Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-16
A BREWTIES.

The United States Courts adj
iourned yesterday till Monday.
The only train for the East to-
day will run out over the Chi
cago & Northwestern railway.
Hall Bros. are turning out five
mowers and reapers per day. Busi-
ness is lively with this firm.
The United States Grand Jury
were discharged yesterday. Several
indictments were found by them.
Mrs. r. NJ. Trout received a dis
match Thursdy night stating that her
husband had met with a severe in
iuries from the kick of a horse at
CIenwood, Iowa. She left this
morning for Glenwood to attend
him.
A fishing party, composed OF
Judge Dundy, Hon. John L. Redick
and his two sons, DR.. McClelland,
F. ID. Pratt, two New Workers and
one Bostonian, left yesterday
for Calhoun Lake, where they
will meet another party from
Columbus. They will remain till
Monday.
"A couple of the employees OF
Lehman & Beard, calsominers,
while engaged in calsomining at the
Wyoming Hotel, found a pair OF
handouts. One of the men wish
ing to see how he would look with
the iron bracelets upon his wrists
Skinned them, and the lock fastened
them securely. The services OF q
blacksmith were required to unlock
the handouts.
Annie Morrisey was again be-
fore the Police Court yesterday, this
time on the charge of being an in
mate of a house of prostitution. Her
attorney, ]. P. Bartlett tried to OBJ
tain a Jury trial for her, but Judge
Wilbur refused to lower the dignity
of the Court by calling jury OF re-
spectable citizens to sit upon such a
nasty trivial case. The girl was dis
charged upon her promising to go
into some respectable occupation.
"A little boy, aged four and a
half years, son of Captain Ludlow,
City Clerk, led at l o'clock Thursday
night under rather peculiar circum-
stances. He was unwell and adoc-
for was sent for to attend him.
Some medicine vas given him, and
in five mipgtes afterward he was
dead. The prescription had been
filled at a drug store, and it may
have been put up wrong, or 1t may
be that the doctor was to blame. A
coroner's inquest and IN investiga-
tion were talked of this morning, and
such will probably be the steps taken
i'm the matter.
Marshal Snowden Thursday re-
ceived a dispatch from the Council
Bluffs Marshal stating that he had
captured boy named Henry Lynch,
having In his possession three stolen
coats. Policeman Mansfield was
sent over for him, and brought him
back to Omaha. One of the coats
was found to belong to Mr.. Whit
ney, of Whitney, Bauserman &
Co, and the other two to MI. r.
Thompson, of Young's lumber yard.
The boy, who is but seventeen, and
mailing from st. Louis, confessed to
hsving stolen Judge Porter's napkin
rings, and that he had thrown them
away i'm a water closet. His ex-
animation will take place before
Judge Wilbur to-day. This ar
rest explains the recent petty bur-
glaries in this city.
-Twenty-three dogs, of all sizes,
colors, breeds, and ages, assembled
on Douglas street, between Four
teenth and Fifteenth, about6 A. NJ.
yesterday, and fell to fighting over a
stray piece of meat. They gath
cred around q passerby, whom they
attacked, and Jailor Anderson and
Mr.. Willis Yates had to come to his
rescue. They armed themselves
with a couple of meat-hooks from
Sheeley's butcher-shop, and fought
the dogs for five minutes, finally
killing one and putting the rest to
flight. The BEE regrets that it
cannot do justice to this affair to-
day, for a column or two could be
written on it. Suffice it TO say, that
IT eclipsed any dog fight that ever
occurred in this city, 1t is about
time that the dog population of
Omaha Were treated to strychnine
ar something else that will dimip-