Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 6, 1900, Page 8

N NEWS O COUNCIL MINOR MENTION, 3 Bdy. B way it w Lemp's J Mr W balnier Wh M he street th yes h Hea the, frering \ | Grand hot M i Mrs bowill Jar ree staft t curb be pas wer for n engers of the cause The 2001 Av Funaw Flord his home Dur minsi and I Rev there ral W ) wred ni hil moved o i a y i He w C Wi The boy Unfon 1 the n ha i 4 NOW open held this afternoon J. Knlekman wil induy at 1l a. m. a f the late held this Francs ving the v repait ve w and foes m Anna M morning at Xavir's church Rev. Father and_inter metery who died meral « Mrs y wi'l b olelock from St the cortey Breadway, at B0 o' Smyth will condict th ment will be in the Cathe “The funeral of Christlan Otte. Thursduy at the home ot his daughter, Mrs Augusta ileisler, on Harrison street, "wili bo held this afternoon at 3 o'clock 'from the German Lutheran charch on Seventh avenue. Interment will be in Walnut Cometery, Deceuased was 8 years of The attraction for Eunday night at the Dohiny theater {8 the play, I he Eleventh Hour, Lincon J. Carter & new production, Mr Carfer demonstrates fully the entire workings of the “block system that re duces Accidents on rallroads to a mini mum. How few people that are riding on W fast train and flash by a block siznal tower know what is contained therein and what {mportant factor that tower i to the sate guidance of trains. All this will be cleariy deplcted in rodi tlon of thix piay that has mor riling climaxes than any piece ever brought out by Mr. Carter I K i N. Y. Plumbing Co., telepnone 250, Davis sells paint. Use Domestic soap. It's the best. dance, Huyler hall tonight orchestra K. P Whaley Hank Affairs of about $60,000 yesterday The omcer Claims to the were fled in the by creditors of Officer & Pusey's bank claim filed for $0,000. The of claims in the hands of of the d court about A Pusey amount district court W now trict largest ns RERTOK the clark $150,000 Some is consternation among the depositors of the bank yesterday when it reported that it would be at least months before any dividend would be pald. This information was said to come di from (b It this should be the case it is bound to work n hardship on many of the smaller husiness firms which banked with the firm W. E. Lewis applied to the terday for order author coivers to tracts for held by he has mot the tracts and that was was threo ' recelvers. court zing the surrender a number the manufacture of m curlty. Lewls to fulfill the has a purchaser to take the contracts off his hands and pay $100 for them. He asks that pay- ment of this $100 the receivers be ordered to surrender the contracts, which call for the 0 of monuments, the total value being § an re of con iments ates them as means he ready erecti welve Domestic soap ells on its merits. @ Now due & per cent erly Water Billa Pay betore 10 and save Office open Saturday evening. October Domestlc soap outlasts cheap soap. Howell's Anti-"Kawf" cures coughs, colds. Weal Extate 1 The following tranafer @ay in the abstract, title J. W. Squire, 101 Pearl Charles A Dewey 1o Devol, lof 11, block 17 mers add d Claus Tenry Poter: Riley, lots dith's fern were filed yester and loan office of tree I [ & 4,000 block wd 1 7. Mere add to 1 Avoca " Two transfer ting " ABETOR Largest Variety Reliable Shoes for Ghildren at HAMILTON'S Shoa Store - e FARM LOANS Negotlated and_lowa 126 Main St v il Blufts Save Your Mone!\ BAVINGS, LOAN AND BUILE Investing With the VN 138 Pearl Street, Council Blu@is, la. | direction of the express car, as he thought | this summer, il | experienced | F INTERI BLUFFS. |BAXTER'S WORK IS ENDORSED 8 8hot the Robber. Coroner's Jury 0 ENGINEER'S STORY OF THE HOLDUP punt of the Movements of a ir Methods of e Occurred. Graphie erday ng | robber the jury d the Adams expre Justified in shoot E. Eas Vigo Badollett and W. 8. Goodrich comprised the The testimony of Engineer John Don Fireman Frank Holman and Expre senger Baxter was listened to with much interest by the crowd present ngineer Donnelly was the first witness to testity. He sald: “Shortly after leaving | the Rock Island crossing my fireman, Frank | | Holman, called ne and, looking around, I saw & man