Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 29, 1891, Page 4

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My 1) e nesday, May % Thursday, May 21 Friday, M Baturdiy, o4 rotary of Tho Ros solemnly swear 1P DALY BER W, was as .17 Averago...... EasRraksy e ROUC ORGE W FZSCHTO 10 befors me and subscriled in o this2ird day of Muy. A, D 1Nl N. 1. Frin, Notary Public. fwors presen: Etnte of Nebraska, | County of Douglus, | George B. Izechuck, Leng duly sworn, de- ot and siys that be'ls secrotary of TiE BER Fibtiahing con iy, wnnt the actunl avorage duily lntion~ of DALY BER for “the nionth 20,1 coples: for Juno for July. 1800, 20.¢ £0,750 copfes; for € for October. 1800, or, 800, 2,100 coples; 471 coples: for Juni for February, 1601, 24,00 cire e 570 copios; for Novem- coniber, 180 os. for April, 181, GECEar It re meand syt bed fnmy 2d duy of May, A. D, 18 s S A Notiry Pubfle. READERS of THE BeER need not be told that they sce all the news cvery day. IF CAPTAIN R Ttata Town would take special the fact that he is a Hawkeye mander of the Charleston Eworn 101 ¢ Eresence. this MY had captured the pride in and com- WHEN it comes to practical politics the south can give the north pointers. Bhe takes no stock in threo parties. One is good enough for her so long as it is the democ THE Bucl |\~- e« candidates for nominations to state offices will be some- what short if the Columbus conelave of farmeors il conelude into the business on their own account. op of to o THE Vesuvius sustnins her tests with becoming dignity. Unless the navy department is equivi ting the little dynamite cruiser will be a safe boat for hostile vessels to keep out of sight of. THE exciting chase of the Itata is practically ended and the newspapers have no sensational eaptuve to report. The Chilian ship was too brisk for her speedy pursucr. Where she went and how long she will keep out in the deep sea is still o m numerous PHILADELPHIA i 'y conservative o'ty, yet she has had a defaulting treasurer and an insolvent bank within two weeks. Such a mishup in a western city would have ed the City of Brotherly Love amazingly, but she is taking her own medicine ut home with searcely a wry face. shoc SMALL favors thankfully received is about the import of Manager Babeock’s letter to shippers on the gulf division of tho Union Pacific from the two princi- pal points of which a rate of 365 per car is made to Omaha against a rate of $60.80 to Kansas City, Last year the difference 1n favor of Kansas City was $10 per car, but Omaha the best market re- ceived part of the business of that line, HE offic of the Real FEstate Owners’ association ave recoiving great encouragement in the work of orguniza- tion. They however, very anxious to do something, and therefore property owners are urged to send in their sub- scriptions at oace in order that the asso- ation may begin in earnest June 1, or as soon thereafter us possible, This organization can be made an inval- uable advantage to Omaha if her people will lend their cordial co-operation. boing are, business It HAS been officially ascertained by the Nebraska buroau of labor and indus- trial statisties that only two farms in seven in Nobraska are encumbered with mortga and but one mortgago in eight is given for borrowed mone T'he others are to secure part of the purchuse money. In the face of this state of facts tha calamity cyclone is likely to spend itself in tho upper air, and the calamity iilers wilt not oven have wind to sus- tain their attacks upon the credit of the state. The fuct is that a single good crop will lift o large propostion of the purchaso money mortgages and the others will all be paid in due time without foreclosure, near! Tue death of Sir John MacDonald, premier of Canadu, who is reported to be sortously ill, would have a tremon- dous influence upon the future course of politieat affairs in the Dominion. Sir John is a man of exceptional qualities as a politicul leader,and therw is probably no man in the Dominion who could take his place at this time and saccossfully earry out the policy he ropresents. Thore can be doubt that the ten- denoy of Canadian sentimont is very strongly in favor of tho viows and polioy which the liboral party stands for, and this would b strengthenod by the death of Sir John Muacbonald, who has been able to hold it in eheck, Ho is an aggressive, adroit, resourceful politi- eal manager, thoroughly loyal to the imperial government and ul the same time to whut he believes to bo the boest interests of the Dominion. His death would remove the gre: barrier to the progress of liboral ideas wn the Do- minion, no tost A SPECIMEN COUNTY. Nobraska is acknowladged by all who are (amiliar with her resources to be tho best agricultural state in the union, Fier situation is exactly right to profit by the teafie and products of the gront business belt of this nation. A single erop at fair prices lifts her people from financial depression to prosperity. The last year has been