Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 18, 1886, Page 2

* PLEADING FOR THEIR CLIENT. Laver's Lawyers to Oonclude Their Argu- ments Yesterday Aftornoon. THE COURT ROOM THRONGED Large Crowds Listen to the Elogquent Words of Savage and Thurston— Gen. Cowin to Close This Morning. Yesterday's Proceedings. The attendance at the morning s of the Lauer trial was extremely large. The audience listened attentively to every word that was uttered,and watehed the faces of the jurors with unflagging interest. While Judge Savage was de- livering his argument the room was per- feotly still and people refrained from changing their position, so anxious were they to catch every syllable. Judge Thurston came rather late and was evi- dently ill. The ‘d work that he has done in this case | broken down his health and he intends taking a much mneeded rest as soon as possibl In continuing his argument-Judge Sav- age stated that he made an unintentional mistatement the day bofore when he said that he was weak and ill; 1t was not illness but the sense of responsibility which was oppressing him, He spoke of the faults, which, for the sake of argu ment he admitted Laver had, and asked if he had not already made ample atone- ment for them. He compared Luuer and his wife te Orlando and Rosalind in the fore: From the time of their s 0. tion there was not the breath of a dis between them. They had a complete reconciliation and were prepared to go down the hill of life together, a loving, happy couple. In alluding o the point llm«)u by the prosceution that Lauer had elean hands on the night of the tragedy, he said that Lee's hands were elean and Ben Gallagher’s and Matt Gahlon’s hands were clean, yet they did not kill Mrs. Lauer. Fhere was great difference between the action of & man sitting onlmly in court and that of a man awakened in the middle of the night, in the shadow of a great calamity. For himself, if such a sad misadventure had happened he would not have had the strength to raise o new born baby from the floor. It was fortunate that his clien acted just as he did. It was the right thing to do. He commented on the action of Lauer in helping the coroner by saying that if Lauer had been a murderer he would not have washed the bloody tresses of his dead wife. That was not human nature, The story of the calamity ns related by Lauer had never been disproved in the slightest degree except in some minute details which only help prove the truih of his statement. The proof was overwhelming that the curtain was down. The witnesses had been confused in their verbiage, using blind, curtain and shade as synono- mous words, The prosccution claimed that tests made of the light were tor the purpose of acquitting Lauer. If the i,\r' believed ] n Kountze, W, .Rlorsu and O'Connor did not testify to the truth, why their evidence should be cast aside. He declared that there were two reasons why Mrs. Jacob Iler changed her opinion of Lauer’s innocence. One of those reasons was that he said “I was just ag wide awake at the time of the shooting as [am now.” *Now,” con- tinued Judge Sayage, ‘‘was that the e pression of a guilty man? If he had pre- meditated the killing would he h made such an admission as that? The change from sleep to consciousness is radual, and no one can tell where one egins and the other ends.” he conclusion of Judge speech was as follows: 1 recognize the extreme deli ing to fine testimony of another witness, You feel as I feel for the mother who mourns to-day her dead daughter. You feel for her as I feel for her. Who, when the south wind blows and brings its warmth and sunshine of the spring, looks faraway over the hills and longs for the darling who shall never re- turn to hier. " If I could any part of the burden, God knows how gladly I would do it. It seems to me, almost if I could relieve her anguish and_sffering by saying to you to-dny. T abandon tho casq of my clicnt, Jor- getful of my duty as an advoeate, Igive' him up to you, hang him_and relieve this poor widow’s heart, it seems to me almost that [ could doit. 'But vengeance isa poor con- ‘There is little comy tion for own suffering in seeing the suffering of anotlier, A man wounded upon the bt tlo feels the ache of his wound none the less because at his sido another friend or foe lios bleeding. When the voice of lamentation was heard in Ramah, do_you think that I ehiel grieved less for' her” darlings because Miriam’s blackeyed baby was pierced by the cruel Roman spear? No, consolation comes in no such way. 1believe she wa on the day aftér this unfortune affair, when she said that her boy was not zuilty, and that e was a loving husband and Saily was a happy wite, and they were an afféctiona and loving couple, Ibelieve she was happier Hhon thiad $ho would be 11 she-could so him dangling from the scaffold. It is my proud privilege to sot her right on oneor two ineldents, 1t was no evidence o guilt that John W. Lauer took the wateh and said, “Here is the wateh that Sally wore, Will_you wear it to-morrow?” Poor, sad- aced Woman, It be that some of yon have the day after your darling had died, something that was hevs; something that was worn near her heart. 11 it were only a gera- nium leaf in a glass, it was dear to you and you believed it woniil be dear to her” mother and you offered it to her; and it is not neces: ary'in order to do such ' thing as that, that you should have killed your darling. 1 come now to that sad and teriible and awiul vigil besido the corpse. There they were, only mother and son kneeling by the corpse, She finds, 1 want to she findsand her friends dind fo what he said at that time further evi- dence of heartiessness, to the sad occurrence of he said, “L would not not for the circumstances that passed two Years ago. There are old men on this Jury and It may be that at some time you too have kueeled by the separation and e for this, if it were £<4 the coftin of one you loved and you may have felt fu that momént that the slightest little upon )iuulnr do trivial word of rebuke weighed gpirit moro deeply than death ifs not know how it {s. 1 hope you that terrible experience, but 1" do Ehere was one old gray haired mian here who, i hen b heard that tostimony, could see in 5 mind's eye the piet wiws deseribing, off land. He kneeled over anoth, saw the coftin over whieh the g ro that the and withered for forty vears and he remeim- bered in that moment of agony us he over the coflin of his mother, there came > him the memory of littl ess and disobed he said in his back, if she could breathe'one givencss only retury ve horne.” his mother, have heard somelime word of 1 forgive you,' | distinguished advocates s of this Kind 1o excite ympathies of the jury by 'y tormerey. 