Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 28, 1886, Page 8

THE MYSTERIOUS MANTN BLUE Ruhle's Supposed Murderer Arrested by the Polico To-Dag. BIERI IN A BAD BOX: The Facts of the Case -Local La- conles~Robbed His Chum-—Ans otherSensation in the Smithe Lowy Case, Eto, urderer? At the police made the arrest of another man charged with the murder of Chris Rulile in this city on the | night of May 18, Inst. The man arrested | is John Bieri, who was suspected of the erime ding to the theory of Harry Siddall’s which was published in the BEE a few days ago. Bieri walked into the City hotel a few minutes before 12 o'clock yesterday gand was at onece recognized by Fritz Wirth as “THE MAN IN BLUE,’ who was the companion of Ruhle just previous to the latter's brutal murdor. Wirth once notified the poliee and Bieri we I 1 1 behind the j ' Mul man is square n|l\| one s He the noon yesterday snouldere hundr wo blue broken ned yand will and eighty-fiv |.m||u| Tio black <louch hat and a suit clothes, He talks badly English but when arr very anxious to expls vin IS RELATION T RUTILE He saia that he knew Ruhble well. He claims to have lived in Kansas City from il, 1885, nutil he came to Omaha in ¢ of this ve His story is that he I(l\hl and made his aequaintance, 3 good deal, drinking Wking in the town. He stopped at . the City hotel, where Ruhle paid for s board.” He il not know anything the murder of Rhule, ho (Imn week after it happencd on the evening of Ma with a hrewer named Fritz \Illh wont up the Union Pacific within two miles of Pa THEY SPENT and the next day they went on to Elk horn, where they found work on the see- tion. DMille ked for tl f and left. Bieri m at work ey aince, only losing a half day until y day, when he quit, and came to Omana this morning. NOT ENTIN AR If Bieri ean prove th left Omaha on the evening of May 14, four days be- fore the murder of Ruhle was comnntted, the ¢ rainst him will doubtless be dropped, but even his own testimony on this point is not entirely cle fe does not state delinitely on what day he left b IS TME BOOK h entry that he com- slkhorn on the morn- 3 1886, The pohce place butlittle faith in his statement that he left here on the date named. The entry in the book ref; made in deli- cate hand writ while the rest of the work in the book is ir hand scarcely readabl M entry looks to the police very much like a manuf; rlllrmhmln. d h 1s been nll i found on morning after the murder tified as the property of Bieri. that he pawned the watch to Rulile four dollars. WIRTH'S STORY. Fritz. Wirth, proprictor of the City hotel, feels sure that the right man has been found in Bieri numerous witnesses who will swe and Ruhle were in the city on Tues- day evening, May 18, the night of the marder, .lmmm.l toge he_difter- ent saloons 1 the 3 who was working at um( alifornia house at the time, will swear that Bier Ruble were in that hotel on the d Ruhle left Omahba; and that BIERI SOLD HIS VE-BU and a cigar-holder to John I prictor of the hotel, for §3, and #t the time that when thit money was gone he would haye “to_do somvthing else to get money.” He is contident that this was either on Mon iy, BIERTD {1 Bierd, liter in the afternoon, had recov- ercd from the s noticed when he was first ar conli- dent that he can prove He in- sists that he left Omaha on Thu day of the week before the murder and com: menced working for Thalken, boss of the section, on the Saturday before Ruhle was killed. His companion, Miller, he sy, is still working for the Union Pa- cific somewhere and an effort is being made to dmm.-n Miller’s whe reabouts. h I} h was tu b\ “Hlll .nul carried to the wil, Wirth was sure, from the ght of the grip, that it wnvum- 1some Wy instrument of murd eareful about seeing that it was placedin the bands of the authoritios. The arin was opencd and its contents revealed in the shape of a stone jug filled with an iu- lity of tang| l¢-foot. vest has created considerable ex- ment and all the elues that point to Bieri and his partner, Miller's, connection with the murder are being worked for ail they are worth. on LOOKS BETTER. developments in - the i that the police hu The books in of the Union Pa- worked on the sec- 1 days in May, been at wias com: f against Bei 0t the wron, again. ailic show that Bei ilkhorn for thirte s would require him to hay on the day the murder Mr. T ng in which Beiri aphed for