Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-07
FRESH FEATURES PROMISED.
Threadbare Attractions at the State
Fair Shelved.
BOLD BAD BURGLARS AT LIBERTY
Board Of Transportation Matters
Gases In District Court-Not the
Result of the Strike-Com-
mencement Exercises.
LINCOLN BUREAU OF The OMAHA BEE,
1929 Z STREET,

Of agriculture, which consists of Ed. McIn-
tyre Of Seward, X. X. Greer of Kearney, J.
il. Dinsmore OF Sutton, NJ. Durham Of
Omaha and X. II. Henry of Columbus, came
In today TO hold a meeting for the discussion
Of q course of procedure for the next state
fair. Mr.. Henry, though a member Of the
board, did not come as he is one of the board
OF supervisors at home and important bust
ness then made II impossible for him TO get
away. Ex-Governor Furnas, secretary of
the board, and S. M. Barker, president, are
also here.
~ have one or two attractions in mind"
said Secretary Furnas this morning, ''but l
do not care to say anything about them until
something further is determined concerning
them. Special attractions of the usual kind,
chariot races, bicycle tournaments,
etc, have become t~hreadbare
and the expenditure of money
upon them is worse than useless. Unless
something novel can be obtained the money
had better be applied to other purposes. 1
have been making efforts TO get several
novelties, but have been unsuccessful. For
the last three years l have been endeavoring
10 get DIR. Sketchloy, who owns two ostrich
farms near Los Angeles, Gala, to break n
pair of ostriohs TO ride and drive and make
some of the fair circuits with them for a year
or two. They are broken by the natives,
where they originate, and il it could be done
here they would prove a drawing attraction.
The doctor has finally declined positively to
attempt the task. / also made an attempt to
secure the celebrated Mexican band, which
was such asuccessful feature at New Orleans,
but Minnesota got ahead of us and has the
band engaged for the very same days on
which we hold our fair.'
TIL board is somewhat at a loss as to what
can be secured in this line but think that
something will be discovered before fair
time which Will be worth securing. Score
tary Furnas says that the reputation of Ne
braska state fairs extends all over the United
States and that a vast number OF exhibitors
are already making inquiries. Whatever
may be the character of the attractions Sc
cured the people of the state need feel no
nneasinessl lest the fair of 1888 shall be a less
magnificent success than its predecessors.
BAD BREAK ON BURGLARS.
Two men who gave their names as David
Robinson and James H.. Harris were arrested
this morning between | and 2 O'Clock on
suspicion of being burglars about to open up
business in the city. Yesterday afternoon
some burglars tools were found under the
cornice works on q street, between Eighth
M Ninth streets. Tho find was kept quiet
and the police notified. The bundle was
taken to police headquarters and was found
to contain three loaded revolvers, a brace
and seven drills, a chiSel, n pair of longs, q
key nipper, some dynamite cartridges and a
sledge. The obvious inference to be drawn
from the find was that some visiting burglars
were among us and that after they found u
place which suited them for opening up
business they would come after the tools.
Officers Pound and Mitchell concealed them
selves near where the tools had been hidden
and after q patient wait of several
hours, discovered two men approaching.
ul,nx Nya,t M fhn hniIlipsr and 80 tIn,s ,,,aan
reaching under for bhe tools the officers
pounced down upon them and ran them into
the station. The burglars were arrigned
this morning but it developed that the job
was not as fine "A one upon the part of the Of
tcers as it might have been. AS the officers
had taken the tools away and the prisoners
were not found in possession of them there
was no evidence against them. The next
time the officers will probably leave the tools
where the burglars can get them and defer
the arrest until the men furnish evidence for
their conviction by taking possession of the
tools.
TIE BOARD OF TRANSPORTATION.
Tomorrow is the date Of the regular meet
ing of the board of transportation and if the
board comes together there will be some
rather important business transacted-that
Is unless the good intentions of one or two of
fhe members shall be nullified by the major
jty. 1t is likely that Judge Mason's report,
in which he u schedule of re-
puced local rates, will come up for consider
alton. Reference to this report was made
when il was filed with the board some time
Since. 1t is also considered possible that the
question of 1000 mile tickts may be taken up
and the adyisabllity of ordering the rate on
Them reduced TO 2 cents a mile considered.
Ulis is the rate which prevails in Iowa,
while the rate in Nebraska Is two cents and
d half.
THE DISTRICT COURT.
This morning the jury brought in n verdict
An the case of John l.. Means VS. Splitter &
n -Ig,l, ,,r,, on t,inI ,tngt.,lnt, A1,,,.
alleged that he placed in tho hands Of Brad
Slaughter, one of the supervisors of Genoa
township, Vance county, $1,000 in bonds, for
the purpose of having them registered.
Slaughter sold them to A. II. Splitter, who
had them transferred TO Splitter & Co., of
Toledo, o, This firm sent Means a draft for
$1,000, which he refused to receive on the
ground that Slaughter was not authorized to
sell the bonds. Under a stipulation the plain
TIL had received s., l95, so that this trial was
for the recovery of a small amount for inter-
est and damages. The jury brought in a YER
dict of S404. 16 for the plaintiff.
The case of the Cleveland Cooperative
stove company against Hovey 81 Peck has
boon on trial today, The defendants ordered
some stoves for tho fall trade from the plain
sifs, but as they did not arrive until nearly
tho ond OF the season and then in bad condi-
ton, the firm refused to receive them. Tho
suit is brought to recover the amount of the
bill for the stoves.
FATALITY FRoM A STRIKE ROW.
The readers OF THE BEE will remember
that about four weeks ago, while IA b. ~ M.
train was leaving Omaha, a stone was thrown
into the cab of the engine. II was presumed
AT the time that the stone came from the
hand of n striker, but as the injury done by
IL did not seem to be very serious, no great
amount of attention was paid TO it at the
time. The stone struck David Snyder, the
~sngineer, on the head. Ho was brought 10
Che Fremont house in this city, and the
wound, which was not supposed Mt first to be
dangerous, gradually assumed a more threat
sning aspect, and nj 4 O'clock this morning
Snyder died. Snyder was about ~forty-fiye
years of age, and formerly lived Mt Spring
field, o.
The above is the report as circulated this
morning. An Investigation made later by
THE BEE representative disclosed tho fact
that the injury had nothing whatever 10 do
with Snyder's death. lie was walking around
the city for several days after the occurrence.
He was then attacked by iuiammatory
rheumatism and gradually grew worse until
this morning, when he died. The effort 10
make capital o1t OF the affair against the
hrikers is q failure,
THE HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT
The commencement exercises OF tho Lin
colin High school will take place az the opera
house tomorrow. "Class day. exercises
will be held in the afternoon and Ia the even.
ing the graduation exercises will be held oc
cording TO the following programme: