Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 18, 1889, Page 9

i i | i | : THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 18 1880~TWELVE PAGES, THE LOCAL FIELD OF SPORT. What the Oity Owes to Manager Seloe's Ball Tossers. AN ANSWER FOR THE KICKERS. How Olubs Get Bitten in Buying In- competent Pitchers — A Word For Doescher — Andiences to Be Proud Of. Review of the Week. . A very even pace has been maintained by the teams of the Western association during the past week, and, relatively, they occupy the same positions. Omaha is gradually but surely drawing away from all competitors and a few more gnmes will give them a lead that will be the next thing to Impossible to overhaul. There is a reportcurrent that the mavagement are not particularly anxious . whether the team wins the flag or not, labor- ing under the fallacious idea that in that case it will require fully asstrong,if novastronger teamn, noxt year to make the sport self-su ning in this oity. This is & wrong view to take of the matter, the pennant is there is to strive for, the capture of which > makes the teawn the champion team of tne . Western association, Such an achievement 18 worth thousanda of dollars to the players, s it augments their chances of future em- ployment with the big leagues at good fat salaries, and they should not be a party to ny scheme to come in second or third. If they know on which side of their bread the oleomargerine is, they'll strain every nerve and fibre and sinew to collar the bunting. The fight for the coveted trophy in the Na- tlonal league is hot and furious, and during the past week has bristled with charfzes. New York pulied up alongside the Beun Eat- ©rs, galloped along neck and neck for a day or €0, then shot to the front, and a groan went up from the cultured hub that was heard from one end of the land to the other. Boston, however, refused to remain_behind, and she closed up and again went into first place Friday, when she shut out the Babies, and the Giants suc- cumbed to_Pittaburg. Phiabelphia is com- ing in at & ratthng pace, and will soon be right up among the leaders. Chicago plays with varying success, while Cleveland ‘is still astride the -toboggan, Indianapolis is laying finely, and will yet take a good posi- fon. Pittsburg and Washington are bring- ing up the rear. In the American associa- tion St. Louis and Brooklyn are fighting a tremendous battle, and from present indica- tions it promises to continue just as exciting until they come under the winning wire. The B3rowns, of course, are in the lead, but the margin is so narrow that the Bridegrooms are liable to rob them of 1t &t any stage of the game, and if they once sucoeed in this, then Von der Ahe might as well say ta-ta to the flag. AaT Anent the Manager. The testimonial tendered Manager Selee last Thuraday netted the aeserving gentle- man something like $400,and a handsome silk umbrella from the team, and everybody says that 1t was well. The usual kickers and croakers never stop to give the mattera thought, when they ask the question, “What've want- to benefic Selee for, he gets pald for his work the same as you or I That's all right, so he does, but he hasn’t stdrted any national bunks off his salary, just yet a while. It should be taken into consideration that Omaha's ball team is the vdty bost advertisement the city has to-day, and anything that advertides the city cer- talhly accrues to the benefit of the general apulation—to business men in particular, Who gave us this ball teamt A gencrous, enterprising little .coterie of business men who are receiving a small return_for their trouble and expense, judging from the week- day atteudance at the ball park. But it was not the stockholders or the directcrs of the Omaha base ball club who rounded the team up to 1ta present magnificent standard but the wise and competent manager, Frank G, Selee. To be sure, that was what he was hired for, but when u man does extra good work for'his employers and_ the people, tov, he is deserving of @ little extra recognition. Selee may not be very handy with his mouth orf the street corners, and to every meddle- BOme crank Who 8ees proper to upproach him for information that is private with the management, but he. gots there just the same. He is ns good a judge of a bull player o there is in the _country to-day, is carerul apg studious in the control of his men, and wall qualified to_execute the work for which hg has been engaged. The Local Audiences. Omaha can well afford to take a pride in Dgr base ball audicnces, made up as th.ey aro of the city's very best people, both ludies and gentlemen. Visiting teams are treated ‘with marked courtesy, and it has been a rare thing even for any obstreperous or obnox- jous foreign player to receive u hoot- fng or a hissing .ut the local park. The visitors are accorded just as much applause as the home team, ana a spirit of fhlrness and impartiality always prevails. Another feature about the Omaha audience 18 