Omaha daily bee., 1893-09-08
BEE
MINOR MENrIoS.

Boston Store bankrupt sale.
The May ne Real Estate Co., 62l Broadway
The county board yesterday visited and
inspected ST. Bernard's hospital, where the
Insane of the county are cared for.
Permit to wed was yesterday granted w.
II. Satterlee and Eliza beth Rankin; also TO
Frlnk Benton and Lille Nelson, all from
Omaha. b.
The ladies of Broadway Methodist Episco-
pal church are making arrangements for a
fair TO be held November 10. Please notice
the date.
ID. l.. Wilson, whose pugnacity caused him
TO strike an inofensive bystander with n
beer glass in a saloon on Main street, was
fined yesterday $50 and costs.
Judge Shiras will be in attendance Mt the
September term of the federal court which
will sit on the Goth, and will assist Judge
Woolson In trying the large cases noted for
trial.
Special communication of Bluff City lodge
No. II, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons,
Friday evening, September s, for work In
the third degree. All Master Masons re-
guestcd to be present. By order of worship
full master.
Two of the boys complained of for gather
ing grapes from Green's vineyard, Art Nc
Iaren and Charles Wilkins, were yesterday
fined 81 each. Clyde Mccullough, another
lad supposed to have an undue longing for
grapes, was discharged.
st. Johns English Lutheran church will
meet for service hereafter in the Young
Mems Christian association rooms, the store
building in the Merriam block, which they
have been occupying temporarily, being
rented for other purposes.
The wide range of prices of the various
kinds of coal advertised for by the city and
offered by the various local coal dealers will
be considered at a special meeting of the
council next Tuesday evening. In some of
the bids there was q difference of nearly So
In the prices asked for toe kind OF coal.
Mrs. Judge Aylesworth and sons, Egbett
and Windsor, left last evening for the
Worlds fair. Miss Ellen Aylesworth &C.
companied them to Chicago. but Instead of
returning with them will proceed to
Toronto, Can, where she will enter upon an
extended educational course, expecting to be
absent at least q year.
doc" Wright, senior proprietor of tn G
Ogden, who has been suffering from n dan
gerous attack OF typhoid FEVER, is still in Il
precarious condition. For the last two days
his friends have had little encouragement to
hope for his recovery. Last evening his
physician discovered a slight change for the
better and now thinks he has a chance for
his life.
The street cleaning gangs under the
charge of police officers are doing splendid
work. This recalls the suggestion that
Officer Watt has so frequently made to the
council that the purchase of a couple of
street sweepers and an extra team Of horses
would enable him to do at practically no
expense whatever the work that costs other
cities thousands of dollars annually.
Eugene Mottez, driver for Wheeler Il Her
aid, was severely injured on Harmony street
Wednesday afternoon by the upsetting of his
wagon when backing up to the parking to
make q delivery Of goods. The wagon fell
ON him and he narrowly escaped being
killed. Only two or three energetic women
saw the accident and they rushed to his as
~Eistance and helped him out.
A letter was received last evening from
the eastern buyer for Bennison Bros, ad-
vising them of an enormous purchase which
he had made. Over $4,000 worth of fine
merchandise had been bought at forced sale
at so cents on the dollar. These goods were
bought September l and shipped to the firm
In Council Bluffs September 9. They are
now on the way and will be here in n few
days. Look out for the greatest sale on
record y was the sententious remark of Mr..
Frank Bennison last evening.
An old man named Mcdonald, who is now
a charge upon the county, has been rendered
completely helpless by q stroke of paralysis.
The old man has lived here for years, and
has been very active in supporting himself
until OF late. He is a veteran of the Next
his leg, the result of the wound
being a running sore which has
never healed fully. He does
not receive any pension, however, and the
reason for this is peculiar. The old man has
always been very sensitive about growing
old, and has always represented himself us
younger than he really is. His daughter
says he is SO years old, but he insists that he
Is only "a. In making an application for a
pension his desire for n youthful reputation
clung to him so tennciously that he gave his
age as about fifteen years less than it really
was, and this discrepancy showing up on
comparison with the muster roll at Wash
ington has caused his application to stay in
the pigeon hole. He has all the other
proof necessary to establish his right to II
pension. but the discrepancy in ages makes
the officials suspicious. His freak of pride
Is keeping him now from receiving the need
full to make him independent.
Hunting and Fishing at Manawa,