Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 22, 1887, Page 2

CROCKER'S GALLANT BRIGADE The Annual Rennion Now Being Held at Davenport. HAWKEYE NASBYS COMPLAIN, They Want More Salary and Less Ex- pense—Colonel Milo Smith Elece ted Commandant of the Sole diers' Home—lowa, Crocker's Brigade Reunion, Davexront, In, Sept. 21.—|Special ‘Ll gram tothe Brk./—Uhe annual rennion of the celebrated Crocker’s [owa brigade, composed off Eleven infantry regiments, com- menced here to-day under the presidency of General Belknap, ex-secratary of war. The attendance of members Is large and an inter- esting programme I8 being carried out. The brigade was formed at Shiloh under General Crocker and remained as a brigade in the fourth diviston until the end of the war. It ‘was subsequently commanded by Goneral AHugh Treid. Colonel William Hall, Colonel John Spane, General Alexander Chambers, of the regular nrm!, and General Belknap. It took part In Sherman’s battles and marches, These four regiments remainea in the army of the Tennessee from the be- ginning to the end of the rebellion. The or- ganization is social and non-political. There are about seven hundred veterans attending the reunion, and many prominent visitors, Ineluding Senator Allison, ex-Governors Gear and Sherman and others. ‘This evening the opera house was packed. when Mayor Claussen delivered the speech of welcome, to which response was made by General Bel- knap. Then followed a camp fire with many briliant short speeches, Counter ‘eiters Arrested. DEs Moixkes, la, Sept. 21.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bege.|—iate this evening the particulars of the arrest of a couple of coun- terfeiters in Marshall county was made pub- lic. Last Saturday afternoon a merchant of Boone discovered that he had taken counter- feit silver dollars and could recall tho person leaving It as a well dressed lady who he thought had done 8o by mistake. In hunt- ing her up some suspicious circumstances were noted and on Monday she was observed 10 be about to take the train much dlm{ulnwl. She was arrested and searched and thirty- seven counterfeit silver doliars were found secreted in herdress. She was put in jail and after several hours imprisonment ve her name as Anderson and confessed hat she had been sent by her husband to pass off this bocus money in the town, stating that he lived in Rhodes, Marshall county ‘The federal officers went there and arrested him, He admitted that his wife had gone 1o aispose of the bogus coin but refused to raveal more. A careful search of the mmlua failed to find any tools or contra- d property but it s believed that the couple are old offenders and have hid their machinery. ‘Ihey were brought to this city and the woman was put in jail. Both were bound over to the grand jury, lowa Nasbys Organize, Dxs MoiNes, Sept. 21.—|Special Telo- gram to the Ber.)—Twenty-five postmasters of the third or fourth class from the Seveuth congressional district met here to-day and organized a district association, electing D. C. West, of Perry, as president. Thewr rievance is in regard to their salaries, and they have organizea in harmony with” a na- tional movement to petition congress to raise their salarles and relieve them from the bur- den of clerk hire and oftice rent. They elected their chairman as a delegate to the national convention of postmasters, which meets in "Nashington in December, Mississippl Rafters Meet. CLINTON, In., Sept. 21.—|Special Telegram —The Mississippi River Logging company one ot the most extensive rafters on the Mississippiand its tributaries, hold its annual meetiug here to-day, ratifying the purchase of the Eau Claire Lumber company rronerly and leaving the amount of logs to he banked this winter to the officers. The following ofticers were elected: F. Wyhe hauser, of Rock Island, 1L, president; Artemus Lamb, of Ciinton, Ia., vice presi- dent: Thomas [Itvin, of Beef Slough, secretary. Fleoted Commandant, DES MoiNEs, Ta., Sept. 21.—1Special Tele- gram to the Bee.|—The board of trustees of the new soldiers’ home have elected as com- mandant Colonel Milo Smith, of Clinton. He 'was the colonel of the old Second lowa that made the famous charge at the battle of Donelson: the reciment which numbered among ity commanders General Tuttle and General Crocker. The selection cives very geueral satisfaction and the home will be opened for occupants on November 1. Two Convicts Awaiting Death, ANAMOSA, la, Sept. 21,—|Special to the Bek.|—Two wen now confined in the peni- tentiary at this place, areto be hung, one next January and the other in December. Both are sentenced for murder. One is playing the crazy dodge and claims to be en- dowed with the faculty of seelns his de- arted friends, and when askod by the war- len of the prison if he could see his murdered victim his insanity immediately vanished. Narrowly Escaped Drowning. KrOKUK, In,, Sept. 21.—Special Telegram to the Bre.|—-Miss Alice King, a daughter of R. B. King, a prominent merchant, acel- dentally fell into the basin of an artesian well in Reed park this morning. She was ?fi:nyouunm herlife was saved with dif- ! g Killed 1n a Tanaway. KErokuK, la., Sept. 3L.—[Special Telegram to the Bek.]—Willlam Cason, a highly re- spected young farmer, was thrown from a wagon near La Grange, Mo., to-day in a run- away and killed. s Is Morinrity Mad? NEw Y Sept. 21.—[Special Telegram td the Brk.]—The action brought by Mrs. Moriarity to have her husband declared a lunatic was the subject of an arzumentin the supreme court chambers this morning. l’mlnfi Moriarity 1s a brother of a well known East Side furniture, dealer, for whom he used to work as a colleotor, It was while on a round of collecting that l’hllli’» Morlarity met Frida Hune, pretty little German girl whose sister Louisa owed the Moriarity’s a bill, ‘The Hunes lived at 455 First avenue, and Phillip called there often enough in the early mrl of the summer to make the neighbors dleve that Louisa was & poor hand at settl- ipr. Butin fact Phillip had fallen in love with Frida and they were married on July 24, But the honeymoon was a brief one, Moriarity had an earlier wife, who, when she learned of her husband’s second marriaze appealed to the laws, claiming that Phillips was Insane. Frida’'s lawyer asked that ®& commission be appointed to examine inro Moriarity’s sanity _and _asserted that the action bezun by Mrs. Moriarity the first, was only for the purpose of saving her husband from prosecution on a charge of bigamy. Judge Van Brunt listened to both sides with much patience and then decided o reserve his decision, e Tri-State Underwriters. KANsAs Crry, Mo, Sept. 21,—|Special Telegram to the Berk.