Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1889, Page 1

" NINETEENTH YEAR. THE VERDICT IN AT LAST Ooughlin, O'Sullivan and Burke Get Life Imprisonment. KUNZE GIVEN THREE YEARS Begus Declared Innocent—The Three Bentenced Irishmen Tuarn Pale and the Little German Breaks Down Completely, The Scene in Court, Cnroaco, Dee, 16.—One of the most§jmem- orable trials in the criminal history of America closed this afternoon when the jury, impanelled three months ago, rendered .ita verdict in tho Cronin case. That the jury did not disagree is a source of much congra- tulation in the public mind, and although there is naturally much division of sentiment the senso of rehef which is experienced wt the final culmination of the case 18 unani- mous. However bitter too may have been the feeling engendered by the two fac- tions into which Irish people have been di- vided in the case, it cannot fail to be a source of congratulation v Judge McConnell that his iepartial conduct as presiding judgo,has ‘been such as to win for him not only the ap- plause of both these opposing factions but the approval alike of the leading jurists of the land upon the validity of his rulings, As court convened at 2 p. m. to receive the verdict of the jury there was a momentary silence as the vast audience breathlessly awaited the first words of Judge McConnell as he mounted the bench, “The jury 1s prepared to make a return in this case,” said his honor. A moment later a door leading from the {ail opened and the five defendants marched in to hear their fate. Hardly a sound was heard as every eye was turned towards John T, Beggs. who led the procession. The face of the senior guardian of Camp 20 was pale and anxious looking, but he faced the stare of the audience boldly. Daniel Coughlin affected his usnal indiffer- #nce, but his restless, furtive eye betokened the terrible mental suspense the ex-detective experienced as he awaited the dread an- nouucement. Hardly a person in the court room suc- ceeded in catching the eye of Patrick O'Sul- livan. His looks were directed toward the floor and whatever emotion he may have felt at this critical moment was not shown. Martin Burke's face flushed for a moment a8 he approached his seat, but immediately aficr his features regained their natural ex- paession and with affected nonchalence he resumed the chewing of gum as has been his #ont during the trial. For the first time since his trial tho little German, John Kunze, seemed to appreciate the gravity of the situation and his usual ar of jauntiness was absent. As the audience were contemplaving the prisoners and commenting upon their de- meanor the noise of many footsteps was again suddenly heard without and in a mo- ment the twelve men on whose judgment re- - i posed the lives of the defendants entered the room headed by Foreman Clark. Every prisoner simultaniously turned his eyes on the jurors as if toread in their impassive features the secret of the verdict, but there was 10 sigu to give them hope or fear “The clerk will cail the roll of the jurors,” Every person in the audience started as the sound of the judge’s voice broke the silence, only to add a deeper awe to the solemnity of the occasion, Slowly the jurors answered to thoir names, and the twelve men were announced to be paesent. “Gentlemen,” said the court, *‘I under- stand you have reached a conclusion in this case.” ‘With a bow Foreman Clarke took from his pocket a large envelope and handed it to the judge, who in turn handed it to the clerk. “The clerk will read the verdict,” said the court, Instantly a hush fell upon the audi- once—a husn so profound that as the clerk tore open tho envelope the sound fell dis- cordantly upon anxious ears. A moment lator this anxiety became painful m its in- tensity, as the sonorous voice of the clerk VYegan reading the verdict, ‘We, the jury, find thd defendant, John F. Beggs, not guilty. We, the jury, find the defendant, John Kuuze, guilty of manslaughter as charged in the indictment, and fix his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for & term of three years. We, the jury, find the defendants, Dan Coughlin, Patrick O'Sullivan and Martin Burke, guilty of murder in the manner and form s charged in the indictment, and ix tle penalty at imprisonment in the peniten- tiary Yor hife, Forrest of counsel of the defense at once requosted that the jury be polled, To each Juror this question was put by the clerk of court: “‘Was this ana Is this now your verdict?” Foreman Clark was the first torise and an- swer firmly in the affirmative. The eleven others followed in turn and gave the same answer. Simultaneous with the announcement of the verdict, Coughlin, O'Sullivan and Burke turned deathly pale, while Kunze started suddenly from his seat and dropped his head on his breast and broke into tears. Beggs' face was luminous with joy, and immediately after tho polling of the jury ho aroso from amid the prisoners, walked over tothe jury box, and during tue breathl lull that followed shook Foreman Clark's hund and said: Gentlemen, I thank you. I trust that the future may confirm your judgment upon me, and that you will never regret that you found me not guilty of this terrible charge.” As he shook hands with the jurors each man bowed his head in acknowledgment of the grateful words of the liberated man, The only sound that broke the itillness Was the deep sobs of the little German Kunze, He burst out with: *'God knows I am innocent. I was never in Lake View that night. O! God knows I &m iunocent, gentlemen," O'Sullivan was the only one of the other three prisoners who found refuge m tea For & moment they twinkled down his cheeks, but a winute later his bluck eyes flashed with deflance or a revival of courage, and tlllllllngk his hand across his brow he braced uv lo his scat and cast a glanco around the court room, The only evidence Of horror 1o be verceived in Coughlin's face Was the iucreased pallor that oversproad his countenance as he fully realized the signifi- cauee of the sentence "to life imprisoument, aud his lips twitched nervously during the colloquoy that followed between the attor- neys aud the court relative to & mouion for a grial. Nartin Burge was unquestiona- u{. the least affected of all the prisouers. is usually florid face took on a slight pallor 4s the verdict was aunounced, but & minute later his juv s began the methodical mastica- tion of gum as rezularly as af vigus during the trial, N SN e When the verdict was announced the large sudience contemplated Kuuze's grief. Hoggs turoed to a renorter aud said : “Tl is ushame to sentence Kuuze, the poor Little