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Omaha daily bee., 1895-01-31

ELDER" Buck. the faith healer. in the two
weeks he has been holding meetings in the
Overton mission, corner Sixteenth street and
Fourth avenue, has succeeded In bringing
together a large number of people whose
morals need healing worse than their
Omaha daily bee., 1895-01-31
Marriage Licenses.

The following marriage licenses were is
sued yesterday:
Omaha daily bee., 1895-01-31
Kesolutions of thc Minnrsotn Lorislntnr.

ST. PAUL, Jan. S0.-The senate today
adopted the house joint memorial urging
election of United States senators by popu-
lar vote. A joint resolution for an anti
Russian thistle conf, renee of commissioners
from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and the
Dakotas was also passed.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-01-31
No Elcction In W,si,j,v,o,

OLYMPIA, wash, Jar. SO.-On the tw nty-
sixth joint ballot for United States senator
the vote was: Ankeny, 90; Wilson, 81; Allen,
g. McMillen, Is; II. c. McCrosky (dem), 6;
j. NJ. Bell, %; scattering, ..
Omaha daily bee., 1895-01-31
Burglar, Caught in the Act.

FRIEND, Neb., JAM 30.-(Special Tee-
grant, )-Balt Stoker was caught in the act
of robbing a building at the section house
last night He was bound over to the dis
trict court today by Police Judge Wolfe and
will go to Jail tomorrow.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-01-31
Think Indians should he Taxed.

GUTHRIE, Okl., Jan. 3O.-The legislature
today memorialzed congress to tax Indian
allotments as Indians on allotments We're
citizens and could be taxed. resolution
declaring President Cleveland's recon-
Omaha daily bee., 1895-01-31

mendations in his special message to con-
gress TO be against the best interests of the
country was def ated. A Till was intro 1uc a
making train and bank robberies punishable
by death
Omaha daily bee., 1895-01-31
HARRIS, SLAYER BOUND OYER.
Morrison Charged with Murder In the FRS
neYrce.

CHADRON, Neb, Jan. 30.-(Special Tele-
gram)-County Judge Baird today held
Arthur Morrison, slayer of A. V. Harris, to
the district court for murder in the first de-
gree without bail. Morrison's attorney will
try to get his client admitted to bail before
District Judge Barlow in chambers in this
city. The action of Judge Baird seems to
meet with public approval.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-01-31
Doiph StiIl Three Short.

SALEM. Ore, Jan. 3O.-The following bal
lot was cast in joint session for United
States senator: Dolph, AZ; Hare (pop), 10;
Weatherford (dem), S; Hermann, 10; Lord,
5; Williams, 5; Barkley, 1; Moore, l. Lowell,
4; Catch, 2; absent, 2.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-01-31

Music at the Grand hotel Thursdays, as
well as Sundays, at the dinner hour, to
o'clock.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-01-31

robbers. Hanson's feet and ankles were
frozen, the only injury he sustained. The
robbers obtained nothing,
Omaha daily bee., 1895-01-31

Washington Legislature for Free Coinage.
OLYMPIA, Wash, Jan. 30.-A memorial
to congress- praying for the free coinage
of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, passed the
house today.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-01-31

We have over $500, 900 to loan upon i'm
proved Iowa farms. Farmers desiring loans
can save money by dealing direct with us,
thereby saving agents commission. We do
not loan on wild lands. nor in Nebraska.
Lougee G. Towle, 1886 Pearl street.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-01-31
j. e. Raymond Dangerously III.

f. w. Raymond left last evening for
Willamette. H., on account of a telegram an
nouncing that his father, j. C. Raymond
was lying at the point of death. The invalid
was a resident of Council Bluffs until about
eighteen months ago, and is 76 years of age
A short time ago he became the victim of
blood poisoning, which attacked him in one
limb later on, and now, 1t is believed,
nothing can save his life, He is the father of
Il. w. Raymond and f. II. Raymond Of
Council Bluffs and A. A. Raymond of Omaha.
He is at the home Of his daughter in Ili-
nois.
Try Eagle laundry, 724 Broadway. for good
work. Our medium gloss finish can't be
beat, but we do strictly hand work. domestic
finish. when preferred. Telephone 157.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-01-31
FROM SOUTH OMAHA.

below zero,
'"r'' indicates trace OF precipitation.
l.. A. WELSH. Observer,
Omaha daily bee., 1895-01-31
Disturned Church services.

Wanted, competent cook. at COS First
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CHAPTER discontinued.

