Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 24, 1900, Page 7

QUICK WORK OF DETECTIVES Lurderers of E. G, Feo, an Elootrician, Are Already Under Arrest. KILLING RESULT OF DRUNKEN BRAWL Men Reaponsible for the Crime Admit | o0 gyl o Thetr Gullt=Victim Bruised pon Frightfully Head E..&. Fee, an electrician in the employ of the Council Bluffs Raillway company, was murdered at an early hour yesterday in an alley between Twenty-ffth and Twenty- sixth streets on Cuming, and by 1 o'clock in the afternoon the guilty parties were in Jail and had admitted thelr guilt. They are Harry Floth, an employe of the Barber Asyhalt company, and Leo Coyne, a laborer in the Unlon Pacific shops. Judging from the stories told by these men, they are equally to blame for Fee's death; both ad- mit having struck him. Two other men nfmed John Wachtler and Mike Mollner, who were with Coyne and Floth durfig the affray, have been ar rested and will be detalned in jail as wit- nesses. Mollner works in a syrup factory at Ninth and Farnam streets, and Wacht- ler, an employe of the Hammond Packing company, lives at Thirty-second and Web- ster streets, The account glven by Floth is in sub- atance as follows “Four of us were walk- ing east on Cuming street shdrtly after mid- night when we stumbled over a coat lying on the sidewalk in front of a blacksmith shop. We picked it up and began looking about for owner. Finally we came across Fee sitting on the curbstone near by. He had been drinking some. We got him to g6 with us to the rear of the shop and there we rushed the n After a while it was suggested that we rush the can a n and that Fee pay for it. He replied that he had no money, but that he had some ‘booze of hig own that he could drink without ask- ing any odds of us and as he spoke he took a balf-pint flask of whisky out of his inside coat pocket and began to drink. “That made the boys mad and one of them told him that If he was so d independent ho shouldn't have drunk from the first can Then he ‘got gay.' 1 took a hand in the quarrel, and £o did Coyne, and finally Coyne struck him in the This made him worse than ever and 1 struck him with my fist four or five times.” face. Coyne Corroborate ' Ntory. Coyne corrohorates the foregoing in sub- stance and adds: “'As the four of us were leaviog the place, suddenly Floth spoke up and sald: ‘I believe I'll go back and finish the — — —!' At that wo all refurned to where Fee sat on the ground. Floth struck him three times with his fist. Fee shut his eyes and fell over on his back. Then Floth Kicked him twice In the head and we went away.” Floth, Coyna and Mollner were arrested shortly after 12 o'clock Thursday, and Wachtler somewhat later In the afternoon. The dead man's watch was found in a patch of weeds near the scene of the mur- der, where Floth had thrown It. It 1s sup- posed that the watch, which Is of little value, was taken to give the impression that the job had been done by footpads with robbery as the motive. Fee's Body was found in the rear of the blacksmith shop 05 Cuming street, shortly before 6 o'clock yesterday morning by G. W. Ketchum, a motorman on the Park avenue car line. Life apparently had been extinct about five hours. Story Watchler Tells, John Wachtier admitted that he was with Harry Floth, Leo Coyne and Mike Mollner when Fee was beaten to death. The story, told by him, differs somewhat from that told by the other three. He says that the four of them were drinking heavily and run across Fee, who was also intoxicated. They Ml retired into the blacksmith shop and after being there some time, a quarrel arose and Fec wae knocked down by one of the men and two of the others commenced Kickiug him. When they were through Fee lay quite stll, ko they all left. After going a short distance the other three left Wachtler, with the {ntention of going back and “fixiug” Fee. He came home then and did not see the others again. He said that he never saw Foe before that night The packing house men, with whom Wachtler work, say that he Is a quiet, fn~ offensivo young man and they never heard of bis having been in trouble before, There was every evidence of a desperate struggle near the scene of the crime and Judging from the nature of the wounds and from the fact that the deceased wi a powerful man, there was reason to su pose that there were at least two assail- ants. Two days previous to his death Fee had drawn a month's pay and it was at first supposed that this constituted the motive for the atrocity. When the cloth seiirched at the coroner's not a c was found in the pockets. His watch was alsa gone, tha leather chuin huving been pulled in_two, The police belleved this watch would prove a valuable clue to the identity of the murderers, s a card found among the effects of the deceased gave its description and number. The pawnshops were watched closely fn the hope that they would attempt to dispose of it. Several susplclouk