Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 18, 1887, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MARCH 18 1887. _—————————-—————_—. STATE INSURANCE BUSINESS Eztracts From the Auditor’s Statement Bhowing the Amount Trausacted. TWO MORE DIVORCE CASES FILED The Jury Still Forgery on Out in the Duffey —Work Progressing the City Directory-- Capital City News, [FROM THE BEE'S LINCOLN BUREAU.] The nuditor of state has published in tabular form the total insurance busi ness of the state during the year 1886 as compiled from the reports of the differ- ent companies filed in his office. This report shows that cighty nine direct fire insurance companies transacted business in the state duringthat year and the totals of businoss transacted show the risks written amounted to $69,805,3: B the total cash received in premiums amounted to $1,192,267.87; the losscs in curred amounted to $4145,803.46, and the losses paid by the different companies footed up $898,649.70. The showing as a whole demonstrates the fact that the dif- ferent insurance companies in the land found Nebraska n very fruitful, prolitic and profitable field for work during the year 1886, Under the present tax laws in the state it is very little difficulty for any company to make a showing suffi- cient to secure. authority for transacting business in Nebraska, and this report in itself is largely an answer to why such a vrolific lobby of insurance men hang around during the session of the legisla- ture to see to it that no new laws affeot- ing insurance business are enacted. The Nebraska companies wrote over $15,- 000,000 in the year in risks and their losses were comparatively very light, showing that the home companies more :_mm hold their own in active competi- ion. MORE DIVORCES. Two new cases for divorce have been filed in the district court that commence a new list of cases of this character for a future term of court to consider. The first of these cases is Morris vs Morris, Minnie Morris asking a divorce from her husband James, on the ground of re- runad desertion and failure to support her in any manner. The petition recites that they were married in York; that thirty days after marrh*;a she was de- serted by her hushand, who came to Lin- coln, where she followed him. He then emigrated to Omaha and still she pur- sued him, afterward retiring to Lincoln, where she has since resided. The re- creant husband is a barber, and, she as- serts, able to support her., Mrs. Jennie Shellabarger sues for di- vorce from her husband, Samuel Shella- barger, on the grounds of brutal and abusive troatment, by reason of which she 18 in constant fear of bodily harm. The plaintiff represents that she was married at Pretty Prarie,0,and has always conducted herselt as a faithtul, honor- able wife; that her husband on the 16th of April, 1886, procured another person to make indecent propesals to plaintiff during his absence; that these indecent proposals were made that he might have rounds for divorce and that afterward ho has abused her with abusive, obscene and scurrilous language. The plaintiff further recites that they have two child- ren, the c\lsl.od,¥ of whom she prays for, and that the defendant may be made to contribute toward the support of them and this case. PREPARING FOR EXTENSIVE WORK. John Fitzgerald, who is one of the rincipal owners in the West Lincoln wn site and the Nebraska stook yards gompany, it is stated has recently added $8,000 worth of new machinery for the briok yards at that place, and it is the urpose of the proprictors of these yards put them on a footing to manufacture - brick the coming season in quantities pever reached before. This new ma- chinery will S)lnec the yards in which Mr. Fitzgerald is interested second to none in the 8! in capacity, and they will be en- abled, 1f necessary, to manufacture brick enough to A\lpw the entire demand in the city for building purposes. LONG CONSIDERATION, The jury in the case of J. H. Duffey, tried for lorge'r(, were yet out af 8 p. m. oslon‘lu{. having been in the jury room irom that hour the day before. Duffey s charged with being an assistant and partner with the ex-music dealer, Hin- man, in the lorxlngeof notes upon which cash was realized before the work was discovered. Hinman is now