Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 25, 1909, Page 6

Council Bluffs | Minor Mention || The Council Bluffs Offics of the | Omalta Bes s at 15 Soott Street Both 'Phones 43, 1 Davis, drugs, Diamonds. Leffert's Dlamond playing the best vaudeville. CORRIGANS, undertakers, 'Phone 148 For rent, modern house, 12t 6th avenue. Smokers' sets. Leffert's, NIGHT SCHOOL at Puryear's college. A. Hospe store open evenings until Xmas. Majestia ranges, P. C. DeVol Hdw. Co. Woodring Undertaking company. Tel. 38 Lewls Cutler, funeral director. 'Phone i FAUST BEER AT ROGERS BUFFET Balrd & Boland, undertakers. 'Phone 122 Expert plano tuning, Hospe. 'Phome Leffert's Jewelry stive, new location, 807 Broadway. When you want rellablo want ud adver: tising, use The Bee Store opens evenings until Xmas. H. Bor wick, 211 So. Main St. 3 Special plano prices for this week—$775 plano for $1%. A Hospe Co, 2) Pearl 3t. Up-to-date Ar' Department and Ploture Framing, Borwick, 11 South Main street. The place to get your Xmas pictures framed 18 Waiter Nicholalsen & Co., 14 So. Main St s Lk Everybody s talking about ‘‘The Girl That's All the Canay.” Sier theater, Xmas and Sunday matinee and night. A marriage license was issued yesterday to G ke A. Harrington, aged 30 of Umaha and rah Andrews, aged 3 of Houston, | “ex. They were married by Justice Gard- iner. / Mrs, R. A. Lubbers of Boyden, Ia., re- orted to the police yesterday morning the fhlll of her ‘.‘uu case from the North- western passenger depot. She left the case in the waiting room. PYROGRAFILY NEWS Big shipment: of wood and outfits just received. ,Seven #styles of outfits on hand. Free lessor with each set. More novelties r burning than ev before, Open evenings. Alexan: der's, 3 Broadway. | Judge Wheeler in the district court yes- terday began the hearing on the applica- tion for injunction against the two sa- loons issourl Valley. Owing to the lary ter of witnesses summoned by Lot the hearing, It s expected will the greater part of today. i .1.aninal case against August Carl- #on 1.4 dismissed yesterday In the district court vy Judge Wheeler on motion of County Attorney Hess, following the re- versal by the supreine court. Carlson sorved sixteen months of an indeterminate sentence and was paroled last July. The dlsmissal of the case now disposes of the charge against him. M. M. Mcintyre, the mining promoter arged with cheating by false pretenses in connection with the sale of stock in & California mine, was arralgned before Justice Cooper -esterday afternoon and in default of bafl placed at $500, remanded to the county jail. McIntyre entered a plea of not guilty and the date of his prelimin- ary hearing will be set later. Elippers, good, easy, warm, snug, nice, soft siippers that embrace the foot in t most flexibly caressing feshion. Siippera that take fireside tonsting in good part S'ippers that make you hurry home. Slip- pers that are all comfort and help to hid Gull care begone. Slippers that are present- ably pretty. Slippers that are daintily neat, Elippers that are splendidly comtortabls. Slippers that make a real Xinas present. Duncan Shoe Co., 23 8. Main St. James Decbe, aged 89 years, terday morning at his home, 1%8 South Ninth street. Desides his wife, he leaves three sons and two daughters, Albert Beebe of Denver, Frank Beebe of this _city, Fred Beebe of Telluride, Colo.; Mrs. Sar Hendershot of Spokane, Wash., and M Bmma Schneck of Waterloo, 1a. The fu died_yes- neral will bo held Sunday atfernoon at 2:3- o'clock from the residence of the son, Frank Beebe, 816 Seventeenth avenue. Rev. John Kroor pastor of Bethany Presbyterian chureh will conduct the ser- vices. HOUN HOLIDAY SATURDAY stmaster Announces When Mall May Be Secured. Postmaster A. 8. Hazalton announces the following hours for the postoffice on Christmas day: Stamp window, general delivery window and money order and registry department will be open from 8 until 11 a. m. Carriers will make but one delivery, | There after- leaving the pusioftive al 8 a. m. Wil be a busincss colliction in the noon, carrier saving the postoffice at 1 p. m, and a collection in the evening, carrler leaviiy the peitcttice at 7 p, m. Rural free de. very carriers will make thelr usual duilvery Death of Lorenso Merkel. Lore Merkel, a resident of Counell Bluffs since 156, died yesterday morning | s