Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 2, 1890, Page 2

THE COLORADO WHITE CAPS, Tatroduction of Testimony Contin- uod By the State. TWO VICTIMS ON THE STAND. Xiawyers Bennett and Kelsey Tell a Kevolting Story of tho Beutal Trcatment to Which Thay Were Sab) Revolting Recitals Horyoke, Colo,, Jan. 1.—[Special to Tue Ter.|~The White Cap case was continu agaiu yesterday by the state resuming the introduction of testimony. The new jury of twelve men who are to sit in judgment on testimony for and agmmst the defendants were the box., The court room was crowded at an ocarly hour with men of ail classes to listen to testimony that made tue heart blood run fiercely through the veins of many a law abiding citizen The following witnesses were examined today John S. Bennett: “1 am s office is in Holyoke, Col. My fami of alittle girl tweive years old and a little oy of nine. We all sleep i the ofice, | retired about 12 o’clock on the night of the St inst. Ihad been in bed awhile when 1 heard a rap on the door. I asked: ‘What's wanted? and Louis C. Witherbee answered that he wanted a warrant right quick. [ got up and went o the door. Witherbee grabbed o top of the head and they dragred Witherbee is sheriff of the in ‘Cheré were four masked men at my office door. Witherby was in the lead and krabbed me. One of the others put something over my mouth and drugzed me down stairs head foremost und partly tore my drawers oft. 1 tore the mask off of Lou Witherbe 1 Xnocked the mask up on another man's face, whom 1 believe to be A. A. Spahr, deputy clerk and county recorder. It was a very Dright moonlight night. They draggedme across the street to the rear end of Varn store. I hollowed all I could, They picked me up and threw me on the bare boards in a wagon. Twoof them then sat on me, and they drove off at arapid speed. They stopned and threw a cont over my hend after they wero about three hundred yards out of town. [n going out they tried to put some- thing over my mouth aud [ bit the little floger of Louis C. Witherbee. They choked me and one of the men ran his thumb in my eye and made me let go. I said: ‘I would like to know what I have done to deserve this kind of punishinent) My whole side was black and ¢ sitting ou me avd riding over rough prairic and jolting on the bare boards in the box. When they drove me to where I was whipped [ saw another man lymgon the grouud, covered up. A u came riding up on o horse with a whip 1n his d. I have since recognized the coat that was thrown over Wwo men gave me nine cuts apiece, Four men held me,one around ecach wrist and one around each ankle. Ilad nothing on but a shirt and a puir of cotton stwckings. It was a very cola mght. After I was whipped I saw Lou Witherbee with a whip in his hand. He said: ‘“The lawyers of this county are getting too d—d smart.’ ‘Ihe only difference in toe dress that he wore was the mask he had on his face, I knew him from his voice and his clothes. After the whipping 1 was turned looss and ‘walked about two miles to Mr. Diedles, [ could not come towards town, as they were stili standing between me and the road I would have to take to get to my office, At that time I had on no clothes whatever ex- cept my undershirt and stockings. I. had pustied the flesh down in my legs with my Hingers and it would retain the iuprint of them. 1 could hardly get to Diedle’'s on account of being 80 completely chilled with the extreme. cold. My back was cut clear through the skin, The whipping only hurt me on the in- side, I was socold. 1 was confined to my ‘bed several days. The next day Witherbee came to my bedside and usked ine if I recog- nized any of them. I said: ‘Yes, 1 recog- ized your voice when you called for a war- rant.’” He said nothing and walked off."” ‘Lhis was all of Bennett's direct testimony. In the cross examination his testimony was not shaken in the least, William D, Kelsey: “Iam a lawyer. I have lived in Holyoke twoyears. On the night of the 7th ate a lunch in Walsh’s saloon. Left there about 12 Roing to my home 1n West Holyoke. About eighty feet from the banks of the Frenchman I saw six or seven men coming towards me. They were ubout fifteen or twenty feet away when 1 tirst saw them. They came in & semi-cirele, ‘When they were about ten feet olf the oue in the center smd: ‘Hold up your hands. I said 1 would hold up nothing. He repeated ! *Hold up your hands.’ Isaid: *‘Young fel- low, you're boring in the wroug hole; you can't scare me.” By this time one was belind me and tied something over my eyes, They then neld my hanas and walked me off. I «id whatever they wanted me to and made no resistance There were too many of them and I saw it was no use. ‘The man in front of we haa o wask on his face and a bat on his head. It was Louis Witherbes. They threw a borse blan- ket over my head and led me about twenty rods to a wagon. When they went to put in 1 told them I could climb in myself, which 1did. When they stoppec at the spot where 1 was afterwirds whippea I got out of the ‘wagon. They made me kneel down on my kuees aud held me in that shape until the ‘wagon returned with their other victim, Not a word was spoken. Kverything was so still 1 could her the villaios breathivg, ‘The Wagon was gone to towu ubout three-quarters of an hour sud then returned. 1 was then thrown on my face and something thrown over we, ‘Lie whipping then commenced, ‘Ihey whinped the other man tirst. [ could hear him nioan and s ‘O God!" 1 heard afterwards that iv was Bennett. After they ‘whipped bim tbey came t me. One man then caught each of my wrists aud ankles und stretched me out with my face down. In this position 1 was whipped, a villein standing on each side of me striking al- ternate blows, each lick cutting whrough the akin and bringing out the blood. They then sald: ‘We will just give you twenty-four hours to leave the country.’ Witherbee was the man that said thi then walked home. 1 was all bloody, the blood running down iy pauts. I turned sick at my stomach.” Hugh Mickey: “Know Ed Sparks. On the night of the 7th he came to wy saloon be- tween 11 and 12 o'clock and borrowed my overcoat, He said that he was going three wilos in the country; that he would return it i the morning,” This overcoat wasideutified toaay by Ben- nett a8 being the oue that was thrown o bun when e was hauled out in the wa M William 1. Kelsey cawe into he court room leading her little two-year girl. She was crying. Her face was flooded With tears, and it was with dificulty that she testified as follow “*My husband came home about 2 o'clock Sunday, the Sth, His bick was beaten and it was raw and bloody. His shirt was all over blood and blood was running down his pants. He becawe very sick und suffered a great deal, [ was terri- biy frightened and sorely mortified ‘The court adjourned over New Years uatil ‘Thuraday at 9 a. m , at which time the evi- dlence for the state will be continued. e SBTATE NEWS, Silver in Nebraska.® ; Serixaview, Neb, Jau, 1.—Considerable excitement prevails at this place over the findiug of silver ore in paying quantities at the mouth of Burton creek, fifteen miles northeast of Springview, i this (Keya Paba) county, by 8. D. Leavens, a home- steader. It seems about a year ago Mr. Leavens, while prospecting for minerals, eamq 1o the conclusion that from iudications thore must be coal uuder the surface of his claim, and he secured an old worn-out dritand went to work, the people of this Place keeping him io *grub.” The bhole is w#bout five hundred feol deep, starting in mear Lhe creek, which ruus a good stream, but strange to say there has uevor bodn water in the hole to stop work. In fact it hus been quite dry from the top to the bottom. In_ drilling the 500 feet they passed through vhree thiv veins of coal, but nat in paying quantities, the thickuess being twelve lnches, As near as cau be estimated Eow there is at least twenty-five feot of the ‘Quwt-pwiw rock-—-that s, in depuli uo telling what the width and length may be. A buantity of this rock has been taken to the Omaha smolting works and an assay proves it to be worth $200 in silver, § in @old and about 830 in copper per ton. A company has been organized and u shaft will be put down immediately and if the find proves to bo as good a8 now supposed, KKeva PPaba county will be the Leadville of the northwest | 1o of twel months. As it is a known fact that should the Benton creek hiole prove a success there are a number of other locations within a few miles just as good Editors Organize. GRAND ISLAND, Jan, 1. — [Special Telegram to Tue Bre.]—In response 1o a call made some weeks ago a large number of the leading den ratic editors of the state assembled here today for the purpose of or- ganizing u democratic state editorial associa tion. Permunent organization was offected by the election of the followiug officers President, J, G. P. Hildebrand of the St. Panl Press: sccretary, Bd J. Hall of the Grand Island Democrat: treasurer, 1. I Davis of the Columbus Telegram ico presidents were chosen from each congres sional district as follows: Krom the the Flst, A Hasler of the Pawnee Press; from the Second, R. H. Walqmst of the Hastings Democrat; from the Third, M. B, Cioron of the Greely Democrat, A coustitu. tion and by-laws were adopted. ~The issues of 'mportance nol pending before the peo- ple of the state were discussed wt length and united action on the part of the ~democrativ Dress was strongly advised, All present ex pressed themselves thoroughly satisfied with the result, This is the first attempt at or- ganization on_the part of the democratic press ever made in Nebraaka, Besides those present the movement receives the un- aualitied endorsement of nearly every demo- cratic editor of the stato as expressed by let- ters sent to be read at the meeting, Democratic Narrow Escaps From Five. Beatnice, Neb, Jan, gram to Tur Bee | —The Daily Press office narrowly escaped going up in smoke this afternoon. An office room in the building had just boen vacated today and a parlor match or cigar stump had accidenally ig- nited the matting on the floor, and had been smouldering all the afternoon. The fice had burned through the floor and was burning along the rafters when opportunely dis- covered by one of the attaches of the oftice The flames were extinguished by the offic force beforo the arrival of tho fire depart- ment, Stole the Church Safe, LixcoLy, Neb, Jan, lL—|Special Tele- gram w Tie Bee.|—The cast door of St. Theresa's Catholic church wi foreed open sometime last night and a small safe weigh- g about one thousand pounds taken from the west sacristy and rolled out into tho east yard where an unsuccessful attempt was made to force it open. Tho sufe contuined nothing but tismal births and mar- riage records . Pawnee City Warerwor Pawsee Crry, Neb., Jao. L—[Speeial Tel- egram to Tue Bee.|-The official test of the waterworks was mado today. It was a perfect success. THE COMBAT DELPENS. Reduced Rates From Chicago to St Paul Go into Eff-ct. UnicAGo, Jan. 1.—The western passenger rate war is now fairly begun. The reauced rates from St. Paulto Chicago went 1nto effect today, and to make the fight moro in- teresting the t. Paul executed a flank movement and opened fire from the Mis- souri river, bringing the first class rate from Kansas City to Chicago down from $12.50 to #10. The evident object of the cut s to pun- ish tae Burlington & Quincy for the action of the Burlington & Northern. A general collapse of Missouri river rates is exrected 10 follow and there 1_apparently no chance of the St. Louis lines being able to maintain the present rates between that city and Chi- cago. 4 Teste A Belt Line for Denver. Dexver, Colo, Jan. L-—|Special Tele- gram to Tae Bes. |--Articles of incorpora- tion of the Denver Union Railway & Ter- minal company were filed with the secretary of state late yesterday afternoon. The capi- tal stock is placed at $5,000,000 and the incor- porators are Charles A. Adams, Frederick L. Ames, Willard Teller, J. B, Gilchrist, J, K. Choute and Scott Bryan. These gentle. men are also named as the buard of directors for the first year. A meetingof the directory will be held tomorrow afternoon m this city at which detailed plans for the operation of the company will be submitted and acted upon. These include the building of a belt line connecting all the roads and branches entering the city and the handling of the busi- ness thereof by what is known in railroud parlance as a terminul company. linois Central Changes. Cuicago, Jdan, 1.