characters who have been seen of late hanging about in the vicinlfy of the murder were arrested before the right parties were finally found. Detec- tives Savage, Dunn, Johnson and Dempsey and Captaln Iler were especially instru- mental In working up the caso and great credit 18 due them and the eutire depart- went for prompt and eficlent service. Find Body in Roadway. Tt was barely daylight yesterday when G. W. Ketchum, motorman, in cut- ting across lots on his way to the car barn, discovered the dead body of a man Iying on a dirt roadway in the rear of a blacksmith shop at 3505 Cuming street It was stretchad upon its back, the legs widely separated, the eft arm extending at right angles to the body and the right Iying across tbe chest. The head was resting upon a small hummock of earth within ten fnches of'the rear wall of the EASILY DECIDED, This Question Should Ba Answered Easily by Omzha People. Whieh 1s wiser—to have confidence in the opinions of your fellow citizens or depend on statements by utter strangers? Read this Mr. F. B. Klogsbery of 1823 Dorcas street, carpenter by trade, says: “Doan’s Kidney Pills are a good medicine and I can recom- mend them. I had an attack of kidney troubls for two months and for two weeks [ Gerhart of 1 bofore T got Doan's Ki¢ney Pills 1 could not | mont, K work on account of my back. I commenced using the remedy and soon noticed its ben- ficlal effect. The pain in my back laft ms and the irregularfly with the kidney secretions was correctod. I consider Doan's Kidnoy Pills the best kidoey and urinary medicine I ever used.” For salo by all dealets. Price 50 cents. ter-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole uts for the United Statws. Remewber the uane, Doay ober, F and take no| 2chieved an enviable record In his el 'HE OMAHA DAILY B shop and_was surrounded by a pool of | blood. Blood was spattered upon tho | siding and on the windew, two fast above were red stains made, evidently before the man had fallen The head was feightfully battered s by the regulation “blunt instr: ment," a beer hottle or elub. No less than ten blows had been struck, the heaviest and probably the one that caused death | being upon the top of the skull, where the | bair was thin. Both eyes wers swollen | cived in the face: the | lips, nose and right ear are cut, and there | are abrasions of the skin over both cheek | bones. No wounds are apparent except on | the head and face Ketchum notified the police and a few minutes later Detectives Savage and Dunn | were upon the scene. Then the coroner | arrived and took the body to his undertak- ing rooms, where it is being embalmed™ An | Inquest will be held this afternoon at 2| o'clock | Suaplclous Characters Seen, | E. G. Fee, a bachelor about 41 years old, | lived alone in a little shanty at 842 North | Twenty-elghth avenue. He was o man who drank conslderably, but was seldom under the influence of liquor. Two doors north | of Fee's shanty is a large frame house which has been vacant for some time, and in this house, say the neighbors, two tough looking characters have been sleep ing of late. Wednesday thess men were seen in company with Fee. This furnished the police a clew, but it wi s00n aban- doned as unavailable. €0 far as known Fee had no near relatives, Two years ago his mother died, and since then he has been living alone. Two cousing, however, Mesdames Lacy and Coyle, live in Cotineil Bluffs Among his effects was found a working card showing him to be a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, No. 22 Leo Coyne, who lives at Thirtieth ana Webster streets, is & notorious police char- acter and has been arrested a dozen times within the last year, usually on a charge ot “drunk and disorderly.” Hae is a professional | “can rusher." But Judge Gordon of the police court Invariably turaed him loose, rul- ing that “can rushing" is not disorderly con. duct Of Harry Floth less is known. The police have no recollection of his being mixed up in any brewls before. He lives on Thirty- second street, between Cuming and Durt. 4 complaint of murder in the second de- gree will be filed against Floth and Coyne today. Floth, by the way, 18 not yet ad- vised of his victim's death. TREAT ~ OMAHANS Two Wonld-Be Conce rested and Thrown City Ja | BADLY tonaires Ar- to Capital Sol Metzler and Roy White of Omaha, who went to Lincoln last week to get a | cigarstand concession at the Grand Army of | the Republic reunion, scem to have been the victims either of mistaken {dentity or of uncalculating zeal on the part of the Lincoln police department, or both. In any event, they left the capital city with much less money than they took into it, besides having an unpleasant experience in jail and police court, “About 2:30 o'clock Saturday morning," says Metzler, “three detectives came up {0 our room in the Lincoln hotel and ordered us to put on our clothes and accompany them to the police station. ' ‘How much money have you got one of the officers. “I answered that I had $45. 