Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 10, 1894, Page 5

{ GET NO CHANCE 10 STRADDLE Democrats in the Lower Houss Must Face the Issue Fair and Square, KICKERS FIND THEIR FEET FIRMLY TIED Rule Adopted for the Conslderation of the Witson BiI1 Will Shut O Al Chance for Amendment When Vote ing Timo Comos. Wasmsorox Bun 513 Foun WAsHIN i Never was a tariff bill given over so lutely to a small the Wilson b Under the order adopted in the house yesterday no amendment can be made to the tariff bill without the consent of man Wilson and his associates on the wnd means eommittee and the three tie membors of the rules committee After the bill has been read through under general debate on next Monday it will be taken up by paragraphs under the five minute rule, when it will be in orde an amenament to any part of the bil time. When considerations under the five- minute rule have expired and the date when a final vote is to be taken, on the 20th inst., approaches, the question will be put’ upon the passage of the bill and amendments asa whole. The effect of this will be to shut out all amendments not accepted by the managers of the bill, which will make it 1m- possible for any one to get n an amendment which is regarded as undesirable by the democratic leaders, It will compel the kickers to either forego their demands for amendments and accept the bill as it stands, after possiblo slight modifications admitted by the n ors, or vote against the meas- ure as a whole. The situation piesents many compromi fng features for *huse who would protect some of their home interests and compels them to either swallow the whole dose or be driven from the councils of the majority as and renegades. After the situation { itself into one where democrats will have to vote directly for or against pro- tection to home industries they will be given no opportunity to straddle. Petitions Agninst the Biil. Even the populists in congress have begun protests from farmers, mechanics and la g men against the tariff bill, Repr: » Kem has presented to the house the petition of Sheridan county citi- zens, asking that no change be made in the present tariff on barley. 1f this provision in the Wilson bill becomes law, and it likely will without chanee, it will destroy the bar! ndustry in this country. Representative David J. Henderson of Dubuque has laid before the house petitions from lowans as follows m [, K. Bigsby and eighty-two othe zens of Black Hawk county, praying for the defeat of the Wilson bill; from George I, Gawinard and three others of Waterloo, for a uniform rate of duty of 35 cents on all unstemmed lea tobacco; from Wiiliam W. Davis and forty- four other ex-union soldiers of Buchanan county, praying for the enactment of & just and equitable service pension law; from I G. Eberhart, La Porte City, and Morrill & Co.of Waterloo, Smith, Lichty & Helman company of Waterloo, praying for the reduc- tion of postage to 1 cent an ounce; from the Upper Towa National conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, praying for the repeal of the Geary law; from Wesley K. Dobson of Ceaar Falls and Leonard Hutch- inson of Waverly, urging the establishment f a technical departent at the National College for the Deaf at KKendall Green. New Postmasters. Fourth-class postmasters were appointed } for Iowa today as follows: Andrew, Jackson county, David McMurray, vice J. J. Bu- chanan, removed; Clinton, Madison county, Elbert Bullock, vis M. R. Sheldon, re- signed; Lucas, Lucas county, W. H. Nickell, vice W. T. Stearns, removed; Mark, Davis courty, D. Edwards, vice R. D. Andrews, removed ; Maurice, Sioux county, P. H. Mo- ran, vice F. E. Horton, removed ; Plymouth, Cerro Gordo county, W. F. Linderman, vice Mary H. Wareham, removed ; Sexton, Kos- uth county, E. A. E. Laag, vice F. R. Hed- rick, removed ; Victor, Towa county, Alex- ‘ander McAdams, vice D. S. Kerr, removed. South Dakota postmasters appointed: Col- an, Moody county, C. H. Allen, vice W. H. B. Souther, resigned; Columbis, Brown county, N. B. Cole, vice W. H. Gilfoy, re- signed. Patents on Inventlons: A patent was today 1ssued to Amos D. George of Gibbon, Neb., on a potato planter. Patents were issued to [owa inventors as follows: William P, Bettendorf, Davenport, machine for riveting wheel tires; Alvin Dewitt, Elliot, post hole auger; Charles E. C. Edey, assignor to Edey Automatic Car Coupler company, Des Moines, car coupiing ; Alfred ()rund);, Cedar Falls, marking tag; John Harper, Firfield, tool for grasping and stretening wire; Wiljiam Morrison, Des Moines, assignor to Amvrican Battery com- pany, Chicago, electrode for secondary bat- tery; Henry Surasser, Thornburg. pulveriz- ing