Omaha daily bee., 1890-09-14
A GIRL BURNED TO DEATH.
Sixteen Year-Old Kittie Verbal Meets With
Horrible Fate.
A CARNIVAL OF THIEVES AT LINCOLN.
Where She Kept Her Whisky Bottle
-Supreme Court Docket-POunde ded
the Baggageman - Other
Lincoln News.

LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. l3.--TSpecial to THE
BEE. Miss Kittie Verjaa, the sixteen
year-old daughter Of John oVeriaal, a stone
mason at Second and + streets, was terribly
burned this morning and her death is hourly
expected. The family has been accustomed
to make quick fires In the kitchen stove Of
mornings by using as kindling dry chunks Of
clay soaked over night in kerosene In ap.
plying the match to these this morning Kittie
was too close to the stove, and when the com
bustible mass blazed upi set fire to her hair
and clothes. In her fright, the girl ran into
the yard and the wind famed the flames into
perfet blaze that burned almost
every stitch Of clothing on her
body and scared herN arms, face,
breast, abdomen and lower limbs until the
cooked flesh hung in shreds. Her agony was
most excruciating and her cries heart.rend-
ing Physicians were called and they
enveloped her from head to foot in cotton
soaked in oil. Narcotics were also gwen to
make her unconscious of her pain, but the
doctors said it was impossible for her to
live.
PICKPoCKErs SIMULATE DRUNKENNEss
Just as T. II. l.. Lee, a grain dealer at
Exeter, was getting on the B. & M. train last
evening in company with couple of other
gentlemen, a group OF pickpockets pretend
ing to be drunk, iostled against them and
when they managed to free themselves ali
three gentlemen found that their pockets had
been picked. Mr., Lees watch was taken,
while small sums Of money were abstracted
from the pockets Of both the other gentle
men. When search was made for the light
fingered gentry 1t was found that they had
disappeared.
WHERE THE BOTTLE WAS FOUND.
Mrs. Welton, who comes from the town OF
Mlnnec0da, In the prohibition state OF
South Dakota, was arrested last night for
being drunk and disorderly. She made the
night air hideous with her curses and con-
demnation OF the Irish simply because the Of
ticers who took her into custody We're born in
the Emerald isle. On being taken to the DO
lice station she kicked physically as well as
fguratively and displayed lump under the
stocking on the right limb that was supposed
at first to be either tumor or case Of ele-
phantiasis. II proved, however, to be pint
fiask of whisky from which the woman had
been drinking copiously,
POUNDED THE BAGdAGEMAN.
M. j. Curtice OF Albion was among the Wis.
itors at the fair yesterday. He is an alliance
man and after listening to Dictator Burrows
teachings has become an iDveterate hater of
anything or nybody that represents cor
pcrate monopoly. Last evening while at the
depot he and the baggageman, j. ID. Jones,
passed some hard words and fight ensued
In which the alliance man managed TO give
the naughty representative of the railroad
monopoly a terrible beating. Curtice was
arrested and this morning was fined $40 and
costs.
PATRICK EGAS's SUIT.
The attorneys for Patrick Egan, minister
to Chill, have asked for continuance of the
suit brought against that distinguished gen
tleman by Bishop Bonacum TO recover $500
subscribed for the St. Theresa church fund
The attorneys stated that the main reason
MIR Egan did not pay the subscription was
because IL was understood that In making
such contribution Mr.. Egan was TO be
treated with respect and courtesy by the
bishop. but such regard had not been mani