Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 8, 1887, Page 5

) THEY WANT THE MILWAUKEE Lincoln Oitisens Will Make an Effort to Becure It. THE RAPID TRANSIT RAILWAY. It Will Probably be in Operation by September 1—Humphrey Bros.' Block is Rebullding—Base Ball—Crop Prospects. [FROM THE BEE'S LINCOLN BUREAU.] “What Lincoln needs in the railroad line,” said a capitalist of tho city as he fanned himself yesterday in the shade of the Capital hotel, “is the Milwaukee road from its present terminus at Council Bluffsand Omaha.” His emphatic ex- pression was warmly seconded by others and the question of what it would cost to get the road was atonce taken up. The first practical business work of the board of trade has been the raising tof a handsoine sum of money to secure new industries and the hope that ischaracter- istio of the Lincoln man was revived yes- torday when the report was circulated that Armour was not yet permancntly located at Omaha. In nogotiations for Armour heretofore it was very plainly developed to Lincoln men who were en- goged n the negotiations, that Mr. Ar- mour and the Milwakeo & St. Paul road were so far inseperable that the two would need to be brought to Lincoln to- gether, There is no doubt but that ne- gotiations will be opened looking toward securing the Milwaukee road and the Lhis city would undoubted] ncidl outlay with that en i endorse a fin in view. THE RAPID TRANSIT RATLWAY. Work has been pushed with energy the vast month on the rapid transit street railway, afid as a result the track js noarly completed to West Lincoln, The work, both in the grading and laying of the track, has been done thoroughly and Wwell, anc the track is regarded first claes. The line goes out Fourteenth street to the state fair grounds and the corner of Yolande Place, thence turns westward to West Lincoln. It was and is vet the in- tention of the stockholders of this line to operate it with electric motors, but they are not yet entirely satistied that the mo- tors are perfected to the extent that they are wholly reliable and certain at all times and in all weather. For the pres- ent, therefore, while the success of the electric motor is being tested in other cities, the rapid transit company in Lin- coln will operate 1ts line with steam mo- tors. These motors are built in the end of the car and are operated with com- pressed steam, noiseless, and, using hard coal for fuel, will be practically smoke- less. Three of taese combined cars and motors are now on the road, and the company cxsnect by the 1st of September to huve regular cars running between the city and West Lincoln. THE WORK OF REBUILDING. Humphrey Bros., who had the exton- sive fire in their block on the corner ot O and Ninth strects have had the loss on the building adjusted by the companies and the work of tearing down the walls of the upperstories is in progress. The building will be rebuilt practically as it wus before the fire, nlthoutzh the owners have been the recipients of many sugges- tions to aad an additional story. On their stock ofgoods the adjusters have not yet settled the loss and there seems to be a great deal of unnecessrry delay on the rarm of the companies in shoving down he loss for their benefit. B BALL. ¢ The coming week promises to be ex- ceedingly interesting in base ball circles and especially will it be true when “the three games between Lincoln and Topeka are played, To-day, Tuesday and Wednesday the Witchita club hold forth at the park and the boys of the Lincoln club need the threo straight games, then when Topeka visits the city on Fri- day and Saturday and the Monday fol- lowing the thg of war will be on for#the mant -in the Western league. be defeat of Topeka n two out of three Hastings games has been 1o{ously received in Lincoln when “the Topeka contest arrives it will be astrugele for seats and ad- mission to the grounds that will be par- ticivated in by numerous visitors from other towns in the state who have caught the fever and want to see the capital of Nebraska down the capital of Kansas. From parties in Lincoln yesterday from Hastings 1t is announced "that large dele- gations will come from that place to see the contest, while Crete, Fairmont, and other points will swell the contingent. A ceneral toj of conversation in base ball cirel sterday was the question of tho Topeka-Omahn games that will be watched with much interest. BETTER PROSPECTS. From a vrominent grain man, whose business takes him in all localities in the state, the BEE learns that corn prospects are by ro means as poor as they have been painted. There are localities, ac- cording to the information received, where the crop will be vur{ light, but the localities are few. Two-thirds of a crop is regarded as a certainty in the South Platte country entire, and the recent heavy rains that were very general throughout central and eastern Nebraska it is thought will materially improve these figures. There is but one opinion m regard to the North Platte country, and that is that the crop will be above the average. BRIEF ITEMS, A man named Levett was arrested Sat- urday might charged with passing forged checks, The extent of work done in this line i3 not yet manifest but several firms have cashed them and on_examna- tion to-day will disclose particfilars. If any think the series of band concerts at the government square are not appre- ciated they should view the crowds that congregate evenings when the concerts are given. On Saturday evening not less than two thousund people gathered ut the square and the streets on two sides were lined with vehicles and all attentive listeners. T'he paving contractors are still held hack from rapid work owing to their inability to get the stone that the council require for guttering. Some dozen cars however arrived last week and it1s ex- pected to have a supply suflicient at an early day. Their cedar posts