Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-21

MINOR MENTION.


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- Tors.
Myrtle lodge. No 12, will meet In regular
session on Friday evening.
Clarence Leech is suffering from an acute
attack OF lung trouble. lie was stricken
Sunday evening.
Justice Burke yesterday united William
barnes and Mary Henson, both OF Blair,
Neb., In marriage.
Justice Cook is slowly improving, and his
friends hope that he will be able to resume
his judicial duties In few days.
w. $. Rapp and Miss Anna Graham were
united in marriage in Chicago yesterday.
Mr. Rapp expects to make his home in
Chicago In the future
The telephone girl was tired. Calls had
been coming in all day for l57, requesting
the Eagle Laundry to send its wagon around
verify. It's a good laundry.
George Keelne left last evening for
Florida, where he will reJoIn his family,
who In company with Mr.. and Mrs. w. II.
Robinson, are spending the winter there.
Mrs j. w. Weightman. who has been in
the Woman's Christian Association hospital
for three weeks undergoing treatment for
inilammatory rheumatism. has recovered
sufficiently to be removed to her home. She
left the hospital yesterday
W. A. Sunday Is stopping at the Grand
hotel with his wife. MIR. Sunday Is now an
evangelist but he was once well known as
professional base ball player. He is en-
route to Tabor Ia. where he Is engaged
to conduct series OF meetings.
The will OF the late Dr. n. d. Lawrence
was filed yesterday. 1t was dated November,
1884, and names Laura NJ Lawrence, his
wife, II living, executrX In the event OF the
latter's death their dlughter, Mrs Ella
Mcneil of Omaha. Is named as sole heir.
The funeral of the late Charles Soar oc-
CURED at o'clock yesterday afternoon from
the residence on North Broadway. He has
been a continuous resident Of Council Bluffs
for nearly fifty years and a great many of
the old citizens turned out to show their re-
spect for his memory.
The interest in the illustrated lectures on
ancient America at Latter Day Saints
church increases. This evening will be
given illustrations of languages on special
tablets, etc. Lectures each evening, except
Saturday, closing Sunday evening Free.
and public invited. j. +. Mcdowell, dis
courSer
Il. G. Crowell, county attorney Of Atchison
county Kansas, accompanied by the COM
missioners of that county, were on a tour of
inspection through the Pottawattamie county
court house yesterday and pronounced the
structure superior to any they had exam
ined Atchlson county is preparing to build
a temple of justice.
He who causes mankind to laugh is in a
measure a friend of humanity and Murray
& Mack In their mirth- provoking "Finne-
gans Courtship" establish their claims to
knship with the whole human race. They
will be at Dohany'o on Sunday evening, with
the assurance of playing to a theater full
OF delighted and happy people.
A letter from Tacoma. Wash, received
hero yesterday contained a clipping from a
newspaper announcing that Governor Nc
Graw had signed the pardon of Edward AL
bertson, who was sentenced to the Walla
Walla prison in 1891 for ten years after be-
ing convicted of robbng the Fidelity bank
of Tacoma. The pardon gives him his lib
erty on February II. Mr.. Albertson will be
remembered here as the son-in-law of the
late w. s. Beck. His wife and relatives
still live here.
Rev. George Il. Hall delivered a very in
teresting and instructive lecture last even
Ing at the Christian Tabernacle on the sub
ject of America in the Twelfth Century"
The growing freedom from the fanaticism
OF creeds, the large individual liberty of
men and women, and most especially the
latter he regarded augurs of the increased
greatness OF the country In the next century.
He saw In the tendencies of modern civiiZa-
tion many dangers but greater hopes and a
greater capacity for perceiving and avoiding
the dangers that had wrecked other nations
In the worlds history. He believed that
the freedom of woman in the form of abso-
lute and equal rights with men in all re-
spectS and temperance agitations were the
two greatest factors working for the future
of the country.