14 he, ‘you give me $5. refused, whereupon he took me by the arm and pulled me along with him. The other men took White and we lald in, jail until Baturday night. “In the meantime we learned that there bad been & burglary committed in Lincoln and that we were accused of it. Our hear- Ing was to be Tuesday of this week. I got out on bond, came back to Omaha to attend to some business and returned to Lincoln Tuesday morning, but hadn't been in the city an hour till I was arrested again, this time for vagrancy. Finally, in a consulta tion with the city prosecutor, he asked me 1t T would be satisfied to leave the $45 with him and get out of town. I told him I would, anything to get out of jall. So here I am, and my money is in Lincoln. It 1ooks te me like & shabby deal."t Fires Last Night. The small frame cottage at 1417 Chicago street, occupled by Harry Norman. was damaged to the extent of $10 by fire Thurs- day evening. The fire started in some un- known manner In a clothes press and dam- aged $100 worth of wearing apparel. The loss was fully covered by insurance. Wh the department was at this fire the refl tion of a burning bullding could be plainly seen in the western sky. It proved to be that of a farm house located hotween Ben- son and Krug park, which was struck by lightning and totally destroyed. asked Changes at Fede Building. The amproval of the plans of the supervis- ing architect of the Omaha federal bullding for @ change in the office of the weather bureau and the creation of another room on the fourth floor of the building will make wome changes in the other ofces. The new room will be eccupled by the supervising architect, and Miss Viola Coffin, secretary of the civil service, will be glyen the room now occupied by the architeot, tha one assigned her at the time the building was constructed. The following licenses to wed have been issued from the office of the county judge: Name and Restdence. Willlam Pixler, Omaha Ada Whiting, Omaha Joe Bilek, South Omaha Mary Semerad, South Omaha.. . Fellx Michalowicz, 8outh Omaha.. Teresa Herdzna, South Omana.. Frank Delaney, South Omaha Mary Bllek, South Omaha Nels Nelsen, Omaha 1da May Brown LOCAL BREVITIES John Jacobsoy has been granted a bullding permit for a_ $100 barn at Twenty-elghth avenue and Maple street The city veterinarian has quarantined the sale yards at Twenty-fAifth and Burt sireets Cows oiered for sale at that place wera found to be suffering from an infectious disease, The Omaha Country club has recorded :he purchase of fIfiy-two acres wdjolning 1 club quarters. ‘The land comprises the golf links and was bought from W. J. Connell and wife for $11,50, Faulkner Gifford, a farmer living seven miles southwest of the city, hax bean arrested at the instance of Ailen Root, jr his nephew and a son of Jesse C. Roof, on a charge of assault. The case has bean set for hearing before Justice Learn Sep- tember 1. City Electrickn Schurig has filed infor- mation against the Mica Roofing compiny, charging it with interfering and tampering with electrical conductors. Workmen_ em- ployed by the company are said to have thrown heavy roofing materials upon a 500- volt power elrcuit of the Thomson-Hoyston company. thereby breaking a wire, ai the corner of Thirteenth and Howard stroets PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. T. E. Townsend of Lincoln s at the Mur- ray 8. L. Allen of Beatr) WL Wolte, a me Neb, 1t the Millard | Willam H. Ketcham of Crawford, W. I{ ncoln, H. B. Treat of Fre- \wage of Sargent and [ Fullerton were state guests at | the and Thursduy Nebraskans at the Merchunts Thursday Ed A Fry Niobrara, J. H. Yost of Har- vard, L. R. Hileman ' of McCook, L. I Witherbee of Lamar, W. ¢, Humobrev of Friend, 8. R. Boyd of 8t. Paul, I. H. Rickel of Junlata and R. 8. Chittenden of Dawsan. Harry Bowlby, son of €. Y. Bowlby, the Crete newspaper man. was In Omahn last evening enroute to West Point, where he is serving his cadetship. He has been at West Point for twe vears anl has s 18 At the Murray " chant of Nligh, 18 | Penney | Ter as well as in his soldierly traini Wil not Quish for two years, gating the case that Mr. Balch was the only etti talked with Mr. Balch shortly after the character lurking about the depot whom he spotted by some Chicago crook as a banker | and ASSACLT AND ROB - BALCH Omaha Banker the Victim of Strange En- counter on Sleeping Car. NO OTHER PASSENGERS ARE MOLESTED Bold Rohb the Theory that Haleh Carrie Large Su of W | Edward E. Balch, assistant cashicr of the | Omaha National bank, was assaulted and | robbed in a Pullman s eeper on a Northwe: ern train while coming from Chicago to Omaha yesterday. He roughly han died, brutally mauled about the head ani | did not regain consclousness for )l'\l‘r.