Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1887, Page 1

- THE OMAHA DaiLy BEE. SEVENTEENTH YEAR. OMAHA, SATURDAY M()fi DECEMBER 17, 1 A BRUTAL MURDERER HUNG. Charles Bellows Expiates His Crime at Charles City. SUPPORTED TO THE GALLOWS. The Miscrable Wretch's Bravado For- es Him at the Last Moment and He Dies Vainly Plead- ing For Mercy. An Towa Hanging. Cranves Crry, Ta., Dec, 16— gram to the B membered as an City. Notofily were the streets thronged, but the thoughts of many of the people of Towa were upon the ity where, for the first time in twenty-tw Special Tele- —To-day will long be re- for Charles hanged, not for peance, but according to e was 10 thought prieve or commutation, no words of sympa- thy or pity, but a sentiment universal that Bellows must hang. hanging were ations for the smpleted this morning, and was nothing to do but to await In the early morning people from the surrounding country began to pour into town. sek around the jail all A multitude had gathered thinking they would be afforded an opporiunity to wit- ccution, but they wer A fow reporters, different counties of the state and thorized by law were the only witnesses present inside the inc chosen men was excite- sheriffs of the At 9 o'clock six rom company ping march ar Wwhich the gallows was ¢ Up to ¥ o'clock fested the same defiant disposition s at Ana mosa, when he said to the warden: “Seo that T am hung reach hell in tume for breakfast.” Shortly after 9 o'clock | entered his cell with u lotter fro an. The letter was handed to fl Clark took oce monish him to prepare for cternity as he was to be surely hanged in the morning. Tooked up into his face and “T will laugh at you on Bellows mani- that T will st night the sherift Bellows and Sh ns from Bellows who was weeping wer the last v words of his de- voted sister. I weeping over the letter and sy S ter 10 0'clock he sud m chairand uttempted to strike down onc of the death watches as he was bent ized by one of the ather atehes, however el corand lic He went to sleep at once and did not walcen until 4 a. m.,when he arose and again that he be liberated. no satisfaction, and he again went to his cot and slept for oy the lust time shortl accept of any catables whate: ny of mind but made he guards gave him He awoke for no reference to his c) At 10:30 thie jail inclosure was thrownopen and the forty-six holders of tickets terrible sound groee by Bellows in his cell sw and cursing at. the oficers us they we ting the shackles on him. inflicting an ugly wound by bi guard's hands, and was firmly bo At seventeen i z onc of the He was forced to the wall rtes of 11 o'clock Sherift Clark stepped on the platform of the scaflold and in a firm, clear voice cailed the names of the twelve jurymen who had o death warrant was then read to Bellows in inutes of 11 the death The window h commenceed. nal’s cell had been taken out and a stair- ¢ leading up to the wllows erected. ¥ leading, followed ition over th ence for 4 mo dejected look. not a word escaped his li adjusted the noose, when h e don't, please dou't, “TPhe nouse was then t when in almost inaudible words he “Lam innocent.” His supporte ared at the audi re pinioned, but four minutes to 11, with t on his Lips, the trip W at tervible lie fr and Bellows did not strugglo, except a slight f the shoulders'and a convulsive His pulse was up three minutes drop fell und then bedame le: eight minutes and for life was pronounced cxtinct. mained hanging for twenty minutes, w was cut down and placed in a cofiin at th rination proved that his neck had been_broken in two places. No relatives witnessed the none would accept of the rer were buried at the expens cquent until three seconds, when of the county. The erime wi cold-blooded ever recorde 1t wus committed on Chester Wilcox, n"Floyd county, Iowa, on of July, 1886, the victim bemng Waterman, a b Bellows was born in the city of uth was deprived one of the most brutal and the annals of the farm of New York and of a father’s ¢ sions unchec vile and hardencd « and temper unbridled, a nd whose aims were solely the gratifications of the lusts of his apolis and thore went fy V. of characte the havpy and highly spected Wate of theie daughter, his nic h respected youngy ing in this dastardly attempt aud being fo idden longer the ) was laying the foundation to destr slightost provocation exc and an utterly ha urdoreéd the of a home he dened and corrupt learned his lessons of unby the streets und in the and the end is but legitimate result of that reporter after n ri southwest of Charle do of four mi learned from, Mrs, the tragic affuir. crman, the detal his brother-in-law, poron the farm. Mrs, Waterman did not like tho attension he was paying her daughter and she asked him to go away and find another place to seemed to tako it all in good part at fivst until his mother moved into the neighborhos then he tried to get v Shortly after this he had some w Mr, Waterman, and he wi Mr. Waterman,ns a b atto the house,and aid to Alice thyt he would fove the year end oue evening ho entered he and undertook to ¢ iScoverad and went away Bellows, and thinking that all trouble might be avoided, Alice left her mother's home by roform her, but wus Hoping to quict the family of N not so. Early on the morning of the Sth of July, Bellows came around to the Louse and culled for Alice, who was working in the kitghen, to come out. as he wanted to 'he irl was frightened aitl hesi- ut finslly went. behind ner when Mrs. Wilcox