home, () West Washington avenue, 9 years. Death was due to infirmities incldent to old age. He Is survived by five daughters, Mrs. N, O. Wood, Mrs. F. W. Hall, Mrs. W. W. Sherman, Mrs. F. H. Evans and Mrs, H. P. Barrett. With the exception of Mrs. Evans, who lives at Gar- den City, Kan., the daughters are resi- dents of this city. Mr. Merkel's wife died April 8 of this year, The funeral will be held this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock from the family home end burfal will be in Falrview cemetery. Rev. J. H. Engel, pastor of the German Fvan- the deceased was will conduct the services gelical chureh, of which » member, TRIOWAWay Your Truss WE CAN CURE YOU AVERAGE TIME TO CURE Ruprore One Visiv HypRoceLe One Visiv Vanicocsis One Visis CATARACTS . 10 Days CANCER .30 Days c.u-nmE a R:;: T o Dave 3w 5 Dass 3103 Days °B.‘E .." woune STAR THEATER CHRISTMAS AND SUNDAY Matinee and Night ‘“‘THE GIRL THAT'S ALL THE CANDY" 18 Musical Numbers Special Scenery Elaborate Costumes Prices: Mat, 25¢ and 50¢ Night, 25¢, 85¢, 50¢, 75¢ At My New Looation, 106} South Main, 1 ani now prepared to do firat class tailor- ing, &ive you the best Lest materials, best workmanship and tng best values. Let me make you u suit of clothes. If it does not prove satisfactory, s my sult Lukegord, The Tailor THE FASHION Has the reputation for doing first class Ladies’ Talloring and Fitting. You can al. tell our garments by their lines and When you see them if they are made to order or ready to wear, we guar- antee, If you try us, to give you the best fit, up-to-date styles, at very reasonable prices. We do all kinds of alterations alse i furs. | the explosion occurred and the front of his oods, best styles, | Council Bluffs CITY NOT ' PARTY LIABLE Infringements of Bridge Patents Hit the Contractor. OPINION BY CITY SOLICITOR Indianapolis Firm Claims Damages Because of Type of Structare Put Up Over Ind Creek. City Sollcitor Kimbal’, ferred the claim af the National Bridge company of Indlanapolis, Ind., for alleged Infringment of Its patents in the con- struction of the bridges over Indlan creek at Bryant street and Benton street, gave his opinion yesterday that the city was not liable and that the contraetors, if anybody, were responsible. “The city cannot be held llable for any infringements that may have been made on the patents of any firm In the construc tion of bridges. The contractars assume all llability in this matter when they take the contracts, and they give the city a bond to Insure the fulfiliment of the con- tract and safeguard the city against clalm for damages,” said Mr. Kimball The National Bridge company claims that in the construction of the two bridges some fifty of their patents have been Infringed and in a communication to the city coun: ofl wanted to know when it could look for a settlement from Contractors Wickham and Saguin. The National Bridge company says it wants its royaties for use of its patents. If the Indianapolis firm has any valid claim it will have to look to Wickham and Saguin, as the city solicitor wiil advise the council that the city is not liable. to whom was re- suIT N FORFEITED BON County Attorney Files to Recover on Bail Given by Charles White. County Attorney Hess yesterday brought suit In the name of the state of lowa and Pottawattamle county against Charles White, Elmer L, Fehr, Wa'lace Benjamin and John Doyle ‘to recover on a bond for #00, which the defendants furnished for Charles White, who was indicted last May on a charge of larceny from the person. White was accused of stealing $4 from Joe Sonrich, a rallroad section hand, while Sonrich was asleep in the Rock Island de- pot at Underwood, Ia. The money was found under a sidewalk near the depot where White told the officers he had hid it. John Doyle, one of the defendants was a resident of Nebraska and an uncle of White. Since signing the bond he has died. Fehr and Benjamin are professiona! bonds- men of this city. Mrs. Bessie 1. Simmons filed suit for di- vorce from Guy E. Simmons, to whom she was married in Cumberland, la., July 1, 1907. She alleges that her husband scolded and threatened her so continuously as to make it impossible for them to live in har- mony. She also charges him with failing to support her and compelling her to earn her own lving. Mrs, Nora Nethorp seeks a divorce from Frank