Omaha daily bee., 1885-02-04
MINOR MENTION,

Inc lux
Revival services continue at the Meth
odist church.
Tickets for Burdette's lecture Friday
night are selling well.
The Danebo band expect to soon get {
full set of fine, imported Instruments.
The weather yesterday didn't look a
If 1t was such a grounding case after all
Leave your orders for job printing {
day or two ahead at Pryor's BEE job OF
fee.
The funeral of Jacob Hess took place
yesterday afternoon from the residence
on south Pierce street.
Zeb Townsend was yesterday arrested
for stealing a dog from Fred Young. HI
will have a hearing to-day.
Henry Negus, one of the employees o
Chicago & Rock Island yards Is reported
as missing, and missed by several credit
ors.
Indian creek yesterday afternoon, a
the street car bridge, had run over it
banku, and was nearly over at severa
other places.
Constable Wesley says that his cas-
against Supervisor A. Q. Graham is no
dropped, but comes up for a hearing to
day before Justice Frainey.
Joe Price, of lunch counter fame, !
said to have taken with him, when hi
skipped, Ella Crehill, better known al
"Big Ella" one of Lou Scott's damaged
damsels.
One of the reasons assigned for no
building sidewalks ordered by the coun
ell is that contractors have to look to thu
abutting property owners for their pa!
instead of from the city.
The mud on the crossings over which
the dirt wagons pass were ankle deel
yesterday. No wonder merchants com
plain of business, when 1t Is impossible
for a lady to come out and do shopping
During the absence of Lee Kohl, tn
yardmaster at the freight transfer, VIII
Is away on business, W. A. R. M. High
smith is taking charge of the switching
with ". F. Dodge as night yardmaster
The children who attend the ThirC
street school are compelled to wade Il
mud for three or four blocks, althoug'
the city council ordered sidewalks in tina
neighborhood cleaned several month
since.
Tonight and tomorrow night Shoe
& Golfers company appear at the oper
house In the great drama "Storr
Beaten" The entertainment promise
to be one of the best of the season, an
worthy of q crowded house.
The Council Bluffs Herald says "n
member of the Herald Printing Co. no,
has, or ever did have, any interest wha'
ever In any gambling house." The re
port doubtless arose from the fact that II
advertising solicitor, Eastman, who Is nc
q member of the company, but simpl
represents them among business circles
has a little poker room of his own.
Fred Ticknor, who Is n of Counc
Bluffs most enterprislng young men, ht
lust started q tank at Scribner, Neb
and is making up cholera hogs into grea'
for lubricating and other mechanical pu
pofes. He has fitted up apparatus b
which he turns out five barrels a da,
and finds a ready market for every poup'
The venture promises to be a lucrati'
one.
Hardness Bros. are entitled to a lor
credit mark for pluck and sense. III
effort to get the retail stores to close at
o'clock every evening except on Satu
days having not proved successful, tn
firm starts out on its W account al
that their store will be clos,
s stated. The firm is entitled to Il
thanks of every weary clerk, and 1t
believed that Hardness Bros trade W
not fall off any On account of the mani
business-like stand taken.
Every reader of the BEE should peru
carefully the advertisement head
"Murder Most Foul" to be found In a
other column. DR.. Jetferls has lived he
for many years, and his name has been
long associated with the treatment
d~iphtheria and dyspepsia that any one
doubtful mind can easily ascertain la
and details by corresponding with any
his many patients here. The doctor
fers big money for any case of dypthe
he cannot cure, and offers a large list
references of well known citizens.
PERSONALS.