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THE VETO,of the killing of Jesse James created an im-jmenso sensation in this city, although the ' generally treated with increduli-Tke President Vetoes the Chinese Bill.He Regards it as a Violation of the. . Treaty Obligations,Grave Objections to the Un-Demo-craticKilling of the Notorious Outlaw Jesse James,report was _ ty, and even at this late hour many unbelievers can be found. This afternoon, as soon as the news was received here, Police Commissioner Craig left for St. Joe with a heavily armed posse of men to guard the body of Jesse James and protect the men who killed him. At the police station it was learned that Bob Ford, a young man who has been hanging about the station for several weeks past, was the person who shot and killed J— T-----His Death at the Hands of the Ford__________________James. Ford left thiscity about a week since, and joined James in'the vicinity of St. Joe, remaining with him until aii opportunity to kill him was found. From the police it was learned that Ford, who is said to be a member of the gang, was under the control of Craig, and has been used as an instrument for James’s destruction. Ford is a young man, about twenty-two years old, and looked like a verdant youth from the country. In appearance he is a mere boy, and is the last person in the world to be taken as the slayer of the famous outlaw.The Body Fully Identified as That of the Desperado.Returns from the Municipal Elections Yesterday.Mr. Searles Nominated as United States District Attorney for Minnesota.Another Call Issued To-day for Extended Sixes,Destructive Fires in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania,THE VETO.TIJE CHINESE BILL.Washington, April 4.—Tho President sent a message to the Senate to-day vetoing the Chinese bill.OBJECTIONS TO THE BILL.The President’s veto of the Chinese bill was received at 1:20 p. in., and .was read immediately. The President said that after careful consideration he returned the bill with objections. He held that it conflicted with the treaty obligations and violated the faith of the nation, and hoped that Congress would endeavor to find another that would meet the expectations of the people of, the United States and not conflict with the rights of China. The President maintains that neither the representatives of the United States or China, in making the treaty. of 1880, contemplated any such prohibition of immigration as that proposed in the bill. He opposed the passport system proposed it the hill as undemocratic, and' said ho thought it unwise to introduce such a-sys-tem in this country, as the passport system is falling into disuse in Europe, ana, besides, be maintains, experience lias'.shown that passports are easily borrowed, or even forged. The President said that Chinese labor had been of great value in this country and that mouumeats of their industry existed. They had largely built the Pacific railways across this continent, but it might wisely be considered now whether some limitation may be put upon immigration of this labor.The reading of the President’s veto in the Senate was listened to with marked interest by the entire Senate. The vital objection of the President is to twenty years’ suspension ot immigration, which he con strues as virtually prohibitory and therefore a violation of the spirit if not of the letter of the negotiations upon which the treaty was baaed.. The message and bill were temporarily laid on the table and ordered printed.THE DEAD BRIGAND.JESSE JAMES, THE MI3S0URIJ BANDIT, SLAIN BY TWO OF HIS COMBADES-SUDDEN TERMINATION OF A LONG CABEEK OF MURDER AND EOBBERY-PLANS FOE ANOTHER ROBBERY AND HOW THEY WERE FRUSTRATED.A dispatch of the 3d from St. Joseph, Mo., says: A great sensation was created in thi3 city this morning by the announcement that Jesse James, the notorious bandit and train robber, had been shot and killed here in St. Joseph. The news spread with great rapidity, but most people re ceived it with doubts until investigation established the fact beyond question. Then the excitement became more and more intense, and crowds of people rushed to that quarter of the city where the shooting took place, anxious to yiew the body of the dead outlaw and to learn the particulars. In a small frame shanty in the southeast part of the city, on ■ the hill, not far from the World’s Hotel, Jesse James has lived with his wife since some time in November last. Robert and Charles Ford, two of the gang, have made their headquarters at his house and Charles, it is said, had lived with him in that shanty . ever since November. Robert arrived about days ago and the three' have been making preparations for a raiding expedi tion on which they were to start to-night. James and the two Fords were in the front room together about 9 this morning. The former took off his belt and laid his pistols on the bed, preparing to wash himself, when Robert -Ford sprang up behind him and sent a bullet through his brain. The ball entered the back of his head- -or the base of tbe right brain, coming-out over the eye. The ' Ford brothers at onco made known what they had done and gave themselves up. They are now under guard at the court house, The body of Jesse James was convoyed to an' undertaker’s, where it was prepared for burial and where, a photograph was taken. James’s wife has telegraphed to his mother the news of his death. A number of men have identified thebody, and there is no.question about it being Jesse James. A reporter viewed the body at tbe undertaker’s, when.it was 1 ‘photographed. He was a fair looking man apparently forty years old, with a broadHISTORY OF THE BROTHERS.^The James boys were reared in Clay county, within twelve miles of Liberty; the Youngers in Jackson county, within four miles of Independence. Frank James was born in Kentucky, in 1841; Jesse in Clay county, Missouri, in 1845. Their father the Rev. Robert Janies, a prominent and eloquent Baptist minister, a pleasant and courteous gentleman, possessed of more education than was common with the ministers of his church in the frontier days of 1843 in Missouri, when the James family moved from Kentucky to Clay county. He was one of the first trustees of the William Jewell College, - located at Liberty, and, though a resident of.that vicinity only from 1843 to 1849, he has left a kindly remembrance of himself among the old settlors. In the latter named year, he went to California, and there died in 1851. To this day the old settlers about the James home say, and it has become a tradition, that the Rev. Robert James was driven from his homo by his wife. The James boys’ mother is still alive, hearty and_ vigorous, and resides on a well-cultivated farm about four miles east of Kearney, a station on the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad, seventeen miles northeast of Kansas City. She was a Miss Zerelda Cole of Scott county, Kentucky, and, although she has attained the advanced age of fifty-eight, she wears tho traces still of what iu her young womanhood must have made her the famed beauty in all the country round about. Her neighbors say that Aunt Ze-rel, as she was commonly called, has transmitted to “the boys” all the deviltry they possess. She is vigorous in body as well as in spirit. At the breaking out of the rebellion Frank and Jesse James joined Quantrell’s band of guerillas, and soon rose to eminence by reason of their personal hardihood and dare-devil recklesssness. They were absolutely regardless of life, either their own or that of any one else, and in consequence of their ability and daring they were each promoted to the command of a company. After the killing of Quantroll and-the disbanding of .his force in 1865, the James boys returned to their home in Missouri, where they lived quietly for two years, when, having .effected a sort of partnerahip with the Younger brothers, who were also with Quantrell,and others of that ilk, they entered the business of wholesale robbery on a magnificent scale. In the Fall of 1868 the party went to the Lexington, Ky;, races. On their journey home they stopped at Russellville, Ky., where they robbed a bank of $14,000, and went to Texas, where they invested in stock, and remained Quiescent until the following year. In 1864 the bank of Gallatin, Mo., was robbed of $7,000 by the James and Younger boys. The following Spring the James and Younger boys and others rode into the town of Corydon, Iowa, in the afternoon, -dismounted, walked into the bank and while three of their number kept the cashier, the only person in the bank, quiet, the others went through the safe for several thousand dollars. _ The robbers were pursued into Missouri, but none were caught. They again went to Texas, where after committing several murders they were obliged to flee for. safety.In the Spring of 1875 the Muucie robbery, six miles out of Kansas City, on the Kansas Pacific roads occurred. The express car was entered, the messenger intimidated, and the safe robbed of upwards of $25,000. while the train was in motion. After scouring the wealth the robbers pulled the bell cord, jumped off, and got away as usual. July 7,1876, a Missouri Pacific train was robbed at Otterville, Pettis county. Fifteen thousand dollars were taken from the safe and the robbers, with their usual good for tune, escaped. ,THE NORTHFIELD HAIR.In Augu§t 1876, the James boys; the three Youngers, and three of their companions went to Mankato, Minn., where they remained for some time, purchasin,-the best saddle horses that were to be fouw in the neighborhood. They claimed to be upon a hunting expedition. Bill Chad-well, who was recruited to the ranks of the Missouri band from the Indian nation, was an outlawed horse thief from Minnesota, and was undoubtedly the originator of the fatal journey which ended in the almost total extermination of the entire party. There were plenty of banks in Missouri and Iowa as easy of access as the one at Northfield, and Chadwell must have used some powerful incentive to draw the James boys and Youngers on that fated trip, so far from home, into a country of the typography of which they •knew nothing. .Chadwell'and one of the Youngers were sent in advance of. the oth era several days to reconnoitdr, the main body of the expedition leaving Clay county, Missouri, some time'‘dttvmg'August, 1876. Cole, Jim and Bob Younger, Jesse and Frank James, Clell Miller, Charlie Pitts, and Chadwell, comprised the party, the same who operated so successfully at .Otterville. At a little station near Northfield the eight desperadoes held a consultation on September 6, and on- the afternoon of tho 7th they entered the last named town at a furious pace, shooting their , revolvers right and left in order to intimidate the people on the streets. While Frank and Jesse James and Bob Younger entered, the other five remained outside to guard against attack. J. L. Hayward, the cashier, and two clerks were in the institution at the time.. For refusing to open the time look Jesse James sent a ball into Hayward’s brain, Meantime the citizens on tho street realized h’liat was going on, and opened fire on the robbers.