Omaha daily bee., 1884-06-24
MINOR MENTION.


Parties are now talking of starting
natatorium here.
Frank Doris and @. Nichols are organ
i~zing''an amateur dramatic club.
Special policemen have been appointed
to look after the driving park both day
and might.
George e. kellogg is now working
new advertising scheme, land claims t.
be doing well.
d. j. Rockwell has completed his barr
corner Third avenue and Tenth street
1t is as complete as anything in the city
Thomas Thompson charges Thos. M
Caully,a fellow employed at Phillips axe
handle factory, with having pounded hin
badly.
John White and George Mag wood hat
a little difficulty, which has led each Il
file a complaint charging the other will
assault.
Mrs. Billings has had a young fellow
named Harry Thompson arrested for OBJ
tanning food and lodging under false pre-
lenses.
The printing Office in connection with
the Iowa and Nebraska insurance COM
pany was moved across to Omaha yes
terday.
Mr.. Charles E. Taylor now rides to
and from his business in q new buggy
drawn by a fleet stopper. The whole
costing $3.50.
Mrs. Buckner was 80 unfortunate as to
lose her pocket book containing 800, on
Sunday, somewhere between the ceme-
terry and the opera house.
All the railways leading into the Bluffs
have arranged for special excursion
tickets on July Sd, 4th, and 9th, the fare
for all points being a single fare for a
round trip.
There will be no entertainment at the
Y. M. G. A. this evening, on account of
the graduating exercises of the high
school, that are to be held in the opera
house this evening.
E. j. Abbott has some beautiful spec
linens Of stalsctites from the lead mines
at Dubuque, they being almost pure
silica. He also has some excellent speci-
mems of Galena lead.
Two of the day gangs of freight trans
ferrers at the Union Pacific depot have
been put onto night duty, SO as to facil-
tate the freight business, competition
with the B. & NJ, having necessitated
the change.
iFour vagrants were before the police
court yesterday and were turned loose
again. Two of them were boys only
about ten years Of age. They were
found sleeping in q freight car in the
railway yards.
Ida Strong was brought before Justice
Schurz yesterday on a charge Of keeping
q house of ill.fame. DR.. Cook, making
the complaint as the prosecuting witness,
did not appear when the case was called,
and it was dismissed.
The new fountain ct the Methodist
church is to be of the same pattern as
that at the corner Bryant and Broadway.
It was the intention Of the committee to
put up a cheaper one, but Alderman Sic.
dentoff protested so strongly that the
committee concluded to yield, and put
in one worthy of the location.
John @. Lee is back from Illinois
where he has been looking after his rail
way contracts. he has been engaged fol
month on the work of building .
double track Tor the @. B. & O., between
Kewaunee and Galva. There will b.
about two months more work on the con
tract. Mr.. Lee expects to return to Hi
nois to-day.
Mayor Vaughn was called upon t.
o~ficiate at a queer wedding the Other
evening. The bride had a babe in hel
arms, which she said was q week old
The bridegroom was o little the worse fol
drink, and stranger than all, the woman
in whose arms the babe wa placed, Will,
the couple stood up to be married, claim
ed to lave been the bridgegroom's frs
wife, from whomsshe had been separated
by a divorce, after living with him thir
teen years.
On Saturday q stranger was noticed
coming down stairs at the Colorado
house, and on being asked what HI
wanted, he said he was hunting for
musician named Brown, whom HI
wanted to get to plsy at a private dane,
IN The evening. The fellow had a bun
die under his arm but it was not unit
after hs had disappeared that it was dis
covered hat five rooms had been entered
and tho baggage Of boarders had beer
broken open and small articles stolen.
John Sandel is getting quite a notori
ely as a thumper. A short time ago hs
was fined for assaulting Mr.. Henry Else
man and Sunday night he was raising .
TOW in FROM OF the Ogden house, and
struck two or three persons without any
provocation. He was fined again yester
day. IL saems that John when he gats