Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-16
BRIEF CITY NEWS

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Thomas ". Blackburn for congress. adv.
Bowman. III n. Is. Douglas shoe. $3.50.
Pa Rourks for Quality cigars. ale 8. 18th.
Rinshart, photographer. 18th q Farnam.
James Q. Kinslsr for county atty. Adv.
John L. Pierce for state auditor. Adv.
Douglas Printing CO., s14 S. 18th. Tel
644.
Equitable Iife-Policies, sight drafts at
maturity. II. d. Nicely. manager. Omaha
Burgsss-Grandin Co., 1911 Howard ST
Gas, electric fixtures, electric wiring and
repairs. Residence electric fans, tlO.bo.
Cruelty and Desertion-steriing Forrest
has filed suit for divorce from Altha For
rest, alleging cruelty and desertion.
Keep your money and ~valuAbles under
your own lock and key in the American
Safe Deposit Vaults in the Bee building
which are burglar and fireproof. Boxes
rent for "a a year, or 81 for three months
Extreme Cruelty for Divoroe-Hattie
Beckman alleges in a divorce petition filed
Saturday morning that her husband, Jonas
Beckman. was guilty of extreme cruelty
for twenty years and then deserted her
Rive Concrete Bridges for County-At
the Saturday regular meeting the county
board let to the Western Bridge company
the contract for five concrete bridges to
be built over drainage bitches, at a total
cost of 1000.
Last of the withdrawAls-The last can
didate to withdraw his name from the pri-
mary list, which goes to the printer Mon
day, was j. A. Taggart, democratic candi-
date for coroner. After Saturday noon no
Withdrawals were accepted and the men
still on the list will be put on the ballots.
The withdrawal of Mr.. Taggart leaves
fifty-nine names on the democratic ballot
to seventy-nine on the republican.
NO Blame for Death-Accidentsl death
by being crushed between two freight cars,
with no blame attached to the train or
engine crew, is the substance of the verdict
of the coroner jury at the inquest held
Saturday morning on the death of William
McMannis. the Merchants Express driver
who was killed in the freight yard of the
Northwestern Friday morning by being
caught between two freight cars while try
ing to cross the railroad tracks east Of
Fourteenth street between Burt and Web
ster streets.
short-Measuro Men Fined-Short-meas-
ure peddlers had a session in police court
Saturday morning. when A. P. Grobeck and
Joseph Haullet were hailed before Judge
Crawford by Inspector of Weights and
Measures Pegg for selling their goods in
short measures. Haullet had a short peck,
half bushel and bushel measure with
which he had been accustomed to sell
full to his customers as full measures.
Grcbeck is a milkman, whose quart meas
ures were short. Each was fined 81, and
costs and the phony measures were confis-
Gated.
inquiry for Relativss-Mrs. w II. Sew
ard of Pretty Prairie, Kan, has written
the postmaster at Omaha for Information
of John Kelly, formerly in the drug bust
ness, or Edward Seward of Omaha, or of
their wives, or any other relatives of her
husband, W. II. Seward. Her letter states
that her husband is desperately i'll and is
not expected to survive. She has no per-
sonal acquaintance with her husbands re.
latives, and thus seeks to find them. She
states that her husband is a member Of
the Modern woodmen and Knights Of
Pythias orders.
New Mail Collections IN Effect-The
new system of mail collections recently
authorized by the Postoffice department
went into effect Saturday in Omaha.
These involve nineteen daily collections OF
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daily collections in the residence districts.
Two collections Will also be made on sun
day in the residence districts and four in
the business sections of the city. with one
night collection. These mails will be taken
direct to the postoffice in time to be sent
on the next outgoing mails. -Four new
carriers have been added to the carrier
force to meet this extra work, and the new
plan thus puts Omaha on a similar basis
with all the metropolitan cities of the
country.
Danish People at Pionio-Prof Otto
Wolfe, Danish consul in Omaha and head
~bookkeeper in the office of the city comp
t%roller, took his Danish singing society OF
forty members to the Elkhorn river Satur-
day for a days fishing trip. The singers
proposed to try a new method of fishing
for catfish. They took along a quantity Of
limburger cheese. which they proposed to
tie in small mosquitobar sacks. so that the
water would not wash it off the hook.
Catfish are supposed to like limburger
cheese better than a German and 1t is
said that they can smell 1t a mile off.
With the cheese the Danish fishermen ex-
pected to return home with enough fish
to give all their friends and acquaintance
meat enough to last several days.