Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 28, 1891, Page 1

SRS S5 N — TWEN cem b TIETH YEAR. Thounsands Thronging to Hear the Argu- ments in the 8heedy Case, Pleading for the Ac irder Committed?-— break down the evidence of this boy. ave disproved is that Laxcorx, Neb., May greater attr secks admission ery available foot of sy and hundreds of been trained Is it possible that you will convict a pure, noble, hizhminded woman as Mrs. Steedy is Mrs, Sheedy is as _innocent as the new burn | $0 ) babe. Whether Monday McFariand is guiity This made Lambertson's eyes flash fire for 10t it does not affcet Mrs. Sheeds e Colonel J. E. Philpot then followed. He | ‘“And it does not do forthis gentle:nan who first started to give a brief biography of | €0t this money !rum the gamblers to talk in Monday McFarland, stating that the negro | Such a manuer. ¥ was born of slave parents in Kentucky in | Strode got pale and angrily replied: It At this juncture County Attor Anuva Bodenstein, the domestic, testify as ney Snell objected to such a statement being | ¥ou wish @de, because 1t had not been brought out in The court sustained the objection 4 and the blography suddenly ended. Philpot | shut!™ ‘However much,” gentlemen of | Peals of laughter followed and the court The judge then utiemen, we will have a straight urgument of this out of the ev depart from it again I will_have to fine you.” of passicg upon the | Strodo then intimated that all of the prop- orty that John Sheady possesed at the timo ovidence. - When we came to. cross. | of his death had been acquired since his mar- Kinney, & witness for | riaxe, and then, turning to Lambertson, de- 3 manded if that Was oot true why the prose- The court has relegated to you the responsivility the state, he proved to bo our-strougest wit- He testified that Jim Malone had been | cution had not proven that it was not, with Monday McFarland an hour and a half “We didn't need to.” replied Lambertson, ou the morning of the confession. What was | we had Monday Mc dono at that time! You can trace the serp- | that effect. trail throughout the confession. Thoy ) . Worried him for two hours and again about | Don’t you know that it is not to go in as evi- denco “as far as it concerns Mrs. Sheedy? lor.e werc there, Malone ! the astute caucasian, | And yet you have tried to use it as evidence,” After two hours’ work with him thoy failed | Mt Lamberston smiled and said nothing, to extort from him what they wanted and Mr Strode then proceeded to tell how Mr. again they applied the thumb screws to him.’ "The colonel then proceeded to read several uestions put at tho tmo of the main iz wnll sy o bt toliag tho | sion of Monday McFarlind, and this, he. do- “If you want to bear the brunt of | clared, could not go in as evidence. i affirmed that the prosecution had spoken of ‘The major and marshal and Jim Ma- the wholo thing Just stop where you are." § The colonel then proceede: “Gentlemen | clandestine meotings, . can you go to your jury rcom and t 73 this confession was given | Carventer residence. That criminal intimacy and_voluntarily! Nay. What are | with Walstrom had been the last replies of the negro? *You have per- | ‘oved. suaded me to tell.' *You told meit wo idve | ¢ Aracy. better for me to tell the whole story proven. He uext dwelt at some length on Philpot then darea Lambertson in tao face | Arzuments proving that the confession had of tho mannerin which the confession was socured to prove thatit was not secured decide that tackled Dr, body wore turned over to experts for gold. A When Dr. Winchett was on the stand he ad- | chance of uross-examining him, mitted that when the body was taken up the | d1d so. first time for an autopsy no examination was mude of the contents of the bladder and the | then proceeded: Those are the places o look for | “NOW, gentlemen of the jury, before we traces of morphine poisoning, are thay not | ¢ loi didn't they look there! They | have positive proof didn't know enough to o so until the proso- cution told them to doso. Mr. Hull stands | moved." up here and looks aggrieved that anyone stould charge i But the Sneedy estato amounted to § and this is what creates the keen desire for | the second the prosecution of this case." At this point Mr. Jenson, one of the jurors, was taken suddenly i1l and the court bad to | the entive blame on Mrs. Sheedy adjourn until afternoon, although it lacked that Monday McoFarland was the wan who heedy a woek before the final | aud voluutary But Mrs. Hosmau swoars t the | that every time a confession was made Jim man who fived at John Sheedy was a white | Malone was Her husband saw the man ore | the minds of the jurors the fact that if the re He says that the man was & whito | i 8 doubt whether or not Monday M.Fa wore @ cap with u visor and bad a | laud was sworn at the time of the coroner's cont. In the alloged confession it | inguest that the confession should not be con- 1s stated that Monday bad on & slouch hat | sidered in evidence, ve on an overcoat. The story | confessions out of the case and about the attempted shooting of John Sheedy | left to prove that Monday McFarland mur- # was detatled in full in all the newspapersand | doved John Sheedy except' the cane, and that how easily Monduy could have manfuctured the story, but he would fall down when ho camio to the doscription of the dress of the [ Mr. muu who fired the shot, But the fact is that the story was put into his mouth through adrolt questioning. The prosecution would | which will closo the avguments. bave you believe that there were ouly three Rorsons at the Shoedy residence the night of fired at John & NOT LACKING IN [INTEREST. | heciaton o tuetiotit inere, ewere, Wood, the blind was up all the time until This is tha con it was raised that they « used Woeman— | San how the 1y th that y re.bably Go to the e e Jury Tom rrow. This s a ~[Special to Tue but to prose where th ce both inside and struck him your jury bearing whate all, laughed at d the | four months. ses in eat bo Mr. Ho then deaied that John | ooy reason prosecution, mistakes ever madoe have oc- unreliable te: There have ony in hun- e | w gamble ‘Wilbur. You should do this quic Mrs. Sheedy, u may wish to uso the confes. | called the r bounden duty not to regard it | seid: *(C ven that It was voluntarily of that confession as | © and promi Ho then Heachley, declaring that that mob coming ! bat they are working for gold. | Begro had on. Y MORNING, MAY 28, DaAlLy BEE. | & verdict today of aequittal tu the case of y o YT ey Wit ana waiter wing wio wero | OMAHA'S GENEROUS FRIEND, charged with assaulting Tda fourteen-yeur-old girl, The yoang men 'ad- mitted on the witnesystend thae ihe mitted the crime, n ut her con- " “The girl was censured for her conduct | Augustus Kountss Makes a Proposi an the young men go free. ———— A Good Financial Showing. Fresoxt, Neb,, May 27.