specially trying to her farmers, but in spite of failures of erops and unremunerative prices her people have boen exceptionally prosperous in and only temporarily embarrassed in the less populous se tions. : An investigation made into the il status of the people of Fremont Dodge county reveals n most grabifying condition of affaivs, Dodge is a speci- men county and the showing made is well worthy of consideration, especially by peoble in the newer counties whoso successive adversities have perhaps lod to somo discouragement. The twelve banks of this county on deposit in their banks to the credit of hor eitizens the handsome sam of $1,1466, - 74, The people of Fremont and incor- porated towns number 10,300 souls and thelr deposits $836,464, an average of $80 per capi Thae f population is 8,900 and tillers of the soil now o in the banks @ ating an average of $71 por eapita. average to each individual throughout the county 76.40. Tho total volume of the civeulating medium of the country but #24 per capita. In other words Dodge county citizens can dreaw their for more than three times thoe per pita of monoy in the the older counties finan- nd nave amount to checks average union. Dodgo is not the wealthiest county in the She has but one city of any conscquonce, and that is Fremont. She has no lirge wage-earning cluss and no extensive manufucturing establishmonts to swell her volume of trade and incr her bank figures. She is to all intorests and purposes an agricultural community. Hor prosperity is a fair measure of that of other counties of like situation and conditions. Dodge is merely a good specimen county andan example of what stoady attention to business has dono and will do again for any county with railway facilitics and excollent state, er good soil. FACTS AGAINS I THEORIES. It is interesting to observe how gen- erally, in economic aifairs, facts con- founc. thecr! This has been con- spicuously the case in recent experience. Perhaps at no other period in the his- tory of the country was there such a volume of evil prophecy, backed by such an arvay of plausible theories, as was made in connection with the passage of the tariff law. The people were told that this legislation would inaugu ate an era of monopolistic ex- action altogethor unprecedented, that the commerce of the countr would suffor, and that numerous ills would flow from it, all conspiring to re- tard progress and curtail prosperity. In all candor it must now bo confessed that not one of these prophecies hasbeen vi , and if the prosperity of the coun- try s not quite up to the standard to be desived the fact is due to conditions wholly independent of the tariff. Can there be any doubt that if the crops of last year had been up to an average in amount the country would now he real- izing an almost unprecedented pros- perity? The statistics of the foreign teade of the country for six months under the new tavifl are interesting. They show that the tariff does notsuppress imports, as it was claimed it would, the fact being that they have increased. It was in- sisted that the higher duty on wool would be prohibitory and would result in great injury to the domestic munufac- . but the effect has haon the very op- to of this. During the six months the Amorican demand for foreign wool increased move than 45 per cent, and the manufacture was 80 stimulated that besides ex- hausting more closely than usual the domostic supply it was ablo to take a little more Iargely than before of every form of foreign wool, while of the grade used in fino clothing the importations more than trebled. Of certain ar the supply from abroad was matorially reduced, the manufacture of such articles heve belng proportionately in sed, obviously to the benefit of home labor. That prices of articles affectod by the tarifl have not been generally or appreciably advanced overy buyer knows. Reference is n to theso facts not by way of vin- the tariff, but simply to illustrate the importance of economical theories. There is no reason to suppose that the expericnce of the next six months will be essentially different from that of the first six under the present tariff law, and if it shall not be it will very effectively dispose of mue!. of the hostility to the law. Facts furnish, in matters of this the only con- clusive and invulnerable argument, and fair-minded men must concede that thus far they are not adverso to the prosent taritl, new icles de nature, —— OMAHA DUCATIONAL CENTER, Augustus Kouatze, the millionaire banker of New York, ono of the Kountze brothers who have achicved distinction as bankers in Now York, Omaha and Denver, is not ouly a financier of great skill but a philanthropist as well. His henefactions are and among them are the elegunt Kountze Memorial chureh in this city to which he and his brothers were the principal contyibutors, The eminent banker has again made the city of Omaha and the great Luthec- an denomination gratoful for his well- directod liberality by donating 