Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1894, Page 2

no accusation had as yet been made. But the questions we had been asking were very pointed, and were easily taken by him as leading up to a direct charge of thelt. At times ho had talked loudly, and in a somewhat excited manner, but just before the shooting he cooled down, and we had not the slightest intimation of what he was sbout to do. He suddenly got up, without any show of anger, and, pulling out a re- volver, commenced firing, first at Cromwell and then at me. We had no weapons and were not prepared to defend ourselyes, nor is it likely that we should have thought of doing 50, even if wo had been armed, the shooting was done 5o rapidly, and it was all over o 500 HAPPEN 3. D. bank, was seen and asked for his version of the affair. Ho said “Huntington, Cromwell, were sitting in the private office, was in the northwest corner of the room, T in the northeast, Hayden about the center and Huntington between Hayden and myself. We were seated about a table that stands against the north wall. Mr. Hannan, the cashier, had been sitting between Hayden and Huntington untfl a few minutes before the shooting took place, when he went out into the front part of the bank. Hayden and Cromwell had been questioning the young man very closely about his mode of living. On one occaslon he had deposited $70 in the bank, and Cromwell asked him where he got It. Huntington said he borrowed if, but when asked of whom Le borrowed it he could not remember, and said that it was none of their business anyway. He was also unable to say from whom he got the money to pay back the loan. “I ‘saw that somcthing unpleasant was about to occur, and got np and left the room. Just as I got up Huntington did likewiss, Ho passed behind Hayden, and I supposed he was going to get a drink at the water tank. There was nothing In his actions that indi- cated nervousness or excitement, 1 was about half way between my chair and the door when I heard a pistol shot, and looking around I saw Huntington standing between Cromwell and Hayden and a little behind both, with his revolv:r pointing at the former. I hurried out of the private office, and as I went I heard several more shots fired. 1 ran out and gave the alarm, and when several of us went into the private office we found Huntington lying on the floor with blood streaming from a wound in the back of his head, and the two other men suffering from the effects of his deadly aim “Wo havo always considered John an hon- eat young man, and if there was any wi point in his character it was a little tend- ency to extravagance. Of course, the amount he was in the habit of spending would not have been extravagant in a man of means, but was rather more than a young man ought to spend who draws only $15 a month." WAS NOT CHARGED WITH SHORTAGE. In a further conversation with Mr. Bd mundson, he said: e have not at any time, and do not now, charge Johnny with the shortage. The charge was not brought against him any mora than it was against every other emplove of the bank. Neither did Heyden and Cromwell charge him with the theft during the interview, except as their Questions might have implied such a suspicion. In the conversation that led up to the shoot- ing Huntington became very much excited and also very angry, but he seemed at all times to be perfectly cool and collected, and I was very much pleased with the way he seemed to be holding his own against the shrewd, sharp men. His answers sesmed to particularly nettle Mr. Cromwell, who was Teading in the questioning, and he became angry and was bearing down on Johnny pretty hard. But before the shooting all excitement ‘had apparently cooled down, and John, at least, was as free from excitement as he would be at any time. The $500 item Is one that the public will have some difficulty in thoroughly understanding, and it is qifi- cult to explain it to any not familiar with the details of bankicg business. The check was simply a 'charge to the South Omaha bank of $500. Not recciving the check, the bank refised, of dourss, to give us credit for the item, and we. were short just that amount. “The hooks ‘for the day balanced and the shortage only appcared in the course of corresponding with the South Omaha bank.” « One of the bank employes described how it was possible for the person who retalned the check to have procured the money upon it. This would only be possible for some one who had access to the books in which the daily accounts are kept. He could have charged it upon the paying teller's hooks, and while doing so could have taken $300 in currency. The appointment with Huntington for the last tragic interview was made Saturday evening. At the request of Hayden and Cromwell he was to meet them at the bank at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. He was there, not only promptly, but somewhat ahead of time, opened the bank anl waited for them to come. It is evident that it was during this interval that he went into the paying teller's cage and procured the revalyer. Circumstances seem to point to some des perate dotermination upon the part of the young man, for in addition to the revolver taken from ' the teller's desk Huntington had provided himself with his own revolver, which he was not in the habit of carrying. This was found in his left coat pocket. The weapon he used so effectively was a six #hot affair, but It only contalned five loaded shells, the hammer resting, according to a time-honored custom in the bank, upon one empty shell, HAD LITTLE CHANCE TO STEAL. F. 0. Gleason, one of the directors of the bank, was secn last evening and said: ““There never was such a check as the one spoken of. The sum of $500 was charged up on Huntington's books to the South Omaha bank. It also appeared on his tab and on the book kept by Ira Hendricks. But it does not appear on Hendricks' tab. That would not be conclusive evidence, however, that anything is wrong, for, while Hendricks 18 supposed to keep on this tab a record of all checks that pass through his hands, as a matter of fact he does not. That his tab is correct in this instance, however, is shown by the fact that no “cashier’s check” corre- sponding to the one in question was Issued by the South Omaha bank on that day. That is evidence that both Hendricks' and Hunt- sngton's books are incorrect, so far as this entry Is concerned.” ““Were Huntington’s duties such as to ena- ble him to get hold of §500 of {he bank's money and doctor up his books to corre- #yond?" was