Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 7, 1888, Page 5

— Ryen Fald For Murder in tho First 4 Degree. SHE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION, Dut Little Now Evidence Adduced as to the Killing of Mrs, Howard--Story of the Prisoner. Myrs. How: 's Slayer Held. T'he police magistrate has indorsed the de- of the coroner's jury, and Frank B. , the alayer of Mrs. Howard, has been anded back into custody without bail to enswer before the district court to the charge of murder in the first degree. The prelimi- Sary examinstion was held before Judge Berka yosterday afternoon and insted four hours and & half. The usual crowd of curi- Qus spectators filléd the court room while a still larger multitudo stood onm the outside mhgtfinu who had been early enough to re standing room. Ryan was brought in at 8 o'clock and ap- peared to have recovered from his recent nervous attack, but despite the unusual self- eontrol he exercises over himself, marks of excitement were plainly visible on his coun- ténance. During the greate- part of the trial besat with his left hand over his face, and wisible tremor of his fingers showed the sty of the nervous strain upon him. Attorneys Simeral and Geonon ap- peared for the state and Attorney Bradley for the defense, The testimony produced was in the main a repetition of that brought out by the coroner's investigation, but the utmost silence prevailed and the clos- ©st attention was given throughout the entire trial. When Mrs. Scott, tho aged mother of the slain woman, took her place upon the stand she first turned and gave Ryan such a proachful and withering look that brought he color to his already florid face and caused him to move uneasily in his chair. For the first few moments the testimony of Mrs. Scott was intermingled with sobs and blind- ing tears. Her evidence was the most dawm- aging produced. bofore the fatal trigady she overheard a uarrel between Ryan and Mrs. Howard. She heard Ryan say: “Helen, are you going back with Dick [her sband | 1" ‘es,’”’ she said, ‘I must.” ‘G—— —— you,"” said Ryan, “if you do #ou go back a corpse.’” She again said that she inteded going back to him, when Ryan, drawing his revolver, #aid: “G— —— you, I can male you come ‘with me.” The door was open and Mrs, Scott saw the 'uaron. It was on account of this that Mrs. Beott ordered an_to leave before "his month had expi She also told Helen to order him to leave. Two or three days be- fore this event Mrs, Scott bad heard Ryan say he would put a bullet through anybody that came between him and Mrs, Howard. She did not know the true charactor of the man until about two weeks before the shoot- ing, and took her daughter severely to task for having anything to do with him. One @ay while thus chi lng her Ryan hid behind @ dresser listening to the conversation. No new facts were elicited by the testi- mony of Henry l)oti', Joe_ Blackwell, Leon- ard Laux, Thomas Ross, Herman Hector, R. J. Howard, the husband of the deccased, Ida Smithberg and Willie Scott. Mr. Wi , the step-father of the un- fortunate . Howard, testified that the first intimation ho had of Ryan's attentions to his daughter was three or four weeks ago on Fifteenth street, when Ryan was following her and she was hurrying to get out of his way. Hesaw Ryan‘follow her clear to his home at 416 north Sixteenth street. Still later Ryan talked to him about the whole ¢ family going to. California and Ryan accom- anying them as a companion.” From this ime on the witness regarded Ryan as a bad man, Miss M. L. Martin, a dressmaker at 305 North Fifteenth street, testified to seeing Ryan follow Mrs. Howard # number of times, and that Mrs. Howard by ‘word and manner showed a wish to avoid him. A time or two Mrs. Howard had sought refuge in witness’ house and waited for Ryan to go away before she would ven- ture forth. Mrs. Cussinger, who lives on Thirteenth and Leavenworth streets, testified that two ‘weeks ago she st with Mrs. Howard to g0 to the Musee; that on the way there Ryan overtook them. He usked her where she was gnlng and she replied that it was none of his usiness, He then said he guessed he would goalong. He walked with them quite a ‘ways but Mrs. Howard would pay no atten- tion to him. Finally she told him he: had me far enough and if hé was a gentleman F would not thus force his company on hem. He then asked them, “Will you have @ drink?” but she refused. They went into the Hup restaurant to get away from him, but he stood around until they came out and again followed them. 2 .alir Web:‘r :nll?fle& gm@ on one occll{'ion appen 3 © room where Ryan and Mrs. Howard were sitting and shortly afterward Ryan came out and cursed .the doctor for interfering with a “little game he was playing.” The evening of the fatal lmination, Willie came into his room and looked out of thé window at Ryan, who she sald had just gone down stairs with his re- wvolver after Mrs. Ho 5 Joln 8. Booth, Ryan's room was the first witness on the side of the defense. He hud known Ryan since boyhood. He. knew that Mrs. Howard complained to her mother f Ryan’s attentions, but this was a put-up ob to throw her off the track. Had scen rs, Howard come into Ryan's room, sit on Bis Jop and kiss him, He bad heard them ake arrangements a tinie or two to meet in vinerooms. an did not come up after his fevolver on the night of the shooting. He had it already in his hip pocket. One night he had heard that Howard had threaten knife Ryan, and at Mrs, Howard’s sol| - tion he had accompanied her to the Union Puciflc shops to warn him. The witness had caught Mrs. Howard putting notes for Ryau under the door on several occasions. Johu Sanderson, the saloon keeper at 802 North Sixteenth strect, testitied that he had rt‘n Ryan with a lady in his wineroom a imber of times.