Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 30, 1886, Page 7

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K Via l‘llnungulh BTOCK YARDS TRAIN: §Fil leave T » Jopot, Omabi, ut 0:40—8:35— 60—5:25 1. s \.mu Tor hnshn Al 0 . ity 15, nlun) ‘cxcopt Bunday; 0, YAy excent Sasurduyi i dally excopt Mo A Clear Skin is only a part of beauty; but it isa part. Everylady may have it; at Jeast, what looks like ir, Magnolia Balm beth freshens and beautifies, ‘more ) L'hllul than A STORY OF REVENGE IN TEXAS Two Assassing Hanged in 1878 the Cause of Nine Frighttul Murders, Every Victim Proved to Have Reen Related to Some One of the Jurors in the Old Trial, [Notr="The following sketch is foundea on fact, The author, Kenward Philp, “vll known New York newspaper man, says he has altered the names of persons and locali- ties for obvious reasons. For the enlighten- ment of the readers of the Ber however, we supply most of nw real names. The seene is laid in Austin, Texas, where a series of hor- rible and my‘l(\rlflu« murders has been com- mitted during the past year, the last one be- ing committed only a few weeks ago, since ‘which time arrests have been made which, it is believed, will result in the convietion of 1he guilty party. In Philp’s story, the name Hle nlllh stands for Mulflc Brown, colored ; Lizzie Byron for Lizzie Shelley, coloied: Jane Crescent for Irene Cross, colored : Mary Cullen for Mary Rainey Mis. Gracie Lee and Orange Jefferson, for Grace Yance nd Orance Washington ww]w"w] 3 Jemnie Page for Alice Davis, cohmxl. The names of the two white mar- ried women murdered on Christmas eve, l!l&l} were Mrs, Phillips and Mrs, Hancock. Thilp’s theory is that the murders were the Tesult of Tevgnge on thie part of the rolatives of the assasfins, who were hanged in 1 having been convicted by jury. n( white and blacks, the murdered persons” be- ing mostly the relatives of the jurors.] stmas_day of 1884, a little over e months 0, the body of Mollln Brown, a colored servant in’ the city of Xn Texas, was found hacked to pieces in the yard about a hundred feet from her Innw- Her murder, which had been committed on a bright moon- light night, had been accompanied by terrible outrage. 2, On M'n 7, 1885, Lizzie Byron, an- other colored dmm-sllr, was murdered under preel sinnlar circumstances. 8. In the lullm\mg., month Jane Cr cent, still another colored servant, was found hacked and mutilated and - dead in her own room. 4, On August 30 little Mary Cullen’s body, mutilated in the same way, was found in a stable half a mile from her mother’s house, whither she had been dmflz\-‘l bluudmz all llu, wn y. The child was but 12 " . Her mother, who lay in bed thh hm on that fatal night, horribly wounded in the head with an axe but recovered, 5. On September 20 me the next. Mrs, Gracie and Orange Jefferson, col: ored, lived as manund wife in a cabin, Lucinda Wilson and Patsy Dobbins, mu- Iatto girls, boarded with them. The man and woman slept in one apartment, the girls in another. On the date Illl‘llllulli:ll, at night, Jefferson was hammered into msumlnhl) and died the next morning; Gracie Leo was taken from his side, pulled out of the window, and had her 1ains beaten out with a stone; the two girls were beaten presumably with a d-bag, and_when they recovered con- sciousness could tell nothing about the altuir, 6. In October Jenniew Page, another colored domest: s found dead the usual w ay and after having sullered sim- ilar hor tmas eve, 1885, justone year from the first murder, two white mar- ried women were assassinated and dragged from their beds to the grounds outside their houses. The body of one was found with a ‘heavy log across it. Both had been killed'with an ax. The husband of one of them was found wel tering in blood from th blow of an a: overed. been arrested in B— for ¢ crimos, but none of them has been lILlll North! ern and southern detectives, the local po- lice, bloodhounds, and all the parapher- ngenuity could devise have been sed in the endeavor to discover the mur- derers, but to no purpose. THE THEORY. my room at midnight, read- 15" of this mess of horror: Poe or Hugo or Dumas ¢ver conjured up from mm.mlm brain—sitting there with nothing else in my room alive suve my lamp I tried to think this matter out.” Three days after 1 alighted to tho railway station of B— the scene of this rewarkable series of murders. I, Gerald Shanly, a New York news- paper man, had a tlu,m? concerning them. So atmngly had the conviction that it was the correct onc grown upon me Lhulllelt itto be my bounden duty Sitting in itg the trps were first bent to the office of qu.\l nowspaper in the town ed to see the editor. I found accessible and ready to grant an in- to & northern confrere at a mo- ment's notice, A young lady, however, sat at a desk in another part of the room, and, glancing at her, I suggested that our interview must be priv e, The editor looked in ngly ul me, but gracefully Zobrid ohthe yonn Ty, neyCtheloss “I have come, Mr. Blank,” Isaidto the editor, ‘‘to try and .,ul\ the mystery of these terrible murder: It was L»Lun at once thut he took me for a crank, “Well,” he answered, “uvcrfho(l in ias been trying to do that f{r iy past,’’ ‘l know it; but don't bu discouraged because they ‘have failed.” “Well, have you any clue? “I think 1 lunu—-lnlt let me ask you one question. 1IF tho answer is negaiive my t ails at the ontset, and [ take the n for New York.” yer ve mixed juries in your “Well, some of them are very mixed oceasionally,” he answered, liughing. “But you mean juries composed of both \\lll\tu und colored citizens?” b ¢ mlmnly we do.” “For how long have you had them#" “Wlyy, ever since the principle of the eivil-rights bill was lml)mhlull in the con- smuunn of the state.” i "ur more than fiv “Now, Mr. Blank.” Isaid, “I am thor- oughly in earnest in belick lllul these dreadful mysteries can be solved. You can help me'if you will, by pmlrmlulg to employ me as an nuhulumpun ron your 1 aper, so that I shall have soiae apparent also can gain mm-n to oflic documents, et The editor thought the matter oy HWhy do you not o to the chief lice®” he safd, “or ta the detective: or unswer' I asked him whether the police had not announced their belief that llu-su wurders were the work of one X Yos, . thoy Maves® he ‘replied, pon o grounds of simil i 1508, and thut every suspicious or all weted person in the “town is under close wateh. Had there been more than one, discoyery must have been brought about before this.” your theory, too¥? “and 1 shall it An hour later I had taken a neat voom neur the oflice, and had made the qaintance of the veporters for the paper, T P Y L Y 6 P their new colleague, as_they thought me. Of course we could not talkglong with out getting upon the subject of the s ders. Vigilance committees had formed, ward associations patrolled lhu streets at might, no woman ventured out dter sundown, 'und every man in slept with & loade P\ dy to his hand: The negroes were m an agony of torrer, every one of thew weariug a vou- d\'ylu chsrm. the honor of disprov ing it a paper said: “‘So there is no theory left but that 6ne inhuman mon- ster has “sacrificed alife every time he wished to gratify a ghastly passion.” ‘ hmkm;i over the sentence in my new quarters _that night, T said to myself, Bosh! These murders are not commit: ted for the sake of theft, fof no property has ever been disturbed in the vietim's homes. Lust, strong as it i& A€ a motive to crime, is not powerful enongh in these eases as an incent Tnere is but one human passion_develish enongh to furn- ish the motive for this horrible series of crimes—revenge. “But can_it be possible that one man ean entertain equal feelings of revenge against nine persons, living apa white and_some_colored? And is it not still more incredible that two persons (if my theory be correct, that more than one was engaged in these murders) should have precisely the same fi-chup of ven- geance against precisely the same per- sons and shonld o pr vm-l) the s: means of wreaking them.” We shall sce. 1 put my revolver on the table by my side, turned down the lamp and went to ulnvp The editor had promised fo assist mo in any way he could. I was not slow to sk his assistance on the next morning. The first favor 1 asked of him was a_note of introduction to the coroner. From what I had learned of him from the re- porters 1 had determined to make him my only confidant as to the real mission 1 hiad come on. After telling him, there- fore, I asked whether I might be allowed to see the records of the office for some few years back. He willingly complied, giving me a private room in which to in- ate them. When we were alone 1 saic “Dnclnr did you conduct tho , inquost in the ease of all these murders?’ b o TR “Eight vietims out of the mm-.fi,) the blow of an_a¥e, nine were were they in in “Tlu-n the blow, no matter ho: sharp the axe, must have been a ve heavy “Now, wheth deept doctor, please try and think the incision made by the ax was ¢ at one point than at another in n all cases?” “Yes, [ doctor reflected. he replied. “Was it not deeper toward the lower part of the fco than taw ard the other?” “Yes, in all c: if I Illl'llfll\‘l aright. But what does tha |L prove?’ he asked., It proves that the theory of the police that these murders are the work of one man is wrong. You'have doubtless noti- ced that in striking a_log of wood with an ax the incision is llvup\wt at the point where the ax strikes first. While the lieel of the weapon comes away easily, the striker has often to wriggle the other end of it two or three times before it is released. upposing a man to be standing up to wield the ax he must necessarily be to strike a blow of such force as to crush the frontal bone), the incision would be deepest at the point rthest from him. If the deepest incision in these cases had heen at tho lower part of the face, therefore, the man who wielded the ax must have struck while standing behind the head of his vieuim, This proves that two persons at least were engaged n the murders; the one ln)]nl ng the ¢ body while the otherstruck.” At seems to be 80, said the doctor, leflvct ly. y nothing,” continued I, ‘‘about the m)pcm\nlm of one man witlding « sandbag upon two girls in one room “and murdering two full-grown persons in the next room at the same time without creating - suflicient “nof to alarm the nm;.:hl;uu is a circumstance for your police soncile with their one- man theory. No; there were two men engaged in this erusade of blood and out- rage. In my belief, one was a white man, the other colored. Perliaps these records will lead us to determine who they are.’ An hour or so passed in s the coroner aguin came room. “Doctor,” T said, suspending the in- vestigation of the records for a moment, “the newspapers deelare that immediate: 1y after one of these murders a suspect- ¢d man was traced (these are the very words) from the stabie the city, to where he took a hack. The wheel marks led us_to an alley back of the cabin in which the murder was committed. There lmc§ uul man disappeared. Is that so?” s, “Then there must have been some- body to drive the hack. This was the fourth or fifth murder, and of course was made public the next day?" Yesn it was.” rching and into the little the hackmen inyestigated, or ‘xny other hackman, hs ere investigated. All proved it impossible that they could hay peen implicated. Nobody came forward say a word as to his being hired.” Precisely. Do you know why. Sim- ply becausc this hack the suspected man took was mnot a regular I his own. The hack of a white man, driven by a negro; each having his t wreak. Further, the nowspa say, and the police corroborate it, t anoth oceasion o cal o6 hat its tracks were followed for from the scene of the murde! 1 back precisely to the scene of the crime, Is that sot” “\c “And llml when bloodhounds we on the track they followed the tr: some distance,” but suddenly we fault.” “Does not that prove to your mind that the old slave methods of “confusing — tho seent had been adopted, and that in all yrobability a colored man drove that hack."’ _ The doctor admitted that it looked it, like cords, T said it about six years nzo the body of a well-known hackman, John Smith, was found in the suburbs of your town with a bullet in his head. Do you n-un-mhur the caset “0h, yes, perfe coroner at that t! “Had ho ever been on?"’ “Noj but he for year W hu wius the l~|w er on his side?” “Mr. White Jnln.ul a well known member of the bs “Your ‘here sl lawyer, after the hackman’ found on a suburban highway with his head crushedd in by o stone—as in th case of Gracie Lee, last year, Is that so* WY os. “And that shortly afterwiard his father as fnux\nl murderedy” Turning to the r re th ; although 1 was not ngaged in litiga- s an important witness ion in a murder trial a *‘And then that his brother was found munlu ad P “In \hu murder trial, in murdered hackman appeared as an im- portant witn and in which the murdered lawyer was also a figure, what was the ve hu.»" which the ":\'m nlm tor, ean you tell me b; jury lis ar what wis wmvmu m of that jury ot by the lists—théy are not accessi- ble easil But I perfectly remember the case. It was a mixed jury—some white, bum\‘- black.” your “the *“Lhere were two—a white man and a colored man, cqually congerned in the erime—the double crliae of outruge and wurder,™ Ishuuhnbmk and the coroner and 1 “ygkml ont toget Now, doptor,” T said, affer a pause, tyou have Tredan) yon Jifo i tigs town: You know everybody in it. Will \on without saying a word to anybody, get the names of the persons who composed lh.u jury about six yoars '\xm" ?H what nge, my dear sir?" want to see whether and person, white or hl‘uk who has beena v m of those Ih‘n-h r!u\g the Iast yoar was in any way related to any of those jurors, The amiable; doctor was thorough startled. | “'I see now exactly what you are driv- ing at," he said, it there should have been upon the jury relati of both col- ored and white victims of the recent »rs the motive is established.” ys passed and T did not_see the coroner. In the meantime I visited the scenes of the different murders, but gained nothing new from my inquiric On the third day T again wont to the cor- oner’s office. I found him there, pale and almost trembling. He took me silently into the inner room and we sat down, “You were right, he said, almost breathlosely. “‘In five oases,at all events, the persons who were mu ed were re- lx\lwll in some degree to those who served on that jury. lg have not had time to ate the others, but will do so at “Among these five cases there isone of a white man?" +Yes." 1 confess that the revelation startled me, even though T had n‘poclofl it. “The nest question is,” [said, “who are likely to find interest enough in _this vendetta to be the instigators of it? Nat- urally the relatives or friends of the men who were hanged.” The doctor nodded assent. ‘Do you know if any such exist?"” No, fie did not. The trial had occurred a lmlgume ago, and he could not say as to that. *“Then we must find out,” said I, “And depend upon it, when you have located them you are not far lmm the assassins of the past terrible year,’ Two days were spent in_investigation, which had to be conducted with the ut- most caution, not only to prevent sus- picion on the' part of those whom we were in search, but to bafile the police, who with their usual fatuity,chose to con- sider me a suspicious person, and dogged my footsteps until 1T managed to elude them, which was a com; tively easy matter, On the third day the doctor triumphed. This second disceovs seemed to para- hin, “If what you suspect is true, sir,” he said, breathlessly, ‘it is (x‘!‘ril)h-.“ You have found (h\‘nL" No. Only one.’ “White or black?"® “White. “Precis my dear awful— ly. He is the man who wiclded the ax. white man duminalvd all through. 'The fcolored man’s cunning baffled the Ioogd hounds, the white man’s intellig m-u,lmfi,-gwod the police. What s his name?” “John Dag. “Is he in gooy| circumstances®” “Yes, a sopt of gentlom “Whit ul;umu ‘was hie to the man who was hanged '’ [ “Brotlier.?. | ‘‘And whara jg his place?” The doctoy told me it was at a distance of some thrag n|xlv~ I buttoned my coat and preparad tg leave. “You will nat whisper a word of this,” I asked, Sontilall is veady?” “Not a word — but where are you oing?’’ ++T the ¥iilence of Mr. John Doe?"* “Man alfvé®" cried the good doctor; “you must not! You will be slanghtered 1k & moment! You cannot be so ras "!\ly good doctor,” I replied, 2‘0!""‘“"‘!