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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1800, THE OMAHA CCUNCIL BLUFFS, OFFICE, NO. 12 PEARL ST. BEE Delivered by Carrler inany part of the City. H. W TILTON, « « <« MANAGER TELEPHONES Business Ofice, No, £, Night Editor, No. ! Council Bluffs Lumber Co Tonight is the regular mes tish Rite bodies The city jail is mopped out daily and still the gray bicks seem to cseape the flood The Western lumber and supply company yesterday filed u lien on the Epworth chapel Harry Klass and Miss M both of Omaha, were married of Ret. Dr. Couloy yesterday the Manker vs | )u\\hln‘ was still on teial smeluded until some time today arguments were being made yesterds noon There band coner ting of the Scot yesterday at | after. attendunce k ve at the | terday it day v« band was avery large tin Fuirmomnt aftemoon. Itonly requires o ol and the announcenent that Dalt will play 10 bring avrowd anywhere The committee on street light und works, with the mayor and city went down to the waterworks pump hous terday afternoon to examine the reser ir, They also took atrip to the veceiving lake, iter. school president called a special 1 opening bids and aw ing the six-room schoot building traet, and for the elecion of junitors for the ensuing year W.D. Kirkland, whose tent tauqua burned the other day, seonts the idea s playing with matches was the of the fir He has by reful examin ation become satisfied that the TAYSs « the sun refle 10 alittie mirrcr st 1 the flames. Rather novel, but he is confident of it . Some of the business men are talking of arvan afery deposit vault, to ve run in on with one of the bunks, to provide tation of those who desire ace in which to leave valuabl ,...,...\ and personal property of that nature. It i belioved that such an enterprise would pay here. Two special cars camie in ton last evening enry the Cer 1 Pacific's New York Ohio & W oceipied by Presidont conpi ad, his soni who was bringing the dead body of from San Francisco for burial in New Justico Bamett dis of the board has ing for the purpose of dinge contract forbuild on Cochran teachers and at the Chau over the Burling- 'hey were and the ul were of the latter Dunning, s wife York argel the defender ge-Wilson assault_and battor costs of tho case, which | the fees of two atiorneys, were sufticient to pay for the construction of too or thy and forty neres of bavbed wire fenc the dispute and car wis only ov little panel of fence and a single holein the Eroune The antula family captured some time agzo by Henry DeLong and purchased by W. . Aylesworth are now ready for exhibition The young ones, numbering about 200, h hatched out, b became so numerons that Mr, Ayl s obliged to kill o large number of the 'he otd one, and the neining voung whi ng fin and will scon be on exhibition Th olice oficers, the police judge and all ol e greatly puzzled with the tramp question, The number of those arrested us vagrants continues to inerease. Someof those en in are sumy of luck, others are evidently professionul do-nothings, others are rooks twhom 1o definite charge can d still they swarm, It is no easy sift themn out, und still hardel provide for them when théy are sifted out, “The hack business has allgene wrong, remurks one of the oldest in the line, alldue to the motor. We don’t get a quarter part of the hauling from the depots that we used to. Everybody grabs his grip and comes up town ol a motor, If a fellow has #0ot too much buggage to do this then he gets & hack, but even then he often sends a lm].,A ©ugo Wigon up with bis tronks, and rides np on the motor, ‘There’s no more money in the b business.” L e Billy,” the irrepressible darke Wwho has so long lived b of the Ogden house, is 80 erippied by rheumatism that he isno lengerable to follow ev cupation of picking up the found in the alleys, and draining the bee kegs. He laughs as loud as ever, though, and tells many funny remiuiscences of Coun’ Bluffs thirty yeurs ago, when he first came here as o cook. He is naw seventy- three years old. 2 Alderman Casper has succeeded in 506 towards defraying the expenses of the me of the nitignal farmiers congues here next month, This hnlll\ a small part of the amount require rental of tl hall and the music v W for the se: sion, besides the rental of tne opera hou The board of trade will \n'uvkn‘(l to contribute £500. That organizal to the Cheston paluce. and it wil' be expected to nelp out as muchas possible now. C. A, Atkins, manager of the telephone ex- change, and a numberof kindved spivits, have organized a mundolin club. That " ill-formed but sweet-toned instrume ninate, but will not Besides the mandolin play orthrup brothers and K ephan, guitars ; C. A, Atkins, banjorine: Ed Morehouse, banjo and Vie Beno, flute. Some very pleasant summer night concerts and serenades may be ex- i the new band when the young have had a little more practic fihoir first, ontertalamont was. given ag it residence of Hi Baird a fow evenings sine Some changes e heing made in the police patrol house by which there will be more fence und comrort £or both men and creens have been put in ull around to keep theflies from tormenting the horsc ‘The vear part of the buitding is being trans- formed into a neat, comtortable stable for the keeping of the chief's horse and wagon. 