1ikink 1 do that hiere.” 'think might readily plead for merey, it not for hin: for the sister plodding through the wintry mow and covered with it until she mig have served as the typo and emble purity and innoeence, for the other wember of his family who sutfer with him. fils friends and acquaintance who b him to day innocent. But it would seem t Indicate if I should make such an apy: that, arded mercy in this case something di from _strict Morey and justic ¢ sowetimes, hére be. fow seein 0 be diverted to dilferent things, aven i the blt watch them as they aseend to | Mf draw together, and when they r @ geat of the Almighity they are o and justice, judgment and - charit weit and love all attributes of the Mercy tise- lor nierey thei except that’ merey w I the best and very highest forw of We ask that you should take this ca tice | the | ing the | coign s happier | His mind went back | now that witness It was by a scene in a far He ny, “Oh, If she could come for- could iy old man had vot killed attenipt v Dleas 1 Justice, e great % Aneilable purity and beuignity. Wedonal ask 1 ol is | prived of his liberty and and Aeeide it aceording to the strict rules of law. | We ask that you, in case we have proven his innocence beyond a reasonable doubt, should not conviet him, ~And if we go further, and say that you caninot conyiet him unless the state has proven his guilt beyond a reason- able doubt, it Is only what the law says and what you will obey. You have sworn that you will acquit him unless vou are satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt of his guilt. You have sworn that you will make a_true deliverance. God will hold you to a rigld accountability for that onth.” He says to you to-day, as “of old he said to elders of Gilead, “Y¢ ‘shall not, thus saith the Lord God Almighty, ve shall not deliver him into the hands of the avenger of blood, beeause he slew his neighbor unwit- tingly and hated him not aforetime,” The court then adjourned till 1 o’clock. The Afternoon Session--Thurston's Specch. At no time durmig the progress of the trial has there been a greater erowd in court room than at the ovening of aftarnoon’s session. A large num- of people remained in the room dur- ress, fearful that their absence cause them to lose whateve of vantage they had sue- in gainingin the morning. Etiquette was thrown to the winds and no one thought of anything save getting the best position The erowd pressed near tho table used by the representatives of the press, crawled up upon the beneh occupied by Judge N ville and stood up in the window seats in overy part of the auditorium. Judge Thurston came a few minutes before 1 o'clock, and calmly adjusting his rold rimmed spectacle as he took his seat, {18 wife was seated at his right and was eyidently anxious to bear what was I)rulJ:\bly the greatest effort of her hus. band’s life It th the greatest difficulty that the bailiffs could keep the vast crowd in order. They were so deeply interested in the argument of the ¢ that the; were forgetful ot the decorum which ought to be maintained in a court room. At one time during Mr. Thurston’s speech at least a dozen peovle were standing on the outside edge of the window sills peer- ing in over the lowered panes of gla The sherifl finally noticed their situation and drove them from their precarious place. A step ladder was placed on the outside of one of the doors leading into the corridor and was occupied by two men and one woman who gazed earnestly through the transom at the scene being enacted therein, Judge Thurston began his speech at 1 o'clock and did not finish until after 4. He was thoroughly embued with his sul- ject, which he elaborated in an exceed- ingly skillful manner. His specch was both earnest and cloguent, und was lis 1 to with strict attention by the i In substance his speech was as the be might ded men of the jury, I stand here to raise the Inst voice that can ever issue from human lips to plend for the life and liverty of n un- fortunate and innocent man. Sally Lauer is dead. “Springtime is coming and the warm sunshine will make the beautiful grass grow and the flowers bloom, but her beautiful eyes are closed in death forever. Never agnin will the black-robed mother elasp her darling to her breast: never again will her fond si ter listen to her voice. Sorrow, suffering, pain and grief has come to them and it _can never, never be removed, because earthly powet has no longer any influence to scotho lie stricken heart or to change the immutable past. Will the flowers bloom any brighter, think you, as they shed _thefr glory around the spot where she is Iaid, when' her mother comesto kneel and make the place beautiful and bright, that her husband is spending his weary (rzl{s.‘lhrougl‘l all_his life long, in a prison?” Will it bring one fecling ot Joy, hink ~you, genticmen of the jumy, to the 'sad, despairing heart * of that fond mother, that another mother isalso weeping for the loss of her child? And will the sister of the dead go _about her daily life and amid her family and friends with a happy heart, think you, if another sister’s eyes are dimmed with tears for him whom they also loved? Will it remove one sting of pain, one moment of grief, from the sorrowing friends and relatives of her who is dead, that bloody vengeance has seized upon fer husband and lie too has passed away? Oh, gentlemen of the jury, when you are asked to remember the terrible suf- ng, God knows how terrible, of these sorrowing friends and relatives, do the counsel mean to ask you to believe that these sad dwomen are savages; that their grief will never be assuaged; that these cries of lumentation will vever cease until THE PRISONEIR'S SCALP at the belt of thelr great chieftain. owin? Do you not believe that when the springtime and the summer days come, and as the weeks and months and years' pass , that the heart of the mothér and the sister'and of all the friends