Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16
LOCAL BREVITJES.

B. Kemmerling, who was arrested for as.
sault with intent to commit murder, has been
released on $500 bail.
The Salvation Army is said to be prepar-
ing to march on Omaha and wage a strong
warfare against the host of Satan supposed to
be encamped here.
"A colored man by the name of James
Davis was sentenced by Judge Beneke yes
terday to twenty-five days in the county
Jail on bread and water for stealing a lot of
wearing apparel of Valentine Beck.
"A good-looking coat displayed on a dunn
my in front of q Farnam street clothing house
attracted the attention of a sneak thief yester.
day afternoon, and he appropriated it. One
of the clerks ran the thief down aud recovered
Coles advertising car, sidetracked at the
depot, was surrounded by embryo acrobats
yesterday, studying the wonderful and terrible
pictures. The boys in the neighborhood have
a sudden spasm of industry, but it is not like
ly to last long after the circus goes.
Yesterday was a decidedly cold, windy,
disagreeable one, and is enough to make q per-
son long for the balmy breezes of Florida or
some other hot country. What, oh what will
become of the foolish little blue birds and
robins who put in their appearance several
weeks ago?
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Copeland, residing
at 612 North Thirteenth street, on Monday
lost their little son, and they have the deep
sympathy of a large number of friends. The
funeral will take place on Wednesday, at
Hamberg, Iowa, the old home of Mrs. Cope
land.
The Auxiliary Society for the Home for
the Friendless will meet this afternoon,
at $3.50 p. M, at the residence of Mrs. DIR.
Dinsmoor, No. 1924 Capitol avenue. All
members are requested to be present as this is
the annual meeting.
The Union Elevator company yesterday
filed an amendment to its articles of incorpo.
ration in the county clerks office. Its capital
stock is thereby increased Sc 900 to enable it
to purchase and set new boilers, to be used in
its present place of business.
"A long emigration train passed through
the city about noon yesterday. The emigrants
were going to settle in this state. Every day
a large number of emigrant wagons may be
seen vending their way through the city.
Large numbers of emigrants also come into
this state daily by railroad.
Sunday moor while Mrs. Reynolds and her
family were enjoying their dinner at their res.
idence, No. FOG North Eighteenth street, a
sneak thief entered the house and ransacked
th%roughseveral rooms, through trunks, v~alises,
etc. In his rumaging he came across $40 in
money which stuck to his fingers and as u con-
sequence he carried it away with him.
The concert and ball given by the Con-
cordia societyat Germania hall Monday evening
was q decidedly pleasant affair. Owing to the
unfavorable state of the weather, only a small
crowd was in attendance. The concert was
exceptionally fine and the ball which followed
it and which was attended by about fifty
couples. was one long to be remembered.
William Gentleman, the Sixteenth street
grocer, whose store was destroyed by fire in
JhEudTS ioSl, HoW Si'eS ~ 40 hiS Doi'c oudt
tho trouble was caused by the wires furnishing
the power to the electric lamp. He says that
the outfit hung close to the roof, and that on
the evening of the fire he noticed the lamp
spluttering and flashing in an unusual manner
but did not think there was anything wrong
at the time.
Ono day last week a teamster attempted
to cross the car track on Capitol avenue with
a heavily loaded wagon. just as the forward
wheels of the wagon crossed the track they
dropped down into q mudhole and there the
wagon stuck, with the rear portion of it block
ing the car track. The driver u~nhitched his
horses and drove them away. In a few mo-
ments the street cars began to arrive and were
unable to pass. -Four cars were blockaded
and all four drivers unhitched their horses and
putting the eight animals in front of the wag-
on succeeded in pulling it out of the mud and
off the track. About this time the owner of
the wagon drove out of an alley close at hand,
hitched hi team to the wagon and drove away.
He had evidently been waiting for the boys to
help him out of his difficulty.