Omaha daily bee., 1884-05-29
MINOR MENTION.

for being q vagrsnt.
James Davidson will take twenty.fv
days for stealing razors.
Alexander Fay was yesterday fine
5000 for assault and battery.
The district court adjourned yesterda!
until Thursday of next week.
The school children will be admitted
to the races free this afternoon.
Keystone wringers down to 81 each
De Vol e Wright, 5O2 Broadway.
The Second Spiritualist society has dis
banded and sold the furniture of their
hall.
Sheriff Guitar will start Sunday night
with the first batch of prisoners tor Fort
Madison.
The Ladies' Foreign Missionary society
of the Methodist church give a social a
the church parlors this evening.
Some new red benches have beer
placed in Bayliss park, but will BIO kept
under cover when not needed.
ID. J. Rockwell is grading on the south
east corner of Third avenue and Tenth
street preparatory to erecting a large
barn.
Mrs. p. g. DeVol and her daughter,
Miss Hattie DeVol, left last evening for
Chicago to visit friends there for a few
weeks.
The Council Bluffs bicycle club, a new
organization, has III. E. Palmer for presi'
dent and O. III. Judsou for secretary and
treasurer.
Five more tramps were run in yester
day, found sleeping in box cars. Some
were sentenced to the stone-pile and the
rest turned loose.
The mayor has selected IN escort Of
four policemen to attend the funeral Of
the son of Chief Skinner, which takes
place this forenoon at 10 o'clock.
The council has decided to let the
scales remain at the junction of Main and
Pearl streets, but they are being lowered
four inches to conform with the grade.
A special meeting of the city council is
to be held at II o'clock this forenoon, the
hour being set to accommodate Geo. Nc
Mahon, who has another engagement this
evening.
Justice seems to have at least one eye
shut sometimes. Yesterday one fellow,
for stealing an overcoat, was sent to the
penitentiary for a year and a half, and
another one, for attempted rape, was
fined 1876.
A number of shade trees are being cut
down. Persons anticipating the slaught-
or of trees along the curbing especially,
should remember the trees go q long way
toward identifying the city.
The Boston Operatic Minstrels ought
to return to Boston and stay there, that
is if they belong there, which is very
doubtful. The show proved a slim one,
with but few redeeming features.
The BEE is under obligations to j. F.
Barke for a series of his Photographic
views of the interior of tho opera-house,
which are excellent, giving q faithful re.
presentation of the house, the stage,
galleries, etc.
The dancing school will be held thi.
week Saturday evening, as Prof. Schnoor
does not close engagement elsewhere un-
til Friday evening. After this the dane
ing school will be on Tuesday and Friday
evenings of each week.;
Some of the papers complain about
people going late to the theatre. What
in the world is the use of going early,
when for some reason or other most of
the entertainments, so-called, do not be.
gin before half past eight.
The case of William Weidner va. Wa.
bash railway was decided yesterday in
the district court. The plaintiff was al
lowed $75 with interest at Q per cent
which will bring the total under 800,
consequently it cannot be appealed.
One of the neatest things in the adver-
tising line, is a little pamphlet being dis
tributed by the Rock Island company. 1t
contains excellent portraits Of distin-
guished republican statesmen, and tally
sheets for use at the national convention.
The California delegation to the national
republican convention is expected to
arrive here by special train tomorrow
morning, and 90 out over the @. & N. w.
Arrangements are being made to give
them a becoming welcome. The train is
expected to arrive about nine o'clock.
Burglars have been lowering about
Denison. Two attempted to effect an
entrance into George Richardson's drug
store, by breaking the lock ON a rear
door. The clerk, armed with a revolver,
put them TO fight. j. p. Connor's resi-
dence was also entered, and SO secured.
DIR. Iseminger's house was visited and a
gold watch taken.
Rev. j. G. Lemen has returned from
Detroit, where he has been attending
the annual meetings of three of the most
importat national societies of the Baptist