Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 2, 1890, Page 5

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MANAGL RS, 401-402-403 PAXTON BLOCK, OMAHA, NEB. Reliable, energ eticagents desiring are to represent the Nationay address M. L. Roeder & Bro. MANAGERS, 401-402-403 PAXTON BLOCK, OMAHA, NEB. are invited to M. L. ROEDER & BRO., M'g’rs \\ OMAHA, NEB. ~ The fellow hesitated for a momont, and then mumbled outin a half absorbed’ way, *[—-don't—know." o There is no doubt but what there is a leavy load on young Shellenberger’s mind. He i3 norvous, restioss and appears to be thinking about one thing while eadeavormg to speak about another. He coudn't ex- plain where he had been a number of times, and some questions he refused to answer in any form. ; Wiion hio spoke of beng 1 Colorado in puiled out of him: Whenever a dangerous question was proposed Shellenberger cried und wiped away the tears with a pink scarf which had been bestowed upon him by a rural lass. Patched with Spaulding’s glue, his sory is as follows: “My ~ correct name is Fuller Suellen- borger,"” said he, “although I have beeu knowa as Joo Shellenberger aud Joe Gray. 1 took the latter name myself just because [ liked it.” He was first asked i ho knew Ed Neal SHELLENBERGER 1S 1N JALL, SHALL THE DEAD BE BURNED | aitric acids: and otheroftensive organte Parkes, informs us that cuch decomposing human bodv goner- ates annually about fifty cubic feet of carbonic-aeid gas. rhe atmosphere of thickly populated cemeterics contains ordinavily more than double the normal proportion of carbonic-acid gas, besides other deadly exhalations; while, in times of calm, and in the spring of the year, whon the greater danger than is geuerally sup- posed. This grave-fed water has a peculiarly sparkling crystal-like bril- liancy, due to the very large provortion of nitrates and nitrites therein con- tained, which are the products of the neighboring graves, The wells and springas * of bu ial-grounds and their vicinity have a never-failing supply of this sparkling and seductive beuring the body to the ba rectly in front of the incinerator, which, by meuns of superheated air hus been raised toa white heat within, at a temperature of about 1,500 © Fah- renheit. As the door of the mcimera- tor is opened to receive the body the in-rushing cold air cools it to a° deli~ cate rose tint; aund the body, resting on a metallic bed, covered with The Alleged Murderer of Mr. and s Mras. Jones Tells a Story Question Considered From Various Standpointe. FULL OF INCONSISTENCIES, ALL FLESH MUST PASS AWAY. The Wary Suspect Refuses to Answer Dangerous Questions ana Scems Greatly Troubled to the Core. The Two Suspoots. Tho two men, Neal and Shellenbergor, suspectod of the murder of Mr., and Mrs. Allen Jones, are now in juil in this city. They are, perbaps, the most peculiar crimi- nuls ever juiled in Omala. Neal unhesitut- ingly asserts that Shellonberger must have committed the murder, while Shellenberger says that he is mnocent of the crime. Neal suys that Shellenberger hired him to drive away stock from the Pinney farm and Shellenberger says ho never beard or knew of either Dr. Pinney or his farm and never hired Neal to drive the Pinney stock away. Neal suys Shellenberger was in Omaba on February 4 and the latter says he bas not been in Omaha before the present time for two years. In a word, what one aftirms the other denies. The ouo seems to mssert with 4 degree of seem- lnfi.lnll.hfulneln and consistency, while the other denies with the swvariness of an igno- Amsxaant man who feels himself to be in danger. Yesterday Neal was told of the arrest of Snellenberger and that the latter, it was thought. would try to fasten the erime vpon him, This evoked the customary s and denial to the effect that the only result ‘weuld be to criminate himself, * When it was hinted that Neal might se- ; eure some degreo of executive clemenoy by * pleading guilty, he was quiet o momeut and t imed with something of a tremor that he would hang before he would plead Kuilty to something whieh he never did. o look at both men one can hardly under- stand how Shellenberger could pronose a deal such as Neal claims he did, peither ‘would be it thought likely that Neal would possibly accept such n proposition. two, Neal certainly is the planner and 1t 18 