will be that they will feel better, that be more endurable, when they 100k~ ba the result of this trial and say, *“Ihank it is not true that the man who mar daughter and our sister did not kill her with a terrible hand and malicious heart?” Will they not rejoice when' this excitement has passed away, and they look id say, “A rigid examination of all the facts in this' ter- rible case has convinced anhonest jury of his countrymen that the husband “of” my daughter and of ister is an_innocerit man and the vietin of a terrible mistake?” Gentlemen of the jury, you who are here in this box, recoznize more foreibly than I can say 116 you the tearible ehnracter of the v sponsibliity that is upon you. You recognize wore terribly than 1 can impress it upon your m V] it is you have to do. Go to your jury room and take the evidence in this ease, and that only, and stand there with un- flinching, dauntless courage and 10 your duty as you have sworn to do it, without tear of any consideration on the earth, and all men in the future time, when the clouds o passed away will say, “God bless you, you have done your duiy, unin- tluenced by a single passion, 'n singlé fear or consideration other than yol sworn duty,” In going throngh the mass of testimony in this case, if inwy ZEAL FOR MY CLIENT 1 say anything that is unfair, anything that Gets uu_in\llf' upon_counsel, ‘upon wi nesses, upon the puvlic or upon anything else, 1 ask your forgiveness in advance, 11, in reciting from, or referring o the _evidence of witness as detailed to you, I mi state « overdraw a le Jem of testimony in my zeal for my client, 1 ask you with cool hes id deliberate ju nenl to cast y misstate- ment or overdrawn picture (o one side and simply base your verdict upon the evidence as it i clearly given and written, 10 1 ap- cal 1o & single passion or prejudice, if 1 seck nany possible manner o win you away from the evidence and the law in the case, do not give me the slightest attention, but (is- eard whateyer I may say that leads in ¢ direction, L will endeavoras far as possible to speak of facts in this case. 1 know full well, and 1 speak of it now for the first and st 'time, the terrible disadvantage under which I labor, knowing that 1 am to be followed in this case by the MOST ADM BLE SPEAKER that ever lived west of the Missouri river, and possibly in the country. 1 know that my client Iabors under this térrible disad- age. 1 hiave no word to say, geotlemen of the jury, against any attorney taking any side of any ease, Whén an attorney is. eni- ployed and feels that it is consistent with his Senso of duty to do the best he ean with it, [ am the last man in the world to question lis motive, 1 have nothing whatever upon earth ction which he may take, plead With you, gentlemen of the ou shall not be'swerved trom the sworn testimony in this ¢ u sliall 1ot permit your passions to v vour judginent, but after the loguence of the' gentle has borne yon along with its irresistible tide, and you liave retived to your jury room, ir you will wait until the fever of the hour has” passed, an upon sitting quietly down you can look back over the entire colrse of this case and bring your winds to deal fairly with the evidence nd it, and it only, due consideration, 1t is necessury that when the state asks FOR THE CONVICTION of a fellow citizen that it should clearly point ont the theory upon which convielion is asked, 1t is necessary for the pr - 8 bypothesis of the killing of | ¥ hat is, to have theory o wanner in which she came o theory that is substantiated, not by a siup- Josition, but that is substantiated in every {mportait particular by the sworn testimony in the case; and that thoery and that by potli sis wust be the only oue that is cotsistent undor the testimony, with the proven facts of the case, Possibiy’ his honor will charge you, gentlemen of the jury, that it is by no uiere prosumption that any man is o' be. di- his life, bit that ace salistic youd a unless the evid u that beds gudly, you can- reasouable dowt uol couviet fon as What is the theory of the prosee ) its to how this crime took place, and wh motive? Have you heard from any- body in this “caso representing the vrosecution, so far, a theory advanced as to iow this crime could have been com- mitted 50 as to make it murder, Has the d trict attorney in opening this case pointed out a single link in the ehain which it is claimed by them points to the guilt of this de- fendant? " He endeavors to show you that perchance the story that the defendant told may be in some parts untrue, that perchance there may be some reasonable doubt that this thing occurred in the manner in which it is cliimed that it did. What is the theory of | this prosecution? A tothe manner in whic the crime was committed? & What is the motive, what do you think it is, gentlemen of the jury? Mr. Esteile said to you that perhaps they had a quarrel and that he got angry at and that the old scenes that existed before the reconciliation anew upon the night of the mu s it did, gentlemen of the jur: jou hang a_yellow dog npon a He has said to yon, gentlomen which existed but' would g “perhaps?” of the jury, that the jealousy i hiis inind before their mairiage, that from a motive of jealousy he was induced to put his wife where the eye of mortal man never could rest upon her again, Perhaps the demon of jealousy did spring up in the mind of Joiin WV, Lauer on the night in ques- tion; but can you find any wotive? they' have ~ a ° theory of the reason that tnduced this man to commt this erime, wliy is it up to this time they have said sim- ply it was the demon of ungovernable tem- Jere ,In order to find & motive they go back o the courtship of this young couple and say that on one occaston he got jealons of the ai- tention of another man 1o his prospective Dride, which resulted in his leaving the honse and staving away several hours before com- ing back to ask’ her forgiveness. Is it not wonderful that the course of their true love did not run on_smoothly every day until the marriage, that the eye of love which wiuted 10 possess the object of its love looked u kindly perhaps on the attention of his pros- pectivo bride? Was there ever a courtship without these little differences? Judge Thurston then proceeded to drawa g owmr picture of Lauer’s lumxli life. He said