serving a sentence in the penitentiary and the trial of Duffey was on four notes given as_ap- ared on their face by parties resident FL ncaster county, but who, upon in- estigation, proved to be flctitious per- an The trial of the case occupied ednesday, and was closely contested. THE NEW DIRECTORY. The gentlemen who are compiling the new oity directory report an excellent patronage in their canvass and they romise as fine an edition as that fur- ished the city the past summer. krom the canvass thus far taken of names the oom| s eslimate that the city will show an increase of 6,000 or 7, the past year. The names in the direotor; at that time denoted a population of 20,000, and an_increase on basis as estimated show for Lincoln a pop- ulation of 85,000 at the present time. There are many citizens who believe these figures too small, ABOUT THE CITY. Work has been resumed by the sewer contractor and the long and diflicult piece of work on Seventh t, adjoining the Burlington & Missouri depot, has been completed. This difficult job was ocoa- sioned by the constant tilling of the trench with water and the entire line of work in that vieinity had to be curbed in its con- struction, The district court was engaged a large part of the day yesterday in trying what mfim be termed a watermelon case, it being an appeal from a justice court of six months ago when venders of this fruit from the country would, tofit‘stlwr with their patrons, block the hli ways and walks in the central part ot the city. President Eagan has called upon all Irish-Americans and the different leagues in the state to render practical assistance to the present struggle in Ireland to mect the evictions set in motion there, Mr. Eagan, as president of the state league, 18 preflnrmu‘w take active steps at once that the territory in his jurisdic- zlxon‘uh‘e“nol backward in their good work T . The real estate trapsfers yesterday tipped the beam at $150,000 and two- thirds of the transfors were secured by g.ll‘llel who are purchasing for homes. 'his character of investments is the best possible index of permanency in pur- chases. ‘The Capitol hotel is hel, out real estate mg by dividing onepélnfilllemth street rooms into desk room for agents and the same are taken with the greatest nvmoltdv. ‘The hotel .ropls have also fenced off a corner in the rotunda of the house where Major N. G. Franklin will open outin the real eatate business. Thcfiund is cleared for the new briek story and basement block that will be erected next to the Windsor hotel on Eleventh street. boom in hand- some blocks seems to be on th street and vicinity, and this is but one of :h:%r lhu‘hw be built upon that e com! A The talk of n new mh agan tovived and it is ung od that with Toper encouragement some capi who intend bullding will so arrange tiieir plans as to make one of ' the most handsome and commodious temples of amuscme y public demo and busine recognition al , without -ydu]nrt- 1a . but the incipient s quickly put out bLefore any was made. Damage nothing. Plserninthbote bia headway T--1 don’t where, T can't tell I don't sce how—something of value to me, and for the return of ¥ hall be truly thankful, viz., a good appetite.” Fousp—"Health and strongth, pure blood, an appetite like that of a wolf, regular digestion, all by ing that pop- ular and peculiar medicine, Hood’s Sar- saparilla, want ev ody to try it this season.” Tt is sold by all druggists. One hundred doses one dollar, Recalling a ¥ Aish Crime, Davip City, Nob., March 11.—To the Editor of the Beg: In the BEg of March hanging of Bridget Durgin, some twenty years ago, under the head of **Barbarity of Hanging,’* which I wish to correct: Bridget g‘)ur‘zm. a large, Irish girl, was in the employ © lace Corriell, of Elizabeth He was a very kind. we man, that believed in doing tc he would be done by, and a man that worsphiped his wife above all carthly accumulations, As a consequence he was very kind to the girl, Bridget, whom he had “successfully nursed through a long sickness, just previous to her crime. Being called away from home one night- witha promise to be back soon, he kissed his wife good-bye, for the last tima. She, supposing he would return soon, was quietly rcalintz on a sofa (being an inva- lid), when Bridget struck