Omaha daily bee., 1885-01-15
MINOR MENTION,

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Office.
Concordls Lodge K. of p, will give a
ball,in Beno's hall, February 3.
Job printing In the latest style of the
art, at Pryor's BEE job office.
Public installation of the officers Of the
Odd Fellows lodges, in Beno's hall this
evening.
Leave your orders for job printing a
day or two ahead at Pryor's Bee job of
fee.
Leave to wed was yesterday granted
CLAUS Martens and Dora Hansen, both
of this county.
. Complaint Is now made of the heat
ing apparatus In the new Pierce street
school building.
"Only a Farmers Daughter" to BIO
given as o matinee this afternoon, and
will be given tonight also.
The present court house being con-
demped the county board has done with
the off go and the expense of a %janitor.
L. @. Taylor, who was lately taken to
Fort Madison for stealing a trunk from
Kiel's hotel, has been there twice before
for larceny.
Keeline & Felt had a telephone put In
to their store yesterday, Its number be-
ing 135. j. O. johnson has also had one
put into his residence, to be known as
1874.
Judge N. j. Bond, at the Y. M. G. A.
entertainment Tuesday night, gave an In
teresting account of his experiences Of
mountain and camp life In Colorado dur
Ing the war.
Sheriff Guitar left last night for Fort
Madison with two other prisoners,
James Doyle, pickpocket, sentenced to q
year and a half, and r. @. johnson,
confidence man, sentenced to two years.
One of Hagg's delivery wagons was
pull ed along lively on Main street yester-
day forenoon, by the team taking a run.
Beer bottles were given a lively scatter
ling about, and a collision had with a dirt
wagon.
A ten-year.old son of Herman Martin,
living six miles south of the city, died
Tuesday night Of diphtheria, having been
i'll only since the Saturday before. The
the funeral Is to be held tomorrow after
noon.
The colored man, Green Meyer, who
attended the smallpox case In Streets.
Vile claimed of the county board $75 for
his nine days services. The board al.
lowed him $27, and now he has COM
msnced suit before Jtstice Frainey for
1913 more.
"Gus," the tinted ~favorite at Harry
Wagners, has opened up a new branch of
misunderstanding in new shoes for "ten.
derfoots." Tommy Mahoney is the first
patron, and "Gus" says that if the bust
ness pays as we'll as 1t seems to now, he
will enlarge soon.
The iremen want a porto n of the Gem
etery set apart for the buria al of deceased
firemen, and have petitioned the county
board. 1t appears that the portion o
ground desired by them belongs to thu
city, and the county board has referred
the matter to the city council. .
Just before the meeting of the distric
court the prisoners In the county jail!gen
orally get pretty uneasy and anxious, AM
attempt a break. The only one made
this time WAS an attempt to get entranc
into a cell, which has been kept locke,
and unused which led the prisoner t
think that 1t must be 30 weak tina
If once inside of 1t they could worl
out from there. The attempt was fus,
trated.
The young man who forged j. r. Da
Wilson's name to a check and tried TO &c
lit Dashed at the Citizens bank, is still il
the penitentiary at Fort Madison. III
has grown very port'y, apparently drop
steal. His folks, 1t appears, now live i
California, and are well-to-do. TIL
father, who seems a very respectabl
man, writes him often, and expresses tn
opinion that the boy ought to serve tn
full term, 30 as to learn a lesson.
1t now appears that Thomas Morgan
who has been sent to Fort Madison fl
playing a confidence trick on young s,
iigman, of Maryyille,i No., Is an o.
bird. He has served two terms befol
for the same sort of q game, and c
roaching the prison this time wal recoG
nizsd Jas having been sent, under Il
name of Clinton, from Marshall count
1t was thought strange az the time of h
trial here, that he did not go on Il
stand to testify in his own behalf, but
now appears that he thought the sher
knew about hi, former convictions ar
this would be brought out against hir
30 he kept still. 1t seems that he W
frightened peedlessly as the sheriff kne
nothing of It until no took him to Fo
Madison.
An Omaha man named Marshall W
here yesterday and created quite a stir