and will aryi ringing a more detailed account of Beiri's time in lus employ. One thing is certain. *“T'he man in blue mystery has been cleared up, SMITIH WAS H u\\"lh\' BRIBED, 8o Says a Seusational Afidavit in the Lowy Oase. For some time past an expeetant pub- lie has been wondering what steps the Lowy-Cole side of the great dry goods Mock fight would take to recoup themselves from the stunning force of the Swith afidavits which tended strongly to show that the trans- fer of the stock to Lowy had been a frandulent one, Thelcounterblow came yesterday in the shape of aflida- vits, the purport of which is that Swmith was deliberately bribed to make the con- fessions which he did. These affidavits ere filed with Clerk Frauk, of the nited States eol B The first is from Charles C. Williams, a Chicago man, e swears that he met mith iy the Palmer house on the 20th of uly and that worthy told him that Law- yor” L'onney, representing his creditors, ame (o bim and wanted bim lo make oath that the transfer of the stock to Lowy was a fraud or a blind. lle(auuthz had refused to do this unless his creditors would release bim from all indebtedness t)ln-m and wonld, furthermore, furnish i with a good line of gao-ls to com- wmence buauuss with jagam. They se- eeded to these terms and Smith swore to the afliduvit that Tenny wanted bim to, “Phomas Moore, another Chicago man Nho was in the botel at the swie Lme and heard Smith's statement, rates Williams' testimony Charles A, Coutant, another Chicago man, makes an aflidavit that both Smitn and Tenny tried to bulldoze him into signing an _aflidavit ‘containing many false. things, amorigst. otliers the state ment that he (Coutant) told Lowy that Smyth conld not * possibly last longer than July land had adyised said Lowy | o purchise his goods, - When Cotitant | refused to sign this, Smith and Tenny | broke out into an wbusve tiradé ngainst him Another aftidavit from a man who knew Frank Mories, Sntith’s manage d first lieutenant, of the Police News of , 1885, which con taing the pictury deseribing him, vswindler and the head of a swindling concern. This is to be - taken as showing the Lrw[\ of company in which Sy soclatec €orrono- LOCATL Interviews Gathered Streets, Judge Stenberg: “The amount of re- ceipts from the social evil ordinance. this month will fall off abont one-third on ae- count of the change that was made by the city counc In cc of time of course the system of colleeting finde will recover froni the demoralization but it will be several months that oc- curs.” vre-Chi I ACONICS. Brier on the catiseo berore " Butler: “There cighteen fires so far this month. 20 per eent more than i any month pre- vious, and there is still a week of the month remaining. Yet there has been no serious fire here within the past year.” E.R. Deany: “Itis a shame that the et lamps have been supplied with sigus in such a disgustingly, shiftless manner, I was walking up Farnam street, between Tenth and Twenty-fifth, the other night, and T not that fully anps had their signs on Lor instance, at'1'w. nam the Twenticth st uld be on the Farnam strect . All over the city ible, and makes Hn- isleading to the for whose benefit they wer Licut. D. R. Kingman-—*1 i turncd fi ort Robinson, where [ w to investigate a ramor that some settlers were squatting upon the timber claims of this post. I found the report without founaution.: Tho crops in that scction are greatly refreshe h\ recent rams, RAILROAD RIVALRY been [This is Displayed in Securing the Patronage the G, A, R. The intensity with which the different roads ranning to the st have been looking for the Grand Army business was well illustrated on Sunday last when the New England excursionists were passing through the Blufts, There were not less than twenty railvos resentatives from all parts ¢f the country about the depot. Some ot them had come with the eyeur- stonists, and endeavored on the way toin- duee them to patronize the roads for which thev are working on their return trip. Wiien, however, the depot was reached, this work wus discontinued, because the outa number of men to nts and prevent them fl'nm soliciting business. This was done under the authority of a local ordinang which prohibits a” rival agent from in- truding upon depot grounds. One of the rey mnmu\v was C. B. Kinnan. He is the general agent ot the passenger’ department of _the Nothern Pdule, and