Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 23, 1894, Page 5

" organized « ©. 8. Roberts, until recently in the harness PECULIAR ~ CRIMINAL ~ CASE Aged Beward Oounty Oitizen Acquitted of a Horrible Charge. CHARGED WITH MURDEROUS DESIGNS Alleged to Have Kired His Son's Residence with & View of Causing His Wife's Death Along with ¥everal Others. WILBER, Neb, Sept. 22.—(Special Tele- gram.)—A remerkable criminal case was triod before Judge Hastings here today. Michael Kesler of Seward county, aged 74 years, was charged with having set fire to his son's residence at Friend, in July, 1893. In the house at the time were his aged wife, 10 whom he had been married fifty years. his young grandchildren and a hired girl, who narrowly escaped death while asleep, the building and contents belng consumed. The parents of the children were at the World's fair. As the old man hed some trouble with his wife on actount of property and family mat- ters he was arrested on suspicion of having committed the deed in order to get her out of the way. When arrested he told several parties thet he had dcne it and In justice court pleaded guilty, it is claimed, ui cocrelon. In the district court a plea of not guilty was entered, the defense being that he was physically incapable of perform- ing tho acts ctir buted to him by the prose- cution and also mentally irresponsible. After a few minutes absence the jury re- turned a verdict of not guilty. p AFFAIRS AT LINCOLN, Pawnbroker Arrested for ¥ Ordinances. LINCOLN, Sept. 22.—(Special.)—One of the pawnbrokers of the city was arrested today for a violation of the pawnbroking ruies. It 18 said that he refused to report the mumber of articles pawned with him Sheriff Vickery of Taylor county, fowa, stopped in Lincoln today and lodged for saf» keeping during his stay in the city a pris- oner named C. C. Whorry in the city jail. Wherry is wanted in Taylor county for for- gery and was captured out in the state. W. F. Gurley of Omaha was the orator for the opening of the university, which cc- surred yesterday, and his address is spoken of as one of the finest ever delivered on such an occasion in the state. One of the s:nsations in the district court today was the order asking for the return of Bud Lindsay, who was asked to uppear to answer to the charge that he had unlaw fully disposed of his property. In the big damage suits brought by Mar- garet Clark against the city for damage to the propirty at Twentieth and F strest the defendant has filed an answer, stating that the property is not damaged, He asserts that the property has received some special bene- fits by reason of th changing of the grade. Violating the Schuyler Notes and Personals. SCHUYLER, Neb., Sept. 22.—(Special.)— business here, is going west to look for a new location. Miss May Elden, who has been teachin music here for two years, has returned io her home In Des Moines, where a class awalts her, Bank Cashier B. Folda of the l'olda | bank, and vice president of the State Bank- ers' assoclation, Morris Palmer of the First National bank, and J. M. Simmons of the Nebraska State bank, attended the meet- Ing of the State Bankers' assoclation at Omaha this week. H. J. Quickenctedt and L. V. of Lelgh were in Schuyler Tuesday. County Treasurer M. F. Bednar is absent to_attend the Saline county fair. Graves M. E. Shipiey, foreman in the Iferald office, Is oft for a wmyuth’s vacation in Tows. A Dorcas soclety has been organized by the ladies of Holy Trinity parish, with Mrs. Thomas Bryant president; Mrs. W. W. Wells, vice president; Mrs. H. A. Canmero secretary; Mra. C. J. Phelps, treasure Mrs, George H. Thomas, chairman of execu- tive committee, comprised of hersell and Mesdames W. W. Rees, J. O. Kahl, H. W. Nleman and B. Lamhofer. The society Is to relieve distress among the .poor_during the coming winter, and have already begun preparing new ciothing and repairing old that needs it. Funeral of Hamilton Cooper. AUBURN, Neb., Sept. 22.—(Special.)—The funeral of Hamllton Cooper occurred this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and was largely attended, the entire business portion of the city being closed during the funeral, The city officers ¢nd the County Fair association attended in a body. The funeral was con- ducted by Rev. L. L. Combs of the Church ‘of Christ, under the auspices of the Odd Fellows. The Nemaha County Fair and Driving Park ascoclation, the Odd Fellows and the eity council all’ passed appropriate resolu- tions of respect. Mr. Cooper was 67 years of age, and one of tho foremost of Auburn’s citizens in ad- vancing everything of beneflt to the city. Norfolk Banks Consolldate. NORFOLK, Neb., Sept. 22.—(Special Tele- gram.)—It is officially announced this even- Ing that the Citizens' National bank and the Nerfolk State bank bave consolidated, the charge to tak> effect Monday morning. The neme of the Citizens' National bank is re- tilned. The new organization will have G. A, Lu'kart, formerly at Tilden, Neb, as its president, while R. A. Stewart, former cash- der of the State bank, will be the new cash er. The former officers of the Citizen: Nutlonal, C. M. Swank, pr:sident, and G. L. Iles, cashier, both retire. The bank will occupy the old location of the State bank, and dts capital will remain $50,000, as be- fore. Bold Work of a Thief. BEATRICE, Neb,, Sept. 22.—(Speciai Tele- gram.)