—[Special to Tur Ber.]The Daily Tribune this eveniug pub- | 10 BUILD A~ THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. lishes the result of an investigation it has just made in the matter of ascortaining the amount of cash the people of Dodge county had in the twelve banksof the county on - < June 4, the date on which the five national Steps Taken to Comply banks were called upon for their published with the Provisions. statements, The result is of general interest since it snows an unexpected diffusion among |+ the people of cash in ‘the banks subject to Lepavoy, Pa., May The total amount on deposit in the | to Tur Bee. county was $1,406,744. ~ Of this amount the | synod of the 10,300 persons living in the incorporated | ° towns of the county ure oredited wi 464, an averago of §30 per capita, 8,900 living outside thess towns (the farmers) had on deposit 830,281 1 average of the county | provided the Lutheran church raised §150,000 40 per capita. The force of this ex- hibit is better understood when it ered that the volume of the circulating med- | tain there a theologleal seminary of that ium 1n the United States amounts to §24 por | gaipy capita, or less than one-third the averaze ' amout.t subject to the ready command of the | Penses necessary to canyass the church for people of this county. NEBRASKA'S HONORED DEAD. Ragland, a after the assault what the prosecution claims was down autil just before the assault, when that the blind they com- Last Sad Rites Over the Remains of Ex- fifth shot fired e testiied that he saw Governor Batlen men runming, on house and the other on the:west side of ELOQUENT WORDS FOR THE DEFENSE, | house. The boss, Curric and Hitcacock, say n running south Tho two fugitiv W Lwo FRIENDS PAY TRIBUTE TO HIS MEMORY. Twelfth below the alle, could have met at the alley and Successful Applicants for Droggists’ Pormits—Farmers with Money at Interest-Building a Paint In no other way themselves. What mony of Matthew, concerning the Savior The oratory of the opposing attor- | stories are not exactly alike. neys in presenting theiv arzuments to the jury in the Sheedy muraer trial has provel a ction than the takinz of te "Tho great court room, ample for al- | giioi o most any extraordinary occasion, c 3 modate only a fraction of the crowd that | Butthe men who committed the deed could to listen o tho specches, | buve committed have these boys crossed Luke and John It is because their Pawsee City, Neb, May Telegram to Tur B x4 ler's faneral today attracted the largest at- tendance of sympathizing friends ever heid in southern Nebraska. more than one and a half wmiles long, and it was estimated thero were thousand people at the cemetery. The services at the house were simple and impressive, baing conducted by Rev. O. H. Devry of the Christian church. offered by Rev. D. R. Dungan of Cotner uni- versity, Lincoln, The funeral was conducted by the Masouns with G. M. humphrey master The procession was met at ought to bo hoere today not as a def the murderers of her hu ou attorneys on band, Why are fense put to the Gleason, n accot- [ do vou prove it! the gambler? rime and gotten back ov were when they were seen g i did John Sheedy hire Ab Carder to protect outside the forum is occupied, and the crowd | hini To watch Monda b in the corridors look enviously at those who | W Jhave standing room inside the court room. struck—that Some of the leading ladies of the city hav been in attendance. Yesterday and today many of the fair sex stood up all tho time, glad to get admission into the court room, | fession as evidence erly drank in the cloquent passages | undue influence remember it is to have in the speech of, Attorney F Mr. Stearns’ drolleries and smiled at Colonel | owation of the Phitpot's wit. At9a. m. Mr. R.D. Stearns resumed his argument before the jury. He den statement of Mr. Hall that crime dec; the ratio that it is punished. He gave statis- | the s tics showing that in the time of Blackstoue, | hood by causing this there was a gallows on almost every [ suffe square in London, there was more crime than there is now. Sheedy had died like a dog, and declared that | raigning M, every care in his dving hours that | were afte Kindness and love conld devise, He denied | 1f John Sheedy bad died a poor man, he in- that circumstantial evidence is sometimes the strongest evidence. He declared that somo of | gentle, sympathetic v at did John after he was struck himt that it was room N of cercmonies, are to consider is the competen: extorted by —Sherift Gifford of Fall River county, South Dakota. accompanied by Attorney Fry ot Hot Springs, arrived here this morning to arrest R. R. Dickson, for were issued a fo o mqu,!r‘)llluo:sg:mrneys‘ w';cm :amlw' seminary building of the Evangelical Lu- for trial today on the habeas corpus proceod- | theran church. ings, but the Hot Spri the case coming before the county judge and r on the case, The prosecu- At the grave beautiful tion called vour attention toa certain discol- and fitting tribute was rendered the dead by Governor Thayer and The floral tributes At the grave the discoloration might have been caused by a_slight clot blood after the body had lain in the grave for Further, gentlemen of the