Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 24, 1886, Page 8

GATHERED \B )U THE CITY. What Mittman, the M:lel Shooter Has NOTES ON RAILROAD MATTERS. District Conrt News—A Anniversary—Amus General Local Police Court Weddiig ment Notes Mittman's Stor Yesterday morning's Bk contained a telographic reference to the shoot fng of Durham at Millard Wed nesday r t. Yesterday morning Dep uty Grebe went to the seene, Mittman, the man who did the nto custody brought him to th and had locked upin the county jail. He w geen by n BEk reporter yesterday Mittman, Jarge, heavy German, with & mild ronud set of features, wim med with moustache made no trouble in giving his the story, which is plausible dently worthy of cre benrs upon one of proof of having been beaten in t Millard.” h ided for about thirte formerly to live in maha y night about five lock Durham and Cole came into my Y wanted me to give them Durham had been to my place seve el times and T had given hith eredht, but [ had not got paid, and Imade up my mind not (o give him nor any of his friends anything on credit. why should Udo it? You trust a railr Jaborer and ther |-unh..'h to lnm it he skips because 1 'not be res heriil and taking ( s shooting, city him 108¢ 18 0 and g enco, | oyes “‘where months, us ad for the” con ponsible So 1 told i that 1 get once, had told him he could not drink without moncy Jast week [wentto Om and b going [ told my daughter not to give Durham nor any other person drink with- out paying for 1t. \\nn- I was gone Durham and Cole went to my asked for drink, and my daughter, was seventeen y of age, told them what 1 had told her, and refused to give them liquor. They then said thay would help themselves and were going behind the bar when my mln srfered and the, 2 st night, tl ngmu, after what the y h and n annoyed ‘me about drinks, Which 1 alwiys yofused They me and Durham finally asked me cents to pay his way to Papillion, because both he and "Cole are working on the B. & M. grade right r this place. 1 told him l would not give him the t of them became angry. My daughte ned and urged e to go into. the because she says she hear f they would kil 1 was leaning ~on the end counter at the time, my being toward the end of the bar. Cole got behind me, put his arms around my neck and pulled me down on the floor and then Durnam stamped me m my eye, us you see, with the heel of his boot Tstrugeled upward and was pushedout dining room, when Dur- m.m)m«f o " ot behind a bottle \l.) wlfv In \I\ul him oft and he struc blow on the forchead, abig lumyp there now. I was now »luw;‘lm" with Cole, and foreed n nd ght hold of a sodaws fil --l wnh bottles, which Lheld on to .\ml pulled myselt up pehind the bar and grasped my re- volver. Durham then came at me with a knife and both of them forced me in the corn \d in raising my hand to ward off' his knife blows, the revolver went off and shot him throuizh the throat. 1 was a dungerous corner and the next instant I i that Dui s knife would have killed me s them me. the back of ham 1«\ RAIL MATTEKS. into Nebraska—Other Notes, It has been many a day since Omaha has witnessed such an influx of home- seekerssound for western Nebraska as oc- ceurred yesterday morning. The oceasion was the harvest excursion, at redus rates, for the benefit of tho: tolocate in the west. The ond Northwestern trauns together brought in abgut eight hundred people, while the “Q" brought in several hundred more ‘Wwho were taken west on the B.& M, from Oreapolis in u train of twenty-one curs. The Rock Island and Northwestern pas- sengers were transferred to the Unon Pacific overland No. 8, wiich was held one hour and a half waiting for the * Northwestern train, This train had been unavoidably delayed® in low. Most of these passenger bound for points in_interior braska, and the doubtless locate tat: Another “harvest excu " will oceur before the h of winter, M, V. Benton, of the Salt Lake of the Unwon Pacilic, is iu the cit return from St. Louis, whith companicd Knights eursion. Phil Warrack, chief clerk in the gen- eral freight oflice of the Umon Pacifie, bas gone to New York As n consequence of the wreck on the Missouri Pacific below Kausas City, Wed- nesday night's Omaba train on th due here at about 60'clock, did not arriy until 1:30 o'clock y was compelled to 2o by w xington in or thus throwing lt.l schodule. Andy Borden of the (Imw"n Minne- apolis & St. Paul road returncd this morning from the Odd Fellows' meeting at Boston, R S. Hair, general western passenger agent of the Chicago & Northwe rmfil who ;n woll known in this several times ’ :fm.