betieved when the matter 1s ventilated this ‘Will be found to be the fac MORE EXPERIENCE, Bhellenberger He Appoared to Press KHevresentatives. Fuller Shellenberger appears to be almost B8 great & prevaricator as his friend Neal. He is certainly the most difoult and most ‘unsatisfactory of men to interview. When msked 8 question which he cared to auswer mnd which he could answer without commit- ting himsolf his reply was prompt but brief. Otherwise he would stare into space aud st nothing. He is very ignoraut, being ablo to only indifferently spell his way along the lives of a newspaper, After he had remaned in the cell for a short time he was taken to Chief Seavey's office. Ho there made a long statement to the chief and County Attorney Mahoney and Poiice Comwmissioner Gilbert behind Jocked doors. I'hen the reporters were ad- mitted. When be was turued over to the represen- tatives of the press Chief Seavey told him that he could tell tuem the whole story, and that after be got through with tuem be Lfih&;lllun\mrlerl would not again be troubled y thew. Shellenberger then took @ ohair but strug- gled from it und after the chief iuto his pri- Vate room, where he piteously begged to be saved fiow tue searchers after truth, < The chief advised that it would be better to el the atory, beeause 1f be did not the ‘mplo Would believe that he had someth ing 0 conoeal. Shellenberger tinally took his seat with the uirof & man about to gnrmn He did not talk like su inuo~ R L mun. Whatever he told was actualiy and said **No, 1 aou’t know Ed Neal, but I know Charlie Neal. We became acquainted while io jeil at Logan, Ia. I pever saw him before that time and have not seen him since I left the juil. I wus in the jail in all four months, Neul was sentenced to two- years and a-half for Lorse stealing. “‘When I first got out of jail I went direct to Nabruska City wherel only remained a few days at my brother-in-lsw's house, His name 18 Richard Beck. From there 1 went fourween miles south where I got a job on a farm where I remained about two wonths, ‘This was in the fore part of the winter, I then went to Johnson ,ocounty, Ne- braska, where I worked on a farm for Bill Turner, husking oorn. From them I went to Denver and northern Colo- rado, and then back to Nebraska City. Next I went to Van Buren county, Michigan, where 1 worked for my auot, Mrs. Tedrow. Re- turning to Nebraska [ sccured a_position as vortac in & saloon at ‘lalmage. This was in May. The balance of the time I have worked in and about Nebraska City. I was ewm- ployed by D ivingston at Talmage, Joe Levi, Ernest Tebbets and other farmers, all within-a radius of tiftecn wmiles from Nebras ka City. “I never was in Omaha but once. Thau was about two years ago. The only place [ remember while being bere was passiug,that big depot down by the railvoad bridge, I was in Missouri Valley three years ago last spriog. **When you were released from jail did you make any promise to Neal that you would hang around and make & good witness for him s0 ho would get a light sentence.” *'No. Ileft Logau as 80on as | was dis- charged. 1traded a cowboy bat to Neal while in jail for a revolver. When I got back to Nebraska City I pawned the re- volver, “Yes, I have heard that Neal threatened to get aven with me for leaving Logan so soom, but I have not seon him since that day. “I was never in South Omaha or at the stock yards. I never helped Neal drive any cattle." ‘I'his last statemnent coutradicts oue re- corded above and wade to Jailor Bebout, thav he had been at South Omaha with Neal about the time of the kiliing. Continuing, he said be didn't know where the Pinney farin was. He had read what he could make out in the newspapers, but that was very littie. He denied that Neal had iven him a revolver, when he 1eft the Logaun a1l &8 & bribe, He thought that he wouid be uble to recoguie Neal if he should meet him on the street, “My wmother," said he, wattamie county, lowa. Her name is Har- riet Shellenberger. She is a widow and has never beeu married 10 8 man named Gray. 1 wm not related to Neal. 1 was never 1 St. Josenh or Kausas City. All these stories that Neal has been telling about me are rue. 1 first AW my name in connection with the Jones wur- der in the Nebraska City Press. 