1t isa cause for comment to notice that while screens ave placed in the windows of the city’s stablo to koep flies away from the orses, there are none at the windows of the g to ising | THE juil to keepthe fiies off the prisone of course the police headquarters need no scroens, for there are no flies on the police- men. Dr. Bowers' ofice moved to -— PARAGRAPHS, RSONAL Captain J. FL Clark has concluded to post- pone his proposed European trip until next season, Mrs, Clarles B Miss Anita, will visit Toosa for a few woeks, Rev, Muckey, pastor of & and his boy choir have returned from Spirit Lake, where they lave boen camping one ek, Thoy report i a splondid time. Miss Grace Yutsy of Fulls City, Neb., who has been spending the past two weeks with Miss Armnour of Cherokecand Miss Patter- son of this city, returned to her home yester- .m ¢ morning. . Flicking, and father vorth her daughte in Oska- . Paul's church, with his sister and s family I e e o Tndependence, Iu, to there visit frieuds and relutives. He will ve- main but asiort time, but his family will probably remain two months. Miss Myra Crane, whose illness caused a postponcrient of her wedding, was reported yestenday s being somewhat worse, and her riends are quite alarmed at her condition. Mr. Jumes Canning of Indianapolis, the ex. Jectant bridegroom, s still hers, wecompaniod y his friends, A. H. Swith, 0. €. Hallurd and W. J. Miller, ~They will remain a few days awaiting the dévelopment of Miss Crane's condition, hoping that that there may be 80 favorable a change us to ullow the cere- mor.y to be performed. - The Manhattan sporting headquarters, 415 Broadway. AR Mandel & Klein are offering great induce ment to housekeepers during these hot days, We are receiving new goods daily and can offer great burgains in carpots, bedding, cook stoves, ate. We wish to make room for our fall stock. Wowouid be pleased to haye you figure with us for cash o on the justallment plan, Wewili ship all goods free of chargo withio @ ridiugof 100 miles. Renembe Maxors & Kier = Bmdwv. ABOUT THE BLUESS. | The Blood-8tained Hfll] Residence Btill At~ tracting Large Orowds, | JONES CASE AGAIN. JONATHAN Ih Bilt Posters' Closing Day qua - Daily Blufts Personal Notes, the Ordi- of Troubl Makes the Chanta Events ance The blood:stained ottage at 211 Logan street, where the terrible tragedy of Taesday was enicted, continues to attract yus crowds. 1t was visite ] yestorday by und although the cirtains w and the doors elosed and dirod we visitors hong to m into the flies were swarming ulated blood, Duri stained belelothes und | i appirel belonging to the old wonan | were piled outside and put in charge of Me. Bennett, the owner of the house, and the s ond sufferer from the bratality and vicious. ness of the ror' Hall. Hundreads of people climbed up ori the bluffs across the streeton the west and gazed idly down on the Tittle eo for hours, apparently find- | ing some in the closed | the narrow enacted one of ”“.i in the anmuals | building stands wmorning curi thousauds, dosely drawn b wound and gloomy inside o polic cudeavored whoere th over the musses of ¢ the day the blod mi fascinati ied windows, of stran doors and darlk stage upon which most vicious erimes of the city. The i striking contrast with those that surround it, where the doors and win- dows are open toairand sunshine, and where the merry voices of children at play mingie 1n sweet harmony with the chirping of birds and the perfumed breath of the flower gardens that adorn the front y “The honse is un puinted andweather , and Looks frown ing and dark in contrast with the dawling white walls of the peaceful little mission church beside it The ghastly pools of blood on have been partially hidden b tities of dry carth that b sen shoveled in | from the stre The tatle still stands with the untasted food upon it which the faithful wife prepared for tier brutal lord, and all the little farniture remains in the house. The police made a thoropgh seareh for valu before leaving the honse. A fow it ots, a breastpin and one carving and in money was all they found. These articles were talzen to the central station and will be turned over to those whoshould have the™ at the proper time. “I'hie neighbors around the pl covered from their fright, and th gossip, but not slander, has It is an easy matter now for the get all the little details they want o family lived, and th they suffered at the hands of the less brute who should have oeen and protector. The fact wa aly estab- lished that Ms, Hall provided all the com- forts and provisions the family enjoyed. and that about all the carni of the husband and futhe ¢ those of his wife, we \ thirst for 1 . Timeand again he her to give up her carnings for that [ Leruel means toaceomplish it, the janitor at the court hous® and the em- ployer of the old wornan, states thay she came to nim frequently and asked for an ad- it of her wages so that she could give it to her husband when he came to the court house for that purpose, and at one time u fow days ago she obtained 1 and gave | it to him. The fact was also developed that the quar- | rel which ended in the tragedy begun Mon day night when Hall brought home two bottles of beer. He was drunk and vicious and conceived the insane idea that his little | four-year-old daughter should drinkone of the bottles. He had frequently tried to com- pel the motherund the two children ut home to drink the beer, but his efforts to **drench” them with it made them sick and turned them against it. On Monday the cork from a bottle, pried opei the baby mouth and_ was bent on pouring the entire contents down her throat. The chid was nearly strangled when the mother snatched it from the brute. Heat once flew intoa terrible rage and threw the bottle at the mother. Ou Tuesday nighthe came home with another cargo of beerin his stomach and in his arms and made another attempt to drown the buby by pouring the liquid down its throat while he held its head back. Again the mother saved itand ugain a terrible scene followed, during which the demon desperate effort tokill the woman children, and she only escaped by fying from the house and taking refugein'the home of the Bennett. family, where she remained all night. 