attachment for culti Clinton and ‘Willets, Muscatine, chest Some Miscellaneous Matters. Prom the senate committee on Indian affairs Senator Manderson has submitied a favorable report on his bill authorizing tho issue of u patent to the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions for certain lands on the Omaha Indian reservation for school pur- poses. Tho bill is slightly amended upon the int of boundary lines of the lands, The senate came within one number on the calendar today of reaching the Petti- + grew bill appropriating §200,000 to pay dam- ages to the sottlers on the Crow Creek In- dian reservation in South Dakota who wero ousted by presidential proclamation in 1885, The first time the senate resumes work upon the calendar this bill will be taken up and passed. Judge Thomas of Deadwood, S D., who sat in the Mrs. James G. Blaine, jr., divorce case, in the city. He was defeated for re-election by a vopulist last year, and is here to secure a judicial position in Okla- homa. Judge Thomas is a democrat of the old school, and Is regarded as an able Jurist. Congressman Meiklejohn has made appli- cation for the establishment of a postofice at the Hospital for the Insane near Norfolk. He has also made application to have a for- oign money order oftice introduced at Ful- lerton. Senator Wilson of Towa is here attending to his duties, and says he is notill and does not think of resigning his seat in the senate. Perry S, Hearn, Agricultuesl Committe mmendntions. WasmiNaro an. 9.—The committes on public lands of the house has reported favor- ably on the bill for leasing those tracts of land in Oklahoma territory which were re- served from public setilement tor univer- agriculture, collego and school pur- poses. The rentals of the reservations are to bo applied to the use of universities, shools, ete. The same committea also reported favor- v on the bill extending for one year the time in which proofs and payments may be made on land acquired on the homestead desert land laws, The committee also reported 1n favor of the bill providing for a general adjustment of swamp land grants, All the recommenda- tions of the secretary of the interior favor the limitation of the total sum to be paid to the states on account of these lands to $17,- 000,000, If the claiws exceed that amount they are to be paid prorata amoung the states up to §100,000. Want Prol WasmNaray, Jan. 0.—The Navy depart- ment has wformation that the United States steamer Ranger has sailed from Corinto and Amapals. It was reported a fow days ago that American citizons at Amapala wanted to have a United States vessel in the har- boronaccount of threatened trouvle between Nicaragua and Honduras. But the Rauger has received no orders from the Navy de- partmeut in complisnce with this request. One of Calltornia’s Glant Trees. Wasmyaron, Jan, 9.—The chief of the editing bureau of the Departwent of Agri- body of men as has been | culture has given out the information that ; the California tree, w! ornamented the | rotunda of the California World's fair build- ing, will tind its final resting place on the grounds of the Department of Agriculture. 1I'he location set aside for the forest monarch is & part of the ground about fifty yards enst of the main b g of the Department of Ag- riculture. Hero a strong cement foundation already been laid for tho basis of the mammoth trunk. OPPOSE THE WILSON BI Lead Miners and Potters Raise Their Voloes A t the Mensure. WasmixotoN, Jan. Y. —The eighteenth annual convention of the United States Potters associntion met av Willard's hotel today. It is the largest gathering of the representatives of this business ever held, thirty-eight firms comprising tho associa- tion, mustering nearly 100 manufacturers, most from the pottery districts of New Jersey and Ohio, The convention will be in session threo days and much of this time will be devoted o a cussion of the Wilson bill. They have degpaired of securing any concessions at the hands of the house, but are more hopeful that the senate will do something for_ther The advance guard of tho lead men, who will protest to congress azaiust the lead schedule of the Wilson bill, arrived in Wash- | ington today. The leader of ‘the movewment, Hugh N. Camp of New York, is at the Arlington, where a conference will be held tomorrow to_consider the plan of attack. Congress will be asked to retain the rates of the McKinley bill on lead ores or to substi- tute some rate less radical than the reduc- tion from 15 per cent to three-fourthsof 1 per cent a pound, and also to_put lead and silver ores on the same basis, instead of the free list, a8 propose Mr. Camp says under the Wilson bill the foreign praduct will be sold in New York at cents a pound and that every lead miner in the United States will be thrown out of employment. Notwithstanding the fact that the Wilson bill is before the house some of the lead men entertain a hope they can uppear before the ways and means committee, Most of the party is from the west. tes PROTESTS FROM CALIFORNIA, California Wine Growers Object to the Wilson Bl WASHINGTON, Jan, 0.