port of a revolver and a soves ¢ door she threw it open, aund The door hud heard tha re Rushing to oAttt i ctadasiiicn looking through the outer_screen saw Alice on the ground with her head partly raised from it, fighting her assassin as best she could, and at the same time pleading piteously and imploring the villain 10 spare her life. Untouched by the tender voice, he placed the muzzle against her breast and sent an unerring bullet crushing through her breast. Mrs. Wileox rushed her little children into the front bedroom, bolted the doors behind her and called toher hus- band, who was making hay near the house, for help, He had heard the reports of the re volver, and at his wife's call started for the house, When hie came near he saw Bellows standing over his prostrate vietim. The murderer, hearing him, turned and with a quick mation fired the revolver and threw it at Wilcox's head. Mr. Wileox thought the fire was intended for liim and struck the fel low over the head with his fork handle, bring- ing him to his knees. He eried out: “‘Don't hit me again, I'm shot,” and opened his vest, showing the blood flowing from a wound in the side. Wilcox threw him into a wagon, brought him to Charles City and lodged him in jail. An indignant and an outraged people rose up to uvenge the me, and for a time it looked as if Chiester Bellows was to be lynched, but to the credit of the peovle the law was allowed to tuke its course. Medical assistance was called und the biillet probed for, and found beueath the skin in the. back. He'slowly recovered and was, tried in the November term of court, Judye Ruddick pre- siding. Against the advice of his counsel he brought in the plea of “insanity, produced by masturbation.” His actions’ before the conrt begzurs deseription, The trial was long and tedious, but the jurors, after the Cause was g ) to them, were not long in reaching the verdict, fixing the penalty at death. When Bellows was brought intos the court room and the verdict read in his { FEELING THE PUBLIC PULSE. Second Day's Proceedings of the Convention of Republican Clubs. PLATFORM PRINCIPLES. Grosvenor, of Ohlo, Rips Open the of Seccretary Promotion. The Republican Club W Yok, Dec. 16,—The convention of the republican clubs was called to order about 11 0'clock this morning,after which the chair- men of the different committees appointed yesterday made their reports. reading of the names of clubs, that of Janies Blaine was greeted with cheering, but it was ,noticed that the Ohio delegation was silent. the committee on credentials was adopted, General Robinson, of the Gr I hamton, N. Y., offered the following resolu- tion, which was referred to the proper com- During the tremendous After the report of Resolved, That it is the duty of the gov- ernment to place our country in such state of defense as will command the respect of all nations, and for this purposc a large portion of the surplus revenue should be de fortifying our harbors, building ships fo and manufacture of modern artillery cnce a smile was upon his conntenance dently not assumed, for he said that the sent- ence was f to him, as he preferred h to life imprisonment. The judge pro- ceeded to read the death sentence in a voice broken at times by strong emotions, Through- out the entire reading Bellows sat looking around the court room, accepting s doom with a smile, and showing such utter lack of feeling as to'lose all sympathy he might have had. Amotion was made for anew t but was promptly overriled. In his death to-day on the gallows it is the universal verdict th Bellows received naught but what he justly deserved - A California Choke. Bakensriztp, Cala, Dee. 16.—Thurston Lee was hanged he y for the murder of John Swith in Mal FEDERATION OF LABOR. Adoption of the Constitution and El tion of Officers. Bartivone, Dec. 16.—The American Fed- eration of Labor to-day decided to reduce the per capita tax for the support of the Feder- ation from 14 to ! of a cent per month and impose an annug of §25 on all state fed- erations: not to provide a salaried organizer, allow the Federation to employ such Lorgunizers us may be needed from o time, While local unions will not be compelled to form themselves into state fed- erations, yetthey are strongly urged to do so, ress consideration of the constitu- tion was completed and the document adopted. It was resolved to ask e s to shorten the hours of labor in view of the de- creased number of workmen, The commit- tee reported that the rapid growth of the order resulted from, first, the avowed pur- pose of the federation to allow each trade to n itself, and second, to the discontent of the Knights of Labor at the bad management of their affuirs and the desperate use of strikes. The committee recommended the utmost resistance to the encroachment of the Kuights of Labor, inasmuch as that organization showed itsclf opposed 1o the principles of trade unionism, The re port wus adopted. The following ofcers wera elected by ac- clamation: President, Sumuel L. Gompers, New York, represenfing the International Cigarmuker's union; first vice president, Daniel McLaughlin, representing the Illinois Miner's associations second vice president, Willi Martin, of the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Worke association: secretary, P. J. McGuis b, of Philadelpii of Carpenters and Joiners: treasurer, bricl. Edmonson, of the Washington Brothee- hood of Carpenters and Joiu s It was decided to hold the next convention at St. Louis. e Brogerhood (Ga- —————— e Rebel Knights, CuicAG s, 16.