed to lengthsn it withln a certain salary. The rich man now {s the one [time on condition of baing g ranted other who grasps successfully the process of |privileges, Those privileges were granted nature, The late Vice President Cas-|and the time his long passed, but the eatt of the Pennsylvanla Central railroad, | agreement of the company has not bzen whon asked what college he graduated |carried out. The council should insist from, replied, ‘‘The Pennsylvania rall-|upon the Union Pacific keeplng its con- road shops,” and that rcad has now |tract. Thirteenth street is now one of the 2 adopted the policy of glvlng young col- | mest important thoroughfares In tho city, aro baftor thon one, and. that Dium B3 1,y gradaates a thorough coureo of in- | and it should no o Lism. e struction in all its shops and all depart- | the Unlon Pacific. Tae New York IWorld's fund for the [ments of the road till they are fitted to pedestal of the Bartholdi statue now foots | occupy the highest positiona, up about §90,000, and the probablllty is| The object of the proposed | ganized in Wall street, to ran from New that by the Fourth of July the required | Denver manusl training sshool are: (1)|York to Council Bluffs and Omaha. sum of $100,000 will have baen raised by | The iatellectual application and de- | With five trank lines between Omaha that patrloticland enterprlsing newspaper. | velopment are not to bo abated one bit. | and Chicago, and as many more between It will ba an event worth celebrating on|The pupils will take two hours dally in | Ohleago and New York, we ought to be the Fourth. drawing objects set before them, deline-|able to accommodate the traffic for the ating the features on paper. (2) In the | next twenty-five years, but the project- carpenter shop, the use of planes, chisels, | ors ¢f the new line have evidently a saws, and other tools, and the putting of | scheme on hand to build auother road tlmber together, will be learned, The | with as little money and as much water same may be said of the blacksmith shop, | as poseible, and then turn the road over and the processes of manufacture there, | to the wreckers. Bishop Warren malntalned that gradu- TR T Y R ates of such echools were better than| Mrs. DunLey, who shot O'Dynamite mechanics withont the intellectual train- [ Rosss, has been tried and acquitted on ing, and after reciting the signal successes | the ground of inssnity. She was per- of achools of trades in other citien, he | mitted to address the jury, who, In five made an eloquent appeal for public|minutes, decided that she was iusame, recoguitlon in this work, He has already | The proper place for her now is a lunatic met with gratifylng results o far as he | asylum, although an effort Ia to be made has proceeded with this commendable|to have her released and returned to enterprise. The prominent business men | England. of Denver recognize the value of such an 5 institation, and that it will be started on | POMASTER GENERAL ViLAs announces agood basts and thoroughly equipped that he cl!mot hear personal applications thero 1s no doubt. It 1s to b» hoped that for _pantollmu during the two weeks fol- some such eminent man as Blshop War— lowing the Fourth of July, We hardly Tur sppolutmont of Hom, J. W, |78 Wil sl up tho ollzens ct Omaha fn | thought it wonld HEs ta wosks dor the AP P nliwott;r of tho | the tame mannor, While It s true that i Dlr;cnvatd romd od ;;luuln of U ‘b Paclio will b> received with a|¥© re about to estsblish a manual train- °;l" sating lndependenceday, Ho pfob- '“md T £ w“' " by th 1 ing school on a small ecale in connection | * y Intends to lay himeolf out on that Vicrory parches upon the banner of Miss Ada Sweet, ths Chicago penslox agent. Sho will be! allowed to serve out the remaining year of her term, Tiven the reckless place jobber, Thomas A, Hendricks, draws the line somewhera, He will not endorse the application of his own relatwves for office, — Bufiulo Express, Roaspectfully referred to Oaptain Her- man, of Omaha. Mexico has repudiated the Maximillan debt, a thing which it ought to have done long ago. The financial readjustment that has just taken place In that country wlill, it s bolieved, reviva iis credit abroad. It Is with considerabls surprize and re- gret that we notlce that In the natlonal encampment of state militia at