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Show si:u:;ti:i. NKIlltANKA NKWH. The following condensation of Nebraska Ne-braska intelligenoo is I'rotu tho Denver Kcics : Last week the papers of Omaha were Uictning with aeoountM of a suiuidc committed by ono Daniel JO. Hedden, an employe of the Union l'aeilie railroad rail-road company, in a house of ill shape in that city. It now appears that lie was shot at his own request by Cora Clinton, the woman who lirst gave the alarm at tho time of his death. Cora gavo evidenco before tho coroner's jury on examination that llcdden, alter trying try-ing to kill himself with laudanum, shot himself, saying that he was hound not to live any longer. Now Cora, after all tho excitement has passed, makes tho startling confession that she shot lledden, and that she intended at tho samo time to kill herself, hut that thero was only one load in tho pistol. She informed Captain Dueher, to whom she surrendered herself, that she had attempted to commit suicide by taking chlorolbrm, but did not succeed. suc-ceed. Tho insane asylum at Lincoln, Nebraska, Ne-braska, newly built at a cost of $ 1 50,0UU, was destroyed by fire on Sunday night. All tho inmates but two were saved. Ono of tho persons burned was named Keller, who had killed a man near Fort Kearney, lie had been sent to the Michigan Michi-gan penitentiary, but had been pardoned pardon-ed out and was heavily ironed in the asylum. The building was insured lor $100,000 ia various companies. At the same timo ten convicts in the penitentiary peniten-tiary escaped. Their names arc Ilogan, imprisoned for life for murder; Poole, imprisoned for life for murder; Walker, Benton, Summers, Gill, Jones, Perkins and Brittle, for different terms for different dif-ferent offences. One thousand dollars has been offered for the capture of each of the murderers, and five hundred for each of the others. The Omaha papers unite in tho belief be-lief that the burning of the insane asylum was instigated by the contractors con-tractors to cover up a defective job, and that it would have fallen down if it had not been burned. Such a piece of iniquity in-iquity is shocking to contemplate, but we are now prepared to believe anything any-thing of Nebraska officials and politicians. politi-cians. There is evidently need for a most thorough reform, regardless of party affiliations, and we trust that the press of .the State will not be backward back-ward in exposing the criminals and demanding de-manding their punishment. Men who will construct an unsafe building, and then cause it to be burned, causing the destruction of life, and exposing persons and property to devouring flames, are worse than murderers, and more dangerous to society than the lunatics for whom they built a place of confinement. . The Omaha Ilerald implicates Governor Gov-ernor Butler pretty closely with the fiendish incendiary act. |