Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-08
LOCAL BREVITIES.

| Will Taylor the coorcd man arrested on
| the charge of stealing overcOats, was given
thirty days in the county jail by Judge
| Gordon.
| The women of st. Mary's Avenue Congre-
gational church will hold their annual
| Christmas fair in the church parlors on
| Friday afternoon and evening.
Rev. Irving p. johnson will lecture in St.
| Paus Episcopal church. Thirty second and
California streets, this evening at o'clock.
Holy Spirit"
| l.. Pryor of the Omaha Medical college
has reported the loss of bicycle to the
police. He says the machine was taken
| from near the college building some time
during Wednesday night.
! Out of respect to the memory of the late
NJ. L. Hayward, United States senator,
court yesterday. The petit jury was eX-
| cused until Monday morning
The protest by the Board of Education
against granting of license to a saloon at
the northwest corner of Fourteenth and
Cass avenue has been withdrawn, the sa-
loon proprietor having agreed to move his
place of business.
Clerk Thummel of the United States
circuit court, United States Marshal
Mathews and United States Attorney sum
attend the funeral of the late NJ. l.. Hay
ward, United States senator.
Omaha Catholics will today celebrate the
festival of the immaculate Conception
obligation. Masses will be held at St
Johns church at ;, 6, and o'clock, the
latter to be solemn high mass.
An attack of typhoid fever resulted ia
tally to Emil +. Augustad, who died Thurs
day morning at the home of his aged
mother, the only surviving relative. Mr..
Augustad has been employed FOR a number
of years as bOokkeeper by Charles kauf-
mann.
Judge Munger Of the United States court
has returned from Des Moines, where he
Woolson, who presided in the southern
district of Iowa. The funeral was largely
attended, most of the federal state, county
and city officials at Des Moines being
present.
The building inspector has granted a per-
init for alterations in the building to be
erected by the Illinois Central at Four
teenth and Farnam, amounting to 5000,
and to the Globe Building company for
alterations in the building on the southwest
corner of Sixteenth and Dodge amounting
to $1,000.
The contractors doing the carving on the
stone of the postoftice building are crowd
ing the work during the present spell of fine
weather. About one-half of the work on
the front Of the building has been com
pleted. 1t is expected now that all the
work on the Sixteenth street side will be
finished by January !.
The annual Christmas ball of the elevator
conductors will be held on the evening of
December 25. The Thurston Rifles armory
will be used for the occasion and several
hundred invitations have been accepted
The master of ceremonies will be Ambrose
Ellington who has been Instrumental in or
ganizlng the local elevator conductors of
the city.
Deputy Sheriff Stryker who was sent to
Alma to secure custody of Clara Dodd one
of the children over whom habeas corpus
proceedings are in progress before Judge
Scott, has returned empty handed. lie
found the family who has charge of the
little girl, but they refused to disclose her
whereabouts. Deputy Stryker will go to
Craig today after another one of the Dodd
children who is also involved In the habeas
corpus suit
postmas ter general that married women
cannot hold positions in the postal depart
ment, Postmaster Crow is authority for
of the Omaha Office have declared their en-
off and have determined to go
through life as spins ters. AS there is but
one married woman in the employ of the
here the ruling of the postal
official is not creating any great amount
of uneaslness.