Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-16
THE DAILY BEE.
COUNCIL BLUFFS.
OFFICE, NO. 12 PEARL STREET
Delivered by Carrier in Any Part Of the City at
Twenty Cents Per Week.
II. W. TILTON ...!.... ......M MANAGER.
TELEPHONES:
BUSINESS OFFICE, No. 43.
NIGHT ENRON. No. ~.
MINOR MENTION.
Plumbing company.

N. Y. running company.
A. j. Mandel is breaking ground for
O new residence on Graham avenue.
The George Marshall property at the
corner of Ninth street and Fourth ave-
nue. has peer purchased by j. M. Pal
mer for 81, 1000.
Yesterdays incoming trains o. the
Union Pacific, Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy and Chicago, Rock Island g. Pa
cifc were respectively three, five and
seven hours late.
Bricklaying on the foundation OF the
Merriam block was commenced yester-
day morning, and the work will be
pushed rapidly from this time forward.
1t will require about two weeks to com
plete the foundation.
The marshal's attention was yesterday
called to an open well in the vicinity Of
the vinegar factory that was in a dan
gerous condition. The hole is about
seven feet in diameter, and n stranger
narrowly missed driving into it the
other evening. 1t vas covered up by
Deputy Marshal White.
f. J. Breezee, taxadermist, has just
completed a fine case OF birds for DR..
H. S. West. The case contains 100
specimens, which are mostly the VIC
Tins of the doctors deadly shotgun.
III COllttIlOn 10 Ndlutu az Nv i
be placed on exhibition to-day in the
window of the Council Bluffs Carpet
company.
r Mrs. Felix Fl. Crocker has filed a pc
tition for divorce in the district court.
The petition ~recites that the plaintiff
and defendant were married IN Council
Bluffs in 1867, and resided there until
March %, 1883, when the plaintiff left
the defendant on account of his having
become an habitual drunkard. She
prays for alimony, divorce and the Gus
tody of their five children.
Ed r. Fitzgibbon, a Council Bluffs
boy, has taken the place vacated some
time ago by Harry jackson as newsboy
on the dummy and at the transfer. Ed
will make a good one. He has served
his term on the streets and is a rustllng
~rustler. Harry will continue in his
present position in the passenger de-
partment of the Union Pacific.
At an adjourned meeting of the school
board Tuesday evening the bids for the
grading of the Hill school grounds were
opened, but no contract was let. The
matter will come up for further discus
sion at the regular meeting next Mon
day evening, at which time the %janitors
of the several school buildings for the
ensuing year will be appointed, and
other important business transacted.
Alderman Lacy is now confined to his
bed by the strict orders of his physician.
He had another severe hemorrhage
Tuesday. He is in the best of spirits
and ''feels like a fighting cock" but is
obliged to remain quietly in bed to pre-
vent him from yielding to his impulse
to get out and rustic. If he can be
kept perfectly quiet for a couple OF
weeks he will then be able to resume
his accustomed duties without any Sc.
rious inconvenience.
A jolly party assembled at Keller's
furniture store and proceeded to the
residence of Thomas Gavin, on PARK
avenue where the estlmable wife Of
prised in the most approved mrnner, on
the occasion of her birthday. The
evening was passed in a highly enjoy
able manner, with conversation, socia
amusements and refreshments. The en-
tertainment was of the most royal kind
and the numerous guests thoroughly en-
joyed the occasion.
The creditors of Charles I'D. Harmon
held a meeting yesterday to see wha'
action should be taken in regard to set
thing up the matter. 1t was fully de-
cided that the hotel at Lake Manawt
should be kept running, and another
meeting was ordered for this morning
when the appointment of Harmon's sue
cessOr will be made. Several partie.
are DESTROYS of running the hotel until
the expiration of the lease, and there
will be no difficulty in arranging for it,
continuance.