—The following is the telegram which was sent to every member of the California dele Whof The wine industry wollas thit of Ohio, Missour Norfh Carolina, is seriously t adoption by congross of thnt Wilson tarlf DAL which limits th wines to 100 per cent on its doc and Whereas, Itis proposod to permit, the use of sugar and alcoholic’ spirits to- make sweot wines, Resoived, That our senators and representa- tives in corigress aro respoctively requestod to take such stops, in_connection Wwith senators presontatives of other states affected in manner,or take action alone,as they deom wise, to v the provisions above meationed climinated from the bill; and that a copy of resolutions will be forwarded to them, solved, That Frederick Jacobs of Now York be authorized to represent this associa- tion In Washineton. The petition is signea by the Fran- cisco Wine Dealers association, the Vinicul- tural_commission, 5,000 viniculourists and over 20,000 people interested. rk and by the duty cn d value; CAUGHT BOTH WAYS, Woes of the Victims of Green Goods Men 2 Being Multiplied. WasmiNgToy, Jan. 9.—Assistant Attorney General Tyner of the PostoMce department has ruled that parties sending funds through the mails for counterfeit money vio- lated the green goods act, and, therefore, in- curred the penalty of a fine of not more than $500 and imprisonment for not wmore than eighteen months. This ruling is made in the case of four dealers in green goods in southern Missouri, who are now serving jml sentences. Inspector Johnston, in g0 of the St. Louis division of postofice inspectors, recently mailed to the depart- ment a batch of about 1,800 letters sent from all ts of the United States to the Missouri green goods men, and raised the question whether the writers, having used the mails, had violated the green goods ulations. In accordance with tho dec: the Louis inspectors have been in- structed to secure ovidence for the prosecu- tion of some of the writers. It will be im- possible to prosecute all of them. Report of the Inspector General. WASHINGTON, Jan. 0.--The aunual report of Inspector General Breckinridge argues in favor of closer relationship between the army and the National guards. Schools in which army ofiicers ara detniled as military instructors, he thiuks, ought to have sup- port from the national government. Hosays: “There is nothing more unmilitary and ridiculously excessive in our servico than the paper work.” Ho commends the regimental recruiting system. This year the percontage of native- horn to foreign-born recruits is 14 per cent greater than last. The large number of offi- cers ou detached duty is called attention to. He devotes some space to homing pigeon seryico and recommends it, expressing the belief that an eficient volunteer pigeon serv- ice could be readily established. Chances for a Genlus. WAaSHINGTON, Jan. 9.—The United States civil service commission will hold an exam- ination on January 18 to fill a vacanoy in tho position of ornithological clerk, with a knowledgo of mammalogy, in the Depart- ment of Agriculture at a salary of $640 per annum. The subjects in tho examination will be orthography, penmanship, letter writing, geography, ornithology and mam- malogy. Persons desiring to compete in this examination should sccure application blanks from the commission and. file their applications at once. If applications are re- ceived in time arrangements may be made to hold the examination in other large cities, Will Bo Amended by Carliste. ‘WasHINGTON, Jan, O.—It was learned at the Troasury department today that the bill introduced in the house yesterday by- O'Neil of Mussachusetts to authorize the treasury to borrow money, or a similar measure, would be eminently satisfactory to the Treasury office. Before he introduced his bill Mr, O’'Neil submitted it informally to Secrotary Carlisle, who made sundry sug- gestions in reeavd to it. It is said he will have something to say to the ways und means committee in regard to the bill when a chunce appears for him to take advantage of it Nominntions Confirmed. WasaiNaToN, Jan. 9.