Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1888, Page 2

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. MONDAY. DECEMBER 17, 1888 DR. WIELIAMS TAKES HIS LIFE The Tragic Sequel of His Arrest on Saturday. SHAME DROVE HIM TO SUICIDE. After Writing a Pathetic Lotter to His Relatives, the Young Physt cian Swallows Poison and Quits the World Forever Dr, Williams Takes Potson Dr. George W. Williams was found dead fm bed in his office in the Arlington block yesterday morning about 9 o'clock, by his friend and attorney, Mr. Blair. The latter gentloaan had seen tho deceased the night before and iad made an arrangement to meet him in his offle at 8 o'olock an Sunday morning. He went t0 the oftice at the time appointed and after repeated Knocks and no response entered the room to find his friend and client reclining inan easy pos- ture apparently aslecp. His first impulse low the doctor to rest awhile, think t he had been engaged professionally during the night. Upon second thought, howaever, he resolved to arouse him, His as- tonishment and consternation n be imaz ined when upon approsching what he thought was his lively friend he found a lifoless corpse, cold and rigid. Ho at once raised an_alarm, and_the cor oner was summoned, On arrival inspection of the room was ordered, and several phials containing poison were found in and around the sleeping chamber. A bottle containing morhine stood prominently in the front and near the deceased. Upon further scarch a lotter was found adaressed to the corouer. It was conspicuously aud carefully placed so that it might not be overlooked. It read as follows : Mr. Coroner: Ithink you must take charge of my case, because I shall never be tried for a crime, Pleaso wire a mossage o umy father, Nathan D. Williams, Whitewater, Wis. My body should be interred in Ackle, Ta. The kot should as plain and inex- pensive as will bear shipment. Dit. Go W. WiLLIANS, L do- P. S.—A letter in the P. O. gen Vi na B. Zerle, or Nathan livery w D. William ssius C, Willlams, as the case may be. i The remains wore taken by the coroner to an inquest was held. 1t Blair was the last per- n the deceased alive. o'clock Saturdy talked over busi- noss matt and the deceased had agreed to meet the attorney on Sunday morning at his office at & o'clock. It was when keeping this engagement that Mr. Blair found his friend dead. At 10 o'clock on Saturday night Dr. Connell telephoned to Williams, asking if he could be of uny as- sistance, and_received a reply in the nega- tive. Nothing of a startling nature was disclosed at tho inquest, and after short deliberation they returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death by a_dose of poison ad- ministered by himself with suicidal intent. The jury, witnesses and hangers- m at = such scenes had dispersed when suddenly a man terribly excited and in hot haste came tearing into the coroner’s of- fice holding in his cxtended hand a letter which be hunded to the corouner. 'This man's name is Nathau Williams, and in calling at he postoftice for his mail the postoffice ofi- cial$ handed him an enveiope addressed Leona B. Zerle, or Dr. Nathan B. Williaws, C, C. Williams, General Delivery, Omaha. Mr. Williams opened the letter, and upon learning its contents at once turned and ran with it to the coroner, who on perusal found it was from Dr. Williams and was_intended for his sister Leona, or his father Nathan, or brother C. C., if either or all of them should come here on rveceiving notice of his death. It was also the letter referred to in the note to the coroner, It had been written very carefully and neatly. ‘There was in the hand writing no sign of nervousness or excitement. It read as fol- lows: 5 Omana, Dec. 15.—Dear Sister Leona: Your Jast letter came some time time ago and has been neglected. I write you this under most peculiar and _constrained circumstances, I met a misfortune to-day, which may cuuse mo to teke myself out of this life. This writ- ing will be mostly about business. Perhaps you may come here to adjust my affairs, 1 owe nothing in the city except a month or move of washing. RRent for Decembor is due, The lot should be saved and u title procured or the money paid should be refunded, Iam sure that Dr. Sprague (C. G.) would attend to this, because he knows all about it, There are some unpaid periodical accounts. * * * I have no doubt that some, possibly all, my insurance will bo paid. All expenses - curred on account of my funcral should be paid, including all traveliug cxpenses, and my note to myself. There are quite 3 num- ber of book accounts which' will never be paid. Dispose of carpets and furniture as thought best, and books also. There is a folding bed up stairs in the store room. Alma should have my watch and her picture with Aggie if she wishes it. Everything ‘which it is thought that Sade or Alma would ‘want should be preserved. Give mother and father and Cash and Tom anything awong the books which you thiuk best, 1 caunot tell you all that brings me to seek the undiscovered country, except that I do not fully realize myself, Let it suftice to say that Sade should never huve a thought of blawe for anybody. You must all love her and the child all you can. ;\'ultlml’ shoukd anyone else be blamed. I regrel it so much for the sorrow you will all feel and because 1 had hoped to accomplish yet so much in life, 1 cacnot write more, You must remember that Llove you all. Grorck W, WiLLIAM The Sade referred to in the above letter is supposed to be the wife of William, and Alma is thought'to be his daughter, It is sald that they aro both in