* The defendant was the last witness put upon the stand. He said that he had made an appointment to meet her at Sunderson’s saloon on the fatal evening. Had been there ‘with her a number of times. She failed to appear, and going down the street ho over- took her. She had explained as a reason for non-appearance that persons were watching her, She suggested %uinu ta the Merchant's Exchange, and they did so after she bought a uitar strimg. He' sat in her lap caressing er, They were talking nicely and nothing out of the way came up between them. She uddenly heard a voice outside and she said, 8 ut d ‘1 believe Dick is coming.” He ussured her that if she kept still he would never think of coming into the wine room. He had his head on her shoulder when he found himself slipping, and his first impulse was to pull his revolver and lay iton $he table, and while doing so it was exploded. Witness next tes- Hen tapoat roposed * elopement that he and &rm Howard had made complete arrangements for. He also eonfessed to illicit relations e: ng betwoen them. He said it was his intention to marry knr s 800n as she got a divorco from her usband. Her complaints to her mother ‘were all a blind. Cross-Examined by Simeral--There was no miflf between us the day before the shooting that amounted to anything. 1 have not been in the habit of following her. 1 expected to cet her at Davenport w clope. 1 told M:. gn\\'urd not to be jealous of us; 1 did this to put him off his guard. After a few questions by the court as to the exact conversation between the two just before the shooting, the case was submitted ‘without argument by the opposing attorneys. ‘The judge, in giviog his decision, said that while the state had not shown the manner in which she was shot, still they had clearly shown the most prominent thing in con- wviction—malice aforethought and premedi- tation. 4t looked as though Ryan was carry g;,.- out bis threat. If ‘he had not murdered er, he was at - any rate an offender against the law, 48 he had been carrying concealed woupons, was guilty of adultery and was us making preparations to commit bigamy. o though! l&u case needed a fuller investi- mation and he would therefore bind the isoner over without bonds to answer to the uulv of murder in the first degree. About three or four days’| New York Fine Workers Fall to Get : Thelr Pay. New Yorx,March 6.--[Special Telegramto the Bes.|—The general term of the supremo eourt just handed down & decision reversing the judgment of $5,000 recovered by Cary and Wells against the Western Union telegraph company. The suit has festures which are both novel and interesting, The plaintifts were employed by the Western Union com- pany to use their influende in securing the passage of a law by the legislature relieving the company from certain taxstion claimed to be inequitable and unjust. Cary and Wells undertook the work and were suocessful in having the legislaton enacted. Under the law of 1880 the Western Union company were liable for taxes amounting to $140,000 per annum. Judgments for that amount were secured against the company by the eity. Cary and Wells used their influence in procuPing arepeal of the law. For their services they charged the company $5,000. The company thought the charge cxorbitant, and refused to pay. The plaintiffs declined to reduce the bill, and brought suit for the amount charged. The mmnny was willing to allow $500 or $50 a day, but the plaintiffs were unwilling to accept. The suit was referred to Stephen R. Nash as referee. He found for the rlulnufln and awarded the full amount. D fi‘wrgttm“d (AL, (e o lonts a) gen rm, sef ting up the defense made before the reforee, viz: that the plaintiffs’' agreement to use their {nfluonumfio :;Iember’? of t}:le ::fislm ure public po! an W;\-Adp Van Brunt m&’ the opinion of the general "armi roversing the judgment of Reforce Nash. 1In'a very scathing document he says the contract is similar to that of a bler who lcoom ote from a victim on 6 winnings and ,n suit to eollect; that the very weapon the plaintiffs used to deprive the state of its revenues by soliciting assist- ance of members of the legislature, was turned against them by defendants, and that the whole contract void in law as agamst public policy and public morality. ¢ et The Cattie Plague. New Brusswick, N.J., March 6,.