—The senate in ex- ecutive session this afternoon confirmed the following nominations: Guy Bryan of Mia- sourl to be assayer in charge at the United States assay offico at St. Louis; Albert Wilson, to_ be marshal of the United States for the District of Columbia; Charles S. Speck, to be colleotor of internal revenue for the First district of Missouri; Webster Withers, to be collector of internal revenue for the Sixth district of Missour. State Bank Tux, WasuiNaToN, Jan. 9.—The bill presented by Represontative Cox for tho ropeal of the 10 per cent tax on the issues of stato banks was discussed by the houso committee on banking and currency today. Mr. Cox was anxious for a vote at once. Objection was made because several members of the com- mittee were absent, and the peevious ques- tion was ordered for next Iriday, and the committee will vote then upow reporting the bill. Wil Beuetit the States. WasniNgroy, Jan. 9.—~The senate commit- tee on public lands had agreed to consider a bitl introduced by Senator Pettigrow of South Dakota, providiug that the govern- ment shall pay to the several states b per cent of the proceeds received from the sale of all Indian reservations in the western states. It will take about $4,000,000 to pay for the land already sold Ordered Favorably Keported. WasHINGTON, Jan. 9.—The committee on pensions today ordered a favorable report on the senate bill to repeal the clause of the last appropriatien act, which cuts off from the vension rolls nonresidents who are not citizens of the Unitea States, except those suffering from actual disabilitics received in the service, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JAN STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Eighteenth Annual Session Opened at the University Last Evening. SOME VALUABLE ADDITIONS TO THE ANNALS Reminiscences of the Days W the State Was Young—Growth of Municipal Government—Li‘e and Labors of Governor Franels Burt, LixcoLy, Jan. 9.—[Special Telegram to Tne Bee|—The State Histori society met in its eighteenth annual session at the State university this evening, the uni sity chapel being comfortably filled with the audience which mbled to listen to the program which been prepared. The business session postponed until to- morrow evening. Crounse pr sided J. A. McMurphy read an interesting paper on “Part of Making of a Great State.”” Mr. McMurphy took for his theme life in Ne braska in the few years immediattly fol- lowing 1857, relating in his characteristic vein the particulars of his journey from New York to the new territory. His journey did not end until he had passed Omaha and reached Docatur, Wasn'e Mueh Here Then. Omaha at that time he remembered only as “a long sand ridge, way out where the river now | two cottonwood shanties, saloons and a scrubby old cottonwood tree.” Tho speaker’s descriptive pictures of early Jife in Decatur were graphically drawn, His paper will supply tho future historian of Neoraska with but little data as faras names and particularized ovents are concerned, but his reiminiscences will supply what is more im- portant, a history of this state and the beople of that time. Mr. Victor Rosewater of T thenread a_carefully prepared paper on “Municipal Government in Nobraska,” deal- ing with the historical features of his sub- ject rather than with its theoretical aspects. Ho traced the development of municipal ernment from its crude and unauthorized beginnings 1 pre-territorial times to the present system in vogue in the metropolitan class, in which local governmont has been brought to its highest eficiency. Valuable Addition to the Annal Mr. Clyde B. Aitchison of Hastings read a paper covering the life and public servic of Erancis Burt, first territorial governor Nebraska. Governor Burt died after he been a resident of the territe but eleven days. ‘I'he annals of Nebraska history con- tain but a brief re to his private and public and Mr. Aitchison has per- formed a real service to the state in ing and putting together the biograph details of a ch: that has hitherto be blank in the history of the st The fol- lowing is a synopsis of the paper Francis Burt, governor of Nebraska, first saw the light of day on the 13th of January, 1807, on his father's plantation in Edgefleld district, South Carolina. He coula trace his paternal ancestry back to the earliest Linglish settlers in Virginia. His father, also named Francis, after distinguishing himself in the war of the revolution as a colonlal soldier, settled at Edgefeld, and while engaged ‘asa planter there was sev- oral times chosen to represent his distric in the state senate. The mother of the future governor was Katharine Miles, a lineal descendant of some of the French Huguenots, who were driven to South Carolina by the persecu- tions which followed tho revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Of young FErancis’ five brothers the eldest died in Infancy, three chose medicine as their profession and one the law. was Governor Oxana Bee Commences Public Life, After leaving school Mr. Burt studied law, and finally commenced his practic the bar at Pickens, S. C. While in Pickens he was chosen a member of the famous con- vention of 1832, and took an active part in formulating that short-lived doctrine of nulliication. He was then but 25 years of oaxe, and for twenty years after that time he served his state alinost uninterruptedly as a member of one brauch or the other of the general assembly. From 1847 to 1851 he edited the Pendleton Messenger, one of the old time democratic weeklies. and his journalistic life doubtless widened his ac- quaintance and gave him both prominence and influence. In 1844 the legislature elected him state treasurer for a term of four years, he r ceiving eighty-eight votes on joint ballot. Four years after the termination of his oceupancy of the office he sut as a delegate in the constitutional convention of 1852, ‘This conventlon and its duties ended, his home district once more elected him a rep- resentative to the general assembly; and it was while serving in this capacity that President Pierce, a month after his in- auguration, in 1858, offered Mr. Burt the position of third auditor of the treasury. The proffer was accepted and Burt's long official life in his native state endea as auditor of the treasury. Achleved a Notuble Success, As third auditor of the treasury Burt was a decided success, The contemnorary jour- nals united in praising him aliko for his pro- ficiency and for the frank fearlessness he displayed in the discharge of his duties. When he assumed the office he found the work of the department ina demoralized condition. The work had been badly neg- lected, and iy was predicted that fiv rs would'be necessary to complete what his predecessors had left unfinished. Although the head of the oureau for less than a year and a half, at the time of his tnation to take up the duties of the office of governor of Nebraska territory, he had accomplished all that those who preceded nim had left un- done. He had over 100 clerks in his oftice, many of them his political opponents, but the energy he infused into his department made all his subordinates deevly attached to him. Auditor Burt's decisions upon a num- ber of fine legal points saved to the govern- mont taousauds of doilars. On August 2, 1954, Francis Burt was com- missioned governor of Nebraska torritory and at once left for his home in Pendleton to arrange his affairs for his absence in the west. [very clerk in the office of the third auditor sigued a memorial couched in ex- pressive language signifying sincere regret over the separation about to take place and congratulating him upon receiving ‘this mark of the distinguished approval of the presideat and senate,” and the citizens of the territory upon being provided with a governor possessing administrative talent in such an eminent degree, whom they be- lieved would prove a “kind father, a true friend, & sate guide and counsellor,” Intense Public Feeling. Mr. Aitchison then sketched in strong colors the sensational effects produced in all soctions of the country by the repeal of the Missourl compromise and the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill. Continuing, he says: “With the popular mind in such a' frenzied stato as this President Plerce had far from an easy task in the solection of governors for the new territories, Man after N was sent from Wushington to Kunsas and re- signed in tho hopelessness of desvair. With Nebraska, the trouble that Pierce apore hended did not occur. Kansas was of easy access to the slave states; Nebraska wus borderod by & free state. KKansas was set- tled by the skirmishers of the op- posing ~ parties: Nebraska by the abolitlonists exclusively. Kansas, they believed, was blessed with a more salu- brious climate., The African slave could not prosper on the more frigid prairies of Ne- braska. In Kansas s'avery was battling ou its own ground; in Nebruska its champlons were compelled to yield before the struggle for supremacy begau. The probability is that President Pierce ')oked forward to more of a conflict than actually occurred, and it is reasonable to suppose that in choos- iug & governor of Nebraska he appoluted the man he believed to be 0:0st capable of recon- ciling the warring elements. Iu nominating Burt ho was {nfiuenced by three motiv Burt's public life s a state and federa ofticer hud convinced the president that his third auditor possessed a rare amount of executive ability and