jury, wheu this poor nogro came into the court, freed from the influences and fears of X, ho would not forfeit his man- President Dungan, were many and beautiful. casket was opened and the people were over an hour taking the last look at Nebraska's A speclal train from Lincoln brought a large numbar of state officers and other prominent citizens, and all ing towns were reprosented by friends of the ex-governor. childron, the youngest about fourteen years honored dead. agreed to appear before Judgo Kinkaid to- v for a crime of which she is not guilty.” Jesso Strode, Sheedy, followed been seettled, but just beéfore train time G ford and his attorney went to Dickson's ofiice | beard is to establish new colleges ana other and demanded that he should accompany them to Dakota, which be refused to do. Fry ord to take him, but the deputy J Sheriff of this county appeared on the scene | Weiller, D.D., of Omaha, president of the and ordered them to desist. He declaved first that the because _they the money sisted that there would have been any his talk in @ e and said that he had watenod the curl of scorn upon their curred through circumstantial evidence, It | faces as the prosecutior had procceded. the press, he declared, there had been s of the “most damning lies that v news judicial mur- | said he would refer only committed througb that evidence, | Suell opened the argument and the other at- Two or three cases were cited in which per- sons have been hung for murders of which they were not guilty, j ust because of the cumstantial evidence against them. ‘‘The bas been something said about poison,” he *“The “but T do not seo how vou can | in which the actions of John Sheedy has consider it in the face of so much conflicting | caused ruin and sorrow because of the busi- te timony in regard to it by the physicians. 1f they thought at the time She that he was suffering from morphine poison- 1f didn't they administer to him the | seen Monday McFarland s that would give relief? The whole hing has been concocted by the prosecution. They are all after mdney. The doctors didn’t | land. bolieve that it was mornhine poisoning.” Ho proceedea to ridiculo the physi- | 0f 8 number of witnesses whom they say wo cinus who were put on the stand, | didn’t putupon tho witness stand. that they were igno. | Sheedy, sr., left on the pretext of some tele- everything in their busi. | gram of ‘importantfbusiness,’ ‘family sick,’ or ness except that relating to morphine poison- ing. Hé further intimated that they had all 7. —|Speciul to Tie t of the success applicants for druggist’s permits who were examined before the state board of pharmac; B. F. Brendal, W. W. Brown, “ekamah, Neb. ; yon, Burwell, Portland tement at Nionrara, Neb., May 27. ~For the past year negotiations have been going on between Yankton speculators and partios owning the ehalk stone bluffs op- posite here for options on the land with a view of disposing of them to a cement cor- Samuel J. Hoyt, who now resides at Halsted, Bowen count; gave an option on 160 »brara. Special to Tue Following is a | rould be cen- Snell, because William Bulow, Wake- : Beaver City, Neb.; W. D, Cole, West Union, Neb.; M. P. eb.; E. Fosselman, Filley, torney nad merely reiterated what said. He next declarea that the first violator of the law whowm he knew of when he_came ir- | to this city was John Sheedy. , last winter Presbyterian on which the | Detroir, Mich,, May 27. —After devotional cement plant would be established, and then | exercises in the Presbyterian general as- went quietly to work with & company in [ go 2 A\lenhkeeu'yaud O T hoe 98,000 c\l‘sh, A sembly Dr. yohnson reported favorably on ject to the option, the deal baving been olosed "These challe stone biuffs, known | Dr- Nichols read a report from the com- by geologists as the “Niobrara formation,’” | mittee on increase of the ministr) are the same as those about Yankton and | ticular reference to the recaption of minis- Niobrara, and furnish the' material for the celebrated Portland cement, Daywson, Edgar, John Sheedy has been many a home.” said he, ness in which he was engaged.” ‘The speaker then referied to the fact that Mrs. Coil, who testificd that she bad often J. G. Rodwell, Rugg, Harvard, Cloud, Neb.; Ed J. H. Remsbarg. Red ner, Battle Creek, Dan J. Thompson, West Point, Neb.; John M. Wilson, Harrisburg, Neb, ‘oday’s broceedings of the State Pharma- centical association were simply formal and included the reports of ofticers and commit- standing on the corner of Thirteenth and P before the as- sault, was an onemy, and to Monday McFar- For the Paint Factory. The standing committee on foreign mis- Txpiaxora, Neb., May 27.--[Special Tele- | sions reported. Today the sod was | The resignation of John O. Lowvie, D.D., broken for the erection of the paint factory | senior secretary, alsoof Field Secretary Rev. at the ochre mines in this place, It will | Thomas Marshall were received, have a capacity of rinding twenty tons of The treasurer’s report for the year ending ochre per day and will be In operation in less | April 80 shows expenditures of $073,000, Inddnola has furnished “The prosecution,” he continued, gram to Toe Bee. In tho afternoon the visiting druggists wero given an outing at the Chautauqua grounas, and the day was given over to music and_athletic sports, which wer ably participated in by many of the v In the evening the visitors were treated to an excursion on the Blue on the steamboat Queen of the Blue. Robbers Foiled. Doxcursten, Neb, May 27.—[Special to Tne Bee.