Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-25
PLEA is SANCTTFICATlON
Minister Says It is Impossible for Him to
Commit Acts Alleged.
BELIEVE HOlDUP MEN ARE IN Tolls
Lightning striking Telephone Wire
Held RespOnhibIe for Explosion
which KILLED several
Miners
tFrom a stan Correspondent

(From a Stan Correspondent
DIES MONIES, July 2.-(Speclal 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 in the district court that he
had been sanctihed for twenty-five years
and that It was therefore impossible for
him to SIM 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 y3l 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
| Sl25. The police have also made large
number of other arrests on suspicion
merely and the city jail is full to over
! flowing,
Minister IL bankrupt.
| Rev. James Harrison Of Oskaloosa today
filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy in
the United States district court, giving
his liabilities as S5S6.4e 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 H. II. 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 a tool house and place for the
miners to change their clothes, and there
was a telephone in 1t. That the lightning
struck the telephone wire and on 1t en-
tered the building seems likely, as nearly
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 beer
here some days with him, left today will
the statement that they will return in &
week. Mr.. Brown has been to the STATE
house inquiring as to the coal supply o
the state and especially Polk county. HI
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 a BIZ
interurban system here and that he i
interested in the coal problem on biz
shipping basis. He has promised to Civ
out the story on his return.
, VIII De 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 TO
! 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
q brother was at Fresno when the disaste