was in every way fitted for the position.” Commenced a Journey of Death. The journey from South Carolina to Ne- braska in that early day was attended by inconveniences which, now related, seem almost oxaggerated ir¥ar more partic- ularly was the journeyidifieult. For some reason the water in all Weatgrn streams was 80 low that navigation WAS Ympossible. save in the largest rivers. Tivol for a consider- able distance was out of tho question on other than a circuitous route. From Pendle- ton the party proceeded f short distance by private conveyance, then by rude stage and primitive railroads to Athens, Mariotta, Chattanooga and Nashville to Louisville, Ky. For hundreds of miles the journey lay over w rough road 'in the crudest of conveyances through dry, dusty, limestone country, drinking water so suver- saturated with lefurh éompounds tha none but a native could use it and thrive. Another rough journey by rail and stage from Louisville to St. Louis, by way of Chi- cago, followed. At St. Louis, unabie to pr cocd further, Burt called a physiclan and spent several days in bed. Impatient to re- sume the journey ho pushed on bofore he had sufficiently recovered. But still there might have been a chanco for his recovery until he landed from the steamer at St. Joseph and began the teip to Nobraska City. A rough, jolting hack was the best the country a ford ska City to Bollevue a common prairie wagon had to sufice. How the others survived the journey it is impos- sible to say, but Governor Burt was 8o ex- hausted that on reaching Father Hamilton mission house he immediately retired to the bed from which he never rose TO RECOVER THE FUNDS, Bondsmen of Treasurer Forbes of Fremont Being Sued Fresost, Jan. 9.—[Special to Tie Bee.]— The city of Fremont has commenced action against the bondsmen of ex surer Forbes to recover #4,811.22 that Mr. Foroes failed to account for when he turned over his counts to his successor. The bondsmen are: E. Schurman, Julius Beckman, H. Archer, L. D. Richards, Otto Magenan, L. M. Keeno, J. T. May, F. McGiverin, C. Christensen and ieorge [ Loomis, he Woman's club of the city has elected the following officers for the cnsuing ye Miss Marion Horsford, president; Miss El- ark, first vies ident; Mrs. C. L. second president; Miss Vesta and treasurer, Quite a spirited divorce case is running in disvrict court, wherein Mrs. Christian Leistekow desires legal separation from h husband on the groundsof wruelty. The parties ave over 50 years of age and are old residents. The case is being stubbornly fought by the defendant. Tne newly elected Board of Supervisors convened today. The membership is: J. F Briggs, Hooper; O, A. Bergquist, Logan; M. Chapman, Union; C.W. Dodge, North Bend ; Solomon Gayton, Elkhorn; H. K Platte; A. J. Hastings, Plea % W. Hooker, Maple; Howe, Jorgen I Nickerson; V. ) Fremont; D. Cuming; C Sievers, Pebble; Peter Thernes, Ridgel, R. Townsend, Webster; S. S. Van Horn, Fverett; J. A. Elliott, Fremont. The session was called to order by Clerk Legro. 1. W. Hooker was made temporary chairman and S. S. Van Horn was elected permanent chairman. M'COOK'S A. 0. U, W. TEMPLE. It Wil Be Dedicatea Monday with Much ¥ Ceremony. McCook, Neb., n. 9.—[Special to Tne BEE.|—Extensive preparations are being made for the dedication of the Ancient Order of United Workman temple here Mon- afternoon and evemng. Invitations have been sent to every lodge in the state and it is expected that at least 3,000 mem- bers of the organization will participate in the services. The grand lodge officers will be present and many prominent members from the neighboring jurisdictions. A special train of five coaches will leave Hast- ings at 9 o'clocika. m. for McCook and stop atv all stations, making the return trip after the ball in the evening. Among those ex- pected from abroad are: D. H. Shields, su- preme master workman; M. W. Sackett, supreme recorder; ex-Governor Riddle of Kansas, and R. K. Boyd, graud recorder of Colorado. It will be an oceasion to be remem- bered in Ancient Order of United Workmen history m Nebraska. Fullerton Veterans install Officers. FrrLerToN, Neb., Jan. 9.—[Special to Tue Bee.]—Saturday occurred the joint installa- tion of the officers for 1804 in Live post, No. 147, and the Relief corps of this city. The Grand Army of the Republic ofi- cers were installed by Past C H. McClure. They are: Dr. W. H. H. Pi bury, commander; O. E. Stearns, senior commander; John Boardma i commander; J. H. McClure, quartermaster; John Ridell, chaplain; O. I. Stearns, dele: gate to department convention. The officers in Relief corps were installed by Past President Mrs. Ellen G. Barber, a5 follows: Mrs. Pillsbury, presiaent: Mis. Mary Luce, senior vice president; Mrs, Stearns. junior vice president; Mrs. Orton, chaplain; rber, treasurer; Mrs. Mor: gan, secretary; Mrs, Harwood, conductor Mrs. Boaraman, guard; Mrs. Caswell, as- sistant guard. Mrs. S. H. Penney was clected delogate to the state couvention at Lincoln. Beatrice Man Injured. BeATRICE, Jan. 9.