Omaha daily bee., 1891-04-07
SWITCHMEN ABOUT TO STRIKE
Uneasiness Among Those in the Employ Of
the Burlington at Lincoln.
DISCHARGE OF UNION MEN THE CAUSE.
Doings in tho District and County
Courts Polling Places for To-
days Election - other
Capital City News


at tho Burlington, along with others ut
Omaha and other points, would go out on q
strike at 10 O'clock today They did not do
So however, but It'll said they will later If
their demands are not acceded TO- Mr..
Sweeney, grand master of tho switchnons
union, has been in the city Tor several days.
He claims that the Burlington has discharged
number of men because they we're mem bors
of the union, and asks that they be rein
stated
Superintendent Blgnell in formed an nlnuuir-
ing reporter that officially he knew of no
contemplated strike, but understood that tho
statement had been made thaU the Burlington
in reducing its force recently because of
falling off in business had discharged men
because they were affiliated with the union.
He stated that this was untrue. The com
pany In reducing its force let out men with
out inQuiring whether or not they belonged
to the union
Other officials talked who knew Of no de-
mand having been made upon the road, but
no uneasiness was expressed by any Of them.
They were waiting for the emergencyto rise,
when 1t would be promptly met Some thirty
or forty men are now employed here
DISTRICT COURT DoINGS.
Judge Tibbets and n jury are engaged in
hearing small damage case today. It is ono
in which Hcrschel N. Sage asks 5000 damages
from Urania Young. The parties reside in
Lancaster precinct and the plaintiff claims
that Mrs. Young put up u barb wire fence
dangerously neara highway, and that on
March IL, 1889, he was driving along Q her
grounds when his horse SHE'D and ran into
the barb wire fence, inflictng damages in
the amount claimed The defense is that the
fence was not dangerously near the road, and
that the horse was not worth what plaintiff
asks.
Judge Hall heard arguments in the
case of Bonacum VS. Egan, some
the bishop of this Cathollc diocese, and
the defendant the present United States
minister to Chilli. The action was to recover
a subscription of 500 to the building fund of
the Lincoln pro-cGth edral. The defense was
that the bishop had refused to allow Mr.
Egan the privileges of a worshipper in the
church and denied him admission to the
building. 1t was taken under advisement
Judge Field was hearing the motion
docket, and among other things refused TO
sustain the demurrer OF defendant in the case
of Fannie S. Hubble VS. George w. Hubble.
This Is an action where plaintiff seeks to
reopen a decree of divorce on the ground that
after she had made answer in one suit he
began another. giving notherChristian name
than her own as defendant. George objected
there wasn't sufficient cause,
COUNTY COURT cULLINGs.
No court tomorrow. Call of the docket
Wednesday morning.
Judge Stewart was engaged today in bear
ing the cases against Eugene Vaughn, Clyde
Newell and Charles Nelson, charged with
burgariZing Burr & Beeson's safe recently
of $40. 80. The state is eudeavoring to send
the trio to the reform school, but they all OBJ
ject.
Alexis Halter brings suit against Christie
pher Tiernan for 81 200 damages for failure
to repair the Depot hotel property of which
Halter is lessee, and by which means the
hotel lost custom and its furniture and fix
lures were damaged by the water which came
through the rotten roof
George l.. Williams says that he sent a box
of goods valued at $500 over the Burlington
railroad from Chester, Neb., to Glen Falls,
N Y, but that the same has never arrived.
He also says that the worry OF mind and in
convenience he has been put to are reason
ably worth $3.50 additional, for which he asks
Judgment.
WHERE TO VOTE
The following are the polling PLACES tomor-
row in the various wards:
First ward-Precinct1 or A. engine house
No Precinct or B, Hutchins building,
Tenth street, between II and streets. Pre-
ciuct 3 or G, house of John Kramp opposite
Godfrey's lumber yard.
Second ward-Precinct ! or A, Bohanan
block, No. 935 street. Precinct or Is,
basement room, county court house, east en-
trance. Precinct orc, barber shop, No.
729 South Eleventh street
Third Ward-Precinct l or A, Skinner'S
barn, corner Twelfth and Q streets. Pre-
cinct Q or B, Gaddis' shop, corner Thirteenth
and r streets. Precinct or G, Call Broth
ers' shop, 1920 o street. Precinct 4 or ID,
Ba;lies' block, POLO o street. Precinct or
T., Cox building, 1926 U street.
Fourth Ward-Precinct l or A, Rawlins'
barn, l3l South Thirteenth street. Precinct
2 R, 3l6 South Eleventh. Precinct 3 or G,
Rawlins' barn, 52l South Thirteenth street.
Precincts or ID, store 2ll5 street. Pre-
cinct or r., southwest corner OF Twentieth
and ] streets, grocery store
Fifth Ward-Precinct l or A, e street
engine house. Precincts 9 or b, Bing's car
Denter shop on Seventeenth, between a and
Washington. PRECINCT or Z, barn OF Lin
coin street railroad, Fourteenth and South
streets Precinct or d, churcn, northeast
corner OF Ninth and Wood streets. Precinct
5 or h, 30S ID street.
Sixth Ward-Precinct or A. Hughes
building, o street Precinct or b. corner
cinct or c., Kitchen & Gillin's store, corner
Twenty-seventh and Randolph streets.
Seventh Ward-Precinct or A, Twenty
second and Washington streets. Precinct 2
or b, electric power house. Precinct 3 or Q
corner Twenty seventh and Holdredge streets
at Byrum's store.
NUMBER oP VOTERS.
The total number Of voters in the city of
Lincoln according to the latest registration
is as follows: First ward, 9M; Second ward,
S46; Third ward, precinct A, l,0lS; Third
ward precinct b, 504; Fourth ward, pre-
cinct A, 500; Fourth ward, precinct b, 606 (;
Fifth ward, precinct A, 3l6; Fifth ward,
precinct B, 234; Sixth ward, S37; Seventh
ward, 7llj total 6,S32
ODDS AND ENDS.
The circulation Office of THE BEE has been
moved from Eleventh near l. street TO room
8, 1912 o street, where all matters pertaining z
to subscriptions will be looked after.
Grace Percira asks for a divorce from her
husband Charles W., on the grounds of
cruelty.
Mrs. LOTUS, room s, Bell block, Fifteen tn
and o streets, gave a drayman her trunk 10
take from the Hotel Lincoln TO her room but
hasn't seen the trunk or drayman.
S C. Oaks hardware store at Seward was
robbed last night OF sl60 worth OF knives,
guns, razOr5, etc,
The case of A, l.. Archer VS. Jacob Wagner
was filed in the supreme court on alleged
error Ill the district court OF Platte county.
The case involves the payment of note for
SSH In the lower court Wagner won III the
suit brought against him by Archer.
The S, X. Martin lumber corn many Sacurad