Omaha daily bee., 1885-04-18
MINOR

Special sale of ladies linen collars aud
cuffs, at Cooke & Morgan's to-day.
Marsh mallows and bananas seem a
choice diet of telephone operators.
w. j. Soanlon, the Irish minstrel, ap-
pears at the opera house next Monday
evening.
Bliss Is selling trimmed hats at $3.50
and 81. 90. Other houses charge $500
and So. 80.
The Glen avenue progressive euchre
club met last evening at the residence OF
j. T. Oliver.
Go to Bliss to-day and get your mil
linery and notions, the best and cheapest
house in the west.
The brlcklsyers' union meets to-mor.
row evening at 1880 o'clock In their hall
over the postofice.
Simon Elseman's residence Is having
its interior greatly improved by decora-
lions and pnpsrings.
Madison, Parker and McCabe, of the
letter carriers, will turn out this morn
ing In new uniforms.
See the "Pon Pom" ladies' collars for
% at Cooke g. Inorganic.
The trial of Sohn Scott, arrested as a
small confidence man, Is to come off in
he superior court this morning.
The managers OF the driving park are
waiting to see what are to be done about
the %prohibitory law before arranging for a
May running meeting.
The new Odd Fellows hall In the
opera houre block is being fitted up very
nicely. The carpenters work will be
done In a day or two.
Some of the young bloods of the city
are organizing a fencing and sparring
club. They will be spar-ing of barbed
wire fencing, no doubt.
Justice Hendricks is improving the In
terror of his Office by new mating, pot.
ted plants, and other adornment, the
change being greatly for the better.
Hon. George r. Peck, who as a rail-
way attorney Is known far and near, was
In the city yesterday in company with
P. T. Bonebrake and G. O. Hoadley, also
of Topeka.
G. r. Allen, the map publisher, Is
busy distributing his new ALIASES of
Pottawattamie county, and the subscrib-
ers seemed much pleased, the volume
exceeding their expectations even.
One of the saddest cases of insanity
which has come before the board of com.
mlssioners, was sent to the asylum yes
terdsy, a girl of seventeen, Miss Kittie
Addison, of Oakland. Her condition
WIS deplorable indeed.
The county attorney had his hands
full yesterday listening to the statements
of claimants In the smallpox cases. The
bills were numerous and heavy and the
work could not be completed at one
sitting.
John Stewart was yesterday arrested
on complaint of Mr.. Wooliver, who
claims that he has been stealing dirt
from A. w. Streets bank to the amount
of 1876. Mr.. Stewart claims that he had
permission to haul dirt from there. The
case will be heard before Justice Schurz
to-day noon.
It'll learned that the man Scott, ar
rested here for attempting to play a little
confidence game, is the same fellow who
got away with $l2 from one of the DEM
ocratic visitors to the city at the time OF
the big rally last fall, and that he has
just got out of the Omaha Jail, where he
served a short term tor some petty of,
Tense.
The police wers summoned by tele.
phone about 1 O'Clock yesterday morning
to arrest a man named 4. Snow, who, II
was claimed, was moving his household
goods out of the house, leaving the land
lord, Mr.. Strohhen, In the lurch for 81
unpaid rent. Snow was brought up to
police headquarters, but the officers con.
Guided they had no authority for holding
him, and so let him go.
A man claiming to be from st. Joseph,
a mason by trade, had g foot badly
crushed under the cars yesterday. II
seems that he was trying to steal a ride
by clinglng to the trucks under the car,
and In this way met with the accident.
Three OF his toes will need to be ampu.
tated. He went over to Omaha yestsr-
day, hoping to get into the hospital there
for treatment.
A matronly looking woman wearing
goggles, furnished music on the streets
yesterday, and sought to earn a living for
herself, and a grown up daughter, and a
little girl who collected the pennies,
while the mother ground away at the
hand -organ, and the young lady stood
listlsssly looking on, A placard on the
organ informed the public that there
were four more children at home. The