was several times nl Army of ]l)n- Re- hed of the fact that if n he would be sted to leave the <]v|m 2 i however, that he iness, n \ullwl- S, fr from talking to the veteraus, The other mewhat annoyed that the got the Lion’s share of the question, and the Union not a little nettled tha ¥ Puacitic will have the mn of the return business. in Rail Notes, An aceident oceurred about one and a half miles Papillion o'clock yesterpay mor- which {resulted in a freight in bemg pretty badly wrecked. I'r: 23, while going down an inc broke in two. Several of the front c: of the second section were provided with air brakes and stopped suddenly, The rear cars were not so provided and piled in upon the front cars, smashing the drawheads of about a score of cars. The wreek has been cleared away. Mr. M. Timmons, a Chicigo man, has been appointed advertising clerk in’ the f ai passenger oflice of the Union ucitie Mr. and Mrs. 8. B. Jones leave for San Franciseo to-day, J. B, )llulm S, n‘hwnm-r agent of lllu 2u0] 8 Oulu[ ‘~u|\|1 y freight truin No. 21 of uw Union P broke into thrée sec- ilore, and all the ' again with a tous force, \h!u\\m" severul off ack, and driving one ot them mto and lh-mululunvr the station, Agent Knapp saved himsolf by jumping through the window. oon came Bona Gpening. CCity Treasurer Buck at noon fyesterday opened bids for £100,000 of paving bonds drawing anterest at 4 per cent und rmmiu‘; twenty years, &Co., of Providenc E 0., Toledo, $100,7 jah Coftin, N York, $100,510; Omaba Loan & Trust i Co., 8100,000; W. O. Cole & Co., Chieago, 31, Bowler & \ln-nill Ihv z01, '\l p )mnn" bonds, $102,600 6 om one to nine Co., $100,099.75; Spitz 3 l“uku Bros. & (0 y kisk & Sons, \‘ $108,44: :w delivered in New Y W. 0. Cole & ( for $15,000, $46, l)n\' Council Blulls, for 50, pm cent, duo in mb and gutter bonds. $13,400, & per interest, due'in from one to nine X , $18,988.26; Spit. $14,000; Blake & Co, §14,00102; W. O, Cole & Co., sus Bowler & Mo The bonds werd ail awarded to Bl ke Bros, & Co., of Boston. - Personal Paragraphs, W. B. Johnson, Ord: H. J, Clurk, Wahoo, are ut the Canficld . Joe Ellis left for his home in New Jer- sey yesterday morning, Jussie Kennedy of Bloomington, visiting here with her sister, Kate Kenne dy, of the Ichi Ban, The Rev. ¥, Duncan Jandon, rector of Christ chureh, P. k. parish, Dyersville, lowa, is visiti Fhia friend, General J. E. \mllh of Omaha A ant United Sty Atiorncfi Bart lett, Clerk of Court Frank and Deputy Marshal Allen ¥ rand Lsland tourists last evening. Jln‘f clajm to be on civil business connected with the government. s Snlu (l\-\.n- -Fine Jergoy heifer uths old. Addru»:ql onec, 10 l‘wt«. ol Co, THE HAS BUTLER KNOCKED DOWN? Serions Charges Against the Head of the Fire Department, BUILDING PERMIT FEES. Some loteresting Interviews—An- other G. A. R. Delegation—Police Court—A Horrible Accident at the U. I Shops, Etc. Charges / “We know enon to send him to the expression inent council was di Bre the res gainst Butler, 1about Chief Butler penitentiary.” I'his from (a prom of the ity morning orter came member yesterday as for the of Oma partment. The gentieman re- red to had nothing more to s: about the matter, but, upon further questionng aclam. The re however, having this as a “point went to work and secured the facts sensation which has jost been developed by the resignation of Chie Butler. [t18 nothing less than that ofli ciul has, in all plnlrxhxlx]\ appropriated to his own use the funds of the ¢ About two y 0, on the of March, when Chase w ordinance was passed, ere v board of mspection for the issnance of permits for buildings. This ordinance made the fire marshal the head of the board r oing on to detine his dutic scalc of fees to be charged O all buildings costing over exceeding S50, ~ On all buile Ivlu.u'n\lvu" excecding S1,0X), $; On all buildinzs eosting over £1,000 and not exeecding $2,0 0, 34, Ou all over 2,000, I'he ordinance then preseribed: e fees realized from such pert authorized sehief ¢ I port Sth day yor, ai and not over $500 and not This Ill:\lu'\ the ehief of the department dircetly resvonsible for the collection and & over of the fees collected under dinance. In order to fuily ter, & reporter v ate this mat- ;ted to determine 1, whether Batle; colleeted any money under this n\dmnu and whether he ever turned the same over to the city treasurer. HAD PATD HIM MONEY, A prominent Farnam