'The next morning, the morning be- fore the tr arrel was renewed and the woman wis m the house with fearful imprecations without her breakfast, “I counld learn the d——d brats to drink beer if it wasn't for you,” was a remark he was heand to frequently address his wife, Ou Tue v night her uneighbo when she returned from her wor peared so weary and faint, having eaten neither breakfast nor dinner, that she could scarcely walk, and stopped to rest twice in i of Benton to Logan street, adistance of two blocks. She had her arms full of groceries, among them a beef- stouk and a box of berries, for the evening meal, She prepared a sploidid supper, after fourteen hours of the drudgery at the court house. The steak was nicely cooked and the tuble spread when Hall came in with his beer and made the attempt. to force down the throat of his baby, mother snatehed the child from him and was driven from the house, the wreteh guthered up the food from the table and threw it down the hill in the rear of the cottage, tablecloth, dishes aud all, and with it one of the bottles of the beer he had brought home. The neigh- terday were exhibiting the wreck, cooked beofstoak, the scattered i the broken dishes. Yesterday morning at 10 o'clock the coro- twas hold, There were ouly a amined, and they included the physiciaus, and the neigh- bor Bennett, The battered ballet that had been taken out of the brain of the murdered woman at an autopsy held dur he night wils p . The doctors ex- plained the course of ball and how it caused death, No oth ling the Killing thun tho at appeared in Tine Beg sterday woro eliclted. After o brief - co- > jury returned the foliowing ver- was the floors plentiful quan- have re- gue of conscicnce- their head W her he ap- the nicel A Emily Hull. now lying toher deatl by apistol inflictea by her husband. Henry iall, fntent o commiv murder. dead rund with Attest; WATERMAY, Coroncr. & Iu‘ wrrangements for the funeral huve all been made and it will occur at 10 o’clock this morning from the undertaker's, The inter- ment will be made in Fairview. A rveporter for Tue Bee had an interview with the murdever yesterday at St. Bernard's hospital, He secmed to be suffering the greatest mental depression. He was appar- ently suffering but little from the effects of his self-inflicted wound, and if it were not for the fearful loss of blood that he had sustained he would be physically as stooug as he ever wis. His fuce was \M e and pinched, and when the subject of the murder was intro- duced his featuves painfully contracted. “What made you committhat aw ful erime, Hunk " Tue BEe man inquired. There was 10 AnsSW “Are you fully conscious of the results of r actions, and do you have a clear recol- h- ion of all the events that transpired y terday " | The old man slowly turned and looked at | the reporter and usked with a good deal of spirit, “Do you mean to ask if 1 wus insane when I killed the old womun( The reporter nodded his head, SWell, then, 1 “Why did you kill h “Becausql wanted to, “What wis there between you and he would make you com such a te crime " “Noone kiows what was bet she and me. 1 ought 10 hay ago." “Won't you tell what it was 1" “It's nobody’s business.” “If you stood where you did twenty-four pen us but d ler long | burial, cruelty aud persecutions | | wer distr | son, | much over half the e | rapid increase anothe i have done! hours ago would you doas would: and more, ill hert You bet I Would you could? at 1 devil, Benne “Do you want to get well now or die! "’ “don't care o d I The murderer is clowly guarded by two officers. 'The information” chargine him with murder was filed ir ftt's court, and us soon as Hall ved without undue violence to hu n the hospital probably waive ex to the county jail to der, Overseer terday that lie 1 have killed your chilifen ast «ome of them, and that old il areaigne mination and g it his trial of Poor Hardin announced yes- had succeeded in soeuring ol for the two younger children The little baby is a sweet-faced little thing, loving and tender, and mourms constantly for her moth It_seems impossible that shonld be the offspring of such parents, A paper was in dreulation. yesterday solic- iting_funds to give the mother a decent burial, or rather to save her from a_pauper's and enough w alsed to secure the object of the charitable people who started it. - - The Jonathan Jones Case. Jonathan Jones appeared at the court house yesterday to sign his name asa witness to some pension papers. Jones' case is o pecu- one. Ho has boen triel tim and agiin for murder, and his case has been to the su preme court at least twice, Just now he is waiting for the question of his sanity tobe determained. Two years or more ago, on one of his numerous trials, he was found guilty, and sentenco was stayed until this question could be determimed. The h question has been put off from time to time, is still at large, with pretty good ts of remaining so, Nis nwme is a4 w witness to pension apers can hardly be deternin His con- dition, judging from his appearance yester- has changed none sinee his iust trial Stilluctsas if he had no interest what- in what is going on about_him, and ns to justify the claim that he is in approaching imbecility, — Colonel Scott been defending him for years, and has to keep him out of the penitentiary, stat B - SPECIAL FOR THIS WEEK. At the Boston Store, Council Bluffs, i v RWEAR, 38, all COVE covers, nd f0e. goods in ull sizes at 50c, New line corset lice trimmed, bargains I iine of bettey sizes, ', Rie, O5¢ to £3.00, nd tucked, “ked only. In chemises §1.80, Drawers to match all the above, CORSET LIST. Light welght sateen corsets value) Je. Our Town Talk corset (lap back) French cantil corset in drab, white and coru, special price). DOLLAR LIST, Warner No. e, Tampico, Madam Nora, Duplex, B8, (good, Ladies’ Ladi g We