—Owing to the pleuro pneumonia which has again broken out among the cattle i Middlesex county, thirty-two head were killed yester- day near South Amboy. ~Other herds are af fected and will have to be slaughtered. ittt it An Emeute in Roumelia. Loxpox, March 6.— Advices received here state that an emeute occurred in eastern Rou§ melin and that forty officors had been ar- rested on the charge of high treason. ———— Articles of Incorporation. The Bank of Valley filed articles of incor- poration with the county clerk yestorday. The principal place of business will be Valley, Douglas county, and the general nature of the businessof the corporation will be a repository for savings, and the dis- counting of papor and the loaning of money. ‘The authorized capital is 30,000, divided into the 300 shares of $100 each, and the incorpora- tors are C. E. me, John Hobbs, John Riley, J. G. Whittingham and Alexander Gardiner, e e Luther 8. Cushing. Mr. Luther S. Cushing is again in the city in the interest of the trustees and individuals whose funds he has so largely placed in Omaha and Kansas City mortgages, he having negotiated in the past year some of the largest loans in these cities. He is always de- sirous of receiving good applications while here, and may be found at 4356 Ramge building. —_——— Licensed to Wed. The following marriage licenses were issued yesterday by Judge Shields: Name and Residence. { John H. Evans, Burnside, Dak. 1 Cora M. Everett, Omaha... Edward H. Bensch, Lansin { Callie Carroll, Lansing, In ——— Everythin healthy bloc Sarsaparilla. of its merits. which belongs to pure, is imparted by Hood’s A trial will convince you Parties ownin take out their licens: wrday, the time prescribed by the chief of police. After that day a Tew of the countless swarms of worthless curs that infest the city stand a good chance of reaching the bottom of the Missouri. ——— Sickness comes uninvited, and strong men and women are forced to employ means to restore their health and strength. The most successful of all known remedies for weakness, the ori- gin of all disease is Dr. J. H. McLean’s Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier. uable dogs should before next Sat- —_—— Instructions were ceived from Washington yesterday by Chief Clerk Griffin, of the railway mail ser- vice,toestablish at oncethe service of the Kansas City & Omaha railroad between McCook Junction and Albia. W. J. Gillespie, of Superior, will be the clerk. —— A Reprieve for the Condrmned. ‘Wretched men and women long con- demned to suffer the tortures of dyspep- sia, are filled with new hopes after a few doses of Hostetter’s Stomach Bit- ters. This budding hope blossoms into the fruition of certainty, if the Bitters is persisted in. It brings a reprieve to all dyspeptics who seek its aid. Flatu- lence, heartburn, sinking at the pit of the stomach between meals, the ner- vous tremors and insomnia of which chronic indigestion is the parent, disap- pear with their hateful progenitor. Most beneficent of stomachics! who can wonder that in 8o man) tances it awakens grateful eloquence in those who, benefitted by it, speak voluntarily in its behalf. It requires a graphic pen 10 describe the torments of dyspepsia, but in many testimonial received by the proprictors of the Bitters, these are portrayed with vivid truthfulness. Con- stipation, biliousness, muscular debility, malarial fever, and rheumatism ave re- lieved by it. —————— Burned 10 Death. Cavvaa, Ont, March 6.—John dwelling burned early this morni wife and two children perished. Daley's and his Its snperior excellence proven in millions of. homes for more than a quarter of a century. It 15 used by the United States Government. " En dorsed by the heads of the Great Universitios as the Strongest, Purest and Most Healthful. Dr. Price’'s Cream Bal Powi does not contain Ammonia. Linie or Alum. Sold only in can: PRICE BAKING POWDER CO,, * New York cago. Ht. Louts TNCALLS CROWS ELOQUENT., His Reply to Vest's Speech en the Dependent Pension Biil. THE EXECUTIVE SESSION RULE. Bill Introduced in the House to Pre- vent the Use of Likenesses For Advertising Purposes—Con- gressional Doings. Benate. Wasnivoton, March 6.—The rule as to executive sessions was modified so as to read : “When a treaty shall be laid before the sen- ate for ratification it shall be read the first time; and no motion shall be in order except to refer to a committee to print in confidence for the use of the senate, to remove the injunction of secrecy, or to consider it in open executive socesion.’ The senate then resumed consideration of the pension bili, the question being on Mr. Wilson's amendment. After a brief debate, Mr. Sherman, referring to Mr. Beok’s speech of last week, had read a paragraph in which he (Sherman) had been severely criticized for his connection with silver demonetization. He would not have regarded it worthy of notice, because the senator from Kentucky had been under excitement, but that he had used the word ‘‘secretly’’—that.it was done under cover—that he (Sherman) was responsible. He proceeded to show how the principle of the law hgd been reported in the bill three years before it went into effect; how it had been discussed, evc. Ho wanted to know why such a matter had been lugged into a debate with which it had nothing todo. Mr. Beck asserted he would to-morrow prove all his statements. Mr. Ingalls having called Platte to the chair proceeded to address the senate, the galleries being crowded to their full capacity. He had been surprised one day last week on returning to the chamber after a brief absence to lenrn that the senator from Missouri (Vest) had referred to him in terms not complimentary, and had coupled with personal remarks an intimation that the people of Columbis were incapable of disinterested patriotism, and that the veterans of the republic were a mob of sordid plunderers. As to himself, he would say that the nomination and clection of Grover Cleveland had made the pretentions of any American citizen to the presidency respectable. There ‘was no man in this country whose ignorance was so profound, whose obscurity so impen- etrable,whose antecedents were so degraded, that he had not the right to aspire to the presidential nomination by the democratic party. He regretted that the senator from Missouri was not in his seat to-day. He should imitate that serator’'s bad examploe and would confine himself, so far as he was concerned, to that senator's biography. That senator was born 1n a state that had not seceded—Kentucky—and had represented in the confederate congress a state which had not seceded—Missouri, The senator from Kentucky (Mr. Blackburn) had also referred sneeringly to superloyalty of the soldiers of the union. It was curious that the confeder- ates from union states were @& little more pronounced, aggressive and [y little more violent in their denunciation of the north than the confeder- ates from states that had seceded. He did not know where the senator from Missouri got the figures from which he stated but 8,000 of Lee's army had surrendered at Appo- mattox. But one parallel was to be found to the extraordinary inaccuracy of- that state- ment, and that was the same senator’s asser- tion that of 2,500,000 soidiers of the union army more than half had applied for pen- sions. Such speeches as those of the senators from Missouri and Kentucky were intended to catch the confederate vote, and they would catch it. He wanted the senators on the democratic side to understand that this disguise for opposing pension bills was_ex- ceedingly thin; that nobody was deceiyed by it. The south did not love the union army, neitner did the democratic party. Mr. Morgan reminded Ingalls that the democratic party had nominated and sus- tained a federal officer, General Hancock, for the presidency. “Yes,” said Ingalls, “it did support Han- cock, und it also sup) Horace Gr r— attempting to fool the north. It also nomin- ated and supported that other ally of the con- federucy, George B. McClelian. Such pre- tentions are altogether too diaphauous. Why was it that whon an associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, who, by one of the strange caprices of history, now sat in judgment upon those great constitu- tional amendments adopted against his pro- tests and efforts, why was it when he arose in the senate and said he would resent as a per- sonal affront any imputation upon the honoy integrity or patriotism of Jefferson Dav ‘when he said he had no doubtJefferson Davis would ogcupy a niche in history by the side of George Waseington, why was it no senator on the democratic side, north or south, urose to repudiate and = disavow it! And the moment any senator on republican ~ side, or any editor of any northern paper talked about the Union army, they were taunted with waving the ensanguined undergarment, raking up the ashes of sectional strife, appealing to partisan hatred and malice. 1t was time the confederates on the other side of the house were informed that northern people were not ill-advised about the matter.” Ingalls re- ferred to the unveiling of Hill's statue in Georgia in 1886, and the speeches of Grady and Jefferson Davis the He spoke of the same orator having gone to New York and New England soon after making specchies there, pouring out his cold cream and honey and maple syrup all over the north.” “When,” he asked, ‘‘was that orator sin- ceret” Coming back to the opposition of southern senators to pension bills he said he did not blame them for it. If the federal government had been overthrown he did not believe he would have felt comforted in voting pensions to con- federate soldier: But he would have re- garded it as the climax of effrontery, if, after he had accepted a pardon, and had had his disabilities removed and had taken the oath of allegiance tothe successful sonthern con- eracy, he had denounced, day after day, orts which those confederates m: own soldiers, and if h e which the conquering should have seen fit to bestow on the men whose arms it had conquered. Ho did not think the north was at all deluded ntions of the senators ou the otk s.a little singul had elapsed since the war there had never come from any states that had been in rebellion (8o far as