asked. “He did al the clearing business, deliy- Med the different checks each day to the (auks on which they were drawn, and pald er collected, as the case might be, the dif- ference in cash. Whatever money he handled, however, was kept straight by means of the various checking systems in use all banks.” “DId the officials of the bank ever see the young man's parents, or iry to obtain any settlement rather than turn the case over to the bond company " “No; when the representatives of the bond company came here they had no reason for suspecting any particular employe of the nk Il that was known was that there was a shortage of §500. So far as 1 know, the only evidence they have now against Huntington, in particuar, is that his book has an imperfect entry." BELIEVE HE WAS HONEST. There is a very prevalent cpinion around Council Bluffs that the yowng man's inno- cence will be shown by the further develop- ments. There are few men of his age in town whose general reputations are better than his, and he has never been considered a sport or a spendtbrift. To an intimate friend, a day or two ago, he confided the fact that this check was missing, and further sald that he was sick and tired of belng teld he was a lar and a thief. He was 21 years of age, and had been employed in the bank for about four years. He was engaged to be married to a prominent young lady of the olty, Besides bis father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. B. Huntinglon, he deaves two sis- ters and two brothers—Mrs. J. H. Pace of this city, Charies and Will Huntington of Orange, N. J., both connected with Wells, Pargo & Co.'s express office in New York :J‘lg, and Miss Bessle Huntington of this Coroner Jennlugs viewed the remains and Qecided that, although it was a plain case of suicide, it would be better, for the sak. of the friends, have ao luquest and thor- oughly sift the affair. The jury has not yet ‘been empaneled, but will be probably this afternoon, when the Inquest will be held at Bstep's undertaking rooms The body was moved from the undertaker's to the resl- denco om Harrison street during the after- naon. BEFORE THE Hayden and 1 ) SHOOTING. | Edmundson, the president of the | JOHN BURNS.OF BATTERSEA Noted Englishman Who Will Address Omaha Workingmen this Evening, SOMETHING OF HIS LIFE AND WORK Man Who Played the Mud Puddles of London Becomes the Leador of the Laborers of the Clvil- ized World, John Burns, M. P.—a name to conjure with—will address the working men of Omaha tonight at Washington hall, Speak- { ing will commence at 8 o'clock, and admis- | ston to t Cromwell | hall will be free. Mr. Burns be- gins today to fill a program of public speeches laid out for him by the meeting cf the American Federation cf Labor, now in ses- sion at Denver. He comes to Omaha this morning, according to this dispatch sent out by the Associated press last night: D VER, Dec. 16.—~John Burns, the 13nglish labor leader and member of Parlia- ment, left tonight at 11:20 for Omaha, where he is booked for a sp h. During the day Mr. Burns will be in the hands of a committee of the Central Labor uni n, which w Il show him the points of in- terest in Omaha and South Omaha. In | carriages the committes will escort the guest of the workingmen of Omaba about the town and point out to him the hives in which the bees that make the city great buzz by day and night. From Omaha the disi‘nguished champ on cf labor's cause goes vast. Of all the men who have posed as leaders of the cause of the common people, none have preserved a more distinct and powerful individuality than John Burns, M. P., who will arrive in Omaha this morning on his way east from the convention of Federated Labor at Denver. Endowed with all the qualities than go to constitute a leader, he has risen from the dust and grime of the workshop into the confidenca of the proudest peers of England, and has carried with him Into this loftier sphere the love and confi- dence of all who labor, or are oppressed. Liké all men who have attained distine- tion solely through. their own efforts, John vurns is a man of conspicuous and peculiar personality. A man who dares to violate the most reverenced institutions of the king- dom when they antagonize his pecullar faith; a man who is alike ready to present the cause of labor before the peers of the realm or to preach his economic religion from the curbstone, and who has testited to his cour age and devotion through the hardships of a convict's cell, it is not wonderful that he lias come to be one of the greatest leaders that labor has ever offered to the world. That in a few short years cne who waved the red flag at the head of lawless, ribald mobs, set the Jaws of his government at defiance and lay in prison, publicly con- dcmned as a reckless agitator and a danger- ous enemy to order and good government, should become a part of the government he sought to dethrone and the idol of hundrads of thousands of men and women, who speak his name with almost as much reverence as that of the Creator, is without a parellcl in history. That such a man is not cast in an ordinary mould is self evident, and no citi- zen of Omaha should miss the oppcrtunity to see and hear this remarkable man, the most striking and significant product of the social fermentation of the century. BURNS AS A BOY. John Burns is a typical Londoner, not a type of the cockney known to variety stage fame, but a Londoner with all that its cos- mopolitan appellation signifies. He has lived In London since he first saw light through the smioky and bacteria-Iaden atmosphere of Battersea; ‘With the‘cry of the eoster ringing In_his. ears and the smell of decaying vege- table ‘matter secking ingress through his tiny nasal organ. Battersea was h's home when, as a toddling boy, he dodged around the vegetable-laden, donkey-drawn carts of its narrow, ill-lighted streets. It was ‘his home when he stcod at hookstalis in the busy London thoroughfare, stealing chances to read portions of a magazine artic's baaring on then existing soclal and economic cond:- tions, and then walking perhaps a mile to get another chance to read the concluding portion of the stery he had commenced an hour before. Battersea 1s Burns' home today, but it is a_well-lighted precinet, with public Lbraries, educational institutions and all the modern facilities which progression demands and the needs of the people exact,. To no man more than John Burns is this desirable transforma- tion due. His genlus planned it, his great will power carried it