Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-25
GIRLS MUST PAY PENALTY
Riotous Inmates Of Reform School May Meet
Serious Charges,
WOMAN IN RIVER PROBABLY MURDERED
Fishermen Testify to Having Seen
Two Men on River with Body of
Woman Lying i'm Bottom
of Canoe.

DES MONIES, Oct. 24-tSpecial Tele
gram THE State Board Of Control has de-
cided to hold a thorough investigation in
regard to the riot of the girls at Mitchell
Vile. Sixty-six of them we're brought here
last night and locked in the county jail
and they will be brought before the board
to testify, the meetings being held here,
Many of the girls were sent to the reform
school charged with arson or attempted
murder and were never tried in district
court, the judges having sent them to the
reform school without trial The board has
about decided to send these girls back to
their counties for trial. The damaged re-
form school Is being hurriedly put in shape
and today four of the girls were sent back
There are 100 girls still there and the super
inteudent reports that order has been re-
stored
The coroner's jury Is still at work on
the mysterious case Of Miss Mabel Schofeld,
whose body was found In the river
here Sunday, but as yet has
reached no decision. number OF
fishermen testified today that they had seen
a canoe coming down the river Sunday
afternoon with two men and woman In
it, the woman lying in the bottom OF the
| canoe. These fishermen were scattered
along the banks of the river for several
| miles, but their testimony agrees well. The
woman was dressed the same as the woman
found dead and the coroner himself be-
lieves now that it was case of murder.
The Investigation will be continued.
Hottest October on Record.
October of 1899 will go down in the rec
| ords of the weather bureau as the hottest
| October ever experienced in the state within
the time that the bureau has been in oper-
| alton. Up to date on the first twenty
| two days of the month, the average max
| imum daily temperature has been IA de-
| grees. The average daily maximum tenn
| perature Of the month for the last twenty
| years has been So degrees. The hottest
| day ever recorded in October was on October
| 12 when the thermometer reached max
| imum of 81 degrees. The only other re-
| corded time when the temperature ever
| touched 90 during October was on the first
day of the month in 1897 On seven days
of the month so far has the temperature
been in excess Of so.
The supreme court will adjourn this
week, probably Friday. The opinions
handed down by the court this morning
are:
John Soorhotz against Marshall County
Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company
appellants, against Marshall District
modified and affirmed.
Louise Anderson, administrators, appel
liant, against the Illinois Central Raj ilroat
Company, Delaware district. reversed
Stensow Furens and others, appellants
against Anna M. Eide and George Eide
and two other cases, Story district, re
versed
George w. Wilson, trustee against III. M
Remey, judge, certiorari proceedings t'
review acts of defendant, dismissed.
]. F. Mentzer, contestant, against w. M
Davis, incumbent, appellant, Marion dis
trict. affirmed. sr
d. w. Richardson Company against VIII
o. Carlton and Henry w. Huiskamp part
ners, etc., Lee district, affirmed.