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Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22

was much disturbed. The more he thought
OF the peculiar possibilities, the gravor the
situation Stoned to him. Vie asked me to
find some other senators and send them to
him. Only two were about the capitol. They
were soon closeted with Mr.. Edmunds. He
told them his opinion Of the situation He
said that II anything should happen to Mr..
Cleveland the country would he without a
head. There would be no one with even the
temporary authority to call an extraordinary
session Of congress. II would be impossible
to take any step. No special election could
be ordered. There would be no relief from
the confusion until the regular date for the
assembling Of congress came around in De-
cember. Until the senate chose a president
pro tempore and the house elected a speaker,
nobody could perform any OF the duties of
president.
THE law then relating to presidential sue
cession was laid before the other senators.
The anomalous condition had not occurred
to them. They agreed at once that Senator
Edmunds was right. When he suggested
that under the circumstances the president
ought to be especially careful they approved
the suggestion. AS the result of the confer
ence Senator Edmunds came out and asked
me to get a carriage for him. He rode direct
to the white House and told Mr.. Cleveland
he must not go to indianapolis. He went
over the ground. showing the president that
IL an accident happened to him the country
would be left without an executive for
months, until December came. The presi-
dent was astonished. He had not had the
slightest realization of how much depended
on his life at that time. He acknowledged
the force of Senator Edmunds' argument,
Immediately Cancelled the orders for trans
portation and remained in Washington
There was much criticism over the failure
of Mr.. Cleveland to be present at the Hen
bricks obsequies. The newspapers couldn't
understand the apparent lack of considera-
ton. The president said nothing. This is
the first time the circumstances of the sena-
torial conference and OF Senator Edmunds'
hurried visit to the white house have been
told.
AS soon as congress convened after Mr..
Hendricks death Senator Bdmunds fathered
and pushed to enactment a bill which made
impossible a repetition of such a crisis. The
law of succession now is such that a vacancy
in the office of president of the United States
is beyond all probability. If the president
dies the vice president takes the office and
holds II to the end of the term. If both the
president and the vice president die, the
secretary Of state succeeds and is acting
president until congress can be convened and
a special election can be held, the law di-
r%ecting how and when the proclamation for
a special election shall be issued. Succession
falls in turn upon the Members of the cab
met, including the secretary Of agriculture.
In the brief interim which would pass be-
tween the deaths of president and vice pres
ident and the special election there are eight
possible acting presidents.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22
PARDON FOR NICHOLAS LANG
Governor Drake Promises to Release the
Remsen Man. a
PROMINENT PEOPLE URGE THE ACTION
Sentence of Ten Years I'm the Pcniten-
tinry for Murder to lie Gut
Down to Two and
n Half. -f-h

DIES MONIES. Feb. 21.-(Special Tele-
gram)-Governor Drake is announced to
have promised a pardon for Nicholas Lang
Of Remsen, now in the penitentiary for
murder. The promise was made after a
series OF interviews with prominent Plym-
outh county people, who urged the pardon.
Ex-SheriT Boyle, Editor Keiffer Of the Rem
sen Bell, a minister from Remsen and two
prominent Lemars attorneys who were con-
nected with the case made the final pres
e%ntation of Lang's cause and went away
with the positive promise OF a pardon.
Lang's crime was one for which all ad-
mitted there was an much justification as a
murder can ever have. He was a young
farmer near Remsen and married a girl who
had been for a number Of years a ward in
the family of John Ne~uenschwander After
they were married Neuenschwander boasted
of his relations with the girl, which, he
claimed, had extended over a number OF
years before the marriage. 1t also developed
in the trial that at one time Neuenschwan-
der tried to kill Lang, laying a trap for
him on a dark night. He planted a post on
each side of a narrow passage in a coun-
try road over which he knew Lang would
ride at night and fastened a sickle bar at
such a height that IL would almost kill Lang
if he had ridden into it. He was acciden-
tally informed in time to escape. Some time
after his marriage Lang moved into Rem
! sen, engaged in business and was elected
mayor of the place. One day when he was
away Neuenschwander went to the Lang
home and made insulting propositions to
Mrs. Lang, who ran away. She told Lang
of it and the next day he met Neuenschwan-
der and shot him dead. He was convicted
and given the shortest sentence the law
would allow-ten years-of which he has
| served between two and three, His par
don was urged by the county attorney, who
prosecuted him: Judge Wakefield, before
whom he was tried, and a petition of about
three-fourths of the people in the eastern
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22
Educational Notes.