—The Illinois Central Railroad company announces a number of changes in officials. A. A. Beck, the acting general manager, has been avpointed gen- eral manager; A. W. Sullivan, general superintendent; K. G. Russell, superintend- ent of the northern lines, with jurisdiction rorth of the Ohio and east of the Mississipp river. M. Gilleus, superintendent of the lines in Iowa, is made supermtendent of the westeru lines, with headquarters in Dubuque and'jurisdiction over the rqads west of the Mississippi. o S R A Candidate for the Gallows. M roL1s, Mion., Jan, L.—A Merrill, Wis., special gives an account of a terrile New Year's tragedy. George Hendler, a dissolute character, had been refused credit at David Sarvis’ saloon. This morning after buying several drinks and paying for them he pulled a revolver and shot is in the back, killing him almost mstantly. Chief of Police Truax attempted to urrest the mur- derer and was shot through the lungs, prob- ably fatally, Frank Hotz, night watch- man, was shot in the shoulder and arm, Hendler held the crowd at bay for a while, but in attsmpling to escape he stumbled and drovped lus revolver. He wus then_pounced upon by the crowd aud taken 10 jail,. He will probably be lyncned. R Husiess Troubles, MILWAUKEE, Jan L.—A special from Fon Du Lac says the assignee of the Fon Du Lac Furniturs compgny, vthe Fon Du Lac Sash, Door and Blind company and Wisconsin Laud and Mining company, kuown as the C. J. Meyer company, show liabilitios of $500,000, The heaviest creditors are Henry Sherry & Co. $13L.000, E. P, Sawyer §50,000 C.J. L. Meyer §72,000. The assets nearly equai the liabilities and the creditors will receive dollar for dollar, ————— Vetoed the Ronber Gas Bill, S, Louis, Jan, L—Just before the daily papers went 1o press this morning Mayor Nooban sent a note to them saying that he bad vetoed the gas bill recently passed by the municipal assembly pobularly kuown as the robber gas bill. v is a New Year's gift for which the citizens geucrally will be very grateful, s Wholesale Killing. AsuEviLLE, N, C., Jan. 1.—A terriblo trag- edy took place in Mitchell county in a drunken row Christmas day in which three wen were killed. Friday Monroe Garland, @ brother of one of thaumurdered men, rode up toacrowd in the sume place and fired into it aud killed three, wouading twelve. e Ll Strangled a Boy. DusLiy, Jan. 1.—A thirteen-year old hoy, 8 brother to the witness who testified in the case of the wan named Poles, who was tried at Castle Island for wmurder, has been strangled to death. A man named Connor has been arrested on the charge of being the murderer. Will Disselve Parliamont. DesLiy, Jan. L—The Freemau's Journal says it has strong reasons to beliove that Lord Salisbury will dissolve parliament at the esriiest woment. - HKansas' Sugar Oatput. Torexa, Kun., Jan. L—The aunual report of the state sugar inspector shows 1,203,975 ul:ndl muaufactured iu 1550 against 695,274 u 1588, THE OMAH HAWKEYE STATE TEACHERS, The Association Puts in Aunother Hard Day's Work. SOME ABLE PAPERS INTRODUCED Proceedings of the FPromoters Music—Atlantic Man Arrested on the Charge of Iowa News. of rgery — A Good Day's Work. Des Morses, la., Jan, 1.—|Spocial Tele gram to Tne Bee, ] —The State Teachers' ay- sociation has had a full day's work today, both as a whole ana by soctions, The morn- ing exercises opened withan excrcise in phy sical culture by pupils from the public schools, which was followed by a general discussion led by Prof. Booth of lowa City. T'he other papers at the general meeting of the association wero: “College entrance from the standooint of the college,” Prof. R. A. Harkness, Fairfleld. General discussion le: by Prot. G, E. Coo ley, Creseo; “Charlatism in education and educators,” Superintendent H. A. Kiuney., Woodbine. Genersl discus- sion lod by Prof. C. M. Grumbling, Mount Pleasant. In the afternoon the association resolved itself into five sections, each meet- ing separately. The first was the colloge de- vartment. The principal paper of the after- noon wus by President Stetson of the Des Moines college, on “*What 1s a collegiate education?” Other papers and discussions followed, ench led by a college prosident. In the evening the main address was by Presi- dent Schaeffer of the state university on the American university. President Chamber- lain of the state agricultural college read a puper on industrial education, The county superintendents formed the cond section and they wero addressed by Stawe Superin- tendent Sabin. The third section was com- posed of the elementary and graded school teachers, They discussed such subjects as the middle man, the child at homo and at school, hereditary and education. The high school department. formed the fourth secs tion. The leading papers were on the high school library, literature, botany and mathe- matics. The fifth section was devoted to the department of penmauship and drawing, President Granger, in her aunual address last night, stated that duriog the year end- ing October, 1889, of the 25,002 teachers’ cer- tificates 1ssued 19,079 were to women, and of the 5,842 who were rejected 3,211 were also women. The State Music Teachers' nssociation has also beon in session all day, aividing its time between papers and discussions and musical selections. Papers were read this mormng by Prof. Peters of Dubuque on *‘Voice Cul- ture,” and by Dr. Wishard of this city on “Needed Reform wm Church Musie.” session tuis afternoon was devoted to an organ recital by Lows Falk of Chicago. At 3 o'clockk the governor and other state officers held au informal New Year's re- ception for all the teachors at the state house. The enrollment now reaches about seven hundred. Arrested for Forgery. ATrANTIC, la., Jan, 1.