—Last night Sam Wymore went Into the barn of Louls Fink, near Wymore, and, hitching a team to a wagon load of wheat, struck out for Kansas. He was easily traced the next morn- ing by wheat strewn along the road, it having leaked out of the wagon. He drove to Oketo and sold the grain for less than $5_and started on the return trip, but was captured. He sald he intended returning the team to its owner. Wymore in his youth was an inmate of the reform sehool. He was brought to Beatrice tonight and lodged in jail. i Mot Death in » Well, BENNINGTON, Neb., Sept. 22.—(Special.) —Willlam Crile, a farmer living two miles northwest of town, met with a horrible death this morning while digging a well for his neighbor, James Snyder. Crile had been working for several days and was down to a depth of about elghty feet. He went to work this morn- ing as usual, but had not worked long when the two men who were handling the wind- lass let go of the buckst, which fell to the Dottom, striking him on the head and kill- ing him instantly, Alleged Cow Thief in Court, FREMONT, Sept. 22.—(Special Telegram.) ~The preliminary hearing of Jesse Wheeler on & charge of stealing a cow from A. K. Dame, resulted In Wheeler belng bound over for trial in the district court in $500 bonds, Wheeler waived preliminary ex- amination on the charge of stealing a cow from C. J. Wilcox, and he was also held for trial on this charge in $500 bail, His bonds In both instances were signed by James G. Smith. District court commences next Monday. Costly Blaze at Vlnite Conter. PLATTE CENTER, Neb, Sept. 22.—(Spe- clal Telegram.)—Last night the large ware- houses, coal sheds, machinery ware rooms and a carload of corn which was on the Unlon Pacific side track, were totally de- Stroyed with all their contents. The fire Is supposed to be of ncendiary orlgin, but mothing definite at this time can be stated. ‘The total Joss will amonnt e about $4,000, insurance $1,000, SOLDIER'S MOMUMENT UNVELLLD, Al Stecling Takes Part lu tse Patriotie Exercises. STERLING, Neb., Sept. 22.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Thirty-five hundred patriotie eiti- zens, headed by the Tecumseh band and 100 Grand Army of the Republic members and 200 school children, marched to the ceme- tery where the first public soldiers’ monu- ment In Nebraska was unvetled today. Hon. Church Howe, with an appropriate address, dedicated the mozument in the name of Silf post, Grand Army of the Republic, No. 99, Miss Zellora Iden unvelled the monument with a highly appreciated address, and State Superintendent Goudy read the dedicatory ode. In the afternoon Rev. Van Lutterman of Cook delivered a fine address in German and was applauded many times by his hearers, after which Father Murphy of Tecumseh delivered a patriotic address that brought applause from all classes. Then came the oration of the day, delivered by Hon. John M. Thurston. It was one of his best, and brought forth hearty applause. The ovening addresses were delivered by Messra. Holcomb, Churchill and Thayer to n crowded house. The weather was fine, and no accident happened to mar the most suc- cessful and patriotic day the village of Ster- ling ever participated in, The Ladies' Relief corps and Sill post are receiving congratu- lations for the success of the day. The monument, which stands in the eenter of the Sterling cemetery, one-half mile east of Sterling, represents the figura of a sol- dler, six feet six inches in height, standing at parade rest, fully equipped and holding a gun in his hand, placed on a triple pedestal which raises him over seven feet from the ground. The base of the pedestal is six- teen inches above the level of the ground. The first division of the pedestal is four feet square and eighteen inches high, the second is threa feet square and sixtcen inches high and the third section is three feet high with sides sloping upwards, and a top sur- face measuring twenty inches acrc On this stands the figure of the soldier, which is made of fing Indian stone, and cost $700. The money was raised by subscription, and it is due to the ladies of the Woman's Relief corps that the movement was started and carried through o a success. The inscrip- tion on the monument reads as follows: rected by Stll Post No. 9, G AR, To the Memory of OUR DEAD HEROES. Omahans Arrosted us Thieves. SCHUYLER, Neb., Sept. 22.—(Special Tele- gram.)—A large number of petty larceny thieves infest this vicinity. €. A. Morian's house in Schuyler and Angers McLeod in the country were entered and ransacked. Five suspicious characters were arrested, four supposed to be from Omaha, but the evi- denco tgainst them is meager, as no more has been done than to find bundles of goods at various pl Crught B niling GRAND ISLAND, Sept. 22.—(Speclal.)—W. A. Mason, a stranger, who is believed to be Forged Chee's. implicated in some City, attempted crdokedness in Central to pass forged checks on Horace Morgan last night and was caught In the act. He pleaded guilty at the pre- liminary hearing this morning and was bound over to district court in the sum of $500. Preliminary Hearing of Alieged Thioves. HASTINGS, Sept. Special Telegram.) —Hugh Gitna, Jr., Harvey Breckner and were up before Justice McKinney this morn- ing for robbing the storo of F. P. Uerling & Sons at Ayr. The case was adjourned to September 28 :nd the defendants released on 2 bond of §500 each. Alleged Housebreaker Acquittod, SHELTON, Neb., Sept. 22.