|—The Fire Under- writers association of Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, concluded its twelfth annual con- yention here this afternoon. All the routine business wus finished up in cood shape. Just before the adjournment of the morning session Mr. 8. E, 'Waggner, of this city, in the name of the association, presented the retiring secretary, Mr. Edgar Ross, of St. , Wwitha handsome ‘xuld watch and chain as a testimonlal of their high apprecia- tion of his services, Mr. Waggner accom- nied the testimonial with a neat speech :l.ul Mr. Ross replied in an approoriate man- ner. The election of ofticers ‘and uxing the next place of meeting were the events of the afternoon, ‘The following oflicers were elected for the ensuing year: DPresident, Walter Scott, Kansas Clty; viee president, Thomas 1, Tuttle, Kansas City; secrotar: Bnc treasus ua;? C. Stewart, Kansas fity, _Quite a spirited contest arose over the next Flm of meeting. Kansas City, Omaha "fopeka were the candidates and Kansas ity wun on the second ballot. ‘I'ne next of the asociation will be held about < Complete Programme of His Tour of the West. WaAsHiNGTON, Sept. 2L.—President and Mrs. Cleveland will leave Washington next Friday for an absence of three weeks in the west and south. They will be accompanied by no officials, the other members of the party being the president’s private secretary, Colonel Lamont, and personal friends of the president, Mrs. Wilson S, Bissel, of Buffalo, his tormer law partner, and Joseph D. Bry- ant, of New York, wiib was a member of h military staff while governor, The following is the initerancy of the jour- neyi—Leaving Washington by the Pennsyl- vania railroad Friday, Septémber 30, at 10 A.m,, arrive at Indianapolis Saturday, Octo- ber 6, at 11 a. m.; le 3 p. m., arrive at Terra Haute at 5:50 p. leave at 6:15 p. m. arrive at St, 1,ouis Saturday, October 1, at. 13 o'clock midnight: leave by the Chlcago & Alton road Tuesday, October 4, at4d p, m., arrive at Chicazo Wednesday, Octobel 2 a. m.; leave by Chicago & ern ralroad ‘hursday, Oectober, a m.: arrive at Milwaukee p. m.; leaye Friday, October 7, at 10 a. m.: arrive at Madison at 1 p. m.; leave by Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railrond Oc- tober 10 at 9 a. m.; afrive at St. Paul at 12:30 r 5, at Northwest- . m,¢ leave Thursday, October 11, at 13 noon, arrive at Minneapolis at 1 p. m.; leave by Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapol! Omaha railroad at 8 p. m.; arrive at Omal day, October 12, at 11 Chiicago, Burlington & noon, arrive at St. Joseph at 5:15 p. at 5:45 p. m., arrive ut nnmmg at v‘ix m.r leave by the Kansas City, Fort. Scott & Gull railroad Thursday, October 14, at 1 p. m., ar- rive at Memphis Friday, October 14, ‘at 6 p. m.; leave by the Louisville & Nashvill railroad Saturday, October 15, at 10 rive at Nashvilie, at 11 a, m.; leave Nashville, Chatanoga & St. Western & Atlanta rallways Monday, . m., arrive at Atlanta at 11 p, m.; leave Tuesday, October 1. at 12 o’clock midni:ht, arrive at Montzomery Thursday, October 20, Sa m.; leave by the Kenesaw & Eastern North Carolina routes at 1 p. n arrive at Washington Saturday, October 22 at 6 a, m. ‘There will be no stops between the points above mentioned, and in no instance can the time given to the cities where stops are to be made be extended. ‘I'he fact that the journey is timed to meet fixed envagements will pre- vent any exception to this determination, but through the day, in passing all places of any considerable size, the train will' be run at a very slow rate of speed. At the sugges- tion of the president much proposed speech making at the places to be visited has been abandoned, and instead an important feat- ture of tha‘rru'mmme at each place will be carriago rides about the cities over previ- ously announced routes. skl “COMANCHE GEORGE.” The Notorious lmposter Discovered in a New Role. ’ NEw York, Sept. 21—[Special Telegram to the Bee.|—There Is reason to belleve that tha witness, George W. Anderson, upon whose testimony chiefly the indictments of manslanghter were obtained against Keepers Cleary and McCue, of the Wards Island in- sane asylum, for causing the death of the patient Ferrish some time ago, is no other than Commanche George, & notorlous swindler in this vicinity some ten years ago, In this case his testimony against the indicted keepers will have very little welght with a jury, it is thoueht. The story Is that Comanche George came east about ten years ago with some Ln- dians. He told a story of how he had been detained a captive many years amonc the Indians in Arizona. While there he secured some seeds of the sacred Loeatil plant, which he brought with him. The plant was a magniticent flowering growth, he claimed, and he offered them for sale to many persons, He succeeded in imposing upon President Hayes, Mr. Blaine, General Logan and William M. Evarts in Washing- ton, and William T, Walters, of Baltimore, George W. Childs, Mrs, Drexel and the Vanderbilts, Astors and Jay Gould in this city, He was a victim to the drinking habit, however, and soon found his way down to the slums, and In time becane an inmate of the lunatic asylum on Ward's Island. It is said that there can be no doubt about the fact that the two are identical. 0 A PROBABLE MURDENR, . The Dead Body of a Leavenworth Citizen Found at St. Pan), S7. PAvur, Minn,, Sept. 21.—[Special Tele- gram to the BEE.]