Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-20
LOCAL BREVITtES.

Judge Read has granted Kate Moraine
a divorce from Robert Moraine because of
extreme cruelty.
Mrs. Mary Middleton sahler, wife of the
late Judge o H.. Sahler, died at the
home Of her daughter. Mrs. Il; D. Fleming,
1910 Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago, Satur-
day, February Is, at $3.50 p. m.
Louis n. Warbler, a son, has been APP
pointed special. administrator of the estate
mise Tuesday morning followed so closely
upon that of his wife. Tn estate in
eludes only about 1900 worth OF land near
Mariana Jereri and Vincent Lombard,
who were arrested Monday night, charged
with robbing Major Leipen of s@66: were
day afternoon. Lombard was discharged.
Jereri's hearing was set for Monday after
noon and he wa released on $500 bond
"The Omaha OF Fifty, Years Ago and the
Omaha OF Today" viii be the subject of
O'clock Friday evening in the lecture room
Of the CASTELAR, Street Presbyterian church.
The lecture will be given under the auspices
the Endeavor society. Admission will be
free. ..
The first case of the Union Pacific Rail-
tiers came up in Justice Prichard's court
yesterday. The case. was against Con-
Nicholas streets. weitzel confessed Judg-
ment and was allowed two weeks in which
to move, from the premises; Several other
GaEG1 Will 1oAAAG ~
Preparations were begun at union depot
yesterday for the forty days weighing
Of the mails, which VIII begin In March.
erected In the large baggage room, and on
his everything coming In and going out
clude the first of a month in the time limit.
mail.
has filed an application in the United
States district court asking that James
Rector Of Craig, Neb., be declared bank
unsatished judgment aggregatins $74l.7s
against Rector, secured in the Douglas
SSS sssh NUT 1hi Ms property out Of his own = hands
to avoid payment of the debt.
In the cose Of, Ben Holteen Of North
Platte against the Freq krng Brewing
Judge Slaba ugh finding that the fact that
the brewers had left some chairs and tables
at North Platte after the expiration of
the lease was not sufficient indication that
the company elected. In the sense OF the
lease provision, TO continue as tenants
through another year.
Reports from the strawberry fields are
to the effect that about one-half an aver
Mississippi report that their plants are In
very good condition, particularly in the
latter state. Kentucky will probably have
the crop will be small. The decrease In
the yield Is due TO the drouth of last year.
for the berry buyers this season, as there
have been many vines planted and these
were not damaged as severely as the vines
Of Oklahoma.
Mary b. s. Corrigan of South Omaha,
though only l year old, is still able TO keep
the attorneys guessing and the county
judge thinking. The habeas corpus pro-
eeedings instituted by Rosanna Fitzgerald,
who was appointed guardian, TO secure the
l child from Mrs. Weir, a sister OF Marie
| Corrigan, the child's mother. whose death
occurred after that OF the father. occupied
| Judge V~insonhaler's attention yesterday.
He awarded the child to the petitioner. but
has still to pass upon the motion OF Mrs.
Weirfs attorneys TO retain the child by
furnishing a supersedeas bond. This will
be argued and decided a week hence.