-dmi. city, h g ation, 10 take effcet on the first of Octo- v, His successor will be E. P. Wilson .~ af Chicago, who has for some time back hnn pool comniissioner at that plac J. A. Murray, tra Chicago & Northw morning from 1 rt o numl the Odd Fellows' gathering at that lace. He reports that his road ed hnlv exeursion trains from Chicago to ton, aud every one of them was erowded, Thos. Bolan, who for abouta year back e of the switch and tele- ¥ o the Union Pacific road, e y this side of the bridg n transforred Lo the position of rator and ticket agent ut the Br wy depot in Council Blufs. He succeeds - My, Keiger, who cowmes to this side of the wiver, A. C. Campbell, division cume Excursionists of them will office on his he ac- the (hm ¢ he went to supe of th mto fown ntendent of the B & M, at yeslerday in the Union Pacific ot telograph office has so inereased of that is has been found necessary to aunother upon.noz uwu- in connees with Mr. T. McCarthy, who begn worked cont | wen enty-live cents, and both | key. The new man is Kr who has already app columns as an invent contrivance. The Northwestern and lington & Quincy trains w last night thus delay the overland on the Just as the transfor te dopot at 7:35 last night the heavy rain storm opened and the scenc on the |m| h crossing beggared deseription. Be and thunder 1 for shelter, f d city conveyane the hotel ranners and the inc und repassing of teait the warning eries of the flagman 1t pandemonium sure Special car No. 02 of th to Chicago yesterday to bring out the gove nent inspe on thoeie an annual tour of ex the rou blocks of John F. Krapp, ared in these of an electrica —rre late ure of Chics un arrved in the twe the of hackn: Union Pacifie, mination of ne arriving for A mammoth bridge the Unior build over Seventh speedy commence track’ system, d menns ment of the “wide plenty of them Her Injurics Proved Fatal, The Bk of yesterday motning con tained an accont of the frightful acci dent at 2820 Harney strect. Wednesday night, in which Mrs.” Alice Liteomb was su badly burned by the upsctting of a lamp. “The unfortan women died from the cffects of her injuries yesterday morning MR, BURDICK'S ACCOUNT. Among the witnesses to m were Edward Taylor, Titcombs’ and J man for Henry VVoRs) These gentlemen were Mrs, Litcomb Wednesd in trying to vw in the ladies’ el hands badly hvunu! will_be laid up for several weeks. Mr. Taylor, the brother of theunfortu nate vietim, is _completely prosts partly from the shock caused by the ter: rible death ot his sister, and partly from the inju receiyed, which were of o more painfal ch cter than those re ceived by Mr. Burdi I'he latter was seen yesterday in room 1n Creighton block, and gave following version of the “Last evening,” he went up to eall on his comb, and I accompanied him ening in 2 nt cony o' e got up to g ave whon the dross which the lamyp was setting w ¢ moved to one side. The LIII]II w to the floor, exploding inst ulll} In a moment the room seemed to be mlul with & mass of flame. We started to ex tinguish it by stamping it out and nearly had the tire under control, wlhen Mrs, Titcomb knelt down and commenc smother the flames with her dr which was, made of light, inflamn mate i a moment she was all I tirned about, saw her condition, realized that her condition find sanything .\.luulmt:ulwlnll jumped down st into rms, on the first {1 He he blazing clothing ind [ assisted him. L'tore offmy t, which was made of light material, and threw it around hvr 1 hittle or no elieet. the yard, and there we ring off more of the blazing cl Sle rushed into the street, where r dexs had beenat work and commenced to roll over in the dirt, By this tine, the flames were almost out, and were finally extinguished by means of ket which someone brought. Mrs. comb was then taken into the house and placed in the doctor’s care She was conscious at fivst, and we had strong hopes that she would recover. Toward the I:ul,_ now- he beeame unconscious.” deq of the unforts n be gained when it whole body was so badly burned from the ankles up to her shoul- 3, doctor could not in- nic needle under the skin i purlm of injecting morphime to easo the pa ust he could not find a single spot "that was not charred to a erisp. AMrs. Titcomb’s husband is chief engi- T pa Cod canal, and has | informed by telegraph of the sad af The body his been embalmed aws the' visiting ¢ ovening, ish the i ing, had Both of them with and his the \\ e spent ation, able to and Murs. Titcomb's dress catching fire at tracted the attention of nearly ev in the house, and but for the hero forts of Miss Jennie Webb, who r behind and extinguished the flan room, the