Omaha daily bee., 1885-04-28
MINOR MENTION.

A special meeting of Bluffs city lodge
No. II f. & A. M. will be held this
evening ct which the third degree will
be worked.
violinist and tenor give q concert Fri
day.
The county clerk Is becoming so much
Of an expert on the typewriter that he
is preparing the bar docket with one OF
Remlngton's.
VIM. Harch and and Otto Rishton were
arrested yesterday for fast driving on
Broadway on Sunday. They were fined
three and costs.
Attend concert at the opera house Fri
day, May LIST.
One vagrant, q colored man, who used
to work at the Ogden house was before
the police court yesterday, but was let of
on a promise to go to work.
Bensberg & Cheadle, beer bottlers at
Ottumwa, who have been doing q very
large trade, necessltatlng the employment
of q large force, have removed to st.
Joe, Mo.
An attempt is being made to secure the
pardon of @. O. Smith, who was con-
victed of stealing a watch from Mrs.
Davis store and sentenced two years in
the psnltentiary.
The Western Union telegraph Office
will shortly be removed from Its present
quarters to the Offices lately occupied by
the Iowa and Nebraska insurance COM
pany, 507 Broadway.
There only remains one crossing over
Indian creek south of Broadway that Is
safe, 1t being near Horne's park. An
other heavy rain and the other two
bridges will be washed away making
them entirely useless.
The Western Iowa society, connected
with the Western Iowa college adjourned
last Saturday evening until the first Sat-
urday In October. The officers of this
society are: President, Fred Keller;
secretary, M. G. VanDerven; treasurer,
j. Fitzpatrick.
On Sunday afternoon about 4 o'clock,
as John O'Grady was trying to pull the
pin between two freight cars In the sou
yard at Pacific Junction, he tripped his
foot and fell, the brake beam striking
him, causing him a serious Injury.
O'Grady Is a married man.
Col. Sapp's thorough blooded grey
hound, "Jennie," has produced a litter,
which In quality and quantity is a marvel.
There are thirteen of the little ones, and
they are all doing we'll, making a happy
family, which Is exciting the admiration
Of many callers on her ladyshlp.
A bootblack, who has been hanging
around town all winter, was yesterday
brought before Judge Aylsworth, the
little fellow being very destitute and
dirty, and inquiry leading to the dis.
oovery that he has a sister living at Elk.
Ira, arrangements were made to send
him there.
Msrried-At the residence of the
brides father, Mr.. Lewis Wehrhorn, on
Sunday evening last, by the Rev.
Doerher, Annie Wehrhorn to Carl
Chriatman. The newly welded couple
were serenaded by the Bavarlan band of
which Mr.. Christman is q member, be-.
tween 10 and II O'Clock the same evening.
The Council Bluffs driving park asuoci-
alton when 1t gave Its fair In the fall of
'Ss, was backed up by a number OF citi-
zens, who pledged Themselves In amounts
from $25 up, to help pay for any deficit
that might arise. There was such o de-
felt, and the association began calling
for these pledges to be redeemed, but a
few held back. Yesterday the association
began suits against a number Of promi.
nent citizens on these claims.
The same ''doctor," who was reported
rs shaving eloped with a Glenwood woman,
and who has been written up several
times under the name of McMenomy, is
now said to be working Keg creek and
Silver creek townships, and to have
caught q goodly amount of game. His
plan seems to BIS to get q patient to give
him a note, and then to sell the note, and
after giving one treatment to tell them
to come to Omaha and get the other
treatments, If they want them.
The mayor Is expected to return from
his eastern trip this evening. The pro-
hibitionists will not, therefore, have
much longer to walt to see what he Il
going to do about the saloons. 1t is moi
expected that he will shoulder any great
responsibility In the matter, as he holds
that it Is not any more his business t.
enforce the state law than of any prlvat,
citizen, he being called on to run tn,
city and not the state. This was the po-
sitlon he took before he went away, ant
he has doubtless seen nothing during hi
absence to change his mind.
There was a little "brush" on Broad