that they don't want to see the home team get the best of the umpiring to an urjust de- rge—all they wunt is the clean, white ar- icle ull through, and no fault will be found. All the visiting clubs are unanimous on this oint, and say they would rather play on the Dinaba groutds, next to their ow, of any in the association, not undeserved. A Word for Doescher. Herman Doescher, in his immaculate white flannet suit, cuts a figure upon the ball field pleasingly at variauce with that of sotne of the umpires we have had here this year, and he is to be congratulated. Another thing abaut Doecher, and that is that his work here, 80 far has been thoroughly impartial and first-class in all details. He has a good voice and uses it quickly and decisively, and even 1he “bleachers’ have only found one or two opportunities to do a little mild roasting. 18 & well-known fact, however, thut Do was formerly one of the best judg: game of ball in the country, but he got into an unfortunate imbroglio With one or two of the American Association teams while offici- ing for that body, aud has lain quiet ever since his resignation. This is o compliment, but As Big Suckers in the Sen. There has been some colossal suckers in the base ball business withiu the past few years and from some budding indications they are not all out of it yet. However, buse ball ple are not the only business men who have been gloriously stuck in making big 1n- vestments in what ‘was supposed to be su- or talent. In the same manner that Mil- ‘waukee threw away $1,000 on Pitcher Free- man, And Deuver $1,600 on McNabb, snd worse still, Kunsas City, for $3,500, got noth- g but a deac-urm player in Pickett, somo of the big moguls of the turf have lately been. sonked. FKor instance, the Chicago Stables got terribly left on Galen, the crack race horse. They zave up 10,000 good round dollars for this startling two-year-old, only to discover that they had secured practicaily no hiorse at all. Galen went “dicky" in his fore legs, and to-day he can't beat an ice Wagon. 9 A Fistic Change lmminent. On the result of the trials of the partioi pants in the late fight at Richburg, Missis- sippi, hangs the fate of Loudon prize ring rules fighting in this country unquestion- sbly. f these offenders are heavily fined, she London rules are knocked in the head for all time, excepting in remote places on the frontier. And this is as it should be, Prominent clubs i the larger cities have fully demonstrated that boxing contests to a Bnish can be held without violating the law, The present rules' for amateur contests can be vastly improved nrn for professionals, they probably wil! h-g: bgw near future, a8 o lnsure plenty of flstic sport without fear from the police and the law, State Lawn Lennis Tournament, The Lincoln tennis club has appointed S, L. Geisthardt, William E. Hardy and Hal ‘Young & comumif ’to arrange a state tour- pawent in Li {mmediately after the state fair. Playera at Omana, Kearney, Hastings, Pawnee City, Elwood and Arupa- hoe have expressed ' desirg for such a tour- ney. Lincoln is the most central city, and Mr. John Lathrop, of Omahs, offers to co-operate with the committee. The Lincoln © elub has five dirt courts, all in fine condition and enclosed with a high wire fence, ana a club house with shower baths and other conveniences. The club will give the use of its grounds, furnish balls, provide a custodian and otherwise entertain the visitors. An offort will be made at the tournament to organize a state association. The Wind Up. * The final gare of the hand ball contest be- tween Byrnes and Burke, of South Omaha, and Kirby and Kilgallon, of this city, will take ‘place this afternoon at Burke's hand ball court, South Omaha, beginning at 8 o'clock, sharp. After the' match game has been decided there will be a contest for a hundsome gold medal, embiematio of the wostorn hand_ball championship, presented by Dominick Hart, of this city. Questions and Answers. Would yof SUNDAY KR the ages of all the players in the Western association, and oblige.—Con- stant Reader, Greeley Center, Neb, Ans.—Can't give you the ages of each in- dividual, but thoy range anywhere from thirteen to one thousand years old. Kid Nichols will be thirteen this corn-cutting, and Fzra Sutton was one thousand years of age day before yesterday. Plense_answer in your Sunday sportin column the following query: Ina game of ball there are men on first and second bases, the batter hits a liner to the third baseman, who _is playing off his base. After catching the ball the baseman steps in th® line and throws the ball to second in time to catch the runner from first. Is the runner from second w0 third outi—W. L. Blair, Creighton, Neb. Ans.—He is out if he left second before the liner was caught. Will you kindly inform me through Tur SuNpAY Ber the dimensions of @ base ball infield, and tennis court?.—R. 1. Sunder- land, Omaha. Ans.