Philadel- phia Nebraska Is not represented. Nearly every other state in the union fs repre. wented thero. Mz, Suerwiy, of Fremont, the new candidate for collector of internal rev- enue, accompanied by Mr. Smails, called on the president. A Washington dis- patch says they wera coldly received. Capt. Herman now wears a broad grin. Gex. Drud says that Omaha has the best paved streets in the United States, which leads the Cheyenne Leader to remark that the people of Omaha are now ready to belleve that “two heads ANoOTHER air-line rallroad has been or Tur Smith family is jost now occu- pying a great deal of the public atten- tion. Willlam Henry Smith, Eogland’s new secretary of war, has baen re-clected to patllament from Westmlnstor, while Loyal L. Smith, Omaha’s knight of the earpeted aidewalk, has been elected to the Amerlcan as:embly;in’Canada. CarrrorNIA has very light crops this year owlng to the grasshoppers and other drawbacks, but the San Francieco papers have struck an abundant harvest In the Spreckles trial. The sugar king, father of the defendant, is having the epeeches of his attoraeys/published in fall ia all the newspapers, excepting the Clronicle, at an expense of §25,060. There is a wholesale attempt to sugar the jury and public opinion] pecunlary value, except whben hell by for an indopondent Insiitution of GeNerar Tuaver will dellver the this character, such as s pro-|,, heavy shippers or speculators, it Is 3 i Doccis et gl st Ay Fourth of July oratlon at North Bend. nevertheless a compllment which ot oveland, | mp oltizens of that place are to be con- and already successfully established In other citles. The teaching of the hand In connectlon with the mind s growing In favor everywhere, and Omsha, which ranks high In educational matters, should not be one of the very last cltles to adopt this most useful system of instraction, —e gratulated upon having eecured his ser- vices. He is an elcquent and scholarly speaker, and will no doubt highly enter- taln his hearers. — Judge Savage cannot fail to appreciate. ‘Whether at the present stage Judge Savage can or cannot remedy the abuses which have crept into the Union Paclfic system 1s problematic. Suffice it to say that Jadge sge ls a man of the high. est Integrity and abova all corporation inflaence. While on the bench he was the only judge that we know of in Ne.| Tue Missourl law requlring the rail- braska that did not travel on a railroad | road companles in that to furpish paas, double-deck cars for the shipment of sheep {s now In effect. In case double- AccorniNG te Bradsireet's, the busi- [ deck cars cannot be procured when they —_— mnesa fallures for the ficst half of 1585, the [happen to be needed, the rallroads will| W= have lately heard a great deal last fow days of the alx mouths belng es- | have to furnish sivgle deck cars without |about the prosperity of Los ' Angeles, timated, show & declded increase in[increasing therate. Thisls a very im-|Californla, but when we read that ‘‘there number compsred with any correspond- | portant law, as it glves the wool growers | are five hundred ewpty dwelling houses fog perlod. The excess over last year | of Missour! the privileges similar to those | in Los Angeles,” we begln to think that will be 070, but tho aggregate liabilities |enjoyed by thelr competitors In other | the place has seen its best days, are estimated at only £70,000,000, against |states, They can now reach the most —e $124,000,000 in the like part of 1884 |lmportant markets and compete success. Tue governor has given his reasons for This shows that the number of heavy|fully with the wool growers of Texas, | retaining Dr, Mathewson In the state in- conceras which have gone under has | Colorado and other sectlons of the coun-|sane asylam, The question is why greatly decreased, whlilo the llst of small [try withont difficulty. A slmilar law | doesn't be give bis reasons for retalning failures has been larzely extended. The | was introduced in the Nebraska legisla- | Warden Nobes of the state penitentiary! change Indicates that the epidemic of [ture last winter, but, as was expected, it —_— = xaln s gradua'ly dying out by working | was defeated by the efforts of the rail- | A £z Jox paper refers to the departed 10 the very edge of the commercial sys- j way lchbylsts and cappers The Nabrasks | Smith as su *‘eccentric merchaat,” tew, The great mercauttle and manu. |sheep growers and l5ipperl will have tc |1s a new pame for swiadllng. Omahas facturing centers are already faring better | labor under a disadvantage for at least | does not want avy more of such eccen- 1han last year, two years more, when 1t {s hoped another | tricltles, Tae reduction of postage, which went Into effect yesterday, coming so soon after the reduction of letter postage to two cents, will very likely cause a conslder- abledecresse In the gross recelpts of the postoffice department durlog the comlng year. other German officers.” *‘No matter about that,” sald Lincoln, *‘his name will make up for any diffsrence there may be and I'll take the rlsk of hls ccming out all right.,” Then with a laugh he re- peated, dwelling upon each eyllable of the name and accentlng tho last one: ‘‘Schim-mel-pfen niy must be aprointed* HE PLOWED AROUND IT, The vexatious duties of the general government concerning the draft made demands upon Lincoln’s abillty not only in deciding Important questions, but in avolding decislons when 1t was not bast to risk a rapture with state officlala by rendering them. Upon one occaslon the governor of a state camo to my office bristling with complaints in relatlon to the number of troops required from his stafe, the detalls for drafting the men, and the plan of compulsory servlce in general. I found it impossible to satisfy his demands, and accompanled him to the secretary of war's cffice, whence, after a stormy intervlew with Stanton, he went alone to press hls ultimatum upon the highest authority, After I had walted anxlouely for some hours, expecting im- portant orders or dec'slons from the preeident, at least a summons to the White House for explanation, the gov- ernor returned and sald with a pleasant smile that he was going home by the next traln and merely dropped in en route to say good-by. Neither the business he came upon nor his Interview with the president was alluded to, Assoon as I could see Lincoln Ieald: “‘Mr. Presi- dent, ] am very anxious to know how you dlsposed of Gov. ——. He went to your cffico from the war depariment in a towerlng rage. I suppose you fonnd it necessary to make large concesslons to him, as be returned from you entirely satlafied.” ‘0, no,” he reolied, ‘1 dld not con- cede anything. You know how that Illi- nols farmer managed ths big log that lay in the middle of his field. To the in- quirles of his nelghbors one Sunday he snnounced that he had got rid of the big log. ‘Got rld of it!' sald they. ‘How dld you do it It was too big to haul out, too knotty to split, and too wet and sog- gy to burn; what dld you do? ‘Well, now, boys,’ replicd the farmer, ‘I you won’t divulge the secrat, I'll tell you how I got rid of {t—I plowed around f{t.’ “Now,” eaid Lincoin, ‘‘don't tell any- body, but that's the way T got rid of Gov, ——. I plowed around him, but it took me thres mortal hours to do 1t, and I was afraid every minute he'd see what 1 was at.” PAY NO ATTENTION TO HIS SQUEALING, Lincoln was a good judge of men and quickly lesrned the pecaliar tralts of character in those he had to deal with. I recall an anecdote}by which he pointod out a marked trait In one of our northern governors. This governor was earnest, able and untiring in keeping up the war epirlt in hls state, and in ralslng and equipping troops; but he always wanted his own wsy, and ill brooked the re- straints imposed by the necestity of con- forming to a general spstem. Though devoted to the cause, he was at times overbearing and exactlng Jn hls inter- course with the general government, Upon one occasion he complained and protested more bitterly than ususl, and warned those in authority that the exe- cutlon of their orders in his state would be beset by difliculties and dangers. The tone of hls dispatches pgave rlse to an apprehengion that might not coop- erate fully in the enterprise in hand. The socretary of war, therefore, laid tho dlspatches before the president for ad- vice or instructlons, They did not dis- turb Lircoln in the least. 