are showing over seventy-five different styles of corsets at present. Be convinced We can suit you in any kind of a corset BOSTON STORE Council Blufls, fa, et It Makes Trouble. The new ordinance licensing and regulating the bill posting business in Council Bluffs makes a heap of trouvle for everybody but ingle individual who has talken outa li- e. The roster of offenders at the central police station has about as many daily entri upon it of offenses against it as the organic law that defines and punishes vagrancy. ‘There were four arrests for its violation yesterday and the daily average is several, The orders to the police are to arrest all per- sons found distributing and posting bills who cannot show that they have a legal right ac- quired by the purchase of a 25 license to do so,and it isn’t much trouble for the boys in blue to find a fellow almost any hour. There were four arrests yesterday, and four fellows were turned into Swearing ‘machines and are still earnestly nfimslmphhiuk that ordinance, One was . W. Dent, an employe of the Rock Island railway company, who was caught in the act of distributing railway ad- vertising. Royal Geppnerand G. P.” Hood found pasting up_pretty pictures and uting wlot of fine little books and pamphlets advertising Hood's sarsaparilla, and they were brought in by the patrol. Oné of them, Hood, claimed to be deaf and dumb, but when the patrol wagon landed him at the station and the frowning bastile greeted his sight he became very much excited and found his tongue, and gavéit to the oficers and everybody else in large slices. He exhibited a permit signed by T. Mulvihill, the Omaha billposter, giving him the right to bill Couneil Bluffs, Omaha, South Omaha and Lincoln, and it took a good long while to convinee him thut Mr. Mulvihill did not own Council Blufr: and must be satistied with the proprietorshiy of the three last naved villages. The other unfortunate was M, H. Walker, an attache of a local employment agency, who was di d in the act of scattering hand bills. Besides these cases there areseveral others ending and undisposed of, among them the District telegraph company, whose boys were arrested for distributing bills while the Sell Barrett cireus in town. The manager of the compan, s to have a license for that purpose, and _that the privilege is a part of the charter of the company, aud they propose to test the validity of the late ordinance in the courts, and a prominent attorney has been retained for this purpose The phase of the ordinance that attracts the most public attention is that which pro- hibits the business man distributing his own civeulars ov hiring boys to do it for him, It is probable that ione of these cases will be settled or the recent ones will be continued \\'nh‘uul bond uatil the district case is adjudi- cated - . poreelain erown and bridge Dr. H. S, We work, No. 12 1 ———— A pood hose reel free with ev hose purchased at Bixby's, 'y 100 feet of If you wish to sell your property callon the Judd & Wells Co., C! B, Judd, president, 606 Broadway. —~ Closing the Chautauquo. Today is the closing one of the Chautauqua assembly, which has been in session since the 1st of July. The success which has attended the arrangements this year has caused the management, to decids to make still more at- tractive features another seazon. The pro- gramme this year has boon an excellent ono, and the attendince has boen such as to en- able the management to moeet all the ex; penses of its presentation. This is fortuuate, for had it been otherwise there would have been much discouragement and a consequent diffieulty in securing by supseription the necessary funds to provide for a deficit. As it is, such a success resultant from thesecond year of the enterprise is proof that there are still greater possibilities for it another sea- The Chautaugua is no longeran e periment, and there will be little dificulty | now in its securing all the support ne to insure its developmentintoa reall tionul assembly Last season there were sixty tents occu- This year there were over two hun- Last season the receipts did not pay pel the pro- year the receipts will pay for the programme in full, and help somewhat in mectiug the othor expenses, At this rate of season will see used in paying forthe fu dentand in making needed impmovements. The management has done well, a the critical period in the history of the Chau- uuull\.; has been safely passed. he following is the programme arranged for thi it beiug known us gramme. This plus to be the closiug day, 's day. Children's day programan Jolin W. Gelo: The Rogers band, hatare our Eyes and 1 J. B Motte. 0 . (NI assembly biblestudy Dean aring upon the | Just how much | if WAdSWworth (| nand Co 7 Broadway. o~ MRS. PEXDELETON NO. 1, She Intends to Stand Rignts. Worm, Tex., July 17.—[Specil | Telegram to Tug Byr)—Mrs. Pendleton No. | arrived heve tonight with her two little girls, She was met at the depot by Hon George S, Pendleton, boother of her recreant husband, and her brother, John W. Shelton, She was driven immodiately to her old home, where she at once retived. ~ She has been too indisposed to undergo an interview, in fact, she | has spoken but little to any one since her ar- rival, But her brother gives it out that she | stated to him positively that she knew notn- ing about the divoree, “never suspected that sucha document existed, and when she parted from Tennesses a fortnight ago her husband parted from her most affectionately., Pendleton will ot veturn to Fort Worth; sueh is the import of a telogram received lute tonight from agentleman in New Orleans, who has been wired by Pendleton’s friends from Fort Worth to urge upon him the danger he suld bein if he came to this city., The eity couneil has decided to take no e tion in the premises