—A case which has the ap- pearance of being & murder was developed last night. In the afternoon some workmen fished a “flonter” out of the canal atthe Washburn “A” mill. The remains were re- moved to the morgue, where & post-mortem examination was held to-day with startling develooments. The doctors expressed the opinion that death was not caused by drowning, as mno water was found In the lungs, indicating that death occurred before the body reached the water. Tha condition of theremains was such as to indicate that the deceased came to his death by foul play. The scalp was bruised, the sixth and seventh ribs frac- tured, the left wrist broken, and there were several other injuries. ‘The man was about forty years of age, and his hair and whiskers were “tinged with gray. Another peculiar circumstance was the absence of anything by which the rematns could be identlied, A large number of persons viewed the remains, but identification was made all the more difficult on account of his features being distigured. Finally a trunk check was found in one of his trousers pockets issued by the Milwaukee road. The trunk was found at the depot. In it were two stamps marked, “M. W. 0'Con- nor, merchant tailor, 310 Fifth street, South Leavenworth, Kan,” e TELEGRAPH NOTES, General William Preston, a distinguished Kentuckian, died yesterday afternoon, aged seventy-one, ‘Twenty-two houses and the railroad sta- tion at Danby, Quebec, were destroyed by fire yesterday, Governor Larrabee, staff and the Gover- nor’s Grays ealled on the president yester- day and left for home last night. The employes of the West Division rail- road of Chllcago have compromised with the company and no strike will oceur, ‘The coroner’s jury in the case of the rail- road accident near "Canton, Dak., returned a verdict censuring the railroad company. ‘Two section men were killed yesterday by the caving in of a tunnel on theé Dayton & Ironton road, twelve miles from ~ Wells- ton, 3 Gladstone has written a letter deploring the acts of the police at Mitchelstown and still more so the approval of these acts by the government. A disastrous collision oceurred on the Southern Kansas railroad near Arkansas City Iast night and eight or ten persons are reported kilied, E. C. Washburne, formerly United minister to France, is in a very criti- cal condition at his son’s residence "in Chi- cago with an attack of congestion. Investigation into the failure of the New Haven firm of E. 8. Wheeler & Co., shows considerable crookedness in the conduct of the business by the head of the tirm, ‘The jury In the case of ex-Secretary of State Strong, at Baton Rouge, La., has™ re- turned a verdiet of guilty. Strong was ?lur ed with embezzling about $3,000 of state unds. The committes of lines east and west of Chicago reached an agreeent on a new clas- sitication of freight rates yesterday which will prove of great benefit to the commercial community. ‘The report of the New Hampshire senate Investigatine committed on the alleged at- tempted bribery of Senator Sawyer by Kirk Pierco has reached the conclusion that Saw- yer was justitied in the belief that Pierce in- tended to offer a bribe. The United States minister at Madrid has been authorized to negotiate %0 as to place __commercial ~ rela- tions between the United States ana Spain on a permanent footing advanta- geous to both countries. 4 In the divorce case of David Debensaudet agaiust his wife, Violet Cameron, the actress, 1 London yesterday, the court {ssued an in- unction restraining him from molesting her. The Marquis of Lonsdale admitted having ad impro per relations with her. —_—— Fred Herrmann & Co., cor. 14th and Leavenworth, have opened a shoeing, wnfnn and repair shop in conncetion with their boarding and sale stable. All work guaranteed and ut lowest prices. THE OMAHA MRS. JACKMAN'S ESCAPADE The Unfortanate Woman Wanders Away at Night in Scanty Garments. FOUND SECRETED IN A BARN, She Pleads With Her Discoverer to Help Her Flee the Country to Hide Her Shame—Her Return, A Bensational Episode. Mrs. Mary Jackman, who was arrested Monday at the instance of Mrs. Foster Gefls, of 1911 Farnam street, charged with having stolen a ring and some underclothing, and who was found guilty of this oftense in the police court Tuesday, and relessed by the judge on account of her pitiable mental condition, has created another sensation. On her liberation she went to the residence of Mrs. Dr. John A Cuseaden, 2015 Cass street, and was generously taken in and carea for. It will be remembered she claims to be the daughter of ex-Governor English of Connecticut, and that the sudden death of her husband, the Hon. W. T. Jackman, of New York City, and her subsequent rapid descent from affluence to penury, threw her upon her own resources, and she came to Omaha and got up a music class, The sting of her disgrace here was more than she could bear, and Tuesday, when the Gefts were badger- ing her for a confession, she came near swooning two or three times. Her dis- traction and wrought-up condition was ideed calculated to incite compassion and pity in any heart. Her actions, after reaching Dr. Cuscaden’s, were 8o unnatural that a watch was kept upon her. In the evening she grew more calm, and at an early hour retired. At 10 o’clock she was appareatly sleeping peacefully and sonmfl(, but sometime between that hour and midnight, she arose noiselessly from her bed and with equal stealth left the house. She had nothing on but her night dress. She left the house by the back door and the premises by the back alley gate. Her dis- appearauce was discovered about 11 o’clock, but diligent search by a large number of the neighbors failed to dis- cover nn{ clue as to where she had gone. At the alley gate her “purse containing $1.60 was found, and that was all. Her clothes, with the exception of her night dress and slippers, were all found upon a chair in her room, just where she had deposited them on retiring. The general oelief was that the woman had made way with her herself, and Officer Turn- bull, with a posse of police, went to work on the case early yesterday morning. Nothing of her whereabouts was learned by the officers, and at nightfall the search was abandoned, nearly everybody be- hWh:F that the unfortunate woman had ended her uthappy life in the muddy waters of the Misgour: river. These widely spread rumors, however, were quashed at a late hour last evening, and the facts relating to the woman’'s disappearance came to light. L. C. Thompson, a young colored man who cares for horses in three different stables near Hanscom park, shortly after 8 o’clock yesterday morning entered one of the barns, and hurredly ran up to the loft for the purpose ot shaking some hay down to the horses in the two stalls below. To his amazement he heard the words uttered from some person be- neath the hay: *‘On, my God! wil you aid me. Iam in trouble, am friendless, and everybody is persecuting me."’ Thomson started back with amaze- ment, and as he stood looking with blank astonishment at the big pile of hay where the words had come from, he was almost territied upon seemng the tall form of a woman arise. She was clad simply in a pure white night- dress, and her feet were covered with tastily ornamented worstea slippers, with [ignt leather soles, Thompson began to believe that it wassome insane woman from the poor house. He mustered cour- nge,' ‘howcvor. and asked, “Who are you?" “Iam a poor, unfortunate creature,” she replied. “I am accused of stealing. God knows that 1 never stole anything in my life. I have not a friend in the world, and I want to get out of the way where nobody will ever see me again.”’ Thompson then took in the situation, and- the woman became quite ra- tional and told him her story. She hcgzlnd him not to tell anybody where she was, and plead for ham to help her to get out west where she would be awuy from everybody who knew her. She told the story of her mid- night departure from the residence of Dr, Cuscaden; how she had aimlessly walked in the darkness, and becoming weary as daylight commenced to break she en- tered the barn by an open door, crept u to the loft and buried herself beneath the hay. She stated that the ring that she was accused of stealing was only taken by her for a few hours’ use, and that she was honest about it and had intended to ro- turn it the owner. She to plead for him not to tell anything about her to anybody, but to help her to get away. Thompson thought the matter over, and in the meantime furnished her with'some ot his wife's clothing. All duy he tried to persuade her to return to Dr. Cuscaden’s residence, but she did not wish to do this. All day long she tossed in a feverish manner in'the hay, and at times her trembling would shake the little barn. She could not eat any- thing, and she couid not be persuaded to- Toward evening she consented to ride down to Dr. Cuscaden’s with Thompson for the purpose of obtaining herclothing, Shortly after 10 o’clock they started in a buggy on the trip, and at 11:20 o'clock they arrived at their destination. After some more persuasion she entered the doctor’'s residence, Everybody was sur- prised to see her, and it cannot be said that they were glad. They immediately sent Thompson to the police headquar~ ters to see if some arrangements could not be mude to care for her there through the night. Her condition was inquired mto, and the otlicers, upon learning that she wuad very feeble and nervous, advised that she be cared for at the doctor’s resideuce. Dr. Cuscaden con- sented to do this, and Thompson left for home. SBS A MEDICAL MIX-UP, Two Doctors With One Rig Cause a Sensation, Yesterday, about noon, Dr. Ayres, hav- ing business in the Estabrook block, on Sixteenth street, drove up in front of that building and tied his horse. About the same time Ur. Barusdale, who has an of- fice 1n that block, had sentan order to the Jefferson Square stable to send him a horse and buggy. * Coming down a few minutes later, Dr. Barnsdale got into what he supposed was the buggy he had ordered and drove off. Still later Dr. Ayres appeared and discovered his horse missing. He could find him nowhere, and a party volunteering the information that he saw a sus picious looking charac- ter driving furiously down the street with the missing steed, the doctor rushed to the police station and ecom- Plained thut his horse was stolen, Jim Stephenson, the owner of the.quadruped, wis apprised of his disappearance, an: DAILY BEE: THYRSDAY. SEPTEMBER 22. 1887. hurried to the sceme with blood in hiseye. About the time Jim's anger had reached fever heat, Dr. Barnsdale came driving up with the missing horse and hufgv. and was astonished at the flood of bil- lingsgate poured on _him by Stephenson and Ayers. After, #'while he began to understand the sithagion, when due apol- ogies and scrapings followed, and Dr, Barnsdale ncknonfiued that he owed the crowd the treats. . R — MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING. [irie g An Old Man Fiuhd Wounded Who Tells Pwo Storles. About 2 o'clock this morning Samuel Mundy, & man of Wbeut fifty, received & possibly fatal wound in the right side - about the base of the lung. Mundy tells two stories about the affair, the first that he was held up and shot by highway- men; the second that he accidentally shot himself ~while getting out of the ear in_which the steel gang, of which he claims to be a member, was sleeping. When found this mornm‘g by Captain Green he was at Harry Bran- dies’ boarding house on Tenth street, just below the tracks, where he has been stopping for the past week. In his over- coat pocket was found & thirty-two-cali- bre revolver, with one barrel discharged. Mundy’sdands are soft and white, un- like a worker in stecl, and he doubtless is withho!ding the truth of the affsir, s fuicnnios AMUSEMENTS, The engagement of the Rag Baby at Boyd's, and the Cronies at the Grand Opera, closed last night. This evening Miiton Nobles opens a threo nights’ en- gagement at the former, uppearing in “Sire and Son,” and Tom Keene com- mences a similar engagement at the Grand, playing to-night in ‘‘Richelien.” THE BIG CIRCUS TO-DAY. The Doris & Colvin circus will exhnbit here to-day, giving two performances, one at 2 p. m., and one at 8 p. m., in the spacious grounds at the corner of Twenty- fourth and Cuming street. The street parade will be seen on the main thor- oughfares about 10 o’clock a. m., and this prelude to the wonders in store i3 said to be on the magniticent order, being nearly two miles in length, and ~ composed of many new fea- tures, which, judging by exchanges, strike the people as being pleasing inno- vations, There