her with a chair, and upon her arising hit her and upon her arising stabbed her re- peatedly. She then forced her into a bedroom, when she stabbed her eighteen different times, put her on the bed and set the bed fire; then took Dr. Corriell’s only child, a baby, and went to the neighbors and told them that some men wére there kill- ing Mrs. Corriell. Thiswas at first be- lieved, but an investigation soon proved that Bridget Durgin was the murderer. The doctor on his return was almost frantic with grief, and it was feared for some days that he would lose his reason. He repeatedly stated that a thousand of hangings were not a sufficient punish- ment for the murderess. He never fully recovered to the day of his death the loss of his wife. Before hanging. how ever, Bridget made a .confession, in which she stated that the doctor had been 80 good to her that she thought that i1f his wife was out of the way he would marry her. As for his beinf criminally asso- ciated with Bridget Durgin, it is false. No purer or better man ever lived than Dr. Wallace Corriell. - He was a man that looked to God first and home and family next, He was born and brought up side by side with my father, of whom he was a cousin, his wife also being a cousin to me, end being very intimate with them at the time of the tragedy, I know whereof I speak, Eb. L. RUNYoN, ———— The Ruddy River of life is the blood. From it the system receives all its material of growth and repair. It bathes every tissue of the body, How necessary, then, that the blood should be kept pure and rich. Dr. Pierce's “‘Golden Medical Discovery’’ 18 the great blood food and blood purifier. It is a soyereign remedy for all diseases due to impoverished "blood, consump- vion, bronchitis, weak lungs, scrofula, infliezna, and kindred diseases, e PRESIDENT POLK'S BROTHER. A Military Oficer Who Performed His Duty by Proxy. ‘Washington Post: “There were many peculiar charaoters in the Mexican war,” said General Viele, the other day, while strolling thronzht\n loboy of the house during recess. *'I remember Major Wil- liam H. Polk was one of them. ou re- colleot that at that time his brother was the president of the United States, and he himself haa been scnt as minister to Nu(rlau, and had resigned to come home and enter the service inst Mexico. He was a jocose fellow, full of humor and anecdotes. He used to say: ‘The reason my brother sent me as minister to Naples was because 80 many of the other minis- ters who had been sent there came back with disease of the spine, induced by their efforts to rival the politeness of the king, I hadn't been there sixty days be- {’urek{‘put the king to bed with a broken ac “When Major Polk arrived at his head- quarters in Mexico he knew nothing whatever of military matters. He was ordered to take command of a regiment of which 1 was adjutant. Before doing 80 he got a friend to write out all the or- ders would have to give. When he appeared upon the scene he called out to the orderly to send the adjutant to him. ‘Here are my orders,’ said Polk, hmdin; them over to me; ‘have them published! Thg{ were r\lblhhml aoccordingly. *‘The next day Major Polk was ordered ron, He said to me: ‘My wish to put it on. Give the order to put the squadron in motion.’ I did so. ‘Continue to give orders, sir!’ shofited the major. e next day he began to read up on military tactics. He read the first page and took a drink. Then he read the_second page and took another drink. Finally he tarew down th k and exclaimed: utant Viele, [ don't know a d—d thing about it. My brother is president of the United States. You stick by mo and tell me what to do, and I'll see that you get quick promotion!" ‘It is needless to add that [ stuck tp the brother of the president.’’ —_— Sickness comes uninvited, and strong men and women are forced to emnlo{ means to restore their health and strengt the most successful of all known reme- dies for weakness, the origin of all dis- ense, is Dr. J, H. MoLean's Strengthen- ing Cordial and Blood Purifier, e edd AR Editor Burke's Estate, Washington Herald: Major E. A. Burke, of the New Orleans Times-Demo- crat, has just been given an estate in Honduras that will make him one of the largest landed proprietors in the world. It 18 180 miles long and, as nearly as can be determined, 100 miles wide. "In this enormous area isincluded a famous gold- bearing district that two centuries ago was one of the richest known to the Spanish crown. This splendid gift is not onB’ exempt from thxation but from all dutles, export or import, upon anything its proprietor may wish to bring into the country, and all persons employed or living upon it are exempt from military duty, and these exceptions, like the fnnt. are perpetual. Burke certainly is n great luck. Ho will take possession of his new principality at once and ?ro- ceed to develop it. [n gold, fine tropical woods and fruits its capacities are simply illimitable. e Rapid Cabling. An instance of rapid telegraph and oable service is reported in the San Fran- cisco Chronicle. Un Tuesday at 8 p. m. the operator at 8an Francisco received a uh‘la nu-f:‘l’ot“\ 'okoh lmal,“ on the nex P, m, onty. four hours later, he had the 3 measage of course went to New York, thende to London and by the Suez cable to China and Japan. —————— 1e Extreme Cold Wea to form a spur is off; Col 's pertectly pure superfine Tandard, " . - COLORADO LAND LEASES, Nebraska Parties Who are Engaged in Quecr Speculation, Annron, Col,, March 0.—[Correspond- of the Brg.]-T raska law gives the holder of a school lease not to exceed 640 acres, the absolute right to r twenty-f ars upon sement is yo e holder of the lease has the further privilege of having the land appraised for purchase at any time, and buying the same at the appraised value, not less than $7 per and the ce at the end of twenty years at 6 percent interest, The eastern part of Colorado is geographicaily but a con- of the plains of weste Kan- sas and Nebraska and the Nebraska set- tlers taking up lands in Colorado do not realize that Colorado, having been thus far & mining, stock and irrigation state, lins very different laws from Nobraska, 3 rds roads,new counties, ws, ete ‘The Colorado law concerning school lands is in substance as follows: ARTICLE IV, 2175 Section 1, The state board of land commissioners may, from timo to time, di- rect the sale of lands, belonging to the state and not otherwise directed to be disposed of, At public auetion.1n suh parcels as thay shall deem most for the interest of the state,but not more than 40,000 acres shall besold at any one auction and each lot of 160 acres shall be separately exposed to sale. Not more than 160 acres “shall be sold to any one person, ex- cept as provided in section 22 of this article. [Section 22 provides for sales to colonies, or to ditch companles with reservation to the tate of every alternate halt section. | 5 Section 21 I'he state board ‘of land commissioners shall have the power to lease the school and university lands of the state ata rate not less that 10 per annum, payable inadvance, on the appraised value, and shall require of the lessee such a bond as shall se~ sure the state from loss or waste, 2108 Sec, 24. Whenever ten householders of any organized scheol district in which the land i8 sitnated shall petition the state board to expose to sale any portion of said lands, deseribing the same, the state board shall direct the county commissioners of the county to cause tlie same to be appraised by three disinterested householders, each legal subdivision being appraised separately at its real value. . . . . 2100 Sec. 35, The county clerk shall im- mediately file the said apportlonment and appraisement in his office. . All sehool lands known as sections 16 and 536 shall be exposed to sale to the highest bidder at the county seat in the county where such lands are situated. The board of land eommissioners shall direct the county school superintendent to sell such lands and give notice of such sale as provided in this act. . . . 2177 Sec, 3, The amount of purchase money atthe time of sale shall In no case be less than 50 per cent of the whole purchase money. 