looking to the impeach ment of the mavor until the next regular mecting of the board on next Tuesday. dispatch from Pendleton received in - B Warth today states that he will start on his return to this city from New Orleans tomor v atéd intense excitement, Peo- ‘om Zroup o group o the side- its were that either Pen- dleton was crazy orhe had remarkablo nerve, he had o terrible revelation to make on his arrival here. Boldly By Her Four - Kansas Corn in Bad Condition Kansas Ciry, Mo, July ~A dispatch to an evening paper from Kansas says: The condition of corn grows worse day by day. Hot winds b yeste nd toda using great damage in those sections which have no rain, In some sections farmers have about given up hopes of harvesting any crop atall. At best there is not morg than half of thestate that is even fairly well watered. In many sections farmers arve marketing ho fearing they will have no corn to feed them. Ay wmarket Meeting, July 17.—[Special Telogram to At the Newmarket second July meeting today, the race for the Chesterfield stakes, fi furlongs, was won by J. H. Houldsworth's colt Orvicto; M. M. K. Blane's colt Pretendant was the only other starter. Th o for the midsummer plate of 1,000 sovereigns, seven furlongs, was won by the duke of Portland's colt St Serf, T Penrichen’s colt Ordatus second and de Laru tilly Dearest third. There were eight starters The New LoNDoN, | ok B ] Steamer Struck Fy a Storm. Bustor, Pa., July 15, steamer Colum- biawasstruck by a stormon the Delaware thisevening. All the awnings were carvied and most of the fancy colored glass in indows demolisted. The passengers wete terrified, ‘but were pacitied by the tain with much diticult & (o, have been 1ts for ‘the prings Missou % - Terrible Crime of a Boy. AxNa, T1L, July 17.—A tale of youthful de- pravity hard to believe comes from Goreville, a small town in the weostern portion of John- son county, removed from railways and tele- graph stations. Monday night the sixteen- r-old son of farmer Mol Sullivan en- d the bedroom of his parents and fatally stabbed them. He is now in juil. The reason he gives for the deed was that he was tired of waiting for the property. . An Original Package Victory. Toreka, Kan., July I17. —Judge Phillips has handed down an elaborate decision in the original package case argued before him re- cently, He granted an injunction tothe agents of the brewing firms in St. Louis and Milwaukee who had engaged in business in this place against County Attorney Welsh and Sheriff Wilkerson restraining them from further interference with the plaintiffs’ busi- ness. appointed elebrated waters of Excelsior — The Padrone System. WASIINGTON, , July 17-—The house commit- tec on immigration heard a statement today by Dr. Verdi of this city, himself a native of Ttaly, upon the subject of the padrone sys- tem. His statement was mainly in_refuta- tion of those made by preceding witnesses respecting the existence of a system of 1t ian slave labor in this countr —— Nominations. WasiNGroy, July 17.—The president to- day sent tothe senate tne nominations of Edward P. Seeds of Towa to be associate justice of the supremecourt of New Mexico. Postmasters : Illinols —James A Provost, anica; Lawreace F. Tram) Wisconsin Pe town. Rhine, [Special Cablegram toTire: an - rifflemen arrived Bingen last night from Oberlehstein. De- spite the drenching thunder storm that was prevailing when th d, an enthusiastic crowd was waiting to welcome them. The city was decorated and illuminated in honor of the he Death Roll. Ricuyoxn, Va,, July 17.—Major Thomas W. Doswell, the oldest turfman in the United States, died here today. INDIANAPOLES, Ind., July 17.—A spe the business portion ol Homer wiped out. by fire tnis morning. Ark, July 17.—Two blocks of buildings in ' the busiuess portion of the city burned last night, entailing a loss of $0(1,000. ays 111, was Loss about - ma, dizziness, nervous- ness, spasms, sleeplossness, cured by Dr, Miles' Nervine, Samples frec at Kuln & Co.’s, 15th and Douglas. — - Trainmen Fatally Injured. LEexINGTON, Ky., July 17.—~While James Moran, a conductor, and G. H. McKeelan and George Hanson, brakeman, on the Cin- cinnati Southern road w under the tracks repairing a drawbar at Sadieville today, En- gineer Smith backed the engine, striking the car and fatally injuring the three men. - Will Quitthe Racing Basiness, New Youk, July 1 ohn H. Shults, the | millionairve baker and horse owner, who owns | the Parkville farm, on Coney island boule- vard, announces that he will shortly sell all his trotting horses nnd have his extensive l(urmnml trotting tryek cut up inte building ots. Headache, neu e The Flood in India, Catcrria, July 1i.—[Special Cablegram to Tue Bre.)-Heavy rains prevail in the Dar Jeeling district and part of <he country is flooded, Bridges : v in many plac munication between the s of con is by boats, Tichenor's Suc pointel. Wasnixeros, July 17 sident today appointed O L. Spulding of Michigan assist- ant seci v of the treasury corge C. Tichenor, resigned. He w L e m- Gor of cangress und 1a uow & special agent of the treasury. Killed While Duck *hootinz. Brkuiy, July 17—[Special Cablegram to | Mk Ber)—Count Courad Stolberg, heir of one of the richest land owners in German was accidentally shot und killed while duck . shooting | i Valu~, ‘ial Cabl Bank No! at Fac MONTEVIDEO, July 1 Spe te Tk Bre. ] —The finan:ial situation her calmer. Many traders accept bauk notes at thelr face vialie, 4 A PILU POUNDER'S ROMANCE. The Unb#ppy Plight in Which a Lincoln Druggist Finds Himself, A BUXOM WIDOW FIGURES IN THE CASE. - Governor the on the der Thayer Offers a Reward Arrest of John Knapp M Nows. Charge of - City Livcory, Neb, Brg.