- Chadwell was shot from his horse by a man at the court-house window, just opposite the bank, and in atwn, while the three Youngers and Charlie Pitts, remained in a body. As on all other previous occasions luck followed the James boys, for while they escaped after being pursued nearly 500 miles, the Youngers were .shot down and captured, and Pitts was killed. The three Former were terri-1 bly wounded before they would surrender, and are now serving life sentences in the Minnesota penitentiary at Stillwater.Jesse and Frank James, after being chased for weeks, succeeded in reaching Texas, and at Waco Frank , had a surgical operation performed on his’leg in consequence ol the bullet he received at Northfield. The wound was so many days without care’that it made Frank a cripple for life.Since that time Jesse James has been engaged in various daring exploits, including tbe famous Glendale robbery, the spoils of which were estimated at as lngh as $40,-000.TUIE FORD BROTHERS.St. Louis, April 4.-—The Ford brothers, one of whom killed Jesse James yesterday, reside on a farm about two miles from Richmond, the county seat of Ray county, in this State. Robert, who did the shooting, is only abont twenty years of age. Their house is said to have been a rendezvous of some of the James gang, and it was there that Dick Little killed Wood Hite, brother of Clarence Hite, who was recently sentenced to twenty-five years in the penitentiary and who is now in prison. It is said that both the Ford boys belonged to the James gang at one time, but this statement does not seem to be verified. The family came from Virginia, about fiftceu years ago, and have always been considered very respectable. For some time past both brothers are believed to have been in the detective sendee and especially engaged in-hunting out.1 members of the Jamos gang, Their aunt, jMiss Bolt is supposed to be the lady who recently had a secret interview with Governor Crittenden at Jefferson City.Governor Crittenden, at the request of the police authorities, ordered out some of the St. Joseph military last night to guard the body of the dead outlaw, as there seemed to.be fears that an attempt would be made to capture it. Ho has also ordered parts of two companies at Kansas City to serve aa’guards at that place.FULLY IDENTIFIED.Kansas City, April 4—There are no new developments at this point to-day in regard to the killing of Jesse James. Gov. Crittenden arrived here this morning and concluded to go on to St. Joseph. He has ordered the officials at St. Joseph, to turn over the body to the wife and mother as it has been fully indentified as that of Jesse James.JESSIE JAMES’S THREAT.St. Louis, April 4. - Mattie Collins, the wife of Dick Little, recently showed a Post-Ti ’',patch correspondent a letter received two ...jks ago from Jesse James in which he stated that he would stay in this country until he liad killed him (Dick Little) and then he and his brother Frank and their families would put the Atlantic- ocean between them and the United States.THE INQUEST,Kansas City, March 4.—The fate of Jesse James is now beyond question a faet. Gov. Crittenden arrived here this morning and says positively that it is ancl that his death is the result of an understanding betweeen the authorities and Bob Ford who killed him and Dick Little who surrendered to Sheriff Timberlake at the same time FordThe inquest at St. Joseph was conoluded at noon to-day. Mrs. Samuels, mother of Jesse James, Dick little and Sheriff Timberlake identified the body and during the proceedings Mrs. James and Mrs. Samuels made highly sensational scene, attacking Dick Little and calling all manner of curses down upon him for having conspired to betray his leader.The coroner's jury returned a verdict of murder in the first degree against Ford, and the authorities of Buchanan county refuse to give him up.The body of Jesse James will probably be taken to the old farm near Kearney, Clay county, for burial.There is great excitement. Some denounce Ford as an assassin whose only object was blood-money, while others excuse him upon the ground of expediency. The Governor will not go to St. Joseph, but will return to Jefferson City to night, from where some steps will be taken to protect Ford, who is thought to be in danger from the friends of the dead robber.WASHINGTON.CALL FOR BONDS.Washington,' April 4.—It is thought that Secretary Folger will call for $20,000,-— ' ’do’ -000 extended 6’s this afternoon.■ NOMINATIONS., The President nominated John J. Pratt of Ohio, as consul of the United States at Cork; D. B. Searles, United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota; Benjamin F. Simp son, United States Marshal for Kansas,
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