—[Special Telegram to the Br he committee appointed by the new district assembly of “Rebel” Kuights of Labor for the purpose of drawing up a con- stitution decided to use the old constitu tion of the knights simply eliminating those parts which they object to. The principal points are that the relations of the order to- wards othier lubor organizations and particu- Larly trades-unions, shall not be antagonistic but rathier frieudly hat the trades shall be ed within order by trades and the gnized only for persons 4 join or form a trades-union nd dis- trict shall govern its own affairs without in. terference from the general ofticers, all dues and assessments emain in the district treas- eption of what little is required in the limited functions of the gen- oty that there shall be no salaried ofticers, but the ofticers shall be paid accord: ing to the time actually conswmed in work at arate of wages current in their trade; that there shall be no general lecturers or general instructors or other sinecures; that no ofiicers shall be elected for more than a year at a time. These principles so closely’ resemble those of the federation of tradee that the Guestion occurred if an alliavce with that or- zation was not advisable, but no action was taken on the maticr, The name of the new order will probably be *“The Independent order of Kuights of Labor.” e -——— . Chicago Scraps With Its Annex. Cuicaco, Dee. 16.—Open war was in rated this morning between the village cers of Hyde Park, receutly annexed to Chicago, and the city officials. The dispute about annexation was settled in th s a duys ago by a decision in favor of Chi- and Mayor ‘Roche sent ofticers down and took possession of the police and five de partments. Mayor Pierce i Comptroller Norton, of Hyde Park, however, refused to give up the village records. The matter stood in this shape until this afternoon, when the ity officials took decided steps and drove the opposing forces out of the Hyde Park hall, A Minister Fatally Sandbagged, Lovisvi, Dec, Rev. De. Basil Man- professor in & Baptist theological sem- and one of the most prominent Baptist 28 of the sonth, was sandbagged by two ked e t anight and fatally injured. Senator Garrity Released ‘The case against State enator € for alleged unintentional ooting of Michae! Kenuedy, last month, wis non-suited this morning and Gurrity was oiz his bonds, o —— A New Gold Rind, Sr. Louis, Dec. 16 ~Advices from Presas Aldama,’ in the southern part of Tamaulip: state th its of gold und o nabar o v bearing ore have been foundncar the - Cleaning Out the Bandits, wiares, AT, Dee. 161t was learned ast night thatthe scouting party sent to A in search of the Bernal bandits,found three men, supposed to belong to that band, uear Chacala, aud shot them, —— A Kerosene Angel. Toreka, Kan, Dec. 16— Mrs. Maria Kather was burned to death lust night by her dress hing fire while attempting to refill an oil lat Business Troubles. Tuov, N. Y., Dec. 16.—Spencer & Perkins, y goods merchiuts, huve assigned. Liubil ities, $30,000; asscts, §40,000, for proper armament of same. Grosvenor, of Ohio, offered the following resolution, which caused a sensation : a8, It is the opinion of this national convention of republican clubs that 1o man who at any time denounced coln, while he was president of the United States, as “a buffoon and a clown,” or who from his scat in the United ever declared as a traitor t, or who in his official capacity of the interior prdercd that the Hlag of the United States should be displayed u'i half Thompson, or who as scnator of the United States many vears after the war refused to vote that the thirteenth, fourteenth and fif- snth amendments to the constitution are id and binding, ought to be_appomted to office of justice of the supreme court of the United™ States; there- or hold the high Resolved, That L. Q. C. Lamar ought not t0 have been appointed justice of suid court.” cd on motion that all reso lutions should be referred to the committec on resolutions without b “The permanent chairman, Wil arts, then took the platform amid tremendous ongratulated the convention on its work would with any cstablished organiza- 1t‘would, like the “grand cnowledge there could be It was then carr checring. He organization tion of the party. old party,” never a chosen a candidate greater than the The democrats always pride themselves that they nominate men greater than the but that illusion has about been despelled. “The clection of the man who at present fills the chief executive of caused this, and the de shows that it i nul propertic: candidate or prineiples hostile to the ‘Those deluded eiti- zens who think so, mistake our principles and their duty. will be_organized ticsoothing sy ¢ devoid of any medi The'clubs or leagues that now will prove organs, agents and channels for enforcing the sonnd political purposes from which the republican Thus the suf- be formed and shrinks or fea o of this country will republican principles. The speaker then referred to the suppres- sion of tfie negro vote in the south, and then went into the message of Cleveland. thought the democrats might try itaway if possible later on, and when they cannot do that, will retract But_we must the phrases in which is dis- sition. toward them. le think that the republican senate will svent the president from doing wrong. at for the people to elect a pres- g the opposite party will keep him straight. The draft