\l} hours after the assault Immediately upon | the arrival of the train in Omaha at 8:40 this | morning Mr. Balch was removed (o his home at 2704 Farnam street, where medical atton- tion was given his wounds. The attending physician does not anticipate any serious consequences from the injuries. The perp: trator of the deed escaped with $50 in cash and two drafts of $50 cach belonging to Mr. Balch. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Amoretti, jr living at 2528 California street, were also visited by the robber, who secured $5 in | cash and a valuable revolver The affair is a mysterious one in every particular. Not the slightest clew as to the {dentity of the robber is at hand and tho thoories advanced by those who are investi- gating the’ case are decidedly vague. The robber did not attempt to hold up all of the pussengers in the sleeper. He awoke none of the occupants and accomplished his work with the greatest stealth. The Pullman sleeper in which the robbery occurred was in charge of a colored porter, who insists that he was wide awake the en- tire night and neither saw nor heard any- thing indicating the eommission of an as- sault or a robbery. Mr. Balch and his wite occupled lower berths in the forward end of the car on opposite sides of the aisle. About daylight yesterday just as the train was leaving Grand Junction, Ia., Mrs. Baleh | awakenad and parted the curtains of her husband's berth to #co it he wero sleeping eoundly. She was horrified to find him in- sensible, with his head pillowed in a pool of | blood, which was stiil being fed by the flow from several doep cuts about bis head and face. Mrs. Balch staunched the gaping wounds and made her husbaud as comfort- able as possible until the train reached | Omaha. Ehe discovered that her husband's clothing, lying in the upper borth, had been ransacked and that his coat was missing. His pocketbook, also, had been taken from beneath his pillow. It contained the money which the robber secured as his booty as Other Passengers Not Molested. The few passengers in the sleeper were in ignorance of tho tragic happenings of | the night until they awoke in the morning Search developed the fact that Mr. Balch | and Mr. and Mrs. Amoretti were the only | victims of the robber's visit to the car “I awoke at 6:30," sald M. Amorett!, “and discovered that the cloth- ing of my husband and myselt had been ransacked and a small valise lying in tho upper berth opened. From this valise my pocketbook was taken. It contained about 5. Besides this a 4l-caliber Colt revolver was stolen. “Just about daylight 1 awoke from my sleep and went to the dressing room for a drink. As I passed the berths occupfed by Mr. and Mrs. Balch I noticed her sitting in Mr. Balch's berth. She said nothing to me and 1 not dware that Mr, Balch had been injured." Mr. Amorett! advances about the only plausible theory as ta the motive of the robbery. It is absolutely certain that the bandit had no intention of holding up the sleeper, as none of the other passengers were disturbed. Consequently, it is deemed likely by railroad officials who are investi- intended victim of the robber, Mr. Amor- train left Chlcago and the latter stated that he had noticed a suspiclous | had also seen in the First National bank at Chicago during the afternoon. From this it is thought probable that Mr. Balch was | was believed to have considerable money with him. This crook probably boarded the jsame train as Mr. Balch and bided his chance to rob him. After secretly gaining entrance to the sleeper he accom- plished his purpose and is supposed to have left the train somewhere in the vicluity of Boone Northwestern officials are making ¥ possible effort (o apprehend the robber and police officers in all towns along the North- western route in lowa have been instructed to keep a sharp lookout for all suspiclous characters. Because of Mr. Balch's condi- tion he has not as yet been able to make a statement and it is not known whether or not hg will be able to identify the robber. W. A, Paxton Also Loses to Thief. W. A, Paxton, sr., was the victim of a sleeping car robbery Wednesday while en route home from Chicago over the Jlinois Central. Somewhere between Dubuque and Omaha his clotbing was rifled while he was asleep, his losses including between $140 and $150, some valuable papers and a book of rallroad passes. It is presumed that some | thief went through the car hurriedly and succeded in examining only the garments of | Mr. Paxton before he was interrupted and frightened away. . ; S aearle ae SRt o, T ol 4 1 AMUSEMENTS. “A Play Without a Name''— In & “Play Without a Name," presented at Boyd's last night by the Redmond Stock company, we have a home-grown comedy- drama written in Omaha by Mr. E. B.