Omaha daily bee., 1885-07-14
MINOR MENTION.


rested f. Farmer for being drunk.
The tImbers for the roof of the new
county jail are being put In place.
Slim Jim, arrested for sleeping In 8
stairway, was turned loose yesterday.
Bids for the Missionary on the new
government postofice are to be opened
on August 10th.
Captain Carlisle, who lives east of the
city, received yesterday his back pension,
amounting to about 80, 400, and will from
this time on receive q pension of 500 9
month.
The weekly literary and social of the
Young Mems Christian Association will
be held as usual this evening at $3.50
o'clock. Both ladies and gentlemen are
invited.
The city council did not meet last
night, the ordinances which 1t was de.
sired to consider, not having been pre-
pared. The next attempt at a meeting
will be on Friday night.
Complaint has been lodged before Jus.
tice Hendricks, against the Johnsons, q
colored family on Pierce street, charging
them with keeping a house of prostitu-
ton. There will be q hearing to-day.
f. Adams was again arrested yester-
day on the charge of humping his wo.
man, Jennie Meacham. She has had
him arrested several times before, but
always repents, and falls to appear when
the time for trial comes.
John Hams wal arrested for shooting
off a revolver near the dummy depot, and
needleasly giving the police a run he
was fined and Is being held, he having
some jewelry In his possession which the
police look on with suspicion.
"Lone Wolf" has returned from Mis-
souri, Valley, and he cannot say too much
for the Cheney house, where he found
the best sort of accommodations. He
next goes to Avocs, where he will be
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Charlie Sanderson has been let out of
the fire department under the recent
order cutting down the force. Sam Nor.
rison has been retained. It Ia under
stood that Sanderson was given Tie
chance to take MorrIaon's place, but gen.
erously refused to crowd any man out to
make room for him.
The Rev. William M. Haigh, DID,, OF
Chicago, the general superintendent of
missions for the northwest of the Ameri.
can Baptist Home Mission society, is to
meet In conference the state secretaries
of nine or ten of the states In this section
st Council Bluffs, July % to 80. Inter-
esting public services will be held In the
Baptist church the evenings Of the Goth
and 30th.
Tom Kelley was yesterday In
jail for being drunk. He Is a
Door man, struggling along to get his
team paid for, and his wife being sick
g nign unto death, and his child being too
young and small to help around the house,
or to feed the horses, the family affairs
seemed In so d~eplorable condition that
some Of his neighbers went on his bond
and got him released.
Two tailors who work for Peters yes.
terday drove across the Bryant street
bridge on a trot, and were promptly
pulled in. 1t cost them about ten dollars
to learn that the city ordinance Is against
such fast speed. Other complaints are
to be filed against parties who have for
gotten the ordinance, and the thought
less ones had better jog their memories
In some less expensive way than by sub.
jecting themselves to a fine of So and
costs.
Three sirens from Pierce street were
yesterday fined by Judge Aylesworth.
They gave their names as Fanny Smith,
Maude Thomas, and Nettie Smith. A
young man has turned up in the city who
claims that he Is q brother of one of the
girls, and that he had not seen his sister
for three years, and supposed she was
leading a good honest life, until he
reached the city and found to his sorrow
and surprise that she was in jail. He
seemed very solicitous about her, and
went to the home of the Judge In the
night to see If he could not secure her
release, but she seemed to want to avoid
him, and would not consent to be under
any Obligation to him.
The Nonpareil having q printing bill
against the Philomothean musical society
for about $50, lately hunted about for
some OF the officers of the defunct organI-
cation, and sued several of those who
were thought to have belonged. A judg-
ment was obtained, but the defendants
came Into court and got an Injunction
restraining the collecting of the same, ON
the ground that they were not members
OF the society, but belonged to another
society, known as the Philharmonic, and
that the mistake had arisen from this