fellow is a8 nuoceat as Lum, [vis a d-d shame to send him to the penitentiary for three years, He had no more idea of being found guilty than you had of being declared an accom- plice in this crime,” In the meantime the expreasions of opinion among the audience were as varied as were the individuals that constituted the assem- blage. I'riends of Beggs eibowed their way through the crowd and grasped the hands of the senior guardian of Camp 20 in felicita- tion upon his exoneration. Beggs took a seat 1n one of the jury chairs after \he retirement of that body, and spent the next half hour according interviews to the scores of mnews- paper men who crowded around him. Forrest, on behalf of the four convicted defendants, entered the accustomed motion for o new trial and after considerable dis cussion the judge fixed January 13as the day on which the motion for a new trial should be areued, and the prisoners were taken back to jail. Beggs procesded smilingly to s old cell, staying only long enough to get his hat and coat. It was not until after noon today that the Jury finally came to a verdict and then it was that Juror Culver, who had been voting for acquittal for all the defendants since the jury went out, consented to & compromise. The other jurors were for hanging Burke, Cotgh- kin and O'Sullivan, and while he was for let- ting them all off, Culver tinally agreed to sentences for the turee. The jury was prac- tically unanimous on the subject of Beggs' acquittal, and but little time was needed to 1ix Kunze's term of imprisonment. JUDGE M'CONNELL INTERVIEWED. “What do you think of the verdiot, judge!” asked an Associated Press repro- sentutive of Judge McConnell after the ad- journment, of court for today. “Judicially, of course, I can pass no opinion upon the vefdict; as an individual, however, and without being cognizant of ail the pro- ceedings in the juryroom, I might say Ithink the verdict is the result of the probable ob- jection of someof the jurors to the death pen- alty on circumstantial evidence,” “Mr, Culver, probably i “No, not Mr. Culver necessarily., T under- stand hie was in favor of acquittal from the start. It was only after long and harassing deliberation that he agreed with the rest upon this verdict' You will probably find that Mr, Culver was not the only man upon the jury who was opposed to the " hangiag of the three principal defendants.” “But the jurors all swore on being exam- ined as to their competence that they had no conscientious scruples against capital pun- ishment on circumstantial evidence." ‘“*That is all true, but behind all this each man probably had the mental reservation that the evidence must be conviucing beyond reasonable doubt. Now if some of these men should think there was even the faint- est shadow of a doubt as to the guilt of tha three men, do you not seo how natural it would be for them to mentally resolve to compromise the matter with their conscience. No matter how conclusive their judgment might be, by favoring life imprisonment in lieu of the death penaity, all because the case was one of circumstantial evideuce,” “I believe you feel relieved at there not being a disagrecment?” “I do, most assuredly. Althoueh if the, jury had disagreed and it became necessary’ totry the case again I should not bave flinched from presidfing agaiu.” THE PRISONERS MUM, About 4 o’clock an Associated press repre- sentative went to the jail and found the four convicted defendauts out in the corridor with the other inmates taking the usual ex- ercise before supper. Kunze seemed to hold himself apart from the other prisoners ana remained in his cell, refusing to be comforted in his misfortune. Coughlin and O'Sullivan were at the en- trance of the cage discussing the case with a couple of the members of Camp 20, who had called to offer their sympathy or congratu- lation, who knows which. At the approach of the press representative they quickly lapsed into silence and the visitor departed. A note was subsequently sent to Coughlin and his companion requesting an interview and they finally approached the cage. “I am sorry o disappoint you,” said Coughlin very courteously, **but I don’t de- sire to be interviewed.” “‘But what is your ovinion of the verdict?” “I am afraid I shall nave to refer you to Mr. Forrest, my uttorney, for an answer to that question,” “*Are you disappointed av the verdict!” “*Well, I suppose no man regards a verdict of life imprisonment with any degree of en- thusiasm,” said the ex-detective grimly, ‘‘but reaily gentlemen I must decline to be interviewed.” ‘With this sentence Dan Coughlin retired pleasantly bowing good evening as he went. It was evident to all that the prisoner is in a mood nearly approaching elation, and to Dan Coughlin at least the verdict wasa source of self congratulation. His habitual mood during the puast six months has been one of tacitumity, but this evening a bright smile illumined his face and his step was light and buoyant. In the boy's department Martin Burke was found walking up and down smoking a cigar. He seemed entirely composed and good na- tured as he greeted the Associated press re- porter. Well, Burle, what do you think of it1"” am not saylng a word,’” said the young nmun; “the Chicago papers have haa enough to suy about me already, and I don't want to give them any excuse for any more.”’ “But don't include us in your general damnation.” “I'm wot damuning the papers,” Burke. “T've nothing against therm, bi guess thoy can get along without me.” All efforts to extract any comments from Burke on the verdict were i vain, He ex- pressed himself as delighted to converse on what he termed social topics,” but on *‘this other business,” as ne called it, with a jerk of his head towards the court room, he was as dumb as an oyster. When tne verdict was read this afternoon T an Counghlin’s wife and little giri were sit- ting out in the main corridor of the criminal court building, Some one rushed inwo the corridor and called out the result, Mrs, Coughlia gasped, stood erect, shrieked and fell back into her chair, She buried her face in her hands and moaned wildly, The child too began to cry loudly, Mrs, Whalen, O'Sullivan’s sister in-law, was standing by and turned savagely on the men who were waiting on Mrs. Coughlin, *O, you cutthroats, you tried your best to hang them and now you hang around to gloat at us in our misery,” she shouted and then followed Mrs, Coughlin 1uto a private room. Judge Longenecker, when asked if he was satisfiea witn the verdict. rephed that it was a cowpronuse verdict and that's all anybody could say about it. It was quite plain‘that the stawe