street architect was first appronched. He at first de- clined to talk, but upon pressing con- cluded In declare himself. he fact is,” um nd of Butler's, and 1 don't care to get myself into this se. But tl is mo doubt that s been collecting money under this ordinance “You have paid him money \\ Iwu QY At different times during the past two years, up to the time when W mflm ek wis appointed buildin n\\]w('(n “In what amounts did you pa *Generally, about £5 at a time “Do_you know how much you paid him " y exactly. member dif- ferent times when I i we given hi would foot-up to between § X *Did he ever say anything to you about what he did with the money?” “‘No, but I saw things which led me to believe that he was roing Lo get into this trouble. xe\pec:uhh.u it would come out long ngo. I had a_good many rea- sons to suppose that all this money he ‘knocked down’ instead of turning it oyer to the cit, him?” have architect said: “Butler has eeping a very loose record of the permits which he issued—if, indecd, it could be called a record at all. I know of different clients of mime who have puid him money. I never paid lim the elf, for [ don’t consider that any husiness. He must have made r practice of collecting these fees, Didinte s oulatte cquently come to me and growl beeause some of my custome: had L) ed to pa Imn for ‘the permits NOTHING ABOUT IT. E r Batler ever turned in any of these fees to him. He said that the chief had not. more,” he went on to say, “l ne knew that Butler had any power to col- lect such fees. He never sud anything tome about it. 1 am certain that lie never turned over any such fees to me, > 1 haye amined our accounts of 1 fund, the five fund, and the wsh fund, and 1 find no entries of any such moneys turned over to me by him. 1 am therefore positive that if he has eollected those fees that he has never turned them over.” “Ot course you know mnothing as to whether he has ‘collected these building permit fe *No, sir, I do not. I never had any oc- (‘Jslun to |nn'~ll"'ll' i the n will thus be seen that all evidence so ined w nts the belie! l:-n has cert inly collected these fo almost as certainly has pocketed them. 'y seanty recora of the o business of Butler, as building in- spector, has been kept, the amount of such moneys collected \nll]uoh.nl;lym,\ er be known “P'he conncil will probably accept But- ler’s resignation,” said a member of the mrnmll;\ sterday t he has pocketed hundreds of dol- during the last few years. Nobody knows how much,” President Bechel, of the city eouncil, he had heard of the serious wainst Butler and thought that the ¢ u) (-uum'll would mw:uuu them. It Burns Three Moulders In the U, P, Foundry, Yesterday afternoon aboutn1 o'clock Thomas Douglas, Robert Kaiser, another man, moulders in the foun- dry at the Union Pacific shops, were painfully burned by the upsetting of a rot of molten iron. The helpers were !murm-v the liquified iron from one kettle uto another, when through ignorance of the business, one of the kettles was oyer- turned and the iron spilled upon the mentioned. Douglas was dreadful burned about the abdomen and fect, and was carried home, Eighteenth and ‘Burt streets, suffering intensely, Kaiser w rely injured, and the wonder scaped with their lyes. Robbed a Friend, Williams is held in the city jail on a charge of robbing & mian named E. A llalmg, who came lwre with him from Clarinda, lowa. They arrived in this city Sunday, and proceeded to get on a spree together. Williams insisted on the other msn drinking fire” wnnal\f eto.. even ngainst his Finally Williams proposed & trip Hans- com park, and . Huling reaaily assuntm}, They got into a eab together and went out there. When Williams was requested by the ariver to pay cab hire he reached nto Huling’s pocket and pulled out his purse conlaining $35 and paid the cab man. Instead of réturning to the balance to Huling he putit into lus‘ own pocket, The neat dn) he refused Lo OMAHA DAII g { March 15th, he | BEE: WEDNE return the purse buteffared Huling a present,” He wasyesterday jail. ou a charge of laraeny name and will be vigoreusly prosceuted. AT LA The West Block (Ne. & of Hazwth Is for Sale—J, B, Evans & Co. Are Sole Agents, These 14 lots rr.uumq on 85th st., run- ning back 151 feet to- 36th st., are hig and sightly nnl. gol l|||.-4~h-|w to the e Lies |u\| north of West End, and is_for al prices thanpany surrounding ‘erms, one-fourth cash 2 alanco. tome tors should see this proper: ole ine westion any street se prices within three months, - - neoln b, s in every Opelt's Hotel, first el opencd respect. After Justice Berka, ning issued Rioters. yesterday half a dozen warrants for the arrest of people engage in the riot at Paul's park on Sun day lust. Two of these have been issued at the instance of Jean Holtslander, ono of which is directed against William Stevenson for seault and the other against three parties whose names are unknown. Senf, the ]""!‘ the park 4 the arrost of Stevenson, whotn e clinrges with b wing m I¥ Ivoken some gl the place. made. more An Early Car. Superintendent Smith, of the horse ear ine, hus put an extra car on the Thir- teenth strect line, which leaves the car baras on Vinton street at 5:45 o’clock in the morning. This enables the shop men to ride down to their place of labor, and get there before 7 o'clock, which they claimed they could not do with the first ear which formerly started later, The ac- commodation is * app A by the mechanics in the southern part of the city, and will soon become remunerative. GREAT E/\RTHQUAKES A Listof Those Most Disastrozs to Life and Proy New York World: The s has been speeulating ove and other ruinous results during the Inn'r series of centuries sinee gost island of the ¥ first bow to geologieal cir after v lent upheaval about fonr centuries before Christ. Fromn that on down, asters at the island of J. the more recent convulsions in during the cholera season of 1885, history records a fearful loss of life from th voleanic nits of the earth, pag: philosophers held the id theso earthquakes were produ ) rancous clouds bursting into hightning, which shook the vaults that confined them. The Kreneh philosopher, Des- wrtes, supposed therewere many vast avitios under grouna which with water, some of ‘whieh vnmnunu with cach other, others with from inflammable niter, sulphur, et and,” thought' earthquakes 1sed by eleetricity. They are now gen- rally believed to be due to steam gener- ated by su 1c0us quxl Tl ‘made in were » o de 1 list M ny were of ml oco: ~mm-(l but m and Pom- The loss of hife comps nm\vl ull, but the two eities were totally <l«~uu yod by the accompa- nying eruption of h-su\m». In 742 over 500 towns in & estine were des could never be ted, In 1137 15,000 buried under ruins of Catania, in Si In 1158 20,000 peris In 1268 60,000 we In 1456 40,000 pe earthquake at Naple: Lisbon has been twice visited, In over 30,000 were buried in the ruins, while fully 50,000 perished in the e: upheava when the completely engul € At the same time 12,000 Moors peris! hed in Moroce In 1643, Sici. an earthqu s and 300 villages we verturned, and the loss of life reached 100,000. ln 170 Yeddo, the capital of Japan, , fud over 200,000 lives were peitin A, D. the recked by 716, 20,000 pe 54, Grand Cairo w with 40,000 inhabitants, In 1797, 40,000 people were buried m one second between Santa Fe and Pan In 18: lost., In 1868, 25,000 were destroyed in the uphenval in Eenador and Per In 1881, the town of Scio and 4,000 in- habitants were destr Circus Slang, ,cireus, fakirs call everybody the most important s “main gnys." hayseeds,” Money is H Beer or other drinks are spoken of as “lush,” clothes as “togs"’ or *'l ." food as “grub,” conyersation o zs," the verb to see is u’mh- ed g hat a spoken of as " argument as "utl b and bauk bifis. ha 5 switllowed up, at Aleppo, 22,000 people were The ul 'S are molls, clowns as .*‘joeys,” “Himsies,” e Five Dollar Postal Orders. Hereafrer, the rate for postal orders for five dollars will be but five cents, in- stead of eight cents as heretofc The reduction went into effect yesterday. It Absolutely Pure. aries. A marvel of pur- . More econ- This powder nev ity, strength an omical thun th Sold' ta compotition with the multitide test. short weight alum or phosphiute powders. Bold oy in catie, Hovau Bakise Powpek Co. 468 Wall'st., Now York. TRIS SPACE IS RESERVED FOR THE oW York and Omaha Clothing Company "o WILL OPE. wrrn AN ENTIRE NEW STOCK 1308 FARNAM STREERET, On or about Sept. 1st, 1886. AT u(hnunhl that it will have the effect of vdu('lulrlln- demand for post notes, \\In(.l\ liave the clements uf cheapness without the safety of a postal order, There is no reduction in the rates of other amount A New Bridge. 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