10 ucres of land worth $100,000 and $50,000 in cash toward the estoblishment in Omaha of a theological seminary. The condition of the gift requires the Lutherans of the country to raise $150,000 in cash to add to the working endowment of the insti- tution. The general synod in its session at Lebanon, Pa., having accepted the mu- niticent donation upon the terms numed will unquestionably the $150,000 within u year and theological institute may be accepted as cortain. Omaha is fast becoming an edueational as well as a commercial conter. Belle- vue college, Creighton college, Brownell gonerous aumerous raise the mow THE OMAHA DAILY BE hall, the Omaha Medical college and half a dozen less important edueational institutions are already in successful op- eration. Seymour park is the site of a proposed theological seminary which will be under the nuspices of the P byterian church. Bishop Newman is authority for the statement that atno distant day the Methodists will estab- lish the medical department of their Waesleyan university now loeated at Lin- coln in Omaha, Hon. J. M. Woolworth has long planuned the establishment here of a boys’ preparatory school to be di- rected by the Episcopal church. A most gratifying foature of «ll these commendable enterprises is that the funds for their endowment have largely come from the gonorous Ith of citi- 7019 of Omahn or persons with large in- torests who have formerly resided in this city. The late Edward Creighton was the founder of Creighton college and he gave to the institution a princely endowment. Hon. H. T, Clarke is the father and patron of Bellevue college. Herman Kountze donated Brownell Hall its magnificent site on South Tenth street and added generous gifts of cush toward the construction of its beauatiful building. To Dr. Miller, the Presbytevians are indobted for a twenty acre tract Seymour park for their theological seminavy, The Omaha medical colloge is strictly an Omuha institution built up from Omaha capital, and condueted by Omaha professors. Augustus Kountze resided in Omaha in carly days, and erected the lovely home in which his brothe Herman has re- sided so many years, and he has large interests here, These ave the begin- nings, which will be followed by other gifts for religious, educational and chs itable objects as the city increases, and individual citizens reach independence of fortune corge L. at D, HARMONY. Antagonisms do not create, they do- stroy what is already in existence. Two partners in ousiness who backbite and hamper each other. cannot hops for su . A corporation whese man: are continuaily venting pevsonal spites upon cuch othoer, will most likoly cense paying dividends. What is true of private business affairs in this partic- ular, is likewise true of the conduct of public business. Personal and po tisan intrigues, privato and polit interests malke it difficult for public bodies to perform their functions skil- fully. Noevertheless unless men will devote their attention to the business entrasted them with some degree of singleness of purpose, the best result cannot be obtained. The continual conflict, the everlasting bickering and the unsecmly abuse of one branch of the city govornmont by an- other, are doing Omaha groat harm. When the mayor is antagonizing- the city council, the council the board of public works, and tho board of pubiic works the committee of the council on strect improvement, it is porfectly clenr that the friction is wasting the forco of the machinery somewhere. We have too many co-ordinavy breaches in our city government, especially when the co-ordinate rank they have obtained is used as o convenient method of shifting responsibility from one to the othe There is no good sense in theso potty mulicious strifes. Men in do not permit, and dislikes, enmities and indifference to interfere with the business of their employers. Public officials have no right to use publ 5 tions to vent personal malice. Officinl intercourse should always be cordial and polite whatever may he the relations of the office-holders personally. The strictures of one department upon an- other may be justifiable in fact and necessary, but the antagonisms which burn into the vital force ought to be avoided. President Lowry,Chairman Birkhauser and individual members of the council should shake hands and be f{riends offi- cially. The city is iosing time, money and influence as well as icnee on count of the ill-will which separates city officials from ench other and p .ts the proper and prompt perform- wce of public duties. WANT business likes ac- TuE disewssion of immigration at the ent conference Qf charitios and cor- vection brought out soms statoments rather discouraging to those who arc demanding extreme measures for re- steicting immigration. A mombor of the conference from Philadelphia snid that the immigrants arrviving in that city are of a botter class than those who came o fow years ago. A Wisconsin member said that in his state where a