"Murdererl Murderer" she repeated
boarsely. And then, advancing, with
staggering feet, further into the room,
she caught sight of the recumbent figure
OF the dead woman. "Harriet! Harriet Oh
my dear, my darling; Why didn't come
in timer
In q sobbing whisper she uttered these
words; and then she fell on her isnees be-
side the BODY. The sergeant stretched
out his hand and patted her shoulder
gently.
he gently.
Robert France, who was moving rest
lessiy about, always shadowed by Ned
fothergill, who was bent on preventing
further mischief. turned sharply.
"Don't let him touch you, Minnie, {"
mid he. "He killed her.
A shiyer passed over the sergeant; he
looked mp in bewildered manner
II killed her. Who says so?" he asked
wit sudden vigor as he sprang up and
took a stride in the direction OF Robert
France.
He seemed to understand for the first
time OF What he was accused.
But Minnie flung herself between them,
and hung on Eben's arm.
1T doesn't matter what anybody saws.
toen, said she quietly and earnestly,
wnsie the tears streamed down her face.
zines. lnsse Things have to be proved. And
'hey II never prove II against you. -
There was another silence Then Rob-
ert France darted to the door,
Nell see about that, 4" said he shortly.
I'm going TO the police station now.
Ana mind. 7" he turned 10 Ned Fothergill. |.
snail hold you responsible N YOU lei
bin get away before we get back
re ran out OF the room, and down the
stairs, nenry knocking down the barman
who had been waSened by the shouts am
The noise, but who had not dared 10 oel
nearer the scene OF action than the corri.
dor OUTSIDE.
In the ciub-room. after the densrtnr,
4 the landlord, there was long silence
during which Minnie knolt by her de,,
sister, pressing the liieless hands IN be
sru. and shedding piteous tears.
The sergesct. who bad sunk again int
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go forward rapidly to meet the tests OF
God. They leap like Paul into daring
chains and the ax. Something like that
is ahead OF your soul! Somewhere you
will be called on to witness how muc OF
God there is i'm you; how far the heroic
has grown. Will you be the last soul 10
meet the test? God has brought you and
me often up to the point where character
and faith could count. And we have
sheered off from that hour. Ii returns
again. 1t is the hour OF pain, the hour
of grieving some we love by going for
ward. II Is the hour of initiation into a
understanding of brotherhood among the
great. 1t Is the hour that Will proclaim
you a hero, and make your III fe and deeds
shine, or that will make your failure a
public thing. God has put men into the
world to nave them give the word: 1
am ready. The soul lives here to open
its way TO voluntary ordeal.
ARE you READY?
Does the hero spirit, the spirit OF cruci-
fixion rise? Think not in tame age TO
avoid the mighty life OF the ancient day,
or the great issues of theS future. Some
time you must show how much you love-
The time comes when every soul will beg
this opportunity of God, ashamed not 10
have been n man sooner. Poring over
your law books, attending your patients,
entertaining your friends, engaged IN
trace, are you readyY God mas not put
men into being without an intention OF
asking something of them. The character
shall come out, though ii take fire TO
bring il out. Some time we shall cease
to shake our heads In marvel at the man
who dragged a cross to his voluntary ex-
ecution, and shall summon our souls In
Gods name, saving, "Come out! q soul. |.
Will you do it?' TO every young man
who will come the day when he VIII not
only read the call of the young ruler, but
when he will hear ii echoing clamorously
in his own heart. The wars you say, are
over. There's yet to come an awful con-
test between the selfishness that is In the
world and its generosity. And III the
whole truth were known you near these
| voices now. You behold the grandeur OF
! that spirit that stood before Festus ana
| Nero and with his grey hairs and fur
| rowed back, and a vision OF the cross de-
| cIared, ~ am ready Behold Character,
behold Manhood, standing before the
Pharisee. asked IL he were the son of
| God. and answered: ~ am.'' But this
is blasphemy 81 am" This is loss OF
friends. 81 am" This is disgrace, the
| scourge, 81 am" For il behooved the
| Author OF our salvation TO become perfect
through sufferings. Up and down his
| tory we cast our eyes. and yearn for the
| hero. The undercurrent of the heart de-
| mands Him; the false standards of poor
world cry out for Him. the very criminal
| and the bedraggled wretch will ask to APP
pear before Him. And behold Him who
| was always ready for the least, the worst,
is ready now for the clouds of power.
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swear it, swear it! Before heaven /
/ sweari'
His villa words and looks, and tones.
his melodramatic speech, above all--the
whirlwind of passion in which he WAS
speaking and acting, impressed the
crowd, sent a shiver through the coldest
They had, most of them, known this
man for years, and had looked upon him,
for the most part, with little liking, as
a morose and sullen fellow, whose jealousy
made both him and his wife wretched,
and whose ill-temper was a proverb. Now
for the iirst time they recognized that the
man was moved by passions deeper than
their own; they sympathized with him,
were sorry for him. flushed and atten-
tive they stood, huddled together i'm the
rain listening TO the story he poured
forth with passion-white lips, with
clenched and shaking hands.
''She and / had. quarrel yesterday
morning, God forgive me! Nothing but
tiff, such as husband and wife have
sometimes and perhaps was to blame"
"Aye. that I'll stake my life you were, "
put In the saddler inopportunely.
But the crowd silenced him. There
was an honesty about this admission on
Robert frances part. which brought them
around to his side still more.
"Yes. yes. l was to blame" he repeat
ed. "But when this fellow turned up,
this Miles, as he did during the morning,
/ was ready enough 10 make il up with
her, but she wouldn't. Ii was his influ-
encc that. He was coming between hus-