for blocks are all on hand for both paving districts. Governor Thayer will go to Creighton and other points in northern Nebraska the coming week to accept urgent invi- tauons from peaple there. The governor ept busy accepting invitations, and ke s endeavoring to accept all when they do not contlict with necessury business. ‘C'he state o1l inspector has his report of the first month's work nearly ready, and 1t will show active timeswith the inspector nad his deputies. Deacon Richard Thompson of the Has- tings Democrat was in Lincoln passing Sunday in the solemnity that a reform democratic administration gi acity. Mr. Thompson seemed to enjoy the spirit of the day. An alarm of fire called out the fire de- partment late Saturday night. The flames were found in a shed in the north part of the city and were speedily extin. guished. The parties brought from Omaha by Deputy Sheriff Fowler on charge of bur- glary did not have thelr examination compbleted Saturday, and it will be con- tinued to-day. e ‘Walking advertisements for Dr. Sage's Catarrh remedy are the it has wred. NO INDIAN OUTBREAK. hat a Son of Agent Sheehan Knows of the Milie Lace, St. Paul Globe: Jeremiah Sheehan, son of the Indian agent at White Earth ' res- ervation, and for many years in charge of the government schoois for the educa- tion of the Indians, is in St. Paul, where he has recently engaged in the practice of iaw. Yesterday morning he reccived a letter from his father in which the sen- sational reports of an uprising among the Mille Lacs at the agency were de- nounced as utterly without foundation. It was true that three Indians were killed in & brawl among themselves, superinduced by the presence of whisky given them by white men, belonging in the vicinity “of Brainerd. There are now in the fields picking blueberries about 500 men, women and children of the Chippewas, and their operations ex- tend some distauce beyond Brainerd. “‘An Indian,” said Mr, Sheehan, “will do anything for whisky, and unscrupu- lous white men go among them, and discovering that they have picked several baskets of the choicest blueberries that come to the market, immediately offer a bottle of whisky for the berries” and in nearly every instance the proposition is aceepted, the berries are taken away by the whites, crated and shipped from Brainerd to pomnts of consumption, It was such an agency that brought about a fight between the Indians, for the Chip- pewas pride themselves upon not fighting with the whites, although they do like an oceasional skirmish with the Sionx. So far as any grievance is concerned against the wi that would LEAD TO OUTBREAK, there is rote slightest apprehension at the agency, for the Indians are coms pletely undor the control of my father and his force of police. Ever since the visit of the commission, headed by lilsho{; Whipnple, the White Earth Indians have been waiting patiently for the con- summation of arrangements by which they are to be consoldated and located at White Earth, cmhn‘g to the govern- ment 3,200,000 acres of land ownedj by them at Red Lake. Atall times the In- dians are docile and quiet and not in- clined to rlulrrol with the agent or any of the oflicials at the reservation. But when whisky is introduced among them by unprincipled white men from seltish notions, then trotible begins, and this ovil 18 the most crying one that the gov- ernment has to contend with. Despite the vigilance of the Indian police, fire- water is introduced among the savages, and as there are 6,000 of them at the White Earth reservation, it is a diflicult matter to keep a watch on all of them.” *‘For the information of the people of Minnesota and the United States,” con- tinued Mr. Sheehan, “I will say that an uprising is an impossibility among a peo- rlu whose principal ambition is to emu- ate the example and live like white peo- ple, and there is no more danger of an outbreak among the Chippewas to-day than there would be among an equal number of our race."” o SR Complexion Powder 18 an absolute necessity ot the retined toilet in this cli- mate. Pozzoni’s combines every element of beauty and purity. REAL TATE. Tranefers Filed August 5, 1887, \vi(:: to Charles F Manderson and 1,000 1 wife to Teresa Kuhn, east 25 feet of west 75 feet, 13-14-79, South Omaha, wd.... 1,250 Felix Lofeirt and wife to 11> Davis, lots 1and 2 blk 84, South Omaha, WAL ST e o .. 8,600 George H Boggs wife to Simpson Stout, lot 17 bik 25, George I Boggy' add, wd.. William Lat { t M Thompson et al, lot 3 in Latey’s sub divin Ko)serx' add, wd.... 2,750 Joseph R Reid and wife to Conrad Mavel et al, nig of s3¢ of nel of sec 26-1512, wd.. ..., Levesiees 4,000 Joseph Barker and wife to Peter Sam- land, lot 3, Forbes’ subdiy of sec 34 1818, wd........... . 500 J 14_Abbott and wife to Thomas C Pello, lot 7, block 4, Belvidere. wd.. 490 George F Barker and wife to Alexan- ander H Baker, lot 21, block 11, Or- chard Hill, wd........ 550 A Benson (trustee) to Augustus 280 Brown, lot 18, block 18, Benson, w d. James M Swetman and others to James Conway, lots 85, 36, 3 Vinton Place, wd....... Luther A Harmon and others I W lock 2, Creston, Bryant, lots 7ands, bl Wd...... . 2,300 Edward G M 9 Brown, lot 11, block 1, Saunders & Himebaugh’s add, w d..... ... 1,500 Lena Quick and husband to Aslack Olsus, lot 12, block 408, Grand Yiew, wd...... vieseares seness o 1,200 Paul Waach and wife to Jacob W ther, 650 feet of 1 acre innw!{, 34, 15, 1B,wd.... 500 Jacob Walther and wife to Henry Lud- wick, 25x145 2-10 feet in nwlg, 34, 15, 18, w . e 200 Otto Loosch and witeto A W Nickoll, lot 7 blk 6, Lincoln place, wd....,.. 425 Frederick H Davis to Jens Jensen, lot 4 83, Fairmont add, wd.. . 