that the defense had prove conclusively that Lauer's relations to h wife were of the most pleasant natur Testimony from people residing on every side of the house had been adduced to show this. To be sure, the prosecution had claimed that the people in that vicin- ity did not know every detail of the Lauers inner life, but it “'was impossinle for a family to live unhappily in a neigh- borhood without having the fact noised about. The only direct evidence of ill- tment was that of Emma Bell, whom Thurston stigmatized in the severest stating that her character was such as to make her testimony entirely untru He contrasted her with Murs. vage, who gaye evi dence piness of tho Lauer houschold, and said that the Hury were bound to abide by the words of the latter. E poke of the n in which Lauer acted after the separation, and eulogized his conduct in mal :F all — his property over to his wife and attempting to start out in the world and begin life anew without a dollar. He dwelt at length upon the tests of the light made by Herman Kountze, W. V. Morse, John O'Connor and other prominent _cit: izens, whose fairness and integrity were above reproach. It was a notic le fact that during his argument M "hurston referred to the specch expected from Gen. Cowin, and warned the jury not to be led estray by that gentlemun’s persuasive cloquence. He said t! Lauer’s conduct on the fatal nightof the tragedy was natural, that he did not and could not know exactly what he did and how he did1t, beeause “of th i: eat excitement and grief under which he was laboring. Judge Thurston then advanced a fow steps towards the jury, stopping for a second to create a_partial vacuum in his nostrils, which he did by a vigorous exhalation and a skillful man- ipulation of his nose by the fingers of his left hand (his handkerchief being upon the table) and began a denun- ciation of the press. He walked to and fro before the jury, and occasion- ally shook his fist in an énergetic way at the reporters, who were taking notes of his speech, He characterized them ‘‘as beardless cubs, who never experienced a deeper grief than being spanked by their mothers—striplings whose knowledge of life has been acquired from reading dime novels.” Fearing that these gentlemanly epi- thets would not have the desired effec he advanced to the reporters’ table, and in a dramatic manner exclaimed: “'Turn on the fires of vour decp damnation to hound me, but do not strive to convict an innocent man.” A head line which con- ned the statement that Lauer was seen to shed no tears the night of the tragedy seemed to have greatly excited the law- yer's ire, for he continued as follows: “He shed no tears.”” This is quoted in the headlines of the press that panders to a d eased public, *Ho shed no tears,” Why, geutlemen of the jury, teais are but summer showers of grief that come after the anguish and burnings of the terrible grief lave passed avay. Grief " tertible, and overwielmin sheds no tears, gentlemen of {he jur, 6 have seen the time when we could shed no tears, God heip us, we could shed notears over the bodies of ‘our beloved dead. ity us, we shed no tears, Grief that s t nd awful does not weep, “I1e shed no tears,” said this press, It is not content to let a lawyer do his duty in the court ulfi'xh(iw* witliout attempting to defame him in the public eye, Don’t work up public inion to hang an innocent man, Public nion_crucitied our Lord_and Savior 1500 rs ago in Jerusalem. Public opinion in aris at the tinie of the French revolution abolished God. Public opinion as illustrated in our public press brings out from the gut- ters and the slums of the great city, the man of the bludgeon, the man of the knife. So those mien of erime stand on the streets’ and corners to get up a mob to hang men who are the peers of them all in the sigit or God Almighty. 1 defy public opinion. It may o) ) 3 it may hunt me to the death, may live a year or a minute, but please God while ©1ivé Iwill live no coward. Gentlemen of the jury, just stop and think awful and terrible place John W. oceupied so many months, With 10 sott hand to pillow his hisad he has seen the stars and the sunshine throwgeh the bars of his prison. Think of where he stands and what be 5 undergoing amid the scenes of public excitement judged by the standard of hoya, I he stood at thé bottom of a hole 1,000 feet deep he wonld tower above these PIGMIES OF THE PRESS if they stood upon the mountain top. You heard his story on that witness and I ask you to remember it when you go into the jury room. When he was telling that story, gentlemen, these samo boys say’ ' ke smiled. Gentlemen, a smile is the next door to tragedy, mile is the next door to grief. Is he to bé condemned because he made no attempt to satisfy the eriticisms of boys who have derived their s 0f human nature from dime novels? 1t R 15 to e that there was a terrible pathos in the story which he told. And there he sits, and to-morrow the voice of the most eloquent man 1 ¢ listened to is 10 plead with you to hang Lim, My friend Cowin may HIDE INTO P on the flood tide of p kind of opinion don’t you to believe that all the punishientof this wan, at black is white ' FAVOR : opinion, but that t. He may induce rth demands the He way make you and that the vi- dence in this ond all reasonable doubt Lauer murdered his wite, God belp wo if I had to take my chances if T were ing tried for my lite and Cowin had to elose thie When they ask you and appeat to you toconyiet this man; wlien they say to you that he hias made a motlier’s heart break and | a sister to be forever in wos ask you to thnk of the other hearts that will break. 