W. Nelthorp, to whom she was mar- ried in the state of Michigan on October 6, 1901. She alleges her husband deserted her within one year of their marriage. The Droge Elevator company of this city has brought suit against the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy Rallway company asking $1,000 damages for alleged delay in ship- ments of grain. J. D. Harris has filed the petition in his sult against the Citizens’ Gas and Electric company and the Independent Telephone company In which he asks damages placed at $1,990 for injuries alleged to have been recelved January 13 last, when gas which had accumulated In the conduits of the Telophone company on Broadway exploded. Harrls was driving along Broadway when wagon was directly over a manhole. He was thrown out of his wagon and stunned, and the vehicle was more or less damaged, the petition alleges. The Commercial Natlonal bank of this city has brought suit against Attorney A. T. Flickinger for $3,600 alleged to be due on two promissory notes. SUIT OVER DAMAGE SHOOTING Accident to Katie Hulls Basis of Action in Her Behalf, In a suit yesterday Jn the district court by her father, Stephen Hulls, as her next friend, Katle Hulls, aged 16 years, seeks to recover 85000 damages from Joseph Rhyan and Patrick Rhyan, Joseph's father by adoption. The young woman claims she was seriously injured by being shot in the right limb near the kinee through the carelessness of Joseph Rhyan. She asks $4,000 for the injuries to herself and $1,000 on assignment trom her father of his claim for damages by reason of the loss of her services. The accident is sald to have occurred on January 18 of this year. Patrick Rhyan, 80 the plaintiff alleges, had given the gun to his stepson, knowing him to be Inex- | perfenced in the handiing of firearms, and on the day of the accldent had consented that Joseph should go rabbit hunting. Joseph, who Is about 18 years old, despite the fact, according to the plaintiff, that he was not experienced in the use of firearms, succeeded in killing one rabbit, with which he proudly returned home, carrying his gun over his shoulder. Young Joseph and Miss Hulls met. at the garden gate to ‘he Rhyan place, and Miss Hulls opened the gate for the young man. In some manner not explained in the petitiod Joseph dropped the gun. This must have nettled the young man, as the petition alleges he kicked the weapon, with the result that it | was discharged and about thirty grains of shot struck Katle in the right limb close | to the knee. The parties to the sult are residents of | Neola, 1a. | CONSCIENCE ~ BECOMES ACTIVE |John W. Camp Recelves Money for| Articles Stolen, John W. Camp, the well known Broad+ | way druggist, received yesterday the fol- lowing letter dated “Omaha, Dec. 33, 139" in which 15 cents In silver was enclosed: Dear Sir: 1 have enclosed 15 cents for an article which I took from your store some time ago. | T have since become a Christian and am | trying to make all wrongs right, and when |I'am called from this world I will have no fear and will be prepared to meet my Savior face to face. From one who has found the Savior. | “I haven't the siightest idea who the | writer is," sald Mr. Camp, “and, of course, | T am cqually in the dark as to the article | Which he says he appropriated. Kiepto- maniacs and ‘souvenir hunters' find drug stores, as & rule, pretty easy pleking, es- pecially when the man behind the counter is busy making up a preseription. It is §00d, however, to find some one Wwhose consclence has pricked him. New Duties for Liggott. Frank B. Liggett, one of the propristors of the Councf] Bluffs Box and Baaket com- pany, whose factory is located at First avenue and Twenty-first street, laft last evening for Metropolis, Ill, where he will & Open Evenings Till 9 P. M. Assume the management of the J. Rob- | were begun under the Sherman anti-trust THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, Council Bluffs Liggett recently acquired an interest in the plant at Metropolis, but will retain his interest In the factory here, which will be under the management of C. W. Putnam. Mr. Liggett, although a young man, been prominent for some time in local busi- ness and social circles, and two vaars ago was exalted ruler of the Council Bluffs lodge of Elks. He goes to his new home with the well wishes of a large circle of friends here. Real Ew These transfers Bee December 23 by Count Abstract company of Blutfs Henry G, Schmadecke and wife to Alvert Shaw, lot 8, in blk 8, in Un; Transters. wete reported to The the Pottawattamie Council Aerwood, W d..... ... ec.icoeiii $ 900 Gussie A’ Barkhuff and hushand to Stella L, Turner, und half of lots 43 and 44, in blk 6, Wright's add to_Council Bluffs, w d R | J._F. S8nyder, unmarriad, to F. R. Flinn, lots 17 and 18, In bik 16, Evane' sec. bridge add to Council BIULES, W, Quoeioecriiioiiiass R | E._H. Lougee and wife to ark, lot 6, Nelson's subd in ol Bluffs, w. d. Total, Oldest Knight of Pythias. ACKLEY, Ia., Dec. 2.—(Special)—G. F. Brelthaupt, a well known hotel manager of this city, claims the distinction of being the oldest Knight of Pythlas altve. He became a member of Golden Gate lodge No. 3 in San Francisco, In 1869, and he has kept up his membership ever since. Mr. Breithaupt Is one of the few sur- vivors of the steamship Golden Gate which sunk with a great deal of treasure on board in 1852, while on its way around the horn. Breithaupt lost $10,00 In gold dust, which went down with the ship, and which was the small fortune he had gath- ered together during the Ca'ifornia gold craze. He has been advised that a Boston company has succeeded In raising a part of the Golden Gate's cargo, including pro- perty belonging to the Wells Fargo Express company which has been sunk in the water for fifty-seven years. Six Hundred and Seventy-Five Ballots Taken Sixth Missouri Democrats Nominate State Senator C. C. Dickinson for Congress, four transfers BUTLER, Mo., Dec. 24.—Former State Senator C. C. Dickingson of Henry county received the democratic nomination for congress In the Sixth district at 12:30 o'clock this morning. The convention took 676 ballots. Dickinson received forty-two votos aLd J. W. Suddath thirty-two on the last ballot. The vacancy in the Sixth district was caused by the death of Congressman DeArmond. LIVELY DEBATE ON SIZE OF HARRIMAN ESTATE New York Times Says it Will Net Widow But Little Over Fifty Millions. NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Whether Mary Averill Harriman, widow of; the late B. H. Harriman, is the richest widow in the world with more than $200,000,000, or only a woman of comparatively moderate wealth, Is a matter tonight of the livellest debate. On apparently trustworthy author- ity, it was sald today that an appraisal made by the state comptroller's office, upon which the inheritance tax will be de- termined, fixed the estate at §140,000,000, and that shortly before his death Mr. Harriman transterred to his wife and his eldest son, W. Averill Harriman, securities valued at over $50,000,000. On the other hand, the New York Times will state positively tomorrow that Mr. Harriman left less than $75,000,000, that he made no gifts of millions to his family be- fore his death and that when all accounts are settld the net amount to be turned over to Mrs. Harriman may be nearer $50,- 000,000 than $75,000,000. Mr. Harriman's business associates de- nled tonight that he made any transfer of securities before his death. The supposed appralsal on which an estimate of $149,- 000,000 was based is now under way and certainly has not been filed with the state comptroller. No other appraisal has been made. WORLD’S PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER Output of Yellow Metal for Year 1908 Over Four Hundred and Forty Millions WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.—The world's production of gold and sliver for the cal- endar year 190 Is estimated by the bureau of the mint, based upon official and un- officlal Information, to have been: Gold, 21,378,480 fine ounces of the value of $441,- 932,200; silver, 203,186,370 fine ounces of the commercial value of $108,684,400, Compared with 197, there was an in- crease in the gold product of $31,276,500 and in silver an increase of $15,992,300 fine ounces. The greatest increase In the product ot gold in any country of the world was in Africa, which Increased from $161,699,000 in 1907 to $166,520,500 in 1908, The increase In the United States was $4,124,- 300. Mexico's increase was $3,690,100. The largest increase in the production of sliver was in Mexico and amounted to 12,- 000 fine ounces. Canada followed with an increase of 9,326,400 fine ounces. There was a decrease in the silver production of the United States as compared with 1907 of 4,074,000 fine ounces. TRUST ~CASE_ CARRIED UP Government Will Seek to'Overturn Decision Barring Prosecu- ton. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—The appeal of the government from the decision of Judge Holt of the southern dlstrict of New York In the sugar trust cases was docketed in | the supreme court of the United States today. The government will seek an early opportunity to advance the case for hear- ing. Judge Holt's decision in effect held that the statute of limitations operated as a | bar to the prosecution of certain officials of the trust against whom proceedingy law. NEW ORGAN FOR SUFFRAGISTS “The Wireless” tarted in New York. EW YORK, Dec. #4.—The Wireless s to be the name of a new woman suffragist paper. The suffragists are planning to bring out the first issue early In the new year. The establishment of a dally has been under consideration for some time by the national board, which will conclude its three-days’ session here tomorrow. The present organ of the cause will be brought to this eity from Warren, O., and con- verted from the stald and conservative monthly to ap up-to-date melropolitan Daily Paper Named Wil Be '|ness of nine inches and stif\ higher will BIGGEST BATTLESHIP AFLOAT Fighting Machine Named for State of Utah Launched at Camden. TEN GUNS IN FIVE TURRETS Monater * is Equipped with Ten | Turbine Engines that Will De- velop 28,000 Horsepower— Miss Spry Christens It. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Deec. 24.~Declared to have no equal afloat as a first-class fighting machine, the battleship Utah, the Ereatest warship ever built In the United Btates, was launched at 11 o'clock Thursday | from the yard of the New York Ship Bulld- ing company at Camden, N. J., in the pres- ence of several thousand persons who crowded the docks and every vantage point in the vicinity of the yard. As the big hull started to leave the thickly greased ways, Miss Mary Allce Spry of Salt Lake City, daughter of the governor of Utah, ralsed her arm and broke a gayly berib- boned bottle of champegne agalnst the rail of the great ship as she spoke the words that gave the vessel its name. Among those on the platform were repre- sentatives of the Navy department, Gov- ernor Spry and members of his family, a congressional delegation, Including the members from Utah, representatives of the Utah legislature and nearly all the officers of the ship bullding company. The Utah is the fifth of the all-big gun type of battleships for the United States navy to be launched. When completed it will be more powerful than the Delaware and North Dakota of the Dreadnaught class, The Utah has & length on the load water- line of 510 feet, or 521% feet over all, and a beam of 88 feet and two inches. Its trial draft will be twenty-eight and one-half feet, displacement 21,8% tons, or 2,000 tons greater than (he Delaware and North Da- kota, and its speed is expected to develop twenty and three-quarters knots or more | an hour. Ten Twelve-Inch Guns. ‘There will be ten twelve-inch breech load- Ing guns In its main armament, mountel In five turrets on the central line of the ship. Two of the turrets will be forward, one amidship and two aft. Bach turret will be protected by armor eight and twelve Inches thick and will be supplisd with ammunition by electrical hoists from the magazines and shell rooms immediately below. The entire handling of the guns will be done by electric motors. Sixteen five-Inch guns protected by armor | of medium thickness will be provided for defense against torpedo boat attacks. Close subdivision and strong bulkheads will form additional protection agalnst mine and torpedo explosions. The Utah will also be fitted with two submerged torpedo tubes and will have ten small guns for boat service and saluting purposes. The main armor belt of the great !hlp} will be about elght feet wide with an aver- | age thickness of ten inches. Above this will be another belt of an average thick- | be the casement armor protecting secondary battery and funnel bases, Each barbette will be made of armor varying from four to ten inches in thick- ness and will prbtect the entire ammuni- tlon handling machinery for the twelve-inch guns In the turrets above. Ten Turbine