1 have been ou the streots ut Nebraska City every day sinco aud have uot tried to hide, Of lute 1 bave been cutting iceon the river. My home was with wy brother in-law, Heck. I dou't kuoow whetber he is married w0 the woman he calls wife or not."” At ono time the fellow broke down com- l)lsmly with the remark: “All I have to say s that I am innocent,” Shellenberger will attempt to prove an alibi by George Lidy, a small contractor in Nebraska City. ‘The prisoner says he can prove by him and his brother-indaw where he slept and where he was every day since the 1stof February. 1u Shellenberger's valise there were two pair of overalls, & pair of lLight colored iaun- pants, & coat und a few otber small articles, When asked where the blooa, which was found on the overalls, had come from, BShellenberger said tust while bhe was loating in the back room of & butcher shop in Nebraska City, he accidentally fell up wgaiost & dead hog that had blood on it. “What would you do to Neal, Joe, in case you should meet him on the street, witer what he has suid about youd’ was asked. “lives in Potta- September ne denied that be had there boen known as Rohr or that he had ordered his mail at the postotiice to be forwarded to hun under that name. ——— RELIGIOUS. 'he Gospel of Matthow has been pub- lished in the Fiot tongue of the lower Congo by Mr. Westlind. The translation of the Old Testiment into the Shan language by J. N. Cushing, D. D.. of Burmah, is ready for the press. : At the Cumbum station i n the Awerican Baptist Telugu mission, india. 523 convert s wene baptized in eleven months of 1580, The work of the Baptist missionaries on the upper Conpo is greatly helped by medi- cal practice among the natives, who suffer from many diseases. The Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary society of Ualifornia supports Rey. J. C. Brand and wife aud Miss L. A. Phillips as missionaries 1 Japan. A course in the evidences of christianity hus been established at Garrett Biblical in- stitute. — The following lectures are an- nounced: Iishop Newman, February 25; Bishop Foster, February 25, March 4, 5, 6; Rev. P. H. Swiftol R rd, March 18, Beetnren have in Ohio 945 or- hes, 85 itinerant and 123 looal preachers, 62,808 members, 830 Sunday schools, 67,881 Sunday school pupils and workers, and raised last year $25,520 for mis- sions, besides $214,200 for other church pur- poses. At the jubilee of the Baptist mission in Denmurk held in Copenhagen, it was re- vorted that 6,000 in all had been baptisec, snd thers arq now 2,700 wembers the churches. All the protestant missions in Europe lose many of thew vest mewbers by emigration to Awerica, MountUnion college, Alliance, O., bas pro- vided for a new professorshipof “viblical in- struction,” making the study of the English bibie a part of the college course. But few colleges in thé country buve such a chair. Lewis and Jacob Miler of Ohio and Bishop Vincent are interosted in establishiog this one, It seems 10 be the idea of some Sunday schaol teachers, remarks & religious paper, that they must use all the helps within their reach, and treat impartially every sub- ect suggested by the text. That is not the ntention of the makers of lesson helps. Wise teachers have learncd the art of selec- tion as well as of application, Lieutenaut Wood of the United States nuevy, having talked witba few peonle 1n the open ports, suid wissionary work in China and Japan is a failure, Lieutensnt Mur- dock, U. 8. N,, looked iuto the matter more V' “The same peoble (in Asia) would at home decry all Christian werk.” ‘The book conceras of the Methodist church appropriated this year fiom the current in- come $50,000, and $50,000 additional from the capital 86 & jubilee offering 1a view of the wonderful prosperity which has attended the business of the concerns—$60,000 of this being paid by the house in New York, and $#40,000 by the Western Book copcern in Cin- cinnati, ‘The American Instifute of Sacred Litera~ ture is the lineal descendant of the Harper Hebrew sciiool, and Prof. W. P, Harper of Yale is closely identified with this new move- ment, Bible, Hebrew, Greek, and Koghsh Will be taught; also the cognate langusges and the sacred literatures of other religions’ he western summer school will be hela at Lake Bluff some time in August. There 1s a bitter controversy between the @assistaut pastor of the Catholic church