he knew) a union soldier as @ representative in, either branch of congress, elected by democrat ‘When he looked over the rolls of and refl «d how few who had ser union army were found in the cou: nation, he was not witnessing such demonstrations were Wwitnes when the pension bills were up for action. The south should he thankful it did not have to foot the entire pension bill, as France did after the Franco- Russian war. And yet here, said h have the jailers and murd ville, BelleIsle and Lib prison sitting under the flag they attempted to pull down, legislating for tye country they endeavored 10 destroy and trying to pinch and belittle and minimize the amounts to be paid mutilated and disabled survivars of the army of the union. The senator from Missouri had i t of indignation, where all to cnd! 1 will tell him, said Ingalis, and every senator on that side of the chamb whether he likes it or not, what wo intend to do. Itis going to stop when the arrears of pensions are paid: when lumitation is removed and oy soldier on the roils, or who gots on the rolls, 1s paid from the day of his disability, or in case of a survivor, from the date of the soldier's death, and when every surviving soldier of union arm, ut upon the rolls for. service only*hat is when it is going to stop, and if you this was goin don’t like it, make the bestof it. ~After eulo- gizing the grand army, Ingalls said in con- clusion: We propose to pass the bill. - Imitat- ing the language used on the other side of the chamber, T'hope it will pass the other bouse of congress, and if it does, let the iy LAST 19 At An End and Does Any One Regret It? We cani truthfully s ing so rapidly by incoming express, that we must have room. 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When the senator from Kansas undertook to speak of the chief executive of the country in the terms he had seen fit. to employ, and_which were deliberately prepared, he (Ingalls) certainly could no{ take issue with him (Blackburn) if he" concluded it was not entitled to response or reply in a presence 8o august and distinguished as the senate of the United States. He was not here to de- fend the president from such unwarranted attecks. He knew but one sin which the president had committed in the eyes of the senator from Knnsas. It was that of having defeated _the senator's party at the polls, He had given the American people for three years past 8o efticient, 80 honest, 80 clean- handed an administration as to doom the last republican aspirations to disuster. The sen- ator from Kansas, in his intemperate zeal, had not spared the sanctity of the grave. He had dragged up for abuse and vilification such men a8 had furnished with their un- blemished swords the brightest pages of American history. McClellan and Hancock were to denounced in the senate as allies of the confedarates. Would it not ha in better taste, (it would have been af mere credible to the courage and candor of the senator) if he had made such a charge before both these men were buried. Ingalls—I diq, often. [Applause.] Blackburn—Then so much the worse for the senator from Kansas. What warrant or ground had he for that except that they were both different from himself, at least in political faith, if not in_many other regards. Blackburn then devoted some time to hunt- ing down in a bantering mauner Ingalls’ mil- itary record. He was, he said, judge advo- cate of the Kunsas volunteers, While Gen- eral Black was bleeding on the Kansas fron- tier, while McClellan was commanding the army, While Hancock was weltering in his blood on the cemetary heights at Gettysburg, the senator from Kansas, always behind the rear of the army, was {:mmuting Kansas jayhawkers for rifing hen roosts. Now, what are you to think of the argument of senator who will leave his seat as presiding officer and come to the floor as an illustration of partisan zeal which-1 have never seen equaled, attacking all decent people from the president of the United States down, civilian as well us military men, and letting no object escape the venom of his tongue. 1 have never opposed pensioning disabled soldiers and 1 do not know the confederate who has. Blackburn then proceeded to refute the as- sertion that the southern states had never sent union soldiers to congre cluded: Party man as 1 am. confess myself to be, I sincerely trust | may never find my term of public service pro- longed to the day when, without warrant I will turn deliberately to traduce and abuse the dead, who, while living, were honored by all honorable men. [Loud applause.] Adjourned. House. ‘WaAsRINGTON, March 6.