The income of Girard college. Philadel-
phia, is over 81, 900, 900 a year, and the
money came from a cripple who was poor
until he was over 60,
DR.. Julia Holmes Smith is the protector
Of a plan to get an appropriation of $50, 900
from the legislature for a woman's hall at
the University of Illinois. The movement
is being conducted under the auspices of
the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs.
There are now ten college daily papers in
the United States. These are at Princeton,
Yale, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania,
University of Wisconsin, Cornell, University
of Michigan, Brown, Leland Stanford uni
versity and Tulane university, New Or
leans.
The decree has gone forth for the re-
moval OF the Croton reservoir at Fifth ave-
nue. and Forty-second street, New York
City, in order to clear the ground for the
erection of that vast public library which
New York is to have under the Astor, Lenox
and Tilden foundations.
The school children of New Orleans are
raising a fund of $4,000 to erect a monument
to John McDOnouEh, who bequeathed more
than 81, 600, 600 to New Orleans for educa-
tional purposes. The gift has resulted in
the erection of more than thirty public
school buildings, in which is, 900 children are
at present enrolled.
The following subject has been submitted
by Harvard for the debate with Yale March
26: Resolved, That the United States
Should Adopt Definitely the Single Gold
Standard ard Should Decline to Enter a Bi
metallic League, Even If Great Britain,
France and Germany Should Be Willing to
Enter Such a League"
The corporation of the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology will not attempt to
fill the place Of the late President Francis
A. Walker az present. Prof. James NJ. Crafts
OF the department Of chemistry has been
chosen president of the faculty and the
heads of the various departments will be
expected to attend TO them. This had been
the policy under General Walkers admin
istration.
1t Is reported that Yale university is to
receive 81, 900. 900 from the estate CT William
Lampson, a late banker of Leroy, N. Y. In
his will he bequeathed a large property,
valued at that sum, to the university. Mr..
Lampson was a nephew OF the late Sir Cur
tbs Lampson, Bart, Of London. He gradu-
ated from Yale with the class Of go. His
death occurred only a short time ago,
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22
SCRAP OF SECRET HISTORY.
The Absence of Cleveland from the
Hendricks Funeral Explained.

The Absence of Cleveland from the
Hendricks Funeral Explained.
Behind the law of presidential succession
Is a curious chapter of unwritten history.
1t was told to the Washington Correspond
ent of the Globe-Democrat by a Missourlan,
who has been for many years a trusted Off
cial of the United States senate. 1t explains
fully an incident, almost forgotten now, but
once the cause of much criticism of Pres!-
dent Cleveland. Until ten years ago, the
law was that the president, pro tempore
of the senate succeeded to the presidential
Office in the event of the death or inca
pacity Of both president and vice president
In the absence OF a president pro tempore
the succession of these officers, only acted
Gs president until congress- could be con-
vened on twenty days notice and a special
election could be held. EARLY in the first
term of Mr.. Cleveland, VicetPTesident Hen
bricks died at his home in indianapolis. A
situation which was without precedent eX-
isted. Up to the time of his sickness Mr..
Hendricks had prevented the senate from
elccting a president pro tempore, He had
been able to do this by declining 10 yacate
the senate chair and to recognize that privi-
lege. The senate was republican by a mar
row majority. The vice president, having
some political advantage in mind by SO do
ing, steadfastly refused to let the repub-
licans organize. When he died there was
no president pro tempore. The death oc-
Cured between the dissolution of one con-
gress and the regular session of the next
congress There was no speaker, At the
White house President Cleveland was COM
pleting his preparations 10 &C TO Indianapo-
lis to attend the funeral. Senator Edmunds
was at the capitol, busy In his committee
room. The suggestion came TO his mind
What would happen If the president should
be killed or be rendered unfit for duty by
an accident on this contemplated journey
to indianapolis?
Senator Edmunds," said the Mlssourian,
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22
OLD SOLDIER IN TROUBLE
John 0arnedy is Arrested and Iucarcerated
in the County Jail.
CHARGED WITH FRAUD IN PENSION CASE
Warrant Issued by Federal Court Mt
Topeka ON Indictment Found
by the Grand jury
Last April.