majority of adults are of foreign birth, the Germuns, Seandinavians and Irish furnish no more ¢ pauperism and insnity than do the natives. A delegate from Michigan praised the good order of townships peopled by foreigu colonists, Anybody who has a knowledge of the matter from practical observation can bear like testim The very best examples of industry and thrift are found among people of foreign birth, and it is absurd and unjust to make n sweep- ing charge against foreigners coming to the country beeause here and there somo of them are lawless, or indolent, or thriftless, There are natives who are all these, and manifestly it would bs ridiculous for foreigners to condemn all Americans because we have these ele- ments of home production among us, It is not to be doubted that some undesir- able people get into the country, but the number of such is vovy greatly oxagger- ated, and we can bettor afford to have a few of these thrown upon us than ot to get the tnousands of industrious, theifty, honest people whom the coun- try needs, and in order to keep the former out it would be necessary to ab- solutely close our ports to immigration, e A CHANCELLOR of the state university is shorty to bo elected by the board of regents. That body has boen investi- gating the qualifications of a large num- ber of upplicants for uconsiderable time. Tho gentlemen hitherto sclected have not generally given satisfaction. The new chancellor has In every instance awakened antagonisms in the faculty and plunged the into conflicts more or less acrimonious. Whether this been his fault or is the vesult of jealousies among co-workers is not material. The fact is that no univorsity or has successful in sus- taining himsélf against the clamor for his romoval. 1t therefore behooves tho rogonts to Wt/ with caution. They should not be ‘satisfled with mediocro ability nor ineXperien The head of this institution must bo a man of ex- ceptional tact, of broad eulture, of wide experionce, and of the best executive ability. . “DR. BLANK has been called to Chi- cngo to assist ita most difficult surgical operation. Thi¥ is a very bigh compli- ment to the doctor’s skil' as a surgeon. He will be absent about several days. During his absence Dr. Dash will charge of his lar, i newspaper writer is familiar with the above itom, and knows that Dr. Blank wrote it himsolf but did not pay for the space itoceupied. The code forbids him paying for his advertising noti chaneellor has been GENERAL CoLny will have a made for each of the Nebraska militin- men, who rushed to the frigid and hungry northoen part of the state last winter during the Sioux unpleasantness, This is right. A bloodiess Indian cam- paign in which the militia did not catch sight of a hostile Indiun is worthy of commemoration, T Union Elevator company of Coun- cil Bluffs is assessed by that city at $50,- 000, The Thompson-Houston Klectric Light company is assessed in Omaha at $13,000. This is another example of Omahws idiotic system of sssessments and inequitable division of the burdens of government, WHILE all this hubbub is on and the allopathie physicians ave frothing at the mouth over the death and burial of a pa- tient of & hated modical institution the mild mann homeopathic heretics are attending strictly to their own busi- ness and ave permitting the newspapers to do likewise, medal that Melody, the poor victim of d or whateve it that eau death. was not veally a pauper, but h left dollars enough to embalm his bod) and secure a decent burial, he became very much interested in the case and the cadave! THERE ave cver six hundred pupils in the Omaha high school classes. This is aclinching rofutation of all arguments against the high school as a part of the public school system, so far as Omaha is concerned, ns well ns n gratifying proof of the jatelligence of her citizens. was LINCOLN, romembering his steadfast friendship and his early efforts on be- half of the eity, proposes to erecet a statue in the government park to the memory of the late David Butler. The capital city owes this much at least to the dead ex-governor A COUNCIL BLUPFS firm having made an assignment gives as a reason for its failure the persistont demands of its creditors for their money. Thero 1s un- doubtedly more 'fruth’ than originaiity in this frank acknowledgmeni. action of the Union Pacifle rail- way compuny in olocking Locust street with an engine to annoy the East Omaha motor compuny, angaged in constructing its new line, is not mevely puerile; it is contemptible. THE A Republican M stake. ank Lesti Newspaper. The displacement, through a legal technic ality, of the democratic governor of Ne- brasks, Mr. Boyd, from the high office to which e was fairly clected, is a mistake of the gravest character. It must rosult in last- ing injury to the republican party in the state, and in the nation, unless the mistake1s promptly and complotely rectifiod. The sult of Governor Boyd’s displacemant is to place the gubernatorial office