—The appointment of Mason, of Illinois, upon the committee on claims, was announced Mr. Thomas, of Illlnois, introduced a bill prohibiting the using of likenesses of females for advertising purposes, without their con- sent in writing, Referred. Considerationof the Alabam contested election case of . MeDuffie against Davidson was then resumed. Ferrell, of Virginia, supported the majority report. He ridiculed what he called the claims of the republican party that the negro vote of the south was invariably cast for the nominees of that party. That had been true. in the years gome by, but it was not naw. ‘The negroes were ‘mow learning who their friends were. The man of destiny who had arisen in 1854, had taken into his bi national heart all, sections and éxtended his protection over the north and south, over white and_colored, without discrimination. ‘The republican party of the south’ tricd to hold the negroes through their .churches and societies—through a system of intimidation L The colored m as abject slay as they had been the day when Lincoln with hesitating hand signed the emancipation proclamation. 1t was time that the democratic party should take a stand and sustain and support the colored men -in their right to vote as they please. Mr. Kerr inguired wiers the gentieman learned that Lincoln had signed the cmanci- pation proclamation with lies' ation, Mr. O'Ferrell in reply referred to the painting of the signing of the proclamation hanging on the walls of the chamber. Mr. Houteile, of Maine, said the gentleman from Virginia was unfortunately situated to know the history of his country at that time. Mr. O'Ferre!l objected to the remarks a8 wvurdl{A Mr. Houk of Teanessee, said the gentleman from Virginia had stated that all the colored people who used to vote the republican ticket now voted the democratic ticket. Was that the reason the domocratic majority in Vir- ginia had fallen off* from 50,000 to nothing, and that the democrats had only one or two members in the house from Virginia, while therepublicans had six or seven! If the democratic party had ever contributed any- thing to the emancipation of the colored people, it was on the principle of a kicking gun killing the things behind it instead of what it shot at., Mr. Boutelle said the gentleman from Vir- ginia had gone out of the course of his re- marks in order to cast a reflection upon the sincerity and earncstness of Abraham Lin- coln in the performance of the most import- ant act of his life. When he (Boutelle) sug- gested that the gentleman was not so situated as to be well informed on the point the gentleman had been very much excited and talked about bravery and cowardice. It required a very peculiar kind of bravery in any man to stand up before the American people and attempt to pluck from the brow of the martyred Lincoln 8o much as one single withered laurel leaf, placed there by common consent of the civilized world. After further debate of a political nature, the minority resolution deciaring McDuflie entitled to the seat was rejected—yeas, 123; nays, 144—and the majority resolution, de- claring the sitting member entitled to his seat, adopted without division, The house adjourned. e Rank, Rotten, Reeking. NEW York, March 6.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.|—Sardou's “La Tosca,” which Fanny Davenport produced the other eveu- ing, meets the general condemnation of critics and theater-goers for its coarse sensuality and repulsiveness. Speculation to-day is rife whether Anthony Comstock will not speedily move to abate it. The prevailing sentiment is one of wouder that even Paris could tolerate it. It1s the talk of the town, but the talk rywhere is the reverse of complimentary. The World interviewed many leading citizens who attended the first performances and the verdict was practically unanimous. Colonel Ingersoll alone was charitable enough to say he ‘“hoped it wouldn't do anybody any harm.” One jour- nalist proclaims it *‘rank, rotten, reeking.” Jt1s expected that few ladies will go to see it hercafter. L e Fatal Wreck on the Santa Fe. TriNIDAD, Colo., March 6.—[Special Telej gram to the Bre.]—A fatal accident occurred at 4 o'clock this morning at Holhine, a station cight miles cast of here, by the wrecking of the west-bound Atlantic and Pacific express on the Sante Fe railway, in which Leroy Mote, a brakeman, lost his life and one or two others were badly bruised. The train was running at a high rate of speed when the rear car, in which Mote was riding, was derailed. The unfortunate man was thrown into the corner of the car, a heavy steve fall- ng upon his head, crushing it into a jelly. The car was badly damaged.- The remains were taken to La Junta, where he has 4 wife and child. e Attempted Bank Robbery, Prr1ssure, March 6.—The Chronicle-Tele graph special from Bradford, Pa., says a desperate attempt was made to rob the Brad- ford National bank shortly before noon to-day. At that time there was no one in the bank but the cashier, Harvey Tomilson, Hearing a noise, he turned and discovered a young man behind the counter, just as tho latter grabbed a large bundle of bank notes. Tomilson seized the robber, and in the sirug- ensued the thief shot Tomilson fatally. He then took the money and started out, but the report of the pistol'had already attracted a crowd, and the robber, seeing that escape was impossible, shot himself in the head, fatally injuring himself. Suicide of a Banker, Cin 11, March 6.—Horman Abbee, aged twenty-seven, junior partner of E. H. 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