through to victory. John Burns was born in 1858. His op- portunities for education and intelligent knowledge were few, but his ambiticn to know men and conditions through books nerved him, through his early vicissitudss, to learn to read, and having accomplished this essential he sought more extended fields, until the flliterate boy of a dozen years was at 18 an cmnlvorious devourer of everything literary, a student of economics, an enthu- slast in his desire to reform the soclal cvil, and, with some, a dreamer and visionary after the impossible. But the dreamer had practical ideas behind all his presumably Utoplan notions, and the consistent exposi- tion of those ideag and those notions gradu- ally forced him fnto a position where he was looked to as a man of strength, of perse- verence and of great will power. The truism that the child is father to the man, was verified in Burns' case, and the boy who left the mud puddles of London streets to learn the alphabet of the Saxon tongue, was in the man the same Agure only eniaiged physically and mentally. At the time when Mr. Burns passed through Omaha on his way to Denver he was inter- viewed by a Bee reporter, and discussed his hopos and ideas at some length. At that time tho story of his political ascension was briefly told, How he had first claimed atten- tion as the leader of the mobs at West End and Trafalgar Square, and after serv.ng a term in prison on this account had been clected to the London common council, and after Inaugurating a series of municipal re- forms that were alone sufficlent to endear him to all future generations, became a mem- bor of the Houze of Commons and one of the mist commanding figures in the kingdom. At this time the local public may be intér- ested fn reading the story of his life, as told by himself to an English interviewer, in which he more particularly refers to matters that ate pecullarly personal to himself. He said: TELLS OF HIS LIFE. “I was born in Battersea, London, Novem- ber, 1878, My dear old mother brought us all up ‘Lke Spartan :oldiers. 1 was educated at Chri.t Church school in th's very district which I now represent on the London county council and Parllament. When I left school, 1 went as a ‘tiger’ in top hat and top boots to a gentleman in Hempstead, and when 1 left him, having outgrown my uniform, I went as a potboy to the Winstanley Arms, but 1 never drank “I became an apprentice to a firm of de signers, and then my political troubles began I used to addre.s meetngs in the country, and this coming to the ears of my superiors 1 was discharged. However, the head of the firm, knowing I did my work well, insisted on my return. A year or two after that 1 got into trouble for addressing a meeting on Clapham comiuon and was taken before the magistrate. | was struggling with the police when that young lady (pointing, with a smile, to h's charming wife, who sat beside him) caught a glimpse of me, with my rough hair, fushed face and torn jacket. She was coming from church with her father, John Gale, & Deptford street sbipwright. I looked at her. She looked at me. We met again.and again, and at Jast she became Mrs. Burns, and I won't tell you all she's been to me. “Well, in 1880 thmes were bad, and 1 had no work here, 20 1 aceepted an englneering en- gagement on the west coast of Africa, Here 1 worked for a year or, two, and it was in that tropical, death-bound region that 1 found in the sand of the rywver Adam Smith's “Wealth of Na which 1 de- voured. It wus @& rovelation to me. It was that book and Robert Burus' saying, ‘It is the most sorrowful thing in the world to see an honest man willing to work un able to get 1t that really set me firm in the work of laboring for the masses. Adain SUTROMI O RATOM i THE OMAHA DAILY BR®; Smith, Robert Burns and my own hard lot have bullt me up ,.'0_what I am. I left Africa, which I did father than bé put over the head of my senior, who really had won the post that was offered to me. DON'T WANT OFFICE. 1 came back to England. 1 had a little money on hand, and this I spent In traveling all over the continent, studying great gal- lerles, wandering about the cathedrals, a #plendid education for ‘a man brought up as 1 had been.’ After a while 1 eamne back to work In Bogland. Times grew hard; distress came, then the Trafalgar square riots. I was the ‘man with the red flag’ then. Then came my imprisonment. I hold it as a car- dinal principle that every man should go to prison as a part of his education. 1 have no dosire for office. I have done my best and vally tried to dignify the art of the dema- gogue, but I would sooner be plain John Burns than the Right Mon. John Burns, premier of England. Money has not a particle of attraction for me. I have temptation enough that way, God knows. Within the last year or two I have returned to goodhearted men something like 5,000 offered to help me in my fight for the people. “I don’t want money or office. I am prouder of my present office, judge advocate general of the poor, than I should be of the premiership itself, For many hours daily, as you have seen, thero is a stream of people coming to me in distress for work, advice, clalming for insurance and half a thousand other things. They trust me. They know I am working for their good and not for my own, 3 “The trades union movement of today Is broadly typical of that new democracy will be, plus rational education, hitherto the monopoly of the cultured class This, coupled with the workingmen's common sense, will be, on the whole, not a bad blend. Of this T am quite certain—a corupt govern- ment will never characterize the English democracy. “I have helped to organize upward of 100 trade unions and been connected with forty strikes. NOT AN ORDINARY MAN. “I must tell you something which took place the other day. I was amused. I was going down the sireet when I saw a man with a bag full of my portraits. So I asked him how he found it pay. ‘Find it pay, gov'nor? he cried. ‘Now, look 'ere, I don't mind telling you straight, John (they call me John,) I make more money out of your photos than you get from Baitersea for all your work. 1 have sold 60,000 of them pic- tures of yours in the last nine months, and there's scores of others could say the same.' " * Tha virile force and energy which is Mr. Burni' most striking characteristic is con- spicuous in all of his actions. It would re- quire the absolute stranger only a few min- utes to_decde that he was not an ordinary man. The indefatigable application which en- ablod him to do two