building might have burned to the ground. Ruby Wedding Reception. September 22, 1846, on Sugar Creck, Logan county, IL. on the old homestead, Abraham Lucas and Susannah Reed de- termined to unite their fortunes for bet- ter or worse, and last evening about one hundred of thewr friends and relatives assembled to celebrate the fortieth anni- v of their wedding. Mr. and Mra 1s bear their age well and although their hair has become iulm\\lml unged with gray still they would hardly be thought over fifty and in the prime of life, whilst sixty or more winte d as many summers ha passed over their heads. After the company had assembled the P made by Rev. . W. Savidge in a few fitting and well chosen words and then the cyening was given up t The Vi costly, of which the followin, Tist: Mr. and Mrs. Manger, sugar bowl in silver stand; Dr wille, water set: the Seward street M church, of which Mr. and L partinl S ailsy ohair, plokle. di p and £ in gol1: Moud and it el 1y . bottle; B. C. Smith, nluv\ehuuolu Mnlln Lu gold collar ‘button; Eddie Lucas, silver bullur dishes; Mr. and Mrs. O, P! Thompson, sutograph album, in which the of all those present My and ra. J. nd Mrs, G, W. ver,and Miss Mollie gold headed cane and black silk lh\':! Mrs, . Presson, toilet bottle; C. B. Smith, cup and sances; Mr. and . D, L. 'Fhomas, fruit dish ‘lurke, hand painted wat, . reuch, lamp; Mr. HIN! hml dish; C. W, Coin, salt cellu Mnmv Lucas, toilet set; Mrs. A, derson and sons, pitcher; Mr. ulxd Mrs, Bishofl, table linen: L. E. Lucas, elegant plush sofa; J. W, Hoflwan, book of |unm ises; Mr. and Mrs, F, ‘I'. Stinrock, books; Mr.' and Mrs, Coons, book; Mr. Mrs. DeBolt, book; My, and Mrs, Wright, gl Speeches were made and a general good time had. An original pocm was read by one of the J dies preseot. THE Lucun Mus. Sadio Won d Geo. lu\\' llU'l'l:h. What 10 Be, Architect Mendelssohnsaid yesterday that work on the new hotel which is to be oted on the south side of Farnam st cffeen Nuth and Tenth, would commence in about two woeks. The plans bave been drawn up and all that remains to be done now is the awarding of the contracts. The plans which have been drawn up by Mendelssohn & Fisher, the well koown architects, contewvlate u hotel building liner than anything ugw An ldea of It Is Going lllu | of ¥ | type, | in th THE The structure wili be 132 fect o six stories high » built of St. Louis pressed with terra cotta trimmings of the most ornate design. There will be over 200 rooms in the building. The rotunda will be large and roomy one, and will connect by winding stairs with a i ficent m_of promenades arlors. ~ It s the Ir. Joslyn —and his to have ~all the modern ments in the hotel, and_make it respects thoroughly first class structure will cost in - the neighborhood 000 brick syl NEW OUTEFITS FOR NEWSPAPERS, The Om ply Type Foundry and Sup- e for Printers and blishers, stn Newspaper Union prepared at sll times to outlit rs on short noti borde inks and rales, and in fact line of printers’ and publishers! Better te nd more liberal an by sending to Chicago or elsewhere. Save money by buying near home. Second hand goods in the print ine hought and sold. We often have g i The W, Omaha is publisl rules, o with presses, composition, stick everything suppl pric journal, that give and prices and from time to time proclaims unequalled bargains new and second hand material WeEsTERN NEWSPAPER UNTON, 12th Strect, bet. Howard and Jackson, Omaha, Nebraska, A Democratic Rull, Immediately after the democratic con- vention Wednesday there was a meeting of the county central committee held. There was not a full attendance. Some of the members who had been at the convention, and had seen the cut-and- dried style in which the packing-louse star-chamber business was carried out, refused to attend. There v quorum present, however, and among other things ‘done was to call the primaries for the county convention, on the 8thand the convention on the 9th. It was iater discovered that as the o convention would be held on the 7th, many of those in attendance upon it would not be nble to work ries on the following ning, Chairman Mc- ane ealled n special mecting of the com- mittee, to be held at his office yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, when the date of changed to the 11th onyention to the 12th, our monthly trade lists of good as 1 A Se rhlll Accident. The friends of James L brother of Dr. . W. Lee, of this city, will regret to learn that he recently met with an acei- dent on an Ogallala ranch, which all but proved fatal. e w d in roping «wsteer, when his horse, a fiery, half- broken steed, reared and