with his face masked crawling over the tender 1 knew 1 had u covered with b Instant hand then the fell pull down to the covered bridge k. Rea the center of the ordered up and stop were her the train another appeared so sud 1 fel bridg ond fellow then « and compelled him to uncouple mall and express cars from the rest of back with the fireman 1 me to pull ahead and 1 asked He rald a| but two station over ad Charle messenger ing and killing tralt E. Haxter was held to be man b Hefore both where hi \ leath. O told went up w an t the bridge when ere hing the mail and express car 1 When 1 stopped man with a gun from somewhere me to slow on the denly a certain waitiy t b The an ba for us. firer the the the fellow t him how far mile and a half, to go within of the next 1 told him within two miles of the next o1 the fellow who got at the bridge then ordered we to pull down the road un- | Ul he told me He ordered stop about a quarter of a mile s o tra about a mile or not miles we were and on to stop me to rossing | Blowing the Car 0 | | “The two rov th % then ordered us out of | engine and marched us down to the ess car. As pi the mall car the clerks put head out of the door, | but quickly drew again when the rob- | ber next to me threatened to blow his 1| off. At car the tallest of the | two robbers orde to call to the ex the of his 1 did 5o several times, bat recelved no answer. The fellow then ordered me to tell Baxter that if he did not open the door they would blow the c with dynamite. 1 did as the ro but of course re celved no answer, as Baxter was not in the car, as I afterward learned. One of the rob- bers took @ sack from under his jumper and from it brought out a stick of dynamite, which he placed on the door sill of the ex press Hle handed me a matchsafe, | which I stiil have, and ordered me to light | the ture. The matches went out in the wind and the tall fellow escorted me back to the | glne and made me get a torch. Then I |1t the fuse and the dynamite exploded tearing a hole in the door and part of the sill off. After I lit the fuse the dered all to stand hack 1 was again ordered to tell the me that if he opened the do would not be Injured one of the fellows, with messenger must be fron have shown. placed two stick ex we passed oue it in the expres of me press messenger open door car up ordered car. man or us | enger | out he | no reply and oath, sald the Missouri and would The tall fellow then of dynamite on the door i1l and I was again made to light fuse. | This time there wa big the door was blown off |body of the car and a big hole They then made me and Frank | inte the car and see whether the me there or not We told them and that the messeng evidently dropped out that way. We were then ordered out of the car and the tall 4 robber jumped in and commenced to throw the packages around. He pulled a vial out | of his packet and told his partner to take | us back from the car Haxter Was Busy Shooting. | ““This fellow then ordered us to start up the track and we did so, but not fast enough to suit him, and he threatened to plug me if | 1 did not move faster. I increased my pace | and this made a gap between us and the | robber. Suddenly there was a shot from the west side of the dump. 1 looked around and saw the robber raise his revolver. Im mediately there was another shot from the same direction and the robber ran from the track into the gras slde At the tima I supposed he was hiding so as to | et a shot at Baxter. I and the fireman ran down the track to the road crossing, calling out to Baxter not to shoot again for fear he might mistake us for the rohbers. After run | ning about a quarter of a mile bid in the grass, an® had been there for about two minutes. it seemed, when a man whom 1| supposed wae the other robber came up | from the east side of the dump and stood on the track and “'Frank.’ He had heard me call my fire | man by his name, and I supposed he wanted | to get us and take a shot at us if possible. | We ran west the wagon road and hid again. After a while we crawled back to the engine on our bands and knees and lay there in the weeds until we saw & man with a lantern coming down the track and heard Conductor McGee call to us. We then crawled out and Baxter came up on the 1 sald 1 theught one of the robbers was still in the car and McGee took Bax ter's gun and went to the car. We found no ene there. We then went to where 1 the robber who was shot by Baxter and there we found him dead. 1 helped | him in the express car.’ The engineer's testimony was corrobor |ated by Fireman Holman, who gave sub stantially the same account of the affair E Messenger Baxte r and came 1 got an to be | the a explosion hinge [l | floor. r was o west | bad door was open t T on the east we commenced calling to W drop. put | sxenger Baxter's Stery. | testified that when the | | train commenced to slack up he suspected it was & holdup and just before it came to & stop he opened the west door and | jumped out with his gun in his hand. He | 8110 down the embankment, which at that | point was about seven feet high, conceal [ ing himselt in the weeds. He was { enough to hear the robbers and the “-rm« talking, although he could tinguish ything that was sald. It was after the second explosion whem the en gineer and fireman and one of the bandits approached near where he that he was able to distinguish the robber from the other two. He ralsed himself on his knees and steadylng his arm on the em bankment fired at the man wearing the mask. He fired four or five times In rapid succession as the robber dropped over the dump on the other side. He sald after the engineer apd fireman had called out to him not to shoot again, meeing thoy | were out of line of his gun he fired in the close engine not dls ve < % THE 3 S" Is IS OMAHA DAI He la M n ankment mov intil Counductor MeGee he | testified that when the day of the traln slack who put him ba to went 1 nt end of h he o by man gun und ered K went the time t end again 1 beer ouple He then Ak K ad to town Brake iden ba The men brake rlal witnesses testimony not being of mat were the | K e robber atthough the mun that One T has not everal A man informed knew the been Iden profess Cummins Chief of Police dead man threc Rock Island, 1il, and at that an operator in the employ He sald the dead man's name was Ga but could not remem ber his Christlan name. Another man claimed to know the bandit as a man named h and that he had seen him fre quently at North Platte, Offictals of the Burlington road are of the opinion that the two robbers are the same as went through of their trains a few weeks wgo wuear Lincoln. This suspicion strengthened by 'the fact that the man wore a pair of shoes sold by Bander- | of Lircoln orders received by Coroner trom J. F. Kennedy Board of Health, the body 1l be turned in care A the yet persons named from Albre time he he Milwaukee Goodric one is On Ia of the « Treynor evening ccretary dead 1 x Clty there oy P. Hanchett of thi app state board to have body turned over to him if not claimed The boat from Rapp was found yesterday on the other side of the river ome distance below Bellevue and it is generally be that t ond bandit escaped into Nebraska. | Colonel Davenport of the Burlington stated terday that the company would r effort of its life to run the second rob ber down, even If it took @ year or longer will br. the be Wil M of Dr ent liam stolen morntug point i lieved se es Quurterly Water Hilly Pay before October 10 and save Office open Saiurday evening. Now duc per cent Premiums given IDEN with Domestic s FORTUNE ¥ IN OLD STOVE, Mrs ¥ t J, P x'n Light by Greenshields, estate of the late sare Trove 0 Administrator. administrator of th Mrs. Margaret Fox, while searching the premises pled by woman before her death on Broadway Thirty-fifth for missiug certificates of deposits, unearthed $1,360 {n gold. | A number of tin tificates of deposit in different banks which Mrs. Fox is known to bave had in her possession cannot now be found and it was to try and bring these to light that tematic search of the cottage was made. The bed mattresses re ripped open, carpets tora up and ery wouk and corner searched, but noth- ing was found. Mr. Greenshields was | about to give up further searching when he espled an old heating stove standing behind a door. More out of curlosity thun with the expectation of finding the missing ertificates he took the lids