‘(, to tell Mr. Doe he is di cred. We are to be cven nm\ on the wrong scent unless two thi cleared irst, does Mr. Doe keep u private Sccond, has he in his _cmploy confidential colored man? Tam going to just ally find out tho: two things. I shall see you in the morning.”’ s well aware, however, t the on was i 4|.m"\-|u 15 one, for I had now bheen in B long vnmwh to be spotted by any one who ook an interest in the I'of a stranger. But my old reporting instinets came to my aid, and 1 set out to interview the farming people witiin the radius of a mile on the pros- peets of the spring crop, ete. I went to three houses, made copious notes, was kindly treated, and in all of them wa asked eage the first thing, whether there was anything new in town about the murders. Armed with my notes, front gate of John Doe’s the ~|lm]| The honse stood fully half a mile from the next in either direction and some dis- tance from the road. It was neither tidy nor dirty—evidently the home of a bach- elor. The man who opened the door T knew for John Doe instantly. A steely-gray: eyed nan of powerful build, sallow com- plexion, six feet in height, slow-spoken, with bushy, standing-out black eye: brows. **Is this Mr. It I told him showed him other houses, Somewhat ungraciously he pulled thg door aside and bade me come in. I confess 1 felt a tremor passed the threshhold. Not another soul was about, and 1 was helpless in the presence of o n whom 1 believed the murderer of persons in one year. w_and then, as [ was 5, T en uvhl his eold, glittering eye fixed in a very uncomforting way on me. But I got through all rvight.” He did not ask me to drink, He suid nothing about anything but what I asked him and precious liggke about that, Alld not a word about the murders, 1 i gooldny, neither of us plullvm 2 hiy i, 1, and got out as non- chalently uyt‘ could, but inexpressibly re ved, But 1 had done mothing to further thé" inye Come what might, T delgriiined to find ont what I wanted to know, one way or the othe before Lieft ‘8o I sauntered down th side lane by thf house, lighted o cigar, and kept a'wafehful eye over the fonce had gonedmt thirty or forty paces when my llrmt’nlounl still, as 1w séemed to me Kigzht hefone fie was a @gantic negro \\'.nhun'l]ullwl#x 15 of a n I with & mop to the wheekgagtern: ) In_ his owntdéay he was as yillainous looking as Bjs Haster. Siently I turned —now thord{ighly frightencd at the con- firmation of all’ my suspicions—to the road, and Avas soon back in B—, it. The nes eadiness, th the whole matie T unlatehed the and walked up Doet” I asked. and n at my alleged errand the' 1 notes 1 had t iking m, all |n!||| in ¥ and I laid chief of coroner betore the " said ok set evidence, in “No,"" I'said, “there is not. But here " ph concerning oue of the pped_from your own loe papers, which will give "you divect evi- dence if you choose to seck it. 1 read the followir & (which \\mpnnnd also in the New York World): ““I'he criminals did not try to remove evidence against themsclves, for Gracie lif s had a death-clutch on a chain o a watch with a broken cry gnents of which were found ear her h.nl\ The coroner, the editg and T suc- ceeded at last in convincing the chief of police, that the proper llmw w do was to wike & vaid on the estate of My murders, Doe, amd to < nnd ‘his Lnlmm servant L was done. Much to his surprice, Mr. Doe was qrrn-!ml at the same time that his_senchman was overpowered in the garden before he could utter a cry. A lunizund ’m'u nt search resulted in the finding of the mutilated watch in the barn where the negro had hidden it. Upon this he—the colored man, the brother of the man_who was hanged in company Doe’s relative, confessed all; and the sceret of the murders which had paralyzed an entire state was out. 3 ceure the persons of him PEPPERMINT DROPS. According to the Darwinian theory our ancestors were all tale-bearers, Jumbo's widow, Ali is cominz to this (;.n(muy Her trunk will be admitted free of duty A northern man can now start a row in five minutes in Florida by carrying a pair of skates across the shoulders, A Yankee has myented a machine that saws and splits wood in one time and two motions. “He will not eall it “The Tramp,’ for obvious reasons. She—*"You awkward brute! Yon hav dropped your bread and butter on the floor ¢ Lhiat’s all right, my dear, Nobody willget it. 1 have my foot on it.” “1s ducky llll|||l|L' sick? What will he do, duek was A issuing from a sleegin car berth, 'll some quack medicine ! came the unsolicfted response from five pairs of strong lungs. 