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Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
BURKE mas TAKEN A BRACE.
Something Has stiTcned His Back
hone Remark bIy,


CHICAGO, August t0.-[Special Telegram
to THE BEE. -"I cannot say that Burke has
confessed or admitted his completely in the
Cronin MURDER SAID State Attorney Longe-
necker this morning, "but I can say this
much, we have gained a very important
point by keeping him at the armory those
three days instead of bringing him over TO
the jail"
The states attorney, while not willing to
discuss the merits of the case against the
Cronin suspects, plainly intimates that it has
been greatly strengthened by the facts which
have developed since Burke's arrival. The
great trial will begin August %, almost posi-
lively. Both sides announce that they are
ready, and the legal battle will be long and
holly contested. The work alone Of secur-
ing a jury will probably take up several
weeks. In the anarchist case there were
eight defendants and 935 men were sum
moned and examined before the requisite
twelve were found. In the Cronin case 1t will
probabably be easier TO find an acceptable
jury, but they will have the right to
2+o peremptory challenges and it is
safe to anticipate that most of them
will he excused by one side or the other.
Meanwhile Burke rests in Jail and lives on
jail fare. Lawyers Forrest and Kennedy
were at the Jail to-day to see their respective
clients, Coughlin and Burke. After Forrest
had talked with Cough!in he asked Tailor
Foltz if he might see Burke.
"Does Burke want youl Arc you his
lawyer2n asked Mr.. Foltz.
~ will attend to his case during MIR. Ken
nedy's ABSENCE" said Forrest.
Burke has undoubtedly been braced up
very much since his arrival here. "Some-
body has been giving him a lot of Brown
Sequard lamb juice said u man at the
criminal court building to day. Judge
Longenecker thinks so also.
"There has been IA great change in Burke"
SAID ne. II seems more confident. He
looked very self-reliant in court yesterday,
but he Is not SO by nature. When ] tell you
that l have made him weep bitterly just by
talking to him on certain lines, you may I'M
agine that he is not OF a forcible character"
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
Jerry O'Leary Arrested.

Jerry O'Leary, the fire and police operator
who feeced his friends and passed several
bogus checks on various parties around
town, was arrested yesterday morning by
Officer Kaiser. He had been in hiding IN the
woods in the south part of the city since
Tuesday, and was seen slipping into Joe
Murphy's house.
The greatest Of his ~offenses was not dis
covered until yesterday morning. when 1t
was discovered that he had forged
the name Of Captain Green to
a note for 1925 and got it cashed at the
Commercial National bank. O'Leary con-
fesses everything and says he was drunk
when he the last named crime.
He was out in the woods during the late
heavy rains and looks decidedly rocky.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
CRUSHED BY THE CARS.
William Hoffman Killed by a Onion
Pacific Freight Train.

Pacific Freight Train.
William Hoffman, q German about thirty
years of age, was run over and killed last
night about half-past 10 o'clock at the inter-
section of Seventeenth street and the Union
Pacific tracks.
A man by the name OF II. Schneider, who
saw the affair, says Hoffman was walking
west on the track, when a heavy freight
train, pulling from the lower to the upper
yard, approached him from behind. Hoff-
man turned partly around when the train
was a few feet from him and tried to get out
of the way, but did not succeed in doing so.
The engine struck him and knocked him to
one side of the track, and the engine and
thirteen cars passing over him.. His right
arm and the lower part of his body and both
legs were ground INTO a shapeless mass.
The man lived about twenty minutes after
he was pulled from beneath the cars. He
stated that he had been in the employ of a
man named Conner, at South Omaha, but
whether it was the section boss or the con-
tractor of that name was not made clear. He
was a native Of Koaslein, Germany. and had
no relatives in this country. He had been
living at T~wenty-seyenth and Hickory
streets, in South Omaha, and was walking
down the tracks TO his home.
Mr.. Schneider states that he saw the en-
CINE approaching Hoffman and ran to his
assistance. He stumbled and before he
could recover his footing the engine had
passed over the man. Schneider called to
the engineer TO stop, and kept screaming
until he had aroused the entire neighbor-
hood. The train was not stopped until thir-
teen cars had passed over the man. Schrei-
Der helped TO pull the injured man from I'M
der the cars and held his head until he died,
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
n TIONS
The Railroad Commission PROPOSE
ton Defeated at Olympia.