in the hauds of a republican, though a democrat was elected by a fair aud honest clection, and a clear and decided majority. Whether or uot the republican party in Nebraska will bo hold responsible for carry- ing the mater of Governor Boyd’s citizen- ship into the courts is not the question. People will simply regard his removal after ho had boen elected, as the rosult of a polit ical conspivacy, and public opinion is intol- eraut of any trifiing with the resulis of hon- ost olections after such rosults have been acknowledged, declared and accented. The republican press has heen outspoken in opposition to several unjust, unfair, and pre posterous gerrymanders of a number of states in the east and west, tosecure and perpetuate democratic legislutures and to secure the control of a majority of congressional districts for the dewo cratic party. Public opiaion has nov justified these gerrymanders, aud will not sustaiu them when the test is mado by an appeal to the voters of the respective states next fall, The American loves nothing botter than fawr play and honesty in and out of polities, and tho honest thing for all parties is 10 ac- copt the result of every election at which the res are fairly received and honestly counted end and finality of the matier. a the possession of the guberna. torial ofice by a republican for a year or two will be of 10 advantage, temporary or perima- nent, to the party, if it involves & taint upon its honor. We are sorry that Governor Boyd was dis- placed. ro- e PASSING JESTS, Washington Star: Bthelind Mr. Lipley's talk [t uixht! Alfrida—~No. Whit does be talk on? Ethelind—He talks ou uniuterruptedly, Did you hear T FRoPER sPiERES, Detrgit’ Free Press, The rain and tho hen have thoir spheres, As overything eavthly must; And whoreas tho hen cau lay an egg, It takes rain to lay the dust. proper jishe— Washington Pusts “Have you had the grip?” asked que:Washington citizen of another, “Grip! was thoreply. “I should say so. It seems to mo that I have had two or three cable cars and & power house ' Lowiston Journal: 1f everybody improved the minutes with the zeal that a hen puts iuto her work while making a surroptitious five minute call in a flower garden, what a world this would be. LOOK OUT THERE CHICAGO! yron While stands the Coliseum Rome shall stand, When falls the Coliseum Romo shall fall, And when Rome falls—the world. Life: Unsophisticated Parsnt — Hello there, Nurse, what's the baby yelling that way for! I can't read at all urse—He's cutting his teeth, sir. Unsophisticated Parent—Woll seo that he doesn't do it auy more, or you lose your place. MAY 29, 1801 IN THE HANDS OF THE JURY. Olcsa of the Arzuments in the Great Sheedy Murder Triai. REVIEW OF THE CASE BY THE | JUDGE. | Detivers Exhaustive Instructions ~8cene in the Court Room—A Tilt Between the Attorney: Lixcory, Neb., May 98.—|Spocis! to e | Brr.|—Long before the time for opening the doors this morning the corridors and nalls of | the court house wore packed and jawmed | with a restless mass of humanity eagor to got | a chance to listen to the great logal battle which will determine the fate of Mrs. Shoedy and Monday McFarlaud, the alloged murder ers ol Jolin Sheedy. All day the court room was crowaed almost to suffocation and tho eager spactators had the pleasure of hearing some splendid oratorical fforts and listening to some oxciting passages at arms between the two opposing giants in the case—Lam- bertson and Strode. During the two hours at noon hundreds of people did not g0 home to dinner but re- maiced in the court room so as to hold their seats. Fully three-fourths of the great crowd was composed of ladies. Mrs. Steedy was sick the greater portion of the night, so her attorneys say, but sho wore her usual composuro today and only onen showed evidence of weeping. Mr. Jenson, one of the jurymen, has not recovered from his prostration and this after- noon a sofa was brought in for him to lie on. When Mr. Strode took his place beforo the | jury this morning he related a story of tho | supposed murder of a man named Jesse Cal- vin in Vermont and Liow two brothers-in-law of the murdered mau were arrested on the charge of having killed their relative. Sceine that conviction was certain they made con- fessions of the me S0 as to get & senten. of lifo imprisonment and save themselves from the gallows. Before the day of execu tion an advertisement was in ted in paper asking for the whereabouts of Jess Calvin, and the result was that tho m pased to be murdered was foun, Jersey. The pownts in which the c of thes» brothers and the confessiou of Mon- day McFartand were similar wero brought ouv skillfully by Strode a most forcible impression was on tho jury, Mr. Strode then dirceted his attontion to Mr. Hall, saying that he a member of | L el At this M. Hall arose and said that it was unfair to work thus upon the prejudices of the jurors, who wight all be memvers of the tarmois’ alli- ance, “IUs true, just tho same,” said Strodo “Your honor,” said Hall, “I denounce such a course as a cowardly, unprofessional and unmanty appeal to tho prejudices of the ury. it oo o wonaatior ane bators Sirade could reply the court mformed Mr. Strode that such appeals could not be tolerated. Mr. Strody then proceeded to tell how he Inew Mrs. Sheody when she was u flaxen- haired girl, the favorite of her companions, and referred to her bed-ridden mother, who, in another state, was awaiting tho verdict thatlivould free her daughter. The pathetic manner in which these things were_ rolated brought all the Indies to tears. Mrs. Sheody sister became convulsed with sobs and the fair defendant herself soon after was melted to tears. In regard to the poison theory, he declared that the liver, bladder ani kidneys showed no evidence of poison. He asserted that Mrs. Sheedy nad told him that she had never bought any poison at any arng stone in the | city, “You'd better put her on the stand and let her testify,” ejaculated Lambertson, “instead of testifying for her.” Mr. Strode then took the tocks of hair aced in evidence as having been taken rom the head aad body of Mrs. Sheedy. F declared that he believed that all the hair tad camo from the head. ~He then said sud- denly: “Why. I dow't believe that that hair is Mus, Sheedy’s. It is darker than hors.” He then threw open one of the shutters so that a ray of light fell upon Mrs. Sheedy’s head and then waiked over to where she sat and pliaced one of the locks of hair against her bangs, “Now, gentlemen of the jury,” continued Strode, “1 wish to have you como here and otice whothor this lock of hair is from the head of Mrs. Sheedy.” “No vou don’t!" thundered Lambertson, now thoroughly aroused, “you can't sneak such testimony in on us “Yes, you cut the hair from the somebody eise,” said Strode. “Idenounce you as an infamous liar!” thundered Lambertson. This created intense excitemont in the court room and Strode appealed to the court if such language was to be pormitted in the court room. The judge then said: “Such conduct is unbecoming in a gentleman and I am sur- prised, Mr. Lambertson, that you should bo guilty of it.”! A burst of applause and cheers followed from the great crowd. His honor frowned nd declared that should such a demonstr: tion follow again he would bave the court room cleared cntively of spectator: Mr. Strode then impressed the jurors with the fact that although some of them had read the newspaper accounts of the erime the nad formed no opinion_from the s tostimony brought out incourt, he insisted, did not add & sciatilia more of evidence than had been published in the pape He ther concluded his argument carnest plea for Mrs, She for and liberty, Mr. Lambertson then stepped forward to address the jury, and . hush foll upon the great crowd, us it had been noised abroad that his was to be the great spoech of the trinl. He said: “Murder is the most awful deed that man \ commit. So foul and unnatural is it that it smells to beaven. This is true when doue in heat, but the horror is more profound when the victim is struck down, dastardly aud relentlessly, in cold biood. On ‘the seconit Sunday in January last, as tho_twilizht was deepening into night, John Sheedy, in tho peace of God, on his own threshold, in tho heart of this populous eity, within call of o scoroof mon, was struek a death-dealing blow by an assassin that_lurked within tho shadows of his own porch. “Suspicion wis abroad with an hundred os: lynx-eyed officers were ulort; cle were followed ; but every eircumstance, cver. trace, pointed as unerringly #s the finger of fato to this dark skinued man aod this white faced woman ; to this negro whom he had be friended: to this womau whom ho had taken to his bosom, us the authors of the deep dam- natwon of his taking “It is a signific neal of with an her life fact that the defend- ants stand together in their dofonse. Al though the white woman ignores the black Wat--ueVer speals to him in the court room, their defense is oue. Tho negro is not here to say the woman did it, and the woman is not hore to say the man’ did it, but both aro hove to defy for themselves, wnd each other, any complicity with the ctine. They are both iunocent. 1f, then. the theory of *he defense is to provail, you must excluge both these defendants from participation in the crime. You must find the murderers to bo other thun Mary Sheedy and Moaday M- Farland.” At this point court adjourned for noou, At 2 0'clock Mr. Lambertson resumed his argv. ment. amstantial evidenco was exhaustively e discussed, and in an invincible argument | Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Rl ABSOLUTELY PURE showod that n tho vast majority of cases whero applied, ciroumstantial evidence is the stronguest, bocause unbiased and silently un prejudiced. What is circumstantial” ovi- dence! If yo awaken in the morning hear wator eippling down the street, an damipnoss upon tho loaves, you know it rained, though vou may uot” have heard th patter