at Biddeford, Me., aud a large uumber of his paristioners, which has led Lo the framing of @u address to the bishop, signed by 117 mem- bers of the congregation complainisg that the priest has represented them as igucraut and ncowpsient, thal he abuses tuem weekly from the pulpit, and delivers politi- cal lectures not fo keepug with uis office, and that tue church Are unsatisiuc- torily kept. Cremation Only Accelerates the Pro- |cess Which Goes on in the Grave — The Terrible Vitality or Disease Germs, Incineration. Sanitary science in these days has been teaching us some very important if not altogether pulatable truths con- cerning our usual method of disposing of the dead,says a writer in the Prince- ton Review. It has rudely dispelled the pleasing illusion of the peuceful sleep of the grave, and has most offensively opened to our astonished gaze,not the sweet re- vose of our departed loved ones, & yait- ing the resurrection, hut, nstead, the ioathsome processes of putrefaction in all its stages, from toc first fadings of life’s bloom from the cheek of virgin beauty to the final resolution of the de- composing mass iuto its elements, It has taught us that this process of decomposition is simply one of oxida- tion; and that, as carried on in the grave, retarded by the surrounding and incumbent curth, it is “a solitary or desolate burning.” It is the process by which life has been supported, carried on after death, until all the muterial fed to that life has been consumed. I'hus science bas discovered to us the fact that in our bodily material we all must burn. In this we have no voice of election, and no device of man can finully avert this destiny, We may choose as to whether it shull be & pro- cess of an hour in the clean, rosy glow of a crematorium, or a process of twen- ty, fifty or 100 years in the gloom and loathsomencss O the grave. The embaled bodies of the Pharoahs and their descendants, preserved these thovsands of yenrs with almo-l unspeak- able care, which are ‘now' being sent by shiplonds from Karnak (6'England to be converted into fertilizers, furnish ex- amples of the process uf' oxidution long retarded but not finallydefeated, So the “adipocere” process, advocated by the inventors and patentees of metullic and other hermeticdlly scaled burial- cases, may fill the lund with slowly putrefying bodies, but: these are only inventions for retarding nature’s wor and for robbing nature fora time of these pent-up forces. Ultimately cases and bodies alike must yield to the pro- cess of oxidution, audsmatare’s perfect work attain completibn, -+ Whatever the process, and however retarded, *Ashes to ashes” is the inevitable decree. Sir Henry Thowpson declares ‘*‘no dead bodyis ever placed in the soil without polluting the earth,the air, and the water above and about it,” Of courso the immediate danger from the corpses of those dying of sontagious and infectipus diseases 15 well understood— a danger which can be reduced to the minimum only by eremation---but hy- gienically this is not the chicf dapger 1o whieh the living are exposed from the dead. The predvets of adecomposing human body, chemists tell us. e, besides water and uon-volatile minerals, car- bouic acid, carburetted and sulphur- etted hydrogen, ammonis , nitrous and ~bacteria-from the-bodies of- the- opening earth releases the gases which have been imprisoned ‘during the win- ter, the proportion of these deadly poi- sons is much greater, Thus it is that multitudes who follow their beloved dead to our beautiful cometeries and linger there to minister to the departed carry thence ia their systems disease-germs from which they sicken and die, no one suspecting the immediate cause of their disease and death. The atmosphere of burial-grounds is freighted with the gorms of almost every form of zymotic disease: and those whose systems be- come charged with them, 1f not at once stricken down, suffer a serious loss of tone and impaired vitality, nccompa- nied with hea s, naused, diarrhoea, and sore throat, and are particularly #asceptible to all forms of contagious and infectious disens: Pasteur’s ex- periments have proved that earth worms bring to the surface myriads of i decom= posing dead. Upon the authority of the eminent Drs. Koch of G:rinany and Ewart and Carpenter of Englanda’ it is stated that the