Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-27
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Davis sells glass.
Moore's food kills worms and fattena.
Budweiser beer, L. Rosenfeldt, agent.
Furnished rooms, IA South First street.
Metal frames. g. Il. ALEXANDER & co.
iowa Furniture a carpet Co, 4O7 Bway
]. G. Bixby, heating. plumbing. Tel. 1873
Jensen & Murtcnsen, 33l Bway give stars
c. b.. Jacquemin & Co, jewelers. and OPP
ticians, q South Main street
w. II. Shepard. cX-county recorder, is In
Des Moine on a business trip.
j. A. Gorham Of the firm of Treynor d
Gorham Is In Chicago on business
Get your work done at the popular Eagle
laundry, 724 Broadway. phone l51.
Edna Kirby. 4l2 North Sixth street, was
reported to the Board of Health yesterday
as having the measles.
.Tobn ID. Hancock and Helen y. Russell,
both of Omaha, were married IN TINS Guy
Yesterday, Justice Terrier performing the
All members of the Royal Arcanum are re-
auested to meet at the hall at l O'Clock thls
afternoon to attend the funeral of the late
w. w. Chapman.
Encampment, No. s, Union Veteran
Legion. will meet tonight and all Old
soldiers are invited to attend and nave a
general talk about the war in the fhlllp-
pines.
During the thunderstorm yesterday morn
ing lightning struck the fagpole on the
Wheeler d Hereld cold storage house ana
shattered it to spllnters. TIL building was
uninjured.
Hon. Carroll Wright Of Des Moines, gen
oral attorney for the Rock Island railway,
was in the city yesterday. HIS VlslI' ne
said. was simply to attend to some legal
matters in connection with the ROAD.
Myrtle, the little 2-year-old daughter OF
--.u uNarrtll of AUnn1ln N
and Thirty-seventh street, died yesterday
morning. The funeral will be held this
morning at 10 o'clock from the residence
and burial will be in Forest Lawn cemetery
near Florence.
Phirip Dewey, the little son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. II. Staffanson of Anaconda, dlea
Yesterday morning at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs q +. Barritt, in Hazel Dell township,
where the parents are visiting, aged year
and II months. The remains VIII be taken
back today to Anaconda for burial.
George Shreve, foreman of the Burlington
ward engine, living at $40 South sixth street.
wants il known that he is not the George
Strives whom Madame Light was anH.ous -
have arrested for breach OF promise 10
marry. The similarity of the two names mas
caused Mr.. Shreye more or less annoyance.
The hearing of John Williams, a 15-year-
old boy, charged with breaking and entering
a building in the day time, was continued
in Justice Terriers court yesterday uh.Ii
May 8. The complaint was filed by X. n
Stillman, who lives near the Iowa School Tor
the Deaf. Stillman alleges that young VIII
liams entered his house and stole a watch
and other articles.
The Board of County Supervisors COM
Melted its meeting yesterday as a committee
of the whole and adjourned. Most OF the
day was spent in viewing roads In the
vicinity of the city which it is proposed 20
improve this summer. A resolution was
adopted limiting the amount to be expended
by each supervisor for road work In his re-
spective district to $500 until the board
mikes another appropriation. supervisor
Brades was authorized to organize the force
to work the grader, which VIII be USED
throughout the entire county wherever
found necessary.
The retail clerks Of the city have me
with considerable success in their agitation
for early closing. The hardware, furniture
crockery, carpet, dry goods and clothlnS
dealers have agreed to close their respective
places of business at $50 p. M, except Mon
day and Saturday evenings for the entire
wear, with the exception of the month OF
December. All of the grocery stores be-
tween Main street and the Methodist church
on Broadway have agreed to do likewise
and the shoe dealers are also figuring TO
close at an early date. A meeting OF the
clerks and business men will be held to-
night at 9 o'clock at the Kiel hotel.