Omaha daily bee., 1885-11-12

supreme court would go into the validity
of the law under which Mitchell acts, in
its written opinion on the mandamus pro-
ccedings brought by j. Sterling Morton
against Stephenson, the clerk of Otoe
county.
NEW WEIGHING SCALES.
j. l.. Osborne. of this city, returned
from the south yesterday, where he has
been on business of an important Charsc.
ter. Al Jefferson City, No, he met Il
young German named Kohlman, from
New York, who is tho patentcc OF an
automatic double acting scale, which has
material points over any other scale ever
invented. IL may be used in au cle: ator
in weighing grain ~ it run from the bin
into tho car. The scale is an c~gg.Shapcd
sheet iron apparatus, having two COM
partmcnts. The grain u N into n
compartment until it il filled and the
weight ascUrtuined, when the flow Is
automatically transferred to the second
compartment, without stopping tho ma.
chine. The wcighingis said to be very
accurate. Mr.. Osborne has invested
$4,000 in the scale, and John Scaton, this
foundry man, has also taken nm interest.
1t is the purpose of the gentlemen to
commence tho manufacture of the new
scale shortly on Il large basis. Thus it
will easily be seen hat Lincoln is rapidiy
coming to tho front.
I~NFORMArGONS LEGAL.
Tht supreme court handed down an
opinion yesterday of considerable inter-
est throughout tho state. In the criminal
case of Frank Jones, on error from Cum.
ing county, the question of the law doing
away with gra d iurics and allowing the
district attorney to file iniormatioES
against prisoners, instead of indicting by
grand jury, came up for decision. The
court held that the law applies to all
eases whore grand iuries were required
after the act in question took effect, which
was juno 10 last. The informatiOns, aG.
cordimg 10 the construction OF the court,
are perfectly legal and the law valid i'll
every particular.
CITY NOTES.
Eddie Kleutsch, eldest son of Major j..
ID. klcutsch, died Tuesday night, after n
twelve days illness, of typhoid fever.
Deceased was Il bright young man, and
would have attained his nineteenth year
the 9Th inst. The funeral will occur to-
day att O'Clock from the family resi-
dence, corner of Nineteenth and NJ
streets.
Night before last a gango OF seven touchs
jumped on to Policeman Iom Kcarnahan
and proceeded to do him up. Tom made
a brave tight and finally hauled w of
them to jail.
Tho statements made by Webster and
others about the high appraisemcnt of
lands on Eighth and Ninth streets is
shown to have been false by tho re-
port OF the appraisers themselves A.
first stated in the BEE the amount APP.
proXimates $4,000, while these agitators
had it up to $l3O,0W at one time.
The trustees of Pierre University, Da-
kota, have rendered the p~rofcssOrship of
ancient languages in that institution to
George G.. Hitchcock of Lincoln. Hitch
cock is IL graduate of tho State Univer-
sity.
Fred Harrison, the popular young at
torney, has just returnedfrom a ten days
business trip III the south.
Hon. j. II. Stukel, tho well known
Thayer county orator, was in the city
yesterday on his way to Omaha.
STATE ARRIVALS.
Rob Curray, Palmyra; j. N. Edward,
Seward; o Ii. Kilbourn, o. Hildcbrund,
Grand Island; j. p, Congcr, Syracuse; b..
S. Baker, %Fairbury: Lou CrouGr, Omaha.
j. S. Miller, Albion; w. II. Ferguson,
Aurora; j.. NJ. Davidson, York; e. z.
Chisman, York; John Dawson, Alma;
D. ID. johnson, Wymorc; Charles Ogden,
Omaha; Lieutenant Governor Shedd and
MiiN. Ashland.