1 ask you to think of the suffering that wiil come o those who love him and whom loves. It will not do your manhood any ais graee to think of these things. They will ask you to deal out justice to ihis wan by way of hunging i or sending him to pris- on for his life. ~ Youavill be 1 to DEAT OUT THAT JUSTICE which neither listens to sympatiy nor gives Way o pity, that shuts 1ts eyes to the suffer ings of those who will' be eft behind, and thiat can consider nothing. except the Strlet est laws in which the course of justice fol- o has been painted for these ten cen- ast #s& marble statue. Gentlemen of e jury, 1 wis) i paluter's gift, that L mizhi east aside the blind image of Steny It aint for you w Justice of glori: | dity, that” would appeal | to the human heatt. Had I that wonderfal ift, I would pain} tifis Justice as beautiful, would paint her with bright eyes that could look, but not in afiged on the sinful world. Tn'hier bosom therg should be & human heart that beat and] throbbed and thril with himan sy mbath, hman pity and with human love. Her ea that listened to the evidence should bé gthined to the sweet volces of little children. . Hg- lips that spoke the law and pronounded the judement should be fresh from singing lufaby songs, entlemen of the july, they would say this 1 slew & woman, | therefare women de- uls justice of hing! Ye 1 slow a woman, but if there bf a w hin the sound of my voite that i wicked and cruel that she woeuld agk in revenge tor that that Jonn W. Laver «j,mm be convicted, un- less the evidence shogs his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, Twéuld in return say that woman is uniit to be'n wife, unfit to be a mother, God pity et and spare ler from having a child lest it be a tiend. But, gentle- men of the jury, TAKE THAT EVIDENCE I have trespassed on your_patien 1 have exhausted myself in convince you of the coy soul. Gentlemen of fho firy, will not the faces of those who love i and who oy ed her be happier and_ brighter when the sum- mer time shall come, when the years go roll- Ing o lta jury of his counfrymen have sald, “John, you'did not kill the wife you loved intentionally. John. youmay have been cruel to her in'the time gone by, but you did not murder her.” OHA NGING STREET NAMES. The New Appellations of Some of Omaha’s Thoroughfares. The city council passedTuesday night an ordinance providing for an entire change of the system of naming the streets. Ac- cording to the present method the thor- oughfares of Omaha are named so badly that sometimes one street, running through various parts of the city, will bear three or four different names. So that oftentimes the stranger who tries to find his way about the city is as badly at fault as though he were trying to pick a passage through the ancient labyrinth, By the new system all this is changed, and more than two-thirds of the names now in use are done away with. The BeE presents below the main fea- tures of the system and the changes which will be brought about by its adop- tion. It is impossible, of course, to name all the changes in a limited scope, such as that of this article, though the most important ones are noted. The streets running north and south numbered according to the line of the street on which they run. Thus, Sherman avenue being on the line of Sixteenth street, receives the name of that thoroughfare, of which it is really but a continuation. Other changes are: First street east of Blufl'street becomes St strec Blufl' street hecomes Second street. Summit street becomes Fourth street. Highland street becomes Fifteenth stroet. e too long. attempting 1o inty that lies in my toga street becomes Nineteenth street. South avenue and East avenue becomes Twenty-second street. Saunders strecthecomes Twenty-fourth street. Pier, Wheaton, ‘Colorado streets, and all correspondidg . thoroughfares in other additious, ; become Twenty-fifth street. e King street, Montana street, Twenty- fifth street in Recd’s First divisi Sweezy’s street 'in Sweezy's Twenty-fifth streét in Capitol Cition, and all corresponding thorough- fares become Twenty-sixth street. Campbell street: and Center street in Nelson’s addition, Phil Sheridan street, become Twenty-séventh street. Irene street, Virginid davenue, Twenty- seventh streef, in ;Boggs & Hill's addi- tions, and all corresponding thorough- fares become Twenty-eighth street. McClellan street in Ragan’s addition, James street in Shinn's addition, Twen- ty-eighth strect in McCormick’s addition, and Georgia avenue become Twenty- ninth street. State street, Twenty-eighth street in West End addition, Colfax street, Line street, in Lowe's Second addition, be- come Thirtieth street. The other numbered streets, which run as high as Tllirlly sixth, are all in the lately platted additions and will not be mentioned here. The streets running east and west will remain as at present, as for instance, Dodge, Douglas, Farnam, Harney, etc., xcept where two streets, in the same line, have different names. For inst; . under the provisions of this last clause, Middle street and U. S. Grant street in Redick’s addition become kson street, Church street and Johnson street be- come Jones street. Marsh street, in Marsh’s addition, and Ainsworth street become Marcy str Michigan street and Lawrence become Mason street. Mt. Pleasant avenue becomes Pacific tro Division street in Credit Foncier addi- tion becomes Poppleton street. Kelm street and Walnut str Foncier addition becomes Will Baltimore street becomes Hickory street. Elm street in “Credit Foneier addition and Cherry street becomes Centre: street. Willow, Pine and Charles streets come Oak street. Spruce street in Grand tion becomes Oak street, street in the same addition cas stre Catha all cor reet ot in Credit m street. and Chestnut street View addi- and Locust become Dor- ne street in Hanscom Place, and honding thoroughfary comes Thirty-first strect, Delaware” and all corresponding thoroughfarcs, become Thirty-secon street Between the main thorough: ning north and south, such as I’ and Twenty streets there broken streets, extending from one to four or five blocks. Instead of giving y lled avenues and number of the street immedi- ) Thus short street between Twentv-fourth and Twenty-fifth would be called Twenty-fourth avenue and so proyision, Park Wild nfh avenue, George t Nincteenth a\enue, Convent st Twenty-fourth avenue, Division set in Nelson's gddifion T'wenty-fifth nue, Chs street in Clark’s addition nty-sixth avepue, Par enue, wenty-ninth avenpe, and so forth The ordinance afso provides all strects hereafter créated shall be named in accordance with(the fprovisions above noted. City Engineer Rdsewater, in con tion with a reporter for the BEE yes ) suid that in his opinion the new system was a very good o, afid would remedy the gross imperfectiond which mar the prescnt plan, ‘Thenefy names of all the streets will be plainly’ printed on the mp posts, where there are :m?, other wise, posts will b placed at cach corner, with'the names of the various thorough- fares plainly printed thereon. Persoual J. W. Early, of Columbus, Neb., is a Millard gue Mi.J A r, of Bloomfield, is a guest of Dr. J. D. Hertzman Mrs. Charles Stevens has gone to Kan- sas City for a brief visit, Miss Anna Bancroft, of ’s run- ntieth re short » that by this nue becomes Toledo, Obio, | is visiting her sister, Mrs, J. W. Allen, of this city. Atkison's (the leading Millinery and Hair Goods Emporium) have moved to their spacious rooms 1n Masonie temple, 16th st. and Capitol ave., where they will in future be pleasee to greet their wany patrons and friepds OFFIOE WORK. [BY LILY CURRY.