|—Edward Jones, a wealthy farmer living three miles south of town, was a vic- tim last week of a plot to rob himof a large sum of money, but it proved unsuccessful. The scheme was worked by three men, two of whom first came to Mr. Jones’ introduced themseives as Major Logan of Omaha (real name unknown) and the other as a lawyer from the same place. They stated that they were in search of a good farm Mr. Jones kindly showed them over bis farm, which they expressed them- selves as liking very much, but in addition to the 400 acres that Mr. Jones had they would like also to purchase the adjoining eighty acro farm belonglng to finuliy ngreed that if Jones would purchase the Tiggart farm that Major Logan would them pay $16,000 for the two farms, and the two men then doparted with tho understand- ing that they wonid return the next worning a9 o'clock to_complete the deal. their wora the two men returned and Jones got iuto the buggy, & two seated rig, with me to town, where he some such invention. the young mau who was at the Sheedy resic Lumbertson for this specini | dence almost constantly for two years, and ve you,” said he, “to basen | Who was at the Shecdy home ail the night conviction of Mrsy Sheedy upon? ' Simply be- | fotlowin; cause she knaw Walstrom, because she went | Why did he not appears over to Mrs, Hood's once ana told that lady that she and her husband had had two spats. than six mom\s-.d o all the bonus asked of o, i & Friend vaint company of Chicago, which leavoes a deficit of $90,000. An unusually has the affair in Garner, Brown following the not appenred. He has been (i) A No Cause for Sispicion. | were found gualified and sent out. The ag- Specfal Tele- | gregate addition to mission churches is 2,875 gram to T Bru.|--The romaivs of Miss | A increase in schools is shown, us is alsoa Tracie Kitzbarger arvived here from Chicago yesterday morning: spirited away.” Mr. Strode then commenced to tell about a trip that young Dennis Sheedy had taken to ] . Lambertson objected and the on such fimsy evidence as thati I think | Objection was that she can find an asylum in your justice, | Strode and he d Tt is your duty to pry open the prison doors | bertson and hi ur verdiet ~and let this mnocent | mou Hay Sprixos, Neb,, Magt. ‘The coroner held an in- | tween Guatemala and San Salvador and by quest at the request of lier father. He claims | tho present strif her death was caused by abortion. ared bitterly that Lam- had receivea collected from the gamblers to give to “It does nov do for Lambert- son and Hall to tatk about charit the first time, and he retorted : Introduced Casey's Murder. Srovx Favis, S. D., May 27.—[Special Tel- | Was adopted. Adjourned. Bee,j—The event of the Plenty Horses trial today was the testimony of Frank D. Balewin, a member of General [ ligious exhibit at the Columbian exposition He appeared for the defense | was appointed. and declared that Casey was a scout, whoso | _The chuirman of the committes on corres- sole duty was to report the movements of the enemy, and that when he proposed to | the assemblies of the southacn Cumber hold a council with Red Cloud and other | United and Reformed Presvyterian chur chiefs he exceeded his authority. pression left by Baldwin's testimony was that a fierce war of magnificont proportions | churen in the United Statos. raged at Pine Ridge, and had it not been for | Gallagner, D.D., were introiuced and ad- the milltary display made by General Miles | dressed the assembly. George A. Chamber the trouble would still be raging with all its | 1ain, D.D., representing the Presbyterian "The object to bo gained was that | church of Brazil, also spoke. if war raged and Casey was a spy, then The moderator returned these greetings : Plenty Horses was justified in the killing of | _‘The standing committee on church erection the licutenant. b n, 't Plenty Horses still retadns his wondaerful | lett, D. D, of Washivgton. The report said and although he understands every- | tre death of M. John Sloan, for nine years a thing going on he gives no indication what. | faithful and ~efficient ~trustee. leaves u ever of his feelings. R. O. Pugh, issus clerk, tostified that ra- | the year has called for caution owing to the ) ey o exbigustion of the special fund provided by o e e b e W opafumant % | tho late R. L. Stuart and of the small work- “Of course she didu't,” Lambertson thuu- dered, “you bribed her' to keep her mouth erowd to order, the lawyer and c drew from the bank $3,000 in_gol ker putting the money in two bags, with which he was to purchase the Tigzart farm. home, and _when got to tho bridge. about one-half mile from tho house, they were met by Major Logan, left at the farm, arland’s confession to “0, Monday McFailand's confession! whom they not seen before, climbed into the buggy and could preyent it the stranger had grabbed the two bags of gold and jumped from the Jones at once sprang after him and crowiea him up against a wire fence, when the fellow pointed a cocked revulver at Jones' head and warned him uot to come: closer, but Jones, though a man The two footmen at once before Jones Sheedy had at one time corrupted the city council with money. Mr. Strode next showed that the only evi- heody was the -confes- the band to which ‘the after the surrender of the No Water L‘nm% Living Bear, father of Plenty Horses, has not yet arrived, but it is thought he will reach the city b; dence against Mrs. Livin Bear's | propriations pledged, The steady advance nou-appearance is one of the strange features | of the church requires advance in church of the case and it may be possible that the | erection. The average number unceding aid trial will not be ended tomorrow on Living | anuually in this decade has been IS4, which Bear's account. fifty-six years of had too much experience in the mining camps of Cahfornia to be frightened at the signtof a revolver, and so, with un- flinching courage and a determination to re- gain his money, he sprang at the thief and getting the money away from The other two fellows took no part in the encounter and claimed after it was over with the third party, but Mi. Jones says it is *‘too thin” and s satisfied they bad. meetings testified t) except the two at the There were The curtain signal had no evidences of con- ‘World's Fair Convention. cations for churches and fifty-two for YANKTON, S. D., May 27.