Paris, From what can bo gathered it is evident that the doctor has had somewhat of an eventful career. He was born in White- water, Wis., about forty-throe ycars ago, He studied medicine at Harman’s college, Cl ongo, choosing the Homeopathic systom, ‘When next heard of he was in Marshalltow, Ia,, and evidently practiced there some ears. Whilst there he married a Wisconsin ady, became a father and separated from his wife, who was an artist. She then went to Paris to complote her studies, About four years ago he came to Omaha and was received very kindly by the medical rofession here. He was admitted tomem- rship in the Homeopathic Society of Doc- tors, & society which at that time comprised all the emincnt doctors of that school of med- foine practicing in the state. A llll.llu over a year ago revelations of a re- wolting nature were made by a Bee reporte: in which Dr, Williams was more or less im- plicated. It wus discovered that there was a creature in tha north part of the eity who xan a baby from, & place where babies of llegitimate birth are not particularly carcd for until after death, Tho keeper of this farm referred a person who was about to be- comwe & mother and who wanted to farm the child in case it lived, to Dr, Willisims as a pover, person wnddr such circunistances. or this he was expelled from the Homeo- pathic soclety. Nothing was then heard of the doctor until about ten mouths ago, when 4t was rumored that an editor namod Davis, of Rockford, 111, had, on behalf of u certain udf living' there who is & well known authoress and reader, sent to Omaha to make inquiries concerning the life and habits, past and present, of Mr, Williams, Nothing could be learned, however, except that he had once’been divorced. The next time the doctor's name came into jublio prominence was on Saturday, when e was arrested on the charge of nmduuil& a0 abortion, the complainant being John Stoveuson, & bricklayer, and the person ope- rated upon boing the Mtter's daughter, Lotta, a girl of twenty summers. Williams Was arrested and bound over to staud pre- liminary hearing before Judge Berka this afternoon, It is supposed thut bocause he foared this unpleasant notoriety the de- ceased committed suicide. It is said that the girl's father and brother the morgue, wh trauspired that M son known to have That was at evening. They then eatered the room of John Withuell, the ro- uted futherof Lotta's unborn child,at night at the point of their revolvers compelled Withnell to promise he would mairy girl. Withnell, however, did not kecp s but next auy wade his cscape to Ik be became engugod 1o & young lady who, it is said, he has lately ntime it s married. © In ' the me alleged that Lotta sought the professional ¢ of Dr. Williams, There is also a war rant out against John Withnell as an_alloged accessory to the crime, He had not, how: ever, been arrested up to midnight The coroner has telegraphed tho parents and frionds of the deccased, but no reply adv had been received up to midnight. It is said Dr Williams ~ went to Mr. Stonehill, the dry goods merchant, dvice about Stonchill was I'ne doctor stated he was in_pecuniary difficulties and wished to know if Mr. Stonehill thought it would be advisab! for him to advertise for patients at 25 conts per consultat After discussing the point and the effect such a system would have among the medical pro fossion in the city, it was decided to abandon the seheme, Tho remains of the deceased are now in the coroner's office awaiting advice from relatives ns to their disposition, it v's thread always the best, len Bros. and asked the advertising, ki AN ex Use Ko 5 sold and recommended by 11 - The Noxt House Republican, Chicago Tribune: No matter may be the proceedings in the Virginia courts to determine party is entitled to the four seats that stato in the Fifty-livst cong and no matter to whom the gove may give the certificates of election the control of the next house will be in the hands of the republicans, The actions of the governors of Lounisiana and Mary- land 1 giving certificatos to Coleman and Stockbridge (republicans) respoct- what West which from ively, and the certainty that Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, will issue the cer- tificate to Kvans (republican), have set- tled the matter absolutely. Any claims hereafter that the democrats will have a majority in the house can come only from uninformed parti- san newspapers like the one in Chicago which solemnly announced yesterday that the ap; nt trinmph of Pendleton (demoerat) in the first West Virginia through the patent counting-in process changed the complexion of the house, making it demcratic. The naked fact is the republicans can give the demo- crats all four of the West Virginin con- gressmen and still have a majority of three members in the house. This is proven by the following table, although the concession is made solely for the purpose of making the worst” showing that is possible for the republicans. As a matter of fact, the West Virgimia re- turns show on their face the election of Atkinson, MeGinnis and Smith (repub- lican) and Wilson (democrat), and it is no sure thing thoy will not get the gov- ernor’s certificates afrer all the prelim- inary tighting in the courts and elso- where has been ended, thereby incre: ing the republican majority from three to nine. State Rep. Dem.|STate. Rep, Dem, Alabama..... s[3issotrt 10 Arkansas..\. 5[Nebraska. California.... 4 2[Nevada...... 1 Colorado..... 1 ..|NewHshire. & i Connecticut’, 3 New Jersey.. 4 8 1 New York...10 15 2IN. Carolina.. 3 6 Georgia. . 