1In fact, they rather amused him, After reading all the papers he said in a cheerful and re- aseurlng tone: ““Never mind, nover mind, those dispaiches don’s mesn any- thing. Just go right ahead. The gov- ernor I8 like a boy I msaw once at the launchiog of a ship. When everything was ready they picked out a boy and sent him under the ship to knock awsy the trigger and let he go. At the crlticalmo- ment everything depended on the boy, He hed to do the job well, by a direct vigorous blow, and then lie flat and keep still while the ship slid over him. The boy did everything right, but he yelled as if he was being murdered from the time he got under the keel untll he got out. I thought the hide was all scraped off his back, but he wasn't hurt at all. The master of the yard told me that thls boy was always chosen for that job, that he did his work well, that he never had been hurt, but that he always equeeled io that way. That's just the way with Gov, Make up your minds thathe isnot hart, and that he Is doing the work right, and pay no attention to his equeallog, He only wants to make you understand how bard his task is, and that he is on hand performing it.” Time proved that the president’s estimate of the governor was correct, LINCOLN ON MEADE, Lincoln wa‘ched the operations of the armies in the field with the deepest In- terest, the keenest insight, and the widest comprehension. The congratula: tory order whicn Gen. Meade published to his troops after the battle of Gettys- burg was telegraphed to the war depert- ment, Darlog those days and nights of anxiety Lincoln clung to the war office, and devoured every scrap of news as it came over the telegraph wires. He hoped for and expected substantial frults feom our dearly bought vietory at Gett burg. Ieaw him read Gen, Meade's congratulatory order. When he came totke sentence about ‘‘driving the in- vaders from our eoll,” an expression of dlsappolntment seitled upon bis face, bis hands dropped upon his knees, and in tones of avguish he exclaimed: “‘Drive My God! Is great and recrulted arwy had ten or penned up for nine days at the swollen Potomae, which they canld] - | belng beaten on the bhead, ete., and Judge THE DAILY BEE-~THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1885 not crors, P ges had all been destroyed by a raid of union cavalry, and Lincoln was intensoly anx- fons to have Meade attack and doetroy and eapture thew, as he easily oould have done, and thus end the war und all of its bloodshed and cost. But Meade was a timid, irresolute officer, and let the opportunity pass away unimproved. Hence Lincoln's bliter disappointment and exclamation of agony, ‘‘My God! Is that all? ] “THERE WON'T DE ANY THERE,” 1 was designated by the recretary of war a8 a sort of special escors to accom- pany the president from Washington to Gettysbarg upon the occasion of the first anniversary of the battle of that place. At the appointed time I went to the white houte, where I frund the presi- dent’s carclage at the door to take him to tho station; but he was not ready. When he sppoared it was rather late, and 1 re- marked that he had no time to loze in going to the traln, ““Well,” said he, *‘I foel about that as the convict In one of Tillnois towns felt when he was going to the gallows. As he passed along the road In custody of the sheriff the people, eager to see the execation, kept crowding and puehing past him, It last he called out: *‘Boye, you needn’t be in such a hurry to get ahead; thera won't ba any fan tll 1 get there,” Upon one occaslon, when I was at the white houss in the courss of duty, the president, after disposing of the matter in hand, said: “Youare in charge of the appolutment office. I have here a bushel baskstful of applications for cftices in the army. 1 have tried to examine them all, bat they have increased so rap- idly that 1 have got bohind snd may have neglected some. I will send them all to your office, Ovorhaul them, lay thoge that require further actlon before the secratary of war, and file the others,” The bushel basketfual of applications came and were overhauled. They were dotted with notes, comments and (uerles by the president, One slip of paper—which I handed back to the president with the re- mark that I supposed he would not care to have it placad upon the official files— bore a memoravdum in his own hand- writing as follows: *‘This day Mrs, —— called upon me. She is the wife of Msjor ——of the regular army. She wants her husband made a brigadier general. She is _a saucy little woman, and I think she will torment me till 1 have to do it. A. L. 1t was not