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Alley Campbell, who was arrested for the robbery of the general merchandise store of C. H. Menze of Sodton last Sat- urday, bad a preliminary hearing today and wasdischarged, Not Guilty of Assault, HASTINGS, Sept. 22.—(Special Telegram.) The case cgainst U. S. Rohrer, manager of the ball team, for essaulting Leslie Green for tresspassing, was heard this morning and resulted in acquittal. Blair Kesidence lobbed. BLAIR, Neb,, Sept. 22.—(Speclal Tele- gram.)—The residence of C. Dunn was robbed this afternoon. A watch and several other valuable articles were stolen. ——— IMPRISONED IN PERU, Citizen of New York Indignant at His Trewtment in South Americn. DENVER, Sept. 22.—Patrick McManus, a citizen of New York, has arrived in Denver on his way home from Buenos Ayres, Ar- gentine Republic, where he has been for three years professor of English in the na- tlonal college. Since leaving Buenos Ayre: April 2, he has visited Bolivia, Chili and Peru, in company with Albert Teloir, a na- tive of Argentine, and Antonio Duran, a Spaniard. The tourists went to Cuzco, Peru, to witness the feast. of Corpus Christi, enduring much hardship on the journey, and on their arrival were immediately thrown into prison cn suspicion that they were spies. After lying in prison one night they were released through the iIntervention of the Spanish consul, but were compelled to leave Cuzco at the end of twenty-four hours. Mr. McManus is enroute to Washington, where he will lay before the State department a claim for $10,000 dam:ges from Peru. HEMMING IS A MURDERER. Exciting Man Hunt in Progress In 1inols— After Love Walker. LINCOLN, IIL, Sept. 22.—An exciting man hunt is in progress in this county for Love Walker, slayer of David Robottomon. Dep- uty Sherifts Pfeund, Shay and Jones, accom- panied by an informant, William Bailey, are now In a district called Cornubarg, gradu- ally bemming in the fugitive murderer, a desperate man from Alabama. He applied yesterday at a farm house for somet::n; to cat and was seen in the evening hic n~ in the brush. = The territory is favorabe for concealment; but with the farmers aroused and officers acquainted with the territory in the chase armed with Winchester rifles, cap- ture Is only a question of time. The murder was committed Sunday night, September 16. The murder was cool and deliberate. The parties had quarreled the previous day. e BOLD DASH FOR LIBERTY, Prisoners In the St. Louls Crimioal Court Kun for Freedom. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 22.—A daring attempt to escape, and successful In the case of four, was mede by the prisoners in the dock of the criminal coilt rooms hero this fore- noon. The men had been brought up to plead, baving been indicted, and it was dur- ing the confusion occurring at the dock gate that the dash for liberty was msde, with the result that four got away, while three others, who got out of the building, were re- captured. The recaptured men are James McNamara and Ed Kelliher, burglsrs, and James C. Barton, alias Bryant, the Chicago amond nipper, who is under indictment for assault to kill, as well ss diamond robbery. The four who Kot away are William B'ag- dien, indicted for assault to kil; Ed Carr, Al Harris and James Foss, burglars. Fn-hensing Captain Goodwin Cleared. VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. 22.—Captain W. C. Goodwin, company G, Fourteenth in- fantry, who was recently court-martialed for drunkenness, has been acquitted on every specification and bas been restored to his command by order of Brigadier General Otls. QR S A Ilinols’ Anti-Trust War. SPRINGFIELD, IIl, Sept. 22.—The secre- tary of state today sent out the anti-trust affidavits to corporations organized and do- ing business in Illinols. Twenty-two thou- sand were sont out. The afidavits are re- turnable thirty days. _SEPTEMBER 23, 1894, TOWNS TURNED INTO ASHES Nith'nzbuta Few Iron Utensils L.ft i Minnesota’s Fir:«Iweps Couitry, MCRS DESO.ATE THAN DRIED CORN LAND Smoke Even ¥et Obscaring the Atmosphoro for Many Miles - Fast Mail Flugged by a Thirsty Liseman—Land Black and Haked. ST. CLOUD, Minn, Sept. 2L—(Special Correspondence.)—I have traveled for miles across alkall plains, where nothing grew but sage brush and cactus; through the barten bad lands of Dlkota; through southern Oregon, where the burning, seething white sand extends as far as the tired eyes can sce; up the summit of Pike's Peak. with its acres and acres of granite boulders; across the cold, bleak ice flelds of Muir glacter, and through the parched corn fields of Ne- braska, that made the heart ache with the theughts of coming wint>r, but 1 have ncver seen a more desolate sight than the burned and blackened forests of Minnesota. Clouds of smoke roll across the dreary landscape. The sun looks like a great red ball of fire as it lights up the ashes of rich timber land and once prosperous towns. For almost fifty miles there is not a single blade cf green. The entire landscape is black. The ground is baked till it is as hard as half burned brick. Charred and blackened logs of the sturdier timber remain in places, and now and then a gaunt and armless pine stands erect. All about are blackenod stumps, with the turf burned from under- neath their spreading roots, lying like great Dblack spiders over the smoldering ground. And with all this comes the memory of the terrible suffering of those who went through the sea of fire which swept over this count and the