Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-09
MINOR MENTION.

Myrtle lodge, Degree OF Honor, will meet
In regular session tomorrow evening at
o'clock.
Lily camp, No. 1, Royal Neighbors OF
America, Will meet in regular session Satur-
day evening at 1870.
Unity guild will hold its Lenten tea at the
home OF Mrs. Brooks, PAS Vine street, Fri
day afternoon. Visitors are welcome.
II would be a good idea while you are all
torn up for spring house cleaning TO send
those lace curtains to the Eagle laundry,
72i Broadway; telephone 157.
wanted--A man with general acquaintance
IN Council Bluffs, to canvass fer a well
known Omaha establishment. State expert
ence and references. Address L 81, Omaha
Bee, Omaha.
Council camp, No. "A, wcodmen OF the
World, will meet in regular session this
evening. There will be work In the initla-
tory degree. Visiting soverelgns are In
vited to be present.
Marriage licenses were Issued yesterday to
Fred Brandt. aged 30, and Hattie Hager, aged
20, both of South Omaha; and Thorwald &.
Lcfert, aged 25, and Emma Nelson, aged 70,
both Of Council Bluffs.
The funeral OF the late II. o. Cook oc-
Cured yesterday afternoon from the resi-
dence, 240 South Sixth street. The attend
ance was very large. The body was buried
In Walnut Hill cemetery.
The Young Mems Christian association,
with the ladies' auxiliary, will hold a recep-
ton for General Secretary M. A. Wolfe. on
Monday evening ct their rooms. All iriends
and member are cordially invited.
Some trouble and delay were experienced
yesterday in the operation OF the motor
trains. The cause was the temporary EN-
barrassment OF one Of the big Westinghouse
engines. A spring In the governor located
in the fly wheel broke.
James Mowry, aged IL, and James Jensen,
apob 10 worn nrInGtpi last night upon COM
plant of yardmen at tho Northwestern
yards, who charged the boys with taking
the waste from journal boxes on the freight
cars and burning it for bontres. the boys
were caught in the yards and held until
the patrol wagon came. The load was nm.
ished out with eight tramps who were picked
UP in the yards.
Tho unfortunates who represent the har-
vest of the grand jury were arraigned before
Judge Smith in the district court yesterday
morning. All OF them pleaded not guilty, or
asked for additional time to consider their
pleas. They were: Charles Matthew Nc
Hugh, alias j. j. Reilly; Thomas Wilson,
August Carlson. Kelley and Smith, l.. G.
Taylor, Duncan and Truax. M. Shoemaker,
Harrison Gilman and Mrs. Hattie Bethers.
Colonel Daley was appointed to defend Tay-
lor, Kelley and Smith; G. H. Gable to defend
Wilson, Shoemaker, Gilman, Mrs. Bethers
and Carlson, and Paul Aylesworth to defend
Duncan and Truax.
representatives oil the steer Motor company,
makers of the electrical motors that drive
the big cars on the Council Bluffs lines, have
been in the city for several days investigat-
ing complaints that the motors sold to the
company we're not doing the work that was
required of them. The machinery people COM
planned that the street car company was ex-
pecting too much from the %lnotors, and de-
clared that they could not expect to run a
passenger train at full speed with one Of the
motors. To settle the controversy, the COM
pany inpiSfnI Innn Watching the mntprc
Motor No. So weighed 24,O90 pounds. 1t was
weighed on the Milwaukee scales. The re-
suit will be the substitution of heavier and
stronger motors for the present ones.