Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-12
LOCAL %BREVITIES.

Judge Read has granted Bertha Farnham
divorce from Albert on the ground OF ex-
treme cruelty.
Sheriff Power took Robert Laferty to the
penitentiary at Lincoln yesterday to serve
two years for forgery.
The custodian of the federal building has
let a contract for a new trap door, to be
placed over the ash elevator on the north
side of the building.
Gene Gordon, 1893 North Sixteenth street,
woman Thursday night and three suspects
have been arrested.
The rain which fell Thursday was con;
parts parts Of the northwest indicate that rain
Is needed to give the growing grain the
moisture which 1t requires.
Two companies Of engineers at Jefferson
barracks left yesterday for Fort Leaven
worth. making room for a DETACHMENT
OF the Fourth cavalry, which will soon
arrive in the department from Cuba.
Because Thomas Junker is shown to have
been an excessive drinker and a cruel hus-
band Judge Dickinson has granted Emma
S Siyen her shf the e'e eUsted sn Of S their child an" Eliza.
beth, aged 8.
The river is rising at Omaha and at
other places up the river: THIS rise rs
ton in the upper valley, but there is no
indication tina the water will reach the
higher water stage.
At the inspection OF the federal building
this week the Inspectors found hat q
new cable was needed for the elevator In
the DOStOmCe anu lndL III VI ONhSi ASN
spects the equipment for the building was
in hrst-class shape.
The Ladies Aid society of the Bohemian
Presbyterian church. Fifteenth ana center
ment of the church on the evening of
April q, the revenue to be used in the
erection Of a dwelling for the churcn
~janitor.
John B. Carlson Of Malmo, Neb,, writes
to the Omaha police that his son, Emil
Car SSen is m Il Years Of age, six feet in
height, slim build, Swedish descent but
ak good English. He wore a black suit
and light hat.
The RibbelI Paper company and the
Marshall Paper company have arranged for
a banquet to be held at. the Miliard at Z
tended by about forty-hve wholesale paper
dealers from Des Moines, Davenport, Kan,
sas City. Topeka, st. Joseph, Lincoln and
other western cities.
A team hitched to a buggy belonging to
Dr.. McClanahan, while standing hitched
near Twenty-hfth and Cunning streets. be-
noon. They were caught at Twenty-sixth
and Dodge streets, one horse haVlne re-
ceived several bad cuts n the oussS
The delegates to the National Editorial
convention from the Tri-City Press club
have requested the Omaha Commercial
Using the fact that the delegates are from
Omaha and that the city desires the next
convention, The matter viii come up az
tHG hCAL hlCNNhA6 VI ~
Real estate agents report that II is i'm
possible to supply the demand for five, and
six-room houses In. the city, particularly
II anything modern In houses of this size is
demanded. The demand for larger houses
IL not as active as IL was last year, due
in a great measure to the number of houses
built BY persons who, a year ago, were
tenants.
Bids will be opened in the ONCE OF the
Board of Public Works April p for the
laying of sewer mains as follows: on
Thirty-hfth street, beginning at Leaven-
worth, to Mason; east on Mason to Tween
ty-fourth and south on Thirty-fourth TO
Poppleton avenue. There viii be $50 feet
Of 'twenty-inch pipe, 1000 feet of fifteen
| inch pipe and 17S feet of ten-ineh pipe.
During the absence OF DR.. A. Hugh
Nipple at lunch Friday fire was discovered
In his apartments In The Bee building.
The names were apparently caused from a
match which had been carelessly thrown
into a waste basket. When they were
e~xtinguished the total damage was but a
few dollars. confined principally to the
private desk Of DR.. Nipple, the back OF
which was scOrched.
The curves on the Dodge street car line
on Twentieth street. between Cass and
Cunning streets, are being taken out ano