Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-01
MINOR MENTION.

Mrs. Weightman wife OF Deputy Sheriff
Weightman, Is seriously Ill with rheuma-
tsm.
The Glee and Mandolin club from the Uni
versity Of Chicago will arrive Saturday, jan
uary 2, at noon.
MIR. and Mrs. Oscar Keeline and family
left for Lake Midland, Fla, last evening to
spend the winter.
c. w. Mcdonald, manager OF the Sandwich
Manufacturing company returned yesterday
from brief trip to Sandwich, Ill.
Lily Camp Aid society will meet this af-
ternoon with Mrs. Hess. $40 North First
street Royal Neighbors OF America re-
quested to be present.
She was alone. Suddenly beam OF light
shot through the darkness. IL was the re-
Election Of Clarence's shirt bosom, freshly
laundered from the Eagle" 72i Broadway.
white Rose Rebeleb lodge meets satur-
day, January 2, at 1880 p. m. for installation
Of officers. All members are requested to
be present. Sister and brother Rebekahs
are invited to be present
Members OF Fidelity council, No 1876, Royal
Arcanum will please take notice that the
regular meeting has been postponed to Fri
day evening, January 8. Installation of Of
ncers and other important business to trans
act.
Green and Sorenson. the young men ar
rested on the previous evening while enjoying
a drunk that approached closely to delrium
tremens, were fined $3.50 in police court
yesterday morning. They paid the fine and
will start the new year with new and good
resolutions.
The new melodrama Saved from the
Sea-" will be the attraction at the Dohany
theater next Sunday night. This play, which
has already been running for more than a
year at tbs Princess theater, London, is one
OF the most realistic and intensely Inter-
esting dramas ever produced
The funeral Of W. j. Manley took place
rio aft thn Thpie In h.
ernacle despite the fact that heavy rain
was falling the church was filled with peo-
pie who desired to pay last respects to the
memory OF the dead man. The body was
Inferred in Fairvlew cemetery.
A fire which damaged Trinity Methodist
Episcopal church, located at the corner of
Twelfth street and Ninth avenue, to the eN-
tent OF $3.50 to 5000, was discovered about
fftesn minutes after the watch services had
been dismissed shortly after midnight 1t
broke out in the decorations around the altar
and Is supposed to have caught from gas
Jet which was left burning.
Officer Elgan OF the merchants police
found the remnants OF several clocks yester
day morning that had been planted evidently
by some thief who had made a raid and got
hold of some stun he could not handle. The
stlff was found In the rear of a business
block near the corner of Broadway and
Sixth street. The articles are at police head
quarters awaiting an owner.
The p. o. S. OF A. has elected the follow
Ing ofTicers President, George 7. Lacy;
vice president, John Smith; master of forms,
Harvey A. DeLong; secretary, ID. S. Kerr;
treasurer, w. II. Mulin; conductor, George
Hazard; inspector, Stymest Stevenson; guard,
Blward James, delegates to state camp,
George Hazard, Il. Rosenberg; alternates,
Harvey DeLOng, j. A. Wycoff.
The soft condition of the earth and the
rain yesterday caused the walls of a catch
basin ON Bryant street near the city build
ing to collapse. The water also found a
weak spot in the pavement on Broadway
and a muddy food found its way into the
cellar Of the Bartlett Grocery company. Both
breaks promptly repaired by the en-
ployes in the engineers department.
A band Of musicians. composed of a num-
Der of the young men of Carson, Ia, cee-
brated the departure of the. old year last
night by giving a concert in the telephone
Office at that place. The music was waited
over more than 100 miles of wire, and was
heard in Red Oak, Creston, Villisca, Cla-
rinda, Malvern and Council Bluffs, besides
several intermediate stations, without the
Ices of note. The concert was most thor
oughly enjoyed by a large number OF tele-
phone subscribers and ELECTED many compli-
ments for the Nebraska Telephone company
for the splendid condition of the lines con-
Meeting western Iowa towns.
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