650 Paul Waack and wife to’ Joseph 'K tenarcher, part of lot 27 in sw !4 of nw i 84-15-18, w d . Jehu H Hungate. tru Neils, lots 13 and 14, place, w Douglas cou 1and 2 blk 9, Douglas add, wd ..., Sigmund Altshuler et al to Rachel RRobinson,s 20 teet lot 12 bik 80,South Omaha, w d Margaret Alsth s0n, south 20 feet of lot 12 blk 80, South Omaha, W d.........ooee.ses 5 1 Joun fl Levy to James 'McCrea, iots 21 and 22 bik 6, Summit add, wd... 1,600 James McCrea and wife to John H Levy, lot7 blk 10, Improvement association add, wd ................ 8300 John Ledwick et al to_Aldurk Riley, lots 9 and 10 blk 7, Kilby place,w d 8,700 Twen ty-six transfers, azgregating $42,101. Thousands of men in Kentucky have stead- ily refrained from voting since the war. Prejudice azainst the name of republicans, brought down from the days of slavery, and @ hatred of democracy inheritnd from the era of whig supremacy in Kentucky have been equally balanced forces that kept them at home, 1ts suporfor excellence proven in millions of homes for more than a guarter of a 1t is used by the Uni Endorsed by the huads of the Great Uni: xl, e Ia: arougal" Purest and Most Heall L' Dr. Prioé’s the only Baking Powder that §ogs 3ot coutala Ammonis, Lime, or Atum. only in cans. 'RICE BAMING POWDER CO., NEW YORK CHICAGO. 7. LOUIs. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: A TRAGEDY OF OLDEN TINES An Almost Forgotten Mutiny and Murder «at Seas STRUNG AT THE YARDARM, A Midshipman in the Aair—-Captain Mackenzie's Revenge on the Secretary of the Navy— Hanging His Son, On the 14th of December, 1842, the United States brig somers, Captain Alex- ander Slidell Mackenzie, arrived at the Brooklyn navy yard from the coast of Africa. She had sailed from New York on the 13th of September of the same year, with dispatches for the squadron at that station, and left Cape Mesurado on the 10th of November on her home- ward voyage- Upon her arrival in New York it was noticed that but little com- munication was held with the shore and that upon the same day an officer from on board left .for washington. Soon a rumor grew intd certainty that upen the homeward voyage of Philip Spencer, a midshipman and s son of John Canfield Spencer, the then secretary of war; Sam- uel Cromwell, the acting boatswain of the ship, and Elisy Siith, a seaman, had been hanged at the yardarm for mutiny. Captain Mackenzie, through his influ- ence in the navy, he being connected by marriage with the Perrys, and the rall ing of the commercial clas: ever ten- der on the subject of mutiny and having no feeling against a captain either in the mereantile or government marine in his favor, had for a while the press of the metropolis in his favor. He asked for a court of inquiry, which, composed of three senior 1ins_in the navy, found on the 19th of July, 1842, that hé and his officers were completely justified acts which resulted 1n_the execution. Then came a reaction, The papers con- nected with the political party of which Secretary Spencer was a representative, demanded a further investigation, claim- ing that the court of inquiry was packed for an acquittal, and boldly acoused the commaunder of the Somers of murder, and the partisan press on the other side were as bitter in his defense. Finally a court martial was ordered by Secretary Upshur, of the navy, and begah its ses- sions on the United States” ship North Carolina on February 1, 1843, and con- tinued in gession forty days,during which time nearly every man and boy on board of the brig from "the commander down was examined under cath. The charges against Captain MacKenzie were murder on the high seas of the men named, of in- sulting and taunting Spencer when about to be exeouted and of inflicling cruel and unuasual punishment upon others of the crew. The court was composed of eleven post captains and two commande Be- fore the examination of witnesses began Benjamin F. Butler, attorney-general of the United States under General Jackson, and Charles O'Conor,of New York, asked permission of the court to appear on be- half of the relatives of Mr. Spencer. This was refused. THE STORY OF THE TRAGEDY. The testimony before the court-mar- tial, which appears to have been fairly conducted, whatever may be the opinion as to its result, established these facts: The Somers was a brig-rigged, double- decked veseel, of 208 tons, picrced for fourteen guns but earrying only ten 32-pound carronades, and manned” with a crew of 120, including officers, the ma- jority of the foremastmiea being appren- tices under the age of twenty. Spencer, who ‘was not quite twenty years old, and who appears to have taken pains to make himself a favorite with the crew by distribution of cigars, tobacco and money, on the evening of the 25th of November called J. W. Wales, the purser's steward, forward, and then, according to the latter’s testimony he- fore the court-martial, said to him: *Do you fear death? Are you afraid of a dead person? Dare pou kill a person?’ Wales having answered that he would not hesitate to kill if circumstances de- manded, Spencer then, after swusring him to secrecy, told him that there were twenty of the ship’s company besides 8pencer, who had agreed to murder the ship's officers and take the brig and begin pirating; that the affray was to begin some night when he (Spencer) had the middle watch; that there was to be a scuffle i the forecastle and that he would bring the men to the mast and call Mr, Rogors, the ofticer of the deck in that watch, and as soon as he got to the gang- way he was to be thrown overboard; that the mutineers would then station them- selves at the hatches to keep any one from coming on deck,he in the meantime arming them from the arm chests on the quarter deck, of which he had a key; tlhm hé would then go into the cabin aud murder the commander and then, with some of his men, go into the ward room and murder the other officers; that hoe would then have two guns strewed around 80 as to command the deck, call the whole crew up, select such men as he wanted and have the rest thrown over- board; then clear the deck of spare spars