blood of animals dying of splenic fever may be dried and kept for years, and pulverized into aust, and yét the disense germs survive with power to produce 1nfection. Still more alarmingly significant are the discoveries of Dr. Domingo Freire Rio dv Jane who, while investiga- ting the causes of a recent epidemic of yellow fever, “‘came upon the dreadful fuct that the soil in the cemeteries in which the victims of the outhreak were buried was positively alive with micro- bian organisms exactly identical with those found in the vomitings and bleod of those who bad died in the hospitals of yellow fever.” This churacteristic parasite, suys Dr. Freive, permeates the s01l of cemeteries even to the very su fuce. From a foot underground he gathered a sample of the earth overly- ing the remuins of a person who had been buried about a gear before; and though it showed nothing remarikable in uppearance or smell, under the m- croscope it proved to be thickly charged with these yellow fev germs, The cemeteries, therefore Dr. Freire pronounces “nurseries of yellow fever"” the perennial foer of the disease. The plague at Modena in 1828 was shown by Prof. Bianchi to be due to ex- cavations made where victims of the plague were interred three hundred years before; and the terrible virulence of the cholera in London in 1 s char- ged to the upturning of the soil wherein the plugue-stricken of 1665 were buried. In New Orleans during the epidemic of yellow fever in 1833 the mortality in the Fourth district reached the enormous figure of 452 1,000 of the population, being more than double | that of any othe In this district were three extensive cemeteries in which were buried the previous year more than three thousand bodies, ‘Thus we are storing up in our ceme- teries the fomites of deadly zymotic dis- ease: and thus these cemeteries, beau- tiful as many of them appear without, are being propared to be plague-spots and pest-beds to this and future vener- tions. The contamination of wells, foun- tains and watercourses in and about burial grounds, as sanitary science has recently shown, is also a source of far water, which is eagerly quaffed in large draughts by the multitudes of visitors, who, they know not why, find their heads aching and their throats dry sud sore by reason of the empoisioned air which they there breathe. The Lon- don Lancet says: “It is a well ascer- tained fact that the surest carrier and the most deadly fruitful nidus of zymo- tic contagion is this brilliant, enticing looking water, charged with nitrates which result from decomposition.” In 1806 the New York board of health advised the removal of all graveyards from within the city limits, and ro- commended that the then existing bur- inl places be converted into public parks! To come extent this was done; and Washington square which was then the potter’s field of New York, is oae of the fruits of this recommendation. Sanitary science had not then discov- ored that soil saturated with the eman- utions of the decomposing dead would continue, for generations following, a PIGEUe spot in its metghborhood; bt even to this day a dense blue haze several feel deep rests eve morning over Wushington Squtire, and a physician who lived several its western border declare sible to raise children ground floors houses in_ that vicinity. * And yet New York's innocents are turned into this ancient potter’s field by hundreds every aay in search of health! The great cemeteries of New York are thus specifically presented sunply as types of the beautiful park-like cem- eteries all over the land; and in essen- tial features the same is true of the burial grounds of the smaller towns. T'he fountains in them are corrupt and the air nbove them laden with disease. For all this ever-increasing necumu- lation of evil what is the remedy which sanit science has to vropose? It is simply nuture’s remedy—oxidation, in- cineration or cremation, whichever term may be proferred: not nature's remedy retarded, as by earth burial, but nature’s remedy facilitated; not na- ture’s remedy with agencies and sur- roundings that render it offensive to our sease of respect and veneration due the dead, but nature’s remedy purified and beautified by the crematory five; not uature’s remedy with pernicious and deadly effects upon the living. but under aircumstances