—[Special Tele- | manses, asking fur §1 gram to Tue Bee. | —The world's fair conven- | thau last year and & tion of South Dakota was organized at 8 o'clock this succeeded in Deen extorted from Monday McFarland. read questions from the confession to prove . He then exclaime Who had s physician didn't even’ know the names of [ Who had made him b the bones of tho head until they were put into his mouth by Attorney Lambertson. | Jim Malone! He then declared that Dr. Casoboer, the man | Shal and other witnesses present at the con- who conducted the autcpsy, wus a tyro in his | fession sus profession ana he was the iast man who | use th have been entrusted with it. “This | Kinney if he did not say to Monday on that Tellow,” said Philpot, “didn’t know where | Sunday that if he told who the other parties the arbor vitw, an important partof the | Were who Were counected with was. Mo did not know the | erime it would o easier with him? length of the medulla oblongata. The prose. [ swered ‘no.” cution knew tnat they didn’t have evidence enough and they hired ghouls for gold to aig | could, of the dead man without the ‘Why, M. 0 knowledge of the coroner, Portions of the | Lambertson, ‘‘we did put Malone on the wit- ness stand again, and you not only had a afternoon in this city. Three | five years before it. Ou: hundred delegates and visitors ave present. | v The multitude comprises the leading busi- | have given for building churches $91,465 and and financiers of tho state. Hon, | for mauses someth Joscph Hurst, chief of the department of ia- ion of the world’s falr, and R. A. E. | thus secured by aided churches in the Dorr, chief assistant to Mr. Hurst, addressed | was almost £400,000, for which the board The plar for raising funds | holds meetings to hold the property of the d Monday McFarland? eve that there was o ‘Who extorted the confession ! The Young Iady Discharged. iSpecial to Tur ct court for Dodge county is in session here this week. One of the first cases 10 como up was that of the state against Miss Flora Leech of Beunington. of by being dismissed without — tri Leech some months ago created a sensation here by shooting at William Patterson, who narrowly escaped falling n vic the shooting taking place in a drug Patterson and Miss Leech had engaged, but he had jiited her, and she choso herown method of showing her displeasure, She was arrested and held under bonds until released today. Knights of Pythias' Picni Fauts Crry, Neb, M Tuk Bee. | —~The Kuights of Pythias of this city and surrounding towns held a plenic here today which was & great success. resentatives were present Auburn, Stella and Verdon, ived on a special train, Congress- man W. J. Bryan was present and delivered an interesting address. gramme consisted of a prize shoot, boat rid- ing, music, and a miustrel perfornance in the evening, onfession In the convention, which seems to meet the most general ap- | church until it abandous it proval is to have counties appropriate ne. | careful estimate of the reel value of churches cording to their last assessed valuation, the | oWned by the churc management for the state to be placed in the | the United States give ud hands of a commission of twelve men to be [ Of manses gives &,447,400, a total of & selected by the people of the judicial circuits | 24: atlowing for omissions we may suy a of the state. At 6 o'cicok this aftornoon the | round $70,000.000. T convention adjourned to awaft the report of | churches is the committee on resolutions. Big Damage Suit. Deanwoon, S. D,, May didw't they put Jim Ma- lone on the witnes d again so that we could eross-examine him about this matter. Special Tele- Dr. Bartlett yielded the floor to Dr. Patton, gram to Tir Beel—In he circuit court | Who @skod ieave to read so much of the ro- today the trial of the case of John P, Belding vs the Black Hills & Fort Pierre railroad | be printed end distributed to the assembly ‘Lhe sdtis one for $30,000 | when it comes up for action tomorrow. “I believe you are right,” said Strode, and onsider the s econa confession, we must was commenced. . for the accidental killing of Merritt Judson | Six Belding while riding on am excursion train on the defendant’s railroad - and is brought by John P. s S TR Before court adjourned this after- | it shall be. The c noon the testimony of twenty-seven witnesses bad been taken for the plaintiff. SAWED OUT OF HIN CELL. “Our duty is a delicate one, espaeially ns used to secure the first one had been]re- The Lincoln The speaker then showed that after the on train o | Uttorances of Dr. Briggs. Some ask specii- e e i | Gation, but most 6ave Lo the assembly what 5,000 | 88 -hous - And The rest of the pro- that ho had had notbing der of John Shoeedy and attempted to throw to do with the mur- Strode declared was evidence that the unegro still feaved the wob at that time and was try- At 2 p. m. Colonel Philpot resumed his ar- | ing to shield himself, aid clared, after reading a numver of the ques- “The prosecution would have you believe | tious in the confession, that a confession obtained in such a munger could not be a froe He dwelt on the fact Eastern Star Officers, Oscrora, Neb,, Muy * -Last night the oraer of the Star had its election, and the following were electod: Sister E. J. Scott, W. M. A. Scott, W. P.; Sister M. E. Saunders, pecial to Tae Pomeroy Makes Anither At- tempt to Escape from Prison. fore us on appeal. ke auestion before us is Bostox, Mass., May %%.—Jesse Pomeroy, | not of his dootri the notorious boy murderer, made one of his | the approval of his ¢ ! periodical escapes from is coll in the state | WO have examined the doctrinal vequire- prison Monday and managed to get into the corridor before his plans were frustrated, drill and saw had in some way been given | well as from appointments of professors that t0 him and ho had sawed off the lock on his | bave convinced bis committee that the In order 19 got & iever to shove | assembly has power to refuse the transfer. hugeto saw off & leg of his | “We would have been willing to recc a cell in the “arch’’ | the refereuce of this subjoct to u commit prisoners ave confined. | to report to the general assembly. But the from there was only the freedom | control of the assembly over the watter Jessa has made many attempts | ceases with the present session, wnd so we to escape and his modes have always been | mustact now. We admit that in one view He was allowed to have tools until | the trustees may have ground for their de- his attempt six moaths 820 to saw off the bar | nial of the power of the assembly to veto the Since then he has been supposed | transfer of & protessor from one church to not to have any and a close watch has been | other. Besides, the assembly is one party in kept upon the cell door, the window and the l @ compact with the union theological semin- Tho speaker then He impressed upon Blowers, A. C rvetary; Brother N. C. Foy, treasurer, Selling Liqu v W ithout Lic Neb,, May 27.