wiil be an Indian and a cowboy band, which rather incongruous elements will discourse melliflous strains inja man- ner equal to some of the classic per- formers. Tnere was son.e difliculty ex- perienced by the agents in finding grounds spacious enough for the big tents, owing to the fact that the big show needs nearly a_quarter of a mile race track for the Roman hipvodrome, and the great thirty-one horse net, a perform- ance, by the,way, which is said to be very unique and quite exciting. The show bills speak of it as being a master piece of equestrianism, and such is will prove, no doubt. In addition to the tiurty-one horse act, and the trotting and running races, there will be presented a series of Roman chariot races, en Jostume, with chariots and trappings histbrically correct, such as “Ye Ancient Rontans™ delighted i, The Wild West department of the big circus is said to be rather on the emor- mous order and cohsists of many games, sports and historic representations of the frontier. Chief among the latter will be found the massacre ot General Custer at Little Big Horn, in" which the gallant Custer and his braye band lost their lives. This is a dramatically thrilling epoch m our country’'s history, and has es- pecial attraction for Omaha, Ample street car 'accommodations will be found on the Green and Red car hnes. Doors will be” oven at the .usual timo, and the tents be sure to hold twelve thousand, Going a Long Way for Water, Joseph H. McConnell, of the Strang company, has returned from Green River, Wyo. He says his company 1s building a sixteen-mile water pipe for the Union Pacific reaching from Green River to Rock Springs, where five of the coal mines of the company are located. Through this pipe, water will be forced from the former to the latter place for the use of the mines and the citizens of the place. There are about one thousand miners engaged and the town comprises about one thousand five hundred inhabitants, The consumption ot water daily is about one hun- dred and = fitty thousand gallon The supply for the last eighteen yea with the exception of that of a spring at the place which supplies about 80,000 gal- lons daily, has been by means of water trains, which run almost daily between the two places. These generally consist of twelve cars, each car containing about 8,600 gallons. The cost of the pipe line will be about $150,000. It is laid five and a half feet in the ground and about one hundred and fifty men are engaged in the work. The pipe is eight inches in di- ameter and ascends a grade of 340 feet. The engines to force the water up this incline are located at Green River. At Rock Springs a reservoir is now being built which will contain 8,000,000 gallons, 140,000 of which may be forced through the pipe daily. The Nebraska Soldlers’ Home. W. F. Scott, the builder of Kearney, was in town yesterday with the plaus for the new soldiers’ home in Grand Island, which is now in course of construction. The bome comprises a structure, two stores and a basement, of brick and stone trimmings. 1t is ornate in design and seemingly of massive walls and ex- cellent material. The basement com- prises the kitchen, pantry, lanndry, iron- ing and other necessary rooms, while the upper stores will be used temporari for wards and administration rooms. The building is to cost $30,000, and will be used exclusively for the commandant, after the cottages contemplated for the private use of the soldiers and their fam- ilies are erected. ., ‘Fhese will not be built however, untf'after the next legis- lature, which will be called on to make another appropriation, as. the amount, ordered at the last session will be ex- pended in the building above referred to. That AwFyl Motor. E. J. Benson, the,projector of the motor line to Benson, northwestof the city, said that he was amazefd] 3t the acuion of the council in declaring his motor a nuisance, and claimed that ip hicago, where the business was greater in two blocks than it was on the motor line 1n three miles, motors are tolerated (without objection, However, just as sqon as an electrical motor can arrive, i, Will be placed on the rack. £y The motor line sof a force of men at work yesterday morning laying the cross- ing at Fourteenth and Douglas streets to connect the tracks already laid on both those thoroughfares. The Metropolitan cable company yes- terday morning completed the grading of one mile of its road on Underwood ave- nue and the projectors expect in a short time to begin the laying of rails. e L A Pretty Trophy, The Collins Gun company have given a beautiful medal which 1 to be shot for by the members of the Omaha Rifle club, the party making the highest score atone of the weekly meetings, holding the same until his score is beaten by another competitor. The holder of the medal, which is & beautiful ebossed target, surrounded by a wreath of Inurel and surinounted by a valr of crossed ritles, is Mr. Clarkson, who bids faly also to carty off the tropny at the end of the sea~ son, - . b ‘to a AN OMAHAN'S TEXAS CAREER, His Intrigue With Another Man's Wife Costs the Latter Her Life. 8. F. LEICESTER THE INTRIGUER. The Woman Shot In Court by Her Deceived Husband and Dies Almost Instantly—Leices- ter Under Arrest, A Tale of, Intrigue and Murder, S. H. Leicester was formerly a well known character in this city. He was ostensibly an architect and draftsman, but really a loafer, a suspicious and mysterious character, He had an office in Gruenig block, Thirteenth street, north of the Millard. His place of residence was West Leavenworth street, where he occupied a cottage with a woman who passed as his wife, but in truth was noth- ing more nor less than his mistress. Her name was Edna Deming, and for a period of two years she was a conspicuous fig- ure on the promenades here every pleas- ant afternoon. She was about thirty- three years of age, tall and stately, with luminous blue eyes, and a massof golden hair, which she invariably wore in a heavy coil high up on the back of her head, a handsome dresser, fluent talker and a personage who had undoubtedly ‘been accustomed to the usages of refined and cultured society. For a long time Leicester and his fair consort