awful deaths of those who perished in it STORY OF THE FIRE RETOLD. The story of the recent forest fires cf Minnesota is too well known to be repeated. Briefly told, the facts are that owing to the unvsually dry summer the for:st fires had been burning since the middle of August, and on Saturday, September 1, nothing less than a cyclone of fire swept the country from Pokegama east to Sandstone, carrying every- thing b:fore it, completely destroying those towns, together with Hinckley and Miller. The loss of life at Hinckley was about 275, at Sandstone about 70, at Miller 12 and at Pokegama 28, with probably about 50 men who were in the lumbering camps near these towns, the entir> loss being about 500. This region is about seventy-five miles directly north of Minneapolis, and on a straight line between St. Cloud and Duluth, The direc- tion taken by the fire was due northeast. A-rough cstimate of the former population of these towns gives Hinckley 1,200, Sand- stone 300, Pokegaina 115 and Miller 100. All but Hincliley had no reason for existence be- yond the lumbering interests and will Dprobably never be rebuilt. Hinckley, which was at the junction of a branch of the Great Northern railroad and the St. Paul & Duluth line, was more or less of a rail- road town. ‘The soil, even though enriched by ashes of the forests, 1s too light to raise much bisides potatoes, 'so it is not likely to be soon put under cuitivation. The timber wealth of the district is gone and it will be Iong before it is anything more than a barren wast THEIR RECOLLECTIONS ARE VAGUE. Those who survived the fire seem to know very little about it. They have, as a rule, a sort of dazed recollection of what took place, and, with the exception of a few who are endowed with rather progressive im- aginations, who seem to remember more as time since ths fire increases, it is hard to get any coherent account of the awful calamity. Thke alr had been filled with a dense smoke all day, so that it was almost impossible to see. Then came that fire- breathing eyelons, and some by instinet and some by heroic presence of mind sought places of safety. No one can describe what took place. A heap of moulten iron that cook stove; window glass run together as though it had been wax; a mill-rac: with nhalf charred logs, absolutely dry; railroad rails bent and twisted like hair pins; great roots with masses of clinging earth, show- ing how the giant pines were torn from the ground; and most awful and most deso- late, the gru:some graveyard in the sand hills beyond Hinckley, where a long mound marks the trench where the charred bones and half burned trunks of 267 human beings are buried; all thes: things, though silent, tell their story mcre vividly than the pen of a Dante or a Hugo UNDER STRESS OF DESPERATION. Of course there were marvelous escapes. It is almost a miracl: that any living crea- ture could have endured the smoke and flames of fifty miles of burning timber. Every newspaper in the country has told how John Braman saved fifty persons In the shallow mill pond at Pokegama and how Jim Root stood like a hero and brought his human cargo to a place of safety. There are many more stories of self-sacrifice that will never be told. When the train, which left Hinckley, was already moving, erowd:d to the platform with panic-stricken humanity, a woman came running to the traln with her child in her arms, and leapt headlong from the ground to the platform, narrowly escaping death beneath the wheels.. This is only one of the many instances of what was once a Hut even with such horrible tales and sad cases that make one's heart ach: at hear- ing them, therc were humorous Instances as well. The night before that awful Satur- day the smoke had already b:come quite dense and fears for the worst were already apprehended. One of the business men of Hinckl'y came home that evening and found his wife on her knees, praying and crying as it her, heart would break. Well, what's the matter now,” he asked. Oh! Johin, John! Judgment day has come,” sho_sobbed.” *'No, you fool,” John answered philosophi- cally. “Not In the night.” LINEMEN GOT A DRINK. The fire, of course, burned down all the telegraph poles and there was no communica- tion through the burned district. A crew of linemen wire immediately sent qut to put up the wires. One of the linemen, riciting his cxperience, told how they waded knee d:ep, at times, in smouldering cinders. “There wasn't no well nur creek in the hull coun- he aid. ““There was two un us, un hed a durned bit ter eat, nur a drop ter drink for 'leven hours, un I wus clean baked, inside un outside. 1 could 'a eaten roast mule, stuffed with fire crackers, un drunk from a horse-trough. Well, just then, number fourteen, the fast mail, hove in sight. Well, what d'y think we did? We up un flaged her, with some lighted brush, un brought her down in a Jiffy, “‘What's up? says hew ‘Bridge down ‘Naw,' says L. ‘Breakdown ahead? says he. ‘Naw,' says L ‘Well, what the devil do you want? says he, ‘T want a drink uy water,' says I ¥y think we didn't get He passed un then he went in, un brought out a baskef ful o' lunch un a half o' can uy milk. sat down on a burned log un hed a reg'lar layout.” = He shook the ashes out of his pive and turned to me” as he finished, ‘I say, pard, a man that'll flag a passenger trafo fur & drink uy water ain't 't all bash- tull. Yer ain't got a cigar in yer clothes, hev ye?