—[Special to T The cases of the state of Nebraska Lowell far selling Conkling, sec- back the bolt he vs J. H. Riley and C liquor without license have beeu tried, Riley was acquitted, but Lowell was found guilty, A jury is now being secured in the case against Lee Pointer, charged with assault with intent to kill. Found Not Guilty. GreeLy Cextew, Neb., May Telegraw to Tus B where the rough has been poorly identitled." Court thea agjourned until 9a. m. tomorrow, rode will continue his argument to- meirow morning and will be followed by Mr. Lambertson on behalf of the prosecution, will probably go to the jury sometime tomor- Tow afternoon, —The jury rendered | blocks of granite, m—————— NUMBER that the original appointment but that the transfer simply and with that thes-sembl control of both, ¥ .. 1 view the Lutheran S8ynod. the trustees of th= eminary proper to appoint |2 mmitte with them to repoi s cor Valuable Land Donated—The Liberal Offer Accepted and Immediate ogy of Union Theological a committeo of conference tho appointment of professors, ]—At the meeting of the general Lutheran cuurch this morning on wus made by Augustus Kountze to the general assemb #36,- | proposi while the | offering tho synoa ten acres of ground In | yyion theotogienl stminiry i tho city of Now average of §71 | Omaha, valued at $100,000 and $0,000 cash | York, being all of them ministors Talizo the gen effect, viz: Th 1 assembly by July 1, 1892, to build in Omaha and main- is consid- He further offered to pay half tho ex- bly wili comit the (3 of directors on th conditions: irst That the tors of each t the funds. [tmidhe” - S F authorized 1o appoint Pighting MR Prisoner, Tho proposition was unanfmously accepted | for """ caime Sl May 27.—|Special Tele- | at the afternoon session and in an hour 825,000 | ARROIR{ments wh il - bo: v were ralsed among the members of the gen- | Of brofessars shall b considered as v plete election if disapproved eral synod towards the $130,000. The re- | vote of the assembly: Ahd be it farther Resolved, That the board of dirce! maining sum will be raised with little effort and Omaha will soon have a fine theological Unlon theological York are persuaded t the memorial wi nar of the patrons. donors and friends o seminarie and contribute people objected to LEBANOY, Pa., May The general synod | prosperity of the ehurch, do he , 2 the suid plan shiall be pdopted b of the Evangelical Lutheran church at the | adSumbly thut they il agre Pl mattor Wi supposed to have | MOFning session took up the board of oduca- | the e, the Union somniny tion business, The speainl purpose of the | Wi}t I this e Dby teriun ehurch Lsmin schools for tho church and aid new schools until they are amply endowed. J. S. Det- ercise i board, presented the report. The recelpts were §10,237, mostly from churches on_rogi- lar apportionmonts, The Carthage college in Lilinois is reported to be again in & very pros- perous condition., Churches were recom- mended to ovserve a day of prayer for col- leges. The board is steadily growing in value to the general synod. 1801 as follows: 1870." eneral Assembly. show.” [Laughter.| He add the religious exhibit at the world's fuir. with par- ters from other denominations. , Referred to the committee on church policy. aries, opinion is that the right of ercised now or not atall. elder feared the act committee would make which with the shortage from last vear thoy were not eutitled. largo number of candidates applied for forcign work last year, and seventy-threo TROWAN TTE TAvae r Tied SATC T etonw: hBL] oo was LIk BAttou, work was hindered greatly by the war be- tion. One from western e in Chili, but enconaraging The jury | reports were received from elsewhere. brought in a verdict no canse for action. After the reference of overtures to the | Brigas' views. A commissioner of large ex- e s s SR proper committee the recommendations of | perience thouglhit seven-eights of the assem- PLENTY HORSES’ DEFENSE. the committee on the report of the foroign | biy would vote for the report. board were adopted. Justify A resolution of regret on the death Monday night of ex-Moderator Van Dyke of Brooklyn toue which was so notable, 55t ogiz Even Dr. Parkburst talks too much,” At the afternoon session, aftor the rofer- ence of a number of bills and overtures to appropriate committees, a committce on re- Reformed CrLeveLaxD, O., ponderce recommended certain appointments and that the modern telegraph greetings to delegates present from the United Statcs Bishop Samuel Fellows presided and Charles >hiladelphia acted us clevk. ceremony was delivored by Barnes of Belloville, Ont. treasurer, John Hoins The im- | now in session. Rev. James H. Dubbs, representative of the general synod of the Gevinan Reformed and Joseph the expenditures $18, of §3,714.33, The the theologicul reported through its chairman, William Bart- naey of vacancy it will be hard to fill. The work of beon appoiuted to plac iness, z bulance heretoforo carried from year to Since we are not allowed to incur vo have been enabled 1o meet all up- St. Lovis, Mo, May sion of the conference of corresponds qguite closely with the number organized. This year we had 190 appli- 5,148, or $16,070 more 7,860 more than the year before. The amount of aid asked for last year has been 1 per cent more than for the income for tue 25, With this