| Smith of Tho Bee editorial staff, and placed | upon the stage almost before the ink Is | dry. Though a finished product, it has | pussed through the various processes of its creation with all the dispatch of an after- noon newspaper; it is “steaming from the | press,” and too young to have a name. If the opening night is a fair criterion by which to judge of this production, there 15 before it a promising future, as the house was crowded and the applause frequent and hearty. It was well received Perhaps the largest audience that has attended any of the Redmond performances, prompted by local pride and a desire to encourage ‘in- fant fndustries,” braved the storm to hear a dectdedly clover and original piece of w and to give its author the glad hand One of the most striking phases of the production was the fact, apparent to all that the play was admirably adapted to the players. The linos seemed to have written to “fit" the persons who were to speak them. Joe, the tramp, was droll and dry; Martba White, the watron, gentle kindly, reserved; Nellie, her daughte fined and natural; Jason Rice, crabbed and parsimonious; Busie Beckwith, vivaclous and eprightly. The part of Bert Rice, th dude, as played by Fred Parker, could not have been improved, and Guy Durrell, im personated by Doc White, Nellie's stalwart and manly brother, with good effect, though the character scarcely called out his best talents. At the close of the first act Mrs. Dollie Rathbun-Chesley sang a solo, *Robert, from the opera, “Robert le Diable,” in her exquisite soprano, and responded to an in evitable encore. At tbe close of the scc- | been re | that | tober FRIDAY ond there was a general call for the author M mith appeared t the footlights nd made a fow cheerful remarks, in which he esee] himself as highly pleased with hsafed his work and con audience its of ¥ ¢ gratulated the upon senso In made produc no st ng this drama the author has dled effort to break away from the familiar forms of plot which have proved %0 effective in the He has been orlg inal, but his originality is more manifest in the situ, vhich are striking, and the lines, which are crisp and sprightly, than in the plot itzelf, which, in its general trend has many counterparts on the stage day The motif in this Instance is little more than a vehicle for the delivery of gome unique predicaments and ensrgetic dialogu» It furnishes the pretext for bringing the people on the stage and cues for their lines and this is all that's asked of it After all, there is good reason to doubt it anything could be gained by departing materfally from the time-honored limita- tions and the well-worn grooves of the cur- rent comedy-drama in the matter of a plot The point is to touch the vein of human interest and nothing accomplishes this so well as the old forms. Dramatists of the past have pretty thoroughly rified the field for such material The “Play Without a Name" deals with love, with a slight sprinkling of intrigue. and comes out strong on comedy. On one side there {s the cold-bloode scheming of the villain, the feeble sallies of the society dude and the avarice and hypoerisy of the purse-proud lender played up by way of contrast against the quaint old rural homestead, the white haired father and mother with their simple, wvhole some habits of life, and the love adven- tures of their marriageable children. That this combination makes the shortest cut to the human attention aud sympathy can- not be gainsaid. In support of fts efficacy it has the argument of endurance; it has stood the test of time. past to money The principal araeter in the play fs Joe, a tramp, coneeived with an eye single to the talents of Ed Redmond, who plays e part. Joe is a_picturesque personality and a living answer to the conundrum, ““How to Be Natural Though Rich.” Once an outcast, the disgraced son of “‘poor but honest parents, he wanders aimlessly across the continent and permits the im pression to go abroad that he {s dead. Dur. ing this brakeheam existence, by the way he picks up the jargon of his unwashed companions. He learns their happy-go- lucky modes of life, become proficient in their repartee and absorbs thelr philosophy All these stay by him to the end. Though he strikes it rich in the gold fields and Roes back east a millionalre to 1ift the mortgage on the old homestead, he doesn't forget the homely schooling of the road side. He takes with him the ethics of the incarnato appetite, and this it Is that supplies - the soul of the play, compen- sating for any triteness which an un- friendly eye might detect in the plot. The entire mechanism pivots on the pungent thrusts and pointed refoinders of Joe, the tramp capltalist. They are its best ex- cuse for existence, JOHN L. WEBSTER SAYS NO| He In Not Ready to Let the Repub- Heans, Say at the Primaries Whom They Prefer. OMAHA, Aug 1000.—~To My Fellow Republicans of Douglas County: My atten- tion has been called to the communications of John C. Wharton and Hon. E. Rosewater, republished in The Evening Bee of this date, suggesting that aspirants for United States senatorship submit their names to the pop- ular vote at the coming.primaries in Doug- las county. This would be out of harmony with the established usage and a proceeding unknown to the constitution and laws of our country. 