ana rigging and of the launch, expecting to get these when necessary from cap- tured vessels, and sail for Cape St. An- tonio or the Isle of Pines, where a man would be taken on board familiar with the business; then cruize for prizes: when a vessel was taken murder all hands and sink her after taking out what was valuable and if women were on board to take them for the use of the ofticers and'men and when tired of them make way with them. The conversation with Spencer, Wales testitied, lasted nearly two hours and before it ended Spencer called Small to him and told him that Wales was all right and one of them mull Small appeared to be much pleased at this. The only corroboration before the court-martial of the testimony of Wales was thut of seamen who saw him and Spencer and Small in conversation on 'HE CONSPIRACY REVEALED, Late on that evening Wales communi- cated the story to the purser who man- aged through the ship's lieutenant to get it to Captain Mackenzie's ear the same night. At evening quarters on the 26th Spencer, while aft, was disarmed, double-ironed and handeutted and placed upon the port arm chest, and Small double-ironed and handeuffed and put upon the starboard arm chest, where both remained until their execution. On the following day Cromwell was ironed and put in confinement, On the 30th of November Captain Mage- kenzie addressed a letcer to each of the following ofticers: Lieutenant Guest Gansevoort, Assistant Surgeon R. W, Lacock, Purser H, M. Hieskell, Acting Master McPerry and Midshipmen Harry Rnglurs, Egant Thompson and Charles W, hf'u' asking their opinion as to what should be done with the prisoners in view of the probable extent of the con- -Kincyw seize the brig. On this day these officers sat from9a. m.to 6 p. m examining witnesses, thirteen in all, to the matter, Captain Mackenzie and the three acting midshipmen on board having charge of the deck, and on the following morning, December 1, ad- dressed to their commander a communi- ‘cation, signed by all, in which it was suid that “the safety of the public prop- erty, the lives of themselves and of those committed to their charge, requires that, giving them suflicient time to prepare for death, the prisoners should be put to death.” Within an hour all three were swinging at the yard arms. CONFESSION AND EXEOUTION, The testimony 1s overwhelming that Speucer ob the morning of his execution, MONDAY. AUGUST 8, 1 and even on the day before, - tully con. fessed his intended crime, and that Small made u like confession. But Spencer died protesting Cromwell's innocence and Small said nothing to implieate him, Cromwell, too, maintsined his innocence to the last, There is not one tittle of evi- dence agzainst tais unfortunate man do- veloped in all the forty days of testimony before the court-martial. "He was simply hanged on general principles. He was a first-class sailor, was intimate with Spen- cer, had been heard to curse the captain and the ship, aside, was holieved to have been a slaver or u pirite before, and the captain got it into his Head that he was “ml soul of the mutiny and Spencer his tool. Spencer asked for more time to pre- pare for death, and, this denied, berzwl to beshot. The taunting of the d 'fi"fi man with which Mackenzie was charge was in saying to him when he begged for time and life that “if he wus taken home his father's political mfluence would save him, and therefore it wus better to hang him now.” Mackenzie expiained to the court-martial that he simply said to him that “his father would be better served if he was now hanged instead of being brought home'—a distinction hard to understand. The men were hanged in irons. Caps were drawn over their eyes. None showed signs’ of weakness when the time arrived. Two whips were rigged to the starboard yard arm for Cromwell and Small and one to the port for Spen- cer, all manned by the entire ship’s com- pany, with the oflicers each with a brace of pistols ready to shoot the first man who failed to pull. The flag was run to the masthead, a gun fired, and in an in- stant the three men were chock-a-block, spinning and writhing in their death agonies. Then Captain Mackenzie de- livered un oration on the heinousness of mutiny, after which he calied for three cheers for the flag, wiich the cowed crew gave .with a will, and were then piped down to dinner. The bodies swung aloft for an hour and were then lowered and buried at sundown. The remuins of Cromwell and Small were sew, their hammocks with shot at their feet. A coflin was improvised for Spencer out of two men's chests, and this loaded with shot was with that of the other two launched into the ses HANGED WITHOUT A TRIAL. The m harges upon which Macken- zie was tried before a_court-martial was that of the murder of these three men, based upon the undenied fact that they were never furnished with any charges or specilication of the crime, nor any in- vestigation a8 to their guilt, The only answer to this, and the one that caused the acquittal of Mac- kenzie, was that the intended mutiny was proved by the confes- sion of Spencer and Small; 3hat how far it it had spread among the crew it was impossible to determine, and that the only safety of the ship was the terror inflicted upon the other conspirators by the speedy death of the principals, and this seoms to have overcome in the minds of the court-martial the effects of the fact that the brig, when the, execution took vlace, was within but a few days sail of home, and that four seaimen who were put under arrest on the day ot the execus tion were brought hom¢ and then dis- charged without trial. " ' Jumes Fennimore Cdoper, the histor- 1an of the United Stiates navy, euds a long and_exhaustive but rather 'tedious review of the court-jartial in these words, alluding to the _exccution: *‘God alone can see how a sellish fecling was mixed up with the mistakes of the ter- rible