—Thirty yards square. A court is 78 feet long and 27 feet wide. Will you please state in query column of Sunday’s Beg, first what constitutes a sell- ing race, or why so called, alsothe nature of a handicapt—Track, South Omaha. Aus.—A selling race 1s a race in which the winning horse 18 sold upon the track to the highest bidder. Owners, however, must fix a value on their entries before the race; for instance, Mr. Smith enters a horse at $2,000 and Mr. Jones one ut $1.000, the judges will then handicap Smith accordingly, making y 120 pounds acd Jones 114. 1f the horse brings more than 2,000, all over that sum is divided, one-half going to the association and one-half to the second horse. A handicap race is & race in which the horses are handicapped by additional weight according to their past performances. Can players fu a league club re-contract at eginning of n season with any club they —H. H. Herzog, Blair, Neb. Ans.—1f thoy are not under contract with some club, they can. Will you please state in Sunday’s Bee which one of the West. 'n League teans Bob Druesdow playad in last scason? Hotel Bar- num, Nebraska City. Ans.—Bob has been kidding you. Please answer the following i Sunday’s sporting columns: How old is Kid Nichols? How long has he been with the Omahas? Where did he play last year! Who has the best record, Nichols or Clark!—Big Four, Nebraska City. Ans.—Twenty-two. Two months and a hulf. Kansas City. 1t is a standoff, A and B are shaking poKer dice, A throws two aces. B bets he can beat two aces. He throws and Rets two aces. Does A win or is it a draw i—A. A., Council Bluffs. Ans.—A draw unless specifically under- stood that B 18 to throw better than twoaces. If a man bats out of order, is hit by the pitcher and sent to his base, and the mistako 18 then discovered, is he outi--George Young, Stanton, Neb. Ans.—He i8 out if the umpire declares him out, but legally he is out, and any com- petent umpire would so decide. Please answer the following in Sunday's Beg: Is a base runner out in making first, if the first bascman crosses the line between home nud first with the ball in his hand? Hus a captain the right to change pitchers in an unfinished 1nning!—The Boys, Har- vard, Neb. Ans.—He must éither touck the runner or first bag. Not unless the opposing captain consents to the' change, What player in the country has made the most home runs in a single game this season? —Harry E. Beasley, Burchard. Ans.—Jack Crooks, four. Please inform me what is the longest throw with & base ball on record. Did Crane ever throw a ball 136 yards{—James Connel. Ans.—One hundred thirty-three yards, two feet and seven inches, which is Ed Crane’s throw. tenuis Miscellaneous Sports. The sporting editor of Tue Bem is in- devted w Richard K. Fox for copies of the London Sportsman and Times, containing accounts of the late Sullivan-Kilrain battle 2nd editorial comments thereon. Thereis nothing new relative to the Lind- say-Daloy fight, other than the report that it ‘was off has been verified by Lindsay’s ac- tion in discontinuing training. It would have been a darling old mill, and there 1s much disappointment amoag the short-haired. Ralph Temple, of Chicago, met the best of Bsritish bicyclists Saturday, August 8, and gave thom all a good beating in a ten-mile race for the professional championship of England. The race was run on the Blystone grounds, Léicester, and the principal com- titors were Temple, Howell, Robb, Haw- er, Woodall, Enghsh, Allard, James and Lee. There is no denying it, but Willis, Carroli, Messett and Nichois are as fust bail players as there are in the Western association. Their 100-yard race at the ball park last Thursday fully demonstrated this. They all covered the distance in 11 seconds, with the exception of Messitt, who was three-quar- ters of u second behind, owing "to his bad start, These men can, in all probability, under favorable circumstances on a goos cinder path, do the hundreJ in something like ten seconds, which is the best amateur record in the world. Uplaud plover are being bagged in goodly numbers all about the city within a radius of tep miles. They appeared in unusually large numbers this season, and seem in ex- traordinary fine condition. Every meadow and every pasture land has had its three or {:‘\u&‘ flocks of this delicious midsummer game rd. Prairie chicken are being wmercilessly slaughtered, aud by the time the open sea- son begins the shooting will be meugre in- deed. Oh, well, sportsmen can rest content, after the birds have been exterminated the legislature will passs stringent protective laws. That has been the lesson twught by the older eastern stages. Ring or vellow perch are biting voraciously ot Lake Mauawa. Ramsey Crooks wmade a basket of sixteen pounds iu two hours' fish- ing Thursday afternoon., The yellow perch & fine table fish, is served readily after being taken. No awount of ice, however, will proserve them longer than twenty-four hours, and in twelve hours out of water, even, they become soft and fabby, and consequently unpalatable. They are