Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-09
LOCAL BREVlTIES.

The Sunday school teachers. will meet at
p. m today at the Young Mems
Christian association.
The regular weekly meeting of the P'ri-
mary Teachers union will be held in the
Young Women's Christian association room
this afternoon at o'clock.
The first lecture in the teachers winter
tional church last night by President ORA
per of the University of Illinois.
on December a. the Women Of St:
Matthias church will give TURKEY dinner
at the rooms. 1907 Farnam street. The pro-
ceeds will be devoted to liQuidating the
expenses Of the church.
The following additional subscriptions to
the tiremen's relief fund have been re-
ceived at the mayors office: Fred Krug,
$780, w. r. Bennett & Co., S25; John Hoch-
strasscr. S.. The total subscriptions to
this fund now amount to $2,393S5.
A late Halloween Joke was played on
Charles Nelson, Thirty-frst and Hamilton
streets, Thursday night. The wheels were
removed from his delivery WI wagon, Sn,, wniGh yaTd
and search yesterday failed to reveal
their whereabouts
VIII Taylor and VIII Scott, two colored
men who were arrested some time ago on
the charge of holding up man by the
name of Peterson on Howard street, mad
hsr trials in Police sTD court bss a[eF Fo the ds
trict court in the sum of $500 each.
John Wallace stole a coat from in front
of j. Silverstine's steore Thursday morn
with a desire to exchange the stolen
property for one of better ht. An onicer
was called in and took him to the station.
George Mcclure. who was arrested some
time ago charged with committing hend-
ishly inhuman assault upon Add1e Burcn,
was bound over to the district court Fri
day afternoon in the sum of $lVoO. me
case is an aggravated one. The other men
who We're thought to be implicated got out
of town in time to elude the officers
I Mansfpip Of Ashland lee
tured before the students and faculty OF
the omaha Medical college Thursday night
clear exposition of the method of pro,
cedure in administering anesthetics and
his talk was intensely interesting and IN,
structive. The lecture room was packed
with listeners.
Sampeon and Donnelly who We're ar
rested on the charge of gambling some time
Q o'clock Friday night. No evidence could
he produced to prove that the men had
been gambling and so they were discharged.
raid was made on the place on Douglas
street kept by Sampson and nineteen men
were taken to the police station
Charles Swanson, laborer living at 1lOl
South Nineteenth street, met with serious
accident Thursday afternoon while at work
at the Nebraska Moline Plow company
building at Ninth and Leavenworth streets
He was assisting other men in raising a
derrick when it fell and caught him beneath
its weight. He was taken in the patrol
wagon to his home. His left leg
!
broken and he is sufferins from internal
injuries which may prove fatal
About . o'clock yesterday a call for for
the fire department was sent in from the
Batterton block, Eighteenth and Chicago
streets Mrs George Vapor who occupies
a fiat on the third floor, was working neal
a red-hot stove and accidentally knocked
one of the legs from under 1t, which
brought the stove and its contents to the
floor A man who was passing along the
| street heard the cry of fire and ran in and
was doing good work when the department
arrived. The damage was slight.
There was a good attendance at the
! second days exhibit of the Nebraska
! Ceramic club. There are several additions
| to the display since the opening, many
| specimens of decorated porcelain having
| been received from contributors through
| out the state. The principal attractions are
| the work of Mesdames Buchanan, Lum
! bard, Lund, Evans, Perfect, Morrill,
! Snyder and White of Plattsmouth. Miss
| Butterfield has a varied display, including
| also represented by characteristic work
| The exhibit viii be open today.
! Sergeant Weisenburg arrested an 1S-year
old youth named Frank Pratt Thursday
afternoon for running confidence game OF
| an eXpressman named Lane. Lane is al
old man and has his stand on the corner o
sixteenth and Webster streets. He wal
approached by Pratt in the afternoon will
| a proposition to haul trunk for him anC
| ali the arrangements were made. Prat
asked the old man to change a $40 bill TO
| counted 1915 into II. Then instead o
producing the $40 he ran down neighbor
| ing alley The police were notified an,
! caught the Culprit.