10,0hio, 16 5 tiinoi 13 i|oregon 4 Indiana.....0 8 10/Pennsylvani 7 JTowa. .10 1|Rhode Island. 2 Kansas .. 11007 |8, Carolina @ KKentucky.. ... 2 |Teunessce. .. 8 7 Louisiaua.... 1 5Texas. 11 Maine ..[Vermont, EYn Mary! 4 Virgini § Massa's 2 Wisconsin 2 Michigan .... 9 2/W. Virgini 4 Minnesota .., — Mississipy 161 Sure repul Sleepless nights made miserable by Shiloh’s Cure is For sale by Good- that terrible cough. the remedy for you. man Drug Co. ———— Democracy Not Unwashed. Even Tid Bits has noticed that a Mis- souri constable rode out to a farm near St. Joe, armed with a subpana for a woman who was wanted as a witness in & caso in court. He found her in her back yard busily engaged in stirring a boiling, bubbling mass in a large black kcinlu. He stated his business and she said: “I can’t go to-day.” . ‘But you must.’” *What's the hurry?” 0“Why, court’s in session, and the case is now.on trial. They want you by noon.” *“Well, Iain’t going. You think I'm going off and leave this hull kittle .o’ saft soap to spile, just to please your old court? No, sirree.” “Why, my dear madam, you must: You really don’t seem to understand—'- “I understand that I've got a big kit tle o’ splendid soap grease on the bile and 1t’ll make thin, sticky soap if 1 ain’t finished to-day. You go back and tell the jedge so.” “You'll be fined for—" Pooh! 1I'd like to see the Missoury jury that'd fine a woman for not leavin’ her soap-bilin’ when it was at a critical plint, as one might say. Tell the jedge I’ll come to-morrow, if we don’t butcher our peogs then; an’ if we do, I'll come some day noxt week.” “But I tell you that won’t do. You must come now.”’ *Lookee, young man, you think I'm a fool? I rockon you never made any soup, did you? If you Lud, you'd know that—" **“What does the judge care about your soap?” “Well, what doT care *hout the jodge, if it comes to that? Law’s law and soap’s a'u:lh). Let the jedge 'tend to his law, an’ I'll "tend to my soup. The good book says there’s a time for evorytiing, an’ this is my time fer a bar'l o' suft soap.”! **Well, madam, if you wint to be fined for contempt of ‘court, all right. You will be flncd sure as—" “Bah! Ikvow all ’bout the law, an’ there ain’t anything in it, nor in the constitution of the United States, nor in the declaration of injeependence, nor in nothin else, that says a woman’s got to leave a kettle o’ half-cooked soap, and go off to court when she ain't a mind to. Iguess [ koow a little law myself."? The importance of purifying the blood can- not be overestimated, for without pure blood you eaanot enjoy good health, At this season Dearly every ono needs a good medicine to purify, vitalize, and enrich the blood, and Hood's Sarsaparilla is worlhy your eonfidence, It is peculiar In that it strengthens and builds up the system, ercates an appetile, and tones the digestion, while it eradicates disease, Give it a trial. 1 Hood's Sarsaparilla is sold byall mm Prepared by C. L Hood & Co., Lowell, 100 Doses One Dollar THE REPUBLICAN'S RECEIVER Mr Yost Gives Some Hints as to His Plans. WILL USE A PRUNING KNIFE. Several Useloss Appendages at the Douglas Street Establishment to be Lopped Off—Interviews With Nye and Taylor. Some Heads Will Fall, The aunouncement made in SUNpAY's Bre that Casper K. Yost had been appointed by Judge Dundy as receiver to the Omaha Re publican caused much comment m the city yesterday, and although the squabbling be- tween Cadet Taylor and various members of the Rounds family had naturally prepared the public for developments of a scnsational character, yet it came in the nature of a sur- prise to the general vublic to learn that the minority president had been defeated and a re appointed, IS, Yost was spoken with last night ly as fol- questod Mr. C and explained himself substantis lows: T was not surpriged to bo to act as receiver, for as you may be aware, things have nov been runuing very smoothly at the Republican. There have always been two factions there, headed by the tounds, and by Taylor., I cannot now what ‘I will do with the If upon careful investigation I igs all right, as I hopo I shall, the concern will possibly be kept running along as at present, but with this difference, that I shall cut down all the red tape system intro- duced by the late management, which has proved perfectly useless in a business of this sort, and must have eaten up enormous sums in salaries and expenses,”! When asked if te would continue to run the Republican newspaper, Mr. Yost said he could hardly say, but he apprehended that there would be little doubt but what some competent person or persons would desire to acquire that portion of the property, and, mamtain it as one of the leadiug’ state Journals, When asked how Yost and Nyo stood to- ward the late compavy in financial matters the reply was that the company’s obligat to them had been ligidated up to Janua 1550, In further conversation, Mr. Yost said that the rows between the Rounds and Taylor families had, without doubt, led up to the receivership appointment and, in his opinion, it was the only way justice could be done to the stockholders. SA little over two s ago,” said M Yost, “I haaded over to Rounds and Taylor a business any man could have been proud of, und if the interested parties had only worked harmoniously together they could have made lots of money. But tho truth is, both of them were unable to grapple with a concern of such dimensigns. They never r alized how fine & job printing business the, were acquiring, apd to the last had never perfectly got out ¢¥ the daze that had envel- oped them.” Fred Nye was interviewed at his residence on South