John Carnedy, a laborer who has lived In
Council Bluffs for the last eighteen years,
was arrested late Saturday evening on a
bench warrant issued from the federal court
at Topeka, charging him with fraud In con-
nection with an effort to secure a pension.
The warrant was issued on the authority of
an Indictment returned against Carpedy in
Topeka by the federal grand jury there last
April. The man is an old soldier. broken in
health, and has had a hard struggle to get
along in the world and provide FOR his
family.
The evidence submitted to the Kansas
grand Jury shows that he applied for a PEN
sion while an inmate of the soldiers home
In Topeka under the name CT James Be
shears. The papers submitted with the APP
plication FOR n pension showed that Beshears
enlisted August &c. 1861, at Trenton, Mo-,
aud served in company Is, Twenty-Five Mis-
souri, volunteers, until January IL, 1868,
when he was mustered out at st. Louis. the
inquiries of the secret service officers showed
that he was not James Beshears, bat John
Carnedy. The old man claims there was
nothing wrong in the application and That
all of the statements contained in IL were
true, and that his real name is James Be-
shears. He says that when he was quite
young his widowed mother married again a
man named Carnedy, and that naturally the
name of his stepfather became attached to
him, and that he was generally known as
Carnedy. When he enlisted in the army he
did so under his true name. The old man
told his story with such simplicity and
straightforwardness that ii carried consider
able conviction. His record here has been
without stain so far as known and his army
friends are satisfied he Is telling the truth
and will have no difficulty In disproving the
serious charge made against him. The only
thing that looks suspicious is his remark
that he applied for the pension against his
wishes. He was locked UP in the county
jail, where he will be held until an officer
arrives from Topeka to take charge of him.
The officer is eNnected to arriYc TODAY.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22
smokers Not aualiaed to Teaeh.

DENVER, Colo, Feb. 21.-Mrs. Louisa
Pitt Yoakum. Dolores county superintend-
ent of schools, has refused a teachers GER
tlneate to Prof. Victor c. McGirr. principal
of the Rico public school, because he
smokes Mrs; Yeakum takes the groHnd
TO teach in the public SCHOOLS, because
teachers in this state are required by law
to instruct the children against the use OF
tobacco. An appeal will probably be taken
TO the State Board of Education by Prof.
MGGirr, who Is a graduate or the Toronto
university and Is very popular In Rico.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22

Brooklyn Life: Charley. dear" said Mrs.
Hojack TO her husband. IF l were to die
would you marry AGAIN."
What a question:" replied Mr.. Hojack,
evasivcly.
II think you might. tell me, But then, l
just know you would"
We'll dear, the children would miss their
mothers tender care. and II might he a
necessity for their sakes, however much /
might dislike the idea Of a second marriage
on my own account"
But. Charleyl"
"Well?'"
Suppose that the children were all mar
ried and settled I'm homes of their own
I'm thai case. love. think how lonely |
should be. 1 might almost be compelled,
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22
Movements of Ocean Vessels, Feb. 2

At OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, from
Naples, etc, for New York.
At New Northumberland, from
Liverpool; Michigan, from London; La
Champagne, from Havre; Mohican, from
Swansea. ~Sailed-Cufc, for Liverpool.
At INTERCHANGEABLE Normandie, for
New York.
At OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, from
New York. Sailed-Umbria, for New York.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22
stnnh Up for Nehraslsni

SCHUYLER, Neb,, Feb. 2O.-To the Editor
OF The Bee: The business men OF Omaha,
and South Omaha and, in fact, through
out the state, for the last four
or five years have been urging the
Inhabitants OF this state to stand up as much
as possible for home products, home insti-
tutlons and home manufactures. We believe
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22
Curnegie to become Richer.

PITrSBURG, Feb. 2l.-Ciose friends in
this city of andrew Carnegie announce the
interesting fact that an neir TO the steel
princes millions Is expected to arrive at
an early day. Mrs. Carnegie is now at
their country home at Greenwich, Conn,
where she will await the event, which is
looked for early in March
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22
FOURTEEN PERSONS
Canned Rnspberries Prove Deadly
Diet to Hotel Guests.