1f the pames of candidates should be voted for directly by the people 1t should be at a general election and not at a primary elec- tion, and not confined to the single county of Douglas, but throughout {he tody of the en- tire state, and then only the votes of those should ba counted who voted for the entire republican ticket. There I8 no law or party rule of procedure that authorizes the recelving of 'such ballots | at a primary election, or that ceuld compel | their canvass or the announcement of the result. It would not be binding on anybody | unless, under a sense of honor, it should be | accopted as an instruction to the nominees for the legislature It would not tend to harmonize, but would rather intensify and aggravate any existing partisan feeling, a thing to be deplored rather than encouraged. 1t would be far better that the United States *enatorship and the ambitions of sen rial candidates shoula not be mentioned in the county convention. No aspirant should ask for an endorsement at the convention, but the nominees for the legislature should be left free and untram- | meled (o go Into a caucus of their fellow republicans to select for United States sena- tor the most avaflable, true and unfiinching republican to represent the state in the United States senate. The republican party fs greater than any single ' man and its interests and welfare are superior to the ambitions of any candi- date. It would be rather presumptuous for us of Douglas county to assume to decide who should be senator, for senators are elected by the state to represent the state and are not selected by a county to rep- resent a county, and the people of the state might justly regent the assuming to our- selves #0 much Importance, There are persons residing in other parts of the state who are also candidates and may clatm consideration from the legisla- tive ticket selected fn Douglas county. Are they to be fgnored? Are their names also to be voted upon at the Douglas county primarfos? It seems to me f. betier to nominate a legislative ticket made up of good men and all republicans of Douglas county should unite in a cordial spirit and ener- getlo effort to secure thelr election and frust to the wisdom of the republican mem- bers of the legislature, representing all in- terests and the whole state, to elect two, not one, United States senators, who will be acceptable to all the peopla and best serve the state and the republican party in that supreme body of the national legls- lature JOHN L. WEBSTER THREE TALKS IN NEW YORK Bryan Will Go East in 0 Put the Paramount Issue on Exhibitiol NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Chairman Frank Campbell of the democratic state committee announced tonight that William J. Bryan would speak in this city on October 16, at Albany on October 17 and Rochester on Oc- 15 Ex ator Hill will preside at bany meeting and make an addre ome, Mr. Hill was at the ters this afternoon ¥ the s of wel democratic but refused litics with the newspaper men In response to a coll issued Egan, minister to Chili under Harrison's administration, and others, over 100 Irish Americans met tonight and reorganized tem vorarily the Irish-American union. They announce that they will support Mr. Bryan because of his antl-imperialistic attitude. At republican national headquarters it was headquar to discuss by Patrick | respects | was plentiful AUGUST ushers in a new day for a p those who try the delights of using it. One is never satisfied with anything else,who once uses JAP ROS EVOLVED FROM GLYCERIN AND NATURAL ROSES KIRK MAX®s ITDEALERS ® % ) ) ) MERCER IN SEVENTH WARD (linxed so that instcad of boing here noxt ‘ month | this state until October | FaRrGo, N. D, Aug Arrangement | for the entertainment of Gagernor Roose | velt are about complete. All the repul |ican state nominecs will act as escort pricipal | o de candidate across soa k! e % P o Seventh | for th idential can speaker at the meeting of th LU g ¥ {10 Supablisatn. ot Republican club last night. The !! : . threatening weather, followed by a heavy |th® Mis “‘{ gather and in : shower, reduced the attendance, but a fajr | PUmber bundreds of ranchmen slzed crowd was present when the meet- | [FOm the part of tho state, mos ing was called to order. A. W. Jefferis |°f Whom are personal fricnds of the vice made the preliminary talk, followed by |Presidential nomince. M. Morsman and M. A. Hall, who said they would like to go to the legislature for | house and senate respectively. Josgeph | lown Richards also announced himselt as a | Mist in Polit candidate for state semator CORNING, In, Aug Congressman Mercer opened by saying |seph Beath of this place, in order to learn that the present campaign would in some |the true facts in the matter of when the be in an interesting one. “In |custom of paying gold on demand for dues 1896, safd he, “the opposition announced |from the United started, wrote to that they intended to conduct a campaign | the secretary of the treasury at Washing of education. They were met upon that |ton for information. Following is his let ground by the republicans. The education ster and the answer recoived and splendidly distributed the Hon cretary of ‘!lv. The people digested the lessons thoroughly |- 1} Ushington, D. . “bear Sir: and the result was a most sweeping vic- (v, R Mctinnis, the demoerath tory for the republican party. Today the |for congress in the I',h.