of tho drops mnor scen the rain. Again, upon sing out ‘n the winter you see ice formod and the grouna frozen You did not el the nilly atmosphere during vour sleeping hours, but you know it has been cold, thotigh you have | not seen tho cold, In passing down the street at noon 1 saw a lurge pilo of brick, lumoer, mortar and ivon: | did uot seo the build but I know one will re its handsome in that locality soon: I did not seo the bul ing, but I know it will bo erccted. If y see'n man cautiously stealing from n_lady room at night under suspicions conditions yon do not know absolutely that anything erintinal has trauspired, but the vory natural | inferonco iy that w ceiminal intimacy has ox isted. Mr. Lambertson talkea until 5 Then followed the instruction of tho jidge to the jury, which required over an hour to read. The judgo tirst said there woro four counts of the original six to consider, tho first two having been withdrawn, The third count, and the first for tho jury to consider, ceharged Monday MePFarland with inflicting o mortal wound with a cane, and that Mrs, Sheedy procured, aided and abetted McFar- land iu the act Tho noxt count eharges Mrs, Shoody with administering poison to her with murderons intent, and was aided and abettea by Monday MeFarlaad. The next count charges MeFarland and Mrs, Sheedy with jointly assaulting Sheody with o cane and with administerig poison. and that death resulted fron: both causes, The last couut charges Mrs, Sheedy | and Monday Metarland with the murdor of | John Sheedy by assaultiug him with o cave, The judie then proceeded to fustruct the jury asto what constituted muvder in the first and nd degrees and manslaughter, Tho substance of the instractious is as fol lows “To constitute murder in the evidence must establish beyond a 1t blo doubt that the killmg was dono pur- osely and of doliberate aud premedititod ce. Lf aperson has ually formed a wse maliciously to kill and has delib. crated ard premeditated upon it before he perfovms the act and then performs it, he is guilty of murder in the first degroe, howovoer short the time may have been botween the purpose and its exceution, istitute muyder in the second de- | uires that you shall find from the evidenee bevond a reasonable t, tout the killing was done and maliciously, bat without and oremeditation. “You are ted that it is incumbent upon the state tablish oy the evidenco every material all n - contaived inany onoe of the counts us set forth in the inform: tion beyond reasonable doubt, and if th prosecution has fai . then the jury must acquit the defendants upon sueh count, eitt wle or both of ‘m'u as the rule of law applies to either or bot o'clock. | the first doy 10 ¢ that if i or aby by word ox sign Mrs. Sheeay ed the crime that she was g H cossory. That it was not uecessary to prove what kiod of poison wus used. ‘That the defendants were supposed to be mnocent until proven otherwise. “Tho remamdor of tie somewhat volunin- ous instructions wers in the main a reiera- tion of tho last proposition. The case was then given to the jury. - INCEMDIARY CATTLE THIEF. He Has Revenge on a Former It bas now been who burned the ranch of Bill Watkins, the stoclonan and beef contractor whose troubles in counection with cattle stealing from Wyoming are well known, was Felix James, who was the foro- man of the Watkins cattlo outfit, and who is badly wanted in Wyoming for doep complic- ity in tho cattle stealings for which MeKin- ney and Kingen have boen convicted in the Cheyenne, Wy courts. About a 1month since, James, who has been in hiding from theofficers, ma e his appearanca at the Wat- kins home ranch, t distanco from Alli- ance, aud demanded money of Bill Watkius. The demand of Jumes was refused, and a bittor quarrel ensucd between the two men, at the cessation of which James left. “Chat night James visited Alliance seeretly and set on five tho Watkins shaughter house. He theu, on tho next night. burnod down the houses on the Watkins home ranch, and a few nirhits afterwards, he fired the buildings ou the Watki. Indian creek ranch. James was determined that tho flamos should do their appointed work, and usc.. coal oil in all throe of tho fires, oven pouring the infiammablo fiuid over the horses in tho stables sad veing dostroyed, including L the man bfta note tacked on one of the fence s at the Indisn creck raueh stating that ‘would come again.” Watkins offers ,000 rewara for Jume The firebug and rango criminal went south from Inaian creel accompanied by an unknown companion. . AdH OF A F1MOUS HORSE, O1d Mortimer Shot o Re His Miscry W York, May 28.