1t is proof of a man’s good temper if the man slips down on ice and comes up smilin If ho chases his hat down the street gutter without using profane language he is saintly. A letter has been found that was mailed eighty-three years ago at mbridge, Mass, and has not yet reached its destination ‘This proves llmt the immediate delivery sys- tem has been in vogue some time. Y is,” sald Pat, “Of've signed two pledge and wan to the tast and wan t o his _fong s a foine man ye are Pat,” replied Bridget, “and do yez think ye'll Imp('(hlm “Begorra, OF'll thry and kape wan av thim.’ “O'er me pour the stream of - Lothe,” wails A despairing poet, That's just like a poe King for a thing like that when ey § m in the country is frozen to the bot- tom. And even if they were not you can't pour Lethe over a man like gravy over a plate of potatoes, ‘There are times when the most humble and long suffering man may rebel alnst the conjugal tyranny of a tvo exacting wife, but they don’t come around very soon after “God Bless Our Home'™ motto heen responded to with twins, and materfamilies gets stron enough to want to know it he means to break her heart after all she has done tor him, A new poem in an unknown _exchange : “Winter is now hcre” When we finid our hydrants frozen and the thermome- ter20 below zero and a tantastic coating of ice un cighth of an ineli thick on the ofiice window panes, we are constrained to admit that the poet is not far out of the way. Any one who mistakes this weather f August descrves to have his ears frozen six inches deep. A Minneanolis congre one Sunday because the text from St. Paul, In Portugal the ballot-box is placed between two saints, and a man who knows how to work the saiuts gets himself elected. A Philadelphia givl declined to *'kiss the book™ betor Philadetphin magistrate, say- ing: “The wilness who Kissed 1t before e had'sore lips and the one who came before him chewed toba . L will not Kiss the tion leftthe church minister took his Spiritualistic medium—*You now _behold the spirit nl' Izernon Snobbins. Do you recognlz Visitor—*1 do.” Spiritua- listic l\ll‘ll\lll!l—““(‘(ll‘ s not scem to recog: di that’s because I re- ntly failed in lle ess.” Lusband (returning from the funeral)— The minister, in his funeral sermon, seem- ed to be much overcome, 1t Lam not m mk~ en he was aficeted to t Wite—"Yeo: o decensed, pogE many was worth over 81, 000,000, —[\.- York Times, “What did Eve do after she bit the apple?” asked the chool teacl ent to Past in Paris,” replicd the smart, bad He 'nl mad before the teacher got through inoculating nim_with a te- strap, but he wasn't sent to Paris for treat- ment.—[Brooklyn Eagle. A4 Hm\' is th Jones? igion yhers in jail, “Alas, my ) \;mhhnn: 10 1zh ¢ :uifluwm Your son made a last week, and now he become a stage end, it is worse than se-robbers seldoin get ous. What worse thing - “He joined the salvation army. n Imln-pl-mh'nt Ly dear friend,” said a long-haired coun- tryman to the biographical expounder of a dime museum, that unfortunate being really a cannibal?” and he indicatec Sea Islander from Cork who was sitti a divan, sirs that gr I ity was captured while in the .ll'l(mlnlCI AN nissionary over a slow i ireat heavens!” gasped the countryman: tean‘t you convert him?” “Convert him!"’ said the biographer with disgust. “Do you s'pose (he great American_public would pay 10 cents to see u Christian? “The son of a prominent divine went out to Dalkota with the intention of going into business, but returned ircum- stances financially, | ked about Dalf the_ distance. am surprised, “1 thought the wore great opportunities for nml\uwmmng lll the ter Didn’t you strike a P W II yes, ina measure; but the ather, Ldidn’t hold the right kind of It was good enongh o [betall 1 but the other felio was th ked