2170 oo, 5. Within forty-elght hours fter each sale the purchaser shall pay to state treasurer the first payment aud execute a penal obligation for the payment of the bal- ance inseven equal annual payments with interest at the rate of 7 per cent. band of speculators from Lincoln, York and other Nebraska points lease: large tracts of Colorado school lands about August, 1885, and banking on the ignorance of the Nebraska farmers have sold and traded them these worthless leases, which cost an average of $32 a section, for sums varying from $400 to $1,000 per section. The speculation is a pure swindle, and the purchasers have in no case got value recerved. The lease must be accompanied by a bond, ap- roved and ancepted by the state author- ties, The assignee of the lease in many cases must execute a new bond, as the original lessee carefully erases the clause which continues his liability. The happy purchaser has obtained what? The priv- 1lege of paying 10 per cent annually on the appraised value of the land for five years. At the end of that time any one procuring the proper petition can call for an appraisement and sale of the land, and at such sale the holder of the lease has no prior rights. or privileges whatever, except that of receiving compensation for his 1mprove- ments, and breaking the land is not con- sidered a valusble improvement in the grasping state of Colorado. The lessee has paid a bonus of $400 to $1,000 for his lease, has been put under heavy bonds, has paid a year for five {unrs, and at the sud of that time ma be compelled to px\‘r thirty per cent. casl of eight to twelve dollars an acre or for- feit all that he has already paid, his ri- val biaders being able to afford in over- bidding him the full amount that he has nlren:ly sunk in his bonus and interest. It is almost incredible that dupes could be found to buy under these circum- stances, but nevertheless the Lincoln and York firms have succeeded in disposing of nearly all their leases. E. iy Grand 1sland Notes, GRrAND IsLAND, March 17.—[Corres- vondence of the BEE.]—Work has been commenced on the Williams & Kerr block. The contract was made with Kelly & Co. to erect the same for $16,700. This is exclusive of toundation and heat- ing. Parties have been negotiation for the site of the Schaupp’s mills, with a view to rebuilding the same the present season. If they conclude to build it the same sise as the old mill it will be a $72,000 dlant. We are informed Mr. Schaupp will be en- aged to manage them. Prices in real estate are advancing and many of the finer locations in the imme- diate vicinity of the city are being taken at prices largely in advance of last year. A business lot on Second street was" sold the last of the week for $4,500. As thisis not the principal street it indicates that efforts will be made to draw some busi- ness from the main thoroughfare of the town, Stehr brothers are excavating for a two-story brick butcher shop on Fourth street near Brogden's grocery store on the nortn side. The D. W. Archer canning factory will commence operations in a few days for the erection of a very large brick build- ing for their business that is to be an ex- acts duplicate of their Council Bluffs WOrks, The site of the soldier’'s home has not yet been determimed upon but it has simmered down to one of three locations. ‘The committee will go to Lincoln to-day to confer with the state commissioners. The BEST Accident Insurance. The Old Reliable United States Mutual Accident Association, 1320 and 322 Broad- way, New York. Time Tried and Prov- ed. Ten Years of Suc- cess. Unrivalled for Prompt and Equit- able Settlement of Claims. Over a MILLICN DOLLARS PAID IN LOSSES. No losses due and un- paid. Over 35,000 Leading BUSINESS and PROFESSIONAL Men are members. NEW FEATURES: $10,000 Death by Accident. $10,000 Lossof Both Hands. ‘$10,000 “ Both Feet. 10,000 “ Hand & Foot. $5,000 “ Hand orFoot. $5,000 “ Both Eyes. $1,300 “ One Eye. $2,500 Permanent Total Disability. $50a Week Temporary Total Disability. These amounts of In- demnity are provided by the Policies of the United States Mutual Accident Association, 320 and 322 Broadway, N.Y,, at a cost to membersin the preferred occu- pations, of about $26 a year, which may be made in one payment orininstalments. One- half or one-quarter of above insurance at proportionate rates. Membership Fee, $5 foreach $5,000 Policy.- CHARLES B. PEET, President. JAMES R. PITCHER, Sec. & Gren. Manager. WIRE GAUZE OVEN DCOR 18 THE LATEST IMPROVEMENT ON THE stical Rosults fn Baking and gt s nmxnfi‘&h_m__"'s it IS ORY ion LMD FOR ILLOSTRATED GIRGULARD AND PRICE LIST EXCELSIOR MAKF'G €0., ST.LOUIS. CHARTER OAK BT d RANGES are SOLD IN NEBR. a8 follows: HADRON, “CoLumsus. 