Omaha daily bee., 1885-08-01
MINOR MENTION.

Last evening a lawn party was held a
the residence of j. W. Squire for tn,
children.
Police court was very dreary yester
day, there being only one plain drunk K
dispose Of.
The Social union Of the Presbyterian
church met last night with Miss Agne,
Blanchard at her home on Oakland
avenue.
DR.. Macrss has leased the old BEE of.
fees, nearly opposite the BEES new
quarters on Pearl street, and will occupy
them at once,
Harry Brown and Ed. Mcdonald, who
were arrested for stesling from the trunk
one of Louie & Metzgsr's restaurant
were yesterday sentenced to ten days In
jail.
Yesterday the largest sign In the city
was pnt up on top of the store of Else.
man, Rodda & Co. 1t is forty-ive feet
long and five feet high, except In the CEN
ter which Is nine feet high.
The need of new hose for the fire de-
partment has been investigated by the
council committee, and at the next meet
Ing of the council action will probably be
taken for securing 1900 feet more.
There was a partial hearing yesterday
of the case of Loercke, charged with as.
s%anltlng Kelley, but owing to the doctor
who treated Kelley's wounds being alb
sent from the city the matter could not
be concluded.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Maurath entertained
a number of their friends Thursday even.
Ing. Mr.. Maurath, who has been with
u. I. Lindsey & Company for a long time,
now goes to Denver to enter upon a POSI-
ton with q shoe house there.
Hon. john W. Custer, of Michigan, a
cousin of the late Gen. Custer, is to give
a lecture on temperance In the Baptist
church tomorrow evening. He has the
reputation of being one of the foremost
of temperance orators, and all are cor
daily invited to hear him.
DIR. R. Rice was yesterday moving his
office two doors south OF his old place on
Pearl street. 1t being the building re-
Gently used as railway ofiices..for the pool
lines. The doctor will have larger and ]
more convenient quarters than before, and |
fully as centrally located, making In fact !
as fine quarters as any physician could .
wish for. =
George r. Beard, the wal paper man, c
Is to move his stock from Shugart &
Beno's block into the store No. SOP 4
Broadway, next to Officer & Pusey's 8
bank. John Beno is to move into the 1
store thus vacated by Beard, and Is to D
occupy the adj acent store recently g
occupied by J.. R. Davidson. BY throw. a
Ing these stores Into one, one of the larg- O
ett and best salesrooms In the city will
be made.
An interesting suit has been conn.,
by some of the heirs of the estate
of James w. Ward. 1t seems that Mrs. Il
Ward was first the wife of David Ward, =
and after his death married James Ward,
who had eight children. In her will she
left the property to these children, and
to the children of her first husband, i,
who now com In with q claim on the
property, and claim that the will as
originally drawn upincluded their names,
but that these names were In some ille-
gal way scratched out of the will, IN
Mrs. Ellen Elizabeth Wheeler died
yesterday afternoon at her residence ~
corner of Damon and Clinton streets. :
'he was aged about fifty years, and =,
caves one son and one daughter. The :,
ON, Ed Tyzic, is In the employ of Robert =
hulliS, and the daughter, aged about n
welve years, will now take up her reel. =.
with Dr.. Montgomery's family, y,
he doctor being her guardian. The old =.
Ady has suffered for a long time with a -,
ANGER, and was blind. The funeral Is to
place tomorrow morning at 9 on
clock. co
Oliver Haigh, who has been out con. OF !
lnoing the people of the superiority of q,
'eregoy a Moore's goods, came In %yester- ot
Ay. He says that the wind was so near arl
Ike that OF a cyclone at Red Oak, Thurs "a
ay night, that the chimneys were We
nocked off Of the hotel, and he was so to
ably shaken up that he left his board do
lodging and skipped for the street, oa.
lthout~ thinking of his samples or his bs'
lirt. AS he struck the sidewalk the ap. will
'arance of a lot of young ladies' hurry ira
g home from a party, recalled him to ]
5 senses, and to his room. On his next w.
Up he will take out q regular cyclone mo
NJ for night wear. ten
John Jay has not rec siyed that c,m- p Ho
lsEiou yet, but still lives 10 hope. hi. ms,
ends say that SONS of the men who pre-
re reported in the papers as having had
Indignantly denied that they would TO-
on his bonds, have nevertheless signed wb,
q str 1npaht sort of N Iatta. - ouo