attorney was not pleased at vhe outcome, BEGGE’ YOW, John F. Beggs left the jail this afternoon s00n after conrt adjourned in company with his lawyer. As he stepped into the strect a free man he was heard to say: I am going to spond the rest of my life bunting the men who killed Cronin,” Beggs spent a fow minutes At his ofice, and then hurried howe whero he rmlth‘oly refused to receive callers this evening, JUNYMEN TALK, After the jury was discharged this after- noon and while the gentlemen were waiting for their certificates a crowd of reporters besieged them for information about what bad transpired in the jury room and the cause of the delay, “Its vo ‘use,” sald Juror Marlor, “we agreed not to say anything. From wbat I bave heard since I got back into the world the newspapers have been doiug some pretty tall lying. Juror Culver was not the cause of the delay aud there was not Aoy unpleasantness or any knock down as one paper has declared,” Juror North was angry at the statement mentioned abave. *“The man who wrote the story of the row in the jury room ought to be gumuhed." said he. “There was no trouble at all and we passed the time as pleasantly as we could under the circum- stances, Juror John Culver was seen st home in Evaston tnis eveulug and refused 1o make any statement as 1o what took place in the jury room or whether or uot ne was the dis- senting member, All he would say was: “I took what to me was theonly just co " Mr. Culver warmly deuied the stories of Quarrels wmong e jurors. English Comment, Loxpox, Dec, 16,~The Morning Post com- =] NUMBER 180, menting on the Cronia verdict says: “If the caso will result in a thorough awakening of public opinjon in_the United States to the character of the Clan-na-Gacl then Cronin’s lifo was not sacrificed wholly in vain.” The daily News says of the Cronin trial: The men sentenced for life are three of the vilest wretches ever lofs unhung, The, jury hias done substantial justice and 1L is_to be hoped that nothing will be allowed to disturb the righteous verdict, The daily Telegraph characterizes the ver- dict a8 “'surprising,” but reflects that it must be thankful for small meroies. Tho Times says; *When the dificulty of empanneling a jury s considered the ver- dict may be regarded us satisfactory. The murder was plainly the consequence of a squabble over corrunt financiering and ivas one of the most atrocious crimes perpetrated outside of Russia in modern days." The Standard ssys it is strange illegal verdict and speaks little for the jusispru- dence of America that a court saould have taken 80 long to arrive av such an abortive verdict. The Verdiet in Omaha, The news of the verdict in the Cronin case was recei ved 1n Omaha yesterday after noon abaut 8 o'clock. A few moments later a special edition of Tne Ber was on the streets and was rapidly bourht by the throng which had been ex- pecting the news for many hours. In many ways it may be said that the ver- dict was a disappointment. None could be found who had forecast the result Even friends of the accused felt that Coughlin, O'Sullivan and Burke would be sentenced to deaths that Kunze would be given five or ten years in the penitentiary. while Leggs would be seutenced for a much longer term, Many attributed the verdict to an alleged fact that the jury was fixed, while others ns- cribed it to the fact that the evidence was only circumstantial, and that some of it seemed to bear the marks of baving been manufactured to supply links which the prosecution could not otherwise forge. The following is areflex of views of cit- izens on the subject: Thomas Brennan, ex-secretary of the Land leaguo—I have very little 1o say on the sub- ject. A murder was committed in Chicago, and 1t is for the people of Cook county to see that the guilty parties are punished and the innocent go free. The fact that I am of the same nationality as some of the men tried does not give me any additional right to make comments on the trial just ended. But, as an American citizen, I am anxious that men tried for their lives should be tried ac- cordingto the law and the facts, and not by the uujust use of power or by public clamor, I will say, however, that I have read Judge McConnell’s charge to the jury aund consider it ono of the fairest ever aeliverea in a murder trial. But the action for a por- tion of the Chicago press, day after day. in referring to men on trial for their lives as murderers, before the jury had spoken and witle the law had presumed to bs innocent 18 not, to say tho laast of it, in accordance with American 1deas of justice and play. What reparation will the papers now make to Mr. Begg for the many times they cailed him a murderer? Their action in stylin: men murderers whom the state's attorney cannot and dare not, for want of a particle of cvidence, put on trial is just and repre- hensible. Whoever is guilty, I believe a great wrong has been done to some men whose names have been dragged into this horrid business and the press and the public will yet recognize that fact. Major Wheeler—I am sorry the first report was not true, If the menare guilty they should be ban| 5 . W. N. Nason—It's all right except in Kunze's case. He is as innoceny, in my opinion, as Beggs and should have beon ac- quitted. Euciid Martin—If I had been on the jury I would have been in for hanging the three principals, The case ‘was a perfect one against thom, M. S. Lindsay—The verdict was according 1o the evidenci C. O. Lobeck—They got all the evidence warranted, if not more. Colonel Chase—The men were convicted by public séntiment. The evidence never warranted a verdict of guilty against them, J. A. Walcedeld—It looks pretty rough to find such a verdict on circumstantial evid- ence. Ii I had been on the jury I don't think I would have been for conviction, John T. Tallan—The murderers of Dr. Cronin should have been hanged. Butthere is nothing:to prove that these are the mur- derers. ‘I'he evidence 13 all circumstantial, ‘These men should cither be hanged or ac- quitted. They are either guilty or not guil and if found guilty they should res extreme penalty of the taw and I don’t be- lieve capital punishment, has been expunged from the laws of fllinois, John D. Howe—They let the. tellows off entirely too easy. They ouzht to have re- ceived a sentence ordering them hanz the end of an electric light wire and then iet them sizzle, John Rush—The case 1s very peculiar, There is no- doubt but that it was acold blooded murder, and that the circumstancos were quite strong against some of the de- fendants. Yet if I were on the jury I could not give a verdict of capital