Omaha daily bee., 1891-02-20
COUNCIL BLUFFS.
UINOK MENTION.
OFFICE, NO. l2 PEARL ST.


N T.. Co.
Council Bluffs Lumber Co. coal.
Crafts chatte loans. 204Sapp block.
Genuine Rock Spring coal. Thatcher, 10
Main street.
Regular meeting, Lodge of Perfection. will
be held this evening a. D. Brown, I. T..
G. Nj.
The funeral OF Lulu May Fonda will take
place at O'Clock at the residence, 1906 Ninth
avenue.
Jerry Emerson and Lottie Anderson were
married last evening by Justice Patton. The
groom was colored and the bride white.
Harry L., the n-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. j. Swany, died of diphtheria yester-
day noon at the family residence. The
funeral will take place this afternoon at 2
o'clock.
W. II. Beck was brought before Justice
Patton yesterday to answer to the charge OF
pulling revolver on farmer living south OF
the city. The farmer failed to make a case
and Beck was discharged
Mr. c. e. Stone has received word from
his daughter, Mrs Melgs Of Portland, Ore,
that her husband is suffering from partial
paralysis of the optic nerves which is likely
to result in the loss of both eyes.
ID G., Bosen thinks he has had his full
share Of Illness in his family lately His two
- boys, one after the other, were taken down
by diphthera short time ago, and now as
they are recovering his wife shows signs of
being attacked by the same disease.
Sheriff O'Nel left yesterday morning for
Clarinda to take in charge eight incurables
VINO are now confined in the insane aSyu
there, but are to be brought TO this city for
keeping in St. Bernards hospital. He is ex.
pected TO return this evening with the
patients.
The Daughters Of Veterans met Wednes-
day evening and adopted the regulation uni
form of the order as their own. The uniform
SiStS of n hun flannel d,.peQ with gold
EN- broidery. Each mem ber will wear a rib
bon designating the branch of the service to
which her father belonged blue for nfantry,
yellow for cavalry and red for artillery.
The newly elected officers of Bluffs divis-
Ion, No 21, uniform rank Knights of Pythias,
were installed Wednesday evening by Sir
Knight Adjutant f.. j. Abbott, as follows /:
Captain, j. M. Seaman; first lieutenant, G.
A. Iiboits; second lieutenant, o. Younker-
man; recorder, l. w. Retzenhoff; treasurer,
Louis Kost, X. g., j. Scheferli; L. G., j. T..
Smith.
The trial of Hall Frampton on the charge
OF disposin0 OF mortgaged property was to
have come off yesterday in Justice Hamer s
court but continuance was asked for by the
defendant in order that he might get his teS-
timony together The continuance was
granted until tomorrow. F'rampton, it is al
legged, sold the goods nearly year ago and
has been keeping as far from the city as pos
sible ever since A day or two ago he re-
turned, and was at once nabbed.
County Clerk Campbell, Recorder Hend-
ricks and Attorney Organ were in Avoca
yesterday, where they were subpnnaed as
witnesses in a case brought by Fremont Ben
1amin to get n man out of Jail on a legal tech-
nicality, after he had been convicted of sell
ing liquor con trary to the statutes and had
heen sentenced to a term in the county jail
Benjamin's claim is that the grand jury
which returned the indictment upon which
his client was convicted had been irreguiarly
drawn. If Benjamin succeeded in getting
his man out of Jail on this plea it is stated
that the whole work of the term could be
overthrown in the same way.