Omaha daily bee., 1891-04-29
socretlry of State Allen Receives Some Let
ters in Connection Herewith.
BOY BADLY HURT BY RECKLESS DRIVING
Dinicuity Over Sewing Machine
The Wheeler Safe Troublc-In
the District Court--Other
Lincoln News.

| money for the benefit of persons living in
western Nebraska. Some of the letters were
addressed to the Chicago commission and
others to the Prairie Farmer. The letters
were turned over to tho relief commission
here by Mr.. Allen. The Nebraska relief
commission is much annoyed over thcso let
ters which the commission believes are an
exaggeraton of the condition of the farmers
in western Nebraska. These misrepresenta-
tions cannot DO reached by the commission in
any way but are believed to be the outgrowth
of the astounding stories told by Mrs Black.
fan III Chicago The commission has de.
clared time and again that Nebraska is amply
able TO look after her own poor aud is so
doing.
One of the letters in question was written
by A. 5. Broaidus of Bliss, Holt
county, and he sent most heart.
rending description of the starving condition
of the farmers in his county. lie declared
that the great Cry was for bread j. A. Hun
OF Oxford is another suppllunt. William II
Thomas of Cowles begged for "box of
close" j. G.. Laffcrty of Danbury seconds
every statement of Mrs Blackfan, who, un-
authorized by anybody, has been depicting
the citizens OF Nebraska as "a hungry horde
of starving wretches. Lafferty estimates
that are without provisions food or seed
secretary OF State Allen, who is from Dan.
bury himself, does not believe that state
ment is true.
James Van Busiirk of Gordon writes to
the Prairie Farmer that many of the farm
ers in his section have no feed for their teams
and urges that paper to help raise money to
send to him aud also to his nelghbors.
j. a. Keith of kimball writes. to Judge
Walter =. Gresham that none of the $500 900
no had tha =.
part of the state
There are number of other letters The
relief commission does not believe that there
is any occasion for such cpIstles as relief is
oelhg gwen Wherever 1t Is proven that it is
actually needed.
Rev. Ludden of the relief commission has
this also to say: "a notice that Rev Benia-
min Franklin Dlffenbacher, the chaplain of
the legislature who forgot to give 800 of
ms salary as chaplain to the western suf-
iefers, AS he promised to do, is making some
ridiculous statements in an Omaha morning
paper concerning enormous prices being paid
by us for inferior seed wheat that has been
shipped into Sheridan county. Now | wish
TO say that the wheat to which the chaplain
refers was not shipped into that county but
was bought of MIR. j. w. Thomas, q banker
at Nashville. MIR. Thomas was represented
10 US as being responsible man. Further
more, the fact is that the highest price we
nave yet paid for wheat was for that very
bushel which is much lower price that
quoted by Rev. Diffeu bachern
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
The driver in charge of N c. Brooks
spirited team OF horses, attached to a car
rage in which two ladies were seated care
iessly drove into crowd of young boys play
ing ball near the Catholic church, at Thir-
teenth and M streets, shortly before noon to-
day. The team was coming down M street
at lively gait and without warning they
dashed into the group OF youngsters. The
nine-year-old son of G.. w. Lyman was
Knocked down and quite seriously injured
H. a. Meyers, who was passing by, rushed
out into the street and picking up the help
less but still conscious boy carried him into
the nearest neighbours house. Dr. Everett
happened to pass by at the same time and
made an examination of the youthful victim
He pronounced him badly injured internally,
but no bones broken. The boy complained
of great pain in his back, and was soon taken
to his home near Eleventh and II streets
DIFFICULTY OVER SEWING MACHINE.
Isaac Broadwater was arrested at his home,
Eleventh and Locust streets, on the cnarge
OF stealing a sewing machine from Mrs
Meecham. When the officers appeared at
the house the half dozen little ones set up
bowling, and as the wagon drove off Mrs
BroadWater, whose anger had been visibv
rising, smashed her fists together, consigned
Mrs. Meecham to the deepest depths of per-
dltion, and expressed in language more for
clDie than eloquent her fixed idea OF wiping
the whole of North Lincoln with the body of
MRS Meecham when next they met Broad
water claims that when he rented the house
from the complainant the machine was there.
and he was told that as it was not much
good he could dispose OF it as he pleased He
consequently sold it. The complainant didn't
appear to prosecute this morning and the
prisoner was discharged. Later Mrs Mcecham
appeared, hut was directed to iusticc,s Of
flee for satisfaction.
THE WHEELER SAFE DIFFICULTY.
Hiland II. Wheeler, late deputy clerk of
the supreme court, is somewhat indignant
ever the removal of the safe bearing his name
from the vault OF the deputy labor camms-
sioner's Office to the apartments of the attor-
ney general. Mr.. Wheeler declares that
somebody Is trying to steal the safe from
hin. He declares that tho safe belongs to
him and shows documents to prove it. The
sale was originally purchased by George IL
Roberts, thcn attorney general he presuming
that the state would pay for it. This the
state refused to do, and rs Roberts was con-
slderably in debt to Wheeler the attorney
general turned the safe over to Wheeler in
payment of his obligations to that gentleman
"A letter from Roberts to Wheeler last August
sets forth the claim that nobody excepting
Wheeler has'any right to the article The
sale was elevated to the second floor yester-
day by force Of men under command of tho
1anitor, but the knight of the dust brush pro-
to be taken upstairs. When Wheeler dis
covered what had been done he got decidedly
warm under the collar and can scarcely wait
until Attorney General Hastings returns
from Hot Springs to demand by what right
the safe was contiscated.
LINCOLN ACTRESS.
Miss Gracle Rentfrow, the graceful little
soubrette OF the Rentfrow company PLAYING
an engagement at the Funke is a Lincoln
girl, having been born here nineteen wears
ago. Her parents were residents of Lincoln
then and her father was ono of the men who,
in partnership with Gran Ensign, started
circus here about seventeen years ago.
WON'T MARRY THE CHOICE OF HER PA.
Marshal Melick was called down to the
third story of the new Webster block on
South Eleventh street last evening by an ex-
cited lady named Mrs. f.. H. Watson, who
desired in formation as to police prerogatiyes
1t appears that a Miss Mills, whose parents
live about block south, mad trout BILE with her
father yesterday, and was beaten black and
blue. She took refuge with Mrs. Watson,
and the father was threatening 20 have
the woman arrested for harboring the
daughter. She was assured that II