| —John Shuetz, the Twelfth and P streots, aromancein a manner that is entirely dis- tasteful to him and the affair has set the tongues of all the gossips wagging. John is u ponderous specimen of humanity, weighing at least 225 pounds, and isa passably good looking bachelor of thirty-five. He has been boarding at the Bond hotel and at th ne hostelry is @ charming widow named Mrs, Bedford, who is employed as chambernaid The two became apparently very switten with cach other and 1t was monly thought the affair would prove a match, although no announcement had beon made of wiy engagement. On Monday even iug Mes, Bond and her guests ished when the drugpist intro chaibermaid to them us Mrs, Schuctz gratulations immediately followed marringe was generally accepted as a Mrs, Bond felt rather hurt that Bec should get married without inform- ing her as she had befriended the lady when she hadto leave ler rolatives aud th wo had been more like sisters thun em- ployer and employe. Duringthe carlier stage of Schults courtship, Mis. Bedford haa told Mrs. Boud everything concerning Schultz advances including the little squeczes of the hand and the naughty little stolen kisses Later, however, she graw veticent coneerning attentions and Mrs. Boud was astonished 1 the chambermaid blushingly acknowl- d on Mouday evening that she wis Schultz’ wife. Everything passed along swimmingly until yestérduy when there came a sudden change over the druggist and he | gan to grow he i Going July 17~ [Special to T portly draggist figures as the hero of much com 1ston the Con- the fact M and down t of the b J vere them that the mar This reached the e called her late chambs her if the scandalous that they w not married was trae. Mes Bedford ac- knowledged with tears in her eyes that there had been no marrigge ceremony’, but he of wedded life was so blissful she dec that she would insist on having the we aid that would make the union Schuetz objected to this and the chan bey maid sought prominent attor with the Union Pacific raily asked him if the fact that introducing her as his wife did not a legal common law wi . Th iuformed her that she was right and read to hersections of the revisedstatutes of Ne braska which show that the introduciion of a woman as one's wife and a general public an nouncement of the sume, constitutes a bona fide marringe, Armed with the legal citations the lady has gone to Schuetz, but he is still ul- ish about the matter and insists on call- ing his wife Mres. Bedford. The lady mean- while insists that she is Mrs, Shuetz and she declares that he shall never marry any other woman_unless he first gets adivoree from herand she will see to it that he wall neve get any excuse for a Schuetz insists t the whole joke, but th is terribly in carnest and the affair und sensation, REWARD FOR THE MURDERER, Today Governor Thayer offici reward of £200 for the arrest of John | uupp who murdered Albert Lippach in Ge Scott’s Bluff county, on June he mu derer is about thir of light complexion and W The sheriff of the county ard of $100. lounging he informed ugre story was all a hoax, s of Mrs. Bond and she rmaid to her and asked onstitute lawyer THE BOOK AGENT FINED. Mr. A, P. Baum, the old army veteran who was arrested and jailed for taking orders for books without first securing a_ licens finally tried in_the police court toda case having hung fire for two or three The old man lus been homesteading a farm in the neighborhood of Chadron and meeting with hard luck came here to make a little money sclling books. He was not, ay a license was necessary and was amazed to find himself landed in jail. No opportunit was given him to communicate with M Hawley of the Peoria house, with whom he wasstopping, Today the old man was fined £12and costs, The Grand Army of the Re- public men became very indignant over the matter and caused a writ of habeas corpus to be issued for his reic The matter will if necessary be taken to the upper counts. PERISHED FROM TH1RST, named McDay was arrested lust Health Office tram on the cruelty to animals. The officer MeDay had twoold blind horios fi ed the A man evening by charge of says tht wiiose car fellow turned th 1o die. Oue of them perished yesterday from thirs and the other one was found sufferi ofticer. The other animal was s0weuk it could not walk. WOULD NOT SUPPORT NER. Mrs. Margaret Johuson wants a divor from her husband James. The two have been mary 5. Mrs. Johnson says that her husband is a bu contractorand is capable of earning lavge sums of money Despite this fact she says that he has car lessly and cruelly refused and neglected to support her, TAPPED THE T Some thief broke into Rotelling’s grocery store on O street during the night, an en trance being effected through the cellu. All the cash in the money drawer was taken — there being about in_dimes, quarters, nickles and pennics. The drawer was opencd by somebody that knew the combination, us there were no signs of violence being used to getat the contents of the box. Mr. Hotel- ling has his suspicions as to who is the thief, but has not yet cuused theissuance of a warrant, THREATENED TO KILL THE GENERAL. Samuel R Bobst isa carpc .ter contractor who has b ome cottages for Gen- eral McBride on Thirtieth street, The strue- tares have been completed for two or nd Bobst's employes are clamoring for Money has been a little hard to got the gencral was slow in p Bobst the ir' 200 due. Flinally the contractor grew constant delinquency of KicBrids wd ln when he wus agun put off indefini he whipped out his revolver and shoving it in McBride's face threatoned to blow his brains outif he did not come totime. The general has faced too many muskets and cannons to beafraid of an ordina colver, and he aimed u terrific blow at Bobst’s face with his fist. The con- tractor dodged and then fled, The general caused his arrest andhe was arraigued before Justico Cochran