men’s work in the com- mon council, cven while he was still working as an engin‘er, has also assisted him to com- pensate himselt for his lack of early educa- tion by acquiring an immense fund of in- formation on all industrial and economic top- ics, and his conversation is in the highest degree int ng. He indulges in no super- fluous phrases, and even in conversation cvery sentenca expresses an idea. His lan- guage Is concise and well chosen and at once gives the impression that it is the utterance of a man who has both thought and felt. It is to be regretted that a larger hall could not be procured for Mr. Burns to speak in to- moTow night. No man who has even a pass- ing intere:t in the social problems of the day would wish to miss the opportunity to hear a man whose personalty and history invests his subject with uncommon interest. The meeting at Washington hall will be an event of exceptional importance to labor intere:ts in Omaha, and that the speaker will reczive an enthusiastic welcome goes without saying, Mr. Burns will be accompanied on h's visit to this city by Mr. Dayid Holmes of Burnle Lancashire, who is also one of the leaders of the working classes of Great Britain. M Holmes is president of the Cotton. Operatives® association of Burnley and is chalrman of the parliamentary committee which was appointed by the labor congress at Norwich last year. Like his mors famous companion, he has been a laborer from his childhood and has acquired his interest in the cause throgh actnal con- tact with the conditions which surround. the working classes of -fils country. He began (o work at the 1oom wheri only /8 years old and has all his 1'fe been identifled with- that branch of labor. He is well known as an organizer, and while his’ reputaiton as a speaker may not compare. with that of Mr, Burns, he is a man whom all clafses in Omaha may be proud to honor. e Donne ¢ ollege New: CRETE, Dec. 18.—(Special)~=The college delegates to the state Young Men's Chris- tian assocfation convention at Beatrice oc- cupled the time of the regular Tuesday even ing prayer meeting in making reports of the session. At their last mceting the trustees pro- vided for the charging of a fee of $1 for cach examination taken at other than the regular time. This action was called out by a continually increasing number of ap- plications for special examinations, so as to cnable students to go home a day or two be- fore the close of the several terms. Some of the cadets are groaning because examinations in drill regulations are as binding as those in other departments. The two best tennis courts on College Hill aro filled with merry players these pleasant days. Assistant Librarlan Beach is incapacitated by a severe attack of inflammatory rheuma- tism. He has gone to his home at Bagle. Plcasant features of the term just closing have been the public rehearsals given by the students of the conservatory once in two weeks. Prof. King, the director, holds the frequent appearance of students before the public as of great impotance as careful study and a marked fmprovement in carriage and execution in those who have performed on these occasions is sureiy noted. Daily time observations are being taken at Boswell observatory and the standard clock regulated and rerated, Draskn Day. INDIANOLA, Neb,, Dec. 16.—(Special.)— The Christian Endeavor soclety of the Con- gregational church celebrated ‘‘Nebraska day" last Sunday evening with appropriate services. Five inches of snow fell over tnis county Monday and no wind ascompanied it. The Methodist Episcopal Sunday school will give an entertaloment Christmas even- ing, entitled “Santa Claus’ Dream," Townsman J. V. Harrison circulated a petition last week requesting that he be ap pointed postmaster. Mrs. A. J. Rand left Friday evening for Beatrice on a visit to her parents, Two cars of “ald” were received last week. There are many destitute familles in this county. The county seat matter will come up be- fore the supreme court next Thursday. An irrigation diteh is being surveyed in East Valley precinet. Ed and Hiram Allen of Furnas county ave the projectors and we understand that Judge Welty is an inter- ested party. Miss Lila Welborn, teacher in the primary department of the pubfic schools, wi married Wednesday evening to Harry Owen of Golconda, Colo. The ceremony took place at the residence of the bride’s uncle, John Welborn, The young couple left the same evening for Lincoln, to visit the bridegroom's wother, after which they wi'l be at home in Goleonda, where Mr. Owen has extensive mining interests. et Tuch of Kain ut Juniatu, JUNIATA, Neb., Dec. 16.—(Special)—Mon- day about one inch of water fell here. Arrangements are belng made to put in a_complete system of telephone in this city, “Some of Juniata’s citizens had coops of fancy poultry at the southern Nebraska poul- try show at Hastings last week, Juck rabbits séem to be more plentiful than ever before and hundreds are being killed and shipped east. One firm thipped out of the county at one time 1,900 pounds to Chicago. Many of the old Settlers attended” the oid settlers' reunion at Hastings Tuesday and report baving bad & g0od time. il 3 Newenstlo qfijlri. . NEWCASTLE, Neb., Dee. 16.~(8pecial)— Mrs. H. 8. Cummings has besn quite slck the past week. “There is sowe talk of operating the cream- ery at this place on the ¢o- dtive plan. Bxpress Messenger Johu Glimore is oo the sick dist. Mr. Clarence Johnson and Miss Sally Greer, both of this place, were married at Hartington Saturday. had | | American Trotting association in Chicago on KNEEBS' “SILENT PARTNER it bits Man Who §fh%éd 014 Bob on His Trip to Gertnaiy Tells His Story. o ADVITS GVNG THE WHOLE SNAP AWAY n A r ) Was to Have: Been a Sharer in the Iligot Profits, but’ Turned Intormer to Get, Fiven for a Fanclod shight. 