puuishment, be- cause I don’t think the evidence sufliciently positive. Viewing the whole matter from its incipiency every fair minded man must acknowledge that there wassome sort of a conspiracy, and whether the conspiracy was the result of factionalism in the Umted Brotherhood I dont think was proven. There is to my mind only one argument in favor of factional conspiracy, and that is the declara- tion made by some members of Camp 20 after the disappearance of Dr. Cronin thut he would turn up all right and that he had gone to England, Another is the venowmous uttack upon his character. He was a man respected in his own community aud he lived a con- scientious Christian life, and why his char- acter should be assaulted after his death 1s a wmystery. I, as an Irishman, deplore this un- fortunate miserable affair, It casts a shadow over our entire race. Judge Doane—I have not paid very olose attention to the trial, baving only read the brief reports in Tae Bee, but I think, from what I have seen, that the defense were given every onrorlumly to prove their side of the case. saw that the web of circum- stantial evidenve was growing stronger day by duy until 1t seemed to mo there was no eacape. I was particularly interested in watching the evidence concerning Kunze, He scemed to be intimately con- nected with tho affair. The evidence against him was strong and was mainly ob- tained through his own adwissions on the stand. It seems to me thera can bs no, ground for working up a strong feeling of sympathy for the condemned men on secount of unfairness in the court vroceedings, and it also appears to me that the evidence, if iv justified coaviction at all, certainly justified a verdict of capital punishment, but in IlJi- nois the )\lrir have the right to fix the punish- ment and it is probable there was some one on the jury who was opposed to this penalty. Mr. Join Grove—I am hardly prepared to express my opinion on the matter, as I haye not paid a great deat of attention to it lately, but I do think that it 18 a very important af fair for every one concerued, or who is in- terested in the cause of the Irish people, as it will, no doubt, throw adamperon the cause in the minds of some people. It is un- fair, also, to throw the blame of this affair upon the Irish pecple, as a race, for it is a matter for which a few individuals ure en- tirely responsible, and they alone should be wade to bear the blame and not the Irish people, They have enough to bear as it is, and should not be made to shoulder the blame for this ocourense, J.J. Points —I think the verdict will give general sutisfaction, aud | believe it was cou- sistent with the evidence, Lee Estelle—The verdict is a judicial out- rage. It should have either been hang or ac- quigtal, It is tumpering with law and justice, ounty Attorney Shielas—I do not think the verdict was jnaccordance with the merits of the case. If the wen were guity they should suffer the extreme penalty of the law; if any doubt exists they should have been ac- guitted. Judge H. E. Davis—As to the verdiot itselt 1do not care to stato @ positive opinion, As regards anew trial I inclie to the opinion that Judge McConnell will not grant one. The supreme court, however, may do s0. There are, I understand, over two thousand exceptions to rulmgs made and if properly ruu;.wd @ new tral will aoubtless be ob- & [ MR, BRECKINRIDGE'S EXCUSE. Why He Made No Move in the Clayton @ase. WILL CONSTRUCT A TARIFF BILL The Ways and Means Committee to Begin Work Imm diately—No« braska Members Unitea on Baker and Gurley. 518 FOURTERNTR STRERT, Wasnixgroy, D. C., Dec. 16, 1t required a very doecisive move on the part of the republicans in the house tcday to smoke Clifton A. Breckiaridge of Arkansas out of ltis hote. It will ba remembered that General Clayton while last winter taking testimony in tko contest he intended to make of Breckinridge's seat in congress was assassinated Ly political friends of Breckin- ridge. Nouwithstanding the fact that mil- lions of paople throughout the country have been snaming Breckinridge and declar- g that it was an outrage that he should occupy & blood-stained seat without the proper denunciation of the assassins of his opponent, he quietly #at in his chair in the house for more than two weeks without even saying a word about the terrible circumstances under which he is permitted to enjoy his privilezes as a public man, He has been expected every day to rise iu his seat and ask the house to investigate the circumstances under which his opponent wus assassinated and exonorate himself of any blame for the murder. When the republican sde today offered & resolution authorizing the committes or elections to make proper’ investigation Mr. Beckinridge got up and said thut he would himself have done this had it not been for the fact that a republican courts in his state had the affaic under consideration and he thought it would be more propor for the re- publican side of the house to take the initia- tive step here. The cxcuse was gererally regarded as o very flimsy one.” It is a won- der that the house and the walleries did not boot him. Crisp of Georgia, who was chair- man of the committee on elections under the late democratic regime protested against tho proposed invostigation and declared the resolution out of order. Speaker Reed al- most took the breath out of the democrats when he calmly submitted to the house the question raised by Crisp. He wanted to give the democrats an opnortunity to vote against the resolution, as they were all un- doubtedly anxious that | the proposition should fail. They had not the courage, how- ever, of their convictions apd refused o vote against the proposition, he com- mitteo on elections. will make an investigation and see whether Mr. Breckenridge is in any degree responsi- ble for the outrageous assassination of Gen- eral Clayton, and if it is shown that Clayton could have made o successful contest of Breckinridge's seat the laver will be ousted. In any event Mr. Breckinridge has not shown nimself to be that fai-mined man which he would of late years have led the country to believe that he is, und there1s no sympathy expressed for him on any hand. It is safe to say that there are very fosw men in the coun- try who would occupy the seat that Mr. Breckinridge has taken. They would have promptly declined it after the assassination and permitted the people gt the polls toagain express an opinioll. b x NEBRASKA MEMBERS CONFER, There was a conterence’ this afternoon- of the three Nebraska members of the house 1n reference to a numbar of Nebraska appoint- ments, It was determined that all three