Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-17
FOR THIS WEEK
All One-Half Price.
Mrs. ]. BENSON

Furniture and Supplies-Bell, Reeves and
Marshall.
Sanitary Affairs and Janitors-Shaberg,
Marshall and W~allingford.
High S~chool-Chapin, Cox and Elliott.
Repairs-Marshall, Wallingford and Sha-
berg.
Rules, Regulations and Resolutions
Reeves, Bell and Chaplin.
The pay roll for the month ending
the 18TH was allowed, the salaries of the
teachers for the month amounting to S4,O26.
An allowance was made the contractor on
the foundation for the Elliott school building
of 81. 164.75. This is about one-half the con-
tract price of the foundation work.
BUILDING NOTES.
Webster & Briscoe are having the plans
prepared for q three-story building, 40X75, on
Twelfth street, Immediately back Of the
opera house. TIL block will be made a con-
tinuous one to n street, by John Z%ehrung,
whose building will be the same height and
uniformity IN appearance, but will be S0x75,
with entrances on both Twelfth and N
streets. 1t will be a substantial improve
ment of one of the handsomest corners in the
city.
A. L. Hoover & Son, the proprietors of the
Lindell hotel, will commence at once the en-
largement of their house to accommodate
doubly at least the number of guests that it
has been able to accommodate heretofore. The
improvement will consist of an addition,
45X56 in sile, three stories In height, built to
conform with the present house in appear
ance. Store rooms will be put on the grand
floor on Thirteenth street, and the remainder
of the building will be used for hotel pur-
poses.
The FIRST Baptist church, that has been in
course OF. construction for the past year, will
be completed ready for occupancy the present
month. The workmen are now engaged in
placing the windows in position and they are
the handsomest that have yet graced a
church in Lincoln. The seats are all received
from the factory and will be placed at once
III position, witt the carpets and other
furnishings necessary. The time Tor dedlca-
ton has not been fixed.
The new Congregational church at A and
Seventeenth street is now in the hands of the
carpenters and the frame work is rapidly
going in place. 1t will be a handsome edifice
and a pride to South Lincoln that is rapidly
advancing as the handsomest residence por-
tion of tho city.
John Fitzgerald has the ground cleared on
corner of Tenth and nj street for n factory
block that will be 130x145 and one of the
most substantial blocks in the city. The To-
cation is IN the heart of the heavy business
section of Lincoln, and the purpose of the
builder is to have the four rooms of double
size especially for occupancy by wholesalers.
The block will be crowded to completion the
present month.
The foundation is rapidly nearing compile
ton for the new Christian church building
on the corner of the capitol grounds on X
and Fourteenth streets. This building will
COST not less imam S4U,UUD ana archlJecturally
will be imposing as well as handsome.
The Catholic people have the walls all
under way for an addition TO their church
building that will cost at least $50 900. This
is but a temporary arrangement to
date the largely increased number Of COM
municants in that church, and Is only a fore
runner of a magnificent cathedral that will
be one of the buildings OF the city in a very
short space OF time.
CITY BRIEFS.
rhe work of laying cecar blocks in the
Second district commenced to-day ON a street
between Ninth and Tenth streets. There
are only four or live blocks now graded and
with the concrete laid owing to the heavy
rains that have totally prohibited work for
the past two weeks. The work of laying the
sewerage is being pushed, however, by zoe
men and a large force of graders will nave
the streets ready for the PAYERS in rapid
order hereafter.
In police court to-day Frank West, for as
sault and battery, was fined g anu costs.
He did not approve Of the sentence n
stayed proceedings for niuety DAYS by
advancing the proper securities. H.. ".
Sheridan, y~ardmaster at the b. & Nj, and
two switchnen named Webster and Doeland
were arrested by two Of the police for fight
ing. The time of the hearing has not yet
been fixed, Two or three plain cases of in
toxieation completed the docket Of cases for
the morning.
A, T.. Sullivan, manager Of the Importing
Draft Horse cSmrany's business 10 this ci.y,
has gone - Clio - attend q genera. meeting
$500