(lvlll district of Town history made by the administration In |from the ('nited States and Willinm M. carrying out the promises of the platform | Kinley followed it W my understand- of 1896 and the republican party has ful “I';‘\i ":“'VI 'm”,‘f.\,'; H’I'I‘: '.vf""'“ 'm aur ."":\_ filled cvery line and every promise of that |cent duting the suspension of spects pay platform. That is why we are proud of nd for sfiver certific ase the record of the party and fearless of e “U‘vl e and the attacks of the opposition. The oppo . " sition party in ite platform made prom ises and predictions of dire disaster if | the republican party was successful and said that no prosperity would be possible without a change in the monetary sys- tem. They freely predicted that the coun- try would go to the demnition bowwows within ninety days after the election of McKinley. They made these statements in Omaha, in this ward. Men and women boys and girls studied the financial ques- | tlon,\for it was In a sense something new. | After serious consideration the countr voted and later events have provegl that it voted right Prosperity and the Populists, « was expected, ho will not be in Our Dave Addresses the Clu Own Bailiwiek on Iss the Day. Congressman Mercer of Hix . of was the vice pre AL B ourt slope will be western the FALSE STATEMENT OF DEMOCRAT, Candidate for Congress Makes clal) —Jo 3 ‘Treasury the Hon in the case JOSEPIT BEATIT The following letter is in reply to Mr. Beath's letter WASHINGTON, Aug seph Beath, Corning, 1a I reply to your letter of the 13th fnsta you are fnformed that any statement the effect that the cixtom of pay on demand originated during tho administration 18 crroneous &eo from the enclosed circular ®, where the redemption of notes in gold is shown to have begun 1570, immediately after the redemption of specie payments. It has always been the practice of the department to redecm coin obligations in gold when gold has been de manded, R trully yours, F."A. VANDERLIP, Assistant Secretary 1000, —~Mr. Jo- United in Noon-Day Ve CHICAGO, Aug € deliver his first speech of the campaign at the Noon-Day Commercal and club meeting in this city next unoon. George J. Cory, president club, bas arranged for addresse following speakers during the Scnator M. A. Hanna, Governor Scnator Foraker, Senator Fairbank Dolliver, Senator Davis, Congrossman osvenor, Ligutenant Gevernor \Woodruft {and other prominent speakers of mational reputation e S in Chicag ““This country today is enjoying a higher degree of prosperity than is falling to the lot of any other country. Fhe cry of 16 to 1-is like a ghost to Bryan and his cohorts. Whenever it is heard they run As they sidetracked 16 to 1 they sent the income tax along with it, counting upon more liberal contributions to the campaign fund by wealthy people in New York this plan was adopted. Today Mr. Bry was notified of his nomination by the pop ulist party. He is really the populist nom inee for president. I wish every one of you would read his speech at Topeka ac- cepting the nomination. He is careful fn his efforts to show where the democrats and poulists agree, but he was more care ful not to show where he stands upon those questions where the parties do not agree. When the republican party 1s in power times are good; when the opposition takes the reins they become bad. When respon- sibility rests upon the shoulders of the op- position chaos follows. Many populists are honest, but they have been bamboozled by the democrats. Two-thirds of the dem ocratic party is controlled by people liv- ing south of Mason and Dixon's line and when you know that you can understand why everything goes topsy turvy when it 18 in power. We will sweep the country this year so completely that they will have nothing north of Mason and Dixon's line except Colorado, although we may lose Kentucky because they have arranged to steal it. Silver Republicans’ Attitade, Monday of the by the campaign 2 Roosevelt Bryan Will Sp TOPEKA, Kan., A decided to add Marysville, Kan., to present itinerary. He will speak at Man- hattan tomorrow morning, at Marysville in the afternoon and at Beatrice, Neb., tomor- row night. K nt Maryaville, 23.