should pull together to bring about a number of cl ges. They ugreed unamimously to push Mr, Baker, who was & member of the Jast legislature, for the position of United States district attorney, and Will Gurley as s ossistant district attorney, The ways and means committee vir- tually agreed upon the construc- tion of a tarit bill, and by the days they have fixed for the hearing of vari- ous interests show that they do not intend to idle away the two weeks or more of the holi recess, The hearings of these inter- ests began Thursday, December 86, and ended January 10, At the conclusion of the hearings the committee intend to take up seriatum the subjects which have been dis- cussed by the pensions adyocates who ap- pear before them and promptly compile a bill, 80 as to report to the house urly in February. The committee on ways and meaus was composed with a view to able and rapid work and the action of the mem- bers today in adopting the programme they bave tixed will not disappoigg the speaker or the country. The two senators from Nebraska met with the members of the house. - A letter of en- dorsement recommending Judge Dundy for the position vacated by Judge Brewer was drawn up and signed by all, 1t was expected that the letter would be presented by the delegation to the president today, but the long session of the senate prevented. Itwill probably be taken to the white house to- morrow. The senators also conferred with the members of the house on the appoint- ment of the three supervisors of - the census, whose names wero premasturely announced. The names as anvounced were agreed upon after & full discussion ond will consist as before of Caok of Lancaster, Randall of Clay and Stounner of Dodge, The situation in respect to recommendations as formerly made on which the president has not uacted was dis- cussed and the understanding was that the delogation would press certain most im- portant appointments. Today in executive session Scnator Paddock reported fayorably from the committee on public lands the nomi- nation of Willinm McCann, receiver of the Chaaron land oftice, and C, H. Cornell of the Valentine land oflice, 1x-Senator Saunders was also reported favorably as a member of the Utah comMission from the committee on territories, and Chaucellor Manatt as consul general to Athens, Senator Paddock today reported from the committes on public lands his bill providng for two additional lavd ofices in the state of Nebraska, the ofices to be located at Alliauce and Broken Bow. ” WORK OF WESTERN STATESMEN, In the senate today v Manderson intro- duced the following, which was referrea to the committee on public land Resolved, ‘That the sgcretary of the inte rior be and is hereby instracted to imform the senate what militury resesvations or parts thereof have been relln?nhhed by the war department and abandened by executive order and placed uuder the control of the secretary of the interior pursuant to the pro- visions of the uct._appreved July 5, 1884, and any acts subsequent therewo; what military reservations or portions of placed under control of the secretary of the interior under suid acts have been suryeyed or subdivided and sold; what, if any reason exists why the lands in such said resenvitions are not sur- veyed, subdivided, appraised and sold and what n[mruprmuon is needed to survoy said lands that the same may be disposed of as approved by law,” Mr, Manderson also seuted the petition of the veterans of the late war at Neligh in fayor of pension legislation as recommonded by the pension committee of tho Graud Army of the Republic, Mr. Mauderson (by request) introduced a bili providing for woman suffrage. Senator Paddock lutroduced @ bill proyid- ing for the purchase of a site and the con- suruction of @ public building at Beatrice to cost $75,000. The bill provides for the pur- chaso of the site by advertisement and the selection is to bs mude by a commission of three persons to be appoiuted by the secre- tary of the treasury, ‘Kfi selection to be fnal and the commissioners to be vaid §200 each and traveling expenses. The senstor also troduced & m:liwmn' that any settier WasnixaroN Bureav Tar Oxiwa Ben, } upon tie public domain who has taken or may hereafter d by homestead eutry St i mened br By b cowmmute the same to cash entry shall upon proof of ':ummlon wnd wnfinu{fl resideuce ‘Brownsville, Lawrence county, paid by him in com- . Ho also presented & bill approvriating £500,000 for a capitol ana court house building at Salt Lake, Utab, the 8iio to be agreed upon in the same manner as fixed for the building at Beatrice. Senators Allison and Wilson today pre- sented in the senate a large number of mem- orfals and petitions from their constituents asking that congress enact a law prohibiting speculation upon farm products and dealing with it in such manner as lo controle its future price, Thoy also presented o lot of memorials in favor of a more stringent Sunday law. Senator Alli. son introduced bills for the relief of Mary J. Dorr, the owners, officers and crew of the British bark Chance, Anna Platt, Annie Slater, Alice Kelly, also Annie and Ellen (. Lee, John HBrechen, Sr., *Mrs, Amanda S. Wisner and Stephen D, Redfield. He also Introduced a bill amenaing the act authorizing the construction of wagon and foot passenger bridge across the Mississipi at or near Lyons, Ia. The bill provides that the structure shall be for wagons and vehic- 178 of all kinds, animals and foot passengors aud, at the option of tho corporation, to be used for railroad trains upon such reason- able rates of toll as may be fixed from time to time by the corporation and approved by the secretary of war, The bridge is to bo with unbroken or continuous spans, a pon- toon or draw bridge. It is to be suliciently nigh to not to be a hindranco to navigation, No change is made in the time withio _which the work is to be begun and completed. Senator Pettigrew from South Dakota pre- sented a memorial from the Commercial club of Sioux ialls asking that congress appro- priate immediately a sum sufiicient to com- plete the locks and canal at Sault Ste, Marie, Mich. The memorial goes on to say that the state of South Dakota is vitally interested and is 1n danger by the condition of the old canal and lock, ns they may injure transpor- tation by the lake, Congressman Recklor introduced a joint resolution authorizing the secretary of the treasury to donate to the state of South Da- Kkota all the furniture and other property left over alter the recent constitutional conven- tion. Congressman Gifford will, at the first op- portunity, introduce in the house bills to open