long before that little woman's husband was appolnted a briga dler general, B The Grand Army's New Commandser, Boston Herald. Gen. 8. S. Burdette, the new com- mander-in-chisf of the Grand Army of the Republic, was born at Lelcester- shira, England, and was the son of a Brltish radlcal, a great admirer of Gen. Washington, who eent him to what he called the paradise of the world (Amer- lcs) when he was twelve years of age, with his two sisters, his father hoplog to be soon able to come himself. Upon ar- rival in this country, he was bound out in northern Ohio in the old style, re- celving for his work his clothes, board, and three months’ schooling. He went to Oberlin college, working his way by teaching, and In 1856 followed Greelsy’s advice and ““went west,” Hewent to Iows, teaching days and studying law nights, and in the winter of 1857-58 was ad- mitted to the bar. At the breaking out of the retellion he offered his services and spent all his_savings in the organizz- of the Iowa cavalry, being commissioned lisutenant in Company B, The company was mustered in 1861, and with two others of thls reglment were sent to southwestern Misgouri, where It did good mervica againsi the bush- whackeras,especlally the forczecf () aantrell and lost many men. At the end of two years, run down In hea'th, he waz sent to St. Louis to be mustered out, but as he refused to be discharged he was ap- pointed asslstant provoet marshal-general for the department of Missouri, and held the office until the thres years cf his term had expired. He served aftowards as Unlted States dlatrict attorney for south- western Mlssourl, was elected to the forty-first and re-elected to the forty-zec- ond congrees, and would have had a third term, but the district bad been re- distributed and made democratic. In 1874 President Grant, unsollclted, ap- polnted him commissioner of the general land cffice, where ho remained two yoars. His health gave way then, and in 1878, recovering it, he resumed the practice of his professlon in Washington, especlally in Jand matters in the court of claims and before the supreme court. Tho general is a large, fine looking man, weighing over two hundred pounde, ts abous five feot ten inches tall, has brown hair, a Vandyke beard. eplrired expreeston, and quick glancing eyee, The new commsmder-in-chief is Hitle known in New Eagland, even samong the dole- gates of the convention, Those who are acquainted commend the choice made and extol his ability. He s said to ba one of the finest orators in the entire grend army, This s considered among his constituents as a speotally strong point in his favor, ——— - Norfolk Disgraced; Plattemouth Journal, The Fourth of July commlittee at Norfolk having invited Senator Van Wyck to deliveran oration there on the nation’s annlversary; It appears that ocertaln politicians thereabouts are rais. fng an ado over the matter, and are trying to keep people away from the gathering on account of this selection, Could apything be more contemptible than this course toward a public man? What has the secator done to such a sentlment of aversion him? Surely those men must be a scur— vy set of pollticlans up that way. We doubt not the worst enemy the country ever had could get a hearing at that place, but because some of those men may have been disappointed In their as. piratlous for office, they seek to insult the great commoner from Otoe in that man. ner. It is qulte as much of an honor for Norfolk to have euch & man in Its midst as it Is for him to be invited to speak there. For a model of intolerance, give us Norfolk. Police Court, In the polise court yesterday morning, Hautohinson, aliss *“‘Chicken Jim,” was arralgned for dlsorderly conduct. He told a long pltiful story of how he had heen kicked out cf doors by a bartender, after FUN TILL 1 GET Stenberg concluded to release him. Julis Rapine, a young woman of frail morals, was fined $3 and coets for dis orderly condust on the street. Vint Hammil, accused of druoken and disorderly conduct was released, as there Wwas no one to appear egal; him, Williama Nugent was given freo lodg- Ing an the elty jail, to-day, having been arrested by Officer Ma‘za for belng drunk on the streets, didn’t Uke Verpoerten, direct tzstimony was not changed, port and emelled powder smoke, fen cause bis nawe did not appear on the ln