WEBSTER CITY, Ia, Feb. 21.-(Special
Telegram)-Fourteen persons were seriously
poisoned at the Russell house in Humboldt
by eating canned raspberries. Frank Avery,
proprietor Of the hotel, and wife were among
the number. which also included three din
ing room girls, five boarders and four trav-
cling men.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22

by force of circumstances. 10 take another
wife"
That's just what I suspected. Charles
Hojack. You are Just planning to marry
again as soon as ! am gone. So | have
simply decided not to die first"
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22

The genuine Domestic soap wrappers are
red. Beware OF the cheap grade Of Domestic
put up in yellow wrappers.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22

C. b. Viavia Company, female remedy.
Medical consultation free Wednesday. Health
book furnished. 300 Merriam block.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22

Baby carriages-the finest line in the city
Durfee Furniture Co.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22

Forty Domestic soap wrappers are good
for six silver spoons,
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22

Hoffmayr's fancy patent -four makes the
best and most bread. Ask your grocer for it.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22
N. Y. Plumbing company. Tel. $50.
Enrm LOnna

For lowest rates on good farm loans call
at the office Of d., w. Otis, No. 1888 Pear
street, Council Bluffs, Money ready and
loans closed without delay.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22

Genuine Centervile Block Coal, $3.50;
other grades OF coal from $2.75 to $3.25
per ton delivered. William WEIGH. No. s
Main street. telephone 1928; yard, 6l5 South
Main street, telephone SO.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-22
COUNCIL BLUFFS WANTS.

J. +. o'KEEFE, REAL ESTATE N INsUR-
ance. Moved to room o. Everett block
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-11
DANGEROUS SURGERY.
Death Follows the Surgeons Knife
Not The Surgeons FnuIt. of Course.
He Can't Help It-You Can.
Pyramid Pile Cure Cures Piles Quick
Iy, PainIessIy, without Danger.

People go along for years suffering with
piles. They try this and that and the 9TH
er thing; from carrying buckeye to get
ting treatment from a physician. They
obtain temporary relief, maybe, but they
are never quite cured. A little strain in
lifting, excessive fatigue, little consti-
patton or a little dfarrhoea and the piles
come back.
They don't seem TO amount to much. but
they Danish sleep and appetite. No posi-
lion is comfortable. There is intense local
pain and that dreadful feeling of weight
in the perineum.
Maybe in the early stages some of the
many salves on sale will afford temporary
relief. II the case is of long standing
there is only one speedy and sure remedy.
IL is Pyramid Pile Cure. Even in light
cases 1t is the safest thing to use. Other
applications may cure and may not. Pyra-
mid Cure is always certain, always reli-
able, always brings comfort al once. Its
prompt use saves months of severe suffer-
ing. IN extreme cases Il will save sur
gscal operations and their attendant dam
gers and dlscomforts. 1t is better than a
knife. VIII cure easier, quicker and safer
Thousands have used it, thousands have
been cured by 1t. The cost is trif1ing COM
pared with what II does The price is so
cents. Most anybody would gladly nav ten
dollars to be rid of piles
Druggists sell Pyramid Pile Cure If
yours hasn't IL he will get it for Won from
the Pyramid Drug Co., OF Albion Mich
1sole manufacturers1.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-11
Stray Court Notes.

Elizabeth A. Thompson has sued the Con-
bond issued by the company. which the
plaintiff bought from the Lombard Invest
ment Company. Default has been made in
George Bruck & Co. yesterday filed
suit against Charles D. Axman and Julius
F. Goldenberg, formerly in business to-
gether as Axman & Goldenberg to recover
81 1,0S1.50 alleged to be due on account.
The report of Master in Chancery E. H.
Stiles regarding the sale of the John l.
Blair land under the decree in the Blair
Schaeffer suit, was filed in the federal
court yesterday. 1t shows the land was
sold for 100000, while the Indebtedness was
$l0l, ,33072 The fees for the master in max
ing the sale amounted to $500. If the sale
had been made by the United States mar
shal, as is frequently done, the fees would
have been S2,050
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-11
ATE TURKEY FOR ORPHAN BOYS.
Mrs. Allen McGee's Irresistible Appeal
to the Appetite Fills the Long
Tables at the Bazar,