to settlement that portion of Fort Ran- dall lying east of the Missouri river, ratify- ing the agreement of the Indians to allow the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway company right-of-way through the Wi Iudian reservation in South Dakol ing to the state of South Dakota for school purposes b per cent of the proceeds of the lands which have been or may hereafter be sold from the public domain in North Da- kota, providing for building buildings in the principal cities of South Dakota. Representative Hunsbrough will introduce @ bill ratifying the agreement of the Indians on the Berthold reservation in North Dakota 10 throw open their reservation tosettiement and appropriating £60,000 for removing the Indians and $12,000 for removing their build- ings to another locality. Among the petitions introduced in the te toduy were the following: Senator Wilson—From Alex Will- fams and _eighty-six other Jegal vote ers in Lafourche vparish, Louisiana, favoring a national election law which will compel obedience to the Fifteenth amendment of the constitution of the United State By Senator Pettigrew—From thirty-two soldiers of Garry, S. D., for additional pen- sion legislation. Senator Moody introducee bills appropri- ating 200,000 for public buildings at Deaa- wood and Rapid City, also a bill to reim- burse the state of South Dakota for the Sioux Falls convention of 1585, Senator Pettigrew introduced a bill appro- priating §250.000 for tho erection of a public building at Sioux Falls, also a bill authoriz- ing the sccretary of the interior to survey and mafk the boundary line between South and North Dakota. . #NEW POSTMASTERS. Nebraska —Murray, Cass county, J. W. Edmunds, vice 13, F. Brindel, resigned; Reiby, Seward county, O. Gowery, vice A. J. Rogers, rémoved; Wilson, Furnas county, J. B, McGraw, vice W. L. Bell, resigned. South Dakota — Elk Creek, formerly A, A. Ran- dall, vice W. O. Hubbard, resigned; Fulton, Hanson county, O. R. Brooks, vice N, C. Earle, removed. MISCELLANEOUS. Chairman Mcl ley expects to see the res- olution which he introduced today and had referred to the committee on ways and meaus, providiog for the holiday recess of congress to begin next Friday, reported back to the house and flually pass both branches of congress amended to provide for the re- cess on Thursday. A telogram was today received announcing the resignation of Superintendent Stranahan of the board of public works, New York state, ''his place was promised to J. D, Yeomaus of Sioux City. His home was in Erie county, New York, until a year ago, when he removed to Sioux City to look after live stock interests. The general land office will awake to the condition of the fraud divisicn which under Spark’s reign ran 10,000 cases behind, The policy has been to delay action in all cases, not more than a hundred being decided per annum, By urgent recommendation of the South Dakota statesman the entire division has been reorganized and business now goos on. Indian Commissioner Morgan has all_the papers concerning the bridge over the Noo- brara river to the Ponca reservation peti tioned for by the Holt county supervisors. Judge Kincaid urges favorable action on this case as do all others in that locality. On Wednesday Secretary Nobte will have a conference with the delegation of ohiefs from the Sioux Indian reservation in South Dakota and Nebraska, after which it 18 ex- pected the secretary will report to the presi- dent with u view to the issuance of a pro- clamation by the chief executive vhrowing the reservation open to settlement. J. 1. Snyder of Towa was today appointed a messenger inthe house of representatives. A. M. Bowdel, president of the Kirst National bank of Mitchell, 8. 0., is in the city for a week, stopping with John H. King, I Goodman and R. A.Gaylord and wife ‘are at the Normandie and R. C. Patter- s0n is at the Ebbitt. They are all well known Nebraska people, Senator Irye today introdrced his bill of. the last session to provide for the settlement of the claims of the United States growing outof the issue of bonds to aid in the con- struction of the Union Pacific railroad. Cranci’s bill, introduced in the house today by McKinley concerning the collection of customs dues 18 a compound of several ad- ministrative bills wnich have figured before the past congress, The basis is the old Hewitt udministrative bill which has been copiously ameuded by iusertions of phrases, sentences and sections from the last senate tariff bill and a draft submitted by the treasury department to the last cougress, to which McKinley has added further suggestions made by the present treasury officials, ‘The result is a bill of thirty-two printed pages, ‘The democratic house caucus which was called 1 meet tonight to determine what position, if any, the party should take in re- gard to the deficiency bas been abandoned, Senator Pettigrew today introduced a bill to authorize the secretary of the interior " to survey and murk the voundary lines butween North and South Dakota. The sum of §0,000 to meet the ex- penses of the work is appropriated, Comunssioner of Pensions Raum today issued an order directing that forty of the 208 special pension _examiners now in the field be recalled and assigned to duty in the pension bureau in Washington. The number of examination fields will be reduced and tneir several boundaries extended so as to cover the eantire country. Geueral Raum's purpose in making this change is to increase tho effective working force of his office, The secretary of the interior today ren- dered a d 100 in the case of C. M. Fawr- child vs The Des Moines Valley railroad company, The lands involved in this case wero claimed by the railroad by renson of certification to the state June 14, 1866, #8 jn- demnity lands under the act of July 12, 1862, The secretary, however, holds this certufiea- tion to have been erroncously made and di rects & demand for a relinqu.shmeut or re- conveyance of the lunds to the United States 10 be made upon the cowpany, in default of which suit will be recommended to set aside the certitication, Paunx 85, Heary, IOWA NEWS, Preventive Measures Against Spread of Diphtheria. Drs Morses, In, Dec. 16.—[Spe ! Tele- gram to Tue Bee |—~The state board of health is in receint of a lettor from New Hampton concerning the diphithoria in that place. The house has been quarantined but the family has been making butter in a house adjoiniug the residence,members of the family going from the back room to the diary, and the authorities want instructions in regard to the mattor, The board roplied that the butter making must be stopped, and butter alrcady made t_ be confiscated. similar case from Metz, Jasper county, where milk and cream was taken to n mery from abouse where there was alcase of scarlet fever, 'This has also been ordered stopped. the A Mandamus Wanted, Des Moixes, Ia., Dec. 16.