fell. Unfortu- nately Lee fell directly under the horse, .m:l wiile no bones were broken he eived internal injuries of a complic n inre, concussion of the spire, For a time his life was of, but he ralli nd is now on the high road to recovery. Dr. Rebert went out lala and acecompanicd the unfor- ate to his home in Randolph, N. Y. ¢ is under the eare of his brother, Dr, His chan ces s eng: ipping Boiler. ternoon at thr afdozen men were en from a truck to the boiler to be used Nebraska The 1 near the L > 0'ciock haf din lowering k, n large in heating the Bank building. backed up ance to the lhu boilor was f hot Wy one and g from the men and slipped with such veloeity that two men who were stunding by a ators narrowly eseaps 1 being crushed to death., The fancy barber pole of E. Stein, shop is in the basemeunt of the Building, was broken from its fastening, and the faney eathedral-glass lantern crushed info « thousand fragments. sidew: Wants His Children. Mayor Boyd yesterday receiveda letter lrmn mes Ravell, the Denver man H y with a young sport little this vell is now serving a prison for grand lareeny, theless, wants his childven sont o They are now at the poor farm, and r Boyd has ordered them to be aken to Denver. Marshal Cummings sa yesterday that he didn’t know how 1t iroing to'be done, as_he didn’t propose to beur the expense of it himsclf he four youngsters protest vigorously against being sent to Denyer. The, that their father is anything but a man. him. M A Morning Fire, The fire department was called out terday morning to extinguish a fire in two story frame structure on the north- west corner of Fourteenth and Cass streets owned by Charies Jensen. The blaze was extinguished with some difliculty, but not until the interior was pretty well burncd out, The loss on the building a line of peddlers’ supplies, ml at §450, is loss was almost to {al and his insurance nothing, Thero is no theory as to the cause of the fire, ml Ward city in the vicinity r school are indignant be- in possession of a school, re notenabled to use it for half of their children. As a consequence they propose to indignate tnis evening at Cosmopolitan hall on South Thirteenth and sec x(‘nn sy can not do something to keep their children from walking two miles to the Leavenworth school in winter time. hdignant S¢ sidents of t of the Castells cause while they ©all For Clothing. Persons who can contribute old cloth- ing ure requested to leave or send it to the Buckingham, 106 Sou Tweltth street. Many men from the jail come to us for assistance and have to be clothed Defore we can get them positions. We ¢ many ealls for clothing when we hi nothing to give. Anything suitable for either men, women or chi n will be thankfully received. Suver, Jai. Wonk. Late City News. A female squatter on the bottoms threw arock at oae of a force of B, & M. men who were moving her shanty yesterday ternoon. She was arrested Con Mealio, but & mob of mcn set upon him and compelled him to release her. A c razy man was arrested by the police y afternoon on the bottoms, and .ll\l'll'lu |h<* ounty jail. He was suffering from {he b 3 hu ation that some one was trying to kill him. The Metropolitan Olub. The Metropolitan Club has elected of- icers for the ensuing year as follows ident Oberfelder, ce President—Adolph Meyer, reasurer—Daye Kaufman, Eichman. \‘lll oceur on October 0. Seel y The first |m|‘t_y itan hotel, 18, in the Metrop glish unlnners are said to bave dis od a way of making bonnets of tissue hey cost about us much as if they were covered with bink noies, OMAHA DAILY BEE | may tive FRIDAY, S SHOT HIS OWN WIFE, HE o Wife | Hervert Whittercore Fires at His Thinking She is. a Burglar. Mrs. Whittemore's Wonnds Consid- ered Fatal—Childeen Weeping at Their Mother's Bedside. Denver Tribune, affuir occurred bout two miles last night. M Sept. : A shocking at Whittemore's ranch, onut on the Golden road Herbert R, Whittemore shot his wife twice thinking that she was & burglar. One ball entered the left side of the necek, and the the right shoulder, coming out the right other below shoulder blade, I'he story as toid in - Mr. Whittemore's own words to the reporter is as follows HOW IT HAPPENED. “We went to bed at about 8 o'clock. | had $100 with me which I had got to pay adebt with to-morrow. The money 1 hid in my drawers, I remember my wife suying to me just before I went to sleep that colid not wear the new flannels gne had bought and would have to change them. That is the last thing L remember betore going to sleep. 