—[Special Telegram to Tug Bee.]—Bert Guerny, a young man, was picked up on West Court street last night in an unconscious condition aund carried to his home. He had fallen when jumping from a moving motor car and was run over by a wjuries were not serious. inual meeting of the stockholders e Rapid Transit and Power d toduy the following board ot airectors was elected: V. G. Lantry and D. W. Merrow of Omaha, Nathan Blakely, L. E. Walker, George R. Scott, N. N. Brum- back and .. 1. Spencer. The board selected D. W. Merrow, president; Nathan Blakely, vice president, and E. Walker, secretary an treasurer. The Gage county Board of Supervisors or- ganjzed today by the seloction of E. B. Sher- man of Beatrice as chairman. Grand Istwnd Thief Convicted. b IsLaND, Jan, 9.—[Special to Tie Bee.|—Yesterday afternoon Wallace Beers noticed a suit of clothes for which he had paid §18 last October on another man's back. The clothing had been stolen from him. The man was arrested and explained where he had bought them for a remarkably low price. Dantel Vogel was tho seller, and he in turn was arrosted. Ho was found guily and sentenced to thirty days in the county ail. *Buftalo Bill” Cody was in the oty yos- terday and contracted to raise 100 acres of beets for the Oxnard factory at this point. A fire at Clarks destroyed the ( nd Army of tho Republic hall and several smaller buildings. Origin unkoown; loss, without insurance, $3,000, GRra Gava the Ofticer Trouble. WaverLy, Neb.,, Jan, 9.-—[Special gram to Tue Bee]—Tbis afternoon as Granv Hurst and Johun Williams were driving a heavy team belonging to Clay Vanery nto town they turned the shorses wmto the yard of Willlam Poffenburger, smashing "the fence,” finally striking a troe, where they became fost. While they were beating the team pMcers were notified. The men managed to release the h mount them and ride awny. Marshal Clar| followed them, when theamen dismounted and started on foot threugh the cornfield I'hey were, however, arrested and logded in Jail, but not without somd dificulty. The trial will take place tomorsow. Tele- Young Horse Thidl Cuptured. Nesana Ciry, Nob., Jan... 0.—[Special to Tue Bee]—Ollo Steadman, an 15-year-old boy, stole & mare and colt from Ben Baldwin inMhis city Sunday night. He was caugnt south of Barada yesterday by Frank Wood- ward and Baldwin, and with the assistance of Marshal Miller was taken to Auburn last night. He will be tried Thursday. Saturday night he broko into a house and stole watch and razor. When captured he was trading horses with & man. Volk County Mortguge indebtedness, Osokors, Neb., Jan. 9.—(Special to Tug Beg. |—The mortgage record of this county for the year 1808 shows that ‘here have been 830 real estate mort- ages filed, amounting to §383,807.97; re- cases, 341, aggregating $254,544.60; 1,200 chattel mortgages flled, aggregating, $433,- 200.80; released, $222,477.84. ARY 10, 1894. FULLERTON MURDER TRIAL | Andrew Debney Must Answer for Slaying His Wifo, HOW THE AWFUL CRIME WAS COMMITTED tle Esoaped a Mob of Indignant Citiz # Result of the Efforts of Deter- miued Guards—Details of the Case. Futierros, Neb., Jan, 9.—(Special to Tie Ber. ) —District court convened here yester- day, Judgo Sullivan presiding. The most important case to bo tried here this torm is that against Andrew Debney for wife mur- der. Debney, July 4, 1503, went the house where his wife was stopping near Genon, in this county, and shot, kicked and beat her and ran away, leaving her in a dying condi- tion. He was caught two days later hiding in a strawstack and brought to Fullerton to await examination, In the meantime his vife taken to the hospi t Columbus, where sho could have the best medical treat- ment, but died in avout five days, having er vecovered consciousness, The night the murderer was brought to Fullerton he ken to Gay's notel and placed under guard. The next morning after the death of the wife fifteen or twenty masked men broke into the hotel and demanded admit- tance to Debnoy's room. The officers or dered the mob to leave, which they refused to do. The avengers broke down the door, one of them firing o shoy which wounded Deputy Sheriff Bake. The officors suc d, however, In dispersing the mob. The next day the murderer had his prelimioary hearing and was committed to the Columibus Jail vo await trial, where ho has sir confined. He was brought to Fullerton night from Cotumbus by Deputy Bake. His appearance in the court this morning was that of a man und intense mental strain, All the preliminary motions made by the counsel have been set tled by the court, and the attorneys are now at work examining jurors of the regular panel as to thewr qualifications EDITOR RUCKINS BOUND . Alleged Libel of Nebraska City's the Cause. Nenraska City, Jan. 0. —(Svecial Telegram to Tue Bee.]