—|Special Tale- gram to Tie Bre.]—The goveraor is in r ceipt of a communication signed by citizens of Clarinda petitioning for interforence by a mandamus proceeding to prevent the pro- posed tearing up of the tracks of the Clar- inda & St. Louis road on Wednesday noxt. Ho referred the comwunication to the rail- road commissioners. Died From His Wounds, Kerokvk, Ta, Dec. 16, —[Special Telegram to Tue B ouis Burrell, tho colored drayman who was shot by Fred Koechling last Tuesday while 1n the act ot stealing woud, died early this morning. Koechling is under arrest awaiting the action of the jury now 1n session Drow RED OAK, Ia., Dee. 16, al Telegram to Tue Bee.]—Tho six-year-old daughter of Henry Bruce, living near here, was di8wned in a slop barrel this morning. The little ono was leaning over the edge of the barrel ana fell in headforemost with no one around to repcue her. PSR THE BROTHERHOOD PLAYERS. A Name, a Constitution and By-Laws are Adopted. New Yonrk, Dec. 12.—The Brotherhood base ball representatives mot here this morning and remained in session untilnearly 6 o’clock when a recess was taken. The re- port of the committee on constitution and by-laws was adopted with a few amend- ments. The name agreed upon was *Players National League of Base Ball Clubs.” 'I'here was quite a number of chunges compared with the constitution of the national league. The secretary must bo un outsider, new members must have tiaree-quarter vot clubs may be expelled for failure to sign col stitution; to pay yearly dues of $1,500; to pay salaries of visiting clups’ percentage; to deliberately fail to play championsiip games for selling beer or liquor, pool selling, open betting, playiog with disqualified clubs, throwing games, playing on Sunday, ete. Any member can be dismissed between one playing season and anovher. But no player can be transferrcd from _one club to another without written consent from him. The league is to be man- aged by a board of directors, who shall con- sist of stockholders who ave not players and ers who arc not stockholders, Two rs of each club will form the com- mittee, The agreemeat between the clubs, which lasts ten years, was amended by a resolution providing that each member of the league shall guarantee and positively agree to say each player the salary fixed by his contract upon request and that there be raised a fund of $10,000 to be, contributed by the members equally, to be deposited with the treasurer as a guarantee of the periorm- ance by each mewber ofthe contrach. - The following offieers were electea: Presi- dent, E. A. McAlpin, New York; vice presi- dent, John Addison, Chicago; secretary and wreasurer, . H. Brunell, Chicago. Various committees were appointed. It is understood that Von der Ahe's St. Louis team will be admitted. THE WHLLE OUrRAGE, Although the Defendant is Acquitted, the Affair is Not Ended Yeot. HoLyoke, Wyo., Dec. 16.—|Special Tele- gram to Tug Bee.|—It seems that the dis- missal of the Benkel vs Witherbee caso and the finding of tne defendant not guilty in the matter of the whitecap outrage of the 8th inst. has in no wise put a quietus on the investigation. Rumors have gained ground as late as 9 o’clock p. m. that other important arrests would be made in the morning. Certain parties interested in the prosecution have been warned to be on their guard, Men who have received such warnings can now be seen going on the street where business or pleasure may call them in groups of three or four in order for better protection in case of attack. T A DRUNKEN MAN'S DEED, Murder and Arson Committed While K . Orazy With Liquor. CoNT00000K, N, H., Dec, 16.—The barn of Moses E. Dodge at Hopkinton was burned early this morning. Two bloody axes and fresh blood have been foundTo a neighbor- ing shed and 1t is learned that a neighbor was at the placo last evening crazy drunk. Dodge sent him home, but the drunken man s said to haye escaped from his house about tho time of the fire. A boy named Henry Searle, who worlked for Dodge, saved the horsos in the barn, but Dodge was lost in the fire, Over seventeen head of cattle burned. e ey Seppa Pinto's Fighting. Lissox, Dec. 16.—The papers here -give a long account of the events preceding the re- cent action of Sepva Pmto in Mozambique, It is alleged that a party of engineers sur- veying a railroad line were attacked by the Makololos without provocation and were compelled to ficht, killing six negroes, The reports of the larger affair cannot reach here for seyeral weoiks, but the official pavers deny that Seppa £into has any such force as the English claim, A Successful Operation on Barrett. BostoN, Mass.,, Dec, 16.--A successful surgical operation has been performed upon Lawrence Barrett consisting of the removal of some lymphatic glands of the throat. As s0on as the pativnt recovers he will betake himself to"some Europeun watering place for rest and recreation, ——— . A Orazyman's Hallucination, New Yong, Dec. 16.—Joseph Kracke, a Bohemian carpenter, became insano tonight aud threw his three young children out of a window. He said he saw Jesus in the yurd and threw the children to him as a Christ- mas present. They fell on the fire escape and were not seriously injured. Kracke then ran amuck and assaulted several women and men. ke was finally subdued after a flerce struggle with four policemen, He is in the hospital now a raving maniac, e with the All-American congress delegates and ladies arrived at Jersey City this afternoon, They were met by a receplion committee #nd'Mr., Mra. and Miss Blaine went to the Fifth Avenue hotel while the delegates aund ludies crossed at Cortland street and wero aters, The Weather Foreost. For Omaba and Vicinity—Fair weather, lowa — Lower temperature, Northerly winds, South Dakota—Fair, lower temperature, Forthwesterly winds, e SR Emin Pasha Decorated. "y Beruiy, Dee. Emperor Willlam bas ednforred upou Emin Pasha the decoration (second cluss order) of the erows with the slar, 4 THE CROWELL MURDER CASE A Prominent Citizen of That Place Arrested. CHARGED WITH COMPLICITY, Hog Thieves Moet With a Disoour- agement—The Hail-Hess Shooting Affray Taken Up by Women—State Notes, the Arrested for Complicity. FrewmoNt, Neb,, Dee. 16.—|Special to Trn Bre.