1 The Chicago Tnter-Ocean prints the testi- mony of Orrin 0. Hefner, late partner of R. T. Kneebs, before the board of appeals of the Wednesday. Hefner is the man who is said to have delivered up Kneebs to the German authorities. Nat Brown of Omaha and Charlie Allmon were represented in the testimony, their statements being to the effect that the mare Bothel Is not at Wakefleld, Neb,, nor at Blk Point, 8. D. Hefner's story is as follows: 0. O. Hefner, whose experience in ‘“ring- ing"" horses in Europe would fill a volume, was then placed on the witness stand. He is a resident of Paxton, Ill, his father moving thero when he was 16 years old. A number of years ago he engaged largely in the im- portation of English shire and hackney horses, operating In Missouri and later at Nebraska City and Lincoln, Neb. He had known R. T. Kneebs by sight for three or four years. He said that he did aot know Bethel. He did not know the mare that Kneebs pointed out to him as Bethel, with a record of 2:16%. He saw her first at the farm in_ Nebraska by lantern light, which was in December, 1893, He next saw her at the Union stock yards in this city in day- light, and described her as a light bay mare with a siit in her ear and a scar on her left forcleg. That was In January. He saw the mare next in a stable in New York. R. T. Kneebs and his son-in-law were in charge of her, and spoke of her freely before him as Bethel. He next saw her on board ship enroute to England. Kneebs up to this time had always re- forred to her as Bethel, but finally began calling her Nelly Knoebs. The horses were unloaded at London and stabled thero. He was at Manchester on or about February 12 and saw Bethel trot in a race there. She was entered as Nelly Kneebs. He was not positive, but believed that he himself made out the entry at Kneebs' request. Mr. Hefner then enumerated the races in which the mare Bethel was started under her alias of Nelly Kneebs at Edinburgh, Scotland, March 12; at Berlin in three races, at Ham- burg in the same number of events, and finally in her match race against Loro at Berlin. The last was her final appearance, and she was a poor second, galloping con- tinually. Mr. Hefner did not see her after this match. “What were your exact relations with Mr. Kueebs In taking these horses across the water?” was asked by Governor Cole- man. “To answer {hat clearly allow me to go back to the first,)’ replied the witness. “In December, 1893, 1(went to Nebraska to pu; chase some horses to take to Germany. I had made onelcdritwo trips with horses be- fore, and found it profitable. I went to Ne- braska City taisee:Guelph, 2:16%, and then to Beatrice, Neb.;7to look at Idavan, The latter had a ‘bad/leg, so that was ended. While there Diekl Tilden said to me, ‘Why don’t you go ‘andl see Bob Kneebs; he has some good horkes,and is broke? . The up- shot of it wad'I“wired Kneebs, and we met at Omaha one”SunWlay and talked over the transaction. Me' &poke of taking Jesse Gaines, 2:15%; ‘Bethel, 2:161%; Dorothy, that could trot between' 2:20 and 2:25; Underwood and others. An agreement was made that he would takéthése horses to Burcpe, ‘I to_pay the frd|ghit and entrance fees. He was to trot l!L - Horses and sell them, and of all the monéyw dver a certain agreed price per head' I s ‘fo ‘have half. The first money earned Was to repay what I had ad- vanced. Then he was to take out the price per head, and afterward we were to di- vide equally.” 4 “Then_you were partners?’ was asked. ““Yes, T presume 80, but Kneebs was broke all the way over, and I had to keep advanc- ing him money other than had been agreed upon. After we reached London I be- came satisfied from the way things were go- ing that I was mot going to get a square deal, and I told him I wanted to get my money out. I offered to give him $250 to pay me what I had advanced and he couid g0 his way and I mine. He promised that he would do it after the Manchester rac and claimed that he was cabling for money. In the meantime he sold a mare for $750 that was listed at $500. 1 should have re- ceived a part of the surplus, which T did not, nor any of the money he had won, he claim- ing to have lost about $600 on the Manches- ter race. When we were ready to start for. Germany, Kneebs professed to have no money, and [ again advanced enough to pay the fréight to Berlin. He was to pay me 75 per cent of all winnings until I got my money out. Instead he held out $500, claim- ing that he had to send it home.” “Did you ship any horses of your own?” asked Secretary Steiner. “Yes, I shipped two horses; one named Thompson A, that I purchased of Senator Yeomans of Onawa, Ta. I don't know that they told me that was his name, but that was what I cailed him. I traded two dia- monds for this horse and a mare, about fif- teen and one-tenth hands—dark bay, one eye out, and rapid gaited. I started her in Germany as Lucille. Since 1 returned I have learned that her name was Clara some- thing, and that she had a record of 2:25. My object was to trot my horses and then se.l them When asked as to Bethel's speed, iir. Hef- ner said she was very fast, and that he him- self had timed her one lap of the grass and cinder track, the turns of which were not thrown up, about 12300 meters, at a 2:21 gait to the English mile. “Why did you not inform the authorities that the mare Kneebs trotted as Nelly Kneebs was Bethel, 2:16%?" was the per- tinent inquiry of a member of the board “Because Kneebs said. he had thinks so fixed in this country that he could disprove any assertion I might make. 1 had no evi- dence except the fact that he had called the mare Bethel. And then I had my money in and wanted to get It out. I did not like to lose $2,000 without an endeayor to get even.” Further questions elicited the fact that Augustus Sharpe of Loulsville, Ky., the owner of Lord Byron, and Mr. Kneebs were able to play the pools in a very happy manner in the match race between Lord Byron and Bethel, in which ‘the latter was beaten, for, as Mr. Hefner sifif, “They had all kinds of money after the ract.'” Through Burdette Tappan the witness stated he had heard that' thé mare Riga that Augus- tus Sharpe campalgnéd this year in Germany was none other’ than Kittie Greenlander, 2:28%. The certificate issued in New York for exportation, he sald, showed both to be by the same sire, out of the some dam, and foaled the same year. /No record appears of Kittie Greenlander havihg A twin sister. “How did you egme'finally to inform against Knesbs?"' was asked.’ “Prince Smith, ‘oF, as he spells his name, Smitz, came to the ol the race track at West Ead 4nd said he yap sure that thinge were not all right with Kneebs, He asked me to tell what niare the one called Nelly Kneebs really was. I told hfm that I came over with the old man and did, not want to make him trouble. I did say fo him, however, that if he would make good the money I had lost I would give him all that I knew. He would not_do thai, and 1 finally gave him the name of Nat Brown of Omaha, who, I said, knew ull about Kneebs' affairs and could tell him what mare it was if any one could. Mr. Smith cabled Hrown, and got a reply from Secretary Steiner saying the mare was Bethel The authorities attached Bethel and Kneebs disclalmed owsership. Then they arrested Knecbs, and when placed upon the witness stand I testified that I kuew nothing of the mare except that Kneebs bad told me that she was Bethel” To Munage Next Yeurs Huskers. SIOUX CITY, D:c. 15.