| “You may come in the morning, if you ploase, " he said at length, “Eight o'clock is the hour we usually begin business.” He spoke slowly and almost constrain edly; perhaps it scemed to him that he should hardly be so addressing her. She stood but a moment outside the walnut railing; tall, slight, pale, with a dignity beyond the that her countenance betokened and grind of the great oflico. He saw, moreover, that her attire was neat and wholly befiting a lady. Then she turned to go. Mhank you,” she said simply. will come at eight." And immediately she scomed to havo vanished He whirled abont sharpl out of the great window ing the steps to the strect. head neither to the left nos but facing steaight ahead from the place and from his sight, He remained at the window looking out even after she was gone, but, lost in thought, saw naught of the city's uproar and warfare. Two persons, the only others present in thio ofiloe At that migment, exchanged Tances and smiled half contemptuously. q'll\‘\(} were Price, the manager, and Miss Allison, the copyist. Price was a distant rolative of the proprietor, and loved him none too well. Margaiet Allison was Jjealous of her own position and fearful of another woman clerk being hired. Duval Frazer still stood ’I‘uu ng out of the window, and Price, leaning over to Miss>Allison, whis}mrm sneeringly: “The blonde god is casily affected.” They often called him™ the ‘‘blonde gml;"Ym was full and elegantly fashion- @d, with a goldon head of ideal contour, He was, indeed, a handsome man, and young for the position he oceupied, the estern representative of an eastern busi- ness of millions and million; S, The copy sharp-featured brunette, forgot herself at the words of Price, and i :d audib The sound W and looking v hor descend: he turnc to the alled the head of the of . He cam from the window, and picking up a aper from his private desk brought it over to the mana- ger! “This is the handwr! slowly, “of that young lady.” He laid it down before his assistant.” *‘She will be here to begin work in the morning, we shall not be so rushed then. I wish' you would show her what to do. Let her at- tend to those ‘statements,’ and anything clse that is pressing.” He turned away then, and took his hat to leave. At the door he paused, as with an afterthought. “‘Her name," he said, ‘“1s Rose Madi- son.” Then he went out. & e W - Miss Madison was punctual. At cight o'clock that keen March morning she en- d the office of Duval Fraser and was ived. It was less of an had anticipated, The black-cyed copyist was gracious to her new co-worker beyond conception, and Price seemed Kindly disposed to the strange young ladv. = When Duval Fra- ser arrived at ten o'clock there was a slight young form perched upon a high stool at a desk that had been hitherto un- occupied; there w a delicate face bent carnestly over a neat account book, a busy pen in a small, frail-iooking hand. He “went over and'spoke so kindly that the pale face grew scarlet and the small hand trembled at its work. And so Rose Madison began a life of ‘“oftice-work,” such a lifc as, twelvo months earlier, she would have laughed at as absurd in connection with herself. She hardly knew how the first days went—the days of her initiation, It was all so new, o strange. At night she was curiously 'exhausted, and it sometimes seemed diflicult to reach home—such a home as it was, a boarding-house attic. But she managed somehow, and then the office grew more familiar. And Price, the manager, grew quite friendly. He was an older man than the proprietor; he might have been forty, per- haps a trifle less. "He had a dark face, whose hardness of foatures was only re: lieved at moments by a good-humored smile, A heavy beard concealed the lines of a mouth that might have ap- red vindictive had one judged by the ness of speech in which its owner occasionally indulged, Rose I\l:\nfi on said to herself it must be that Richard Price was under some great obligation to Mr. Duval Fraser, clse he ne would have shown such resent- ment—such disposition to “‘run down” his employer and relative. And when he spoke, as he eame n-wpmul{uul.. aly in the morning or at noon hours, when Fraser was abscnt, disparagingly, almost sneeringly, she felt a sense of Simgular annoyance aud strove not tolisten, but to attend the more closely to her work. But Miss Allison, the b] eyed copyist, was an attentive hearer, and Miss Madison could not eseape the conversation of the two, It displeased her more and more as the days went by, even beyond con- cc .lliug, ing,” he said very * * ® » Nearly two months had passed when one morning I Madison expericnced singular cirecumstances. Richard Price took a holiday and Miss Allison went home ill at noon. Duval Fraser remained in the ofiice the entire afternoon, and searcely any one camo in. At three "o'clock--she always remem- Dbered that duy and that particular hour —the “blonde god” arose and came over to her desk ‘You work very hard,” he said, slowl, “You must get very tired, every day.” Rose had havdly Jifted lier eyos, but the motion of her pen had .\.’(,5.]. “Yes," she said quietly, *it hard. I am sometimes very tired. “Iwant,” ne said abruptly, after a moment’s pause, “I want to ask youa quéestion, When you first came into th oflice Price scemed to take a gry likin to you. Lately he secems changed, or somothing scems to have happened. Wihat is the matters” She lifted her eye very then and looked in- 1 cannot tell you “You do not kiiow Sho was silent. He ted loo o1 suspect?” watelod her with ) shaps he was ng how dolic: fuce was, with utiful decp-blue , its silken- Her face was like a delicate | flower for an half-hour there in the dusk | soft frame of chestnut hair, how gentle and how refined her speech. He remained silent for a space, then spoke n, even more conside y. “Would you not like--would it not be a rest for you to go some place of amu. ment t ning? I should like to t you, Miss Rose."’ She did not a in a low voie “I thank you, Mr.F not—I could not hay and a social acquuit gentleman,” o " he “Parhaps you ar She found her, the effort of the little speech he noticed this, for he withdrew walked rather aimlessly about th p ‘1 thi with Pri ver for a moment; then, but I could business h the snme wser, tong ance w aid, as if surprised, 1 f trembling now from And then he turncd and § looked her with a sudden meaning- something that set her heart throbbin and brought & gray mist before her ¢ is displeased b like you; Pric 1 of both of us ll'lr lhu:nl irl, 5 glud when he | Books and d; He went out togethe road Ly towards o on | T Symptoms, *orhups | id Yo sald. T know the tronbly he walked . with her | they weat of indiftere when the house was seached she spoke with an abrupt itterness ““This is the place; 1 livi Once I lived in & mansion.” He lingered for a moment “'Yes," he said, “I knew it." But his tone of gentle compassion, tinged with regret, seemed to irritate her, However, " she said, almost sharply, e |‘mu..w require nor desire pity. Good night." in the attic » * s SR S T holiday seemed not to have agreed with him. e came to the office the next mrning in a _decidedly unpleasant temp The = black-eyed copyist was still_absent, and_upon Miss | Madison fell double her usual amount of work. Duval Fraser appeared distrait, wd overything soomod At sixes unl sovens, As the honrs | { the condi- tion of things grow worse. Richard Price began to mutter and find fanlt and finally to grumble openly. Miss Madison cvi dently was not ple -mrf him “You ave done this all wrong,' he said, tarning savagely upon her. — “The addition of that column is absurd Haven't you any sonse?'" Duval Fraser's blonde head i denly lifted from behind his des rose and eame over to the corner where Miss Madison and took the great shoet from the pale young worker. After a quick look he turned to the other “‘Miss Madison's work is not ha said, quietl) takes than any one we h 3 ployed. You must find the errors else- whe She has done everything as she should ' Richard Price had his face bent down, but that which he snecred in reply came with horrible distinctness to the ears of both proprietor and clo! “Of course anything she doos is all right.” Duval Fraser waited hardly an instant. He stepped close to Price, “You will apologize to Miss Madison," he said, in a low voice. Price did not answer. He was ap- ently busy with figures. His right and played ea ssly with the wrench- shaped hand-stamp with which all ae- counts were stamped **Paid.” “I hove you heard me,” said Fraser, sternly. What happened next, happened so swiftly, and was, withal, so shocking that one could not describe exactly how it came about. It was like the flash of an eye, Richard Price turned upon the other with an oath nd would have struck him in the face, with the hand stamp, but Rose Madison, who had sprung from her seat, darted between the two and received the blow upon her own head. She fell without a sound. A tiny stream of blood trickled outof the chestnut hair and over the marble forehead. » 0y * * Tiyo weeks later she opened her eyes and looked around her in a wondering way. The first thing she fully knew she was lying ill in bed in her boarding house attic. The next thing she realized was a scent of heliotrope, which drew her attention to the fact that there wo beautiful flowers in the room. The thi and last thing was the face of Duval Frazier looking down upon her. Then she again lost consciousness. But it came to her the following morning, and she was there again. And many other mornings he was there, until she grew stronger and able to sit up. “The ou see,” he said, “Itold you s trouble. Besides, I ‘did ce, and he has never for- & the way of the world. I hope it will not be my way, ever. Price he continued,” as if anticipating her desire to know, It is & lesson he will not forget. And—well, T am just as glad he is out of the way, itmight irritate me to see or hear of him. I do not want to be tuted at Pt " said Rose feebly with a faint snrile. “No,” he repeated soberly, “for T have something v important on my mind; something to achieye.” He sullflun]fi reached forward and took her hand, ut she tried to draw it “‘Rose," he began. ‘‘No—no, no," she answered. “I don’t want to be pitied " “No,” he acquiesced. you neither require nor desire then—this is di Rose, shall wo be married?” - And she did not say him nay. ————— Teal Estate TrAnsfors, The following transfors were filed March 16, with the county clerk, and reported for the BEE by Ames’ Real Tstate Agency: Matthewson T Patrick and wife to Charles P Binkley, lot 1, block 6, Patrick’s 1st add Omaha, W d—8400, Augustus Kountze and wife to Charles An- derson, s % of e 80 feet of lot 1, block 5, Kountze's 4th add Omaha, w d—8§500, Dyron Reed and wife and others to Ferdi- nand Haarmann, lot 11, block 1, Campbell’s add Om wd. Charles It Turney and wife t) Elizabeth A Brownlee, lot 7, block M, Lowe’s add Omaha, W d—$428; 1R M Galb 1ot 8, bloc “I remember, P But love you; th and wife to Fraueis Heller, 4, Kilby Place add Omidia, w d— Poter Swan and wife to ¥ra 9, block 1, Shinn's % add Omal rickson, W 4 o Omabi _ ary ams (single) to Charles F Reiter, lot 11, bloek 6, Kirkwood add Douglas Co, w U—$40 Herman Feckinseher (widower) to €| Rounkrans, n ¥ et lot 7, block 4, Horbach's dd Omaha, W d—s600, Samuel S Biebe and wifg to E lot G, Bang's subdivision of lot add Omalia, w d-—8 Izar Leaverton (single) Beebe, lot 6, Bang’s subdiy Burr Oak add Omaha, W d--5500, Dexter L Thowas and wife to Henry Brown, lot 6, block V, Lowe's add O O'Neill o C, Low cerett Gillis, 1, Burr Oak Samuel § of lot 34, to ion 1 wifeto Chas C Ge st add Omab, w d— $350, Ira Van Camp and others lot G, Van Camp & Lddy's block' M, Shinn's 20 add” Omauli, W d—% Henry € Morgan and wife to Harry D Reed, 1012, bloek 13, Wileox’s 15t add Omaha, W d - 8500, 1 Gustave Berg and wife to George Washin ton, trustee, w2 of lot 5, block 1, Park Place, Omahi, w d doscph B to Thomas Herd, bidivision of nd wife to Mary Parrott, -16-13, Douglas 3 L