for the constitution for the na ition to be known as the “I publican League of the United States A president, dents and a seeretas _vice presi- rer are to be ft_of u constitution for Agues was also pr i annual conventions but are not to any candidate ¢ political convention. Auy club is entitled to mem- A convention of having twenty memb bership in the state league. gues during the year 1888 is also provided “The committee on permanent_organization ident’ William M. Evarts of New York, and # Jong list of vic among them V of Illinois: E. H. a Fallette, Wisconsin, ‘olonel Charles W. Jolinso of Minnesota, with nine assistants, The report was adopted and a vote of ndered Hon. D. 8. Ryan for the able and impartial manner manuer in which he had discharged the dutics of temporary chief secretary, as taken till 3 p. m convention was again called to order. York was the last to arrive. the recess in one of the small Grand opera house caucusing for candidates sent to the convention as officers of the They had sp halls at the the following list pew, of New York; vie president, James Blanchard, New Yo ecutive commit- In addition to these : Is of seyenty-five clubs have sented to the committee, but no delegates have applied for their ¢ DAfter Chairman Evart iplause there were General Nathan Goff, of West Virginia, who climbed to the platform, He said in are of & country nization of the republican ing from the blight of slaver, ‘epublicans because, living in_that land, we believe American labor and industry should be prote he democratic party has The speaker then n Which some had taken his seat ted calls for that, before the or- party, was suf- been false to that referred to the war, Virginia's sons fought on thc umon side and some under stars und bars, ! 1t they all voted Goff followed concluded as follow “With Allison ol Harrison of In- Hawley of Con- necticut, Evarts and Hiscock of New York, Phil Sheridan of the United Stute ) meuns least Blaine of Maine, we should win.” s followed each name. , at the close of General ed that the committee on 1o report, and Hon. John A. Kasson, of lowa, then read the com- mittee’s report M's remarks, stat delegutes of clubs of the United States, now asseum bl the first time in national conveut em it a fit occasion for declaring to their countrymen the purposes of their organiza- We bold it our duty—especi the country, whose patriotic young wen of sentiments we would rouse 1s which will jus- zealous concurrenee tify and demand the active co-operatic ud careful review the deeds of the republi earliest orgauization, its v ment, reform, is theu mude of ks of improv The preamble then We acknowledge that there yet remiins ship to be accomplished. are relics of barbarism still, but dicated, still contesting their righte of supremacy, and aniong them are polyganiy, iguorance wid utemperunce, Rewewbering much work of eiti. that the republican party was founded upon principles of liberty, qualified by law and the good order of soviely, these associated with clubs cannot fail 10 continue the war against these triplets of harbarism till they are buried in the grave, where sluvery sleeps eternally, While these delegdtes were preparing to assemble in council for their patriotic work as dutiful citizens, they and all their country- men were astounded by a message from the nocratic chief magistrate of the United States, which abandoned all precedents of his predecessors. The constitution requires him to give congress information of the state of the unioy. Every president from Wash- ington to Arthur has aunually performed this duty with dignity. “This president has descended’ 8o far from thefr practice s to allow himself to convert this constitutional duty into a partisan speech for the complete overthrow of the policy recommended by the founders of the government and vnwciullly endorsed by his earliest predecessors i of- fice. We therefore call the attention of our countrymen to the facts of their own recent history under the influence of a policy of pro- tection. Statistics are then quoted going to show the large increase in the prosperity and growth of the country in all ways since 1861 under protective policy. We, therefore, appealing to the foregoing history of the republican party and that of the country identified with it, make the fol- lowing declaration: We emphatically refuse to abandon the policy of home protection on which our unex- ampled national prosperity and progress are founded. The effect of thie democratic policy would be disastrous by transferring many of owr industries to England and robbing our working people of their employment and wages, for the benefit of British munufactur- ers by exhausting our accumulated capital in payment of forcign debts incurred for im- ported merchandise, and by damaging the ent ystem of an industrial and commer- cial intercourse, We protest against it in the name of all American labor and enterprise. We recognize in the message of the head of the democratic party a tender to the country of a choice between supporting the laborers and industries of Great Britain and Europe generally on the one hand and on the other the support of the Inboring men and indus- trial enterprises of America. We respectfully decline the former, which he recommends, and will stand by our people when wo elect a president, The principle of protection is founded upon the interests of the entire country, its su- preme object to render America indépendent of Turope, to render