Tenth street. This gontleman said ; *The Omaha Republican doesn't owe Yost and Nye a cont. Everything up to January 1, 1380, has been paid. No, I don’t think it will be a morning Republican’ and an even- ing World, although Mr. Hitcheock, or any one else, I suppose, who cared to do 80, might purchaso the Republican, Of course, I cannot say positively, but I don't think Mr. Hitchcock has any idea of acquiring the Rep.” Mr. Nye attributed the Kepublican's difliculties to the feud between Cadet Taylor and the Rounds family. Mr. Nye strongly animadveried upon the extravagance of the management in paying £, W. Test $200 or $300 a month, and S. P. Rounds, jr., a yearly salary of #2,500 for services of a very insignificant nature. Cadet Tuylor’s “‘take” as president was about $5,000 a year. Mr. Nyo further said that no pressure had been brought to Dbear upon the late executive by Mr. Yost and himself, except that when the validity of their mortgage was imperiled by non-pay- ment of taxes, he (Mr. Nye) did go down_to Iumluepublicmn oftice and *‘brace them up” a ittle. Cadet Taylor, late president of the Repub- lican company, when interviewed remarked that there was very little 1o be said about the affair. ‘‘That,” said he, “‘explains ali,” and a copy of yesterday's Republican was placed in the' reporter's hands, It was opened at the editorial page and attention was drawn to the following: To the Public—On account of a disagree- ment om the part of the stocihold ers of the Omaha Republican com- pany, and by mutual consent of all parties concerned, on potition of Mrs. Martha A. Rounds, Judge Dundy, of the United States court, last evening appointed Mr. C. E. Yost receiver, with full power to take possession of the property and conduct the business. The receiver, in accordance with the order, entered upon his dutios last night. There wiil be no interruption of the business. Mr. Taylor declined to say anything further thun that the company was perfretly solvent and under Mr. Yost's management would undoubtedly do well. He had tried his best to make things run smoothly, but had been antagonized on all sides. There had been several offers made Tor the pur- chase of the newspaper, to be run separately from the job department, and there was no doubt but that the whole concern would do excellently in the future. When spoken to as to his personal rela- tions with the Rounds family, Mr. Taylor said that he found no difficulty in getting along with Mrs, Rounds. 1t was other mem- bers of her family that proved difficult to worlk with. Asked as to what his plans were for the future, Mr. Taylor replied that he could hardly say. Charged With Embezzlement, Mr. H. Muntefering and Mr, J. A. Cava- nagh, of this city, left last night for Wilbur, Ncb. They are to appear as witnesses against Bugene Schilling churged with em- bezzling $2,600 from the Union Trust com- pany of Omaha, Schilling, was the agent of the mpany at Creto and also dabbled in politica. He aspired to the position of police Judge and to help him on his way, it is said, used $2,600 of the Union Trust company’s money which was sont him as their agent in order that he might negotiate a loan on real estate in their name. Mr. Schilling suc- ceeded in obtaining the position ot police judge and was immediately indicted by the and jury for empozzloment. He at prosent holds the position of police judge at Crete and will appeur next week bofore the district court at Wilbur to answer to the charge of embezzlement, Death of F. W. Jones. T'red W. Jones, manager of the cloak and suit depurtment av Falconer's dry goods store, died last evening at bis residence, 1513 Howard streot. The deceasod had been suf- toring from typhoid fover during the last waeek, but his friends had not anticipated fatal results. He ad been in Mr, Falconer's guplog for tho last four years, and, during that tino, had made himself éndeared not alono to his follow employes, but to everyone with whom he came in contdot. Mr. Joues was in his thirtioth year and leaves a widow to mourn the loss of a loving and faithful husband. The funeral will take place this afternoon at 3 o'clock from tho residence. The remains will ba interred in Forest Lawn cometery. “It’s only a question of time,” aud a short time, t00, as to when your rheu matism will yield to Hood's Sarsapa- rilla. Try it. N Affairs at Sunkim, Suvaxmw, Dec. 16.—A reconnaisance was made on the left and rear of the rebels’ po. sition today. The party was headed by General Grenfell, and advauced under a teavy fire from the forts. The Arabs opened fire, but,did no damage. e Duryea's Farewell Sermon, BostoN, Deo. 16,—(Special Telegram to Tuk Bee.|—~This morning Dr. S. Duryea preached his final sermon as pastor of the Central Congregational church. He wll probably leave for his new church in Omaha Wednesday. Sy Wo rec'm’d Korr's thread, Hayden Bros “LEWIS THE LIGHT." He Consignas a Wealthy New York Congregation to Perdition New York, Dec. 16.—[Special Telogram to Tur Bee.