Omaha daily bee., 1890-02-06
INHERITANCE FROM A VICTIM,
A Question the Supreme Court
Will Soon Decide.
SUDDEN DEATH Of j. 3. LlppLe.
Lancaster Lawyers wrangie Over n
Banquet-Cuiiings at the state
House-Ctty and State
News OF Interest.

ing the morning hours. The case has Its
groundwork in the most terrible TRAGEDY
that ever occurred in the state. Readers o
The BEE have not forgotten the murder OF
little Maggie Shellenborger which. took
place near Nebraska City during the spring
of 1886, the subsequent trials of Lee aud
Miranda Shellen berger, the father and stop.
mother OF the little girl, for the frighttul
murder, and the sad end of Lee at the hands
of the mob q few mouths later. II will be
remembered that Lee Shollenbcrger no.
tanned Messrs. Watson and Ransom to
defend him in his trials in the courts
OF justice against the crime as charged. For
this service they exacted of him q deed for
the undivided half of the farm owned by a
former swlfei she having Q died, and the
Title OF the land having passed to her minor
children. Eighty acres OF land thus became
the question of controversy.
December 2S, 1887, Messrs. Watson and
Ransom filed their petition in the district
court for a partition of the property, and set
up that the heirship of Maggie, the MUIR
dered girl, descended to the father, and
they claimed title through HIM. Judge q. II.
Mason of this city was appointed guardian
ad Item for the minor defendant. In tho
trial that followed the district court sus-
tanned the plaintiffs and ordered the parti>
ton as prayed. But Judge Mason appealed
the case TO the supreme court Oh tue grounds
IN chief that a murderer cannot inherit from
his victim.
NEBRASKA AND THE SUGAR TARIFF.
Governor Thayer today sent the following
letter to Hon. William Mckinley, chairman
OF the house on ways and means:
Permit me to express myself briefly to you
and the members of your committee, and
very strongly, too, against any reduction of
the present tariff on sugar. Nebraska is
purely an agricultural state. Our people
are now establishing beet sugar industries
and thew want aynry ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS tho
government can give them. They are in
Vesting largely of their means in beet sugar
plants. Therefore,, in their behalf, | enter n
respectful protest against a modification of
the tariff on this article. Our farmers are a
long distance from market and it takes about
one-half of what they raise to send the
balance to market, BY the manufacture of
beet sugar a home market is created for
almost at their own doors. Very respect
tully and truly yours, JOHN NJ. THAyER.
DEATH OF j. d. LIDDlE.
}. E. Liddle, late representative OF the
World Herald IN this city, died this morning
AT 4 o'clock from hemorrhage of the lungs.
Few, II any, sadder deaths have occurred in
LINCOLN during the past year. Some three
weeks ago Jack, as he was Familiarity called,
entered upon a protracted spree and at
divers times since made unsuccessful at
tempts upon his own life. When himself he
was a bright, genial fellow, and quite gener.
ally esteemed, but his uncomfortable appe-
tlte for liquor wrought his ruin and bore him
TO the grave at the early age of twenty nine
years. "A single dram of whisky only was
necessary to throw HIM into a delIrium that
made him anything but a sane man, and he
invariably sought chloroform when In liauor
with suicidal intent. Not a few times he
was all but successful in his attempt to reach
a suicides grave, and when intoxicated ne
was the source of deepest solicitude on the
part of his friends and they were always on
the alert to prevent any rash act. Mr.. Lid
dies father will ship his sons remains, to-
morrow, to Marengu, H., his boyhood home.
where they will be laid to rest.
UNITED STATES COURT.
William II. Ruggles OF Burt county
pleaded guilty today to the charge Of selling
liquor without a liceuse aud was fined SIS
and costs.
The jury in the case of William H. Ogle ct
al VS. the Sherman County bank, after being
out twenty-four hours, asked Judge Dundy
for further instructions. which were given
at 4 O'Clock this afternoon.
Grandpa Burrus will be for
contempt of court tomorrow morning unless
he takes French ~leave,'' winch is alto
gether Improbable. Arrangements were all
made today, and it is indirectly understood |
by the attorneys of both sides. MIR. Burrus |
says he does not like the idea of going to
Jail, but that he will stand it with the hone |
and belief that it Will ultimately secure for |
HIM undisturbed possession OF his little
grandchild. He will be sent to Omaha for
htuo WI /
Follow as soon as possible.
COURT HOUSE nEDIciTIoN.
The formal dedication Of the new court
house was the question considered at n meet
ing OF the Lancaster county bar last evening.
Indeed, for some time past a grand BANQUET
has been talked and thought to be the emi-
Eentiy proper thing for such dedication when
the building was completed and occupied.
This the bar OF the county met to consider
last night, and such another meeting was
nrnh uhlv naUar NyitnaaGa1 in thi, ~, ,.,
other city, The question of swine or no
wine' was sprung, and it was discussed with
such vehemence and temper that adjourn
mont was taken without determining upon
anything definite. Now 1t is suggested by
John ID. Knight, register of deeds, that the
officers give an opening for the entire
for the people outside OF the city as
well as Within, and for tho poorest and
as we'll as for the opulent. The
suggestion Is meeting with popular favor,
and it is thought that MIR. Knights sug-
will take shane and materialize. 1t
was talked on the streets today that the bar OF
the county will fall into line and assist in
making such an opening the success it
should be.
STATE HOUSE JoTTINGs.
Senator Jewett Of Custer county was at
the capitol this morning.
Secretary CARRIER of the state board of
transportation went 10 Nebraska City today.
Smith Caldwell, state oil inspector, re-
ports that II, 1865 barrels OF oil we're IN
during the month of January.
The case of Todd ct al VS. Cass county,
with It's voluminous record, on error, was
filed for trial in the supreme court today;
also, the case of II. N. Scott vs. Emma Chope,
on error from the district court of Hall
county.
County treasurers as followsS settled with
the state today and D aid into the treasury
the amounts stated below: w. G.. Bidwell,
Custer county. sll ,573.3O; Z. II. Paul, Adams
county, g., 1885, ~; A: Front, Valley county.
sl2, 25+.T7. j. L. Likens, Rock county, IS
settlement today.
a meeting has been arranged for Friday
between the governor and the state board Of
transportation on one hand and the railroad
on the other. The object of the
is to consider the proposed reduc.
OF freight rates on corn. Tho governor,
II possible, proposes TO have the meeting
public.
The Nebraska Central railroad company
filed amended articles Of incorporation in the
office of the secretary OF state today. After
Inc words ''extending through tho counties
)f Cedar, Wayne, Dixon, Knox, Cunning,
Burt, Dodge, Washington aud Douglas" the
words were inserted "And TO the
river at such points in Douglas
county as the CORPORATION NAV see best. and