the United States self sustaining; to keep our money at home ann_gjve employment to our own ‘working people; to substitute home competition for foreign; to build up towns and villages; to encourage agricuiture and enhance the value of farms; to provide home markets for the farmer; to adopt our manu- factures to our domestic wants; to promote the opening of rapid aud cheap’ communic tion between the states and territories; to open mines and> develop all the vast re- sources of our country, so richly blessed of good, in all that is meeded to make a party great, contented and happ While the republican party has since the war repeatedly cut down taxation and has uniform, when in power, kept the surplus within safe limits, the democracy have shown themselves incompetent for either duty and by persistently refusing any re- duction of taxes unless coupled with a destructive assault on American_industrics, responsible for the ‘accumulation of the sting surplus and all the dangers it in- volves. We believe that only the restoration of republican supremacy can give assurance of unity, reduced taxes, a revised tarift and u himited surplus, with the preservation of a policy which ulone saves us from becoming the commercial slaves of Europe. The continued res of the democratic house of representatives to admit territories having a population'df high characterdnd in- telligence, exceeding in number that of sev- eral states of the uribn, old and new, should arouse the indignation of all true Americans who believe in honie rule und constitutional rights, 5 We condemn the Kostiiity of the democratic party in the house of representatives io !l means for the advancement of broad, popu- lar education, and denounce its arbitrary conduct in thwarting every effort to consider any mea: fag thi; iReviving no past . we._ insist, as the living question and indispensable buiwark of national sccurity, upon a free, honest ballot and fair count in‘all states of the union. We charge the demoeratic party with fail ing to provide out of the abundant resources of the mation for the upbuilding of & more eflicient navy for the protection of our de- fenscless scacoast, for the restoration of our comme marine—so essential to the train- ing of American seamen and to the extension now of American trade, and we urge the ne- cessity of prompt and cnergetic measures for those important uham'\u. We charge the democratic administration with culpable weakness in guarding Ameri- can industries and individual rights on the high seas and in foreign Jands, while the ves- sels and property of our citizens have been seized and sacrificed in foreign ports, and in formation of what they werc justly entitled to under our treaties withheld from them or made dependent on foreign interpretations, and we demand a_more vigorous assertion of American statesmanship which shall restore the respect once accorded to the justde- mands of our republic. We charge the democratic party -with being recreant to the republic und the pledges of the president of prostituting the civil ser- vice to partisan purposes. We hold that those professed friends of civil service r form who accept and foilow this faithless action in preference to the party which placed the civil service law on the statute books. are themselves untrue to their pr fessions, We condemn any backward step in this reform and all hypocrisy in its ad- ministration. We charge the democratic administration with trampling upon the just claims of the soldiers of the republie and with reopening ac epted sentiments of deplorable sections strife by removing the emblems of such strife from the place where they quictly repose in the archives of the nation and _yielding only unorllm ndignant protests of the American le. ‘Ipnn this history and these declarations we confidently summon to our aid uot ouly the patriotism of the country, but its labor, its gidustry, its commerce and its statesman: ship. lm- report was unanimously adopted. Adjourncd untill tomorrow morning. e Anti-Saloon| Republicans. SyRracuse, *Dee, 16.—The anti-saloon re- publican state convention adopted a plat form declaring am ivrepressible contlict be- tween the liquor teaffic and christian ¢ tion; that the saloon ought to be utte tirpated, because the proprietors have con bined in open war against the American Sub- bath; that the compadt between br distillers has reached @ point where the r publican party must aecept the issue aud d are a determined hostility to these enemics of godd morals and saevcd institutions in our land, or aba2dgn their claims to be parties of law and order, >npesed 1o vice anarchy and socialisizd _points to Penisyl- vania as an example of tho su from a bold stand; fayors pr wments, local option Xnd rest ation. Albert Griftin, of Kansas, chairman of the national committee, announced that when he called on Blaine scveral months ago Blaine siaid he favored the anti-saloon movement, e Yachting Interests. NEW Youk, Dee, 16,—[Special Telegram to the Bee]—Yuachting men arée consol themselves over the improbability of another challenge for,tne American cup with the rumor of an internutional steam yacht ruce for the prize offered by the American yacht club two years ago, valued at £10,000. The superi ority of American steam yachts as evidenced by their brushes with foreign built craft abroad ha ined the English. It is said that Commedore Clarke, ofthe Royal Clyde yacht club, intends to build a steam acht of the largest class,with a view of