Show Aa Oautba Harder 3 flJ Omaha 5 Colonel Watson B b Smith clerk of the United States r t Circuit Court was found dead at 2 oclock this morning lying outside 1 hiSoffice door where he had been shot by an unknown assassin There is great public excitement and amass a-mass meeting is called for this afternoon after-noon to express horror of the crime and take steps towards the arrest of the assassin Col Smith is a highly 1 respected citizen and leaves an estimable es-timable family He served in the war in a Michigan regiment He had been clerk of thecour fourteens years and been chairman of ihs committee of citizens to enforce the JSlocumb liquor law and very prom work Pub i ° inent in its aggressive lic opinion connects the two things |