—0id Mortimer is dead He was lead out like a soldicr and shot. For over a year ho has been an invalid and it was to put an end to his misery thav Mr. Wither: permitted him to be destroyed. Mortimer was twenty-six years old and died fuil of houors. On the race course and in the stud he was one of the greatest horses of this cen- tury. Pierro Lorillard imported iim about twelve years ago, biying him of Count L Girange for 32,000, e ran forty-cizht vaces iu his carcer on the Krench, German and English turf, winning twenty-six of them. Ho would win at six furiongs’ toduy and at two and one-half miles tomorrow nd was up to any weight, L0 pounds beine only steadier for him. ' His carcer is # romantic one. It came near being the cause of inte national dispute. At the breaking up of tho Rucoc d Mortimer became the property of Mr. Withers at Brookdale. to was the sire of many well known ri horses, the most conspicuous in recent years hoing Exile. When at the height of his was pronouuced by Admiral Rous sov pounds the best horse i traming In the world. Tt was that declaration that induced Mr, Lorillard to buy him. e NTED T LYNCH HIN, DE: ieve Him of Exciting Experience of a 1s:tte Street Railway Official. Mont., May 28.—Georgo . Wool- manager of the Hutte eloctric railway and cable company, rowly escaped the of a mob last evening whick fol him and his escort to jail, soveral hun- throwing brickbats and siout all the way from his ollico Muin stroot was filled | seamed that thelr prescnco preconcerted arrang tho crowd block tho stories are told as to monstration. Woolsen Boyle of the cable line on nd untt for duty, He was ordered off the car and requested to go to the office and got his time, which ho aid Tho office is on the second Hoor, which is reachad by & fight of stairs, Boyle was picked up at the botton: of these stairs later, it is feared | fatally nurt about toe head. Woolsen said Boyle foll down the stairway. HBystandors said Woolson threw hin down. Friends of labor quickly espoused Boyle's cause. As soon @s tha crowd dispersed Woolsou was admitted to bail ni SLrong, yuch him, to the county prisg with men, and 1t there was by some ment, so suddenly did streots. Conflicting what_ incited found Condu his car arunk _atest U. S. Gov't Report, Baking Powder [ Each Season Has its own poenlfar malady; but with the blood maintained i ate of uniform vigor and purity, by the use of Ayer's Sarsaj the systen readily adapts itself to ehangod conditions. Composedof the Lest and_tonies, and being highly concentrated, Ayer's Sarsaparilla is the most effeetive and economical of all blood medicines For some years, at the return of spring, 1 had serious trouble with my kidueys. 1 was unable to sloep nights, and suffered greatly with pains in the small of my back. 1 was also aflicted with headache, loss of appetite, and indigestion. These symptoms were much worse last spring, especially the trouble with my back. A friend persuaded me to use Ayer's Sursaparilla. 1 began taking ft, and my troubles all disappeared.” ~ Mrs. Genevea Belangs 4 Nridge st Springfield, Mass. Ayer's Sarsaparilla FREFARKD BY DR.J. C. AYER & CO, Lowell, Masa. Sold by Drugglata. $1,8ix §5. Worth $64 bottle. “FAMILIAR IN MILLIONS OF MOUTHS AS ANY HOUSEHOLD WORD." T Times, London, P pollinaris ““THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS."” “Iis popularity is chicfly breproachalle character.” Tue T SOLE EXPORTERS: THE APOLLINARIS COMPANY LD, LONDON, ENG due to tls ‘s, LoNbon, e AMUSEMIENTS, BASK BALIL.. OMAHA VS, — LINCOLN TO-DAY. Play at 4 o'clock p. m, BOYD'S. TN Thursiday, 3 Nights and 8at,_Mat Friday and S turday, 28, 20 and 30, Vanee's Great Realis m-”mv Druma The Limi ted Mail great st Prices as usual, TH Eq GRP;N D, S ‘n Grand Featherweizht Six-Round x.mv.-mn:\ tost Betweun GRORGH DIXON, Cuamplon of the World. and DANNY DALY, Cliimpion of the West A Dig Toeul prozramme has been Regulir e COLISEUM, OMAHA Wednesday, June £rd, (AFTERNOON AND EVENING.) Under the Auspicss of the Apollo Club May Tuier F. Kail Rond e oy secrio, ONE NIGHT arranged. ’l‘l Ilu( )I)()R! N THOMAS AND IS FAMOUS ORGCHRBRSTRA Asslstod by the distingulsod artists RAEFAEL JOSEFF SIG. CAMPANINI, MISS KATHERINE FLEMING, oung Coutralto. dmigsi 100, il Mo 2 d > Hro. Uo's Music Store GRAND Opera House. LEOTURE. oz |IViRNG, May 31 nignr | COL. ROBERT G. |NGERSOL ONLY. LAST ; CHANCE | SUBIE ’ “SHAKESPEARE"™ Hox shoet opens Saturday morniog Pileo 41, 10 and He. IN OMAHA. BOYD'S. D& 0\ SILID WEEK. Commencing Sunday, May 315t Wednasdny and Saturdny Matinoos. The Monarehs Supro mo of tho Comady Itoat, RENTFROW’S Pathlinders, And Superd Band and Operatic Orchestra In the followlng ropertotre of thelr owi Musical ¥nrce Comody Tny and Monday Nights, Tuesday Nigh Wedneaday Night Thursdyy Night Friday Night Saturdiy Night 13 - Yoars a Brill ant 8 ccess, - 13 AlL previous offorts o Firat thme i the history of Boyid's Opora Howse Prices 10, 20, 30 & 50 Cenls SATURDAY NIGIVE an olegant #0.0) Kixtoe contury xoild vak bedroom sulte. purehmod ol Dbl nt Jemrerson Squnro Furnitare stor. 112 North o, will Saturday Mitlieo, 8 1 will b presented i while wvury child gets s prosent DIME EDEN MUSEE. and Farin Stroots WEEK OF MAY 271 ) Price, The and ning Myntiry. A Koo Triplota. Jon Mactombor Twlia, tohos nnd delinoations 4 Drsb-clasa speciully culorislnmeny te glrl attory iy . 1a0cos,