chal- lenging. Clarke was here during the last cup ruces in the steam yachit Mohican, which sx resulting bition amend- ctioff by tux- | besold, NUMBER 188 DESPOILERS OF THE DEAD: A Trio of Iowa Grave Robbers Cap« tured in the Act. The canvass being made is the most thorough THE CONGRESSIONAL RECESS. It Will Probably Take Place Next Thursday For the Holidays. SMALL TALK. Representative McShane left noon for Boston,whence he goes immediately vor, of Lincoln, is in the city to await a decision of the supr Lincoln habeas corpus case, one of the defs idants i the case. Senator-elect Granville C. Moody, of Dead wood, is here and says Dakota people prefer to not be annexed to statehood if they cannot have their territory first divided. The postmast fused to grant the petit ment of Loran postofice, in Boone county, und that_an oftice ready exists in Butlor. office are called NEBRASKA LAND CASE DECISIONS NOCTURNAL VISITORS NABBED, The Town of Mitchellville Greatly En Two of Them Passed Upon By Acting cited and Threats of I 2 Sccretary Muldrow—More Abou the Theater Sensation—Rail road Discrimination. n for the establis The patrons of the Boby-Snatchers Captured , Dec, 10, [Spe There was o startling fave robbery a few mileg C. W. Bucker, of Town, has been appointed to a clerkship in the posto the pay roll for 3 vin S, Wheaton, of Cedan Rapids, Ta,, grand chief conductor of the Order of Rail: ¢ Conductors, is at the Ebbitt, It is believed that the house committee on will be composed of the speaker and gram to the Br case of attempted from this city carly this morning, the robbers were caught in the act and namn . . On Wednesday Mrsy Catharine Claflin, aged sixty, mother-in-law of a former resident of this city, was buried in the cemetery at Mitehellville, having died on Monday of pneumonia. at Mitehellville, which is at the e of this county, received an anonymou saying that the grave might be robbed and that it would be well to bo on the watchs That night Constable J. W. Jones, L. E, Kel, ley and W, W. Hedges watched the grave all night, but no onedisturved the good woman's last resting place. Yesterday a man was sent trains and he saw a young man S. Porter, one of tha grave-robbers—get off the train from Des Moines at 11 o'clock cemetery and was shadowed. Owmana Beg, WasniNgroN Byreav T ENTIL STREET, « Congress will take its holiday Thursday of next week, and will reconvene adopted a joint resolution te and, as it is the usual thing, there is no doubt but the senate will concur when it meets on Monday. over till Monday nest, when the senate also Neither body is expected to do any actual business until after the holi- The house committees will not be an- nounced before January, and until they are organized the ‘work will be inconsequential. s only life at the capital to-day was in the sharp speeches of Mr. Reed, of Maine, who is the republican leader of the ho Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, on the democratic side, over a concurrent resolution offered by the latter, providing for an adjournment of congress from Monday next to January 5. Mr. Reed charged the democrats, in bitter, sarcastic language, with a criminal waste of time, in which Mr. Hatch, in his reply, said the republicans had blocked all efforts to im- prove time and relicve the country by tarift his effect to-day, ral Brown, ‘of Indiana, or Mr. Cannon, 1 Hunter, chairman of the Towa demo- That day parties state committee, was a visitor at the Perny S, He of the Hou house adjourncd will be in session, lution was submitted that when the houses December 19, they stand adjourned until January 5, and, after consid- erable debate, the resolution was amended s0 s to make the adjournment for recess oceur Thursday, December 2 Mr. Townshend of Illinois offered a resolu- providing that next Monday shull be de- voted to the introduction bills and resolutions, Mr. Blanchard of Louisian: olution expressive of the the house has heard of the rtson, late member from Louisia pect, the hous adjourn Monday, to watch the ~—since identified as C. Porter went to the He went to Laid over till Mond returned to the cemetery, then south to the railroad, over ta the depot and home on the noon tramn, which was late, or he could not have made it. night Constable Palmes Patterson and Lyman Knowlton watched the 'y heard nothing till 2 o’clock thig drove up from the robbers with shovels, Two of the men got out at the ate and the driver then drove round to the cast side of the cemete elect to the fiftieth and then, as a mark adjourned until Monday Capital City Dee. 16.—Comptroller Tren- nissioner of the Freed- avings and Trust comany, to-day house his anuual S. J. Oldfield, Bort. DECISIONS I NEBRASKA TLAND CASES, g Secretary Muldrow, in the absence v Lamar from the interior depart- ment, is grinding out a good many decisions in Nebraska land cases which have been ap- To-day he sent to the acting land commissioner a modified confirmation of the decision of the latter officel Nancy Bowman vs Jerry Griffin. involving the n. e. i of section 11, tp, 8, = 30, west of the McCook district, retary decides that neither Bowman nor Griftin is entitled to the land, nor is any one else entitled to prior entry to the land. In the case of Van Gordon vs Jos Ems, in which the land commissione to reject the final proof of Ems and held for ion the filing the n. stion 10, township Bloomington land dist that *'Ems has not acte he never established a r with the intention of making it his home, and that his pretended transfer of his homestead brother was for the purpose of qualify- ing himself to make the affidavit necessary in such cases,” and therefore his final proof is yejected and his filing cancelled. cision of the land commissioner is affirmed. ATION AT THE THEATER, 'y Rhett Horton, whose sensa- tional actions at Albaugh’s theater last night, I wired the Beg, was examined by Dr. B, J. Poole at the station house to-day, and he gave it as his opinion that steps shouls secure proper treatment for her at the insane t is feared by the police officials that sheaniget, if she goes at liberty, attempt to shoot Senator M says she is much embittored against the sen- ator on account of the part he took in uphold- ing his son at the time of the shooting affair Sha talks ghout it considerabl, and the lieutenant thinks that in some ciazy moment she might attempt to shoot him, is probably twenty. t appearance in Wash- ng herself in 1a come from her -officio comm submitted to the showing a balance, December > are still due morning, when a wagon west with three grav a trunk, cte. 1,406 claims amounting to 7,314, and not paid because no demand had The availuble at 13,817, are couside payuient of these eluims whene and for defraying the nec he commissioner ned in his last report, con- congress of the bal- v und_stayed in guards watched hour, while the quietly for about othier two men proceeded to throw the earth from the newly filled gry When the villians were within a foot of the coftin, so deep that th the guards closed in on them and took them completely by surpris and submitted expeuses of Mrs. Claflin, renewed the suggestion cont: ning the payment by ance due depositors; submits the draft of a bill for #he purpose, and quotes the recom- mendation that congress dischurge its plain duty in the matter, The secretary of the interior to-day trans- mitted to the house the repor sipners appointed Texas state commission to run a line bet a portion of the Indian territory The Ucommission /e out of sighty , in Mitchellville,where Dr. “'homas Il known druggist living in 14 of thes, 1 4 . 1 23, W in_conjunction ot, the secretary finds 1 in good faith, that idence on the land student, and F. W, PothofY, a huckster, an The most intense excitement pre- 1le and threpts of lynchs t avoid vios s brought them to DesMoines. on the S o'clock train this morning. mation charging them with the violation of of dead bodies wad filed againt them before Justice Collender, who fixed Monda controversy at Mitchellyi meridian of longitude in accordance with the treaty of 1810 between the United States and crosses the Red rivi Jence the oflee ndicott left thecity to-night on ction in the west. a tour of ins| The clerk of the house hu before that body an index of southern claims and claims referred to the court of under the Bowman act. The total number of claims re| includes allowed, disullowed cases, involving the sum of £60,: which umount’ the sum of 4,636,050 was completed and lafd December 26, nds of §1,000 cach, pending the fihding which they were locked up in the coun Mr. E. K. Clofton, husband of the_ lady an amiable and highly whose face is a famil house, where he sometimes serves on juries, He said that the wor was the trunk tar intended to place his wife's remains, It being reported that Jone rdged the crime, of whi aily 8 fwo ye v, whether th ens is 22,208 1 respected gentleman, one ubout the court Lieutenant Ami raska and Iowa Pensions. 0N, Dec. 16.—[Special Telegram .1—Pensions were issued for the Nebraskans to-d widow of Cornelius Baiter,- U u war—Alfred B. Stevens, Riverton. Original—Benjamin F. Irair, Bertrand. crease-—-John 1. Hamilton, Cal Pensions for Iowans: father of John Dykeman, Le Mars; Mabala, mother of Henry C. V: - 0, widow of John Wick, Emmetsburg feature of th 1 inside, in which they and Porter Haorton, who old, made ¢ ington in 1880, introdu startling manner. home _in Alabama, folldwing John Morgan, or, from Alabama, whom she charged with having betrayed h n one evening at dusk on the The ball struck him nd did not inflict Miss Horton was arrested, but the and that Pottho ly denied all knowledge of the pur- son of the sen: Walter (dece: ter is taller ang tor, Potthoff is a simple-mended terman, probably thirty young Morg street and shot at him. in the shoulder ighan, Monroe, and honest-look Philip Bradstre came to commit the dmmetsburg; Hardenbrook, Pr nelius Jordan (de She was said 10 1 time under treatment at pefriended her, and she on in the postofiice depurtment Since then John Morga He was drowned in and spent some sed), Booue; e just about this way,” suid he, students at the eclectio we have to rinda; Luke McLone; she still holds, Before we can practic met a tragic fate, Potomac above West Washington a y last summer, together with a young” wom by the upsetting of a_canoe. she was excited and e station, having the impression that she had On the blotter of the “insanity” is written opposite her n Miss Horton, when she wd Murphy, Martin Harvin kee; Myron E. Billings, V disseet, qnd we disseel we iave to liave subject ned to realiz vity of their situation, interposed and Jones not to put it that a bid impression, Army News. WasmiNGroy, De to the Bre.]