|—"Liwis the Light" created a sensation in Trinity church yesterday. A argo audience was ‘awaiting the appear anon Knog £6 deliver his noonday s on, when thig eccentric Brooklynite peared in the lm(pn, clad in garments secmed to be & cunbination of base ball and lawn tennis uaifarms, Before any one in the astounded audience conid regain his wits Lewis spread out his long arms and delivered this awful carse: “Behold my advent as your judge. Stay in hell and be damne Having consigned the wealthy penitents to pordition, Lewis procceded to read this proclamation : wis, dominator of the world, decree new election, h now rules over all foc li ‘tho to all, of life or death h 1s man's last and only enemy, Extinetion of death his only hope. Your soul, your broath ends by death. Whew—whoop! We're all in the soup Who's all right? LEwrs e Licnr, By this time several gentlemen in the con gregation started to hussle the “Light" of the pulpit, but he anticipated the move- ment and came down of his own acco ewis' is known the world ov A ye or 80 ago be got into troublo in London by ampting to detace some statuary in West- Abbey and came to this country. vife set up_a barber shop in Brooklyn ond he continued to dispense light. Some months ago he appoared at Dr. Talmage's church attired iu & base ball suit and was turned out. ile is now suing the trustees for £5,000 damages, —— The Weather Indications. For Nebraska: Fair, mer, variabie wina: or Towa: Fair, sightly cooler, followed in western portion by wariner, northwesterly winds, or Dakota: lowed by warm Fair, slightly coldor, fol- , winds becoming variabie, 3 ——— A Possum Ridge Courtship. Dotroit Free Press: Old Hobson’s fourth wife had been dead @ month, when one morning he ecaught up his horse, saddled him with an old sheep- skin furnished with vope stirrups, and mounting, rode off dowh the ‘“‘hog path” leading to Squire Beeson’s in the interior of Missouri. Hobson was in a hur but the old horse wasn't, and went on at a leisure gait. “*Drat sich a jokin’ crittor,” old Sim mused as he kicked and thumped his hools agaiust the old plug’s bony sides, "l(“cr" feller’s in er hurry, he'd best walk.” o He thumped and kicked till at last the ‘‘critter” broke into a jog trot, which he held for a dozen yards, then relapsed again into his natural gait, a sort of a cross between a walk and a crawl, Riding up to Beeson’s front gate, Sim Hobson “‘helloed” two or three times, und then a grizzled, gray, unshorn head was thrust out at the slightly opened door, and a voice exclaimod: “‘Howdy, Hobson? Git down.” **Hain’t time I reckon, squire.” “‘Summat of er hurry, e “Yas, I'm or goin’ tor git married; an’ T want yer ten go Ylong an’ jine us.” “Who yer goin ter marry. Sim?” “Dunno fer shore yit, but I ruther 'speet D'l jine onter old Miss Skaggs.” *'Spoke to 'er erbout it, I reckon?” “No, not yit I huin’t, but Ireckon it’1l be all right with her. If it hain’t, we’ll go on down to Miss Thompson’s. T know she’ll be willin’. Thought I'd take yer 'long 0’ ter make one trip do an’ hev it over.. "Tain’t no use ter be foolin’ erway two days er gittin’ mal ried, when ther crop is in ther grass, an’ asides marpyin’ er wife hain’t no move’n buyin’ of er hoss.” “Yer sensible thar, Sim,” the squire said, as he led forth his horse, and he and Hobson rode atray to Widow Skaggs’ domiclle. When they rode u}u the widow was out in the back yard boiling soup. She know ola Hobson’s errand as quick as she noted the fact that he was wearing a white shirt and that his shoes had been :reshly dressed with a coat of cold tal- ow. “Geveunin’, Miss Skaggs,” Sim said. “Howdy, Hobson,” she replied. J “T've tuck er notion ter murry ergin,” Hobson went on, *an’ me an’ ther squire’s come ter sce ef yor willin’ ter jine me,” “When?”? “Right now, o’ case. T fotched ther squire evlong fer that purpose.” “Wall, I hain’t thought much of it, but bein’ as you've gone to the trouble o bringin’ the squire I reckon I mout as well marry yer.” ve aheed then, squire,” Hobson we're ready.” “Hitch yer fists,” the squire com- manded, ‘‘an’ less git through, fer I gotter tote er turn o’ corn ter mill,”” “I'm ready,” the widow said, taking old Hobson’s hand, “but hurry up, fer that fetched soap’s goin’ ter bile over.” The sqire went through the cere- mony in short order, while the widow kept her eye on the soap kettle to see that it did not bile o - . Metal Ties, Denver Hépublican:—The tie problom is one the solution of which the railwuy companies of the United States will have to face in the near future. This is specially true of companies operating rouds in the west, The same problem confronts the railway companies of northern Mexico, The forest area of the west is not ficent to supply all the railronds e ing and prospective with wooden ties. An ofticial of the Southern Pacific rail- road says that th is_more lumber lying beneath the rails in the United States than there was standing in all the houses and buildings in this coun- try twenty-live years ago. The Railway News asserts that iron and steel have not sulficient elusticity for ties and that there is practically no substitute for wood. But the correctness of this view is questionable. Metal ties are in com- mon use in Germany, where they seem to give satisfaction, . The elusticity of a steel tie would, doubtless, depend very much upon its shape and the man- ner in which it would be bedded, The chief advantage of steel over wooden ties would consist in their great durability, This would make them particularly desirable in the far west if they were in other respects satisfac tory. ~ In this part of the country tim- ber is not only searce buv it is also of a softer and less ‘durable character than the hard wood of the east. Colorado has sueh an abundance of iron ore suitable fon the manufacture of steel, that the malking of steel ties would become a groat: industry in this state if the railroad'companies were to substitute them for the wooden ties now in use. e The President’s Kstablishment, Philadelphia New The drive from Oak View is a good seven miles, and the president greatly enjoys it. He has had the buggy only nd;w weels, and uses it whenever he can. Thoroad is FM all the way' and he usually makes the trip in about thre-quarters of an hour. He has always been an early riser, and gets up in time to eat bis breakfast and drive to town by 8.30 o'clock usually, and ravely later than 9 o'clock As the president drove up the avenue ata good pace hut few heads were turned, and one could not help thinking of the plainness and simplicity of the whole proceeding—the hoad of the nation driving to his day's work unattended by coachman, courier, foot- wan or putrider. down, git SOME NEW NEBRASKA TOWNS A Correspondent Gives Short His tories of Several. CAUGHT IN A CORN SHELLER. David Palmiteer, of Ocones Has His Arm Torn O -Paving and Street Cars -~ Othér State ltems, New Nebraska Towns, TarMAGE, Neb,, Dec. 18.