in the pot.” The next Sun- day the minister preached on *The Crying Néed of Missionaries in the West,” R. J. Burdette thus hits off Philadelphia: “It was one of the pastor’s best sermons, and he was deseribing | n. It was a place of llnr\nlnns ity, matchless, transcendent bes id. All the mansions were ot l‘l‘ll l) ick, with solid white shutters four inches thick, no cornice, s door knobs, and white marble steps, Wwith angels contini: ally serubbing them through the countless ages of eternity. ‘Eloquent pre cher,” said the stranger i the deacon’s pe: tlie close of the serviee, *Philadelphia man, ain't h D id the deacon, ‘somebody told you. a ll'lnll had on it o - CONNUBIALITIES, Lady Benediet is to be marrvied again to a man of forty years. She isonly twenty-eight, and Sir Jullus was seventy-live When e made her his wife, . Howard Clor f Parke county, Indi- ana, at the age of Bias Just waivied his fifth wife, and is already the father of s teen children, Of cou 1 expects 1o see the completion or the Panama canal, Dec. When a Zulu gitl ¢ young man she goes at dusk and sits before his hut, he likes her looks he will invite her in to na week or so and il they agree he ) goes and makes a bargain with her parents and keeps hei: for his wite, As i danger attractive young are exposed in Da- kota, a lady in Fargo. who has an_ extensive millinery establishinent, states that every girl she has employed in four 15 has 1 her in ashort thue to get mar L and she pro- ses 1o sell ont ad follow th xample, A report from the Syrian missions states that a large nuber of M 0 wiris, who have bes ||Aun.hl by wissionarics duviug the past fifteen ve warried, and not one bt them hud been diyo 1, nor have their husbands been known o take other wives, Those missionaries should be ealled bac once to exert their excellent influen: those portions of the home viney divorets most do flousish, ot Y It was on the eve of the twent niversary of their 3 do hope It anybody s going to & thing || \\|H Iw in money, - When wi : and we didw't find fately that seven sugar spoons and thirteen ice pitehers were not essentinl to maritial blis: t Ithink we have been mar- ried long ¢ by this, time to know enough Lo pick oubour own prescnts,” West Brooktield, Mass.,, has six couples who have expericnced more than fitly years of wedded bliss, and one of the wiiiriages was fifly-seven yeqrs One of the viage certificatés reeently issued by lu\\h Clerk Bush was to Rev, W, B. Stone. seventy-live years, and brother of Mis. L \ Bibno " Blackwell. The Vetoran: Sroom’s bride was Miss Martha ) l\“l\llll aged s enty-one years, 8 sister Mr. “Stone's first And necond Wives, and. 1S Gf €x-gove ernor Robinson, of Kansas, s Public speakers and sigers find B. H. s & Bons' Capsicum Cough Diops out lunm John | sure remedy for bour sencss. to which | TIHE CHEAPEST PLACE IN OMAIIA TO B3V ey, Neb, ; Colu Stlonal ank, Omaha, Neb COUNGIL BLUFFS. ADDITIONAL Ll’l\' NEWS. s ceess of a Blufs Boy. ! The many friends of Finley Burke will be glad to learn that he is prospering at Orange Cit He is a young man whose career has been watched by many here with pride as well as interest. As most know, he is a son of City Auditor Burke, and lived from infaney up,graduating With lonot: frony tho Gotnoll Biufly high school, and later pursuing his Inw studies Mucm:hlll under Col. Daily and Col. Keatley. lt' was admitted to the bar here, and is now local where he has lately become nssoc the practice of law with Mr. Hew young man of excellent attainments, who 1 been located at Ireton. The rden Commiercial, in - noticing the new firm, ys: ““I'here is no need of words of pre 80 for Mr. Burke; his record is established, 1 we doubt if there is anothe lurno\ in northwestern Towa who has had sich universal success in the cases in which he has been engaged. The firm_as now established is a strong one, 'uld worthy of unlimited confi- dence.’ TR Hearing From the Bee, esterday one of the BEE representa- tives called at the offlee of the Equitabie Mutual Life and Endowment association, and during the course of conversation K Mr. Randall how his *‘ad.”” in the fied him, if he received any ro- te., to which he replied, ““LI'll show ml after showing a big pile of let- ) the ntIu\\m" testimonial Take that, if it will do you ax pli N you,” ters, st mg good.