off the stove. Among the refuse and ashes a small pack- E done up in brown paper was noticed. On opening this a smaller bundle, | tied in an old cloth sack, was found, which gave jingling sound when shaken It was open and $260 in $10 and $.0 gold pie rolled Deeper down 1in the ashes brought to light a leather pouch, sewed together with heavy coarse t This found to coutain $1,10 in gold pieces, making $1,360 in gold that Mrs. Fox had hidden in the old stove as a satety deposit No of deposit could and bank a sy o heavy out a he out wine. was vault the missing be found trace certificates of | 0,000 cakes D s0ap used In Coun. Bluffs last i month. Tnierest in Election, City Electric Light and id to City Clerk Phillips yes sum sufficlent to cover the ex- penses the speclal election to be held | Tuesday, October 16. People appear to be takiog but very little fnterest in the clal election, as up to last evening, second day of registration, but very names had been placed on the books. In one precloct only two voters registered and they were the registrars themselves The registrars will sit again Thursday next week, when voters will have the chance to get thelr names on the Every person wishing to vote on the franchise proposition will have to reg- Ister and this reglstration will not suffic for the general election next month. tle Bluff company te a Gas day the fow of last books. Quarterly Water Bills Pay before October 10 and save Office open Saturday evening, 10-cent cigar. ing of the Bowlers. of the series of games eight clubs engaged in the tournament now Im progress im this city was completed last night when the Champlons defeated the Ploneers twe straight games. The score at the close of the first week's play follows Played. Won Now due 6 per cent Commonwealth Sta The first tweem the bowling be- Lost. P.C' 1000 1.0 | 06 a6 Champtor Libert| Sampsons Indlans Nonpu Whe Ploneer 3 ] ders 1 In District Court, hearing of the appeal Syndicate owning East against herifi's jury in tho ceediugs brought by and Terminal Rallway company was cora menced before Judge Macy in the district court yesterday. Both sides wajved a jury and that body was dismissed until next Tuesday The sherift’s jury fixed the value of the land sought to be condemned at $3,640 and that of the roadbed and embankment at $4,403.45 The troit of the De large portion the award of the condemnation pro- the Omaha Bridge Foot Ball Game Today, The Council Bluffs High school will try onclusions with the Fremont (Neb.) High #chool ball team this afternocom at the Driviog park. The game will be called at 3 o'clock and the local team will be as follows ! end, Diuman; left tackle, Ball left guard, Peterson; center, Cock- ran; right guard, Campbell; right tackle, Ferron: right end, Kettring: quarter back, Treynor left half back, G. Pilling; back, Aylesworth; right half bac substitutes, C toot funl K, Grason; Pilling, Warner and Grass K. P. dance, Huyler's Whaley's orchestra. hall tonight Additions Ames Schooln LY FROM PLA Exe Arranges Program for Oenvention, PRESII DES | gram lowa annt trom the and have New Fal the Norma Dwigh mounced the ( | one of the best, it mot the very best, t | tures the association will have during the week the of lege second to no colored orat platfor His Charac Th portan ageins pealed which down is reg and the may 1 legally in the revenu stamp not by court | whether the statute regarding the applie un 1on one clu pose of genuine Bast Witze to_acc Sam Bent nrmed Dick D. 8 road P, i, Monr affirme Stat district It w road o et wee Mr. El italists are sooner or way, which is seeking an opening into Moine! | constr upon proje of-way which has pr secure, many by the ing. vey w | road a ter to 1d & tions, It w Debs will #pend four days of week after next in Tow Moine! route ranged He wi tober to the apolis, AMES, Iu,, Oct (Special.)—The large addition to the Ames High school will be completed this week and the schools will open next Monday. The opening of the public schools has been delayed about & month by this and other lmprovements BEE: SATURDAY, OCTOBER IOWA. TING 6. 