Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-16
THE FUNERAL OF DR.. FULLER
Cause of His Death as Related at
the Coroner's Inquest.
INSTANCES OF INcoMPETENTs.
Pullman Passengers Treated to n
Matinee by a whisky Crazed
TraveIer-Orders That are Never
Misunderstanding Matters.
LINCOLN BUREAU or THE OMAHA BEE,
1929 u STREET,
IrNLnL Anril IL

LINCOLN BUREAU or THE OMAHA BEE,
1923 = STREET,
LINCOLN, April Is.
The funeral of DIR. +. @. Fuller, who was
killed in a runaway accident five miles out Of
this city, was largely attended by citizens
generally. The three uniform divisions
knights Of Pythias attended the funeral in a
body and presented an imposing appearance.
Or. Fuller was a member Of Lincoln lodge
Knights of Pythias, No. 10, and was also q
member of Lincoln division of the uniform
rank, and as a knight was greatly esteemed
by his fellow members. The coronerNs in.
quest that inquired into the cause Of
his death found substantially the following
facts
DIR. Fuller loft the city on Thursday after
noon at 3 o'clock to answer n professional
cali near the village Of Saltilfo. The next
heard of him was at about midnight, hatless
and with one shoe gone. He called at the
house CT John Grant, five miles south of the
city, saying that he had been IN a runaway
and that he wanted to stay there during the
night. He was accommodated, and in the
morning MIR. Grant went with him TO the
place of the accident, where the buggy alone
remained. DIR. Fuller then said he would so
to q house near by and get them to take him
to town, and MIR. Grant left him. The next
morning Mr.. Grant went by the place
Wnere inc accident occurred and FOUND the
doctor dead. 1t appeared from the surround
ings that after MIR. Grant left the doctor
the latter laid down on the buggy robe, and
his injuries from the runaway must have
been more serious than supposed, for he
never rose from his hastily improvised bed.
The investigation showed that the unaway
from which the doctor received his injuries
occurred near the Union Pacific railroad
track, and an examination OF the remains
showed that he received a number of bad
bruises and undoubtedly died from internal
injuries received.
WORK Is PROGRESSING SMOOTHLY.
Trains on the Burlington lines in Ne
braska are running smoothly. AS an evil
dence of this the morning passenger train
yesterday was laid out for two hours at
Hastings with a dead freight in the road.
The same night n freight wreck occurred ut
Harvard, In which n caboose car was
wrecked and several empty box cars that are
run over the road TO give an appearance of
business, were wrecked with it. When the
morning passenger was three miles out of
Dorchester the first class engineer in charge
found he was running low on water.
He uncoupled from the train, ran
into Dorchester and then backed back to his
ira IL. When he approached the train he did
did it with such speed that he crashed into
it, bielking in the end of the mail car and
wrecking the tender on the locomotive.
Luckily no one was injured, but there were
two mad mail clerks in the car and a number
of the passengers expressed their opinion Of
oNop NhE lLi''lo INV nv Illd tlliL CHI
ploycd them in no complimentary terms. The
officials. however, insist that they have COM
petent men in charge of their trains.
DRUNK y CRAZY.
Passengers in the Pullman sleeper 'Hong
Kong" on the Denver fast train yesterday
en- route eastward, had a great deal of an
noyance and some excitement from a passen-
ger who was crazy and, to all appearances,
drunk. This party took the sleeper at Den
yer, en- route to relatives in Indiana, and the
parties who put him on the train gave him
two quarts of whisky for a travelling COM
panion. All the night through he sat up and
drank whisky, and throughout the day yes
terday he was wild and excited. He stated to
the Pullman conductor that parties were
sending him to an insane asylum, and
he put down every passenger in the car as a
personal enemy. Two ladies who occupied a
Section opposite him he declared were trying
to chloroform him, and he persisted that the
car was full of gas. He raised windows pro-
miscuously and tried TO Keep the doors open,
and kept the passengers, as well as the con-
ductor and porter, in q state of constant ap-
prehension lest he should Jump from the
train. 1t was impossible to ascertain his
name, but it appeared from his conversation
that he had been in Denver only q short time
and was en- route TO points in the east, where
he had relatives.
CONCERNING LUMBER RATES.
Nearly a month ago the state board of
TRANSPORTATION, IN the matterof the complaint
of Lincoln lumbert firms, issued an order that
rates ont from the city should be equalized
over the b. & M, and In most instances be
reduced 3 cents a hundred Since that time
nothing has been done, and the dealers are
Questioning whether an order of the board
means anything or wtether the order is sim.
ply n delay to give the road a chance to cir
cumvent it. The order was met, as sis usual
IN such cases, by Il request from the
general manage Of the road for a
rehearing, nut as there were no
reasonable grounds for a rehcaring
at last accounts it had not been granted. 1t
would appear to a casual observer as though
o majority of the board did not desire TO have
their orders enforced after they were made,
and the complninantS in the matter are en-
titled to know whether their case is to be
1uggled in this manner or not. To take the
record of the board in the past six months it
would appear as though they were wholly in
different in all matters of that character;
they have taken testimony in the strike mat
ter only TO suppress IL from the public, and
a majority Of the board appear to have no
idea regarding matters Of that character to
which the public is entitled,
PAVING MATTERS.
The board OF public works have been fgur-
uring up the paving propositions made by
the different bidders and have submitted a
series of recommendations to the city council
for their action, II is evident that this re-
port will be questioned by a number of the
other bidders whose figures arc close to those
who have favorable recommendations, and
the quality of the material proposed will be
questioned by the council. The property
owners in the fifth paving district, at a meet
ing held to consider the material best TO use
in paving their district, found n majority Of
those present AZ the meeting favorable 10
cedar blocks on concrete, The other districts
Aaye yet TO advise the council OF their choice.
Not "A California Bear.
Anybody can catch cold this kind of
AyanthAp Tho tl,,rh1n ie 10 LOT ,rn lfly,