we 1850, The report was pr next genoral convention in r has been £12 X a little over §1,000 each, or an average of $14,340. Tho aggre- rate value of the church of mause property ar The Fight on Pro Derore, Mich., May hurst, one of De. Briggs v dissolves. A he gave Pri h and of the assembly in ves $65,051,000 and that 249, - a tho w ors and they now decla ho averago value of all bout $10,500 and of manses about $7,300. The chuvch contributions of these synods were &30,384, 103 out of a total of &) 0 —almost two-thirds. tho nssembly simply drive the brighte crush Briggs, ho sl crush tho spirit ho port on theological seminaries as bears on the caseof Dr. Briggs in order that it may will not be endorsed for the y-three prosbyteries whose names he read havo overtured the assemblios as to eloted today in the dic committee 1s divided o nmittee reply to some of the reports of the Union theological semnary as bears on Dr. Briggs' appointment or transfor to the chair of biblical theology. vote of the committee, United Preshyte Prisceroy, Ind, May assombly of the Unitad ¢ the presbytery of New York is trying him on the charge of heresy, and we must not preju- dice a case which some time imust com? be- Prosby choseu row. soandness, bat that of fon by the assemnbly e Colorado Cattlem, Dexven, Colo., May inary saui Sacreta o hold trail cattlo at tho ments as to the duty power of the asssmbly in assenting to such an appointment or trans- A | fer.” Dr. Patton quoted from the records as \mend plainly and rase the order is not tle held at the boundary lino. el G The Fire Rec Manixerre, Wis, May ary aud must be cautlous iu acting om it. iusurance, $50,000, e trustees of the seminury | LATEST POLITICAL RUMORS, Jerry 8impson to Take the Stunp in Ohlo Against Major MoKinley, and that this assembly has a right to fornd, interfere. While®: think the assembly relations always ¢** ing between it and the assembly. anc with the views the committee recommends that ti ssembly disa the appointment ol Or, Charles the Edward Robinson chair of biblical theol minacy and that with the trustees THIRD PARTY OPPOSED TO CLEVELAND, Southern State Aganinst the Allezed to Be Solld Ix-President Remodeling Immigration of that institution be appoiuted by sembly to report to the assembly, The report quoted tho following: mary of acts and rosolutions assembly and of the hoards —|Special Telegram | other theological seminaries connected with Wasmyaros Burea 513 FounreeNTit Wasiizaros, D. € The announcemunt is made here th Represontativ Kansas will go into Ohlo soon to stump the tor Governor Camnpbell by the democrats agniust Major MeKinley for the chief executive, and that a good-sized contingency of alliance und independent workers will opposition to the author of the pros In the same connectlon the aunounce- ment is made that should ex-President Cleve- land be nominated again not more thau three The directors of Union theoloical seminary in the city of New York presentod tho following memorial v on May 18, 1870 Resolved, That the board of directors of the of the Preshyterian church, do h L the gencral rule the exercivo of the proprictorship and of the several theolozical seminaries. so tion of professors 18 concerned, the me to respons ble following terms and take the forum in logloal Seminary by him on account of his silver polieyy that the alliance, indopendent or republican candidate would bo Mason and Dixon of the third pariy are to be exorted of Mr. Cloveland, aud since loose in Ohio for ppolntment elected south Thoontire energles at the plan proposed in woet the cordiai the nomination these men are to be turned Governor Campbell it is believed that that gentleman is to be their favorite, succeed in defeating the ropublican candi- THE IMMIGRATION PROBI that some ve sof the Pres- Itis renorted steps will bo recommonded the chiecking of immigration when the com- mission, of which ex-Congress: The time within which the assembly may express its disapproval or ex- s right of vetoing the election of a professor was determined by the assembly of The assembly that the acts subjecting the election of a pro- fessor to the veto of the assembly shall ported to the nextgeneral assembly th ter, and if not vetoed by that assembly election shall be regarded as completo ac ing to the plan ratified by the assembly of an Grosevnor Europe and rdported upon tho necessities in remodeling our Ho said today that the inflow of pro- must bo stopped; that it hips upon our laborers, since the bulk of the immigrants were labor- The second member of the commission 15 & brother to (irand Master Workman Pow- derly of the Knights of Labor, who is favor of very stringent laws against immigra- but the third Hempster, is a German-American {rom Wis- cousin, which has almost if not a majority of 1d probadly he will port, which is to embody the results of a thorough vestigation as o the character and voluma of our immigration, LAND DECISION AFFIRMED, Acting Secrotary Chandler today afirmed holding for cancellation the timber culture entry of John T. Mol ombracing the north half of the northeas quarter and the north half of the northwest on 25, town 33, range 50 west, Chadron district, contested by “Mhomas D, immigration was working har Dr. Bartlett, resuming the report on churches, said he had heard an important re port, but he did not know that ‘‘we were to ave the Briggs report as an extr made a stirring s, advoeating the duty Presbyterian churches first and foromost and through their bonrds instead of through pri- vato channols. The subject was further dis- cussed by Dr. White, secretury of the board, and others. Report accepted and recom- mendations adopted. Adjourned, A popular session of the board of foreign missions was held this evening. dresses were dolivered by foreign mission- foreign blood caution in the the decision below The genoral oplnion on the Briges case colucides with that of the committee so far as the expiration of the assembly’s right to veto the trausfer is concerned. OINTMENTS DEFERRED, 1t is_contidently bolloved that