Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-14
MINOR MENTION.

See the Easter display at Bliss.
Additional local on seventh page.
Special sales of linen handkerchiefs to
dsy at Bliss.
Buck Scott was arrested Saturday night
for being drunk.
The Council Bluffs presbytery meet at
Clarinda on the 18th.
Sapp & Pusey's law offices have been
very handsomely decorated.
The board of supervisors adjourned
Saturday noon to meet again next Thurs
day.
Patsy Morrisey, of Omaha, was arrest
cd here Saturday night for disturbing the
peace.
The annual election of officers for the
vestry of st. Paul's church occurs this
evening.
J.. j. Bliss will display to-day the best
assortment of handkerchief ever seen in
the city.
The Presbyterians are to have a social
at the residence of l.. @. Baldwin to-mor-
row evening.
Permit to wed was IN Saturday grant
ed to Thomas j. Walker and Ida Allen,
both of this city.
The new uniforms for the police are
now expected to be ready ny the middle
or latter part of this week.
Paul ellis has filed an information
charging Samuel Jenkins with obtaining
board under false pretenses.
Concert and ball at the rink this even
ing, under the auspices of the ladies of
the German Lutheran church.
Tomorrow evening there will be at the
rink the third contest for the medal to be
awarded the fastest mile skater.
James Fitzgerald now wears the medal
for good scholarship at st. Joseph's
academy during the past two weeks.
l.. McDermott, on o charge of cruelty
to animals, appeared before Justice Shurz
yesterday, and his case was continued to
the 18th.
Judge Aylesworth is making some
great improvements in his residence, but
bad weather interferes greatly with all
such work.
TI,v.a TIa,o1,, ,,o,, ,-aorc 1sa ho,,. utnvk
He tried to kindle a fire with kerosene
and got a SINCE. His face, hands and
arms were also scorched.
Mr.. George Parks, the Upper Broad
way groceryman, now moves into the
house recently occupied by Mr.. James
Brewster, who has gone to Kansas City.
The Carson Criterion dominates Col.
Sapp, of this city, for the ~gubernatorial
chair of Dakota. Dakota might do worse,
but Iowa isn't anxious to spare the
colonel.
Considerable excitement was caused on
Broadway yesterday by a mad dog, who
was corralled in Bokay's livery barn until
Officer O'Brien came. He speedily dis,
patched him with his little gun.
Miss Rehse, the artist, has had her
time kept fully occupied occupied paint.
ing Easter eggs, and other souvenirs ap-
propriate to the season. Some of them
were little gems of art.
H. S. Gallagher has commenced suit
against the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul company claiming 80, 900 damages
for o mare which fell into an unpro-
teoted well on tho railway company's
land.
Mr.. o. f. Norris, of this city, who
went to J~uniata, Neb., about six months
ago for his health, died in that place on
the 9Th inst, consumption being the
cause. He was the husband of Mrs. s.
j. Norris, Of this city.
The water works company have l75
applicants for water, and will begin
putting in service pipes this week. Those
who have not applied should do so
promptly, as the 18th, the date set in
the notice found in another column, will
SON be here.
Justice Abbott on Saturday married
an Omaha couple, who quietly came over
to this side ~unbeknown to their friends,
and being met at the transfer by the JUS
tice, were speedily married and proceed
ed home again. They were Chris Jen-
sen and Mary A. Burns.
Prof. Houghton, of the Tabor college,
and l.. G. Davis, of the Ayooa schools,
were here Saturday, to arrange for the
meeting of the Southern Iowa Teachers
association, they being members Of the
executive committee. The association il
to meet here June 80, and hold a three
days session.
The largest straw hat. ever shown il
Council Bluffs is at Bliss' millinery store
1t is only about fifteen feet in circum
ference-a baby hat. 1t attracts mucl
attention from those who drop in Their
and is certainly a curiosity. Several hay
spoken for it to wear at the next mas