regular canuibals, and in the height of the season, can be pulled out as fast as the angler can throw in ana bundle them, “Skip” Dundy is bass fishing in Spirit Lake. Tobe Broderick has severed his connection with Nat Brown’ The Hardin-Morgan cycle combination are ridiug at the fair at San Bernardino, Cali- fornia. Eastern racing assocations have begun to put into force the wmost effectual means o sirangle pool rooms. This may re- sult in sending more people to the tracks, but there are not & few who hold to the opin- ion that the | roows stimulate au interest :hn: redounds to the ultimate good of the urf, The Minnesota State Fair association, St. Paul, bas hung up purses aggregating $10,000 for troting, puln’ and running races, be- ginuing Sept. 6 and endiog Sept. 14, Twen- ty-five hundred doliars is reserved for specials ou the last day of vho meeting. Here is an exawple for Omaha. The Apollos run to Honeycreek Sunday kindlv inform me through Twe last was one of the most enjoyable runs of the season. There was a big turn out and the trip was made witnout sn accident of any description. The proposed regatta at Lake Manawa is Nglnnln, to assume definite shape, aud 1t is a settled fact that it will take place the latter part of this month. Hamm, Teemer, Gaud- aur, Hosmer and possibly Hanlon and Peter- son have agreed to come, and a deposit has already made binding them to be there. The time is set for Sunday, August 25. There will be one and possibly two days’ racing. The Lincoln wheelmen will repay the Fourth of July visit of ihe Omaha bikers by going to Omaha to take part 1n the parade of fair week. The boys may wheel it one way, although the road between Ashland and Omaha has ten miles of sand and twenty miles of hills, Tho lacrosse players of Lincbln are al- ready planning for a picked team to make & tour of Cansda next season. The favorite fun of Lincoln bicyolists is to Ashland, making a round trip of nearly sixiy miles. Their longest run is to Beatrice and back, over ninety miles. Flashes From the Diamond. That flag Is ours. Klusman has signed with Quiney. (P O Connelis playing fiest for Burlng- qn. Pitcher Duke was Pitcher Duck Iast sen- Tom Nagle is hitting the ball hard and timely. Pitcher Emmerke has been released by Milwaukee. Sfoux City has signed Bobby Black, of Wilkesbarre, Burdick has struck o great gait with the Corn Huskers, Outflelder Annis, late of Worcester, has sgned with Hartford. Sioux City and Minneapolis are having a hot fight for third place. Sioux City will drop about $6,000 this sea son. No wonder they are sick. Sioux City is again floundering in the tureen und liable to quit any day. There will bo a great game out at the local park to-day, St. Paul vs, Omaha. MeAleer is suffering from asprained ankle, received in trying to steal second.. Sfoux City hus released Tom Hanrahan, Reddy's brother, without a trial. Sprague, of Cleveland, did not make a very successful debut in the Internutionul. Long is back at |Kansas City’s short field, Alvord having been shifted to second base, Clarke willj again test tho strength of his good right arm against the Apostles to-day. Yoong Prosser, formerly of the Omahas, is said to be the fastest runner ot the Texas league. ‘The next annual meoting of the Western association will be watehod with much in- terest. If Tuckerman had a good reliable arm he would be a great pitcher. He 18 a heady ball player. Tobeau, of Cleveland, is a good, sure hit- ter, and is most confident when there are men on bases. Milwaukee has made Houston an offer for her speedy piwher, McCoy. He is the best of the Texas twirlers. The Amorican uassociation Is reaching out for Ur-pire Sandy McDermott, and they’ll get him another season, The Minneapolis club has released the ex- St. Louis pitcher, Devlin, He claims a bal- ance of salary due and threatens suit, Morrison leads the Minneapolis team in batting with an average of .348. He has made eleven homers in the sixteen games. Joe Quinn is a native of Sydney, Austraha, where his father was managing editor of the News, of that city, some twenty years ago. The Omahas will play in JKearney, this state, on the 80th, and down in that country they want to bet even on the petsof the town, Lovett is not with the Brooklyns on their present trip. He was lefy at hoine to reduce his weight. Towmy is getting as big as a real man, they say. To-duy is the last opportunity Omaha ball fiends will have to sce St, Paul thif season, to turn out and sec the White Sox wipe up the ground with them. To-day’s game will be called at 8:30, sharp. There will be a tremendous crowd 1n atiena- ance and those wishing good seats should go early to avoid the rush, Joe Walsh velieves in earning his salary. He bas not missed a game since the season opened, and he is to-day the cleverest short- stop 1n the Western association. Minneapolis is getting the American asso- clation fever worse and worse. Well, there'll be several vacancies in that body beéfore the flowers