—|Spacial to Tns Bek.|—The Crote branch of the Missouri Pacitic railroad, which runs from Talmage to This Crote, was completed in October last. road runs through one of the most fc and thickly settled portions of the state, and a numbor of prosperous towns have sprang up along the line since 1ts complotion, Pas senger and freight trains make round trips daily over this road, the distance between the two places being fifty-cight miles. The passenger traffic is small, but from the start the road has doune a good fr Cook, located ten miles west of on theline between Otoo and Jolnson co ties, is the first town on the road. 1t has two large grain clevators, one lumber yard, two hardware and two general merchandise stores, A number of new business and dwelling houses are now in course of erec tion, and a bank and hotel will be started the first of the year. The amount of grain that is marketed at this point would do credit to an older and much larger town. Burr is the next town on this road and is located in southern Otoe, seven miles west of Cook. This town has two general mer- chandise and one hardware store, a good hotel, two elevators, one lumber yard and a livery stablo. Several good dwelling houscs have already been built, aud more are in pro- cess of construction, Her enterprising busi- ness men have built up a prosperous town since last July. - ‘'he largest and best town on this lino of road is Douglas. It is'located in the soutli- western part of Otoe county, about six miles west of Burr. The mercantilo business is well represented here and the merchants v as large and well assorted stocks of goods as can be found in many of the older towns, Hendricks is the nume of the post- office, but 1t is more than likely to be changed to_Douglas in the near future. Panama, the next town on the road, is lo- cated in the southeastern part of Lancaster county. This town is just starting and bids fair to make a good trading point. Sprague und Kramer aro_ located in caster county, between Hickman and Crete. Sprague has two stores and an elevator Kramer is too close to Crete to got much trade. These towns have no mail facilitics except what is carried overland twice a weelt. An effort is being made to have o mail route established, but with no apparent success as yet. 1 busines Talmage, 3 Nebraska City's Industries. Nenraska Ciry, Neb, Dec. 16.—[Special to Tne Bee)—The paving contract of Will- fam Nevins & Co., of Omalia, was to-day fin- ished, and Central avenue is now paved over o mile m length. The stroet car line of five miles is also nearly completed, and cars will be running by the 20th of the month. The line extends from the Missouri Pacific depot, at the foot of Central avenue, west nearly two miles to Morton park, a mile south to the stock yaras, to the 13. & M. depot, and back to the Extensive stables for the company are being erected on Twenty-fiest strect. When the line is in running order it will be the best thing Nebraska City has yet secured if the way of public improvements, The line will be greatly extended in the spring, 80 as 10 take in almost the entire city The new stock cxchange was formally opened at the stock yards last week. The building 18 one of the best and costliost of its kind in tho state, and u credit to Nebraska City. Work ' at the yards has only fairly commenced, and the packing housos are not yet, running to_their full ca- pacity, owing to the extreme warm weather, which'greatly rotards operations, Tho Nebraska cannmg factory has just closed a very siccessful Scason, during which time nearly five hundred -thousand cans of corn, beans and tomatoes have been put up, besides supplying cans for a number of other factories throughout the state, Dur- ing the past vear the company has paid out about 850,000 in wages and to farmers, ete. The products of this factory ave being shipped_to St. Paul, Sioux City, Omaha, Kansas C enver and Pueblo, During the season just closed about one hundvea and fifty men, womon, boys and_girls have been employed, and twelve mon find_employment all the year around. The plant will be greatly ehlarged next season and the busi- ness increascd. All kinds of goods will be canned and everything made that is usually put up in the most extensive works of this kind. The canning factory s onc of Ne- braska City’s principal industr The incandescent system of cicetric hghts will be put in this cily within the next two weeks, and the clectric light plant enlavged. The postofice building will be completed noxt week, and_the business movod therein about the 1st of January. The free delivery system, which has been ordered for N braska City, will be put. into effcct the 1st of February. Stockville Prospects. SrockviLie, Neb,, Dec. 16,—[Special to Tug Bee.]