band and wife slready."
''Shameln cried an indignant voice.
And there were murmurs of sympathy.
Robert went on:
"And " hen / ordered him out of .the
house, as I'd right enough to do, as
thought-though perhaps / was wrong"
mo, no, you were right, Bon" cried q
Sympathizer.
"Then she hid herself away from me-
told me she was going to her father g
farm-and-andn Roberts voice faltered
--"I never saw her again alive"
There was a silence. followed by muir
murs. The man might have been to
blame i'm his treatment OF his wife, but
after ell, there was human feeling enough h
and to spare under his rough WAYS and
his surly tongue. Robert went on,
speaking now very rapidly and in a
lower voice:
"But she never went to the farm; she
never left the house at all. 1 know IL /;
l am sure OF IL. She just shut herself up,
and managed TO let this Miles have word
where she was. And asked the fellow
to supper, wishing to be friends II l could
with an old acquaintance. aud thinking !
had perhaps done him wrong. And Ne
slammed drunk; YOU can ask the gem
tIemsn who was with us, and he'll tell
you SO; he slammed II, cay. so that be
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to bring the man who killed my poor
wife TO justice.o
"And you can help us TO that, know, >,
said the doctor quietly. "In the first
place, where was the body lying when you
came in? And what was the exact cause
of your ocming?''
Robert France answered at -eaee.
81 heard noise, a woman's shrek
rushed out, came in here, and saw Ser
geant Miles with his hand on nv wifeis
mouth. They were on the floor she
gave another shrek when / came in, and
pulled him away. But my wife was
dead
"You say she was not dead when you
entered?'
"Sho was all but dead. She must bsve
been in that cupboard all night. IN
fact, we heard a noise when we were hay-
Ing supper, and we looked in. But she
must have been hiding under the things
that were in there"
The constable opened the door Of the
cupboard, and lifted pile of curtains
which were on top of the heap. The linen
underneath was much disarranged, and
the whole pile sloped down toward the
floor OF the room.
"You have made mistake, Mr..
France, remarked the doctor rather drily
"For i have examined the body of your
wife, and can prove that she has teen
dead twelve hours at least. The body is
stiff in every part"
A sudden change came over Robert
France. 1t almost seemed that his jaw
dropped. After short pause he said
surliy:
"That is only your opinion"
"It's more than that said the doctor
quietly. "Even Mr.. Brown here" and
he indicated the constable, "could tell
that this woman bad been dead many
hours. That she was murdered, suffocst-
ed, in fact, before you came up here to
supper"
Robert looked up. Then he turned
round sharply, ana made for the door.
1.-THE sergeant? Where Is he?n said he
between his set teeth.
"You will see him all In good time,
Mr.. France" said the constable laying n
strong hand on the landlords shoulder.
"ln the meantime I'm SORRY TO say
I've got TO take you into custody on sus-
picion OF numbering your wife,
Robert France uttered a low sound, like
growl, but he did not speak again. Like
whipped hound he passed out of his
house, IN the custody OF the constable,
between long rows Of wondering. horror
struck spectators. People wondered what
II meant, this sudden. suilen su mission,
without protest, without struggle.
The fact was that he had seen, ~ one
stroke, his carefully thought out story gcat-
tered like chaff in the wind. biks most
criminals, he had forgotten somethjng:
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should stay in the house. And then In
the middle OF the night heard cry; it
was her voice crying out And i rushed
along the corridor calling ana then
heard his voice, and ran TO the room
where had left him. And there j saw
my poor wife, lying on the fiGor;and the
wretch strangling her with his hands.
And she gave her last cry as got in.
He stopped, mis- voice dying away on
the last words. He seemed exhausted,
dazed, with the force of the emotions he
had gone through. A murmur OF pity,
@! Indignation passed through the crowd.
They pressed around the desolate, hag-
pole on which the sign of "The Griffin"
hung. They uttered threats against the
man who had injured him so viely.
"Where is he? Where is the wretch9
Lynch him. Let's lynch him!' cried
excited voices of the crowd.
The crowd pressed up toward the door
of the inn, and the foremost of them be-
gan to swarm up the stairs 1t was the
saddler. Eben' friend, whose dry, hard
voice again croaked out a protest.
"Wby didn't you do for him yourself,
man, IL you were so sure he was the man
a. did it?p said he
But woman pulled him roughly by
the arm, as he thrust his little withered.
inquisitive face under Roberts bent head .
"Leave him alone, man." she said
shortly. "Do you think everybody can
take the loss OF wife as calm MS you?
The poor chaps of his head like, and
doesn't know what he did, or what he
didn't do"
Only few persons were now standing
near Robert; the majority having poured
into the house, and filled the staircase
and passages. The doctor and the con-
stable had passed in long beforehand
and the latter now elbowed his way up
through the crowd and came up to Rob-
crt France.
"You're wanted inside, Mr. France, :"
said he. "The doctor wants you to tell
him all you can.
"And the soldier? The murderer
Have you got him safe?"
"Yes. We've got the door locked
"That's oil right"
Robert France followed the constable
and the crowd made way for him. In the
club room the doctor wss standing at the
head OF the table, on which the body OF
Harriet France lay. covered with a sheet.
The sergeant and Minnie were no longer
there.
"where Is he2 Where IL the murfer-
er?' asked France. casting en anxious
and angry glance round the room.
"Oh, never mind him now. Mr.. France. y
said the doctor. al want you to give M
a little information now.'
"Anything IN the world that I can, sfY,
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The Hostess Of "The Griffin. y
Author of " The House On The Marsh.n Etc. Etc.
By FLORENCE WARDEN.