were under the surveillance of the volice, but nothing of a eriminal or culpable nature was ever discovered aganst either of them, other than the notorious fact that they were unlawfully living togetner as man and wife. Some sixteen months ago this psuedo Mrs. Leicester's attention was attracted to un uwdvertisement in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat's personaljcolumn, It was signed by the name of John L. Jones, who wanted a wife. The advertise- ment stated in a succinct way that John L. Jones was the advertiser's right name, that he was a ranchman, living two niiles ontof Dallas, Tex., that he was fifty years old, well off, and wanted a wife. No answers excepting from those that meant actual business were desired. This advertisement Mrs. Leicester answered. Her missive produced & happy effect for she was shortly in re- ceipt of a lengthy reply, couched in affectionate language, and detailing the ranchman’s wishes and terms. The corre- s!lmmlenca was continued for the period of two or three months,and finally photo- fruphs were exchanged. The woman's handsome face and elegant figure settled the matter. Jones immediately there- after sent her a draft on the New York National Park bank for $200, with the urgent request that she lose no time 1n visiting bim, adding, if after meeting, either party was not satisficd that at- legiance with the other ‘wowld be con- clusive of beneficial results, they could separate as friends at least. Leicester and his paramour talked the matter all over, and came definite understanding that if Jones was found to be' a person ot meifns, she was to marry him, and to- gether they would work “him for all he was worth. Miss Deming went to Dallas, was met by Jones, and it was a case of LOVE ON FIRST SIGHT, They were married the following morn- ing, the Rev. R. L. Maynard, of the First Methodist church of Dallas, performing the ccremony. For a month the domes- tic " life of the ranchman and his wife flowed along like a summer stream, The wife wus dutiful and lov- ing, the husband lavish, gentle and ador- g, in fact they were a model couple, and Jones' neighbors were unanimous in the beliof that his advertising venture had indeed been fraught with felicitous results. In the interim Leicester, the architect, was leading a life of RIOTOUS LUXURY His whilom seedy raiment had replaced with showy gar- of the latest ashion~ able make; he sported a two karat diamond stud, elegant watch and chain, and in fact gave every evi- dence of being a man of elegant leisure, He lounged around the hotel oflices and tashionable bars, and seemed to have nothing to do but to make life as toler- able a8 money and ease could do. But to return to Texas. Jones, after a couple of months of unalloyed happiness with here. been ments his northern _bride, began to cudgel s dull brain to find out what was becoming of all the money his wife was continually drawing on'him for. She dressed mag- nificently that was true, and made fre- quent trips to Austin, Galveston and New Orleans. Still that was not suffi- cient to lap up the stream of ducats which he was unceasingly paving with her unsatisble purse. He made several casual inquiries, but she was coy, artful and evasive, and invariably forced him to acknowledge that ~he knew nothing of a fashionable lady's capacity to make the lucre {fly. And as he had plenty of it, what mattered a few hundreds more or less, any way. BACK TO OMAIIA. Leicester, just one year ago, after he had drawn through the banks here, on Mrs, J. L. Jones, of Dallas, Tex., for moneys amounting to $2,500, more or Jess, suddenly known no more He went to bhun at the in 1 disappeared and was in his wonted haunts, Mrs, Jones met She took him Im% phiton to her home, as Introduced to the husband as a sin from Minncapolis. He was Te- ed with open arms and told to make It at home. He did so, to the limit, s needless to add. Jones, though he y lack ordinary perspicuity, i8 not nearly as blind as a bat, l'l- saw things that made him think., He didn’t jusf actly like his wife’s and her cous frequent visits to the cit nor their long walks, in the gloam- ing about the ranch, And then, too, his wife's demands for money were more frequent and extravagant than ever, SOMETHING WAS WRONG. He began an espionage upon the cou- le, He fullowmr their nocturnal ram- hles, and on divers occasions saw Leice ter with his arms about his wife. He was nursing his wrath. He wanted to be &inl itis a long story. One day Texas, depot, ng the absence of his wife and her ufirgcd cousin, he went to Leicester’s room, opened his trunk and there found A BUNDLE OF LETTERS giving away the whole snap. These doc- uments revealed to Jones what a colossal sucker he was. They also accounted for the large amounts of money his Wife had disposed of, s well as the mode and manner of her life in Omaha, the identity of Leicester and innumerable other things calculated to ruf- fle 8 oving and confiding husband's temper. Leicester was kicked off the ranch. Mrs. .Jones, realizing that al! was at un end, avandoned her home the following day and joined her paramour in Dallas. They were prepar- ing to depart for the northi when Jones had them arrested on a charge of CONSPIRACY AN ROBBERY. Mra. Jones' trial began in the common pleas court of Dallus, August 19. She wis placed on the stand in the afternoon, All the morning Jones had been deporting himself queerly, and nis ictimate friends did not hesitate to say that they thought the man was crazy. His wife was in the midst of her testimony when Joncs en- tered the court room “immediately after the convening of the afternoon session, There was u wild look in his n{uu and his hair was unkempt and disheveled. lHo walked across the room, past the sheriff and his attendants, and up behind the witness box. ~ Before his intention could be defined, or any interference could be made, he pulled a revolver and sent A BULLET THROUGH IS WIFE'S HEAD, She fell forward upon her face, dead. Jones was seized and thrown into jml. The grand jury was impaneled the fol- lowing day aud he wasindicted for mur der inthe first degree. His trial comes up next Wednesday, and the authorities here are in receipt of an exhaustive letter from Hon C. Kearbey, Jones’ counsel, of Dallus, inquiring for mformation as to Mrs. Jones' antecedent vicester was convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to a term in the mn“onlmry. He is one of the witnesses in the murder case against Jones, and information in regard to his past history has also been solicited. —— Will They Ever Be Paild? Chief of Police Seavey is not a little annoyed by the action of the city couneil in again referring the bills of the special policomen. These men were selected aud appointed by the council, yet they seem to hold the chief responsible for their pay, and he is button-holed every day by one or more of them with refer- ence to it. The chief has issued time cer- titicates to all of them, and a majority of them have sold their claims at a sacrifice, The council gave assurance that the bitls would be ordered paid last mght, but in- stead Lthoy were a socoud time referred to the judiciary committee. Hascall Fails to Show Up. Tuesday evening a meeting was ar- ranged between the special committee of the board of trade, the police commission and a committee from the council, with Hascall as chairman, The meeting was to have occurred yesterday afternoon at the board of trade rooms. At the ap- pointed time the boagd of trade commit- tee and police commissioners were there, but Hascall and his committee failed to show up. In consequence the meeting to discuss the best means of settling the l)olice muddle had to be postponed. Ef- orts will be made to-day to have another meeting beld. The Numbering Racket. Mr. Maynard and E. H. Heming, the follows arrested on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, were be- fore the police court yesterday morning. These two sharpers have been reap- ing a big harvest in the outskirts of the city. Their game was to call at an unnumbéred house, and representing that they had been appointed by the city council to number all unnumbered houvses, they would proceed to tack ona number rudely painted on a piece of tin, For this service they collected in each case a fee of §1. Maynard was fined $16 and costs but Hemiug was released with- out fine. Peraonal Paragraphs Frank Drake, of Kansas City, isin town. Judge Hopewell is staying at the Coz- 2 Ex-Governor Dawes came in from the west yesterday. lieorge ‘W. Holdrege. general manager 3( the B. & M., went to Denver yester- ay. Mr. and Mrs, Harry Croft, of Balti- more, are visjting Mrs. Ida Lawrence, 2208 Poppleton avenue. Mr.N. E. Leaman and Miss Nellie Sh, daughter of J. K. Shecley, were quietly married on Friday, Sept. 16th, Miss Rose A. Ford, niece of Council- man Ford, arrived from Cumberland, Md., on a visit to her uncie and aunt here. Gen. C. H, Van Wyck passed through the n_v?'sslcnh\ on his way to Fullerton, Neb., where he delivers an address at the Nance county fair to-day. B. B. Young, the new director of the Avpollo club club, arrived yesterday from Salt Lake, and will hereafter take up his residence in this city. K. Sudborough, chief clerk ot the tor’s department of the Union Pacific, and wife returned from San Francisco yesterday morning Rev. J. N. Boyd, editor of the Chris- tian Hour, left last night to attend the sessions of the Omaha Presbytery, which are now being held at Wahoo. Mrs. M. A. McNamara has returned from Derrver, having been called here by the dangerous 1lneass of her little daugh- ter, Anna, who is seriously ill at the con- vent of the Sacred Heart in this city. Rov. T. C. Hall, formerly of the South- west Presbyterian chureh, is expected this city on next Tuesday to marry Miss Alice Rogers and Mr. Oscar Wiilinms, which event will take place on Wednes- day next at the residence of the bride's parents. S. P. Morse has returned from the east where ho hus been for the last six_weeks. ‘T'wo of these were spent 1n New York, in placing orders for the full and winter goods, and the remainder of the time was spent in New Brunswick, and Nova Scotin, where Mr. Morse had one of the most delightful times imaginablo, Dr. 8. R. Patten, who for the past five yeurs has been socated at Fremont, this state, in the practice of dentistry, has re- moved to Omaha and opened an oflice in the Ramge building. The doctor comes to this city with the best wishies of hosts of friends whom he left at his former home. Tho Theatrical Profession. Mortt will win and recelvo publio recognition and pralse. Facts, which are tho outcomo of general ex- perience, growlng through years of critical and practical test, becomo as rooted and fmmovable as tho rock of Gibraltar 1n public epivion, and Lenoe- forth need 1o further guaran've &sto thelr gonu ineness. The Indisputablo fuct that Swift's Specifio 18 tho best blood purifier in tho world, 8 one of theso immovatle Glbraltar Fock facts of which wo havo 4 thi - in "Euro n, including th Voluntary € 8. 8.8, uithog an af “protessions b o tho rematian mony irtue RS its falliblo eflicacy 1 curlvg &l discases of blood. Theso testimontals ace on fle by the thou: sands; and open to 4o inspection of all. Now come, unsolleited, 1wo distinguishiod members of the th Fical profusslon, who grateruily Lestify o the ful curativo Qualities of the Specific 1 the ), iy, Of Clicago, well known iember of the New Yori Thalia Thoatre Combany, Tt are well known 1 theatrical circles i this country and in Europe, Charlotte Randow's Testimony. NEw Yomk, May 3, 1697, leading tned o inont ph ror no beuefit. I then conciuded 1o try the 8, «dy for the blood, and five oF six packugss. by & thorou dicatlon of ry trouble aud restorin #1000 0 BADDY, il 1 ch iy give you this test! tor such uss | Bud publicity as you wisk 8o uake of It CHAKLOTTE RANDOW, 152 Bowery, near Caual 5 , an by numbers Atlast I deter: Boven or elxht Wnd you can w n foised oty iho 8 8.8 remedy, u pitivs have thoroughly relleve Use Lhils certllicate lu any man " HUGO HASSKERL, ber of Thalla Thicatre Now York, May 3, 1657 Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mallad froe. MARKET GARDENING. An Interview With One of Oma. ha’s Vegetable Gardeners, [ — An Article of Interest to All—The Life ot a Sailor—How the Good Ship“Health"” was Foundered, Ete.. Ete, — The lifo of & sailor I8 ofton very interesting rending to the citizens of tho western oountry. Knowing this to bo the fact a reporter shoul- dering his note book and Fabor No. 2, started out to find an old sailor, and interview’ him on the matter.” The repo r. Bornard Carstens, who resides in “entrul 'ark near the eity limit: Mr. Ca n's, . German by birth i8 in business as w gardior and truokor and supplios the hotel nd i 8 of Omal with frosh vogetubles ovary morning. On befn accosted by the roportor he said: **Yes, I safl the 8oas for about ten Yenrs, and in that vigit- @ nlmost every couutry in the world, | have to China, Australin, New Zenland, tho Ine Tux Swirr Sreinc Co., Drawer 4. Atisaw. 06 dlus,ind wlmost every souport dlong tho Modi: torranean sen, The 1ifoof a saflor. 18 & hard one A8 well a8 dangerous one, and ly & man witha very good constitution can stand it very long. lenjoyed my lifo on the seas wud was always henlthy thero. In factl nover had a days sicknoss until about ono yenr ngo." *“Then you have been sick lately," asked the reporter. “Yos. T was takon sick last fall. T lost my ape netite, ' ould not eat enough to koep & child alive, had night sweats, would get up in the morning feeling worso than & man who had not slept at all, could only ent little broukfast, and would have to vomit that w VOry s00n aftor eating it. I was attacked wit bad hucking cough which “would cause me {ntense pain in my chest and lungs, would have chills and fever every throo or four days. My condition became alarming. 1 could scarcely lift as much as a child. As Isaid before I bo= ciume alarmed, and hoaring and roading cou eiderabloabout Drs. MoCoy and Henry I oon. cludod to_call upon them, which 1_did about throo weeks ago and was examined. They told mo 1 had catarrhal consumption and promised to cure me intwo months, Not quite amonth has elnpaad and I am well again have no more fever, do not ¥ And to tell the truth foel like & new’ other. 1 feel as thouyh I could not sy onou; or Dra, MoCoy nnd Henry for thoy have 15 deed worked wonders in my cago: MR. BERNARD CARSTENS. The above cut is n very good portrait of Mr. Carstons, who rosides in Uentral Purk, noar the city limifs, where he will gladly corrohorato th above statemont to anyono who will take the rouble to call or address him there, LEADS TO CONSUMPTION, INTERESTING EVIDENCE OF A CONDITION NOT TO BE TRIFLED WITH, When catarrh has existed {n the bead and the upver part of the thront for any longth of time —tre pationt living in u district whero people aro subject to catarrhal affection-—and tho dis- enso has boen lort uncured, tho catarrh fnvari- ably, somotimes slowly, oxtends down th windpipo and into the bronchial tubes, whiol tubesconvey tho air to the diflerent parts of tho lungs. The tubos become mffectod from tho swelling and the mucous arising from caturrh, und, in some instances, become plugged up. 8o that the air cannot got in a8 1 should. Shortness of breath follows, and the patient broathes with labor and ditliculty, n eltbor caso thore 1s 4 sound of orackiing and wheazing insido the chost. At this stage of the discase tho brenthing is usually more rapid 'he patient has also hot Tho pain which accompanics this condition (s of a dull charactor, feit in the chest, bohind ths breast bone, or under the shouldor biade. Tho pain may come and go--lnat few days and thon @ ubsont for sevoral others, The cough that oceurs in the first stages of bronchial gatarrh is dry,comes on at intervals, hacking in charao- ter, and is usually *most troublesome in the MOrning on rising. or goink to bed at night and it may bo in the first evidence of the disease ox: tending into the 8, Somctimes thore are fits of coughing induced by the tough mucus so violent us to cause iting. Later on the mucus that {3 ral found to contnin small partiolos of yollow it ter, which indicates that tha 8mail tuben in the lungs are now sffeared. With this there are ofton st enks of blood ‘mixed with the mucus. 1p 8ome cases the patient becomes vory pale, has fevor, and oxpectorates before any cough Appears. % In some cases smal Jmasses of checsy gub- stance are 8pit up, which, when pressed be. twoen the fingors, émit A bad odor. (n other cascs, particles of a hard, chalky hature aro spitup. The raising of cheosy or chalky lumps Indicate serious mishief at work in the lunge SNEEZING CATARRIL What It Means, How It Acts, and What 1t Is. You sneezo when you get up in the morning, you try neeze your nose olf every time you to the least draft of air. You have ‘'oroliead, and plug in oach th you cannot dislodgo, You blow your nose until your ears erack, but it don't do 0od, and the on| e that you are unable to breathe through it at ail. Tnis'is & correct and not overdrawn pictute of of catarrh, or ‘'Sneczing condition indicare? Firat, ncold {hat causes mucus to be poured out by the wlands in the nose; then thoso discused glands are attacked by siwarms of littlo germs the cutarrh gorm—that float in the aiv in o loculity where the disense is prevalent. ‘Theso animalculae, in their efforts to find u lodgment, frritate tho sensitivo membrang lining tho nose 0 nuture undortikes to rid herself of them by producing # it of sneozing. When the nose becomes filiod with thickenod fod disensod mucus the natural channoels for the introduetion of air into the lunss i3 inter fered with 11 the person 8o offcted must the mouth, and by snch hecomes pirched and dry is produced, und then tho cntarrhaj nso gains rendy’ access to the thront and DOCTOR J.Cresap M'Goy Late of Bellevae Hospital, N.Y AND DOCTOR Columbus Henry ave Ofices 310-311 RAMGE BUILDING Cor. 15th and Harney Streets Omaha, Neb. Where all ciirable cases are troated with suo cess Modical disenses trontod skilfully, BuopLic ) L Con , Bright’ . Rhou il N niine to the ik ABLON at oflice or by 1 ) 1 m,; 2104 p.m. Op. m. Bundays included, Corresponaence rocelves proipt att Mutiy di8O<8 Nro Lrontod AicoORSTILLY by McCoy th the mails, and it i thus possh ble for th nuble 10 W&o 8 journey to ob- tain Kuoc hosp. troatment at their homea. Nolotors answerpd unless wooomps pled by € in stkmps. PR to6s il letters to Dr, J, €. MeCoy. roonis $10aud 311 Hamge Boidig, Unuus, Neb