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Show KELLY IS GOOD, He Does Not Prop se to Break Any Law Great Excitement Prevails, and IWUd Eum:ri are Floating:. Omaha, Neb., April 20. General Kelly is all that the good words hitherto said of him conveyed and more. He displayed the rarest of judgment and fortitude tonfght when he declined to put his men on board a train stolen J at Council Bluffs, by the engineers and firemen of the Union Pacific. I It was a Union. Pacific engine with union Pacific cars on the Rock Island track. ' Kelly declined it because he said he had not yet broken any law, and did not intend to start in here. There was great excitement here all day, and it was intensified at nightfall by the news that a train had been captured to relieve re-lieve Kelly Crowds thronged the streets, and an immense open-air mass meeting was held. Rumors of the calling out of federal troops, of state trooDs, of deaths in Kelly's camp and of every conceivable nature kept the crowd on a tensioD hard to understand, but no disorder unusual ensued, and as if, by a miracle, the clash that seemed inevitable was avoided and Kelly's arms slept in camp at Weston, waiting lor daybreak to march to Council Bluffs, whence a new start east will be made on foot. Quiet was restore 1 in the three cities by midnight. |