bloom again in the spring. Davies, of Milwaukee, {8 developing into quite u batter. In Saturday’s game he made three hits out of four timea at bat, and yes- terday he made a double and two singles. Rudolph Kemmler is doing fine work for Columbus and demonstrating that he 1s by 1o means a back number catcher. He han- dles all of the Buby’s pitchers with equal fa- cility. £ Holliday, who was rated as a ‘“western league dub player,” when he went mto the American association, i8 now announced us the greatest all-round player in that organi- zation, Wagonhurst, the wonder sprung upon the base bull world by New York last spring, is now playing marbles at Cape May. He couldn’t “even hold his job with the Minne- apons team, Foster, 0f the Minneapolis team, was pre- sented with a handsome gold mounted rose- wood bat, during last Thursday’s game, by his numerous friends. He is batting terrif- ically of late. Shock is making a success in the dual role of manager aud captain of the Milwaukees, They have played better ball sice he has had charge than they have at any time dur- ing the season. When Greek meets Greek it will be child’s play to what it will be this afternoon, when the White Sox and the Aposties lock horns in the presence of six or eight thousand howling dervishes. Morrissey and Alberts, of the Milwaukees, were fined $50 each last Tuesday for indiffer- ent playing. The fines had the desired effect for the men are again playing ball as if their lives depended upon it. Cartwright is not the slugger he was last year. He seems to have lost his nerve. Last ear he was liniog out three-baggers aud ome runs every game, but this year he is lucky if he gets a single, “Dud” Clarke very successfully works the “only” Nolan’s 0ld” trick, of kidding and guy Rz cetan players as they come (o bat. “Dud ' knows his men, and he never fails to get them very neryous, Old played out dub ball players are the first to take offense at a little merited crit- icism, and their shallow brains never fuil to pervert any mention of themselves into a “roust.” There is one of this stripe in the Omaha team. Hurst, the pugilistic umpire, scared the crowd in Milwaukee Sunday. During the game he ran into the grand stand and wanted to thrash a spectator who had called him rotten on account of a decision. He was ejected by a_policeman. St. Joe will hardly stand another season of losing ball. She will probably give up the ghost at the end of this season. The direc tors of the club, however, deserve the gros est credit for the plucky fignt they have made against overwhelming odds. Umpire Doescher said the other day: White Sox ure & fine und promising lot of young bloods; thew base-running and field- ing is superb, and if they were just a little bit stronger at the bat they could cut a fine figure in the American association.” Frank Dwyer, the old Western association pitcher, now with Chicago, is effective agamst every team except New York. Agaiust them bLe is singularly unfortunates not having pitched & winning game against them this season, Al Swift, with the Omahas in '87, with Torouto this season, has decided to quii pro- fessional ball playing, and has goue to work forthe Westinghouse Electric company. He ys ever since Atkisson struck him in the side be has been afraid of the ball, Charles M. Lord, ex-manager of the St. Joes, will bring suit against President Truckenmiller to recover salary and has om- K;l“""" Attorney Crandall to haudle his case. othing will be done, however, uutil the club returns, when it is expected & compro- mise will be wade and everything srranged satisfactorily. The White Sox have the honor of being the best base running team in the Western Asso- ciation, if pot 10 the country. Up to date they have stolen 854 bases, individually as follows: 72; Canavian, 55: S 413 Cooney, 42; Walsh, 82: , 80; Cleve- udrews, 14; Clarke, 9 aud Nich- ‘The HARRISON'S FATHER'S BODY. | It Was Found in %s Disseoting Room by on, GHOULS IN THE GRAVE.YARD. uixl %y How the Remains of J8hn Scott Har- rison Escaped the Sdipel of Oin- cinnati Medioal Sttlents—A Horrible Discdvery. Rescued From Dofllement. CINCINNATI, O., Augast 15.—[Special to Tur Bre.]—The "eévéntful lLife of President Benjamin Hurrison never had a more startling incident than one I am about to recall. It occurred while he was a United States senator from the state of Indiano, but though it caused considerable of a sensation in Cincin- nati and Indianapolis at the time, I find that many intelligent people in other parts of the country never heard of it, or else their memory of it is like that of o half-forgotten dream. As a historical event of startling though ghastly in- terest it is worthy of narration. Though it horrified the community in which it occurred at the time, it ultimately re- sulted in public good, for it was the cause of the passage by the Ohio legis- lature of a law turning over to the medical colleges of the state, for dissec- tion, the unclaimed bodies of all pau- pers