Mrs. Allen McGee's turkey dinner was the
drawing card yesterday at the bazar for
the benefit of the Kansas City Orphan
Boys home, and though the price had been
advanced to SO cents the tables were filled
during the entire noon hour. The advance
in the price was entirely justified by the
excellence of the dinner which was served
During the rest of the week the dinners
will be only 25 cents. Mrs. ]. Nachman
and Mrs. B. Stern will be in charge to-day.
During the afternoon hundreds of ladies
visit the bazar every day. Though the
charm of brilliant lights is lacking, yet the
pretty booths present very pleasing scene
in the daytime. The thousand and one ar
ticles of beauty and utility which are Of
tered for sale are disappearing at a graft
tying late. I he Turkish booth, where Miss
Mollie ORourke assists Mrs. Hugh ]. Nc
Gowan and the other ladies in attendance,
continues to be q favorite resort for the
gentlemen, for only genuine Turkish cigars
are sold there. The Tamboula booth, dec
GRATED by the Doggett Dry Goods Company,
and the tasty white and yellow booth, dec
GRATED by Councilman Wolf, are also at
tracing much attention.
The attendance continues large. A very
handsome sum for the benefit of the Or
phans home is assured already and the in
the bazar will materially increase the
amount. To-nightS programme will be as
vocal solo. Misses Cole; vocal solo, Miss
Lillian Kreiser; vocal solo, Mr.. j. w. Hing
ston.
The prizes for the calendar booths at the
bazar Were last night awarded by the COM
mittee. Mr.. George Settle and Mr.. Richard
NJ Seidel, as follows, inside of the city,.
First prize, Berkowitz Printing Company;
second prize, Swift's; third prize, Gaugh &
Gaugh. Outside of city, Gray Lithograph-
ing Company, New York; second, Kast Shoe
Company, San Francisco; third, Dayton
Lumber Company, Dayton, o. All tickets
are for the season, and are good any night
during the week.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-11

Mrs. Newcomb, writing from her home,
2205 Market ST., st. Louis, says: "I was
taken with a heavy cold, which I neg
lected, and pleurisy set in. Then I was
in bed for several weeks. When 1 recovered
so I could get up had that tired feeling,
and was never very well. My doctor told
me to take Paine's celery compound, so
1 got a bottle and have taken it. 1 feel
much better than I have for months.
was nervous and could not sleep at night.
Now 1 rest easy, sleep well, eat well. and
will say that Paine's celery compound has
really made me a new woman
Paines celery compound is used by ply
siciaps in their own homes as well as pre-
scribed to patients suffering from nervous
diseases, sleeplessness, neuralgia, rheuma-
tisn and a rundown" condition. It is
within the reach of every one.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-11
MODEL YACHT REGATTA.
A Brand New Sport Promised by an
EngIishman for One of the
Park Lakes This Ycnr.

Charles A. Rowett, the accountant who
recently imported from England a model
yacht, is at work with other Englishmen in
and near the city organizing Il model yacht
club for the purpose of holding regatta
on one of the park lakes during the spring.
He said yesterday that a number of En-
glishmen had brought their yachts with
them, and We're only too glad to have an
opportunity of having sport with them
here. He has been challenged already for
a series of three races in the early spring
by Cashier Teatswell, of the First Ma
tional bank. of Independence. who owns
yacht, and has had plenty of experience in
handling it. Mr.. Rowett was for years vice
commodore of the Liverpool Model Yacht
Club, and knows all about handling the
tiny crafts.
The yachts are by rule not to be over
four feet six inches in length and are to
be modelled exactly on the plans of the
larger sized crafts. Mr.. Rowett thinks
there are probably about dozen yachts in
the city that will be put in the fleet during
the season. and he hopes to be able to or
ganize club that will hold regular race
meets and develop the sport all that is pos
Sible.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-11
New Rule Proposed.

A proposed amendment to the constitu
tion of the board of trade was posted on
the board yesterday. 1t is to take the
place of article 10, which was recinded by
vote January Il, and provides that any
member of the association may be en-
titled to one or more clerks tickets of ad-
nroyaI of the roeInhersbin comn,ittea spd
board of directors and the payment of an
annual sum of S25 for each ticket. Such
clerk shall be a regular employe of the
member making the application and can
transact business on the board only for
such employer. Violation of the rule is to
forfeit the ticket and subject the holder to
fine of $50 for each offense. The pro-
visions of the rule are also to be applicable
to memberships held by railroad represen-
tatiVeS.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-11
READY WITH THE ROOF.
Work ON the New Federal Building
Is Progressing Faster Than
Many People Think

The work or the new government build
ing is progressing at a rapid rate, and Con-
tractor Dugan said yesterday he would
be ready to get out of the way of the other
contractors and enable them to go to work
by the 1st of May.
The rough weather of late has DELAYED
the actual construction he said, .'but we
have lot of the material ready. and If
there is any good weather at ali we can
the roof of the building is all on the ground
and it will be a short matter to get It in
shape, and the heavy columns for the
entrances to the building will be ready
when the time comes to set them. We con-
slider We have rushed our work very rap
idly" NP