—Henry Huckins, editor of the Indevendent, was bound over to the district court tod $500 on the charge of criminal libet preferred by Muayor H. H. rtling. The alleged libel was printed in the Inde- pendent u few weeks ago, wherein he ed the mayor with taking bribes in epting license money from gambling in- stitutions, George Tolle was shot by Oficer Gus Varner last evening while resisting arrest i i nt for arrest the latter sta to run. roer fired a shot 1 the ground to halt the fugitive. The bullet glanced, striking l'olle 1n the leg above the kunee. The wound is not dangerous. Alex Gibbons and Eli Mitehell, both col- ored, engaged 1n a desperate fight today As a result Mitchell is sove injured. Gibbons was bound over to the district court on the charge of assault with atte.apt to kill. Tom Martin, colored, is lying in the county Jail to answer to the charge of assault with intent to kill, Last night he gotintoan altercation with Robert Roberts,a white boy, aged 18, and stuck a knife between Roberts' ribs, The wound is not danger- ous. Mayor AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS, Estimates Made of the Area Sown and Its £roductiveness. Wasmixatoy, Jan. 9.—The estimates of arvea productive of principal crops and potatoes, tobacco and hay, for the year 1503, compiled by the statistician of the De- partment of Agriculture, make the aggre- gate of corn area 72,036,405 : product, 169,495,131 bush 020,418 res; pr 3 shels. Oats, 3 product, 638, 33,485; product, Barley, ac 20,3713 prod bushels. )y Buckwheat, acres, 81 405 bush product, 12, oats, 23.4 bushels} rye, els; barley, 217 bushels; buckwheat, 14.9 bushels; potatoes, .2 bushels; tobacco, 68.7 pounds; hay, 1.33 tons. The returns from the correspondents of the department wake the acreage of winter wheat lower last fall—93.3 per cent—than that of the area harvested in 1893, IT THE bushols; WILL DEF MONEY. State Treasurer Prepared to Give Omaha Banks & Share of State Funds. LiscoLy, Jun. 9. —[Special Telegram to Tie Br ho governor, sceretary of state and atvtorney gencral this afternoon ap- proved the bond of the Commercial National bank of Omaha for $00,000 and designated it as one of .the state depositorie Other bouds will doubtless be approved within a ays. The four Omaha banks alrcady designiited as state depositories are entitled to hold $200,000 of state funds. Treasurer Bartley will deposit the funds as soon as he ives notico through the proper channels. Johnson G armers Meo: Tecumskn, Neb., Jan. 9.—|Special to Tie Bee.|--At 10 o'clock this morning the John- son County Horticultural society and the Johnson County Farmers institute convened in jointsession. The session will be of two days duration. The program is made up of interesting numbers, aud among other workers from abroad who will be in attend- ance are Profs. Besscy and Card of the State university; J. M. Itussell, Wymore; £ Whitcomb, Friend; B. A, Aldrich, Brook; G. Gilbert, Johnson. 'Mucn interest is muni- fested and tho actenda nee is good. Richard Blythe and William Stetter left today for Monroe, La., where they will re- side in the future. Bloch & IKohn of Lincoln have sold_their stock of dry goods at this place to M. Wolfe. George Warren is transacting business in Denver this week. The M Jessie Davidson and Jennio Hardin have returned to school at Forest Pari, 111, “'hé Adelphian quartet of Cretejcollege wil sive a CONCCrt at the opera house, this city, Iriday evening, for the benefit of the C tian ndeavor soclety of Tecumseh, George ' y of Omaha is at the bed- sido of his ailing father, Juage Kyron Tier- ney. Br. E. 3. Mendell of St. Joseph, formerly i wasrenewlng old ucqunintances of Crab Orchard has accepted a clerkship at Townsond’s pharmac, Tecumseh undoubtedly has fewer people in destivute circumstauces this winter than any other city of her sizo n the state. Mr. und Mrs, J. W. Battreall's Li-year-old son, Claude, who was recently removed to St. Elizabeth hospital, Lincoln, for treat- ment of hip disease, died Sunday. Tho mains were shipped to this city and the funeral held from the Christian church yes- terday afternoon, conducted by Rov. L. P, Bush. 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