Omaha daily bee., 1883-11-10
MINOR MENTION,
See Joseph Refers fall goods

Additional locals on seventh page.
Cheap Railroad Tickets at Bushnells.
Sport at the driving park this after
noon.
The new Masonic temple is looming up
grandly.
Spiritual social tonight. Music and
dancing.
Not even a solitary drunk in the police
court yesterday.
The slaughter of hogs will commence
at Stewards packing house on the 10Th
inst.
Victor Jennings was made doubly
happy yesterday. Twins. A boy and a
girl.
The new steam fire engine at Avoca
was tried Wednesday m orning and threw
water $50 feet with so pounds of steam.
John w. Clark and Mary Ann Johns,
both residents of this city, are now Mr..
and Mrs. Clark, Justice Abbott having
made them 30.
The Second Spiritualist society meets
cNtIH Dubuuy db CIV UtluulC Wuy,
Hoods block, up stairs, room 4. Hour
OF meeting, 2:30 and 7:30 p. m.
Little Sioux and Lorene are to see
which is the swiftest at the driving park
this afternoon. There is also to be q
800 contest for single roadsters.
The prospect is that in the course of
another year the saloon licenses in this
city will be fixed at 81, 600. Some of the
saloon men themselves are in favor of
having it put there.
eff a Mar Die, Shall He Live Again"
Spiritual Circle tomorrow Sunday
afternoon and evening, at 2 and 1880
o'clock, in Spiritual hall, Shugart and
Beno's block, entrance IN Main and
Pearl streets.
Jack Shields, on his last arrest for as
eault and battery, has been fined one
dollar and costs. He has, however, the
old term of six months to serve for as
saulding the old man Jennings, and is
here in Jail on that.
In the Superior court yesterday the
case of Schweringer VS.. Culver was tried
by jury. The claim wal for unpaid
wages, for services as clerk for the defen-
9ant. The jury returned a verdict Civ
ing the plaintiff $24S.
Some thief or thieves broke into a car
on the Chicago, Burlington g. Quincy
track, and stole therefrom a quantity Of
apples consigned to Bell 81 Hall. One
barrel is missing, and there is no way of
how many other apples were taken, as
quite a quantity were loose in the car.
The social given by the Royal Arcanum
last evening, the third of the series,
proved like the others, a happy affair.
The company being select and made up
of the best citizens and their ladies', the
occasion was really a social event of more
than passing moment. The Arcanum is
as strong socially as it ia financially, and
whatever it takes hold of it seems to
make successful.
There are several patent right suits
pending in the eastern courts concerning
the electric lights. Some of these suits
may affect one or the other of the two
companies who are now trying to estab-
lish the light in Council Bluffs. 1t is to
be hoped that there will be no delay,
however, in the one result, of getting
some sort of an electric light for the city,
and a good one too.
In Justice Abbott's court yesterday the
carpenters tools found in the Gem thea
tire were identified as being some of those
stolen lately from l.. McGreer's shop in
Omaha, and for which two men, Hewitt
and Gallagher have been arrested. The
tools found here are valued at S15, and
form only a small part of the total loss.
Other tools have been found in pawn.
shops in Omaha.
Hanlan is trying to break up the
gambling business. -Four poker and one
hazard table, about ten quarts of chips
and other property has been captured,
aud James L.. Forkner, as the keeper of
the house, has been held in $3.50 bonds
for the action of the grand jury. j.. +.
Huntzinger was the one who complained
of Forkner, and now Forkner has turned
about and had Huntzinger arrested for
selling liquor contrary to law.
A party of school teachers from She
nandoah were in tho city yesterday,
visiting the public schools and getting
such ideas as they could by seeing Coun-
Gil Bluffs system in active operation.
They expressed themselves as satisfied
with the experiment. Among them were
II. b. Cross, @. H. Guernsey, Lou Tuck
er, Kitty j.. Lewis, Lottie Il. Granger,
Emily Alden, Ida Parker, Carrie Lam.
b~ertson, Flora Collins. and Fannie Scott.
A poor fellow, evidently n little of
his balance mentally, appealed to the
authorities yesterday to protect him from
a mob which he fancied were following
him. with the intention of hanging him.
be claimed that last night, while stop
ping at a hotel here, some one broke into
MS room and crawling under the bed
stayed there all night with a razor ready
to murder him. He was taken into
Jailor Schontz's care last night, Schont7
assuring him he was safe there, for while
men often tried to break out his hotel
no one had ever tried to break in.
The examination of Mrs. Ed. Burke.
charged by her husband with having
wandered from the straight path by
sleeping at the Bryant house with d
Nicola barber named Reese, was con.
cluded before Justice Abbott yesterday.
She was held for the action of the grand
jury, the bonds being $50. Her attor.
neys, +. nj. Hunter and John Lindt, al
once filed papers before fudge Ayles.
worth, and she will be brought before
him this morning OF a writ of habeas
corpus. They claim that the evidence
ahnxua1 N III. II