OLYMPIA, Wash, August 10.-In the con-
vention to-day telegraph and telephone COM
panies were declared to be common carriers
and subject to the action of the state legisla-
ture. The section establishing q railroad
commission of three appointed by the gov
ernor and confirmed by the senate was de.
feated. The committee on tide water pro-
posed an increase of the power Of the COM
mission to lay harbor lines at the point in
front of all municipalities where water is
twenty-four feet deep at low water, and they
propose to reserve the distance between this
line and the shore for wharfs and other
similar purposes, the fee simple to remain in
the state. A beautiful banner bearing the
coat of arms of George Washington was
submitted to the convention with the sugges-
ton that these be adopted as the coat of
arms of the state. An article was passed
giving the legislature the power to pass q
homestead law, and another declaring that
the water ways of the state belong to the
people for irrigation and manufacturing
purposes. The convention also adopted the
educational article.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
Personal Paragraphs.

Harry Hubbell left Saturday evening for
a visit in New York city.
Mrs. James +. Thompson, who was called
to Avoca, Ia, on account of the serious ILL
ness of her mother, is expected home to-day.
Mrs. John II. D9chner will leave Sunday
for q visit of a month with friends in New
York city.
The proprietor, Nels. burlington, of the
Lincoln stock yards, IS here TO spend Sunday
with friends.
Mrs Dwight L. Holmes, of this city, ac-
companied by Miss Alice Bradley, of
Omaha, has gone east, and will visit friends
IN Chicago, Battle Creek, Mich, and her
home in Syracuse, N. vs.
William H.. Kyne has returned from Spirit
Lake, la. iHit,
Mrs. William Trousine and Miss Lena
Kerlin, Of Chic lgo, who thave been visiting
their sister and brother in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Bachman. have returned home.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
County Court.

Souhty Soehs
Tho worm has turned. Heretofore the
fallen Bank of Omaha has figured in the
courts only as defendant. Yesterday it had
against M. l.. and Fremont Jaynes and John
p. Thomas to recover $4S7. 30. alleged to be
due on a promissory note assigned to the
bank.
Frank S. Pierce filed a petition setting
forth that he was the only surviving member
of the firm of Armstrong & Pierce, MIR.
Armstrong having died the present year.
AS a firm they had headquarters at Palmer,
Neb., and engaged in buying and selling
upon the South Omaha market hogs and cat
tie. In December, 1868, they shipped to the
commission firm of Parkhurst, Hopper &
Parker, to be sold, hogs to the value of
SS39.64. A sale was made, but the commits
sion men failed to turn over more than
1926 30, and Pierce sues now for the balance.
2-l26 was a lot of dispositions in the case
Of the Columbus bank vs.. Woodbridge Bros.
In the case of the Phoenix Insurance COM
pany VS.. H. E. Weybrldge ct al, a stipula-
ton to relnstate was filed.
Charles M. Bachman's petition told graph
ically how he had been induced to leave u
situation which paid him $50 a month to nc
cept a years work for Charles and Anna
REEVE, undertakers, ut $50 q month, and
further states That after little more than a
month of service he was discharged, and can
not get anoth err place. Wherefore, he prays
that the verbal contract by which the
REEVES assured him Of one years. work be
declared binding, and that he be given judg-
ment for $500.
Seven-year-old Artenus Kilkenny, son of
John Kilkenny, was one Of the depositors of
the Bank of Omaha who appeared in county
court yesterday morning to file proof of
claim. The lad hac saved from his earnings
S7.65, and acting on the advice OF his father
he deposited it in the late lamcnted bank.
William Lehr, an employee of the Omaha
Milling cOmnlDV. is another OF those who
lost their all in the wreck. He deposited
S1,400, the amount of IA back pension awarded
hi.l. A wife and six children are now en-
tirely dependent on the labor of his hands.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
Harrison's Vacation.

BAR HARBoR, Me, August IL. -President
Harrison went for a sail to-day, the guest OF
Secretary and Mrs. Blaine. The passen-
ger steamer "~Sappho.' which usually
plies between Mount Desert ferry
and Bar Harbor, had beer selected,
and it carried nearly a hundred ladies' and
gentlemen. who went partly around the island
and INTO Sons sound with the president by
invitation of Secretary Blaine. After dinner
tonight the president and Secretary Blaine
went to u reception which the Kebo Valley
club gave in its club house in the presidents
honor. II was followed by dancing. Seven
hundred aud fifty people were present.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
A CRISIS AT HAND.
The Complete Bankrupting of Many
Western Roads Feared.