formation, I'VE GOT A NECK. The Trial of Thomas Ballard for Marder Commenced, ol The ttory of Witnesses, wolating How He Shot Henry Verpoorten, to “Bave the Damen Fam'ily,' N Tho trlal of Thomas Ballard for the murder of Henry Vorpoorten was com menced yestorday morning, Judge Neville preeiding, and the following twelve men sworn as jurors: C. F. Munroe, Mortis Morrison, L. B, Wisby, D. C. Satphen, |j S. Hawver, Adolph Seifken, Willlam Latey, S. J. Borgatrom, Henry Sincore, Loaming H. Mickel, Lloyd Jones and E. B. Carter. The trouble oxporlenced in eccurlng this jury has already beon stated at some length. This of course follows from the fact that death by hanglog is the puntsh. ment presoribed for Ballard’s crime, if found guilty as charged, which chargo is| T that of murder In the first degree. When conrt opened at 930 o'clcck, the large court room was well filled with epectatora, witnesses and friends of the accused and those who were drawn there by curioaity. The prisoner Is a small man, old encugh to be gray haired and was nearly alwayr, more or less filled up with liquor, Ho slts by his attorneys durlng the trlal t t 3 b my arms aroy Alstadt, 0 Te- volver away from him. He sald, ‘I done it (tapping g0 ne ant. a3 follows: years; drives & hack; knew Ballard and alzo tho deceased; has known Ballant olght years; saw Verpoorten last the even- ing ho was killed, at the St. James hotal, yeoars. He knew Ballard and Verpoorten; y Inst time, on the day that ho was shot; saw Ballard thero aito; saw Verpoorten ot acquainted with them at the St. ames hotel. Saw Verpoorten alive, the ome down the back stalrway into the saloon, and saw Ballard come down off of the streot Into th, thing (that was Verpoorten's name) was thot,” Ballard stood by the bar with one hand on it saloon, and *‘the next I knew,” sald witness, “‘Henry Henry foll down and Ballard tepped back ‘about two feet. I threw d his neck. Three of us, Wilson and I took t e to save tho Damon tamlly,’ and also his neck with his hat) said, ‘I've ook, At the closo of this wit- direct oxamination the court ad- ourned until 2 o'elock, AFTERNOON SESSION, The court reconvened at 2 o'clock, bu waa burdened with some delay by one or Wo jurymen and the o Samuel Stephi estimony on croze unsal for defend n continued hls mlatlon. The day of the killing he was in the saloon at 5:30 o'clock Olmstead was there at tho same time. Tho murderer didn't eay a word when he came into the saloon, and remained until 8 p, m, Witnes didn'c see Ballard pull the revolver but did see him put his hand up on top of the counter milfire. The bulk of Stephonson’s cross eatimony wae in tho line of what he tes- tifiad to directly, Willlam Boguet testified substantlally Has livod in the city two and I8 nervous, in the saloon; he was walking be- The sfate lsably represented by its [Rind the bar and commenced’ pui. ting on his spron; saw Ballard prosecuting attorney, Lee S. Estelle, who for this caso hes taken C. A, Baldwln in to aesist him., Gen., Geo. M. O'Brisn, Moses P. O'Brien and Chas, P. Birkett appear for the defense. In presentlng their case to the jury yesterday they set up a plea of imbo- cllity, insanity and irresponsibllity as the grounds for their defense. The teatimony of witnesses for the prosecutlon {s very short, poeitlve snd polnted, No long stories are told as is usually the custom in murder trlals. Dr. Darrow was the first witnees called to the stand. Dr. Darrow had known Ballard since 1878; he knew Henry Ver- poorten, also; he last saw him the even- ing that he was killed—Sunday, the 15th day of March; saw Ballard just before o'clock that evening pass Bell's drug store on Tenth street; witness drove to the livery barn to put up his hor.e and hed orly time to get there when he recelved a telephone message from the St James hotel that a man had been shot and he was wanted; when Ballard pasted the drug store he was goiog south towards t pl the St, James hotel, and was moving in | L lunch counter March; had made that hotel headquarters for two years; Ballard was then night clerk at the St. James and had boeen for two years; Mr. Damon was ruoning the hotel two years ago, and M March, on the 15th day of March; eaw Ballard the day before that in and aboat the hotel; ihis was Saturday; on Sundsy, abou G o’clock, eaw Ballard at the lunch counter; he looked somewhat excited and said, ‘ I will make a sensation here:” I remarked, Tom;"” he raisad his hand and again ra- marked, ‘‘you mark my word, I'il make a sort of dog trot; when the doctor got to tho hotel hes found that the saloon door was clozed; he was taken through a hall and in at a rear door; fcund Ver- poorten lylng on the floor behind the bar, with & bulist hole in the centre of his breast, and dead; he probed the wound to fiad the directicu of the ball; found that It had pass through the body and lodged in ths epinal column; Verpoorten died of this wound, which was neceazarily fatal. On cross examination, the witness tes- tified, that he saw Ballard as stated, about or juet befors G o'clock on the evening of March 15th;soms one stopped to him, into the saloon. bar and called for the drinks, walked up to the bar, pulled his gua, lald it up on top of the counter, point- fogitat Verpoorten and fired; Verpcortin threw up his hands and fell over dead. The murderer said ho shot him to eave the Damon family, his neck with hishat rim and remarked pot. the couater he said, *‘I've done it, I in- tended to doit, and I'm glad I done It.’ Thero was nothlng new clicited from Mr. Bovqnet on the cross examination. t the 10th strost entrance, and spok e He answered and fcllowed me Witness weut up to the Ballard He also tapped on bat he bad a good neck to stand the rope. After seetng thres men, whom witness didn’t know then, take the re- volver from Ballard, he (wltnesy) left the lace and went over to the B, & M. de- When Ballard stepped back from Questlon by one of tho jurors— Which hnr{ld did Mr. Ballard have the plato} in? A—Ta his right hand. John F. Bliven wascalled and testified: ve in St. Joe now; was runniog the at the St. James lact mith laet en Jast on Saw Henry Verpoo Ydon't do angthing rash, Ballard in front of Bell'sdrugstore to[8 ~ big ~ sensation hers, this epeak with him, but he put his hands in |thing has gore far enough.” Soon after that I heard & his pocket, and started to run acroes the teack ia front of an engine. A telephone ma2esenger wos sent to witness’ house but ho had not yet arrlved at homa, and was called from the barn, which is on Seven- teenth street and St. Mary's avenue, where he had gone to put up tis horaes; went from there back to St. James hotel, but couldn’t eay whether he wont in his buggy or nct. Had not seen Ballard since that timo until this trlal com. menced, Dr. Darrow made the post mortem examinatlor; he didu’cs2e the ball but felt 1t with nis probe; the char- acter of the wound showed what it had been made with; the wound was direcily through the heart. Wm. Nelson was the next witness, He testified [to having beon lving “‘a most everywhere,” Cuntracting was his buainess: he know the prisoner and aleo knew Verpoorten; he saw him the time that e was killed; Bzllard was there; Verpocrten was killed about ten minutea past G; did not see Ballard come intothe saloon; this witness testified that he was standiog by the bar tslking to another man, and Verpoortsn went behind the bar to commence work; suddenly heard & shot just behind him and saw Ver- poorten fall; locked aronnd qalckly snd eaw Ballard with th, i2 his haud; he took the gun away fzom +d, and had a hard struggle to got it; Bailard eald that he had to do iv to rave the Damon tamily, snd also sald that he had a good neck to hang on; witness put the revol- ver in his own pocket and half an hour afterwards gave it to Mr, Drexel, the coroner; it was a Britlsh bull-dog revol- ver, about .38 calibre; when shot Ver- poorten was behind the bar. Cross-examined —Witnees rosides now in Lincoln. Became acqualnted with Ballard last September. He didn’t see Ballard pull the trlgger to fice the shot that killed Verporten, but saw the smok- ing revolver in Ballard's haods with the muzzle pointed stralght out in front of him, Efforts to rattle the witness were not successful. At this polnt the revolver was brought into courtand identified. Charles Alstadt was called as the next witness, He had lived in Omaha fifteen years, and had known Ballard & long time, Kvew Verpoorten; he and the two men were working at the St. James hotel; saw Verpoorten allve last about ten min- t 6 o'clock, on the 16th of w Ballard thore that cvening, saw him jumping back the bar; Verpoorten was putting on his apron behind the