—(Bpecial Telegram.) ~The Sloux City base ball club has about declded on W. D. White of Bellaire, O., as the manager for next yea Adjoursed at Midnight. NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-The nineteenth gume of chess between Albin and J. W Bhowalter, which was played at the Man- hattan Chess club yesterday, had to be ad- Journed at midnight after sixty-one moves, Albin opened the game with & Ruy Lopez. It will be resumed tomorrow. T THROUGH W GHTING. Ki1d Lavigno Says 1o Will Try for Another Mateh In the Near Fature, NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 16.—James Barry left this morning for home, much disay pointed, and says he will pay mo attention 1o Connors in the future. Tommy Ryan also departed, Lavigne is detained by the police. As soon as he can get away he will go home and rest for three months, He will not retire from the ring, but will then try for a_match with Johnson of Minneapolis. Bowen' al will take pl in the morning grand jury will begin an in- vestigation at the same time and fx the for his death Governor Foste asked for an expression of his opinion of the so-called glove the light of the tragic outcor gne-Bowen fight. If_as firmly » said y& been very @ and em- opposition to the glove o s as carried on in New Orleans by y essional prize fighters, 1 regard it tal exhibition, tending to demoralize sentiment, and In no wise calculated to te tone of pu morals in the 3 When the )| v made to have the Corbett-Mitchell fight take place in New Orleans 1 determined to exhaust all sower of the state to prevent it, and so ed at that time. The unfortunate ination of the Lavigne-Bowen contest entuates the impulse of prohibiting further exhibitions. NOT INTENTIONAL KOUGHNESS, the Silent Hinckey Exonerated of the Charge of Drippling Wrightington of Harvard, NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—~Immediately upon the close of the foot ball season ths Yale foot ball team, In view of the charges against Captain Hinckey of the Yale eleven, requested a committee of prominent gentle- men to investigate. The committee, Which was perfectly satisfactory to the Harvard eleven, has found that all the charges of roughtiess In the Springfleld game have cen- tered {n the alleged willful injury of Wrightington by Captain Hinckey, = The committee examined Captain Hinckey, who states mo-t positively that he did not “knee or otherwise maltreat Wrightington in the Springfield game, and that he has never been guilty of unfair roughness in any of the games in which he has taken part, In his statement before the committee, Referee Boviard s s near the men at the time the willful_injury occurred, and he maintains that Wrightington wa thrown perfectly fair, so his injuries were the result of accident, and not of malevo- lence on the part of any member of the Yale team. Hinckey was exonerated. he. leged Wheels Not On the Track. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16.—The profe slonal six days' bicyele race between prom- inent wheelmen of this and other countries had been announced to begin at 12:05 o'clock this morning at Industrial hall. When that hour. arrived, however, It was discovered through a misunderstanding that the bi- cycles had not been brought from a Chest- hut street store, from which they had been hired, and at 145 a. m. the efforts of the managers to procure the wheels and start the race had not succeeded. e THANKS IIS FRIEND, General Clay Writes a Characteristic Lot- ter to Senator Hodges. LEXINGTON, Ky., Dec. 16.—The Leader publishes today a letter from General Cas- sius M. Clay, aged 88, to Senator J. O. Hodges, thanking the latter for his Indig- nant protest in the Lexington Observer against the discreditable treatment of the illustrious abolitionist by certan newspapers on the occasion of his recent marriage to his 15-yea ward. Senator Hodges' edi- torial reviewed General Clay's wonderful career, and declared “had he lived in the days of the Roman empire he would have passed on to history as the noblest Roman of_them all.” General Clay says: “In marrying a young girl and a peasant I but exercised the privilege allowed the humblest cltizen of the Tepublic to spend my money as it pleases me and _to rule my househoid, and nothing more. The disparity of ages is our own business and’ nobody”elscrs. "My vegard for the physical as well as the moral laws of the nation places me beyond the cavil of inferior souls who criticise me so_severel After all, love and sensualism, or passion, are as far apart.as night and day. Passion Bunithos and may derade, but love refines And elsvates. Tove is immortal. My ex- perience in life shows me that a young girl may love an cld-man intwesely, for love is of the soul, passion of the body.” He rests' his_fame upon founding com- mon scheols in Kentucky, freedom of speech and press, liberation of the blacks, prevent- ing Russia from joining all Europe during the oivil war, promotion from the ranks to a major general, annexation of Alaska, op- position to separate coach laws, etc. Dedicated » Church at Cheyeano. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 15.—(Speclal Tel- egram)—The imposing new edifice of the First Baptist church of Cheyenne was dedi- cated today .with Impressive ceremonies. Rey. Kerr B. Tupper of Denver, Colo., preached the dedicatory sermon in _ the morning and this evening Bishop H. C. Woods addressed the large congregation. It 1s one of the largest churches in the state, being of the Gothic style of architecture. The exterior is covered with steel sheeting, made to imitate brown stone. The Interior {5 also covered with iron ceiling, painted and decorated in delicate shades. The' ex- treme dimensions are B0x48 feet and the seating capacity of the lecture room and auditorium _combined i3 1,000. The bullding was erected at a ccst of §15,000. —————— Honeymoon Was Short. NASHVILLE, Dec. 16.