—Two huundred und fifty miles southwest of Omaha and 255 wiles east of Denver, Stockvilie, the liveliest town in the county, located in the Medicine Valley, is pleasantly situated and is the county s Frouti ounty, Neb, Its elevation of feot above the sca level frees the atmosphery from malaria and renders the climate mor: salubrious and Lealthful thun that of ma so-called health resorts, Its population 1s about two hundred, and 18 steadily increas- ing. It has a court house almost completed, a fine roller mill with a capacity of 100 bar- rels of flour per day, and still'the rippling waters of the fountain fed Medicine have volume and power enough to run a number of other mills and factories yet to be. Its business me brim full of cnergy aud vim, and carr mplete stocks in their soveral lines of trade, Its public-spirited oitizens have appropriated money for tho erection of a large church building. Lots are now worth from 25 to §300, The rich alluvial soil of the adjacent table-lands and fruitful valleys ym\junn all kinds of farm and garden products in abundance and un- surpassed excellence, Here was the chosen homie of the wild horse and the huffalo; hence it is an exceedingly fine stock country. Land is now worth from $300 to $2,000 p quarter-gection, according to the lmprove ments, McCool Junction Notes. McCooL Juscriox, Neb, Dec. 16,-[Spe- to Tus Bre)—Farmers through this seotion are happy, The fiue weather of this fall has given them an opportunity to get their corn husked before snow flies, Hut very little corn in this section now remains in the field. MeCool Junction has experienced no boom this season, but is re- ceiving @ steady growth. A new school liouse has rocently been completed at a cost of $2,500. A new church is ncaring comple- tion at @ cost of about $1,500. ‘Thore ave u number of residences and store buildings uader construction, Our merchants aud grain dealers have expericnced the best trade this full of auy time in the bistory of our town, Corn Las been coming in at the rate of from 4,000 to 6,000 bushels per da; although it hus decreased considerable sinc the depression iu prices Caught in a Corn Sbeller. Covunuus, Nob., Dee. 16.—|Special Tole- gram to Tur Bre)-David Palmiwer, of Oconee, met with a frightful aceident last ovening while usiug a corn cutter, His arm was caught in the machine, broken in several vlaces and finally torn from the shoulder. He is suffering torribly, but hopss are tertained of his recovery, Drs. Schuz aud us, of this place, ure attendiug b, A Wreck at Benkelma BENKELMAN, Neb, De Lelegraw t0 Yus Bye, Pears’Soap Fair white hands; Brightclear complexion Soft healthful skin. TPEARS'--The Breat English Complexion SOAP,---Sold Evemmero.': WP —— ——— - t train No. 121 ran nto the roar of | I'rom Calais ght train No, 130 at this placo this even tunncl under the scoping the ¢ templated, adly disabling engine No. 46, No one an the Railway was hurt. The biame seems 1o rest on the necr of No, 180, as he had orders to get he chief value of our great rvailway, f the way of No. 126, but neglected to | however, would be as a means of roache do so. His name is Davidson. Trains can | jng not London, or oven Lurope, but pass on the side track Russia, China and Indin, Pekiv,which \is is easy. vitish Isles a channel, 1 must be built, OFf this Ago says t 1080 and one box o T o is nearly on tho latitude of Philadel- L After Many Years. phin, is something like 8,500 miles Glohe-Democrat: What proves to be [ southwest of the Behrine st it, making & most intevesting and romantic story | the journey from New York to Pekin, of the return of & man who has been mournad as dead for a quarter of a cen- tury has just come to light. of the story is an old man say 0,000 niiles. Caleutta, on the ndian ocean, ig a matter of 2,000 miles furthe The hero [ on, and that I eventually bo linked 1 amed An- | o our new homisphere by steel rails, drew J. Joyce, who is now soventy-five What a tremendous impetus this en- years of His whereabouts was dis- | gerpriso, onco completed, would give tovered by the merestchiance, The be- | the missionary cavso. The poople. of giuning of the story dates back to the | the world may ere long be circumnavi- lato W At the beginning of the w gating it by rail rather than by water. he resided in M t, G and W The Littlo 3,000 mile diteh betwoen New possessed of quite a number of slaves, | York and Liverpool would be a slight and was quite prominent. He left his | intorruption, to be sure, but it would {)l:n'n of residence with a num- [ pecessavily bo a pleasant one to the berof megroes, whom he dis- | tedium of " the locomotive's whistle and posed of and converted the vroceeds | tho train's rattle. of the sale into tobacco. Erom’ - that time to the presont his friends had Catarrh cured, health aud not heard of him. It was thought that reath secur by Shiloh's sweet h he had meta band of guerrillas, who | Remedy. 50 conts. Nusal In- illed and robbed him of his' pos- | jector - free. Por by Goodman ons. ; Drug Co. Judge ¥ Humphries, of Helena, - Tho Anarchists Disappointed Citicaco, Dec. | 0 or three small meotings of anarchists and socialists wero held to-day, but developed nothing sensa- tional. Mrs. Parsons, contrary to announce- went, did not arrive home to-night from her trip to Europe. The iittee of her friends who were to meet her at the depot were notified last evening th she would not reach the eity till to-morrow, - @ to Mothers. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup shoule be used for children tecthing. 1t soothes the child, softens the gums, ullays all pain, curesjwind colic, and is the bost remedy for Alarrieeu. 