who die in its public institutions and hospitals. The father of the present chief mag- istrate was Hon. John Scott Harrison. He was a little above the average height and, as I remember him, slender and almost gaunt in appearance. At the time I write of his hair and his beard, the latter long and patriarchal in ap- pearance, were as white as the surf. As the son of ‘‘old Tippe- cance” he was a noted man in Ohio, and he once represented the Second Ohio district in congress, and his name was mentioned in 1856 as a candidate for the presidency in the con- vention of the American party, which eventually placed Bell and Everett in the field. Mr. Harrison was not a nat- ural politician, howeyer. He loved quiet and seclusion more than he did turmoil and strife, and he passed most of his days on the little farm at North Bend, O., which had been bequeathed him by his father, who was the ninth president of the United States. So modest was he in his ways that the last days of his life were passed in semi-ob- seurity, and when the papers of Cincin- nati announced his Geath many were the regrets expressed that he had been permitted to pass away without greater public and official honors and emolu- ments than had been accorded him. His funeral oration was! delivered by the Rev. Horace Bushnell, the blind Presbyterian minister, and it was a memorable and eloquent tribute to the merits of the worthy dead. President Harrison was interred IN A LITTLE RRICK TOMB about two-thirds the size of Grant’s, on the side of a knoll ovetlooking the North Bend of the Ohio river, about eighteen miles below the city of Cincin- nati, within plain view of the famous old log cabin which was 80 conspicuous & feature of the ever memorable ‘‘Hard Cider” campaign of 1840, and near this gunb the grave of his honored son was ug. .‘fin Harrisen’s fatal malady wasa uzzle to his physicians, who asked his amily for parmission to make an au- topsy on his remains, but the request was denied. Medical science, thus bafed, determined o ASCERTAIN BY FOUL MEANS what iu could not by fair, Cincinnati contains 2 number of medical colleges, and twelve years ago its grave robbers were not only amor.g the most enter- prising and daring in the land, but the most unscrupulous as well, They had been tutored by one Cunningham, *‘old Cunny,” he was called,and the eriminal records of the city show that he did not hesitate at murder when ‘‘subjects” were scarce and hard to.get by what they consigered ‘‘legitimate” means. They were particularly active about this time, and the Harrison family, fearing their de{)rndufions, had the new grave dug double depti and lined with brick. ‘When the coffin containing the remains was lowered into it, a heavy slab of stone, requiring the united efforts of several strong men to handle, was laid on top of the casket. Then cement, to the depth of several feet, was poured in on top of the slab, ufter which the earth was rounded over it like an ordinary grave. Nor was this all; in addition to the cemetery, two extra watchers were hired each of them being required to do twelve hours a day GUARD DUTY AT THE GRAVE, and the intention was to keep up this care for thirty days. Notwithstanding all these precau- tions, the ground had hardly settled on the grave before the watcher, who certainly had been derelict, found one morning that the grave of a man named August Devins, not half a dozen yards from thatof Mr. Harrison, had been rifled during the night. Mr. Devins had been a friend of John Harrison, the brother of the prosent prosident, and also of George Raton, a grandson of John Scott Har- rison. The first train from the city brought the morning newspapers, con- taining a paragraph swating that the night previous a buggy had been driven through the alley between Pineand Race and Longworth and Sixth streets, and that something white, presumably a body, had been taken ,outof itinto the back of the Ohio medical college, which faces on Sixth stre:&. They in- stantly telegraphed Senator Har at [ndianapolis, and ithe follow- ing day, May 80, 1878, he met them in Cincinnati. - Having qui- ctly obtained the neeebsary search warrant, Mr, John Harrigon and his companions, having with them Colonel Tom clbaker, one of the most deter- mined men that ever livefi, und Con- stables Walter Lacy andCullen, pro- ceeded to the Ohio Madieal college. They were not very cordislly received by the janitor, one Marshall, though he proféssed to be willing that they should muke & search, -he, under pre- tense of summoning some of the college officials, managed to slip away for sev- eral minutes, — The party searched all over the college for Mr. Devins mains, They closely inspected the hor- rors of the dissecting room and of the *‘dead room,” in which the ‘‘material” for the BCAVEL OF THE EMBRYO PHYSICIAN was prepared, They saw -nothing of the object of their search, gnd were descending to the street, when Colonel Snelbaker’s attention wus acoidentally attracted by ado)r ina