—|Special Telegram to Tue Bre.] —George Bailey was arrested at Newton and brought to this city today to avswer to the charge of forgery, committed here December 25, He was t0 have been married today. Drowned While Skatine. HARLAY, Ta,, Jan. L—|Special Telegram to Tne Bee, Ira Overholt, sou of John Overholt, while skating on the river here today broke through the ice and was drowned. CATILEM AROUSED. Those of the Southwest Will Kight the Buyers' Combine. Fonrr Wourrh, Tex., Jan. L—A call was issued some time ago by William L. Black, chairman of the committee appointed to in- vestigate the cause of the depression in the cattle Dbusiness, for an inter- state couvention of cattlemen to meet at Fort Worth, March 11, 1800. This call was followed today by an address to the cat- tle industry of Texas and other states, signed by all the cattle organizations of Texas and many large cattle owners of Kansas, Missouri, Ne- braska, Colorado and Illinois. It joins in the call and sets forth at length the im- portance of cattle men agreeing upon some uniform plan of conducting their business in the future to defeat the combina- tion of buyers in the prominent mark- ets of the country. The address asks the chief executives of the several states and territories who have business re- lations with either Chicago, Kansas City or St. Louis t send a full and efiicieat repre- sentation of the banking and mercantile ele- ment with the delegation that may be sent to represent their respective sections. Elinizoqlickii, Archbishop 'reland’s Statement. ', PAUL, Jan, 1,—A Chicago telegram of the 31st brought the intelligence that Josiah Cratty of that city, attorney for certamn creditors of the defunct real estate firm of Frederiksen & Co,, had filed an amended bill, in which, with prominent business men and phbysicians of Milwaukee and other points in the northwest, Archbishop Irelund was made co-defendant, A reporter today called Archbishop Ireland's attention to the tele- gram. “"Yes,” said the archibishop, “Tam greatly surprised at the Statements made. Some years ago Frederiksen offered as agent to sell some lands of which I was the owner in Swift county, thisstate, obtaining from me an option contract for the same. He finally purchased a small portion of such lands in ms own name, which he afterwards sold to others, as I was informed, This is all there is of my transactions with Frederiksen & Co. e iy Suicid> of a Crayon Artist. New Yorg, Jan. 1.—Gabrielle O'Berbauer, a talented young crayon artist, shot herself dead today in her apartments at 210 East Eighty-first street, where her brother Otto also lived. They had become alieniated from the other members of thewr fawily. ~Gabrielie had receotly learned that William Brill, » wealthy glove manu- facturer who had been paying her marked attention, was about to marry another woman. This wade her desnondent and led to her suicide. Mr, Brill could not be seen today, g T The Mackey sur ke, EvaxsviLLg, Ind,, Jan, 1L.—The situation on the Evansville & Terre Huute and the Evausville & Indisnapolis roads of the Mackey system remains practically un- changed at this point. Nothiog but passen- ger trains are moving. The federation of the brotherhoods of engincers and firemen and the conductors, switchinen and orake- mer. went 1nto effect today and unless a peedy settlement 1s reached there is a probability that all these organizations will take part in the strike e A Race War Feared, Cusniestoy, 8. C., Jan, L—Dispatchos received tonight indicate that there are probabilities of trouble in Barnwall, Tele~ grams have been received at Blaci ville aud neighboring towns a ing for aid, and @& special traiu left Blackwell with reinforcements today. It is sald the negroes intend to burn the town. The whole county secms to be up in arws and a coutlict between the blacks and whites uppeurs imminent., - A Nibilise Piot, S1. Pererssure, Jan. L—The police have discovered the existence of & deep laid and widely pervading plot agaiust the hife of the czar. The nihilists are abandoniog their policy of open terrorism and resorting Lo methods wore secret. I e San Salvador's MKebellion Ended. La Liverta, Jan. L—The governwent forces are completely victorious over the in. surgents in the province of Cuscatian ana the revolution is suppressed. The revellious town of Cojute Peque has been taken and Geuneral Rivas has fled. I'HURSDAY THE TEDDFOD, Delogates ‘From Many States fn At ' Mrentance. Cricaco, | 1.—The first national efs- teddfod held {d America met at Contral music hall thi§ afternoon. Delegates from many states Were 1 attendance. It was an intelligent, ‘qultured audience, to which music, poesy, and patriotic utterances equally appegled and roceived cordial endorsement. All the proceedings are in the Welsh lagenage, The formal address of President Job to the delegates said they were there to show their attachment for the motherland atd her institutions and to com- memorate Weish' literawuie and arts. They were proud to be descondauts of Wales and no less proud that they were American citi- zens, Tonight the chief iterest cente choral contest, four choruses competing. Honcrs were oasy between the Western avenue choir of Chicago and the Racine chorus, but the former was given the award on the strength of the spirited singing of Soloist Miss Grace Jones. Bl Paulsen-McCormick Skat MiNNEAPOLIS, Minn,, Jan, 1.~ a series of skating matches ander Paulsen of this city and Hugh J. Mc- Cormick came off today at the Palace rink. McCormink traitfed Pawlsen the entire dis- tance until the last lap, when bo spurted, going about ten varas, when 8 chain was thrown across the track and he sustained a terrible fall. Paulsen wou by a couple of feet. A protest has boon issued against pay- ing over the stake woney, lhe time for five miles was 20:18; ‘ten s, 40:5%; fittecn miles, 1 hour 1 minute and 37 seconds. ity His Wedding Day. Jan. 1.