Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-25
PLEA Is SANCTIFlCATlON
Minister Says 1t is impossible for Him to
Commit Acts Alleged.
BELIEVE HOlDUP MEN ARE IN Tolls
Lightning striking Telephone Wire
Held ResponsibIe for Explosion
which KILLED several
Miners.
BELIEVE HOlDUP MEN ARE IN Tolls

From a stan Correspondent
DIES MONIES, July Especial REV.
W. r. Shane of Kansas City, who Is seek
ing through habeas corpus proceedings to
secure possession of his little girl, given
him in like proceedings in Kansas City,
testified today i'm the district court that he
had been sanctihed for twenty-five years
and that II was therefore impossible for
him to sin. and impossible for him to be
guilty of the grave charges made against
him by the little girl in her testimony Sat
urday. The testimony was admitted, the
weight and credfbility to be matter for
the jury to decide. Other witnesses told
of the minister's good character, but he
failed to show in any way any improper
conduct on the part of the childs mother.
Police Make Catch.
The police department is confident that
In the arrest of two men they have cap
tured those guilty Of the greater num-
Der of bold hold-ups that have been prac-
ticed in this city in the past few days. ID.
NJ Kahan of yS1 East sixth street was
held up but fought his assailants and in
the fight bit the finger Of one of the men,
A man with a badly bruised finger and
showing teeth marks was arrested today
| by the police, with another man who was
with him. Kahan was relieved of about
| SIPS. The police have also made a large
| number of other arrests on suspicion
merely, and the city Jail is full TO over
! flowing.
Minister Is bankrupt.
Rev. James Harrison of Oskaloosa today
| filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy in
the United States district court, giving
! his liabilities as T5S6.46 and his assets a
library worth 800, a monthly pension of
SIS, clothing $50. and old sermons on which
no value is placed. All are claimed to
| be exempt.
| To Boone Next Year,
President II. IL Polk Of the interurban
! railroad announced today that the ex-
tension Of the Woodward line to Perry
and Boone would not be made till next
year, but that cars would be operated to
Boone some time next year.
Telephone is Responsible.
A telephone is believed to have been re-
sponsible for the explosion of dynamite
that killed five miners of the West River
side mine last week. The sha..ty where the
dynamite and powder was stored was used
also as tool house and place for the
miners to change their clothes, and there
was telephone in 1t. That the lightning
struck the telephone wire and on II en-
| tered the DuliulnB seems llhelyb dS hStiil /,
every telephone in that section of the city
was burned out by the same bolt of light
ming.
Wall street Men Here.
H. S. Brown of No. Z Wall street, New
York, and several other men who have beef
here some days with him, left today will
the statement that they will return In
week. Mr.. Brown has been to the stat
house inquiring as to the coal supply o
the state and especially Polk county. II
has been to numerous business men In
quiring as to the business outlook, an
while he will not talk for publication in an
of the newspapers, there are rumors tina
he will buy up the street railway system
that he is getting ready to back bi
interurban system here and that he
interested in the coal problem on bi
shipping basis. He has promised to CIV
out the story on his return.
4 VIII he Buried Here.
John Brockman, accompanying the re
mains Of his brother, Give Brockman, VIII
, was killed in the Bennington disaster
started from California this morning 70
! this city. according to information re
ceived here. The body Of Brockman
expected to reach this city Thursday, an
In that case the funeral will be held tn
, day following. John Brockman, tn
. brother, was at Fresno when the disaste
: happened and left at once for San Diego.