the chair from which he had risen to
menace Robert France, put his hands up
TO ms head, and was evidently pondering
deeply. Ned Frohergill was anxious TO
question him, but hardly knew how TO
begin. 1t was Minnie who came to the
rescue Quite suddenly she dried her
eyes, and creeping, still on her knees,
towards Eben, she asked. in a low voice
"How did il happen, Eben? Tell me
what you know about it.
"What-do I-know-- bout itn he re-
pested sombrely. "Nothing, know
nothing. woke up, and saw her lying
on the floor there, close by the cupboard
where we heard the noise last night"
"What nose?"
The sergeant looked at Ned.
"lt was sort of scratching like some
one-yr somethiDg-slipping down. And
we all looked In the cupboard, and there
was no one there"
Another silence. The affair was most
mysterious, as we'll ne grewsome. Eben
wiped his wet forehead again, and stared
at the cupboard door.
"A DOCTOR ought to be sent for said
Ned.
"What good can he do-now" moaned
Minnie with sob.
and whenn
Ehen stared at him.
Was drunk last night?" asked he.
"Well, had no idea you were, until
you went to sleep with your head on the
Then ] suppose ! must have been, "
mut'ered the sergeant. "And yet
lie stopped short. Noise OF footsteps
and voices In the street outside attrscted
their attention, and Ned loc.ed out OF
the window.
II was by this time past four O'Clock.
and in tho grey Of The morning. through
light rtoady rain, a growing crowd OF
people were hurrying along the village
street towards the "Grithn." In the
heart OF the crowd, talking and gesticu.
lating furiously, was Robert France. He
was hstless, nnd his matted black hair
gave lin wild appearance. so that he
LOOKED like niadman in charge OF keep.
ers, rather than the leader OF The throng.
On one side OF hin walked the village
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and that thing was the tell-tale rigor
mortis, which, having had time 10 b.
come complete, proved 1t to have Ceel
absolutely impossible for the woman o
have been killed during the three hours
which Sergeant Miles had passed alone ia
the club room.
And this Suggestion once disposed OF,
there were innumerable other circum-
stances to prove that, Sergeant Miles not
being the murderer, hat person was Rob
ert France.
In the first place there was the fact that
he bad sent all the servants about The
place on different errands on the prsced-
ing afternoon. There was therefore the
knowledge that he and his wife had been
left in the inn together. He was known
not to have left the house himself; whK
she had never been seen alive again.
Bit by bit, before the trial came on. tn
story got known in all its horrors. How
Robert France, in eliminating III OF
jealous, morbid rage, had strangled his
wife as she was getting some linen cut OF
the cupobsrd, sitting her cries under the
curtains and clothes among which he
held her down. How he had left the
body IN the cupboard, covered over. auo
had concocted the plot by which ne
hoped to throw suspicion upon the man
he hated. How the gradual slipping of
the body bad made the noise which had
Inhuc ullu ODllRtu 10 open the CUPBOARD a
door, without, however, betraying the
fact that the dead woman YVES concealed
there. How, after he had drugged the
sergcant's wine, and left him alone iu
the room, the body had slipped right
down. bursting open the door, which
France had taken care not to fssten
again. How he had been on the watch
for the least noise from the club-room,
and had rushed to the room on hearing
the cry the sergeant uttered when he
made the CHASTITY discovery that he was
in the room with the dead body of Har.
riet France.
At the trial itself came Minnie's evi.
dence that IL was her scream which had
echoed through the house when she heard
Eben's cry.