—|Special Telo- —Av Jeffersonville tolday xon committed suicide. He ried to Miss Phoebe Mears at 3 p. m d an hour before that time could d in the g Marcl. he first of ween Alex Suicided on LovisviLie, Ky, gram to Tne Be Charles H. P was to be n not be found. He was at last discovered in the back yard of his father's homo with a bullet hole in his breast near the heart. He died soon after. A letter was found in which he puts the blamo for his death entirely upon nimself. He was in finaucial straits aud 8o driven to desperation. ——— SOUTH OMAHA NEWS. Forestres' Publio Installation. District Deputy George J. Seltzer Thurs- day evening installed the officers-elect of Court Magic City, No. 168, Independent Order of Foresters, The installation wus puplic and was held in the Ancient Order of Hibernians’ hall. Shilony’s orchestra fur- nished the music. The large attendance of friends was much pleased with the beautiful and impressive ceremonies. The following officers were iustalled: Chief rauger, ice-chief ranger, Edward secretary, Joseph Moloy ; financial sccretary, William Brennan; treas- urer, Judge Patrick J. King; senior’ wood- ward, Benjamin 1, Finnerty}; junior wood- ward, John H. ' Lane; 'senior benale, Anthony Smith; junior beadle, Pat- rick Shea; apiain, Jobn Hayes; trustees, Meory Loccher, George J. Seltzor and Patrick Rowley. Represent- auwve to the grand lodge, George J. Seltzer ; alternate, Charled Singer. The grand lodge will meet February 6, 1890, in La Salle, 1L After the corcimony congratulations fol- lowed and in response to calls Chief Rangor Singer delwvored 4 short but neat and fore- ible’ speech, recciving and meriting hearty applause. The, Glee club rendered some amusing songs. I'hen to thesplendia music the friends joined in one of the pleasant dances for which the Foresters have become famous New Year's Rocention at ths Emanon. The ladics of the Emanon scored a decided success at the New Year's reception Thurs- day evening. 'An excellent spread had been tastofully aud palatably -prepared and was served in a most acceptable manner, After the spread Mr. Z. Cuddington and Miss Kate Wyman led the graod march and all joined in°a pleasant danco. With commendable forethought and Geft liands everything bad been done to pledase und'entertain and a more detighted party was never hela in the clcy. Juanuary Police Assignments. Marshal Mahoney has made the following volice assignments for January: Day force— Juiler, William M. Hughes; N street, Moses R. Redmol ‘Third ward, Martin Spoettler; Albright, Thomas Brennan, Night force— Captain Jobu J. Sexton, jailer; Thomas Loonoy, N, Twenty-fifth to J and Twenty- seventh to N streets; Joseph Humpol from N on Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth to Q aod J streets; Third, John Fallon and Pat- ricic J. McMahon. Grand Isiand Man Robbed. A man here from Grand Island with stock, who modestly witholds his name, took a room Wednesday night in the Lister bleck, and when he awoke in the morning found that his room had been entered during the night and his clothes rifled of valuables, in- cluding a gold watch, and even some of his clothies were taker. No trace of the thief, To Pave Twenty. purth Street. The regular meoting of the board of trade will be held in President John A. Doe's of- fice Saturday ovening. Several matters of pubiic 1nterest will be discussed, notably the question of vaving Twenty-fourth streev, and it is the desire of all to have s full at: tendance. . Notes About the City, Mrs. D. F. Bayless is listed among the neuralgia sufferers, Miss Jennie Morton is one of the very sick persons with influenza, A quiet wedding will surprise the people of Albright during this month. Court Magic City No. 108 paid the funeral expenses of Mrs, Johu H. MeKinney, Mr. Howe, brother of Charles Howe, re- siding’in the northern part of the city, is sick. A dance and raffle will entertain tho social lovers of Albright at Myer's hall Tuesday evening, Superintendent James Boyle of the hog department of tae pucking houses of Swift & Co., is sick. The ofticers of Alpha lodge, No. 44, Daugh- ters of Rebekah, will be instulied Saturday evening, the . Veter M, Donahoe of this city and Miss Catherine Kinsella of Omahs have been licensed to wed. Frank P, Jones of Ponca, who has been the guest of the Rev. Robert L. Wheeler, has been given a position in the Union Pal cific railroad headquarters inOmaba. The mayor and city council will sit Friday and Saturday, the/ 24 and id, as a board of equatization on the grading of Twenty-tfourth and yaviog N, Miaud Twenty-seventh streots and Railroad avenye. . Mrs. Henry Reynplds, brother of Oakley W. Hawmilton, a member of Court Magic Gty No. 163, i committed suloido in Council Bluffs Otitober 2, has been paid his $1,000 insurance’ fidney by the Foresters. “Lhe uction of thylodge bas been commend- ably prompt, i e Abpux Pers Fred Cocirellhis returned Des Moines, L., | Contractor Joby Condon has goue to V al- DparaIso for a weg, 15, visit, Miss Jennlo Stienberger, ove of the suc- cessful teachers of Davenport, who has been visiting her fand brotber-in-law, Mrs, D. . Buayless, has returned uome. M. Biroey, pn#'bf the popular young busi. ness men of the city, has removed to Rock Eprings, Wyo. Mr, Biency's friends will regret to part with him, but will be pleased to learn that he is doing well. to school at Have you tried McClurg's Pastry Wafer Sodas? They are delicate, crisp and delicious. ——— lmproving the Occasion, At Embsay a drunken farmer lost his life the other day by tuwmbling into & quarr; He was & churchman, but his wife was a Methodist, so before. the funeral the viear called on her and told her that he intended to owit certain portions of the burial service, including that referring to the “'sure and certain hope.” At the funeral the viear harangued her on the wickedness of schism, informung her that it was a worse sin thaa drunkenness, JANUARY Father Damen Passes Peacefully Away at Creighton College. EMINENT IN HIS GOOD WORKS, Grand Accomplishments of a Life Devoted Solely to the Best Inters « ests of Humanity A Chris- tian Ploncer, Death of Father Dasmen, Rev. Arnold Damen, 8. J., died last night at :45 at Ureighton collego, i the seventy fifth year of his age. He was in a stupor all day and was us when ho passed away, Father Damen was born in the province of North Brabant, Holland, March 1815, He came to this country in 1837, under the fostering caro of the famous missionary to the Iudians of the west, Fathor Do Smot, who was then