™ FIRE FIVE HUNDRED FEET HIGH. They say that the fire traveled at the rate of sixty miles an hour, and an hour after it started the whole country was burning from Pokegama to Sandstone. Along the road there are places which the fire seemed to skip, where the saplings are bent to the ground and huge pines uprooted. The direction of the force is readily seen, as trocs all lie trom the northeast, pointing to the southwest. ~ An ordinary pile of brush will flame up three or four times its dwn helght and those great pines must have shot a flame 400 and 500 foet in the air. The wall of moving flame must have bien twice as high the High school tower, or four times as With & force driving this on with the rapidity «f & raliroad train and the force of a cyclone no mind can have the slightest conception of its power of distruction. In St. Cloud, seventy-fivs miles aw* from the fires is suffel he eyes, BOILER ANIT BNGINE LEPT. Going pust Pokegéliay on the train one would never know §~r. hod been a settl - ment on the spot w ke place not pointed . The only vestige of the town Is the remains of a boll-r and engine, half burled today the smoke ta be irritating to in debris, where tho ygaw mhHl stood. At H”‘F“"‘ the roumd buse of the Great Norlhern and the water tank by a strange frcak remain untouched, These and tho walls of the brick sthowl house are all that renained standing (ofgihe buildings of a town of 1,200 fe-ple. ',(f; houses, which £to°d near the edge of the fdWn, there is left not aven the blackened ‘oitliers to show that a hous: oecupied the spot. Usually a small pile of bricks from ihe chimney, a shapelass ook stove und a few iron household utensils is the only trace of a,home. [ picked up a chain, the lnks of which were welded to- gether, and you could us» it for a walking stick. Glass is often melted on the ground, like the drippings of a candle. | saw a flatiron melted 0 that it was hardly recog- uizable as such and ralls twisted like tele sraph wire, In the whole town of Hinckl y you could hardly pick up a plece of wood us big as your hand. Everything was burned to ashes The lumber towns which escaped burning are by no weans out of danger yot. There have be.n one or Lwo slight showers since the fire. but, with no heavy rain here in three months, the country is still very dry and the foresis are burning in many places Last night, passing Mora, the whole sky was lighted up by fires probably fifte:n miles to the south. ~ What have once been swamp- land is now filled with grasses, man high, and dry as tinder. As soon as the frosts come the grass and undergrowth becomes very dry and is highly Inflammable, €o that a strong wind may still do great damag: to the Umber lands and lumber towns. CHARLES C. ROSEWATER. DEATH IN ITS PATH (Continued from First Page.) tirely demolishing it, only a part of one side being left. Then it took the three elevators and three flax warehouses on the Milwaukee track, demolishing them and exposing their contents to the storm. F. J. Trask's business block was quickly smashed down into a one- story bullding as it struck by a mighty blow from above. C. A. Roy's hardware store was treated in the same way and wrecked. The main part of Porter & Young's store with general merchandise was destroyed. Harry Cotton's new residence was demol shed, The opera house was next in the path of destruction. A party of about thirty couples was enjoying a dancing party there when the whole building collapsed upon them. Two dead bodies, those of young Fin- ley and Albertson, have been taken out. The others were injured *and bruised, but prob- ably not seriously. W. W. Sweet's house was wrecked but Mr. Sweet and his wife were away at the time. J. M. Wickoff's res- idence was blown away. The family were on their way down into the cellar when the cyclone struck them and they escaped with out injury. R. G. Young's house was de- stroyed, but the family took to the cellar and escaped. The new Baptist parsonage was totally de- molished. Elder Bryant and his family were fortunately in the country at the time. One or two new hou beyond were also wrecked. Killen's store building, Chamber- lain’s harness shop, Dr., Alsdorfl’s office and residence, Sweel's harness shop, Larabee's store building and, other buildings were more or less racked with the wind, fronts or sides blown in, roofs taken off or otherwise damaged. A~ number of outbuildings and smaller buillings were swept away. During the storm; fire broke out. Flames were discover:d in Potter & Brown's store. This bullding was filléd with a new stock of goods, which were' totally consumed, with the building. The fire communicated to Smart & Butler's Rdrdiare store and this was also burned. ‘The Casswell hotel was mwplctely burned, the bare brick walls alone telling of the disaster. Strenuous efforts of the citizens saved'the town from further ravages by fire. | Thé wind fortunately spared the residence’ partion of the villag: almost _entirely or- the list of killed and wounded must have beer’ heartrending. The loss is estimated at'abott $45,000. The storm had the sual peculiar focus cf a cyclone. One buildfitg would be demol- ished completely, while the one next stands unharmed. Some of the buildings were crushed down as if an immense welght from above had fallen on them. LAKE SUPERIOR. STORM O Ore Laden Barge Breaking Up Near Ha cock—Fxelting Tescun of the Crew. CLEVELAND, Sept. 22.