Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-07
ROMANCE OF An EX.CONVlCT
BoyhOOd Acquaintance Uncoven Dark
Chapter in Faul Kerns Lifs
CAUSES BREAKING or OF ENGAGEMENT
Nominations All FILED with Secretary
of state, but Error VIII Keep
Peoples Party Nominn-
lions from Ticket.
(From staff correspondent.l

NfTOm otAH Correspondent
DES MONIES Oct. ESPECIAL -Before
the insanity commission OF Polk county
today Paul Kerns, alias c. f. Mandell,
was discha ed but romance uncovered
in which Miss Ella Van Gillian of Lorimer
Ia, played part. She was about to
marry Kerns when informed that he was
an ex-convict. AZ boys Kerns and Prof
c. O. Denny OF Drake university in this
city grew up near Maitland Mo While
there Kerns was sent to the penitentiary
for burglary for five years. but was re-
leased before the expiration of his term,
At Lorimer. Ia, he became acquainted
with Miss Van Gillian and correspond
ence was continued while Kerns went to
Chicago. Miss Van Gillian came to Des
Moines to study a nurse and Kerns
returned from Chicago and called on her
She was found rooming at the home of
Prof. and Mrs. c. o. Denny and the pro-
lessor at once recognized Kerns as his
boyhood acquaintance and informed Miss
Van Gillian of the facts. Prof Denny had
Kerns arrested on a charge of insanity,
charging that he had threatened his life
kerns was discharged by the commission
on the showing and charged Prof. Denny
and wife with poisoning Miss Van Gillan's
mind against him.
DIR. Connin Hurt.
Information reached here from Sioux
/ City today that DIR. r. e. ConnIff OF that
city member of the State Board Of
Health, was very seriously injured In an
accident by his buggy being overturned
from running over a pile of dirt I'm the
street. Three ribs were broken and Mrs
Commit who was with him, suffered two
| fractures of her left arm Both were badly
| bruised.
| Nominations All In.
Every republican and democratic nomina-
| ton paper had been filed with the secre-
| tary OF state today noon. with the exception
of those from Shelby county, the conyen-
ton of which was held this afternoon The
nomination papers from Shelby reached the
| city at about 10 o'clock tonight There
will be no Peoples party ticket this year.
IL was discovered by the State Election
Board that the signatures OF the People S
party petition had been almost all written
by one person and were i'm the same hand
writing. ]. r. Norman. chairman OF the
state committee was notified and said he
had hired men to circulate the petition and
had not examined It afterward. II is too
late now to circulate II again.
Fail to Endorse Prohibition.
At the closing meeting Of the get-together
convention OF all the temperance forces
in the state. including the anti-ssIoon
league. prohibition p Ety.. women's Chris.
tian Temperance Onion and others, a reso-
luton pledging support to the prohibition
ticket was defeated though a resolution
was carried declaring Father Conn. me
prohibition nominee for governor, a person
worthy OF the ONCE. The prohibitionists
made stifr night for the resolution.
Age Limit 10 Preference Law.
George Turbett, an old soldier, ha,
brought suit for 5000 against the Police
and Fire commission OF this city for its re.
fusal to give him a position on the police
force, claiming the right to the position
under the soldiers preference law. Tn,
Police and Fire commission claims that II,
rules fix 10 years as the maximum age fol
taking in policemen. and charges that Tur
bett IL older. than that. This will be th'
first time that this point is tested in tn,
Iowa courts under the Iowa soldiers pref
erenee law.
Morton 20 Fort Madison.
George Morton, arrested in Wisconsin
and brought back on a reduisition to stan,
trial for forging Rock Island railroad PAL
checks and passing them on storekeeper
all along the line. OF the Rock Islam
through Iowa. was today sentenced to For
Madison for four years. Morton IL said q
he the most clever forger that has visIte,
Iowa in many years
valuable Diamonds Gone.
Diamonds valued at 800 and left II
nawn with woolf Zacharia in this cit
have disappeared. Someone not authorizes
apDeared and paid the stoo for which the
we're pawned and has disappeared. TIL
diamonds belonged TO Mrs r.. g. Burdich
prOorletress of the Vendome hotel. Tn
3 grand iury is investigating.
E JCuItrs FrostH EvePywhevs
{ A FILLING frost was rerorted IN Dractieall
] every section ~ IN. state 20 the weathe
bureau this morning. Director Sage be