Omaha daily bee., 1897-01-03
LOCAL nREVITIES.

AS a New Years present Frank Burman
received the appointment of general agent
| for Nebraska Of the Northwestern Life
| Assurance company.
| The annual meeting of the Boys and Girls
| Aid society will be held next Tuesday after
| noon at 4 o'clock in the Young Mems
Christian association rooms.
James T.. Vickers has given a bill OF sale 20
J. II. Merchant of the drug stock located in
the store at sixteenth and Howard streets.
the consideration being 3,SlS39.
The William Lauder bakery, II. 13, 10 and
II Mason street. was sold yesterday under
chattel mortgage foreclosure to satisfy
claim of S2,105,S0 in favor of the American
Biscuit company.
The court stenographcrs have received
their checks for the last quarters salary
from the state auditor and expected,
they were drawn at the rate Of 81 900 per
year instead of $1,000, as formerly.
The friends of Pastor G. A. Luce of the
South Tenth Street Methodist Episcopal
church, called on him New Years night and
left substantial remembrance of their visit.
1t was an old-fashioned pound party"
The Woman's club will meet at the First
Congregational church Monday afternoon.
The program will be in charge of the musical
department. This is the only meeting of
the year which is open to non-club mem-
beIs upon the payment of an admission fee.
County Treasurer Heimrod has sent to the
county's fiscal agency in New York City
S16,7l9.20, being the full amount of the
semi-annual interest on Douglas county
bonds. The money was sent in time to take
up the obligations maturing the first of the
year.
Police Matron Cummings yesterday discoy-
cred a case of destituton at 7l5 Pacific
street. Mrs. Alice Martin. two sons and a
lI-year-od daughter are living there. The
mother is i'll with lung fever, and has been
IA mn pn1 par tirnE Eat i1y
suffering.
The chief of police has received a letter
from a brother of Hutsonpiler, the man
murdered by George Elliott, requesting that
all of Hutsonpller's belongings be forwarded
to a Sister-in-aw, Mrs. NJ. IL. HutSonpiler,
at Ishawocd, Wyo The property will be mt
to that address.
Articles of incorporation of the Wallace
Consolidated Mining company have been
filed with the county clerk. The incorpora-
tors are a. A. Pierce. Marcus Finch, ir.,
Marcus Finch, sr. Maria w Cooley and
Ralph II. Williams, the capital stock being
fixed at 81 ,250 600
The Bell Drug company has filed articles
Of incorporation with the county clerk. The
articles provide that the company may do
retail and jobbing business. The in
corporators are John w. Bell, Mary Il. Bell,
Nellie Carter Bell, Sarah L. Lockridge and
Broadwell C, Bell. The capital stock is
fixed at $4,000.
The Brockway Corn Harvester company
has filed articles of incorporation with the
county clerk. The company is organized for
the purpose of manufacturing and dealing in
corn harvesters The capital stock is fixed
at S150,OO0, and the incorporators are T. ].
Brockway, II. c. McGrath, H. A. Wagner
and Il. b. Wagner.
Owing to the illness of Rev. John McQuoid
of the First Methodist Episcopal church the
service, announced for this morn
ing, will be postponed, and Mr.. f. l.. willis,
general secretary of the Young Mems Chris
tian association, will have charge of the
service. The choir will give musical serv-
ice in the evening.
Mrs. Katie II. Mittle has applied for
divorce from John T.. Mttle on the ground
of cruelty and non-support. She informs
the court that she was married to Mittle in
Waukegan, ILL.,, April II, 1888 She alleges
that while they were living in Chicago,
May 2S, 1892 she was compelled to leave
him because of his cruelty to her and his
refusal to provide for her support