Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-01
WOMEN AND MEN PROTEST
All Waverly Indignant Over the Recent
Elopement Gases.
M'CANDLESS AND WNIkG DENOUNCED
Resolutions Adopted in Mass Meet
inGs Occurring the Men Out
casts and Warming Them to
Quit the Town.

LINCOLN, Nov. 30.-(Spe cial.) 1.-THE citizens
OF Waverly are in a state of Indignation over
the recent elopement Of DR.. G.. A. Nc
Candless and Druggist Il. r. Vining. Nearly
a month since they left, clandestinely ac-
companied by two young ladies of Waverly,
Misses Alice Miller and Nancy Ward. Last
evening the citizens hired a hall for the
purpose of expressing their dlsapproval of the
conduct of the two men. Two committees.
one of women and another of men, were ap-
pointed to draft resolutions. The following
Is the result of the deliberations Of the
women:
Resolved, That we heartily endorse the
resolutions, already, adopted, and that we
truly condemn all effort to palliate the
crime; that we protest most strenuonsly
against his frequenting Waverly by night
or by day, and that a boycott should be
enforced upon any person or persons at
tempting to render him any assistance, en-
cept to assist him to get forever out of
Resolved, That the English language does
not contain words sufficiently c~ondemnatory
ment commensurate to the crime should be
Resolved. That our sympathies be ex-
ladies who have been 80 cruelty wronged,
and that all Christian people show their
willingness to help reinstate them to their
former positions.
The committee of men submitted the fol-
lowing:
SENTIMENT OF THE MEN
Whereas, on or about October 81, 1895.
one q. A. McCandless and one Il. r. Vining,
formerly of the village of Waverly, being
married men and the heads of families, did
conspire together TO desert their families
and elope with two young ladies' of
MA o%n e thereby issse seeking SeSnp , the ruin and
Misses Alice ce Miller ii1es and Sa'HN Nancy S' Ward. AND and
Whereas, Such conduct on the part of any
man, more especially those whose duty II
hon bA 10 M IN a and A. 40 IN fla . nj
ard of society In which they live. and to
emulate and cherish those virtues which at
especially the young and rising girls of this
generation; therefore, be it
of the village of Waverly and vicinity, do
most solemnly and earnestly deprecate and
McCandless and Il. n. Vlning in trying to
ruin the morals and violate the virtue of
the above named girls as being contrary
stigma upon their own characters as men
of respectability. while they should be the
leading men In the community In which
Resolved, further, That it is the sense
and Vining be eensured as being Dangerous
10 the morals OF any community, not ex-
eepting unmarried Girls, and that their low,
british acts in connection with these girls
be condemned by the citizens OF Waverly
as being beneath the respect and dignity of
those claiming to be ladies and gentlemen.
Both sets Of resolutions were adopted unan-
imously. The Of women COM
prised Mrs. S, ]. G. Riddell, Mrs Hattie w.
Hawley, Mrs. l.. j. Lader, Mrs. Jones and
Mrs. Miller,
AFRAID OF VIOLENCE,
IL is said that McCandless has hired a man
70 %oiieiaie as bodyguard, who remains close
to him night and day. There is violent in
tignation expressed over the fact that DR.. :
Mecandlsss has returned 10 the village of
Wayerly.
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was appointed guardian ad litem Of The minor
heirs OF the late millionaire. John Fitzgerald.
Clara Nj. Cosmer, by her next friend and
father, asks the district court to award her