Robert France was tried condemned ana
executed, within three months of the COM
initial of his crime.
And 1t was not until two years later
when the horror and the scandal had die
down, that Sergeant Miles came dow
again to the village OF Little Drillinghai
to carry away from the scene which X,
alive such terrible memories, the III
sister Minnie, who had believed in his
nocencc' even in the first heat and excl
ment OF the false charge.
.And Ned Fothergill was the only WI
ness, besides the clergyman and the clerx.
Of the marriage.
LTHg ESnA
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constable, listening to his narration in a
stolid manner proper to his profession.
On the other was the local doctor, a
thin, worn-looking man of thirty-eig ht
or so, who had apparently found no jewel
OF great price when he lighted upon this
quiet county practice. lie asked France
q few questions as he walked along under
hin ufpaca umbrella, and ELECTED from
tho excited man the whole story of his
misfortune. and of the suspicious which
II had aroused in his mind, all told in
such a LOUD Voice that the crowd accom-
panying them could gather il as they ran.
"AIush!" said the doctor, warnin2iy; I;
"gou don't want all the parish to know
what you think, till you're sure yourself,
do you, man?'
But Robert France stopped short and
passed his broad brown nand thr ough
the tangles OF his hair.
"What do 1 care? What do care who
hears, who knows?n cried he wildly.
"What does II matter? Haven't lost my
wife in the most horrible way too? And
why should / spare. the feelings OF the
brute who killed her?''
"Hush, man. He's got to be tried be-
fore you hang him, snd arrested before
he's tried. You must let us, Who are less
preiudiced than you, have a look-round
before you can say who did il. -
81 don't suspect" shouted Robert. "I
tell you 4 know. Why, anyone can tell
you this fellow was her sweet heart years
ago, ard how she threw him over for me-
md how he went for a soldier, all for
thnt, and how he threatened her then"
"Aye, aye, so nc did. I've heard him
aay things myself, in them old days, I"
remarked an old man in corduroys, who
vas one OF the crowd.
"But the young chaps say things when
they've just been jilted they forget long
oefore the months out, observed Eben 3
friend, the saddler. who had come out OF
his house to find out what the commotion
was about. "He was with me pretty nigh
all day yesterday, was young Miles. and
me never said harsh word of the
woman
"He was too artful for that" said
Robert France. Listen. I don't care
who knowsW And having reached the
space before the door OF "The Griffin. -
he swung violently round. and under
abe old sign, which creaked on its pest
sn the morning wind, he raised one arm
Holt and haranguod the crowd with pas
tlon in his eyes. his voice. his fierce gest-
ures, his swarthy face. "Listeni I've lost
my wife, the only cfesture | cared about
In the world, and don't care for my life
now. And tell you that II this man,
this fellow who tried to steal her from
me, who laid his vile hands upon her snd
rtrangIsd nsr. IL he, 4 say. doesn't swing
idt this, why I'll swing for himl |
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THE FOOTBALL FIELD.

There are three different sets of playing
rules in use this season.
The absence of Billy Oil has proved a
serious blow TO Cornell.
Sohmalhorst, man recently tried by
Princeton, is q feet inches tall.
The Crescent Athletic club has n strong
combination in Phil King, Sheldon and
Oil back of the line.
among the stars of this years Crescent
A. C. team of Brooklyn are Phil King and
Beef Wheeler, the famous Princeton play.
ers.
Upton, end rush on the University Of
Pennsylvania football eleven last year is
coaching the University of North Carolina
team.