25e a bottle. e ' Pawn. It is understood that King Milan is in_pawn_in Austria for gambling debts. It would bo inte .y and < of the circuit court, re- ed a dingy looking letter from New Orleans, stating that the writer's name was A. J. Joyce, and that he had just gotten out of « Cuban prison, where he had been imprisoned since 1867. He further stated that ho had written hun- dreds of letters to his friends and rela- tves and nover veceived a reply, and that the only way he learned of the judge’s whereabouts was through the AN means of an old nowspaper, in which he noticed that he had been re-elected as | circuit clerk of this county. In his letter Joyce said he became a blockade runner during the war and made four seccessful runs, and on the fifth he was captured; that he operated with the son of an ex-governor (Wells). He did not state how he be- came imprisoned. Judge Humphries as- soon he received the letter tele- | esting to know what is done with roy- graphed toa Mr. Roberts, of Tyler, | alty in pawn. Is he ticketed with a "Tox., a son-in-law of Joyee, stating that | number and put on an upper sholf to father-in- was still living, | gather dust among other collatorals of Jewry, until he shall be redeemod? Is ho hable to be sold with the sccond- hand clothing, the battered accordeons, the tarnished plated ware and the showily framed chromos with which we ave all” familiar in the pawn-broker’s ure | window? The demand for second-hand vod | kings can not be great in Burope, . | where they are so plenty, and the price should not be exorbitantiy high. There are many American millionair- esses whoare on the seareh for titled hushunds who would be extromely fool- Steps were immediately taken to have him provided for. A letter from Tyler, Tex., received to-day, “says that he is now there with his daughter, who has long mourned him as being dead. Joyce has u son and daughter in this county. alsoa son-in-law. A peculiar f connected with the first letter rece from him. after such an absence, w thatthe first sentence in the lotter r lated to the last civcumstance. that his friends and relatives remember in con- nection with his disappearance.namely, | 1 X 1 A tho sule of a c n lot of negroes. Ho | 15h to let an opportunity like this of begins by telling that he sold the ne- [ Purchusing a crowned head po unim- groes, and from that he branches off on | proved. Itis true the king's past has other subjects. He has boen woikoned | ot been one to encourage matrimonial in mind and body by his lengthened | aspirants, but it was long ago proved confiuoment, ) 0¥ s lengthonod |l Amercans in_seareh of | titlod e husbands were quite superior to Hosford's Acid Phosphate any considerations of this sovt. A Imparts Rencwed Strength king, moreover, who was bought and vigor where there has been ox- | ata pawnbroker’s auction should be re- haustion, garded as 5o absolutely the property of S the purchaser as to have no right to be To London by Rail, Cincinnati Times-Sta In the in- fancy of railroad history a proposition 1o cons a railroad line from the Mississippi viver to the Pacific oceun would have been laughed to scorn. Even after the Union Pacific was com- pleted a plan for building a brid twenty-two miles across a luke, such as unpleasantly self-nssertive. Iis wife would always have itin her power 1o threaten to return him to the puwnshop from which he came, a throat which would be i to be quite torrible enongh to r him to subjection even in his most v o, It is inst all precedent that things should turn out as they have, kvery duc rellions m the one on which the Cincinnati, choss player knows that while a pawn Orleans & Texns | now cros: may be advanced to become a king Lalte Pontchartrain, would have been | there is neither rhyme nor reason in looked upon as altogether chimevieal. | transforming a king into a pawn, The very fact that this condition is so anoma- lous would be lik to reduce his majesty to a mazement s0 grent as to rende ageable. I The proposition for an all-rail route to Great Britain and the con tinent now being urged by engi- neers, finds no more favor with an increduious public than did thos propo- | nobody wants to mar 1im _he might sitions which have just been mentioned, | prove n good investment for Barnum or and which vs wgo became accom- | the dime museum meng that he must ul- plished fucts, The plin to reach Great | timately be sold to somebody is evident Britain by rail does not embrace a tun- | from the fuct that he has absolutely ex- nel under the Atlantic, it in fact pro- | hausted his eredit, and that his frionds vic for going west rather than ¢ decline to huve anything more to do 1t provides for a railrond to those west- | with him. Under these cireumstances ern limits of Alaska which bo he ix more likely to he bought by an Behting strait, for hody else, and thirty or forty miics, on o bridge and | we with euriosity " the unnunl then conneeting with the proposed 1 cle ale of the Austrian mont de rond by which IRussin s to reach her | pete; where his majesty is at presont custernmost possessions. The rost of | dustily veposing. 4 Ameviean than'by an await MUSTANG LINIMENT m“\s\»‘w\ws. ble by €% [ Thus the * Mustang” conquers pain, Makes MAN or BEAST well again! R. R. R. RADWAY'S READY RELIEF THE MOSE CERTAIN AND SAKE PAIN REMEDY wopld that istunfly stops the most exeruclating pains, 1t never fails to give 0azo to the sutlerer of Pain aels: g (Fola whitever ci 5 1 tenly, tho great s CONQUEROR OF PAIN, seuw LALNS, BRRUIGES, BACKAUIE, PAIN OF iy Othier extorial | W il nd has dono mory good thin any known r N THE o 5, HEADACIH) IACH 4n'|‘."|j<"|‘l\lv .:‘,‘M. 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