transaction. The act was unques- tionably one of high moral courage, one of the ‘basest cowardice, one of deep guilt or one of lamentable deficiency of judgment.” Mackenzie, after distinguishing him- self in the navy durihg the war with Mexico) returned to his country seat in Tarrytown, N. Y., where he broke his neck by a fall from his horse in 1818, He was a brother of John Slidell, who, with Mason of Virginia, represented the con- federacy in France during the war of the rebellion. The brig Somers was lost during a storm, with nearly all on board, off Vera Cruz in 184 n pree ot A Perllous Postponement, To postpone, when the duty for imme- diate action 18 clear, is always unwise. Especially 15 it so when increasing ill health calls for a resort to medication. Diseases of the kidneys and bladder are often of swift growth—always of fatal tendency if not combatted at “the outset. Wo have all—even those of us who are not remarkably well instructed—heard something of “the danger attending Bright's disease, diabetes, and other dis - eases of the kidney and bladder. one be foolhurdy enough to procrasti- nate if he perceive the renal organs to be inactive. ~ Hostetter's Stomach Bitters are peculiarly adapted to overcome this inaction, to sufliciently stinfulate, with- out exciting the kidneys and bladder, Intinitely is this dinretic to be preferred to the impure and fiery stimulants ot commerce, which proyes to be the bane of unwury persons with a tendency to renal troubles, They are li e i comparable for dyspepsia, deblity, fo and ague, and biliousness. ‘Where They Were Born, San Francisco Chronicle: Some time after the war General Crittenaen met three ex-confederate officers at dinner, and they became yery friendly. “Major,"” said General Crittenden to one of them, *““where were you born?'’ ““Well," said the major, getting a little red, *I was born, sir, in Nantucket, Miss., but you see I lived ten years in the south, and I married a southern lady, and, as all my interests were in the south, of course I fought for them.” “‘And where were yoa born?" he asked the second. = “‘Well, sir, I was born in Nantucket, Mass., but I'd ived 1n_the south twenty years, and of course —" *'1see,” said the general, turning to the third. ‘‘Colonel, where were you born¥" ‘I was born in Nantucket, Mass., too, hu(ll'u been thirty years in the south and—" “That's curious, isn’t it?" ““Tell me general,” said one of them, “where were you bornt" “Well, I was born 1q Huntwell, Ala., but I lived in the nnr%n for many ycars and I fought for the Union.” e Spinal Weakness an® Lung Troubles, 56 PraNce Streey, NEW Your, March 25, 1834 Having been troubled with pains in back and chest during the last winter I was compelled to remain av home unable to attend to business, until I was advised by u friend to try one of ALLcOCK'S POR- 0Us PLASTERS. ~ After applying one to my chest and one to my. back, in three hours I found relief whigh 1 had not got in over three months. I gheertully rec- ommend them to persops having “spinal weakness and lung lru\:}l‘)l RY J, 08, LLAGHER. Journaltsm in Texas, An east ‘L'exas paper referred to a con- tempory as a “slab-sided, razor-backed, lopped-eared, sag-bellied, corned-toed, wolf-whelp,' and the esteewed contem- porary by retorting ‘‘that we do not feel called upon to notice every little hissing, ege-sucking, blunt-tailed, venomous, swamp reptile that orawls his slime across our pathway.” Santa Anna, Tex., Enterprise: We are a little behjnd with the paper this week, but ask to be excused for the rea- son that we have to cook, wash, iron, milk the cow,do the pri ork,entertain distinguished people, & keep the flies ofll' with one haud while writing with the other, — Pimples, boils, and other humors are liable to appeag when the blood gets heated, 'L'o cure them, take Hood's Sar~ saparilla JOSEPH THOMPSON ~ HARE, Annoyed at Being Poor He Becgmes an Outlaw. AMERICA'S FIRST HIGHWAYMAN. A Sketch of His Career—A Chapter in the History of Early Crime in Tennessee—A Won- derful Life, Chattanooga Commercial: The recent discovery in Putnam county of a cuvern containing the skeletons of sixty mur- dered men has been chronicled by the press of the country as well as of Ten- nessee, The publication has caused a thrillof horror to pervade civilization, Yot this cavern was doubtless filled through the joint efforts of a band of highway robbers, whose united efforts sink almost into insignificance 1n the light of the individual efforts of some of the men whose infamy has soiled the name of the voluntecer state. A Com- mercial man has been taking notes from time to time in regard to the outlaws of Tennesee, and itis the purpose of this article to recite briefly the career of one of the most notorious. Taking them up i chronological order, Joseph Thompsor. Hare is entitled to the first mention. He was the first noted highwayman that America produced. He was'a Pennsylvaman by birth, and was born in 1780. His criminal eareer, as is often the case, is to be attributed to the over-indulgence of his parents, who were highly pectable people. Allowed to do pretty much as he pleased, he sought the company ot the idle. He was NNOVED BY BEING POOR, f the other boys were rich plenty of spending money. T'o remedy this he prevailed upon some of his companions to make a night eall at the house of a wealthy old farmer. They found the old man asleep upon the door step. Hare was lifted to a_back shed entered the window and going through the oid man’'s trunks secured $500. This was divided among the crowd, all of whom hid their shares till the excitement died out. Then Hare became reckless in his viciousness, and his father undertak- ing to check him he wade his way to Phil- adelphia, and succeeded in working his passuge on a ship to New Orleans. The day he arrived he whipped a_locul pugil- ist named Marshall, who offered him an affront, and this led