Western Roads Feared
CHICAGO, August l0.--TSpecial Tele
gram to The BEE.l-rhe long ex-
pected tariff of the Atchison was is
sued this morning. 1t is the regular
tariff, no change being made in the rates,
but the words, "This tariff applies only on
the Chicago, Santa Fe 81 California road for
business originating west of Kansas City"
This means that no Chicago-Kansas City
road will be allowed TO take freight fro IN the
Atchison at Kansas City and bring it east at
the proportion of the through rate. 1t means
that the Alton will withdraw from the
western freight association and the west
ern railway weighing association and in
spection bureau. 1t means the utter collapse
of the weighing association and a return to
the carload system OF carrying live stock.
1t means that right now there is a crisis in
western railroad affairs, which can as we'll
as not lead to a complete bsnkrupting of
many of the roads. There is nc telling
which way the cat will jump, and no one is
80 pulled up with conceit that he even haz-
ards an opinion on the outcome,
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
A FATALtFRAY.
Two Men Killed fnd Several Supposed
10 BE Wounded.

CHICAGO. August lp.-A special from
Frankfort, Mich, says q terrible encounter
occurred at Otter Creek this morning, in
which Charles 4. Wright, president of the
Otter Creek Lumber Company, Of Racine,
WIS, shot and killed Deputy Sheriff Mar
shall and DIR. Frank 11hirber. Wright had
failed TO pay certainltaxes and the sheriff at
tached a lot of logs. It'is thought Wright.
with a force Of men, attempted to regain
possession aud in the melee Thurber was
killed first and Marshal soon afterwar DIS. 1t
is rumored that over sixty men were en-
gagged in the fray, and others may have been
wounded. The propeller Dewar, with a
force of officers, is leaving for Otter creek TO
capture WI light dead or alive. IT is said
Wright has escaped on a barge and departed
for the Wisconsin shore.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
Name and Rank.

Monday the first day of the regular COM
petition will take place. The medals will be
awarded on Saturday next. Teams of eight
men were selected from each regiment on
the grounds for competition yesterday, firing
at known distances and en- gaging in skirmish
work. In the former the First regiment led,
the Eighth second, the Ninth third, and the
Second fourth.
In the skirmish WORK the Ninth regiment
attained to the first place, the First was
second, the Eighth was third and the Second
was fourth.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
Enthusiastic ON Irrigation.

BISMARCK, N. d.. August 10.-Maior Pow
ell, of the state irrigation committee, ad-
vised the tank system in irrigation in Dakota,
a pond on every farm where practicable that
that will catch storm waters ana store them
until the water is needed. He says that a
twenty acre tank filled with water TO the
depth of ten feet will irrigate 300 acres and
increase the value of the land from 300 to
400 per cent. "If we irrigate we would never
,nna 'niih net'r ratetiu an4 fo we . n m,gnS cro R our
in this case is a fertilizer and the land can
never be exhausted where irrigation is prac-
ficed -
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
SOUTH OMAHA NEWS.
Fell Fifteen Feet,

Saturday afternoon Bonney Burmese, son
of Contractor Frank b.. Burmese, of Burmese
g. Parks, VINO are puttingrup the new build
ing for George Fl. Hammond & Co., fell from
the second floor, O., distance of fifteen
the left arm and hip. A surgeon
was summoned, WHO Gould not find any
bones broken. The ybung man was re-
moved to his home on Missouri avenue and
Seventeenth streets. Late in the afternoon
Mr.. Burmese complained of pains about the
neck. Unless internal injuries have been
received, MIR. Burmese will only nurse sore
bruises.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
another Tascott FixzIe.

EMPoRIA. Kan, August l0.-The young
mar arrested at Laredo, Texas, supposed TO
be Tascott Is believed here TO be one OF the
sons of James Dolphin, OF Concordia, Kan.
The suspect gave his name as Dolphin, Of
Concordia. James Dolphin today said he
had two sons in the railroad business there,
one of whom might be taken for Tascott.
He believes it Is one of his sons who is under
arrest.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
strong's Rumored Resignation.

CHICAGO, August1o Especial Telegram 10
The BEE. "A rumor is circulating among
railroad men that President Strong, of the
Atchison, has or will soon resign. A west
ern railroad official said to a reporter this
morning: 81 think the rumor IS correct, but
/ don't care to say anything about President
Stron s's management, He undoubtedly did
the best he could, but u system with a nine
age OF 100 miles, ana stock amounting to
$40, OO0, 600 Is not an easy property to handle"
At the Santa Fe offices nothing was known
of the rumored resignation. President
Strong left for Boston very hurrledly the
first of the week. He has made several I'M
portant business engagements, but started
at such short notice that he did not even
send word of his departure.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11

meanwhile talking TO him and learning the
particulars as given above.
TIL train crew consisted Of John Murphy,
engineer; William Irving, fireman, and M.
Jurgesou. foreman.
Some OF the by-stauders claim that the en-.
gineer whistled for the viaduct, but did not
ring the bell for the Seventeenth street
crossing.
Coroner Drexel was notified and returned
the body to the morgue. He will hold an in
quest at o o'clock this morning.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
At Helena.