1 was awakened by a noise, and saw dark formin the room between me and the window. Half asleep as 1 was I thought of my money, and thought there was a burglar in the room. 1 raised my pistol and fire The figire came straight toward and [ tived again, Then we c qu hed. ible thought struck me. “A is it yo " she s me A ‘Lam shot; you have EEDING ON THE FLOOR “I then leaped to my feet and it the mp. There lay my poor wife on the floor, the blocd flowing from her wounds, She had got up to change her flannels, which irritated her. 1 to the door ank cried for the neighbors “Oh, my dear wite! Oh, my God,” cried the unhappy man, bréaking down as he finished his stor, He then turned to his wife, in whose presence the story had been ' told, and asked her whether that was the way it happened She nodded assent and tried in corroboration of the na unable to do so. The neighbors is similar Whittemore. FRANTIC WITH GRI They were aroused by n great shouting and crying from the Whittemore housc, and ran over to find Mr. Whitte: half frantic with grie ling from her wounds. r. Brinkaus, who lives near by, was at once summoned. He dressed the wounds, but refused to attend to the case further, as he is rot now a practising sician, One of the neighbors, Mr. Berr. then started to the city for u doctor. He fiest went for the fanily physiciean, Dr, . B. Cory, but that gentlemen could not be found. Dr. (lu\lun Parkhill was then cailed. The doctor arrived at*he ranch shortly after one o’clock u Zan an examina- tion of the casy Lhe fnirst 1, which was fired mio the neck, came out at the back of the neck. Dr. Parkhill said that the ball had penetrated th 1X. RECOVERY DOUBTFU 1t is possible, he says, tha ¢ woman but the chinces are very much against Lier. The pistol used was a 83-ca & Wesson. The shooting. can be ascertained, at about | The house in which the t ppened is 4 small one-story lmmhng three rooms. The bedroom is a r'e house, and of the haye been not from her husband an to speak ive,but was told by the 'y to that of Mr. yson, Smith !u more than three feet when he fired. “The poor woman, although for breath and suffering ter IN\ “Trom pain, secemed to have but one thought— to show her husband and the others pres: ent that she did not hold him to blame, She mad. cous ellorts to spi and tell the stor sell, but could” not do- so. Her bre - struggling R 2 int The grief of the husband w rending. 1t was horriblo to wi 3 HIS WIFE in and ag A nuniber of little childr r. and Mrs, W, |llv|||u stood around gazing with t wble (o real: ize th weeping T oman aniIthe Rk OO B has0s of the men added to the hdrror and solemnity of the scenc. smore was still liy- Parkhill bad grave doubts of her recovery. c ¢ . Judge Helsley disposed of a number of cases in police court yesterday morning. Most of them were ordinary cases of drunkenness. al prosti- tutes were arrested for being delinguent, fined $5 and costs apiceo. 1 , for stealing a pair of 1 s fincd $5 and costs and sen- tenced 'to fift y$ in_the county jail. Joseph Morrison and Edward Sproule 1 1d costs for carrying con- large \pons L Thomas, the notorious, fine of %5 and costs for drunkenne: nd Hugh Cameron, who hting until the faccs of both looked like n piece of chewed beef- steak, were fine: wnd costs apiece, paid Jerry Buck and Do and wife were arrested yesterday for fight ing. Both were locked up, but M, ter a few moment’s confinement, nill and was relousod. . husband POWDER Absolutely Pure. A marvel of pur- rength and wholesomeness. More econ- otmical thuv the ordinary kindsand canat be Tuiapowder pover raries sold incompetiiion withthe multitude of low fest, short weight alum or phospiate powders. Bold oniy In cans. HOY A1, BAKING POWDER CO 498V all 5., Now York, Fl"l‘EM BE R 24, 1886. OVERCROWDED. The Nebraska Clothing Company finds roomy enough to accommodate their immense sto must be reduced by about Oct. goods constantly arriving, | simere suits, at $6. 125 mens’ suits, brown, at $7; sold by other dealers for more money. | mens’ all wool scarlet hose, 15¢ ner pair. 15¢c,worth double the money. We call special attention to our even their large store not ck, and in somse lines the surplus is extraordinarily large, so the quantities mentioned below 1st, to make room for follow strictly all worsted, in black and 250 150 dozen faney dress shirts, in order other I They are as 3:120 all wool mens’ cas- dozen including collars and cuffs, 35¢ each. 100 dozen mens’ nice suspenders, all wool Norfolk childrens’ suits,from 5 to 12 years, at $2.95. Remember,goods are at strictly one price, and marked in plain figures, with THE NEBRASKA CLOTHING GOMPANY Cor. Douglas and 14th sts., Omaha. 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