Solicitor General Taft will be judge of the Ohio cir~ nited States court. judges will not bo appointed until December next, as the senate is 1o act 18 bofore the appointces The general veto must be ex- Oue New York on recommended by the Briges a martyr and give his utterances a weight to which take their places. MISOELLANEOUS, Contracts were today awarded for survey. lug ninety-tour townshi the Bluek Hills in South Dalkota. the land is in givilized communities and it is the policy of the department to not survey land except for settlement. Mellette and the state superinteadent of pub- lic construction urged the survey at this time 50 that the state can select from it the school lands to which the state is entitled. Senator Pettigrew and Congre ler were at tho postofiice dej and urged the establishment of a mail from Chamberlain and Pierre to Dead- commodate tho new settlers thought the report was too Princcton, the moderator heing a professor there and Dr. Patton the president: that fortunate that the chairman Oqe wentso far as to say the assembly was packed against Briggs, but another repudiated this insinu of land north of But Governor thought that region, including the fi Allegheny seminary, was solid against Dr. commissioner who was present iast year at Saratoga thought there was a lack o making influenco and the warm spiri Anather said : ven Dr. Brigzs' bost friends can not apol- admits that he wood, S. D., to n on the Sioux re 2. Brown of Des Moines is at the Arling- itt was today appointed postmaster at Coffman, Washington county, Neb., vice E. J. Connale, resigned. ¢ direction of the secretary of war Cap- sby P. Miller, assistant_quartormas- or, will proceed from this city to Omaha on public business conuected with the quarter- master’s department. 1 Council. 3 The thirtceath general council of the Reformed Episcopal church of America began here today with Perey 8, Hearn, ———— DUMPED SILVERINTHE GUTTER. Drunken Freak of a Montana Miner in New York City. NEW Yonk, May 27.--Over £5,000 w silver bullion was lying in the gutte! of a Broadway hotel last night. was picked from the street by a porter of that establishuent and put in a place of The owner of the silver weighs con- siderably over two bundred pounds and nis He hails from Montana and is said to own the big silver mine that produced the silver bullion, hired a cab and started out to visit the bar~ rooms of the Broadway hotels. who sold the best liguor. silver pars worth about h in there and began his sampling on at Florty-second street and works down to Fourteenth street, where he has Every time ho left the cab to go into hotels he would first take the from the cab and lengthwise with cach other in Cabby tried to have Phillips allow the silver in in the cab, but he insisted that fhe precious metal would be safer in the gutter than in the cab, periment 1u front of the different Broad otels ut which he stopped for refreshr the Hoffman house and a n the gutter whilo he visited the Phitlips had been a guest at this hotel r folf 1t incumbent upon bim to ilver from the street to the hotel He did so, and Phil- The report of the Philadelphia, showed that the raceipts were $? ng o balance eport. of the Philadelpbia was read by Rev. Dr. H. S. Hoffniann, the announcement that Rev. Dowrell Leavitt and W. Max in_the facult; afternoon session was devoted to routine bus- name is Phillips. Missouri Episcopal Confe At today’s ses- the Episcopa church of Missouri, atter prayer, committees were appointed aud the different reports read. Dr. E.J. Roberts read a report the committee on proposed changes in the prayer book, recommending a number of changes which are being considered iu con- sequence of the recommendations of the gen- oral assembly of the Ipiscopal sived aud ordered rted, but action whs deferred until the He wanted been lost sight of, vlace them Tuttle then delivered his annual address, after which the conference adjourned. rief defende arrived, His sermoun of lust Sunday, in which uceton such & lively shaking up, ath of Briggs' prosecut- re that tho gentleman will be hanled without gloves view with the doctor toduy and have it locked up. lips, after protesting, proceeded to visit other Broadway hotels. Tl ANOTHER KANSAS TRAGEDY, ho said that if condemned Briggs it t and best men out Thoy might Attempted 1s to a Murder, Special Tele- | —Edward Hogeman,a con- stable, weut to tho farm of Cyrus Aldrich in Norton county, west of here, of the Presbyterian church. , but prose..ted. Arcuizoy, Kan gram to Tun B e about three hundred milos yesterday afterncon to take possession of sone mortgagod e known the object of his visit to Aldrich notto touch the animals, at the sume time he commanded his son and Divided on Dr, Brooks. Cinicaso, May 27.~ Rev. Dr Phillips Brooks Massachusotts iscopal bishopry by the Chicugo diocese Phe old standing committeo her an conyen warned him Dr. Brooks. To endorse requircs a majority v stone at Hogeman and Aldvich drew & also drew a an Assémbly. an Assembly in a deadly duel until nnedy of the ey colioga of College Springs was oderator. - Adjourned until met bere today, Rev, T, J. K the abdomen the last one fired by Ald- cut thrcugh the man's bow- groat agony at 2 o'clock Aldrich was also brought to round with three bullets in his shoulder but his death v expected. When the fight began nwere thirty foet apart, but they ade ard cach other as the battle pro- nd when they fell they wore almost n's length of each other. els and he dicd in The state ary board have sent a telegram to ¢ Iusk protesting against his order The order is obnoxious to cattle discrimination In favor of railroads, i rescinded, will ontail & loss of $10 1) 815 per head on HEK FORE For Omalis and Vieinity WASIINGTON, Fair; warmer, Forecast tll 8 p. iatr tilt Fri- isas, Nerth and South Dakota and Colorado - wariier, except stationary te extreme west of North Dakots, For Missourl ; south winds, tumber yards of tho Menowminee river door and sash company destroyod willion feet of lumber, The loss is $300,000; aperature in south winds-