—Some weeks ago the Baron Gruenebaum of Austria and Mrs. Franklin, widow of the well known tur! man, were married by a_justice of the peace in this city and repaired at once to Kenne- saw, the Franklin stock farm, in Sumn counity, to pass the honeymoon.' Everything went #moothly until some ten days ago, when it was hinted in llatin that trouble had arisen and divorce proceedings would follow. In the meantime the bavon left Kennesaw and took up quarters in a hotel at Gallatin, telling a tale of trouble and woe to all Hsteners. Friday evening last | lLe raised money enough for passage to | New York and left the city. He tried to file a bill for a divorce, but was advised he had no legal ground: Own that They Stole Chickens. R. Gebhard, white, and Willle Wendell and H. Alexander, colored, were arrested last night by Officer Kissane and Detective Hudson for larceny. ey are boys rang- ing in age from 12 to 15 years, but for all that are good chicken thieves.” They stole a half dozen chickens from Marks Gel- brotch, who lives at Eleventh and Douglas streets, last night and confessed before they reached the stition. They are sus pected of having obtained more chickens from the some place four days ago. Gebhard made a rald on coops in the bottoms some time 80, Steamer Has & Hard Time of It, VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 16.—The steam- ship Portland, formerly the Haytien Re- public, returned here this morning, leaking badly and with her rudder damaged, the vesult of two terrible hours off Cape Flat- tery last night. She was coal laden and botind from Naniamo to San Francisco. The Sea constantly swept over her and for & time It was feared it would extinguish her fires, §he refused to answer to the helm, but was finally brought about and brought inside Tatoosh light. Several large stcamers reported overdue have arrived. Fatal Street Duel in Alabama. BENTON, Ala, Dec. 16.—A duel with pis- tols took place on the street here last night between Tom St. Clair and Reub Mock. St. Clair was killed and Mock slightly wcunded and a negro woman seriously wounded, e Texas Rallroad Commissioners. AUSTIN, Tex., Dec. 16.—Governor Culber- son tonight announced his appointment of railrcad commissioners as follows: John H. Regan, ex-Governoy L. 8. Ross and L. H. SOLD SOAP TO THE KANSANS Pair of Swindlers Olean Up About Twenty- Five Thousand Dollars, ALL CLASSES BIT ON THE SCHEM: Bankers, Mcrchants, Farmers and Profos- slonal Men Al Want a ‘Show at Good Thing and Get It—Left with Thelr Plunder. FORT SCOTT, Kan., Dec. 16.—The resi- dents of Bronson and vicinity, a few miles west of here, are wrought up over the fact that a number of their citizens have been swindled out of cash, stock and property to the extent of at least $25,000 by three sharp- ers, who professed to be the inventors of a washing compound for which they claimed wonders, and for which they were selling state and territorial rights. They came to Bronson about two months ago and claimed to be brothers, giving their names as Dim, from Little Rock. After remaining In the Tittle city several days the three men rented an office and were soon acquainted with the leading business men and citizens of the lit- tlo place. They explained the merits of their mysterious washing compound and soon suc- coeded in working up a great interest in the new fluid, Bankers, farmers, merchants and me- chanics all caught the money making fever and wanted to purchase territory in which to sell the labor-saving preparation, and soon contracts were being closed in all parts of the little city and the closely surrounding country. Many prominent business men, other reputable citizens and farmers secured territory, paying for it in cash, fine stock and mortgages on their farms and property. The sharpers were very accommodating, and were willing to take any kind of property in ex- change for their territorial rights. For the state of lowa they secured from a bank cashier several blooded horses and jacks, among _which were the well known horses Dick Huntington and Mollie Brown. Mich igan was secured by a jeweiry firm, who traded their_entire stock of jewelry, valued at about $2,500. Other states, counties and territories were secured by other citizens for various sums ranging from $100 to $1,000. A_few days ago the three swindlers gath- cred together their property, consisting of some $11,000 in cash, first’ mortgages on some of the best farms in the country, to the extent of $9,000, and three carloads of fine horses, and without notice left the country. The stock was consigned to themselves at Little Rock, and from this it is supposed they are now in that city. Many of those who bought territory refuse to bolieve they have been swindled, and think that they have fortune in sight, but the more conservative of the victims now see that they have been played by professional swindlers, and the territory they have purchased has alread: been sold several times. MODES FOR MEN. The vests are a litile more inclined to be double breasted, both for street and evening wear, and white marseilles, for evening wear, is getting full attention as material for this garment. Cuffs are large and conspicuous, and worn with the link buttons, which may be almost of any variety, from the plain white pearl to the sparkling dfamond, set in brightest gold. The nmewest cuffs are now made with a little projecting ear, carrying a buttonhole on one of the inner edges that fastens to the wristband. The tourist's hat .of the Alpine varlety, that military looking soft hat with a crease through the center of the crown, is also worn with business and outing dress. Beside this goes the ‘‘negligee;”’ -a. soft, low, feather- weight hat that is extremely popular. Then the “opera” or ‘‘crush” hat, made of rib silic or merino, holds a firm place in the position for which it is intended. It is “trousers,” because gentlemen’s fash- fons in New York come from London. If they came from Paris it would be the vulgar “pants.” London has spoken, and the voice which brings the decree is heard and is being obeyed on Manhattan Island. The trousers are being made a little larger at the top and a trifle smaller at the bottom; thus there- is being made an approach to the old “‘pég-top.” ~And the crease is losing its mark'of distinction. A very popular top coat is the “‘Inverness,” a long, comfortable garment with an ample cape. This is worn with ffull dress, and at operas and entertainments, public and pri- vate, where evening costume is se:n. This cbat’ will be very conspicuous for the next four months on the streets during the even- ing and about theater lobbies before and after the performances. It is a pretty, com- fortable and most sensible garment. Then the coats are a little shorter, break- ing at the knce, and the frocks are much more flaring in the skirt, while the sacks appear to have experienced no change, ex- cepting in losing an inch or so from their length. The