—A special from Hancock, Mich., says: A storm is now rag- ing on Lake Superlor. Barge Pickands, ore-laden, from Ashland to South Chicago, went ashore on Keweenaw point near Eagle river this morning. The crew were rescued with the utmost difficulty, A heavy ses is running and the vessel is badly exposed and will probably break up, as she is ex- posed to the full fury of the waves. Severe \Win m in Pakota. ABERDEEN, 8. D., Sept. 22.--The sever- est wind and dust storm in years is raging here. Much damage has been done, Re- ports of heavy losses are coming from neighboring towns and the country, High Wind at Dunlap. DUNLAP, I Sept. 22.—(Special Tele- gram.)—At 9 o'clock tonight the wind is blowing a flerce gale of about thirty miles per hour, ALEIN AN PACIFIC MAIL'S NEW COMP ETITOR. New Mexican Line Will Operate on Both the Atlantie and Puclfie, SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22.—The Chron- lcle says: The rivals of the Pacific Mail company for the Mexican trade on the Pa- cific coast have become the rivals of C. P. Huntington on the Atlantle coast. Two concessions were granted to Don Eliso Canton Jullo from the Mexican government, one from Santa Cruz to San Francisco, and the other from the terminus of the Te- huantepec road on the Gulf of Mexico to New Orleans, General Coney of Mexico says that this latter concession has been granted, and is of the impression that both franchises were issued to the same com- pany. The terminus of the line of steamers on the Atlantic will be Progressa, in Yuca- tan. Huntington's line runs from New Orleans to Vera Cruz, on the Gulf of Mex- ico. Progressa Is just across the gulf, and it is sald the Pacific Mall company has had in contemplation the extension of the line to that point. ~However, affairs at Washington kept the magnate too busy and the opportunity slipped by. A great trade could have been bullt up by an Amer- fcan iIne of steamers between Yucatan and the United States, and the new line will probably reap the benefits. Progressa ix the port of entry for Merida, the capital city of Yucatan. England has the trade of Yucatan now, shipments all going by the southern coast through British Honduras, The port of shipment is Beliz. The nativ ship their cotton and hemp to England, celving In return for the most part arms and ammunition. The. proposition is that Huntingion will bug the Tehuaniepee ral- way when he gets teady. To make a pur- chase, however, there must needs be a seller, and the Mexican government is not acting as If it wepe very anxious to part with the new road.. If; as has been said, President Diaz Is going to spend $5,000,000 in_improving the ‘Santn Cruz harbor, it would seem that the gbvernment is desirous of making a trial of government ownership of rallroads. 1 Mexico needs another:line of steamers on the Pacific side. Exosbitant freight rates have not been the only thorn which the Pacific Mall has thrusi.in the peole. but the high rates of p enger transportations. You can go to New York as cheaply as vou can go to Panama ‘on the Pacific Mall steamers, 1 il # Discharged from (he Militla In Disgrace. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 22.—A refusal to obey the governor's order has led to a court martial in the First regiment of the In- dlana militia. Colonel Robbins, adjutant general, sald today that several men in company A and company D of the First regiment hove been removed from the mili- tia because they did not answer Governor Matthews' order for troops on June 2. The companies met and expelled the men. Com- pany A s located at Vincennes, and com- pany D at Washington. The names of the dismissed militiamen Kknow Dying. Reed s He is in his 90th year. He was born in Marion county, Kentucky, in 1805. He has the distinction of being the oldest class leader in Missourl. He came to this state In 1531 and settled in Boone county, MEXICO, Mo, dying at his home in this city. Sept. 22.—John FZETA IS NOW A FREE MAN | All the Salvad rean Refagees Exc:pt One Iicbatged by Judge Morrow, CFFENSES WERE OF A POLITICAL NATURE of Murder Committod Before the Open- ostilities— Wil Appent to the President. g of SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22.—Three of the four San Salvador refugees who were brought here on the United States steamship Ren- nington and were arrested by the federal au- thorities at the solicitation of the govern ment of San Salvador are now free. They s General Antonlo Ezeta, General Leon Balanos and Captain Major Florencio Bustamente. | The fourth, Colonel Clenfugos, will be sent back to San Salvador to answer for the | crimes charged against him. Such is the purport of the decision rendered by United States District Judge Morrow. His decision is a long one, and occupled more than an hour in delivery. The court, after reciting the demand of the government of San Sal- vador for the refugees, went into the his- tory of the Ezeta administration, which began in March, 1891. Prior to that Carlos Ezeta had headed a revolution against the existing government, in which the jresident | was slain. The court then referred to the | I | | Clenfugos 1eld for Extradition on a Charge ' | | are olution of this year, which began April 2 and ended in the downfall of the Ezeta | government, and the incidents connected with the flight of the refugees. The fugi- tives had been detained on board the Ben- nington owing to a demand made for extra- dition soon after they had boarded the Ben- nington. The provisional