to several matches and his extensive acquaintance amongst the worst classes of the city. In those days travel was confined to the stage coach and keel boat as public conveyances, though many traveled long distances horseback. There were few banks, and facilities for exchange were unknown, so that travelers frequently carried large sums with them. This made the highwaymen’s calling quite lucrative, if he could escape the traveler's bullet, and the hangman’s noose. Hare and two companions started on the road to Baton Rouge. Good luck at once favored him. Watching two men who got out of @ boat, he saw them bury a small bundle in a ravine, and teard them tell of the murder of a man they were taking to ew Orleans. As soon as they wel ne he unearthed the bundle, and found it to cor:tain a dia- mond pin,'a gold watch and chain and $6,500 in Tennessce and Louisiana bank notes. Finding the name and residence of the murdered man, Hare, after inqui- ries at Baton Rouge, wrote a letter to the man's brother, who with a party of friends WAITED THE RETURN of the two murderers to the place where tiie treasure was concealed, and arrested them in the act of digging up the jewelry and pavers which Hare had left in the hole, carried them to Baton Rouge, where they were legally hung for murder. Hare and his companions now went to Nushville. Soon after arriving there they ambushed a party of four Span- iards, on their way from Florida to Nashville to buy goods, and he and his companions netted over $7,000 each out of the robbery. Soon afterwards his party robbed a party of three men, ob- taining $13,500, and on another trip $4,000. The comrades pow went to Nashville, where they got a mnew outfit and journeyed from there to Knoxville and then to New Orleans where they arrived with over $12,000 cash. In three months they had lost it all, having been plucked by “male and female sharpers, and after consulta- tion selected the road from Baton Rouge to Pensacola for their operations. From oune victim they sccured $18,000, and went back to New Orleans. There f was Idenly taken down wit| fever, ad when he recovered knew mnot what become of his money. Hunting up hlls comrades he found \fiut they were also FINANCIALLY EXTIAUSTED. They stole a horse apiece, but had to abandon them and take a barge. Swindling a fellow passenger at cards, enabled them to reach Nashville several thousand ahead. There they put up at the City hotel, but being recognized by a mau Hare had once attempted to rob, they set out for Knoxville and organized an extensive series of operations. Hare went to Nashville, where he met an_ old female acquaintance, who had married a Cuban named Gareia. She acknow ledged that her husband was a heavy defaulter. Learning that Garcia was soon to return home with a large sum, Hare, having obtained a description of him, waylaid him on the road, and when Garcia would have turned him over to an apvroaching of horsemen, Hare revealed to cia that he knew who he was and thus silenced him, and secured all the money the Spaniard had. He now started out for Richmond, but did not reach there. In Franklin county, Va., the robbery of a drover cost him i rs in prison. 1n Baltimore,after se, he learned harness-making, but tiring of that iife went to Philadel- phia and from there to his childhood’s home, only to find that nobody knew him. He left and drifted to Albany, where he became a footpad. Meeting an old friend ey operated on the road from New York to Canada, and else- where in that part of the country. One day Hare went into a tailor shop to be meesured tor a suit, and while there rec- ognized his younger brother Lewis at work, and made himself known. This afterward led to Lewis becoming an out- law like himself. He now MARRIED A PHILADELI but this did not i robbery of a Princeton merchant netted him §30,000, but foolishly stopping for the night at a wayside nn cost him a sentence of five years 1 prison. After having served but a portion of his time he was pardoned, hig crime being repre- sented as the first offense of a man driven to desperation by the 10ss of a large fortune. When released from prison, Hare,after trying to aissuade his brother from crime formed a partnership with him and & man named Alexander. On the 11th of March, 1818, the three robbed a stage coach near Havre do Grage and tied the driver and passengers. These released themselves and a hot pursuit was may They were arrested on suspicion in Bal more, having made an extravagant out- lay for clothing. They were tried and convicted. Alfm:re sentenced to de: but Le sentance was commuted to ten years’ imprisonment. Alexander and the “elder Hare, however, bravely met their fate. Strange to say, Hare’s hand was un- stained with murder. He had many good qualities, which might have been directed in youth, In New Orleans he ouce savod some children from a burning house at the risk of his life. Several times he saved the lives of victims when his com- panions wanted them Killed. This was the case in the robbery for which he was hanged. Hare was somewhat of a poet, as may be seen from these lines, writton by him while under sentence of death, Forced to roam— By the sad decrees of Fate, From my home, I'm a wanderar all weary, Deserted, sad and drearv, Beneatn Heaven's dome, Ihave drunk the bitter draught Of regret And my eyes while 'on I've laughed, wel Have been With burning, blistering tears, And my heart with anguished fears Is aching yet. By sin and sorrow lured To mg doom, In crime’s black toils immured— Baleful gloom— For me 18 no retreat, Fate directs my erring feet To the tomb. —— For fear of losing a day's w ork, many persons put oft mkin‘z physie until Sat- urday. The better plan is to not delay but take it as soon as needed, it may save youa hard spell of sickness. If you want the most benefit from the least amount of physic without causing you any inconvenience, loss of appetite or rest, take St. Patrick's Pills, Their action on the liver and bowel are thorough, they give a freshness, tone and vigor to the whole system and act in harmy evith natu -—— ST. PETERSBURG, Observations in the Famous Russian City. Av a distance St. s as a long and narrow gray line or belt lying along the horizon, and rising from it several gilded spiros and domes catch the sunlight and burn vividly. The slender spire of the Ad- mongst others, strikes the oye but the great gilded dome of St. 