HELENA, Mont, August 10. 1.-The conven-
ton to-day considered the propos ition on
arid and school lands, recommending that
the reserve sections should not be sold be-
fore 1870. The proposition was adopted as
part of the constitution and the convention
adjourned till Monday.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
MAKING Matters Worse.

A writor in the Business Women's
Journal advocates Il dress with seven
pockets for business women, says the
Chicago News. That will not do at all.
Think OF a man attempting Ia find his
wife's tumble in a dress having seven
pockets. With such invention no won
der that the lunatic asylums are over
crowded.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
Army of the Cumbe rIand Reunion.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, August 10.-Great
preparations have been made here for the
entertainment Of the Society Of the Army of
the Cumberland, which holds its next annual
reunion In this city September 10, 20 and 81.
Notice already has been received from che
different brigades and divisions Of the Army
of the Cumberland sufficient TO insure the at
tendance Of many thousands Of the veterans
of the union army.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
LAST PRELIMINARY SHOOT.

1t Was characterized by Good Shoot
ing at the Bellevue Range.
Yesterday was the closing day in the pre-
liminary practice of the cavalry competition
at the Bellevue range.
The appended scores show the standing Of
the competitors whose names are published
during the three days OF practice:
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
Teachers Examination.

An examination OF applicants for positions
as teachers in the Omaha schools in all
grades, including high school, will be held in
the high school building on Friday and Sat
urday under the auspices of the teachers ex-
aiming committee, from . till 4.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
A Juvenile Foreer.

Charles Parker, a sixteen-year-old boy,
was arrested last night for forging checks
on L.. M. Bennett Il Co., L. o. Jones q Co.,
l.. A. Austin Shoe Manufacturing company
and several others, In amounts ranging from,
So TO so. He has acknowledged his guilt.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
Threatens 10 Gobbie a Town.

MooRHEAD, MIMI, August lO.-The appli-
cation made yesterday to Judge Mills by At
torney @. e. Broun, of Minneapolis, for the
Cox, a minor, was granted. A friend of
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
The bismarck Bulletin.

BISMARCK, N. D.. August 10.-The COM
mittee on revision will be prepared to report
the complete revised constitution to the con-
~vention on Tuesday next, after which the
session will not last many days.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
SD. Louis Mnana Rusiness.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, August 1O.-The worlds
fair committee met this afternoon and
elected officers. Several hundred thousand
dollars have already been subscribed.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
New York Getring READY.

New York, August 1O.-Mayor Grant APP
pointed the five committees To do prelimin-
airy work for the international exposition in
1892, late this afternoon.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
Music i'm the PARK.

The tenth grand sacred concert at Han
scom park will be given by the Musical Union
band, under the direction of ii. +, Irvine,
to-day at 9 O'Clock.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
Smart Horse Thieves.

ST.. PAUL, August 10.-The Globe prints
the following from Lamoor, N. D.: A gil
gantic horse stealing industry is thought to
have been established in C~oteans, along the
Missouri river. Different parties take old
decrepit horses out among the hills, which
are totally uninh abited, and any strays that
may be around will come TO these horses,
when they will be caught and sent 10 other
parties connected with The gang and in q few
days they will have the horses hundreds of
miles from where they were picked up aud
then offer them for sale.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
A QUIET DAY IN COURT.
The Bank of Omaha Brings a Sui
Before Judge Shields.