Engines, Ten turbines, eix ahead and four astern, capable of @eveloping 28,00-horse power, will be fustdfled. Steam will be supplied by twelve water tube bollers and coal or oll may be used for fuel. The two smoke- stacks on' the ship will extend seventy feet above the water line. The Utah will be fitted for a flagship and its complement as such will consist of a crew of 1,00, of whom sixty will be officers. While the Utah will have no equal when | completed, it will not hold that position | long, as the naval program following the | one which called for twou ships of the| Utah class provides for vessels that will | tho be considerably heavier. These latter | ships will mount two more twelve-inch guns than the Utah and will have a heavier secondary battery, Men Needed for Navy. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—To man the | entire American fleet in time of war would | require 3,8% officers and 72,281 men, and in | time of peace 3,652 officers and 60,92 men, according to Captaln N. K. Usher, a sistant to the bureau of mwvigation, in a statement, made public today. These fig- ures do not include officers and men at shore stations, Four new battleships are to be commis- sioned as well as fifteen new large torpedo boat destroyers and seven submarines. It is anticipated that the Ohlo, Wisconsin and Missourl will g0 temporarily out of commission and that the Denver and three others of Its class will be replaced by the New Orleans, Cincinnati and Ralelgh, which are practically of the same class. Replying to a suggestion that the navy will put into commission vussels that will require 5,000 blue jackets and do away with those that require only 3,800 .men, Captain Usher says: “The mumber required is to keep the fleet in its present strengtm of sixteen bat- tleships and not to diminish immediately the force employed on the Pacific coast, which consists of elght armored cruisers with crews practically the same or a llitle larger than the battleships. The vessels put in reserve are required to have one- fourth of the regular crews.” ICES GORGES IN OHIO RIVER Navigation s Suspended Between Louisville and Cairo—Several Boats Damaged. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 24.—Heavy lce has closed the Ohio river at Cannelton, | Ind., and Hawesville, Ky., and people aro crossing on the ice. A gorge s reported to | be forming several miles on this side of | Owensboro, Ky., and another Is forming near Henderson, Ky. ten miles below here. 1If the present weamier prevalls a | few days longer the gorges promise to be- | come several miles in length. No boats | are running on the Ohlo river between | Loulsville and Cairo, Ill. Several of the| smaller craft along the lower river were badly damaged today when they ventured out. MOUSE FOR CHRISTMAS GIFT Live Animal Sent by Some Villainous Man Women Held Up feago Postoffice, CHICAGO, Dec. #~It was two nights before Christmas and al: through the Chi- cago postoffice everybody was stirring ex- cept a poor mouse. The Poor Mouse was dead in a little case on the desk of Post- master Campbell and had been intended as & Christmas prisent sent to two young wo- men by some villainous man. A mall clerk discovered through alr holes punched in the package that it had con- tained a live mouse. The incident prompted the statement from the postmaster that the only live thing that can be sent through the United States mail is a queen bee. The superintendent of m directed the dead (erts Manufacturing company's plant. M- ! aany. mouse be sent Lo the dead letter office, 1909, Cosmopolitan MAGAZINE McClure’s MAGAZINE Woman's Home Companion Review OF Reviews LTI Japanese Problem Thing of Past New Ambassador Says Coast Has Only Friendly Feeling for Orientals. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Baron Yasuya Uchida, the newly appointed ambassador of the Japanese government to this coun- try, succeeding the recently recalled Baron Takahira, arrived In Washington today. The baron spoke today of the pleasure which it afforded him to come back as ambassador to the country where he had done his first diplomatic work. “There 18 no pressing diplomatic question for me to deal with in the United States just now,” he sald, “and [ know of noth Ing of importance that will come up in the immediate future. The relations be- tween the United States and my country are growing constantly better. The friendly feeling between the two nations is becom- Ing stronger every day, I think.” “What about the question of immigr: tion between the two countries?’ the baron was asked. “That is satisfactorlly adjusted,” he re- plied. “We are keeping at home the labor- ers and poorer emigrant classes of our country and only students and members of the mercantile and other privileged classes are coming here. There will be no prob- lem te deal with in that connection In this country. 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The former sheriff admitted to (he court that he once sald to Conyers (here was & great deal of money In the case and that it Conyers would confess to bim, he would “take care” of him. He ss irown was not responsible for this statcment, which he acknowledged might be interpreted s tim of a revolutionist who had been em- ployed as a government spy. The theory that Karpoff was preparing bombs when killed was disproved. Vosskressensky, the assassin, has been denounced by Vladimir Bouctzeff, the rev- olutionist, In a magazine article published last month. SHERIFF TAKES STAND IN BROWNSVILLE CASE Officer Qualifies Statement He Had Previously Made in an ftidavit. o an offer of money, but not so |mudnar. Captain C. R. Howland, recordcr of the WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Qualifying in o4 P davit beluk ocourt objected to Arnold" presented In testimony, asserting “that the court should keep clear of political Issues. It was not introduced. | —— Heavy Sult for Damages, JORA SPRINGS, Ia., Dec. 24.—(Special.) severa' partlculars his affidavit which played such a conspicuous part in the fa- mous attack in the senate on the adminii | tration’s course In regard to the Brawns- ville affalr, former Sheritf E. C. Arnold of Monroe, Ga,, today appeared as a wit- ess befora the military court of inquiry :‘n\'enllgnllnl ShaCatTaLr —C. W. Crumm of this place has broukht) His affidavit was offered by Senator |sult against Floyd county, in the distric Foraker In rebuttal to the affidavits of H. |court at Charles City, for §10,000 damuke E. Brown and William Lawson that Boyd | for alleged personal injuries recelved wher Conyers, one of the soldlers discharged as |a county highway bridge went down wit a result of the “shooting up" of Browns- [him and the horse he was driving, precli ville, had confessed his connection with the | tating them into the creek bed. He alivi affair, that he was seriously and permanentl; i} In that document Arnold sald it would |jured, and charges that the county have been impossible for Lawson and Con- | the bridge was unsafe and was negl yers to have taken a drink under & cer- |in not keeping it repaired. Brother of Poet Watson Again Says He is Insane NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—Robinson Watson, | Asquiths compelled me to recognize clear! v o) 3 eroeive statement telegraphed to New York | What others were beginning to peroe l,:m.“ Montreal today, relterates that his | 'mmediately went to New York and findin| i . my worst fears confirmed endeavored du brother, William Watson, the English poet, |0 ¢our consecutive days to get an oppod now in Havana, is Insane, although the |iunity of speaking alone with Mrs. Watko poet's wife, who 18 with him, is Unaware but no such opportunity could be obtaine of her husband's mental condition, and I left without having given her tI Mrs. Watson cabled from Havana yes- | slightest intimation.” terday that “Robinson Watson's message | HAVANA, Dec. 24—William Watson, ! to the world Is a wicked attempt to ruin | English poet, and his wife, arc staylng 4t my husband.” & hotel In the suburbs of Havana In an The brother replled today: “It is not |interview today Mr. Watson sald he cams surprising that Mrs. Willlam Watson hos to Cubs to search for recreation and i catled an angry message. There probably |tended to study the people ani resour will be worse to come, and still worse, |of the island. The poet's health apparen until she fully apprehends the whole truth, (is kood and he said he was enjoying A rad feature of the situation is that she |vialt and was quite undetermined how Fas been Ignorant of the events of 1588 he #hould stay, or where he would #0 O “When the long statement about the |He declined to make any furiher statel