today, foind. guilty and held to the district court i the sum of £00. SUPREME George H, McGee the bourd of supoer ot ad other members of ors for Antelope county have filed & betition in thesupreme court asking for the reversal of the decroo of the district court of that county, in whieh the North American cattle compaiy asked for a reduction of their taxes and secured the same. Sarah J. Denary. has apnea s guardian of d'to the supreme cour won over her by Henry in the district court of Burt » coutroversy is over a quarter section of land in township 24 of that county, which formerly belonged to” Charles S, De but he fuiling to pay the taxes the rty was sold the couuty treasurer Tn 1577 to pay the same, Warren beiug the purehaser, Ever since that time Warren has paid the tixes. CITY NEWS AND NOTES who was sentto the jail Tor ussauiting his daughter, finis ing his term today and drawing u on W plueky son of the mavshal rest him Mus, C. B, Bucker for her assault on M The Indey nt teams will contest the state tomorcow evenin P. A, Clifton, & prof F. Billin ounty 1sery sted for lter Melick, the deputized 1o ar. toff with pay Spriggs with kni and Lincoln lacrosse for the champlonship of oual lotel beat, was arvested today on complaint of 8. O Hoover of the West Lincoln hotel Mrs. Anna Hibere, who lives at the foot of J street, hins gone insangand was this after. noon e iined and sent to the asylum, Dan Sharp has been arrested on_complaint of L. C. Young on the charge of disposing of mortenged property. Suspect Sherman, who s being he fuult of bouds to answer the charge of ho stealing before the district court, has man wzed to secure a bondsman and hé will proba. bly be rel from custody this evening It is comnionly reported that: Charley Hall Will beone of the candidates of the ailiuuee for the egitlature, Mr. Hall 1§ a strone anti peniopolist. republican and has a_host of [m nds. The man he will oppose is Mr. Ouk | over the Coehrane ranch. To Russia, | howover, must we go to find wol ves of | singular feroeity and in large numbers, Seventy thousand were killed in the Vologda and Cascan districts last yoar Tt ix oMcially estimated that 170,000 are still running at largo in Russia, and in de- | they multiply exceedingly fast, A Laghtnin Pr of Mexican, Perhaps the most phenomenal on record occurred at Durango, the other day. A number of men tie camp too's refuge from a rain under the pine t Among them | was a Moxican, One of the tr was | struck by lightuing, completely stripping it of branches and rending the trunk from top to nhout six foet of the roots, when the current left the tree and struck he Mexican on the head, running down one side of his face, over the shoulder, transversely aeross the breast, down around one leg and out through the shoa top. His face was badly burned and the course of the current over him marked by a red beand, His clothes wore torn from him, and the sole of the shoe completely torn off. He luy apparently dead, and was 1oft by his companions at that place until the stovm was ove After lying inthe rain for two he he was re- suscitated, and walked into np, and the other evening wus on the streets bearving the frightful evidence of his wonderful escape. He today as well as ever, save for the burn. fronke Colo., in a storm — . A VERDANT YOUTH. AID ot N, Hart's Couple of New ¥ Albert N, Hart is nin, extremely verdant Mo., and is on his way t of work. He sf the sights, however, and whil this pleasant oceupation vith a couple of \ modating strange of saloons, and finally ono” of remarked that he had a “dead cusy but licked the cash to carey itout, 1 Aloert woull fend hi a few dol he ‘woald on pre a sucker in g ah-tive, win all wd, and divide the procecds. Albert saw | visions of wealth and vielded up all the money he had anda gold watel, Ay s rot the money he'somewhat sur the Missouri youth vy kicking him out ‘( the saloon. The police are looking for t e ———————— d in the meantime Hart is occupying | + T At the centra station, dead broior " |SPECIAL NOY TUES COUNC - Two Horses ¢ CIL BLUFFS, A barn and sheds beloy mings and located on Sher ing the fair grounds, were destroy atan hour this morning, together with two horses, a heifer and a ot of tools, The | \ damage will amount to about 2150, A ot of cartridges that were in the bar \ W0 00 L moaern houses. giz(ll.v.luhiw inthe flames, but u\m' “’.‘l "‘.,‘.'.L'fi’ l‘“" \‘i .~I|‘u e ot o i light material of ' the shed made o big L tensive conflagration )n.,(;\‘“* g LN BOTCOUIHIA Puddiers cn a strike, VY i D S oo Turextoy, N, J 1 Bight hundred | atany tin ve your fanily the home cloar puddiers, roughors and heaters cpl LT R L Cooper, Hewitt & Co. strue of & refusal to adyanee w A home worth 0501 at month, A home worth £.00) at nonth, emploving 2,000 hands and will Saturday. With a und s, b years old He hails from Cam e ie and Colorado in se to engagod lay foll W aecom A number strangers thing poed over in Omalia soe i was in mat (. ing to Tom Cum | Jan avenue, adjoin 1 by five | OR SALE -Or will trade for a team, stallion No. G, resistered | Tace, By Do Archibald, dam by Kent Clay, dyearsold. Apply 0 Dr. Maera Wil ky (DR TANTED -« ehett, 120 od by Mrs. A ourth steoet wo rmonth. It beeanse e mill was hut down | A houme worth #600 at 815 per month | A home worth 3,00 at 83 per month, Other priced homes on the same te ||n;n-r th ! pé\win 1 include stilenisnt ! G ko tull particul NEW Yonk, July 17.