boarded up shafi, looking like a closed up elevator well. The door was locked and the janitor said that the key waslost, ““All right,” responded the colouel *‘then I'll kick it fin.” Before he could do so the key was gound and the door was opened. The haft was a closed one, aud was dark us itch, but by peering in Snelbaker saw hat a thick rope was suspended in it from above. The rope seemed taut. and the colonel getting one of the varty to hold his'left hand, leaned over and took hold of it with his right. ‘‘There’s something heavy on the erd,” said he; ‘'let’s soe what it is.” The dead room was just upstairs, and the party returned to it. They found that the rope hung from a windlass. Willing hands turned this, and the awful mystery began descending. Nearer and nearer it came, and at last, in the semi-gioom, A DANGLING OBJECT WAS SE slowly rotating at the end of the rope. A still closer view showed that it was the body of a man, naked except the head and shoulders. The thieves had robbed it of its grave clothes, d only the tattered remains of a di shirt covered the head to conceal its fou- tures. All present, except the janitor, were unused to such scenes. Mr. Harrison gave the body n hasty glance. As he turned away he said with a_sign, It is not Mr. Deyins’ body. He died of consumption and his body must be much more emaciated than this one.” He was about to seek the street and purer air when he was urged to make assurance doubly sure by look- ing at the face of the corpse which was still covered. ‘*You had better look at it,” said Col- onel Snelbaker, “for you may be mis- taken, and you will never forgive your- self if you allow any doubtful point to pass,” “Ttis hardly nocessary,” replied Mr. Harrison, “‘but since you insist upon it, I will.” As he spoke the trap door of the well was closed as the bodq' was lowered upon it. As the head fell for- word blood flowed from an incision in the neck. Mr. Harrison removed the cloth, and the features of the dend man were revealed. They were those of an old man. The silver white hair had been closely and hurriedly cut off at the back of ‘the neck, and what had been along beard was sheared off gquarely about an inch below the chin. Sud- denly MR. HARRISON GREW PALE, the cloth jdropped. from his nerveless hand. “It’s fatber,” he grasped, and he sank almost unconscious into the arms of one of h's attendants. It was true, Despite all the precautions that had been taken to preserve the body of of his father from the sacreligious hands of the grave robbing ghouls, they had obtained possession of it, and but for vheir greed 1n ulso robbing Devin’s grave, no doubt the son of one of our American presidents and the father of another would have become the victim of the sacrificial knife of science. As soon as Mr. Harrison recovered from the first shock-of bis tervible dis- covery he had the remains of his father recoftined and removed to the establish- ment of aleading undertaker. Not two hours after his ghastly find his brother, rter Harrvison, arrived in the city with the news that John Scott Harri- son’s grave had been robbed. He was about to begin a search for his father’s remains, when he was informed that they had been found. Senator Harrison arrived on the first train from Indianapolis, and was shock- ed beyond measure at the outrages his father’s body has received. Janitor Marshal and his brother-in-law were arrested, and detectives were emplayed to ferret out the grave robbers. The latter were unsuccessful, for though the identity of the robbers 15 an open police secret in Cincinnati,or was at the time, there was no proof of their guilt which could convict them. The janitor and his relatives were never prosecuted. The remains of John Scott Harrison were reinterred in the grave they had been taken from, and were guarded by friends until beyond the use of grave tobbing ghouls or their patrons. oo S MO The most popular liniment is the old reliable, Dr.J. H. McLean’s Volcanic 0il Liniment. —————— IMPLETIES, Inquirer—“How does your protracted mecting prosper, parson?’ Parson—+Oh, well. There's a great awakening at the close of every 'mon.”" St. Peter—*I do not recognize you, What 8 that bundie under your arm?’ Mortal— **Only the earth—" St. Peter—*Walk right m, Mr. Gould I A concise prayer said to have been offered by an earnest New England deacon was as follows: ‘“Lord, give us grace to know Thy will and grit to do it.” *'So,” said the minister to a prisoner, just after his sentence had been pronounced, *“the law does not yet release its grip on you.” “*No.” was the reply; “it holds me with the firmness of conviction.” Unwelcome Arrivals—St. Peter—‘‘Halt !’ New Spirit—*"Can’t I come in?" St. Peter— 1'd rather you wouldn’t, You are just out of coliege, and we don’t want any advice about running the universe.” Minister (to Johuny, who1s digging worms for bait)—"Johnny, don’t you know that it is wrong for you to'do any work except work of necessity on the Sabbath!” Johnny— ‘Necessity! Ain’t this necessity? How's a feller te do any fishin’ 1f he don’t have bait?” A Geneva clergyman, two of whose sons had returned home during the week, ou Sun- day last took for the subject of his text the prodigal son, and now his congregation is anxious to know for which son the iatted calf was killed. A man of seventy-six married a young girl of fifteen down in the everglades of Florida last week A young lady in Wheeling claims to have refused forty offers of marriage during the past yea! A Reading youth has an_unsurpassed rec- ord as a rejected suitor, He has been re- jected seventeen times by the same girl, A runaway match in Iowa was stopped by the whiffle-tree of the wagon breaking, ai- lowling the irate father of the girl to rescue her in the nick of time, 1t is said of a Canadian mother who died the other day: ‘*She was a true wife, a fond mother, and 80 managed affairs as to marry off her niue girls before any other female in the neighborhood could even get a beau.” Miss Stella Cox, of Wushington, D, C., has ollowed the example of Cora Belle Fellows, and has married Nathaniel Patterson, a full- blooded Seneca Indian of the Cuttaraugus reservation in New York, The ceremony was performed by Justice Parker, of Ver- sailles, N, An amusing marriage took pluce in Elber- ton, Ga., the other day. A couple came into the court house to be married. A new justice was called in. He had no form aad impro- vised a ceremony., He first ordered the ple to join hands, and then after hesita- z awhile, he asked the groom these ques- tions: “Will you stick to this woman through thick and thin, up and down, right and left, hot or cold, wet or dry, and have no other wife but her! If you will, you can have her for a wife.”" Similar questions baving been propounded to the woman, and affirmative unswers having been given, he pronounced them husbaud und wife. i Jusna T'o tone up the system and siimulate the appetite, take Angostura Bitters. Dr. J. G, B, gert & Sons, sole manu- facturers. Ask your druggist. The Proposed | Straits Koad, The first great link in the chain of all rail communication between Amer- ica and Europe, the little crossing of Behring Straits, would, it is said, be no more formidable than that of the Eng- lish chanuel. The engineer for the government of Britisn Columbia says that this road ceuld be built for less money per mile than the Canadian Pacific cost. The first section of iv would run throngh the famous Kartenal valley, a superb agricultural and cattle raising region, The climate would cause no more trouble on this hine than on the Northero and Canadian Pacifics, DR. R. W. BAILEY, DENTIST. The original purchaser in Omaha of the formula for Dr. Stinaus' Loos Angmsthetio for the PAINLESS EXTRACTION OF TEETH. The ONLY METHOD whereby teeth are extracted without pain or danger, and withont using chloroform, gas, ether or electricity. The patient remains perfectly conscious of all that trans aplres, but feels no sensation of patn. No soreness of the gums after extracting, as 18 the case with so many so-called anwsthetios, Many who have been suffering from badly decayed and broken teeth and roots, have visited De Balley and After havi them removed painlessiy, g used this anwsthetlc for two months for nearly every tooth extracted in this office, the FIRST PERSON is to be found that is not entirely satisfied withJts merits. Some dentists may try to prejudice you against visiting us: you desire dental work or not; Wwo nre alway Special attention given to FILI DO NOT LOSE T do not allow them to do 80. Make us a call whether pleased to see an LCING footh, thereby proserviog. thelr usefuine y AT OAN BE SAVED. > " H b e or all who may choose to come, ). ama TEETH WITHOUT PLATES, Bridge Work, Gold and i’oroalaln faced Crowns, GOLD, ALUMINUM, SILVER, CONTINUOUS GUM and RUB« BER PLATES at lowest rates. A Full Set of Teeth on Rubber for $5.00. DO NOT FORGET THE LOOCATION, DR. 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A Maine Potato Elixir. A Maine paper has discovered that many of the alleged new potatoes that people are buying and eating nowadays are not new at all, and have not been since a year ago. Some fellow has dis- covered a way of making old potatoes look new by soaking them in a prepara- tion that makes the rough, outer skin peel off, and leaves only a smooth inner skin like that of a new potato. tree s e Found Money in the Fish. Rhode Weimar, of Shelbyville, Ind., caught a three-prund bl bass the other day and found in 1t a silver quar. ON ‘ E MORE CALL/ This 18 the time to replenish summer | wardrobes, | | ™\We shall continue through the mouth of| | August to offer special bargains in various| lines of first-class goods., Our Fall stock| 15 niready boing selected in the Eastern market, and we must soon have room for! fresh invoices. But the Warm weather iy not over yet, and our supply is still equal| to the demand of & hot duy. % Dr. J. E. 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