and through in- strumentalities which render it innocu- ous and beneflcent. Let it be once fairly and fully under- stood, as sunitary science has already demonstrated, thut cremation is but a safe, clounly, decorous, and economical method of “accomplishing in an hour precisely the same result as is accom- plished in fifty or a hundred years by eurth-burinl, and that it does this in the purifying glow of the crematorium freo frowa all offensive accompaniments or evil effects instead of in the gloom and dampoess of the grave atténded with infection and deadly peril to the liviag, and surely an intelligent public cannot doubt which it shall choose. impos- on the of As_conducted at Gotha by means of | the Siemens apparatus the process is thus described: The body is bourne into the chapel and placed in a cata- falque which stands in front of the altar. The section of the chapel floor upon which the body rests constitutes the floor of a lift, or” clevator. As the funersl service proceeds the elevator invisibly and noiselessly descends, a cloth of asbestos, ov of linen sonked 1n alum, passes over rollers to this bath of rosy light. Immediately it becomes in-" candescent, in which condition it re- mains until incineration is complete, This requires about an hour per huie dred pounds of the original weight. There remain only a fow handfuls of pure pearly ashes, equivalent to wbout 4 per cent of the original. These are dropped by means of u lever into the ash chamber below, and are arawn thence into an urn of terra cotts, mar- ble, alubaster, or other suituble muate- rial and returned by means of the ele- vutor to the catafnlque. 'T'he service or ceremony being now over, the friends of the decensed find the ashes jusy where they had last seen the body of the departed, and may bear themn henco to the colum-barium or mortuary chapel, or set them in the border and plant violeis, heartsense und forget-me- nots in them from yenr w yeur. “And from his ashes may be made the vio- fots of-his-native-tand—— = No fuel or flame of foreign substance comes in contact with the body The process is accompanied with no porcept- ible sound orsmell or smoke—absolutety nothing that cun of the sensibili- ties of the most fustidious. All the smoke and volatile products of combus- tion are passea through a regenerating furn before being turned loose into the air,and are absolutely purified. The process is indeed in overy way so decor- ous and 80 beautiful, as compared with other methods of disposing of the dead, that it is described by those who haye witnessed it as ‘““fascinating,” and v an instance 1s known of any one having witnessed the process, as thus conducted, who has not at once hecome a_pronounced convert to cremution, whatever may have been his pre-exist- ing prejudices. Apart, however, from the sanitary argument in favor of cremation there are other rensons for proferring it to earth-burial, To all who have a liking for cleanli- ness and - decency in preference to that which “is unclean and repulsive, the appeal to a pure, refined and exalted sentiment in favor of incincration must be very stron. Surely none who venerate their dead can be reconciled to the idew of thrusting their bodies into a gloomy grave to become a fermenting mass of putrefaction rrapting in all itseman- ations, whithersoever they ramily through earth and air, [ 70 be Continued.) — T. . Smythes, who has made important geological discoveries in Indians, suys th e is o b lake under part of that state. Ho suys: “Lwas sinking o well on my place in Orunge county when suddenly the drill koocked a piece out of the bottom and o appeared. Through the opening cold, clear water rushed filling the ' well to the depth of tweuty feet. At this level 1t stands., 1 huve pumped waker 1 8, using a steam engive once, and thy water does not lower an fuch. One day [ drew up o fish jn s bucket of water,” Tho section where the lage exists is uilly, full of guichies and caves. It 1s there that Lost river. a cousiderable steam, sinks wway aud tin ally disappears altogether. e Tho statate of Rov. Henry Ward Beecner, which is to be placed in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, is now being oast in bronze, It is to be of colossal proportions, niue feet high, nd reprosenting the great proachor in sofs felt bat aud cape,