—At & mass meeting of | tocresitho gutd & Wetls Co. striking cloak operators tonight it was re- | = , = ) solved to repudiate the agreement made by [ QR RENT UG store ro. No. 18, frontir their committee with the manufastuvers and l {piititen il pLs Wil o continue the strilke, y : | FEHAVE o Wolliowan Al teade for encambe lots in Omahie or Couneil Yiafs, The | Wells Co., Council Bturrs. T DR. BELL,]\I( ER’S s, Tha ipal nor lway, LS, Repadiate tf 5 1 0 Bro ra ise Lviton Judd & - Indtan Territo inday ¢ chools. ViNiTa, LT, July 17, -The thirteenth an- nual convention of the Indian territory Sun duy schools 18 in session at this place. Amonz those in attendance from a distance is Prof William Reynolds of Peoria, 1L, and Sunday school workers of national veputation. ¥ o e An Impending Strike, INDIANAPOLIS, Tud, July 17.-A conf between the Four su perintende iployes began early this morning until 11 tonight without roachin factory conclusion. Trouble is fo an agreement is reachod tomorrow. 4 2 4 iold ata iz Prenium, Avies, July 17, ident has enta message to the house of deputics ask ing it to authorize the issue of £5,000,000 i | small paper eurrency, This move alurmed the money mmvket. Gold is at 2,01 premium, 2 2 2 Big Fire in Alle theny City. Prrrsueng, Pa., July 17.—A fire in Alle- gheny City tonight destroyed the Pittsburg ional lime and coment werks and two limber yards. The fire covered an area of move than un acre. Loss, £0,000, S Another Body Recovered, Lake Crry, Minn,, July One body found this morning, that of a little g Rosie Ruhder. This makes 101 covered and it is believed that all the water. and 1 1 In\tltut AND—— Private Hospital. Broadway aud 26th Street, Council Blufis, la. For the treatment of allsurgicnl and chronio discases and diseases of the blood. Privite discases < f the uri and sexunl ns, us sy philis, stricture, cystivis, spe shoas Tost manhood, sexuil impotd nd weakness trented suceessfully Particular attention patd to diseases of the lungs. as Asth N lu||~mn])|MI| Bronchiviy . Iyl ISl etes, Bright's Disens = e ariocele, Ty o esof the Flint Glass Wrkers. HH Rl ettt Baurnone, Md, Ju > nati have a depur convention of the flint glass workers union rontmgpias brought its labors to a close today and ad- ation journed. William J. Smith of Pittsburg, was pomdence confidential, Address: elected president for the ensufng year, DR. BELLINGER'S SN New York's Fopulation. Surgical Institute and Private Il(r\'pilall. Wasmivatoy, July 17— Superintendent, Cor. Bromdway und ith st, Councll Mlafts, T, official rough account, of th oulation of New York. The result shows 1,; U MANUFACTURING CO., 15t Avenuo and 215t St Sash, Doors: md Blmtl rdfatier and Grandson Drow Toioxto, July 17.—Willism Griffin, eighty years of age, and his graudson, aged six, were drowned in the river at Bolton village today. and 8 Sl 5d #2.50 per he b 1. 2 Cor. } o out of ering ly od und free from G — G, i et nd Church and Seventy Houses Burned. | Pl Bupa-Pism, July 17.—At Rosenau, Hun. | Kind! now wary, tolay the Parish ehureh, synagogac | frst olass :lA‘n«l seventy \_umml were burned.” Several VOUR PATI INAGE SOLICITED.” remen were injured. Ay ¢ iy — Hatol s loslo MAXON & BOURGEOIS, Architects and Jonxstowy, Pa., July 1 Superintendents. of gas in blast furi iron works this afternoon, FINE INTERIOR DECORATIONS uncil Bluffy fowa jured, two fatully Omiahin, Neb. d delivere | AlL work to be v of! h By an explosion 0. 1 of the Cambria four men were in- - dvanc n Silver, AvsTeERpav, July 17, Special Cablegram Roow 230 Merriam Block, Room 610 N. Y. Lite Build to Tue Bee|—The priceof silver has ud- vauced here from 84 to 36 guilders per kilo. ussia. ra s prev- is spread ALL WOI(K WARRANTED. Cholera . PErinsnvna, July 17, uh‘m in Kownoho aud Vil jng. Many fatal cases as r - A Liber | Loxnoy, July 17.--Mr. been returned to parlinu st from ham by a majority of 2,000, Gold for Europ - July 17.-Pive hundred thous- and doliars in ol bars *ordered for shipment to Europe tod - ——— Breeding Dogs for Woll Huntis Canadian farmers, having been trou- bled sorely for many years by wolves and coyotes, taking determ steps toward riddin, mselves of th posts, sy the Chicugo News. Th ‘anadian” wolves are not particulurly [. srocious, but they are sufficiently bold tobe a constant menace to the flocks and herds, Dogs have been utilized for the protection of the sheep and cattle, but it remained for Siv John Lister- ve to import & number of Belgiun, | Srench and Scoteh hounds for the | special purpose of hunting and exter- | Wilson. liberal, Mid SON, Dental You con save ones by culling 11 Biuts, has Dur DR. J. D. JAC All kinds of work done. halfon your zold and silver fillin at roons 202 Merriam block. Coun F. M. Ellis & Co,, ARCHITECTS And Buil ling Superintendents, Rooms 430 and 452 Bee Bulld g, Omahi, Neb., and Roons 24 and 246 Merriam Block, 1ed | Council Blutis, Tu. Corresponden elted, | were RUUGART, Vico-pres N, Cashior 3. D EDMUSDRON, Prox. L CHARLES I8 HANN A CITIZENS STATE BANK il E3luffs, .$180,000 50,000 330,000 son, . 1 C Ing us of any Of Coune Paid up Capital. Surplus and Profits. Liability to Depositors. . DIkECTOR A Miller. 1. 0, € Shuzart 1. D Edinin . TANSICL gener gost capital o 1k In Southwestern lows _INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS. OFFICER & PUSEY " BANKERS. Corner Matne and Br COUNCIL BLUF/ Deulers n forel Colloctions made deposits, minating the wolves. The experiment has been attendoed with Lun success, but ll is discovered that mor done if peed, be reute would (H|m\lh'n[ fore, of insur Mr. Dan With u view, ig the desived fle D Gordon of Ottawa hus bought two of the st und best greyhounds in Englund, and he exy to secure, by meuns of judicious crossing splendid dogs for wolf hunt- he wolf nuisance in Cunada is more serious than we suppose, in one duy seventeen of the beusts were killed by & party of three men who scouted C. A. BEEBE & COMPANY, —=Wholesale and Retall Dealers in——— FURNITURE. Largest $tock and Lowest Prices. Dealers, send for Catalogue 5 and 207 Broudway, and 204 and 206 Pierce Swreet, Council Bluffs, lg adway IOWA, wnd donestle e and interst pi unge. on time Nos. &