Omaha daily bee., 1896-01-09

MINOR MENTION.

City Physician Trynor is laid up with an
attack Of tonsilitis, and DR.. Waterman is
attending to the city cases.
The Union Veteran Legion and Ladies'
Auxiliary No. Ia will meet this evening
for the Installation OF officers.
The Grand hotel, Council BLUFFS. High
class In every respect. Rates, $3.50 per day
and upward. e. F. Clark, proprietor.
The ladies Of the First Presbyterian church
will give a free social in the church parlors
on Thursday afternoon from 2 to 5 o'clock.
The revival services at the Broadway
Methodist church continue to increase in
interest. Good congregations are in attend
ance and many are beginning the Christian
lte.
Colonel John Fox celebrated his golden
wedding last evening at his cottage home,
corner of Washington avenue and Seventh
street. A large number Of friends were
present to assist in the happy event.
Justice Wen had two marriages to per-
form yesterday. Charles b. Dentrow and
Lomina Meginniss. and J. A. Shelton and
Maggie Price. All OF the young people we're
born and raised in Hazel Dell township.
II. L. Putnam, the new member Of the
Durfee Furniture company, moved his fam
lily yesterday from their old home In At
kinson, Neb., to the handsome residence
which he recently purchased at 800 Lincoln
avenue.
Justice Cook yesterday united in marriage
w. II. Lewis OF Trinidad, Colo, and Miss
Mabel C. Keay of Weston, Neb. Justice
Walker was also in the matrimonial busl-
ness and made man and wife of Herbert
Kaufman and May Hector, both Of Omaha.
The Union Veteran Legion and Ladies'
Auxiliary No. II, Union Veteran Legion, Will
hold public installation in the Woodmen Of
the World hall on Upper Boardway. Thurs
day evening, the 9th Inst. Soldiers and
soldiers friends and the public generally are
cordially invited to attend.
John G. Lee returned from Chicago yes
terday and although seriously i'll is engaged
in a hard effort to straighten up his inan-
cial affairs and clear up the indebtedness
against his liquor store. He was served with
another attachment yesterday by j. G. Bixby
TO secure a plumbing claim of $31.25.
A bill Of sale for $1,000. instead of a
chattel mortgage. was given by Baird &
Goodrich to John G. Woodward G. Co. 1t
was simply a sale OF the confectionery bust
ness instead Of a business failure. Baird &
Goodrich were not at all financially en-
barrassed, and were induced to sell the
business outright.
The township board of trustees held its
annual meeting at the court house yesterday.
1t met chiefly for the purpose Of APP
pointing a constable to fill the vacancy &C.
casioned by the resignation of ]. c. Baker.
There were several candidates, but the board
found the recommendations and qualifica-
lions of G.. NJ. Washburn most satisfactory
and appointed him. He will be attached to
Justice Vien's court.
The incoming fast mail on the Burling-
ton struck q farmers team near Island
Park, six miles from town, last evening,
smashed the wagon and killed one Of the
horses. The farmer was considerably bruised
but not seriously hurt. The train was
stopped and backed up and the crew was
ready to take the injured man to the city,
but his friends concluded to take him home.
His name could not be learned.
Relatives aera have received word that
Mrs. c.. NJ. Lund, who left with her husband
and children to make their home near Paris,
Tex, a year or more ago, died from the
effects of mallrial fever. The calamity was
particularly sad, as. 1t left Mr.. Lund alone
in a strange land with four small children.
He has left his new Texas home. and is
living with his mother in Los Angeles. Mr..
Lund will be remembered as the senior men,
Der OF Lund Brcs., queensware dealers.
It develops that the Larsen boy, who robbed
his mother and fled from h2me Tuesday
was not dismissed from the public school
I on account of the discovery by his teacher
that he was carrying tobacco in his pockets.
Miss Mangum, principal of the school, looked
the matter up, and found that the boy was
taken out Of school by his mother upon
the excuse that she had found work for him
to do. There is no rule that would permit
his dismissal from the public schools for
the offense alleged.
A number Of attachment suits satisfying
landlords liens were begun in Justice Cooks
court yesterday. A. X. Brumbaugh attached
the household goods of Thomas Christensen
to secure $50 unpaid rent; John T. Edwards
attached the goods Of ]. T. Collier for 800
unpaid rent, and w. T. Wilson filed a SINH
lar claim upon the belongings of ID. p. Dod-
rill and j. M. Collier to secure a rent bill
Of SIS. Another attachment was issued In
favor of l.. James and against Adolph Mos
keit and wife for a rent bill Of $50.
There was only one case in the police
court yesterday morning, and that was the
well-known and harmless old Frenchman,
Jean Willemons. He was drunk again, and
having disregarded the admonitions of the
friendly court, he was fined 5000 and sent
to the city Jail to serve 1t out. During the
afternoon he called the jailer and declared
that he was dying. The city physician was
called, but was unable to locate the old
mans trouble beyond the abuse of his con-
stitution by alcoholic stimulants. He as
sures his friends that he will never live to
serve out his sentence.
Changes of venue were taken in the
chicken stealing cases yesterday from JUS
tice Wien to Justice Cook, and the hear
ing will occur today. Vien's stuny little
room was packed to suffocation all after
noon, while the lawyers were wrangling over
the venue business. Singularly enough,
about one-third Of the spectators were
%darkeys, who found a fascinating interest in
the proceedings. A new set of informations
was filed. charging the prisoners with bur-
glary and larceny from a building In the
night time. They will be held to answer
these charges in Vien's court after the COM
pletion Of the hearing before Cook.
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