1900, ymes Into Towa he will SUDDEN DEATH OF BRENNAN Lite of & Prominent Bditor Ends ot N TEACHERS" MEE % SI0UX gram.) Committee of Iowa Association nal 1 death He had another DENT MACLEAN IS A BIG FEATURE gasping a fow Fatal ITTUMWA gram.)—D Bloc eveni b injur recovere Willlam Swift in Moulton | morning at Bloomfield City track n and upor ! and did not awaken when the approached nrt Eatablishes In in Dectdin is Evidence, Alt Legally Stumped, ried last Rider | fatal | no MOINES The State und Oct (Special Tele committee of soclation met for this ¢ At ) o the who re here tae ity n was | 1 varly arrau the program | meeting be held in December 24 to 28 inclusive rominent men who will be present a place on the program ure: Dr ght Hillis, Prof. Rich of Cedar nt George E. Maclean university, W. H. Counciil Ind. The subject upon which Hillls will talk has not been an Prosident MacLeun, formerly of niversity of 18 considered Kansas | bra | eone I Pres tate | i Find Snuke tn Bedr OTTUMWA, la,, O gram)—Mrs. W, H | of prominent | eity discovered | racer snake in her bedroom called the nelghbors, armed with hoes and The family at how the which s part of the of | t Tele Clark wite thi blue Sh t a merchant a six-foot Nebraska, today Killed loto thickly ame over | roptite. | understand h popula Prof. W. H Agricultural »f Normal, Ind Counctll is presi and Mechanical col He Is said to be £ on the lecture Washington not excepted. | be “Negro Religion and t LS are snake o the elty got most the 1se m, Booker ibject will ter supreme point ck from Sense 1 | oTTUMWA, Ia hed im- | gram. 3. Scase, a of the Biate |of this city today Shields, which had been ap- | blame Pottawattamie district and was reversed in the opinlon handed this morning. The qucstion at lssue arding the stamping documents poiut made is that a forged check 1 in evidence, even though not stamped. Shields was acquitted lower court, because the chock cent proprietary United States instead a documentary dered that it could The supreme | to the question mping like the the con- the pur- ed i an m all ance taken Mr court establ in the cuse an r min r pr t exoncrated f t in causing custon into custody on the Brown brought su false arfest and of AT Hrown, a r who wa of larce o re s of impr Dohany Theater Friday Night, Cct. 5. | [ Grand Saturday Mat, October 6. ‘Elahorate Presentation Alice m Wonderlan Two bundred Under the auspices of the Woman's Auxilinry of the Grace Episcopal church Elaborate properties, costumes and ef fects Prices inee, 18 stan and it 1sed ) of | was con in evidence the inquiry reduces s to criminal prosecutions \der discussion and reaches ) that as the act was for f insuring the tax required and only evidence is required to be s.amped, not intended that the rules of prescribed apply in prosecution evi tor | | je” Coart Decln fun | Rees against Martin nburg, Marlon district, sult in eq ount; atfirmed ol Crossiey against John S district, action to cancel A onnrd's ¢ anley at inso Fol ttirme Enix aguinst 1 - dlutrict . agulnst Jack Shields, Pottawaltamie indictment for forgery; reversed as stated today by a prominent radl- flicial that the prejected line extending en lowa Falls and this city, in which llsworth of lowa Falls and other cap- interested, will be an adjunct later of the Illinols Central r County and Supervisc Dickinson distric s against t, action on wa Central Rallway action to recover for ir children in the cas | 5‘ Evenings, s and other southern territory. The uction of the road itself hinges largely the question of whether or not the tors of the line can secure the right- DOHA“Y T“EATER.L of the Duluth & ew Orleans, oan | . Sunday Night, Oct 7 all grading and other kindred work actically stopped. This new road has | | A superbly staged d considerable right-of-way and at | Quetion- the Gram places has secured the voting of a tax | ;r,v era—Lincoln people in the way of aid in its build Ay i The road if built along its present sur- riraiture o thos. splendidly J cust first pre Hour enth- n t ould be in the way of the lowa Falls nd an effort is being made by the lat take over the tax voted for the former wnd ure its right-of-way and begin opera- pa A perfect plet pie. A story wr tears. the road as announced today that Eugene V wonder start] a. 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