Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-10
City News and Notes.

Tho jury in the celebrated Fedawa will
case brought in verdict at 10 o'clock last
night, sustaining the validity of the will.
The case will go to the supreme court.
The city library has 5,0T1 volumes and re-
ceives sixty three current publications. It is
on a solid financial footing and Is we'll pat.
ronized by the people.
Captain General Coronado, who is ex-
pected to visit his friend, King Tartarax, in
in this city, on July 4, sent a commission yes
terday to Sir Richard Berlin, appointing him
to the high and mighty Office of duke of
Douglas and earl Of Omaha. and command
ing his presence, with his poems and his
squires, clad in armor and bearing long
spears, to assist the captain-gencral on that
occasion in properly paying his respects to
the great king.
Material for one mile Of track of the
Bethany street railway was ordered yester-
day.
Mrs DR.. O. F. Lambertson died this even
ing at Z 80 in childbirth. DIR. Lambertson
is brother Of the Hon. G. M. Lambertson
of this city.
The putting of children in jail with their
dissolute parents is becoming too common in
this city. Sadie Harper and her little ten
year-old girl were thirty-sx hours in the
city Jail. Mary Brennan and her three
year-old child occupied the county Jail for
sixty days, when the father of the child was
anxious TO care Tor IL on Une OuJSlue. ana
now the three little children of Bob Woods,
the colored man who was murdered some six
weeks ago, have been put in the cell with
their mother, who is held for completely in
the murder. 1t is SAID to be only temporary,
but such temporary expedients are of doubt
full propriety.
1t is now proposed to put an electric rail
way in operation from West Lincoln to tho
penitentiary. The old rapid transit track
and cars will be used. The projectors
nr0mica that the line will ha in aurcaSsful
operation before winter.
There will be meeting at the Congrega-
tional church Monday evening, June 10, to
make arrangements for beginning the study
OF the Messiah" and other great musical
productions. The "Messiah" will be pro-
duced during Christmas week. Mrs. p V.
M. Raymond will continue at the head of the
work.
June Q, promises to be something worth going
miles to see. The association was just 0rga-
nized few weeks ago, but it now numbers
1892 members. There will be game Of ball
between picked nine OF the old settlers and
a picked nine of the late comers to the
county. The nine from the old settlers will
consist of the following well known sports:
e. Hallett, Major Hastings. III. Vanderpool,
l.. b. freeman, w, A. Daggett, j. w. Cas-
tor, Robert Mitchell, Billy Mclaughlin and
j. " Wolfe, who will captain the team.
West Lincoln expects an oat meal mill In
the near future.
Twenty-one building permits were issued
last week. aggregating S25 800 The total
permits so far in 1889 aggregate S57S, ,S45
Labor Commissioner Jenkins has addressed
circular to the various county clerks ask
ing for the names of persons engaged in rails
ing or the manufacture of sorghem. Farmers
and others who see this notice can aid the
commissioner in collecting these statistics by
seuding in the names of such persons as they
may know of engaged in this work.
The Pleasant Hour club will give picnic
,atr puIu ,orlrn hn inc nj
The train will leave tho Burlington depot at
p. m. and dancing will begin mt $3.50. The
moonlight nights will make this most
pleasant affair.
Bishop Skinner and his Red Ribbon club
held an interesting service at O'CLOCK, this
afternoon, in their now temple at Twelfth
and Il. The exercises were enliyeneh by the
presence OF number OF colored musicians,
who sang the old plantation semireligious
melodies with enthusiastic vigor. The at
tendance was large.
Street cars will make the Missouri Pacific
and Elkhorn depots after this
The Musee was opened, this afternoon and
evening" the proceeds to go to the Johns
town sufferers. The attendance was largo
and q handsome sum realized.
The wife OF James Daily, of the Burling-
ton, is very low with neuralgia OF the womb.
So low, in fact, that her life IS despaired of.
Hon. w. A. Dilworth and Hon. Charles
Tanner, of Hastings, are in the city to-day
and will remain until tomorrow noon. Tan
ner gave it out cold that he had heard that IL
was impossible to get any booze in this city
on the sabbath day under the new regime,
and as this feature, If true. was 80 novel in
character as to cause general comment
throughout the west, he and Dilworth had
been sent down as committee to investigate
aud report.
Ralph Il. johnson, one Of the recent high
school graduates. will leave Tuesday for
Spencer. Indiana, where he will revisit the
scenes OF his carly youth
The wife of Colonel w. l.. Hunter, of the
Sunday Morning Globe, presented him to- day
with winner in the shape of twenty-five
pound boy. Syrup goes.