Omaha daily bee., 1884-07-21
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evening with Miss Jennie Beebe.
The normal institute for the count.
opens at the Bloomer building this morn
ing.
st. Paul's Episcopal church folks ant
Sunday school are planning for a picni
at Yunkerman's garden to.morrow..A
An open air concert is to be given IL
Bayliss park some evening this week b!
the Bavarian band.
r, G. Harris and family, who wer'
taken the other day with what seemed
to be cholera, are rapidly recovering.
Michaels Bros. do not seem to be abl'
to settle their financial troubles yet, anc
the day announced for the sale of thei
stock, July 22d, draws near.
Permits to wed have been given Aug
ust Scheptic and Hulda Aultman, both
of Minden; Fred j. Klager, of this city,
and Miss Lizzie Written, of Wright
county.
Mayor Vaughan has been affixing his
autograph to the bonds. He has to sign
his name forty-one times on each bond,
and by timing himself he says iT takes
fifteen minutes.
The veterans started last evening for
the reunion at Minneapolis. There was
quite a crowd, one hundred and fifty or
80, and they started off in high glee, all
expecting q merry time.
There were a good many DRINKS visible
on the streets Saturday night. If the
saloon men expect to keep up. a public
sentiment against the enforcement of the
prohibition law they should at least re-
fuse to sell men who have had enough,
Several cases of scarlet fever are re-
ported. There will be something worse
than scarlet fever unless the city
Gil does something at once with the pools
standing in different parts of the city,
especially tho Fourth ward, breeding
disease and death.
The Presbyterians and Methodists
joined in worship yesterday in the new
opera house, Reverend Bates preaching
one sermon and Reverend Armstrong the
other. 1t is expected that the repairs to
the Methodist church will be completed
this week, 30 that sanctuary can be occu
pied as usual next Sunday.
Tonight there will be a conference of
young men in the rooms of the
Y. M. G. A., No. IL, north
Main street. A number of the members
of the Omaha association will be present.
A verv profitable time is anticipated. All
young men are invited, whether members
of the association or not.
Officer O'Brien Saturday evening
found a man lying in a drunken stupor
o. the dummy track. After being landed
in the Jail the fellow became 80 furious
that in his frenzy he stripped off every
bit of clothing and tore it into shreds, so
that the marshal had to provide an en-
tirely new wardrobe for him.
A German, who has lately arrived
from the old country, and who is visiting
his son here, is said to have been carry
ing about his person SO, 900 in cash for a
week or 80. He evidently did not realize
what risk he was taking until his friends
persuaded him to put the money in a
strong box. The old gentleman has
lived in n place in Germany for forty
years, until he sold his possessions and
came here to be with his children.
Another instance of the laundering
legislation which the city government is
INDUCING in has come to light. In 80
important a matter as the passing of or
dinances for the issuing of improvement
bonds, the date was made Sunday, inval.
idating the whole business. Great haste
was made to correct the blunder. The
ordinance, also the documents, had to he
changed and reprinted, and the reporter
of the official paper, who was the only
one present at the secret doings, sworn
not to say anything about it.
The four boys named Copeland, Almy,
Barker aud Wheeler, aged between
twelve and fourteen, and who lately ran
away from their homes here, have re-
turned satisfied that after all there is no
place like home. They had provided
themselves with brushes and backing
and proposed earning a living by shining
boots. They took passage in a box'csr
and got as far as Boone, but found bust
ness dull. The expected wealth did not
roll in, and hungry, tired and footsore
they were content enough to get back,
Their experience ought to satisfy Other
boys who have m itching to sec tn,
world.
The appearance here of hall a dozen OF
SO of Hamburg citizens gave rise to a re.
port that another raid was to be at.
tempted or the saloons, and the visitor
were. watched suspiciously, until it was
learned that they were here on %ontirel,
different business. They came here t
attend an injunction gu before Judg
Reed. Some time ago tho city counci
that Place let q contract TO RcuboI
Sinons for the construction Of a city htl