—~Mr. Bryan has Moon Nu CHATTANOOGA, Third Aug. ngressional district democratic con- vention, held in this city today, unani- mously nominated John A. Moon for re- election to congress d u Story, n, a lnboring man, police station Thursday evening with ¥ John H | the Like Omaha's Carnival— Drex L. Shooman's shoes are the hest I the world-and no one pretends to carry any such stock of and childeen's shoes a8 we do-Our $1.50 is & wonder—equal in wear and satistaction to our boys' shoe at the same price—We have a very large line of misses’ 1115 to in welts at £2.25 to $3.00-Children's 815 to 11 & it to $2.25- the line that we can't hogin to give | zeneral tdea of it e en Come in, “When the democrats sidetracked free misses silver they threw the free silver repub licans over the transom and robbed them of their clothes. Most of them will follow Senator Stewart back into the republican party where they belong. When Charlie Towne, an able young man, was thrown down at Kansas City an insult was offerc to the populist party which will be re sented by Senator Butler and his friends at Chicago. In the Kansas City convention Senator Tillman had tears in his when he referred to the condition of the Porto Ricans and Filipinos, but he is the man who in the senate sald they could not kill enough n oes in the south satisfy his appetite.” The speaker then dwelt upon growing out of the Spanish war, saying that the policy of the administration in regard to the Philippines could not be hon estly criticised, as that policy had not been announced W. F. Gurley concluded upon the issues of the twenty-minute talk, shoe a 2 sizes $1.75 80 larg You even a just the misses’ and We can satisfy dren you 'Drexel Stoe Co., Omaha's Up-to-dnte Shoo ous 1819 FARNAM STREET. affairs briefly touching campaign in a No Pictures Excluded — Our entire stock included in this great overstock art and every pleture subject to this cut It is to your interest ite this, for never able to take advan tage of such prices on high grade copy | right subjects—Here hint at the | discounts we are giving -10¢ plctares 1 cont yeent pletures CARNEGIE IS NOT FOR BRYAN Report That lake the Stump f ¥ rat, to | again will you iy | LONDON, Au Cablegram Sy graphed And castle, his whather the tended to stump " Publishing New York Telegram.)—1 gle, who is at Skibo residen ing report was true in the United for | Bryan because of his opposition to imperi- alism. Mr, Carnegle rey There no truth in the report orld | 25-cent pletures, 10 h-cent $1.00 pletures, ) cents W conts pletures, 25 conts conts - 8100 ‘W Carn 0 conts 0 oteh | pietures, $1.00 [« 0% conts ers rangiug in price from §5.00 to 850,00 the discount 10 to The list includes the ies of the world's that nts pletures, on oth States 18 from W0 per cent and orviginal co Ereatest A artiss Roosevelt and o DEADWOOD, in the Dakotas. i said tonight that Senator Hanna had re turned to Elberon, not fee'ing very well Chairman Mauley returned from Malne to- lay, D, Aug. 23—Word ha been received from H. C. Payne, vic bairman of the national republican com wittee, stating that the program for Goy ergor Roosevelt’s Itinerary bas ‘" A. HOSPE, Muslo and Art, 1613 Dougtas, \ | | been | ator Cullom will | Industrial | Sen- | his | appeared at | | | | candidate | | po long tule jumpt Tower robbing him of marks of rough W Intoxicuted Sory him locked up. Ret out to fnvestigte the 1 and almost th from him w d tobac Ing 80 1n g m. ki I treatment ant Wi vy Heat first thiv 0 sack ¢ NAME HUTCHISON'S SUCCESSOR, 1A Assintant ¢ Ament for Unig rt of the Chicago, ereit ¥ nenge Gerrit Passenger 1" coretary ation Istant general agent of the Union Pucifi pany. vice 8. A. Hutchison, whose tion became offective August 1 will assume the dutics of his new September 1 By well-informed rallroad lection of Mr. Fort for thin important position 18 considercd a most happy He is reputed (o be a most capable seng n, versed 1o business by reason experience all of its branches roading has beon east. He commenced Central and worked senger department clerk in the ger system under four years ago position of sec Central has been passon ratlrond ition men the se. one, I the in every Wl of His expericnce in rail anflued entirely to the with the New through the pass he became chiet senger office of that H. Danfels. About Fort was offered the of (he Central Pas~ assoclation, which he accepted. that time he has filled the position with signal guccess and comes directly to the Union Pacific from the Central I senger ation up until ral pa George Mr. ary The woif in the fab clothing bocause if he t reputation ho ceuldn’ & telters Pl on sheep's eled on his own accomplish his pur- of DeWitt's Witch Salve ildn’t gell thelr worthless on thelr merits, %o they put them in and wrappers like DeWitt's. Look out for them. Take oniy DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. It piles and all skin diseases. Hazel salves boxes cures Tngalis & ATCHIE Kan, Aug. The will of the late Senator John J. 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