Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-20
LINCOLN scuooL rr>n SUFFERS.
RcycEuc FROM Licenses and Fines IL
CrCntly gurtniIeu,

Greatly Curtnilcd.
LINCOLN. Dec Especial. There Is
threatened loss OF revenue to the school
board OF this city because OF the fact that
a large proportion OF Lincoln saloon keepers
will not take cut licenses next spring. There
are now thrty-four saloons In the city. ON
account OF the lack OF necessary revenue
fourteen OF these will close their doors next
April. The fee is 81 900. Lincoln saloon
keepers have felt the effects OF hard times
and consequent falling off in trade. Mayor
Graham states that number OF saloon
men have intimated that they Will be
obliged to embark into somc other business
This action Will present perplexing prob
lem for the Board OF Education to wrestle
with next year II means a falling OF in
revenue of $4,000, which, in addition to a
decrease In fines from the police court Is
very discouraging to the members OF the
board. For the year about to close the rev.
enues have been found inadequate. But the
expenses OF running the schools are not de-
creasng in the least, and 1t is claimed that
new High school building is an absolute
necessity.
This morning the two little daughters OF
Mrs. Anna Campbell, better known in police
circles as "Squint-Eyed Ann" were taken to
the Home of the Frendless by Matron Hyde.
Last evening man reported at the station
that the woman and children were without
food or coal, and Health Officer Rhode was
detailed to supply them. Afterward he went
to the house and found the woman in her
sleeping apartment in company with two
toughs while the two little girls were lying
out in the shanty that serves as Kitchen,
without fire. and nothing over them but an
old quilt The officer drove out the toughs
! and made the unnatural mother bring the
| children into the room with her This Is the
| third time the children have been sent to
| the home the mother having taken them
| away from the institution on former occas-
| ions She will be prosecuted for ill-treat-
ment OF her little girls.
| letter has been received from J. A.
| Sidenfaden of st. Joseph by Chief of Police
| Melick, stating that the body OF Charles
| Gartner, whose home is somewhere in Ne
| braska. is lying at the morgue. Gartner
| was killed by the cars al st. Joseph the other
day He Is described as being five feet eleven
| inches in height. with blue eyes and brown
moustache Friends are requested to COM
municate with St. Joseph authorities.
Today the matter of the $4,000 claim o
Smith H. Mallory against the John Fitz
gerald estate was submitted to County Judge
Cochran on briefs. This claim is being
fought very bitterly by the estate. Mallor!
was formerly Fitzgerald's partner in the rail
road contracting business, and the claim IL
based on notes of Fitzgerald that he holds
II is asserted by the estate that these notes
are not bona fide ones given for considera
ton but executed simply to be used ia al
emergency. Attorney Mammalian sets up II
his answer that Mallory and his son-in-law
| ID. T. Thayer. have conspired to get thi
money from the estate, whereas, in fact
Mallory Is indebted to II in large amounts
The amount he asks from Mallory is $3.50 ,OOO
Omaha people in Lincoln: At the Lindell-
| Howard Kennedy, A. e. Taylor and family
At the Lincoln-A. NJ. JefTery, G. S. Griggs
J. w. Thomas. G.. w. Holdrege, NJ A. Hall
I. G. Olmsted