's cathedral 18 both glowing and jestic. It is an object of great beauty, even when seen from afar; and it lifts to a height of 336 feet a splendid cross, of a form that betokens the faith that it repre- sents. At nearer approach the misty hand of the city resolves itself into ship- Em z and piers, into houses and large uildings, and spires and domes sur- mounting conspicuous edifices betoken churches, the Admiralty or monasteries, These last one learns to recognize before reaching St. Petersburg, for they occur elsewhere; and that of St. Sergius is es- pecially noticeable, somewhat in the di- rection of Peterhof. Then the Neva widens, the Uleaborg lies at her quay, and the passengers become small parts of the great new world ot life they have entered. And here, as the luggage is landed to undergo a second visitation of the customs' agents—the first having been made at Abo, in the Grand Duchy of Finland—passports are returned to their owners in the office of the steamship on the flosting whart at Vasili Ostro (Busil's Island). Of course, the tourist is attracted by vlatoons of drivers of droskies, wearing as a uniform a low bell-crown hat and a sort of robe de chambre,reaching to near the feet andicohfined at the waist byfa belt or girdle of some sort. One now begins to realize that he is isolated, if not alone,for the Russian language, and even its char- acters are all strang But pantomime and finger languag slain something, the position of persons and luggage something more, and the name of the hotel repeatedly.declared completes the chapter. and soon things are in motion ana the desired hotel is reached. And 1t is wll if the tourist choose the Hotel de I' Europe, which is centrally situated,has a lift and excellent rooms and apart- ments and a capital restaurant. At once the passport, defensor innocentium, is de- manded, tosatisfy and gratify the g of the police department, and if it be once more found to be en regle,its owner — 1 was going to say it holder—is free to make himself acquainted with the won- ders of the City of St. Peter (of Russia.) But at his side, beyond the precincts of the hotel, the valet de place must be his shadow, as he mus also be his agent and linquistic intermediary, even w! Mur- ray and Baedeker in his hand. For the second time he feels his helplessness Leeds Mereur, Petersburg appi miralty, in the absence of a knowledge of the Russian Janguage, and s dependence upon a guide who may misstate facts and figures, es- pecially of money, at every turn. His opportunities are inlinite, his temptations i elding to them almost the yet the well-read. intelligent tourist 1s more than a match for most of these gentry, who know when they find their master. — But self-defense is k in money dealings, in payment of of tea-money, or bribes, of fee vices not rendered, or tickets, ares, for ser- 5 , issued without charge given admission to pubhie places or buildings. Let the secker of knowledge, thercfore, himself pay each item as it presents itself, and on no account allow the gmde to be his creditor until the end of the day. In some instances, however, the French and German, languages are spoken, and here their employment is eminently agreenble, as it restores independence; but while in these cases an acquaintance with Teutonic or French might be ex- vected on both sides, in majority of in- stances stewards, guardians, and inten- dents are intrenched behind the lan- guage of the czar. St. Petersburg, upon the five branches of the Neva, and intersected also by four canals, stands upon a monotonous level, which extends north =and eastward, southward far beyond Moscow, an westward over the boundaries of Russia into the empire of Germany. From a height 1t ap) by reason of its flatne: Ao map indicates, the winter pala hermitage and Admiralty are on one bank of the great Neva; the bourse, the uni- versity and the custom house on the other. From the Admuralty several great avenues radiate, the principal ono being the Nevski Prospect, the street of fine shops and stores, extending as far as the Alexander Nevski monas 5 and on it are found the famous K cathedral, one face of the great bazaar,and the pub- lic library. Scattered in other parts are the Church of the Holy Trinity, the academy of arts, and lesser palaces and museums theaters, and_ opera houses. In the fortress upon the Neva stands the cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, the burial place of sume of the czars, and pear it the arsenal,a museum of artillery; and in that part of the city, not far from the admiralry, rises that magnificen temple,St. Isaac’s cathedral, t gilded ' dome of whicl and beacon of the dwellers upon the ter- restrial or aqueous plane surrounding it. To understand St. Petersburg and Rus- sia, it is necessary to be familiar with the Greek church, its organization, and its relation to the temporalities; for the ozar is its head as well as emperor, and 1té authority is acknowledged,and 1ts de- votional aspect reflected from even the meuanest sses of the population, Monasteries abound, more or less richly endowed; cathedrals and churches are over open, and resounding with deep- toned bass voices of priests and chanters, and shrines with icons (sacred pictures), are scatteaed widely in towns—are not absent in the rural districts d com- mand and secure from all devout passers a doiling of the hat, & self-crossing, the