Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-03
LOCAL BREViTIES.

X sneak Mo,t thief dooe entered the home of Mrs
watch and chain valued at $40
A meeting of amateur photographers vii
be held Monday evening at 1918 Farnan
street to organize a camera club.
The payment of $50 judges and clerks OF
| the school board election is proceeding al
the treasurcr's office All the claimants
except fifty, applied for their money.
Tax Commissioner Sackett has added the
| property of the Chicago Wrecking company
and at the 1899 levy will yield $3.50 to the
! treasury.
A free exhibition of local art works will
be held by. the Art Workers society OF
next week on the third floor of the Public
| Library building.
The Omaha Philosophical society will hold
a meeting in the lecture room of the Public
Library at p m. today. Subject, "The
dress BY " A. Anderson
president of the Bo!lermakers' and Iron
Shipbuilders' union will deliver a lecture
this afternoon at 2:3o in Labor temple to
the Omaha Bolermakers' union
All members of the Thurston Rifles club.
especially Company l., are most earnestly
requested to be present at the armory to-
morrow evening, December 4, as there are
matters of Importance needing attention
While the family of NJ Matthies were
spending their Thanksgiving at the home
OF friend some one went through their
L
and emptied the closets of winter clothing.
John S. Clark formerly of this city. but
at present travelling for the Lincoln Drug
Wednesday morning, when aIightlng from from
n train at Lebanon, Neh., he fell and badly
fractured his ankle. He was brought to
Omaha Thursday night
This afternoon at the Westminster Pres
hyterian church there will be mass meet
ing OF the remonstrators against the grant
ing of a liquor license for the coming wear
at ttil1
full discussion of the steps already taken
and an expression as to further action.
SERVICES to the memory of the late Oscar
States court We're to have heen held in
the court room in the federal building yes
terday, but owing to the fact that the mem
berS of the committee on resolutions were
Unexpectedly called out of the city the eXer-
cises went over until next Saturday at II
O'Clock.
'rhu manufacturers bureau of the Com
mercial club held a meeting last night. at
which 1t was decided to organize, maintain
and push plan for the promotion of home
South Omaha. Sixteen firms signed an an
agreement to that effect Another meeting
at which il is expected there will be a
large attendance,
The case against DR.. Lee Harden,
charged with being vagrant was dis
ton. Harr!den was arrested along with
Mrs. Powell a few nights ago while they
were AbllutklllS a SplI4luHllSllC meeting on
Seventeenth street. The case promised to
be an interesting one al the time and the
probability of the manifestation of spirits
as witnesses attracted a large crowd in
the court room,
Dan Trexller came to the police yester-
day with the claim that he had been
robbed OF $50 by a woman named Ada Webb
TreXler rooms at the Klondike hotel and
Friday night lac started out for a good
time and began by calling on the Webb
woman at her room near Fifteenth and
Webster streets. He says that when he left
there he examined his pockethook and
found that $50 had been taken away frcm
the S65 which had been there. The police
spent the morning looking for the woman,
without success,
The teachers winter lecture course will
the names of five prominent edu-
Gators and lecturers. The first lecture will
be given by President Draper of the Uni
versity of Illinois on December S. He will
be followed in January by Ebert hubbard
editor of the Phiistine. and author OF
Carrying a Message TO Garcia" The other |
speakers will be Superintendent Hughes of |
The Toronto public schools. and DIR Mich |
olas Murray Butler professor of pedagogy /
AZ Columbia university. Hamilton w |
Mabie is also a possibility. The course will |
be open to the public and the first lecture |
will be given at the First Congregational !
church.