Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-15
COUNCIL BLUFFS.
MINOR MENTION.


Moore's food kills worms and ~fattens.
c. L. Alexander & Co, picture frames.
iowa Furniture y Carpet Co., 4O7 B'way.
J. c. Bixby. heating. plumbing. Tel. 1913.
Mrs. Charles CLAIR, wife Of Officer Claar,
Is seriously i'll,
c. -. Jacqucmin & Co., jewelers. and OPP
~ticians, u South Main street.
Get your work done at the popular Eagle
laundry, 724 Broadway. phone 157.
Attorney G. b. Jennings Of Shenandoah
was in the city yesterday attending federal
court.
w. j. Martin of Hancock, manager Of the
South Branch Elevator company, was in
the city yesterday.
r. NJ. orr of Chicago, connected with the
right Of way department of the Illinois
Central railway, Is in the city.
c.. W. Stuart, an attorney of Clarinda,
was the guest yesterday of mis- nephew, d..
j.. Stuart of the legal firm Of Saunders e.
Stuart.
United States Marshal George NJ. Christian
and daughter, Miss Jessie, arrived from
Grinnell yesterday to attend the term of
federal court.
Hon. Lewis Miles of Corydon, United
States prosecuting attorney for the southern
district of Iowa, is in the city attending
federal court.
Attorney J. L. Blanchard OF Avoca, who
IS a candidate for state senator from this
district, was in the city yesterday, calling
on his political friends.
There will be "A meeting OF the Woman's
Christian Temperance union this afternoon
at 3 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. Bal
lengcr, 721 Willow avenue.
The Ladies' Aid society of st. Johns
English Lutheran church will meet tomor-
row afternoon at the residence of Mrs. l.. V.
Williams, SIG Commercial street.
H.. i. Watson has been called to Ewing,
Ncb, by the serious illness of his father,
DR.. j. -. Watson. He was accompanied by
his sister, Mrs. w. A. Campbell of Chicago.
Congressman Mcpherson Of Red Oak was
I'm the city yesterday. His visit, he said,
was purely "A business one and was not in
any way connected with local or state poll
tics.
Lulu Fryson, who was brought from the
penitentiaIy at Fort Madison to testify at
the trial of her husband, crank FrySon, was
taken back there Yesterday morning by
Sheriff and Mrs. Morgan.
Sam Friedman, the pawnbroker charged
with receiving and secreting jewelry stolen
from the residence of Ernest Stenger In
omaha, will have his preliminary hearing
before Justice Wen this morning.
Miss Lena Wallace of this city, formerly
employed with the Mccormick harvesting
machine company, has gone to California
with Mrs. Mccormick, mother of Harold
Mccormick, as her private secretary.
Excelsior lodge, No. so, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, will have special meetings
tonight and Friday. The regular meeting
night of the lodge has been changed from
the second Monday in eacn month to the
second Tuesday.
The following cases of measles were re-
ported to the Board of Health yesterday:
Annie Hansen, 2019 South Eleventh street;
Emma Farmer, 1901 South Eighth street;
Fred and Abel Hansen, Upper Broadway.
Martha Larsen, 222 Knepper street, was re-
ported to have whOOping cough.
The report of the Christian Home for the
last week shows the receipts to the mana
gers fund to have been S6l.5O, being $3.50
above the needs Of the week. The receipts
in the general fund amounted to 1920. 40,
being $l20.40 above the stimated needs for
the current expenses of the week.
John Mowery. son of Mrs. Jennie Mowery,
1916 Avenue !, died yesterday morning at
st. Bernard's hospital, aged u. The funeral
will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:3O
o'clock from the residence and interment
will be in Fairview cemetery. The services
will be conducted by Rev. Henry belong.
OF the amount netted by the benefit en-
tertainment last Thursday night for the
hospital fund of Company l., Fifty first Iowa
volunteers, $500 has been cabled to Surgeon
Macrae at Manila. The balance, $137.05, will
be kept to form the nucleus of a fund to
be used when the soldier boys return from
tho Philippines.
The health authorities expect to raise the
smallpox quarantine on the Beckwith resi-
dence on Broadway in a couple of days.
Fred Youngs, the young man who had the
disease, is convalescent and the attending
physician. DR.. Stephenson, says there is
now no danger of any of the members of
the household catching the smallpox.
William Willett and Frank Kennedy,
charged with the daylight burglary of b,
A. Wyman's residence last Sunday after
noon, were given their preliminary hearing
in Justice Vicn's court yesterday. There
being no evidence to connect Kennedy with
the crime, he was discharged. Willett's
hearing was not concluded when court ad-
journed.
Agnes Christensen, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. Christensen, Ill North Eighth
street, died yesterday morning from con-
sumption, aged Is years. The funeral will
be held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from
the Scandinavian Lutheran church, where
the services will be conducted by Rev. G,
Madison. Interment will be in FairvieW
cemetery.
The remains of the late Mrs, Virginia L.
Beck, widow of the late A. S. Beck, who
died in St. Paul. Mimi, will arrive this
morning over the Northwestern railway at
S:45 O'Clock, instead of tomorrow, as pre-
viously announced. Tie body will be taken
direct to Fairview cemetery, where services
will be conducted by Rev. G.. Il. Walk OF
ST. Pauls Episcopal church.