government wa: not recognized by this government unti August 24. The court says the matter rested on whether there was sufficient evidence of criminality to justify him, as a committing | magistrate, in granting the demand for ex- tradition. He had proceeded under section 5,270 of the Revised Statutes. He did not agree that proof sufficient to convict would be nec- essary, but considered that the evilence should be sufficient to convince a cautions man of the gullt of the accused. The proper place for trial was where the crime had been committed; any other course of [ dure would entirely destroy the usefulness of ex- tradition treaties. These views were in ac- cordance with former decisions in extradi- tion cases. The first case considered was that of Clenfugos, charged with attempt to murder Andries Maya in San Salvador. The court held that as the act in question had been committed about fonr months before the revolution, it was devold of any political aspect, and 50 the court would hold him for extradition. in the opinion of the court no sufficient_defense for Clenfugos’ action had been made OFFENSES WERE POLITICAL. The second case was that of Balanos and Bustamente, charged with hanging four un- known persons in Primavera on May 24. The court held that (he testimony in this | case was of a hearsay character, and could not bo given any weight. The testimony | also was that military operations were golng on at that time. The third case was that of all the defend- | ants, charged with having hanged Casimiro Henriquez, Henriquez was hanged as a spy. Of this offense Balanos was innocent. The | other three were guilty. The robbery of the bank of San Salvador, | charged to Ezeta, was next considered. The court considered the evidence of guilty pre- ponderated, but like the preceding case, it would have to be considered in its political phase. As to the killing of Canas on the road to La Libertad, it was evident that Ezeta and Clenfugos had committed the act. The more important side, the court said, was | the political phase of the cases presented. | Except as to the assault committed by ! Cienfugos on Amaya, all the acts in question had been committed during actual hostilities. It had not been decided what constituted a political crime. He believed that the three cases here under consideration were political. Opinions of representatives of the Soutii American states at the Panamerican congress were cited to show that the character of the robbery here cited was common in Latin- American revolutions. There was no doubt, the court said, San Salvador was in a state of siege during all the time after April when the crimes, except Cienfugos' attack on Amaya, had been committed. A state of siege there corresponded with martial law here. ~ The court said the overthrow of the Bzeta government dii not change the na- ture of the case. If this were true the case properly came under a military court, which was paramount where it had jurlsdiction, otherwis the assault by Cienfugos was \11'[ a political nature, So the court orders all the defendants except Clenfugos discharged. The court's announcement was received with applause. Cfenfugos was remanded to the custody of the United States marshal to await the action of the president. Ezeta Is very bitter towards the San Salvadoreans. Ezeta has outlined a cam- paign against them which he will embark upon as soon as possible. He will go first to Washington, where he will work in be: halt of Cienfugos, and then will join his brother, Carlos, in Paris. Then he will go to Mexico, meet his fellow refugees, Coloche, Bustamente and Bonas, and organize an army for the invasion of San Salvador. Ezeta's friends say that before a year some of the present officlals of San Salvador will be fight- ing extradition proceedings against the Ezeta government, — 1nto a Den of Thieves, C. Lovgren is a hotel ke:per of East Omaha, and yesterday afternoon he went to Scuth Omaha with a companion. Lovgren had a roll of bills In his possession and a valise. They started to return home last night, and about 9§ o'clock they had reached Sixteenth and Webster streets. They started up the alley between Webster and Burt, east of Sixteenth, and were accosted by a woman named Mag Allison, and in- Vi kit e weman Lovae'e: ona | POPE LEO'S FOREICN POLICY streck on the head with a bar of (ron in the bards of Willlam Grimes, n negro, and knceked senseloss, Meantime Lovgren's com- pavion had started for a policeman. When | Bishop Ksane Brings Baok From Rome am they returned Lovgren was found unc Imporlnnt lnhling of It. ous, and was taken to a physician’s offios, The wound was an ugly one, and require elght stitches. Grimes and the woman later by OfMcers Renfrow and Fisk. The vallse was missing. The assailant had had no time to rifle Lovgren's pockets. SEALS B wero arrestad MAKING UP TO DEMOCRATIC COUNTRIES No Use for Despotiam and Miarism Universal Saffrago Under the Moral Tne usnces of Cliurch Wust Settle Soctal s Publishing Company.) — 4 (New York World E DESTROYVING WHOLESALE. Declsion of Hering Sea Arbitration Tribunal ng tgnore (Copyrighted 1594 by Pr TOKIO, Japan, Scpt Cable—Special to The Bee.)—The news comes BALTIMORE, Sept 05 '”"""f’ I d i from Bering sea that the decision of the In- | :i.