Omaha daily bee., 1884-12-29
MINOR MENTION.


The city council is to meet this wen.
Conrad Geise will gathering
Ice this week.
Charles Beardsley is In for indulging
In a Saturday night drunk.
The trial of DIR. Cross Is set for to-
morrow In the district court.
Col. John Fox proudly carries a gold
headed cane, the gift of his daughter.
Charles Smith was arrested Saturday
for stealing a comfortable from Dayhoffs
saloon.
The Coy house has been reopened, the
health authorities have kept 1t closed for
several weeks past.
Moses Bailey will have to explain in
police court this morning a charge of be-.
ing indecently drunk.
Prof. H. Fl. Edison, of Grinnell, &C.
cupied the Congregational pulpit here
yesterday morning.
The funeral of Mrs. A. NJ. Williams
was held yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock
at the family residence on avenue D..
A divorce was on Saturday granted, in
the district court, to @. L. Copeland, of
this city, from his wife M. A. Copeland.
On Saturday afternoon James L. Walt
era and Miss Carrie G. Duncan were
united In marriage by Justice Schurz at
his Office parlors.
A boy named Alfred Thompson, whose
folks live in Underwood, Is locked up on
a charge of stealing a pair of shoes from a
second hand store.
Some boys at Hamburg stole a few
dollars of change from the postofice
there the other day, by reaching through
the door of a lock.box.
A union meeting was held at the opera
house last evening In the interests of the
bible cause, the several city pastors par
ticipating with brief addresses.
MI. Ferguson, who has Just served a
term for aneaking a hat from the Pacific
house, was arrested Saturday for steal
ng a robe from Boqu cts stable.
Charles Eiseman, of the city auction
store, remembered kindly his auctloneer,
Col. 1. S. Toner, and on Christmas pre-
sented him with a fine meerschsum pipe.
Rev. d. D. Proper, of Des Moines,
the general missionary and secretary of
the Iowa Baptist state association,
preached in the Baptist church here yes
terday.
The "Matte, o -fact Boys" of the Y.
M. G. A. meet on Monday night at 8
o'clock sharp. Subject of conversation
different modes of transportation from
Adams time down to the present" All
young men are invited.
The sewer bonds have been sold by the
finance committee of the council and
city treasurer, through j. w. and E. l..
Squires, to a New York firm. The pro-
ceeds, $50, O00, were deposited in the
Citizens bank Saturday.
T. Dawson, the proprietor of the Stone
City house., was arrested Saturday night
for hitting a m named Eva Parson,
with a beer glass, In a row at some house
of unsavory name. The woman was bad
ly hurt, there being a severe cut over the
eye.
The mammoth box of cigars, presented
by 7. D. King & Co. to the Catholic fair,
is to be given to the most popular news
paper man In the city, instead of the most
popular printer. The award Is to be de-
cided by vote. The box Is a beauty,
made specially, and contains 100 cigars
of the best, too.
The Y. M. G. A. have for some
months provided the cheapest and best
entertainments given in our city. The
Cough lecture on Friday night was
especially fine. The next of the lecture
course will be given by Professor Starr,
of Coo college, Cedar Rapids, on Mon
day evening, January 8.
The ladies of the Catholic church give
their fair and dramatic entertainment
this evening. The fair will bs held in
Masonic hail, and the dramatic entertain.
ment in Dohaney's old opera house, one
tickets admitting to both. The Irish
play 'Erleen Age" Is to be presented by
local talent, there being twenty-five char
aoters in the cast.
At the Catholic fair this evening a
gold badge will be voted to the most pop.
ulsr of the following conductors: Her.
berling, Of the st. Paul; Nat Ferrill, of
she X. c.; Swivel, of the Rock Island;
81. L. Paine, of the Northwestern;
Charlie Mack, of the U. p; w. S. Jam.
eson, of the C B. & O.; Mike McCabe,
of the Wabash.
A certain married man Of family, who
passes muster for a gentleman Of respect.
ability, entered the house of one of our
citizens In the suburbs of the town, ON
Saturday, while the owner was away, and
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