offering of a short prayer,and the placing of an obolus in the yearning coffer be- neath it. And all this is besides what visibly characterizes 1ts presence in pri vate houses of the better “classes and the dwellings of the poor. DECORATIVE ART. THIRTY YEARS IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO. One of the Oldest Inhabitants Gives g Thrilling Experience of His Rescue from Death. From the Chicago Daily News Juno 23, 1A In public places, especially in the summes season, the eye is often attracted by neat decorations ‘which embellish chandeliers and ceilings as protection againsi those hu- man pests, the which, however, serve their purpose as scavengers of the air, The designs employed are ofttimes reall! works of art. and the deft way in whlc‘ they are attachted to walls and ceilings so as to propect them; gives an Imprtugn ol airy lightness which is pleasing to the eye. No man has probably spent so much time in Chicago on this line of trade as the sub-. ject of the following sketch; He has been resident of Chicago for thirty years, coming here with his parents when oniy 10 years of age, and having grown up with the city his name ig known to thousands of her people, Within a short time such a wonderful change has taken place in his personal ap- pearance that it has attracted the attention of his friends as well as that of a reporter, who called upon him withina day or twe and obtained the following sworn statemen/ Personally appeared before me, George W. Hoover, No 278 West Twelfth street, who, being sworn according to law, doth depose and say: hat I have been ill for two or three years ith a lung trouble, which a short time since resulted in_hemorrhage, so that I re- marked to my wife: I think about next fall 1 will finish uj hat I have paid out hun- dreds of dollars in the past two years for medicine and advice, but nothing did me any practical good. I would stop coughing for an hour or so, but it would come again next day. The relief afforded me was only temdorary. I read of the numerous cures which had been effected by Dr. McCoy in the papers, and they described o closely my symptoms that I called upoa him at No. 10 Park Row. Dr. McCoy told me that I had catarrhal bronchitis, and there was serions trouble with the right lung in the form of an abscess. I was put under the treatment, and he gave me relief right away. The night sweats with whichl had been troubled have left me and I now rest well. I began the *featment on the 23d of May last, I used to cough ever morning: would get sick at the stomach have been very nearly strangled trying to get something up when there was nothing to come up. But now I am doing splen didly. Have a clear head. I am not clouded up. T can travel all day and not tire out, and I can assure you my work re- quires ‘me to go about a great deal. 1 am satisfled that it I had not gone under this treatment I should have been compelled to stop work entirely, and this is my busy season. I was obliged on account” of my trouble to leave a very easy situation about a year ago because I could not stand the night air aud was constantly taking cold. I have not felt so well for years as I do now, and I work hard, too. "My friends remark my mmproved appearance, and I have gained five pounds in the little time which I have been under treatment, and I am convinced that a cure will be effected. GEORGE W. HOOVER. gworn and subscribed before me this 22d y of June, 1887, RANDALL H. WHITE, Justice of the Peace. Dr. McCoy is now located in Omaha, at tho cor ner of i6th aue Hurney sts., Ramge Blook NSU MPTION, e of a Condi- 'rifled With, tion Not to Be The disease from which Mr. Hoover suf- fered was catarrhal consumption. The discase originated in a cold, which became. chronic. As a result came the formation of mucus, which was partly discharged irom the head or dropped down the throat and was partially hawked up, A large portion of it, however, was swollowed, passing into the stomach and causing catarrh there. The mucus formed by catarrh decomposes, and when it reaches the stomach is tither absorbed in the blood, producing all manner of evil symptoms, or else coats over the food with a slimy material, which prevents the food from coming in contact with the digestive juices in the stomach. The food itself decompotes, forms gas or wind in large quantiti nd cauzes a feel- ing of bloating or fullness after eating. ‘When the catarrh has cxisted in the head and the upper part of the throat for any length of time—the patient living in a district where people are subject to catarrh al affection—and the discase "has been left uncured, the catarsh invariably, sometimes slowly, extends down the windpipe and into the bronchial tubes, which tubes con- vey the air to the different parts of the lungs. The tubes becomc aftected from the swelling and the mucus arising from catarrh, and in some instances becomes plugged up so that the air cannot get in as freely as it should. Shortness of breath follows and the patient breathes with labor and difllculty, In cither case theie isa sound of crack- ling and wheezing inside the chest. At this stage of the discase the breathing is ally more rapid than when in health » patient also has hot flashes over his body. DOCTOR J.Cresap M'Coy Late of Bellevue Hospital, N.Y. X Hus oftices in 310-31f RAMGE BUILDING Cor. 15th and Harney Streets, Omaha, Neb. Whero Ali curable cases are troated witn suc- uted sklifully. Con . Dyspopsia, Rheu- matism, and all NERVOLUS DIS! SES, All di- inrto the sexcs & spoclalty, CA- RED, ATION at office or by mail $1 1011w m; 2todp.m; Tt0 9p. m. Bundays includc. Correspondence receives prompt attention. € Muny diSORsCs 110 Lren esstull by Dr Mot mui I8 thus possl, y thr [ purney 10 ob tal troatmont wt thole worcd unlcas weeom pa 0160 by 46 in stuinps Address wll letters (0 D, 3. C. McCoy, rooue B10wnd 91 Remge Building, Omibs, Nob,