Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-27
LATE OMAHAN IS HONORED
Prerbytsrians Nominate Dr.. Mccormick a.
Moderator Of General Assembly.
MAYORS RELATIVE CHARGED WITH Theft
Young Man is Summarily Dismissed
from Police Force when Wit
nesses Swear He stole
judges Target Rife.
trrom a stan COIrespOndent.l


DEs MONIES, April 26.-(Special.) Rev.
DR.. S. B. Mccormick, president Of Coe col
lege, Cedar Rapids, formerly pastor Of the
First Presbyterian church in Omaha, will
be presented to the General Assembly OF
the Presbyterian church in America by the
delegates from Iowa as their choice for
moderator Of the General Assembly. This
was decided on at a meeting Of the Cedar
Rapids Presbytery. held at Grundy Center.
DR.. Mccormick will be presented with the
unanimous backing OF the Iowa Presbyte-
rians, who are confident he will be given
the great honor, as Iowa has never had a
moderator OF the General Assembly and
|, has long taken a prominent part in the
work. The Presbyteries Of Iowa have all
selected delegates and have all acted favor
ably on the overtures Of the General As
sembly with reference TO revision Of the
creed. The General Assembly meets in
Los Angeles on May 90
with Roosevelt at San Juan.
Only one Iowan, so far as is known, had
the honor OF being a soldier in Roosevelts
"Rough Riders" and with the regiment
at the time Of his famous San Juan charge.
This Is z. w. Waterbury of the Waterbury
Chemical company Of this city. He was
not a resident of Iowa at the time OF his
enlistment but enlisted from Arizona and
went with the regiment to Porto Rico. He
will be given a prominent place in the
parade on the occasion of the presidents
visit on Tuesday. He is a great admirer
Of the military abilities of the president
and will be among the first to greet him.
Senators Allison and Dolliver have ac-
cepted invitations to come to Des Moines
on the occasion of the presidents visit
and to Join with Governor Cummins and
his party that will represent the state and
60 to Clarinda to meet the president.
Form New EisteddfOd Association.
A meeting of the Welsh people OF this
city resulted in the formation Of a perma-
nent organization to plan an Iowa
eisteddfod, to be conducted wholly In Des
Mones and all meetings to be held here.
/ The permanent organization was ehected
with Richard Truman as president, I. f.
] Morgan as secretary and William Prees as
treasurer The association will prepare to
! hold a great musical festival in Des Moines
| next winter. The Iowa Eisteddfod asso-
citation, with headquarters at ottumwa, OF
which Thomas ]. Phillips is president, VIII
not afhliate with the newly formed assoc
citation, but will maintain a separate or
sanization. 1t is declared by the Des
MONIES men WHO nave bhc nc" nooO~
citation that the oficials who conducted
the eisteddfod last winter have never given
a proper accounting of the money taken in.
Dismissed from Police Force.
A. A. Groves, son -in-law OF Mayor Bren-
ton and a member of the police department
! has been dismissed by the Board Of Fire
and Police Commissioners. following trial
| in which he was charged with taking tar
get rife from the office OF Police Judge Sfi-
| vara three or four weeks ago. The witnesses
who testified before the board were Judge
Silvara and Oficers Crawford and Skinner,
the latter OF whom is said to have seen
| Groves take the rifle from the judges pri-
vate apartments adjoining the courtroom.
The evidence was so conclusive that the
| commissioners decided there was no ques-
tion as to the facts and instead OF sus-
pending him for thirty days he was dis
missed.
Building Material Scarce.
The Board of Control let the contract to
a Des Moines firm for the new power plant
at the State Orphans home in Davenport.
Last week the contractors went to Daven-
port to prepare TO begin work. They found
| 1t absolutely impossible to buy a brick In
either Davenport, Moline or Rock Island
and will have to wait until bricks are made
to order. The scarcity of building ma
| terial of all kinds has caused much an
noyance to the contractors on the state
work and all building will be slow on this
account. The bad weather in parts OF the
state has also had bad effect. The work
on the new power house at the Fort Madi-
son penitentiary will be commenced at once
with convict labor.
Weeks Named for Representative.
e. W. Weeks Of Guthrie Center was Sat
urday nominated by the republicans OF
Guthrie county for representative over ].
G. Maris, after a warm contest. The fight
over county treasurer was exciting, there
being large field and the report having
been circulated that the bankers Of the
county had effected a combination to dis
pose of the nomination. A. II. Sayre OF
! Menlo was nominated. NJ. o. Brown was
named for sheriff, Samuel Buckley for SUI
pervisor, NJ. p Kenworthy for superin-
| tendent of the schools, w. e. Kersey for
! coroner and A. McClaran for survavor