| —Additional excitement and interest has been given to the Crowell murder case by the arrest of Herman Diers of Crowell, & hotelkeeper and merchant at that place, for complicity in the murder of Carl Pulsifer. ‘The arrest was made by Sheriff Mallon yes- terday afternoon and was dono 80 quietly that the people of the little villave kuew nothing of it until today When the news was made public great excitoment. followed. The prisoner was brought to Fremont last evening and is now lodged in jail. The ofticers and every oue connected ure very close-mouthed and it is.extremoly dift obtain exact information as to what evidence there 1s that Diers was connected with the case 1n any manner, Mr., Diors, sr., of West Polat, father of the prisoner, camo to Fre- mont this morning to look after his son's welfare. He s very much wrought up over the new turn taken in matters. He states thathe has been informed that his son's arrest was made on the aileged grounds that be hired young Furst and Shephard to kill Pulsifer; that the consideration wasa suit of clothes and 20 i1n advance and 81,000 _after the murder had been committed. He declares his son in- nocent of the crime fHe says he had no feelings against Pulsifer, but® that on the contrary Pulsifer and Herman Diers were good friends, and that tho latter often took his meals at Herman's hotel and borrowed money of him. The prisoner took an active part in the capture of the two murderers, but is not known to have displayed any overweening desire to effect their capture that would savor of suspicion- He was foreman of the coroner’s jury which sat upon the body of Pulsifer, “The only thing certain at this time is that e has been arrested for com- plicity, which charge, if true, would involve him ‘a8 an instigator of the plot. Ii is not definitely known whether Furst and Shephard have stated that they were bired by Diers. A Warm Reception. SeriNGvIEW, Neb., Dec. 16—[Special to Tue Bee.]—Lafe Bourn, residing south of this place and a stock feeder of considerable note, has been losing his hogs, one or two at ajtime, for the past ten da; Last Wednes- day night he and two of his hired men organ- ized a watch, concealing themselves mn a straw stack in the center of the feed low About 8 o’clock a man wasscen, gun in hand, chmbing over the fence into the feed lot. He was halted and fired upon all at the same time, when he threw up his hands with s groun and fell backwards, at the same time shooting, ~ As therc were known to be & number of men on the outside of the lot, confederates of the supposed dead man, Mr, Bourn and his men kept still in the stock to await. developments. They pad pot: long to wait, as two men werc seen skulking from a canyon just back of the feed lot snd where the man was shot off tie fence, whom they picked up and carvied off as fast is they could' go. In a few minutes another man was seen cowing from the canyon tothe fence where the first man was shot. He picked up somethiug—-supposed to bo & gun—and started back, when Lo wus fired upon by the men 1o the straw stack and wus without doubt hit, as he staggered 28 he ran, In all there were twenty shots fired, One man is supposed to be kiiled and one wounded, Mr. Bourn thinks there were at least seven men in the gang. Th d a spring wagon anda pair of mules. Citizens here think it 18 u case of the old-time rostlers seeking re- venge on members of the vieilance com- mittee. Mr., Bourn, it is.well known, is & leader in that organization, Let that be as it may, tho thieves got a warm reception. Members of the committee have puton a stroug force and further trouble 1s looked for. KrAnyay, Dee. 16.—[Special Tele~ gram to Tue Bee,|—The city council ordered at their meeting tonight a new heok and ladder cart with a complete equipment costing $1,200. This will bo 4n readiness when the new city hall will be dedicated next month, The third member of Lewis Logan’s fam- ily, living eight miles north of the city, died tonight of diphtheria. Al died within a few days.. Others of tho family aro sick. The disease is attributed to bad water from a well mproperly protected from filth, A mass meeting was held in the opera house tonight to discuss the building of rail- roads from this city, The Kearney & Black Hills and Kearney, Hutchinson & Gulf roads, both on paper, were freely discussed. The former extends from Kearney via Calaway and on to the Black Hills and the lutter to Galveston via Minden, Superior, Wichita and Hutchinson. A commiites was u&)polnwd to confer with the boards of trade in the towns and cities on the proposed lines relas tve to building the road. The fecling here is that the Black Hills route will be com- pleted first, Nebraska kditorial Association. Keanyer, Neb., Dec. 16.—|Special Tele- gram to Tne Bee,|—The annual session of the Nebraska Editorial associauion will be held here January 23 and 24. H. M. Bush- nell, president, and ¥'.. G. Simmons, secre- tary, wero in the city today completing ar- rangements and getting up the programme, The editors of the state and their wives will be presont, the guests of the city. duy will be devoted to a business session, In the evening there will be oratio literary ana other exercis second day there will be a ds ness topics and improvements in newspaper work. Inihe eveniug a grand bianquet will be held in the Midway hall. His Life Was in Danger. Wayxe, Neb., Dec. 16.—[Special to Tum Bee.]—During the Kelley trial last week there was an undercurrent of excitement all the time, and o constant apprehension of danger to the lifeof Dr. Kelley. Michael and Mary Soulier, brother and sister of the deceased girl, and the other Germaus who were supposed to have been concerned in the shooting of Dr. Kelley last winter, were here all the week, and made numerous threats that they would kill him at the first oppors tunity, Ononeoceasion Mary Soulier rushed at Dr. Kelley us he was leaviog the court house and cried, in German: *“DIl kill you, you murderer!” Two Omaba detectives were here ull the week to guard Dr, Kelley, and accompanied him wherever he went, and the sherill and his deputies were constuntly on the watch. The suspected persous were not allowed in the court room, and & deputy was stationed at the doer to keep thom out, ‘Tho result of thegtrial was no surprise to anyone who heard the evidence, ‘Ihe state failed to convict, not because of any mis. management of the case, but because_there was absolutely uo evidence to sustain § con- viction, atal Fal West Poixt, Neb,, Dec. 16.—[Special Pl egram to Tne Bee. |- Word came 10 town to- night that & dead man was lying in the road about three miles east of this ylace and citis zons repoired atonce to the scene of the supposed murder, to flad one George Row- werg bad been foully acalt with, but upen A