Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-13
MINOR MENTION,
j. Refers summer goods.


Some big shipments of heavy farming
implements are being made.
f. A. Sears says that new boy of his
shouts for Blaine and not for Cleveland,
The Wabash passenger train o ar
rives at 4:15 p. M, an hour later thar
before.
The aged bag-pipe player, who lost a
leg in the c., B. & Q. yards last fall, is
in the city again.
j. L. Ratkin has moved from Broad
way TO No. G10 Main street, where he
will continue in the produce business.
Leon Lozier ought to have taken off his
shirt when he run with Hamilton at the
fair grounds. He wouldn't have been
beaten 80 badly.
Samuel Werlich, who has been very
i'll for some time, was reported yesterday
as being rapidly sinking, with little pros.
pect of recovery.
Work is progressing we'll on the addi-
tional buildings at the institute for the
deaf and dumb. The coming session
will open September 10.
j. Z. Ki~lfeather, who was arrested for
hitting Henry Spetman Jr. with a chair,
and who jumped his bail, has been caught
and fined $50 and costs.
The street crossings are in a horrible
shape, at least they are supposed to be.
Most of them are out Of sight and their
condition must be that ofthe lost.
The infant son of W. S. and Annie
Cooper died at $50 Monday evening of
cholera infantum. The funeral took
place from Mrs. McGee's, on Woodbury.
avenue, yesterday afternoon.
The bootblack who fell down in the
park Monday in a sort of spasm, was still
at the police headquarters yesterday and
seemed to be recovering his strength, 80
that no danger is apprehended.
A time table has been prepared for the
street cars to run by, but it is evident
that the drivers and conductors haven't
been furnished with copies of it vet,
Judging from the ~irregularlty of thetrips.
Captain Carver and a band Of his
Indians, who took part in the "Wild
West" show, returned yesterday from the
east over the Northwestern and we're
taken to Sioux City, which is neal their
homes.
The newspaper fiend used up a column
yesterday about an accident on the
street car track which did not happen,
but then it was a wet day. If a real
accident had happened, what would the
fend have done2
The case of Mrs. John Mergel against
MIR. Doerhinger, in which she claims
$4,000 damages because he sold her hus.
band beer, was called in the superior
court yesterday, and continued until the
September term.
The Main street car on It's forenoon
trips has no bells or other signal to at
tract the attention of passers-by, or those
waiting to take the car. In the after
noon, however, the teams have sleigh
bells enough to do for a carnival.
1t lis said that one of the troubles In
disposing of the city bonds is that promi.
nent parties here, who are opposed to
the present city administration, wrote to
New York bankers with whom they arc
acquainted, telling them that the bonds
were not legal.
A. M. Wood, who is with TAYLOR &
Lhnnif, got up the other night to get
some medicine from a cupboard for a
sick baby, and in reaching for 1t a bottle
OF carbolic acid was tipped over and some
spilled on his face burning 1t badly, es-
pecially about one eye.
Sheriff Dan Farrell was here yesterday.
he had just received a letter from
Sheriff McCord, who was shot by the
desperate Reynolds at Marshalltown.
McCord writes that he Ia able to walk
about some, and there is every reason to
believe that he will recover. This will
probably ave Reynolds neck, for it was
openly and firmly declared that in the
event of McCord's death Reynolds would
be lynched.
Charles Hickson, a farmer boy, who
has been lying in jail on a charge of as
sault with intent to commit murder, was
brought before Judge Ayleaworth yester-
day on a writ of habeas corpus. 1t ap-
peared that the row was a general one,
and that young Hickson was not 80 much
to blame for hitting another fellow with
a club. The judge remanded him TO Jail
with instructions to have an information
filed charging simple assault, to which
charge Hichson will plead guilty.
When the city council put up 5000 In
cash for Mayor Vaughan to go TO New
York, 1t was generally supposed he was
going there to sell bonds, but from his
success in getting interviewed by the
Herald reporter, 1t seems to be- more Of
a democratic mission. la the course of
his bombastic talk about Iowa going dem.
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