Or Laver OM PLAINT Avent buck, side matism, or or had mouth ten mistaken \ppetite, wtely hendiche, nory, Wi ation of ha 110'do 8o hoought to have done 18, % 1hick yoilow dry vough : r rheu e ot loss 0f ms utiend e Li 85 and deatu il piscopal Methodist. oqual as n1dv whlob ui ‘oouuLICs whe pra il DAILY COMMERCIAL REVIEW Room Traders Monopolize Business in Wheat and Provisions, DEARTH OF INSPIRING NEWS Heavy Deals in Corn at Lower Price ~The Close All Round Below Tuesday—Live Stock Reports. CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET, Crrcaco, March 17 —Developments on *Change to-day were far from being sensational. The corn marke$ loomed into a little more prominence by reas son of larger trading at lower prices. But in wheat and provisions business passing was almost exclusively between raom traders, and was ung the aver volume, Not for many days has there been such a dearth ot outside news. Such as came over the wires proved unimportant in helping either the bulls or bears in thelr operations, and wheat kept within yesterday's put and call prices all the forenoon, Winter wheat market quotations came in easier, while public eables ealled spot wheat in Liver- pool qulet and steady, with cargoes off coast and on passage dull and slow. English conntry markets were firm and the weather in England was again reported unfavorable, Private dispatches from abroad were some- what conflicting, but late ones indicated a firmer tone. Tmports into the United King- dom during the past week showed an 1nerease of 144,000 bushiels of wheat and 50,000 barrels of flour, WikAT—The wheat market was pegged at 843, @sdige for May a full hour and a half after the opening this morning, with buying to a large extent against puts. It then pulled up to SI%@s43{c on the spllt, and hung around there for another hour, or until high noon. Trading all through was largely of a sealping character, there being a scarcity of outside orders either way. ‘Trading appeared to begetting out of May and into the June option, there being nearly as much done in the latter to-day as in the former, The full range covered by seller May this forenoon was only 843,@843¢, and at 1 o'clock S4%@ 8iigcon the split was ibid, Just before the close the market weakened on a report of a fresh outbreak ot trouble among the railroad employes in the southwest., A prowminentlo- cal trader is said, on good authority, to have worked 100,000 bushels of No. 2 spring wheat hero for nccount of some New York export- ers during yesterday and to-day, CorN—In the speculative market for corn an increased business was witnessed at lower prices. ige for May there was a de- cline to 88330 on the split,when there was aslight reaction, and at 1 o’clock 59}c was bid, being }se under Tuesday’s close. At 39¢ there was heavy trading, Nat Jones selling about 250,000 bushels, with W, T, Baker & Co. also freo sellers, and Noiton & Worthington good buyers, OArs—Oats were only moderately active and prices without materlal change. ProvisioNs—Provisions were quite active and irregular, pork selling off 15¢ early, un- der free offerings, mainly by long holding: but reacting some. the early aecline develop- ing a fair call from the short interest, and closed e under yesterday. Lard keld steady all day, and eclosed uvboutthe sameas on Tuesday, whileshort ribs were rather quiet and closed steady and without especial change, AF vooN BoArp—Trading was auite active on the late board, and the grain mar- kets were all weaker under the lead of wheat, which was depressed by the reported failure of a local operator of the smaller class and by talk about labor difliculties, May wheat sold off from 84%e to 84}c, and corn from $V@ 893%con the split to 833¢e. There was con- siderable doing in corn and oats in large jags. Mess pork ruled stronger on good buy- ing, supposed to be tor Robert Warren. Based on yesterday’s closing figures wheat finally closed e off, corn 3e, mess pork 740, with oats and lard unchanged. 2:40 p. m.—Puts on May wheat, 833e scales; {@8425c sellers, [Special Telegram.] Chandler-Brown Co.'s Report. The following report of Chicago's specula- tive markets is furnished the Bre by W, F Peck, Omaha reprosontative of Chandler- Brown Co., of Chicago and Milwaukeo: Cables were dull but firn, with little or no change In prices. Private cables were wealker, but our market showed no decided tendency either way, Reported damage to the Australian crop and a poor outlook in England firmed the market for a time, but prices fluctuated within the rango of 3e on wheat, closing at the opening figure at 1pom. Receipts of primary markets, 145,000 bush- shipments, 47,000 bushels, Car lot re- ceipts, 59 ea Corn and oats weak at 3@1¢c low there will be a still further break, Provisions xanged about the saume as yes- terday. 2:30 p. m.—~Wheat weak at }§@!{c lower; rumored strike throughout the Burlington road the eause of the weakness, Corn, weak and Y5¢ off, Provisions unch Think OPTIONS, FAT— March Muy Juio August COIN— Murch April My Juno LAl Mu Avril iy June PoK— March April May Juno Suor [Kins— | Miurcin 7 May... CHIUAGO LIVE STOCK. Cuieaco, March 17, ul Telogram. | —CarrLE—=To-day the cattle market was 1n peeuliar condition. ‘Tlicke were more good attle than on yesterday, and offerings ot good lots were ¢ The market ned slow and with an unsatisfactory feel ling, but eary sales were at steady and one man declared that some de- sirable cattle sold as high as at any time In the month. ‘The castern markets were fay ed and a shade Jower, and prices were 102 lower in the west, Thicre Ve 1 movement here, and by noon ¢ Hling lower than at the oy whilo general tiado was in a very istactory condition, The Lenten season is nndoubtedly Intertering with the prices, | consumption of weat, and there is a dullness in trade east and west. Bhipping steers, 1450 10 1500 1bs., $4.75@5.50; 1200 to 1350 1bs., 930 to 1200 1bs., §3.90@4.50, Hoos—Speculators opened the market with con ble vim and a few loads o at & siight advance, but after that, and especially after shipperg had filled thel orders, trade was slow, and at the finlsh sl the adsance of the morning was lost, tho warket closing weak with & large number over, ‘The best Lieavy sold at $4.50 king sorts at $4.1068 and rough otd Leuds at $3.9034. Packing aid 4 40 400 1hs, §4.0@ 4.5 shipping.