Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-03
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Additional local on seventh page.
Knickerbocker gallery opens to-day.
Weather to be or not to be is now the
question.
The county board Of supervisors meet
next Monday.
The buggies and carriages are being
kept housed.
The United States court finished up
yesterday afternoon.
The city council will hold its regular
meeting Monday night.
Hazel Kirke ia the attraction at the
opera house this evening.
Pearl street ought to be paved as we'll
as Broadway and Main streets.
Candy making is going on in earnest
now at McClurg's cracker factory.
The new spray MOBILES and pipes for
the fire department have arrived.
The penalty for leaving your taxes
unpaid now increases each month.
Will Horton has lost a finger-tip by
getting caught in machinery at McClurg's
factory.
The Union Pacific trains are still tardy,
on account of the soft condition of the
road-bed.
All railroad tickets bought of ID. w.
Bushnell are guaranteed, also all rebate
orders given by him.
Stern & Kohn, the wholesale liquor
firm, have dissolved. MI. FL. Stern is
going to Weston, Neb.
An old lady named Mrs. Davis, aged
So years, has received severe injuries by
falling down a stairway.
Matte Beecher for raising a row at
Stella Longs was yesterday fined enough
to make a $40 bill look feeble.
John Epeneter now wears the medal
as the fastest roller skater, but holds it
subject to the result of future contests.
J. Fred Meyers, for a time political
editor of The Nonpareil, has, with his
son Charles X. Meyers, bought The Den
ison Review.
The city weighmaster is now waiting
for a few loads of dirt to make an ap-
proach to the scales, and will then be
ready for business.
Dunn's mercantile agency is changing
its office, and will hereafter occupyrooms
in Shugart's block, adjoining Sapp d
Pusey's law Offices.
The town trustees are expecting to
meet next Saturday to choose constable
to take Tom SINNERS place. There is
quite a lively scramble for the place.
Work on the new bridge across the
creek at Indian Greek is being pushed
forward by Raymond & Campbell as fast
as possible considering the weather.
The number of boarders at the Jail has
been reduced from nineteen to fourteen.
Three have been taken to Crawford
county for trial, and two have served
their time.
To-day at / o'clock the great cattle sale
will take place, as advertised in another
column. 1t will doubtless draw a crowd,
and prove a great event for those inter-
ested in stock.
AS soon as the mud permits those
curbstones taken from the government
property and now lying in front of the
city building, will probably be returned
to Uncle Sam.
The discharge of a few men from the
waterworks is nc such great cut down of
employees as some would make out. There
are enough left to run the works as they
ought to be run and meet all needs.
The streets are in such horrible condi
ton that the street cars are only making
one-half their usual number of trips, and
taking the usual time for each trip, the
horses being obliged to walk all the way.
w. w. Chapman, who next week re.
tires from the roller. skating rink man,
agement, has managed. and successfully
too, four other Kinks before this. They
were Pine Bluffs, Ark, Springfield, Mo.
Joplin, Mo-, and st. Louis.
The evening reporters, who got Sc
badly sold on April Fools day, are nov
kicking themselves because the mornin,
papers did not bite too, and are now try
ing to hedge. Better W the corn
boys. and admit the sell good naturally
The improvement and enlargement Q
Wright 81 Baldwin's law offices are sue,
as will render them without doubt th
finest finished and furnished law Office
in the state, and in fact in the west
without any buncomte or exaggeratiop
They are really elegant.
The temperance lecture by Mrs. Ba,
ter, announced for last Tuesday evening
was postponed, the weather proving nj
favorable. She will give it instead. O
Monday evening the 14th, and on Iii
Sunday evening preceding will give a
address in the Baptist church in place
the regular services.
The news reached this city yesterd,