Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-18
MINOR MENTION.
N. Y. Plumbing Co.
New spring goods at Refers.

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New spring goods at Refers.
The city council meets this evening.
Meeting Of the board of education tonight.
The Chicago visitors who departed yester-
day, numbered forty-six.
All are invited 10 attend the evenings
study with the chautauqua circle tonight at
the Mueller Music hall.
Several of the Missouri Valley republicans
came TO the Bluffs yesterday TO embark for
Chicago with their brethren OF this city.
Encampment No. s, Union Veteran Legion,
meets this evening. Business of importance
will be considered and a full attendance of
members is desired.
A petition has been presented to the school
board asking that the new school building on
the Washington avenue grounds may be To-
Gated in the center of the grounds instead of
on one side as contemplated.
Colonel w. Il. Sapp has received a telegram
from his son announcing that Mrs. Sapp has
suffered a relapse and is again dangerously
low. The sad intelligence calls the colonel to
New York Immediately.
A hilarious female by the name of
Peterson, who was laboring under the in
spiration of q little prohibition fluid on
South Main street last evening, necessitated
the assistance of two policemen and the
patrol wagon to escort her to the cooler.
Every committeeman is expected to begin
to-day finishing the chautauqua subscription,
which should be closed this week. OF the
$4,000 needed from Council Bluffs there re-
main but a few thousand to be raised, and
this should be secured this week. 1t can be
If each committeeman goes to work promptly.
A petition is being circulated among the
grocery firms of the city in which they agree
to close their places of business at Z 30 o'clock
every evening from to-day until the 30th of
September. The majority of firms have
signed il, and it will go into effect this eve
ming. The same order might well apply to
the dry goods houses.
G. II. Converse, of Oakland, arrived in the
city Saturday evening from Tekamah, Neb,
in charge of Edwin Bird, who is accused of
the larceny Of S130 from c. s.. Robinson, a
farmer residing near Oakland, and ii is
stated that there are several other charges
to which he will have to answer. He was
placed in care of Sheriff O'Neil to await an
investigation.
Yesterday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, occurred
the funeral services over the body of Mrs.
Henry Miller at the family residence on Vine
street. These were conducted by the Rev.
Il. j. Mackey. Many friends gathered TO pay
their last respects to the memory of the de-
parted. Harmony chapter, Western Star
Lodge, No 20, attended in a body, and at the
cemetery the closing ceremonies were con-
Quoted by this order.
The new walks in 3ayliss park are COM
pleted and work is at a standstill until the
money for the fountain can be raised. The
appearance OF the park Is much improved by
the changes that have been made, and the
proposed fountain is all that is needed to
make it complete in every respect. The grass
is looking finely and the throngs Of people
who frequent the beautiful spot daily show
that it is appreciated. The fountain should
be forthcoming by all means.
Yesterdays ball game at the Manawa
Athletic park resulted in a victory for the
Maynes, of Omaha, by a score of . to 2. The
game was called at the end of the sixth in
ming on account of the rain. The visitors
played a brilliant game, while the home team
displayed the need of more practice. Benn
pitched a fair game, but the visitors dropped
on to him for several safe hits. There is
plenty OF material in the club for a good
nine, but it needs developing.
} Since the order of the court has gone into
effect, enforcing the closing of the saloons,
there has been a marked decrease in the
number OF DRINKS registered at the police
station, and the 'peelers'' are trying to make
good the deficiency by giving a little closer
attention to the vags and other suspicious
characters about the city. They raked in
nine of them yesterday in order to keep the
Monday morning quota up to the usual mum.
Der.
There was no work done on the Broadway
paving Friday and Saturday, as the supply
of gravel was exhausted. Six more cars
were received yesterday and the work will
be resumed this morning. The gravel mer
promise that there shall be no more delay on
this score. The paving already done amounts
TO nearly twenty thousand yards, which
makes quite a showing, as IL is fully one-hftf
of the work to be done. 1t makes a very fine
drive along the property of the waterworks
company, and is a fair sample of what the
whole will be when completed.
Yesterday was the ~quietest Sunday the
city has known in some time. The absence
of the crowds of loafers who have infested
the sidewalks in front of the saloons was
very noticeable. These places were al
closed and the police were not compelled t
go through the alleys to try the back doors
as the screens were removed and no cur
tains were drawn to hide what was going OF
inside, so that passers-by on the Sidewalk
could see that no business was being done
The change was much appreciated, being
quite n relief from the condition of affairs OF
former occasions.
The indignation of citizens does not lesser
any, and the only query is whether the Mil
waukee & St. Paul railway company il
throttling the Manawa motor line and hote
for it's own sake, or doing the dirty work fol-
!. some one else. The majority seem to fee
that the Milwaukee & st. Paul is being use(
Nora rs a tool of local schemers who are de
termined Z. choke off this enterprise, so dea
10 Council Bluffs. 1t is also believed b,
many that the general managers OF this rail
WAY are misled and misinformed by loca
representatives, and that If they understoo,
he real situation in Council Bluffs, the motto
ne would be allowed 10 cross their track.
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