-—-Leave mouths has been gr tificate, to Captain Thomus C. Lebo, Tenth , with permission to leave the Depart- Leave of absence has nted, on certificate of disability Do- cember 7, 1886, to First Licutenant A. Mann, regimental adjutant. S extended three leave of absence granted Second L James H. Waters, Twentieth infantry, Oc- tober 18, is further extended to include of absence 18 it would ¢ surgeon’s cor- “You can say this, as a good deal of fc been arrested. t young Morgan, The Miss Hor- ton of to-day is quite plump. tired in a dark blue dress with deep red trim- 218 full, but was very pale’| is cut short. ment of the P Potthoff, the man who drove the sh that he ®ad no to-day, and her dark hai “It was an outrage,” sh John Morgan or George Morgun got them to iteenth infantry, T g idea of what the men w The extension of i Porterlives at Macksbu three of the pris Madison county “Were you not ill atthe theater?” was N e souny +No, T was not. and was amused, woman I turned to my ¢ said: *T do not like to see such things, even on T wonder what play this is,” and then 1 turned to look at my programme, turning so the light would fall on it, and I ee the namo of the play, two brutes seized me and I wus brought here. Twill not leave here until this matter hus been investigated.” Miss Horten, it was thought, gave way overwrought erves, duc to the emotional character of the play, and th i scene in whi T had been looking at the Lands Restored to the People. sroN, Dee. 16, - sued an order dirccting all lands heretofore withdrawn and held for indem- nity purposes under grants to the following named railroad companics to be restored to the public domain and offered to scttlcment and file under the general laws after giviny the usual notic Island & Pucifie, Cedar 1 River, Dubuque’ & Pacific, © fcago, Milwuukeo & Court Dec Towa Supren npanion and ceretary Lamar ) to the Bee.]-The supreme court rends ered the following decisions here to-day : Hurlbut, Hess & Co., Ioyock & Co. and J. 1 Dallas county. As I did that lownsend, inteyyenor, appellant, vs A. M. Abraham et al, Mahaska district! Thomas Robinson vs Chicago, Kock Island fic railroud, appel B. & M, Chic pids & Missouri s W. H. Bohuni, appellant, i the pistol played a part. Miss Creston superior e Horton, during times of morning, asked for a pistol and scemed in- doing damage either to herself or Todging in the house of G street, and he in- Michigun aund Wisconsin, ruishice, appi To Prepay I WASHINGTON, v Lewis vs J, Wayne circuit, tate of lowa vs Jolin Dow, Dec. 16.—Ari made at the treasury de ¥ 1, next, of §5.414,- Ointercston United States bonds and Pacific I'his is in addition to nterest which would have fa at that date, but which has been prepaid with Mr. Lawrence, No. 120 formed Lieutenant Armiss had been strange for sev ; of the police before, and utenant Amiss expressed the opinion that suffered from the effects of some drug to which she was addicted. BAILROAD DISCRIM Omaha i8 not to be alone in her fight against railroad discriminations. cities intend to make complaint, it is stated, upon grounds similar to those occupi metropolis of Nebraska. state commerc Saylors, appellant, State of lowa vs J imson district, Canipbell vs Jumes 1t Campbell, ilroad bonds. Bome southern Utah's State Const WasuIxGrox citizens of Utah, headed by Del waitedeon Spes ator Ingalls and pres Sammcrson, Wright district, Bayless vs Jolin Defore, Mitchel! district, Luce, appellant ad and BB, Hillis, H commission gave a hearing in the case of John H. Martin and M. H. Mar. n, of Denver, Colo., who allege violation of section 4 of th and loug haul s Southern Pacifi on_ Pacific roads. in the transportation of dri u Francisco to Denver the vail- 30, while from San vs George Moores ison district, ited to them copies of adopted at the lust Utah convent on—on_the part of the smpany, the Central Pacific The complain- ration Bill. DusuQue, Ta., \Dee. 16, al Telegram iman, a brakeman road, wis caught in a frog ipling cars n Wasiixgros, De ce on education held u meeting t and unanimously ordered a favoruble repy education bill as it passed the s fruits from § road company: charges §2 Francisco to Omaha, a distance much g the charge is only #1 that the rate back from Omalia to Denver is ; : - z Just night while cob the rounds in over him, e takon 1o Jowa Falls, where big It will be re- eoate in the last ¢ TS OF LABOR FOR POSTAL rn to-night that there 1s in- circulation ~o Knights of Labor throughout the country a peiition to congress for the estab- lishment of a sy>*tem_of telegraph ment upon the ao propose ¢ Cullom, of Ilinois, whe i bill on the subject this week ator Cullom anticipated the moyvem, knignts and it is TREMARARINY |00 g o whip Arvivals, 1 10 the BEE.) POStmusters w L. D. Brandon, William H. Carter, he following Nebraska the Bik | —Arrived.“The State of Peunsyly vania, from Glasgow. 4 Dec. 1.~ Arrived~The Etruria, from New York, Puiianeienis, Dee Norwegian, from Glasgow. crry county 2t Dalby, Alamakee county, la wus discontiuue If the Knights their demands there is little doubt that they The petitions from the knights a ar in Congress v day recess, when the aj of Labor go *d erghty eight, died last night. He 't Smith, secres of state and of the treasury durip Loxooy, Dee, 10 iug at Hull lust last clection Lord Carnarvou ue the Parnellites with the He stipulated that the con Justin McCarthy, sp that before the ry soou ufter the Lol ritation of the subject Natural Gas in California, Sants Axa, Cal., an artesian well in Fairview, six miles from NATUTAL gk Wis sUruck i aid that every While boring and himself, I because Parnell considered Uladstone il attacu his or her uawe 1ot ‘bw\ wan todeal witk, opportunity to believed that negotiations