‘"”;":' il b _,”"; ("”"“'.”r ‘5"'.",“”; ",;: - ternational tribunal of arbitration at Parts | \WAShington, reached 3 oo % has been proved to be a faflure, so far as the | Stéamer Britannia, He went to Rome fon protection to the seals is concerned, Fully ; the purpose of personally sceing the pops 90 per cent of the seals that have been taken | @10 telling him of the Catholic university and this season, It is reported, were killed out- | the condidon of affairs in that institution. p side the limits preseribed by the arbitrators, [ In fll"'.-k'mvv.fl' \l)‘u-’n'\nl&-n* :-! (::‘v ‘lfullrl:u;l ' and he worst of it s that the most of the | '© the Vatican Dishop Keane said that the o seals slain by the pelagic sealers are fe- | Policy of the fope, In view of the recent males, whose destruction by the wholesale | OVOrtures in Italy, is the union of the chureh A in this manner threatens practical ex- | With the great democratic powers of the 4 termination of the species in a comparatively | future—thst Is, America and France. This few years Is his hope, and toward it all his remarke 4 Fubarkt o M M 0. Pryveen | able energles are bent. He, as a clear~ . The funeral of Mrs, I, J, Meyer was hela | SIghted statesman, is oppe to militsrism, from the family residence, 1916 Douglas | S0 despotiam, and s, eonsequently, in syme street, at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The | Tripio alliance, of which Italy forms a part. 3 casket stood In the front parlor and was al- { Tho pope thinks that a universal suffrage 5 most hidden by its burden of Marechal | controlled by moral and religious influencs Nlel roses. Besides these, huge pillows of | must decide the great social questions of the roses and a profusion of anchors and other | future. The social quostion the pope recog: floral effects testified to tho esteem in which | nizes &s the groat one of (ho futute. § the deceased wis held by those who knew i 9 i L e ¢ fiapoat Mareiage Licenses, 4 Mrs. Meyer was a woman of rare disposi- e K tion and but fow had won so many true and | The following marriage licenses were s carnest friends, She was charitable in | sued yesterday word and deeds and had always been most | Name and Addr prominently identified with benevolent pro- | Gust Anderson, Crawford, Jects, From this phase of her chiracter | Clara Johnson, Omaha Sprung the most touching tribute life could ' Allle R Sly, Omaha......c..oiiiiiiee offer o the dead. All yesterday forenoon Helen I. Cayley, Nevada City, Mo. thero was a_stream of.people At the 00T | o B for a last look upon the face that had come Age. Ia... to them in trouble with hope tnd assistance. Some of them were almost unknown to the bereaved friends, but each had been the ob Ject of some act of kindness from the de- ceased. The services were conducted by Rev. A. J. Turkle of the Kountze Memorial Lutheran church, who spoke earnestly of the truly Christian life of the deceased. The services were very impressive snd a long lino of carriages followed the remains to Prospect Hill cemetery. The pall bearers ¥ were Messrs, Emil Durr, Henry Pundt, Thomas Foley, George Heimrod and Judge il Gualave Andetson Ladies’ Snits, Rear End ol on In Kansas, TOPEKA, Sept. 22—A rear-end collision of freight trains occurred this morning at e 3 Bimaale, a station on the Santa e twenty- hibition. P five miles west [imporia. Burdette art- ] y- ley, fireman, who 1ived at Argenting, Kar The ladies of Omaha and vicinity are was killed. The trains were badly wrecked. Hartley's parents live in Lawrence, ol Noted Chieago Caterer Dead. Our ready made suits are now on ox+ invited to call and inspect them. 3 Our tailor made suits range from $9.08 CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—Herbert M. Kinsley, i the noted Chicago caterer, dled In New | t0 850.00 each. ¥ York city today. His death was the result 4 of a surgical operation performed there. | Our house dresses range from $7.50 to THER FORECANT, Falr and Colder, with Frost Sunday and Monday Mornings, $75.00 each. 3 Send for catalogue of suits, b For South Dakota—Fair; probably slightly WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.—The forecast t for Sunday is: - winds, with frosts Sunday and Monday . ™ & mornings. cooler, with frosts Sunday and Monday [:I s " F 3 For lowa—Generally fair; cooler; north- % west winds, with frost Monday morning. For Missouri—Showers in _the early morn- ing, followed by fair; colder, with frost Monday morning in the northern portion; south winds, becoming northwest. For Kansas—Fair; colder, with' probably frost in the northern portion Monday morning; winds becoming north. COR 16TH AND FARNAM ST, OMAHA, PAXTON BLOCK. Mrs. J. BENSON New Fall Underwear . At Way Down Prices. Ladies’ fleeced vests and pants in gray and ecru at 39c, A fine line in ecru in extra size at 50c: gray at 75c, Ladies’ heavy gray and ecru cotton union suits $1 each; gray wool and cotton mixed $1.75; fast black $1.85. Ladies’ black tights $1.00, §1.50, §2.00, $2.50. Children’s gray pants and vests r2c to 38c.} A nice line of jersey ribbed pants and vests in mixed wool and cotton and all wool for children. Knit skirts from soc up. See the Souvenirs we are giving away with purchases, Her Chenille Curtains se; not a pair in the lot but what cost us mo price up to take your fringed top Omaha Carpet Co. B We will place on sale Monday and give you the choi in the hous After October 1st at 1515 Dodge Street, Omaha, es a Bargain. 800 per Pair. ce of any pair of than $8.00, and from that $7.80, but as long as they last choice. re They are all full sizes and bottom. 13811 Douglas Street.