1887 Spring Valley Stock Farm. 1887, OMAHA, NEB. George Wilkeg 510, Record 2:22. Measured by 2:20, the 2:25 and the 3:3) stand Ard; was the greaicet that ever lived. Having Bow 8 sona and daughters la tho 2:3) List dowa ?ho on?y' son of George Wilkes in the State of Nobraska. 85641 Black Wilkes 3541 Standard. Wilkes 619; lst dam Fanoy n brother sdyk's season, Vitae 0 21: wice, with priv! of return should mares not prove in foal. ited to 30 mares besides my own. Season commences Febh. lst and ends . For furthor parsioulars send et T X N. I. D, SOLOMON. F“. s‘LE .j?,:,";‘!fi' x?&' stailions, G e e 27 of SURE PROF THOMASON & GOOS ADDITION Lies j outh of Hanscom Park,only 2 miles from the court house, orlxel?i']gulfg,rsld sightly ground. 176 beautiful residence lots. 1LOTS SOL.D. Events are shafii‘ng that will make these lots an investment 27 $800 to $1,000 will Buy Lots Now, but one Year from Today You will Pay $1,800 $2,000 and $2,500 for Them th 0 we told you there was big money in SOUTH OMAHA Ter;ozgg?w.s’?gu were skey tical and waited, and what did you miss? ome people say, dogs. pIts’.p *Oh!its all luck. this making money.” Luck to the Foresight, Judgment and dand. These are the elements that go to make up the sum of prosperity. Take a square look at the case of Thomason & Goos’ addition, who own the 600 acres adjoining it on the south. A RICH AND POWERFUL SYNDICATE ‘Who, without a%xlfurther effort, could peddle it outin the next years for ONE LLION DOLLARS. D enough to do this?, No! They will either Do you bl Ewo ose they are Idio or subscribe to CABLE LINE and realize three millions from it. TXAKE & TUMBLEK!I M. A. UPTON & CO. Pharcmacy Building, South Omaha and 1509 Farnam, Telephone 73 PULLMAN PLACE - FREE TRAI PULLMAN PLACE! SATURDAY, MARCH 19th Pullman Place s===es=wowews i) FOR SOUTH OMARA PULLMANPLACE AFree Train, a FreeRide for Everybody. Saturduy, March 10th, at precisely 10:80 o'clock a. m., a free train will leave the B. & M. passenger depot and stop in exactly eight minutes after leaving depot at Omaha's new suburban dition, “PULLMAN PLACE."” The B. & M.’s Ashland cut-off runs di- rwdz througl 'ullman Place'’ near the South Omaha packing houses; and the U. P. R. R. runs east of it, thus placing this addition between these two immonse trunk lines of railway. 1n order to give home-seekers and speculators an oppor- tunity of viewing what is bound to be the “King Bee" tion to Omaha and South Omaha, we have chartered a special train of six coaches which will be run to and from “PuLLwAN Prace" Frex or CHARGE on the date above mentioned. The price on Pullman Place lots are low and terms elw. being 1-5 cash and balance to suit. e do not ask you to buy a lot unless you think it is money in your ket to do 80, but we are bound to all & chance to soe this splendid addition FreE. Come everybody, bring your families and take a spring airing. Remember the dute, Saturday, March 19. Free train leaves promptly at 10:30 o'clook, a. m. GIBSON, AYLESWORTH & BENJAMIN. 1512 Farnam Street. Your “Tansil's Punch” 60 eigar is glving 00d satisfaction; the boys are ‘‘catohing on.' ALVORD & FORKER, Drnggists, Eidora, Ia. “Tansill's Punon' {8 the vest cigar we have evers old for .3. mones %’ Lirrran & Co., Nooshs, Mo, ADDRESS, A. W. TANSILL & CO., CHICAR PULLMAN PLACE FREE TRAIN. PULLMAN PLACE . SATURDAY, MARCH 19th Pullman Place The C. E. Mayne Real Estate and Trust Co. 4 N. W. OOR, 156th AND HARNEY, OMAHA, Property of every desoription for sale 1n all parts of the city. Lands for ‘sale in every county in Nebrasks, A COMPLETE SET OF ABSTRACTS O1 Tities of Douglas county kept. Ma rmation red furnished free ByDr. Snediker's method, No operation: No Patn; No Detention from busiaees. Adated to ohlidren swoll as grown people. Eundreds of timonlals on @le. _All businoss strictly confide tal, CONSULTATION FRES. PROF. N. D. COOK, Room 6, 1514 Douglas St., Omaha, Neb. NS of the city state or county, or any othor charge upon application. T v C.S. RAYMOND, RELIABLE JEWELER, Watches, Diamonds, Fine Ji ewelry. ol:.pr...lfi" a spacialty. makor for the Union Paocifio Bauroad s muaas, The iargest stook. Prices the lowest. od. Corner llwilu snd 15th Licensad Watgl Silverware orkwarran