returning to this country After the trials and vicissitudes which tifty years ago beset the path of the western bound missionary had beon suceessfuliy overcome, young Damen was assigned us a novice to tho Jesuit novitiate at Florrissant, Mo, iu the days when missives addressed to St. Louis were inscrived St. Louis, “near Florissant.” He was admitted to the noviti- ate November 1, 1837, and soon afterward became a toacher of ‘philosophy at the St. Louis university. There he romained until 1844, when he was ordaiued priest and ap pointed pastor of the college church in St. Louis. His power as a bulpit orator gained him a wide reputation and he soon became a leader in the aggressive mission work carried on by the order throughout the entire west Bisbop O'RReagan of Chicago wanted a Jesuit church and school establishied in that y, and earnestly invited the provincial su perior of the order, the Rev. J. R, Druyts, at Louis, to start the work, The enter- prise was deemed full of promise, and in the summer of 1057 Father Damen was selectea as the one best qualified to begin the 1afant mission, In company with the bishop he rode and walked for miles 1 aud around Chicago 1o select a favorable locality for the vrojected church and school. Finally, and with what must now be admitted a far- sighted judgment as to the future growth aud population of Chicago, Father Damen versonally selected the location on which now stands the splendid buildings of the Jesuit church and college on Twelfth street, between Blue Island avenue and May street. A little frame church wus orectea, then a school house, and a dwelling for the fathers. All around this first establishment was what then looked like unredeemable prairie, but the improvement which eventually made the locality the most densely populated part of the city cume rapidly, and Father Damen and his assistants found their time tully oc- cupied, In the language of one who, as a boy. the site of the present magniti- ceny n, “Pather Damen undertook a herculean task in this section of the city. For years after the commencement of his munistry the place was about the toughest part of Chicago. The people \here derived their living almost solely from the lumber yards and packing houses, and it was about as wild a distric as any which Father Damen has since found in Wyoming.” But steadily the work of evangelization and eda- cation progressed. Father Damen's encrgy and endurauce were resistless, and with in- domitable perseverence and a marvelous physical euergy he preached, appealed aud raised money for the erection of the great church, college and eight parochial schools, which together form the enduring monu-~ meat of his good works, Holy Family chni was completed and dedicated in 1500. Then followed the fur- ther undertaking of building the college, which Father Damen opened in 1870. Mean- while there had been growing up a great parochial school system accommodating an aggregate attenduuce of 5,000 pupils. The ministrations of the clergy of the church and the college extend to a parish commumity of 25,000 souls. All this may be said to have been the direct re- sult of the life work in Chicago of Father Arnold Damen. The Church of the Sacred heart, on Nine- teenth street, sturted by him as an outlying mission church, also owes its successful es- tablishment to his faith and labors. In marked contrast to his rare intellectual and aaministrative ability has ever been the severe simplicity of his personal life. Rigid as are the regulations of his order, Father Damen in his personal habits and methods, wasa very Spartan in matters in which his own personal comfcrt and convenience were concerned, From the early morning until night, in the wearisome hours of the con- fessional, in constant preaching and travel, he has for many years outdistanced all his immediate associates in personal toil and un- remitting exertion up to his seventy-third year. His simplicity and humility have always been as great as his talent for work, ‘iwo years ago when the catholics of the city and many in various parts of the country were uniting in getuing up a testimonial in honor of the fif- tieth anniversary of his admission to the order he positively refused to accept a pres- ent of any kind. Not one cent would he have nor an article of value of any kind. The of- ferings of gold and silver, paintings, money, and other articles were by his express wish conyerted into u sum of money for the benetit of St. Joseph's home for girls and the school for deaf and dumb, two institutions which always bad a warm place in his heart. Such was one instance of the simplicity and self- denial which marked the whole life of this great mission priest. From pastorul charge of the Holv Family he passed to that of the Sacred Heart, then again into the missionary field. Eight veurs ago ke came to this city for the second time to give a mission in the Church of the Holy Triuity, a church, it may be mentioned, bearing the same name as thut to the erection of which he himself, n Chicago, had devoted the energy of his early manhood. The pastor then was Rey. John F, Quinn, later transferred to Denver and still later to the Pacific coast. The church bas since been coufided to the charge of Fatber Damen's order, a worthy disciple, Rev. R. A. Shaffel, S, J,, first vice president of Creighton College and now of St. Francis Mission, Osage, Kan.. being the first pastor. Hundreds flockea to hear the venerable olergyman, bis achievements having made his name familiar in every Catholic houseéhold. About a year ago he cawe to this city with the intention of giving missions in the sur- roundwg country and making bis head- quarters at Creighton Coliege. - Silver Ore in Keya #aha Conuty, Mr. B, W, Nash, treasurer of the Omaba and Grant Smelting and Relining company, stated to & BEe reporter last night that the report from Keya Paba county of the finding of silver ore in paying quantitias is correct, Mr, Nash said a quantity of the ore-bears ing rock had been received at the swelting works and us: d about §200 in silver, $7 in gold and about §20 in copper to the ton. It is not known how thick