bar when he was shot. Ballard was standing close up to the bar and about the center of it; Verpoorten stood a little ways to the south of the counter with his face to the bar; when the shot was fired he threw op hils hands, fell over and groaned. Ballard jumped and sald “‘I've done it and am glad of it.” The witness, Wilson and one or two others grabbed Ballard and stroggled with him to get the revol- ver away; after they sucoeeded he again satd, I done it, and am glad of it; I've got & neck”; he run up stalrs and back down into the saloon two times before Tom Pieronnet arrived to arrest him, ! On cross examination the witners teutd- [ n fied that Bal'ard and Verpcorten had, so far as he knew, always been gocd friends, bat he had heard Ballard siy that he The witnets' if Wi hi a te! tel to Examined by the judge; heard the re Samuel Stevenson wes called, De- nt's attorneys objected o him ber it The witness had resided here seven witness, sald: years; tlght yoars; heve kuown Ballard that long, and knew Verpoorten abont nine years; Alex. Damon was proprietor of the hotel when wiiness first knew it; he 14, notse down stalrs like somebody fighting: went down, s1w Uallard and esked him he had dono that thing; he replied yes and am glad cf it; ssw Verpoorten laylng behind the counter on his back, dead. at the time; Ho had beon discharged, bat witness d!dp't know at what time he had boeen dlscharged. tion, Ballard was not in any buslness In the cross examina- witness testified to having been cll acquainted with both Ballard and Verpcorter, but they did not make him a repository for their secrots, quently were In hla lunch room. Ballard made the declaration that he was going to create & blg sensation, he was not exclted. told the witness that Ballard was dis- charged. They fre- When Charles Olunstand had ¥ra Smith baing called a3 the next have lived in Omaha nine have been at the Jamoa hote! mself was running 1t last winter under losee as its propelotor, Bollard was in my employ; I had leased tho promises of Mrs. Damon; Ballard wss discharged on the 15th day of March, hut was notified and paid off the day before, March 14th, acd 1 paid him off; T paid him §50, and he was satisfied; glad of it because he,” meaning Verpor- he also sald: “f am n, “would soon have us both ont.” Ballard had boen night clerk and runner for the house; ployed at thst hotel about seven years, Verpoorten had beenf thera off fand on aboat elght years. on Sundsy morning after he had been discharged; when Verpoorten was killed; was stand- he had been thus em- T naw Ballard eatly I was in the room g talking to a crowd. 1 heard the re- port of the pistol, turned, looked and saw Ballard at the bar with a smoking platol in his hand; eaw Verporien lylng behind the bar. ehooting parties took the revolver from Ballard; notlog had been sald by Ver— poorten; Ballard sald after the shooting: "l'lvs got you, you s——b, and am glad of it plstol to do that with, and I am glad of it. his remarks to the officer, poorten was head bar keeper for the nouse. Immediately after the He also ssld: ‘I boughv this 1 can stand t.” Witness repeated Henry Ver- Cross-examined by Berkett: Verpoor- o was in the service of Damon at the 8¢t James hotel several times; after Da— mon's death witness rented the hotel, on Deecmber 15, from Mrs. Damon; on the 16th of March he ceased to be proprietor; Ballard used to be employed by the hotel; was oscaslonally diecharged for spreeing; was contiouous; Ballard was employed practically, however, his service runner and second clerk; Verpoorten, the bartender, aceount:d to Mrs, Damon for the recelpts at the bar; generally Ballard took charge of all the money, which would be brought up by Verpoorten upon cloeivg the saloon, until the next morning; this arrangement continued up the time of Ballard s diecharge, March On further cross-examinatlon wit- g5 testified that the famlly of Mrs. Damon did not line in the hotel, only tcok thelr meals there, FKurther cross-examination — Ballard had teen drinking {mmoderately up to the cay of the fourteenth; Ballard knew beforenand that he was {o be discharged; was commoa talk between Ballard and myself that sooner or later thers was to be a charge o the hotel 1 retircd Mr, Beldum advisod Mra, mon to discharge Ballard from hie posi- nagament of tke As soon am that 1 was tor