Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-01

hho sits patiently at home and mends
is socks, Many a time and oft had she
reasoned with him in her quiet, moth
erly way, and tried TO point out to him
the disgracefull way in which he was
using her, but all to no purpose. She
even went so far as to request the teller
in the aforesaid boose emporium that
he cease selling her husband liquor.
But the poison-miXer babe her go
hence and exchange New Years calls
with herself: but she turned on her
heel and left his hateful presence.
That evening as she sat alone she
heard II racket down cellar, and upon
investigation found that IA skunk had
got its tail in the rat trap. Now, it is
Il well-knOwu fact that "a skunk will
hold It's peace as long us its bushy tail is
held, whether in Il trap or the hand,
and remembering this she had no fear.
Suddenly a bright thought entered her
head. The clock in the house was strik-
ing l and she wanted papa to come
home. With a movement she threw "a
bag over the animals head, and, grasp
ing its tail, opened the trap, and thus
armed headed for the saloon. 1t was
only Il short distance away, and finding
the door open h tossed the skunk into
the midst of the crowd and swiftly stole
away.
1t had the desired effect and papa
came home. The s~aloonkeeper, who
never took Il vacation before in his life,
has gone into the country to visit rela-
tives, and the saloon is closed for re-
pairs.
Failed TO We'd His Sweetheart.
Quite . stir was created at Mendoza,
His, says the Chicago Times, by the
attempted elopement Of Miss Grace
MitchclfMarks and Charles A%chteberg,
a young man from Wisconsin, working
as n tailor for p. Fl. Cooper, in this
city. Miss Grace is not only "A very
pretty school girl of sixteen. but pos
sesses. it Is said, some $35 200 in her
own right, with expectations OF very
much more in time to come.
Young Achteberg obtained a license.
IN his application for which he repre-
scented Grace as eighteen years old.
Armed with this authority, they con-
cluded TO have the knot tied in Men
dota in n private II by "a justice.
Some one in the young lady's confidence
divulged the secret, and the immediate
arrest of the eXpectant groom on n
charge-of perjury in swearing to Grace's
age stopped the marriage.
The girl was locked up in her room,
and young Achteberg was held to the
circuit court iuf$l 900 bonds. The bonds
for his appearance was furnished by his
friends of the shears, and he was
released. The girl, it is said, is stead
fast in her resolution to fulfill her pro-
iect AS soon as she is of age, if not per-
mitted TO before.
She Dechnai TO Die With Him.
New YORK. World: Young William
Kurtz, the bridge jumper who commit
suicide because his love for a young
girl was not fetFrned, had tried to kin
himself bef6rel Lena Conkle, of No.
$50 Ridge street, with whom KurtZ was
IN love, said that the dead boy tried to
cut his throat with a knife, but a woman
grabbed the knife. Just before COM
hitting suicide Kurtz called on Lena.
After talking with her for IA time he
pulled a revolver and proposed that they
die together. She couldn't see ii that
way, and screamed for her sister. The
latter ran the young man out of the
house. The next she heard of him he
had committed suicide. Mrs. Wagner,
in whose rooms Kurtz died, said he was
drunk when he shot himself. After
seeing Lena he went back to Mrs. Wag-
ner's and told her the police were look
ing for him because he had stabbed the
girl.
Isn't He Nice?