™ Office of Superintendent of Agencies, West- ern Division of Equitable Mutual Life and Endowment Association. CouNcIL BLUFYS, The Ber: 1 _wish to say vertising the Bue takes ninety-nine out of every lunulml letters gives'the Bk eredit, ery Traly, WILLIAM RANDALL, Supt. Agencies Equitable, JOSIAH THE KING. Jan. 99, 1856, that in our ad- “the lead. Fully The Carcer of the Crazy Englishman Who Perished No The body of a crazy Englishman was found froZen stiff in & sod shanty near North Platte last Sunday. It was sur- rounded by some fifteen or twenty dogs of all < and breeds, several of which were so fierce that the'coroner w com- led to shoot them before he could get near the body, One very large and_fine black dog laid close to his muster’s head, 1d refusing to let any one interfe with the body,w: soced by the coroner and le Dt {Omiiha Be There is no duubl of this being Josiah Asheroft, who tarricd here n years living in a hut made aw, which was just big enough for him_nnd his drove of dogs to crs awl in. At night he would retire on_a pile of straw in this hovel and his dogs would lay around him and on top of him, thus keeping him warm, ¥ vere winters he seems that the icy of him at last, and he remembered as one mortals known to the It was known he North Platte, e having been last summer by Frank Ludw! A short history of this ])Lul ia acter may be ‘interesting, Mr, v gives us some items whicli, as near as we can remember, are as follows: came to this country from Eng- land a convert to the Morman faith, a good many years ago, and went direet fo Sult Lake, where ¢ ho st yed until the mountain meadow massacr He, with fow others, refused to go and takea hand in that horrible murc nd know- ing their destiny if they remamed there without obeyinir, they “fled. Josiah, companied by otie min, made the tedious trip over mountain and plains until they ached Counei HInl!\ in which city he hand has laid hold has , to seople here that Josi, Mcthodist “enligh he uttended o and became “enlightened'” Mor- mon 4-]:]:-. rigam Young hearing of this, sent’ two elders from Utah to sce about the matter. Josiah thought they intended to kill him and hid in a barn, As he slept on the h med and it was reveuled to him that he was to be the sccond Elijah, He shook the dust of Council Blufts, off’ his feet and has sinco ) A Wil rer, stopping at difler lm'mh where the people worild toler 1im, and living in a similar manner llmu«vh he did not ger Jong 1n a place us he did he ved here two years ago this win- a fow dogs with him, and e number, - These dogs him. When he ing one oci ) ‘-ul) attached to Would' come into town from his hut, which was about half a mile we town, about twelve or fifteen dogs | diflerent ages would be ut his heels. | would ¢ ave th young pups and th mother at the house, ~The most of the tie he kept about thivty, large and | small, and would teed m well with which ered up at the ughter houses. lived by what was 0 to him pring although he worked a considerable and genc y had a little money. e wors tofl’ clothes that were given to him. As a rule, people here Svere very kind to him. On some su ah scemed to be perfeetly g him started on the Bible or his mission, and Ins state- ments we wild. He eclaimed that he d never die: that he was wel he would rel, , but that his | time had not yet come could quote seripture by the hour and would talk as long a man weuld listen to him, und somotimes n good deal | Some one told him st summor would either have to kil his « ! on them, and that suse for leaving here. “Wo- do’ pat Belleve o fauid i people as he left, and perhaps his de: | was eaused anore from wiit of taod thun | from frost.—] J FURNITURE, BABY CARRIAGES, s AT DEWEY & STONE’S One of the Best and Largest Stocks in the U. to Select from. No Stairs to Climb Elegant Passenger Elevator M. BURKE & SONS, LIVE STOCK COMMISSION MERCHANTS, GEO. DURKE, Managor, UNION STOCK YARDS, OMAHA, NEB. 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