new cutaways, made with one or three buttons to fasten, besides being a trifie shorter, are rounded at the tall in- stead of being pointed, and thus more nearly approach the line of beauty. The business coat is simiar to the cutaway described, only it is supplied with large flaps at the pockets. - It the cane is a part of a gentleman's attire it must not be overlooked. Its popu- larity is retained and its size s not Qiminished. This stick is the constant street companion of many men, and par- ticularly of scciety and club men, who need such companionship, lost without it, and vary its style according to the prevailing fashion. Now the proper color is dark, the material Congo wood, and the largeness is particularly conspicuous in the huge curved handle. The handle is frequently plain, and almost as frequently ornamented with heavy, conspicuous silver trimmings. Not only high but higher collars are worn by those who want to be at the helght of fashion. Suffering short-necked humanity, that has been envied by the girafte, has co sidered them high enough for the past two years, but now their uncomfortable stiffness has crawled yet higher. The popular height is two and three-quarter Inches, but the ex- treme reaches the altitude of three inches. WAHCO, Neb, Deec. 16.—(8peclal)—Grand Chancellor L. W. Schuman of Aurora, Grand Vice Chancellor Ford of Omaha and Supreme Representative Will L. Scism of Omuha of the order of Knights of Pythias, held a meet- ing in the Castle hall of Wahoo lodge No. 99, at this place Thursday evening and iast night. The meeting was called by the grand chancellor for the purpose of exemplifying the secret work and the transaction of other business in connection, The meeting was largely attended not only by Wahoo lodge No. 99, but from all the other surrounding lodges, and the sessions held were very in- teresting and full of ‘instruction, and was closed by a repast tendered to all the knights present by lodge No. 99, Notes 3 ASHLAND, Neb., Dec, day night Ashland took on her garb of fos- 0 Punch Bowls, Salad Howls, Wine Glasses, Fruit Bowls, ALL THESE IN Ice Cream Trays, QOake Plates, Oarafle, Tuwblers, Chawpagne Jugs Whiskey Jugs JEWELER, 15TH AND DOUGLAS ST, Punch Cups and Plates, UL GlaSS m— Suitable Presentation Gifts. Chumpagne Glassos, Cordial Glasses, Ice Tubs, Cleese Dishes, Decanters, Jeily Dishes, Napples, Water Pitclers, Goblets, Whiskey Glassos, oo Oream Plates. RAYMOND. and they would feel ! tivities for the good of her population by having a soclal dance, & high school lite: . entertatnment, and a banquet by the Kni of Pythias at the Commercial hotel. M. A. Miller received a telegram, calll him to the bedside of his brother, 8. J. Miller, a student of Kansas City Medioal university, who is in a_critical condition. James Bissell and Deb Nicholson wers convicted of hog stealing and bound over to the district court, under $500 bonds. A pleasant reception was held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Meredith Tuesday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Rev. J. M. White, new pastor of Bmmanuel Baptist church. Friday morning J. J. Warnes was awak- ened by some one trying to effect an en« trance into his bedroom, but they speedily loft before they could be caught. tecords show a contribution of weventys cight sacks of flour by the Ashland Mill and Electric Light company for the benefit of the poor of ‘Ashland last winter. Samuel Stratton of Minneapolis is visiting his daughter, Mrs. R. M. Scott. Mra. Polly’ Kolly, who has been suffering for the past nine months, died at her home Monday and was buried Thursday. The yowng ladies of Ashland are to give o_concert for the benefit of the poor on New Year's eve. RS- China Sends a Commisstoner to Japan. LONDON, Dec. 17.—A special to the Times from Shunghal says there is a Chinese re- port that Chang Yin Kwan, president of the board of revenue, has been appointed ambassador to Toklo to arrange terms of peace A dispatch from Hiroshima to the Times says that Field Marshal Yamagata, com- mander of the firet Japanese army, has ar- rived at that place, having been: invalided at home. The report adds that the third Japanese army {s still at Hiroshima await- ing orders —— s Labor Chilefs Coming to Washington, WASHINGTON, Dee. 16.—E. 1. Clarke, grand chief of the Order of Raflway Con- ductors, and P. Sargent, chief of the Firemen's Brotherhood, arrived in this city today to confer with the dissatisfied em- ves of the Southern Raflway company embers of the national organiza- amed. Chief P. M. Arthur of the Drotherhood of Raillway Ingineers s ex- pected here tomorroy Miss Stevenson's Recovery Tmpossible, ASHEVILLE, N. C., Dec, 16.—Vice Presi dent Stevenson returned to Washington last night. Mr. Stevenson is liable to be recalled to Asheville any hour, as Miss Stevenson's condition is extremely critical, In fact, it is conceded that her recovery is Impossible. ‘Stock Buyer Commits Sulclde. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 18—Davis Tuck- horn, a buyer for Nelson, Morris & Co. shot himself through the head in his room at 1104 Penn street this evening. He died a few minutes after. The cause of the sulcide has not yet been learned. y Years' Labor, Ma Dec. 16.—Joe L. cars editor and prins SPRINGFIELD, Shipley, for twenty cipal ¢ suddenly of heart disease shortly after mid- night. 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THREE NIGHTS, ueairvivo - SUNDAY, DEG, 18 HOYT'S MUSICAL TRIFLE, A TRIP TO CHINATOWN In a New Dress, with all the ORIGINAL SEW YORK CAST, Including HARRY CONOR. The sale opens Baturday morning at usual prices. Thrrsday Ev'g BOYD'S THENTRE “Drer 56 Elaborate production of 8heridan Knowles' Timmortal Tragody in ive acts, Virginius J. EDGAR OWEN as Virginius. 50 PEOPLE 60 PEOPLE Given for the benefit of The Associated Charities, Under the suspices of N braskn Lodge No. 4 of 1. Nale of sonts Wed: esdiy morulng st 1Box Omoe. Usuul PrICos Wi 4oisvoas @ MOLIDAY Bo s ATTRACTION, TH REE NIGHTS AND CHRISTMAS MATINER, Beginning Monday Dec. 24. STUART ROBSON Under the direction of Mr. Wm. R. Hayden, is Uie“following roporioirss MONDAY EVENING, USHE STOOMS TO COQUER, ™ CHRISTMAS MATINEE. Christmas and Witluawiar Breblass, Christmag an luosday Evenlngs, SLHE ENRITETEA opens Haturday. Night prics floor, $1 and $1.60; balcony, L'e and T8¢ 8o phlocert Fitres hoor vessvad; B, admission, T6c; balcony, B¢ and Tie. Hale goneral RMPIR E "%, W.J. BURGESS, Manager. ALL THIS WEEK TONIGHT AT 8:15. “THE PRODIGAL FATHER," opm g 14 iR