VNNkt 'fftt'hH
The usual grist Of light business was
transacted over the bar of the district court
yesterday.
To recover 1892 A, the amount claimed by
Willett l.. Irish to be due him from John r.
O'Hanlon, Abram S. Joseph, Fred Lind
horst, Neer & Bendorf, Isaac Adams and M.
Il. Roys, suit was instituted by Irish.
judgement for s. 900 is claimed by the
American Savings bank from the Omaha
Banking company and the Beatrice Real
Estate and Trust company. The Beatrice
company deposited with the Omaha Banking
company $1,000, and later endorsed the certi'
ficate received therefor, payable to the
American Savings bank, which corporation
claims IL has not been paid any part of the
amount.
Suit to recover s415 on a promissory note
was begun by Dexter l.. Themes against
Margrethe JAG oSsen, ct al.
An action in equity, to recover on promis-
sorry notes of the face value of 500, was in
stituted. /. L. CASTOR was plaintiff and
Annie F.. Shaw, Caroline II. Shaw, George
w. Wallace, The Nebraska Mortgage Loan
company, Annie S. Meredith and George
Meredith the defendants.
Other new papers filed were the following
4-2A-John b. Carmichael vs. George p.
Muldoou; appeal.
14-l40-Lizzie Wollenski VS. Abraham VOL
leuski; answer and cross petition By defend
ant. This answer denies generally the allie
cations of cruelty, infdelity, ETC., preferred
by Mrs. Wollenski, and alleges that she has
at sundry times been untrue to her marital
VOWS; has neglected her children, allowing
them to go about hungry, dirty and infested
with vermin, and more in the same vein,
whereupon he prays for a divorce. A stipu-
lation by these parties relative to the dispo-
sition of the MINOR children was also filed.
John T.. Paulson VS. Michael f. Conner is
the title of the last petition filed, In ii
Paulson sets forth that he sold to Conner
certain real estate, on which only part pay
ment has been made and the balance re.
fused. Accordingly he prays that the con-
tract be declared ~annulled and the payments
made be forfeited.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11

The funeral Of Lille Curtis Slater will
take place from the family residence OF j. o,
Slater, 1860 Sherman avenue, to Forest
Lawn, AT 2 .. IN. to-day.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
MME.

MllOeckcr
Potpouri--"Around the World" .... Brown
Turkey, Danube, Russia, Poland, Ger
many, Alsace and Lorraine, France,
Galop-"Matrosen". 1870. 49,. Neicig
With Religious Andante by Haydn.
This Is the finest programme yet prepared
and the music will be rendered IN oven a
more excellant manner than IL was by this
band on Sunday last.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-23

in code, more often partially in code and fire.
quenty transparency disguised like this:
Elsie rof Gnignol dina Gnitiaw Gnihctaw,
which obviously means, watching. waiting and
longing for Elsie. The two following from
Sdnddrds OF recent date are interesting, though
the meaning of the second one is not very con-
spicuous. but it probably has to do both with
love and spiritualism: Il guard and guide
her have SO long and seemingly hopelessly
loved. State facts known to US both and give
the initial letter of the parish / live in
'Honeysuckle, My Val. thus, for letter sent
returned not known. Don't ask me Aggie to
make house for medium. I'd as lief be hurled
to perdltlon and the very atmosphere of the
place stiles me. No enmity for your friends,
but no faith. / will come and see you any,
where, If you simply send address to Cd. f.) "a
Addle Hill, f. c. About ripe now to manifest
myself but must have inspiration of pair
OF eyes and the comfort Of consolatory pair
OF lips. Thine for two months more" Here
are more specimens:
wretch Why will you prosecute me thus?
My husband came in five minutes after you
left last Friday" Toby to Daisy. Little
puss! | waited five hours in the snow for YOU
last s. n. My poor old heart is breaking. Tell
me where can see you"
Emma to Jack. d. has gone to Brighton.
Come next Wednesday and We will spend long
happy day together"
Sometimes the lovers drop into poetry
priately interspersed with those of private di-
vorce-inquiry men.
THE FRENCH PAPERS,
although not newspapers in the strictest sense
of the word, are the wittest and best written,
but they contain very few agonizing advertise
ments. They publish however. a few adver-
tisements of matrimonial agents, always
women. and of persons who want conjugal
partners. They are printed i'll batch with the
heading marriages." are always very business
Ike, and are very much abbreviated both as
far as the words and the statements are con-
cerned Here are some from the Figaro: Rich
marriages, twenty-third year of business.
Widow Guyot bureau S." misses widows, and
orphans (female), eighteen to sixty years, 40,
600 to 100000 francs. Madame Gruet, 80 rue
Manbenge;" Serious. Gentleman, forty years
old, distinguished. 250O 900 francs. Would marry
pretty person. honorable. good musician, or
having fine voice. simple and respectable
tastes. Nothing to do with agencies. Write
L.. NJ, poste restante, bureau AZ.
1t is interesting to note that the Frenchman
Is always careful to stpulate that his would-be
wife shall be respectable. honorable, and of
unlmpeachable antecedents.
BIAKELY HALL.