the vein is and it will be impossible for some time to tell what the extent of the vein is. "The vein was discovered on the homestead of 8. D. Learens near the mouth of Burton creek, about fifteen miles northeast of Springview., Mr. Learens was boring for coal and pierced three thin strata of coal, The silver rock was struck at a depth of about five bundred feet, - Pears' soap secures s beuutiful complexion, General and Mrs, Brooke Eniertain, General and Mrs. Brooke entertained the staff officers of the Depurtment of the Platte at 1 o'clock yesterdav at their home, Twenty- fourth strect and St. Mary's avenue, The hoyse was darkened and music and lunches were provided. The officers were in full dress and the ladies in eveniug toilet. ‘The reception wus in accordauce with @ good oid army custow, and under the very hosoitable direction of tha general and his wife proved one of the most exceedingly de- lightful affairs of the day, Goipel Temperance. ‘The omperance meeting at toe Newman M. E. church, coruer of dt. Mary's avenue wud Twesty-sixth street, was wore than usually interesting last night. Colonel Holt #ave some of his exverience, which was of & wost stirring uature. Touight the colonel unconsc gives a lecturo ontitled “Chicago by Gas LAght.” This {8 a paid lectare usually, but he wives 1t tonight free for all, and lot nill come and enjoy a treal. Come out to the song service at @ p. m, The lecture com mences at 7:50 sharp, - STABBED SEVEN TIMES, Probably Fatal King and Antone Henning Charles Klug ana Antone Henving played cards during the most of yesterday at a pluce located near the south liwit of the city, on Dominion street, vetween Twelfth and Thirteenth streots, About 11 o'clock last night theg quarreling. Kiug says that Henning struck him, and he (IKlug) then stabbed Henning times, the blows falling upon his fa back. It was found upon exammation that oac of the biows, which was over the kidn probably prove fatal The fight was one of the most bloody that has ever occurred in or about Omab While it was in _progress Herning's wifo, who was near at haud, stepped to the door, OF 1t i8 80 supposod, and fired @ Distol in order to witract attention and secure nssist- ance e police were not until some time aft I is 8uid that vhe: ow Between Charles seven e and v, will notified of the affair ward © has been a grudge be ime. TAINMENT, Members of the Association E an Bvening With Friends. ‘Che several handsome roows of the Young Men’s Christian association building were brilliantly inviting lust evenig, The occa sion was a night of gencral cntertainment furnished by members of the association to thewr muititude of friends. And there was a multitude of those same friends present. ‘They filled the reception rooms and parlors, overfiowed into the main hall and at one time took the private ottice by storm, “The young lady clement was rather in the majority, and it was noticed that the young man, or old one either, who didn't havo a girl on each arm and an additional escort of two or threo t the fore or rear, was—well, almost no mun at all this very condi- tion of things doubtie counted _for thi happy breeziness which provailed through- out the entire evening, for it was ono of the liveliest, most entertaining affairs known within the nospitable walls of the Y. M. C. A. building for many a day. After a time of ronew uew ucquaintances the guests were ca order and the following very interesting pro- gramme was given foy ...Prof. On Hor Past and Future ¥ ~.G. M. Hitcheac Mrs, She b Junfor Class Men's Corfstinn Asso udge J. A. Clarkson Proe. Gillenbeck Solo..... Dumb bell drill Address—Tie Youn: clat; e Bunjo Ciub swin Young M 1oy i 5 I n's Christian association elic T ....Prof. Lee G. Kratz A luncheon was served at 10 o'clock, and ail went home confident of having had one of the best times of their iives, —— A WOOD-CHOPPER. s Makes the Biggest Record Heard ot in America. The Avnanias elub met promptly in the roll-call room at the station house last night. Some of the members were talk- ing of life on the farm in boyhood days. Captain Bob Campbell, who'is big and fat, saw an opportunity to indulge in a bit'of reminiscences, says the Indian- apolis New *'I was raised on a farm,” said the captain. “and was taughtto do all kinds of farm work, from shearing shecp to whitewashing a fence. And;to be sure, Idid everything well. T was the pride of the cou Whenevere a country lad got lazy or preferred coming to town to working ou the farm, his father used to say to him: ‘Jeems'—that is if his name was Jeems— why don’t vou zet o hustle onto yourself!” Look at Bob Campbell, See what a worker he is. Brace up, and some day you will makea Fver LOVE BEHIND TRE SCE Actor Hal Reid Again a Soasatior the Hero ot DID HE PLAY THE JOSEPH He Says Josoph dessels' Wife Wanted Him to Klope With Her, But He Firmly Refused Her Proposition. A Sonsation Behind the Scenes, ST Mo, Jan. 1.—[Special gram to Tk Bre.|—Hal Reid has added other v interesting chapter to the notor: oty ho has received as the resutt of his sen sutional marriage to Miss Westbrook of St Louis, The Agnes Herndon company was billed for the Grand opera house this after uoon aud tonight in ““La Belle Marie,”” and it boing o general holiday the house was ded to the utmost for the matinee mance, At the close’ of the third act when the curtain went down 1t remained in that condition tor thirty minutes, Investigation developed that n sensatioual Act was in progross bohind the scenes, and that Hal Reid, whose stage name isjPresto was the hero, Reid's story is, i substang that ever since he beeame a member of tho company tie has noticod that Miss Herndon was in love with him. Botweon tho acts this afternoon she seat for him to call at her dressing room. \When he ‘weot there she locked the door and he says proposed to hiu that he ciope with her at the conclusion ot the evening performance. He refused tho proposition, but she renewed 1t again and offered him as an inducement her bank ac couat of 5,000 “and all of her dinmonds, which are supposed to be worth £,000, but 1o refused Josern, rich man out of yourseif.” Of course, you understand this made me feel proud and I never knew what it was to rest. 1 have actually worked seventy-two hours on astretch, and dido’t think much about it. I wouldn’t do it now, but in those days I enjoyed it. I had a great record as a wood-chopper, and made big wages out of it. Fifteen or twenty cords. a day was very ordinary for me,ind as 1 got $1 a cord from the neighbors when 1 worked for them, you notice I made plenty of money. “*An old friend of my father’s hired me one time to cut 300" cords of wood. It was a pretty big job, but I was on my mettle and determined to tackle it. The logs were viled on the banks of a river in a clearing, and so I had plenty of room in which to swing my ax. 1 always used an ax weighing forty pounds. A young man who taught school and boarded at our houseyasked me to take bim in on the job and [ did 50 just to please him, for [ knew that he couldn’t cut more than five cords a day to save his life. Well, we started in on the job. 1had 100 axes at the wood pile’by daylight and then Tcommenced, 1 cut 80 swift that the.axes would get hot and my assistant would take them to the river aund throw them in to cool them off. If this had not been done they would have melted right in the logs. Atnoon I bhad twenty-six cords eut, and my uxes were in such a condi- tion that 1 had to lay off. Bright and early next morning [ was ut the wood pile to begin again, but the chips I hnd made the day before were falling in sucn a shower that T had to wait until the wooden rain ceased, which T im- agined would be about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. “'Having noth elsc todo thesehool- master and I strolled down the river bank about ten miles, and there we found a lotof farmers scalding hogs in the river. Placing my hot axes in the water haid made the river boil like a cauldron, and the farmers took advan- tage of the hot water to butcher their hogs und jwepare them for the market. Our county history had one chapter de- voted to this remarkable event. L 4 The Mound Builders a Myth. Man has dwelt in the United States for unnumbered years, but so fur as we t know, only during the latter half of Pleistocene time, writes Major J, W, Powell in the January Forum. There are no evidences of riaces of people oc- cupying the country anterior to the In- dian tribes. Pre-Columbian culture was indigenous; it began at the lowest stage of savagery and developed to the highest, and was in many places pass- ing into barbarism when the good queen sold her jowels. SICK HEADACH 'Pain in the Side, T0) PID LIVER, &c. They regulate the and prevent Constipation and Piles. Tl smallest and easiost 1o take. Only one pill dose, 40 inavial, Purely Vegetable, P 20 cents. (ARTEE MEDIOINE 00., Prop'ss, Now Y. At this juncture Miss Herndon's husband, Joseph A Jessels, appeared and a eral wrrel ensucd, during which Miss Herndon denied the proposition. Agues and her hus bund both prouounce Reid liar, while Mrs, Reid, nee Miss Westbrook, thinks her hus band is boing persecuted. P J Beechumi's Pills cure bilious und nervous ilis Dr. Talmage’s Early Hom®, My mind also runs buck to oue of the hest of early homes, writes Rey. T, De Witt Talmage in the Ladies’ Home Journal. Prayer like a roof over it. Peace, like an atmosphere in it 3 ents personiticutions of faith in tr comfort in darkness. The two pillars of that earthly home long ugo erambled into dust. ut shall [ ever forget that ¢ home? Yes, when the flower the sun that warmed it. when the v er forgets the guided him. Yes, when love nas gone out on the heart’s altar, and memory has emptied its urn into forgetfulness. Then, the home of my childhood, I will forget thee; the family altar of a father's importunity and a mother’s tenderness, the voices of aflection, the funcrals of our dead., father and mother with interlocked arms like entwining branches of trees making a paternal arbor of peace and kindness—then L will forget thee—then, and then only. Gates of pearl, capstones of amethysts, throaes of dominion do not stir my soul s0 much as the thought of home. "Onco theve, let _envthly sorrows howl like storms and roll like seas. IHome! Lot throues rot and empires wither. TTome! Let the world die in earthquakes strug- le and be buried amid procession of planets and dirge of atmospheres. Let overlusting ages roll in ible sweep. Home! No sorrow. ving. Notears. No death. But home, sweet home, beautiful home. usting home, home with ¢ home with ' angels, home with An Impaled Violinmaker. One of the mosl extraordinavy cases on record, says Galignani, has just come before the police court of the Seine. In July last a man named Dubois took & room in the Rue Traversicre, o his lirst uets was 10 pub upa s In order to fix it he began boring a hole in the cerling with a center-bit, and was hacd at work when the concierge and some of the tesants rushed into the room and called upon him to stop, as- serting that he had pierced the ceiling and impaled the tenant who occupied the room above, He went upstairs with them and found the tenant in question, ' a violinmaker, sitting fixed to the floor and writhing in agouy. The instrument wus cantiously with- drawn from his flesh, but the injury in- flicted was so scrious that he was coun- fined to his bed for three months. The case caused a good deal of wmusement in court to every one but the poor vioiin muker, who wasonly awarded 250 francs’ compensation for three months’ loss of worlk, while Dubois was fined 16 francs for negligence. That a man should have been sitting on the floor exactly above the spot where the hole was being bored is extraordinary. But that his cries should not have been heard hy his tormeunte still more rer able. - wered President. Was not an ex-presi- the Covington (Ga.) was elected and installed s £till Co Jeflerson Day dent, observ: r. Ho president of the southern confederacy, - and under the law was 1o hold his office until his suc 5 was never done, was ever elect to succeed Mr. Davis and consequently his term of office never terminated, No man POWDER Absolutely Pure, This powder never varies. 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