Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-12
BRIEF CITY NtWS

Dr. Ewing Brown, sos Brandeis Bldg.
Thomas W. Blackburn for congress. Adv
Rudolph =. swoboda, Accounting-Auditor
Bowman, III N. 16. Douglas Shoe, $3.50.
Pa ROurks for Quality cigars. ale S. 18th.
Rinshart, photographer. 18th & Farnam.
james Q. Kinslsr for county attor'y. Adv.
Equitable Lifs-Policies sight drafts at
maturity. II d. Nicely. manager. Omaha
Burgess-Grandsn Co., now in new quar-
ters, 1911 Howard. Gas, electric fixtures
and wiring.
women to Take Trolley Rids-A trolley
party will be given Thursday evening by
the women Of the Kountze Memorial
church. Cars will start from Fifteenth and
Howard, will stop at Twentieth and Cum
Ing and Fortieth and Cunning to take on
passengers. The ride will be to Benson and
return, and also to Florence and back.
Appraisers sti1l ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Of the CUTOFF lake park lands practically
finished their work at a meeting held
Saturday morning and the board hopes to
be able to make a report soon. All the
property owners have been given a hearing.
The proposed park will cover an area Of
about go acres of land and 800 acres OF
water.
DAMAGES from orading-Esther Petar-
anske and Charles Petaranske Of South
Omaha have filed o suit apiece against the
city Of South Oman for damages to their
property caused by. the grading Of TWEEN
tieth street. They both assert an embank-
ment fourteen feet high was raised in front
of their lots. The former sues for 81, 200 and
the latter for 5000.
Pane BY Roundabout Route-K. w.
wynee Of Chicago, stopping at the Paxton
hotel, has had fame thrust upon him in
directly by the Denver convention mas
much as he Is the son of j. II. Wynee Of
Mississippi. who is one of the committee
which will apprise William Jennings Bryan
Of the fact that he has been nominated by
the democratic party for the presidency
Of the United States.
Eaeles Fly Around omaha-Hotel men
and other boosters for Omaha met the dele
cation Of Eagles which was passing through
Omaha Saturday afternoon and took the
members of the party for an extensive ride
around the city. Omaha is boosting for the
privilege Of holding the convention next
year and no stone is being left unturned to
have Omaha declared the meeting place for
the national convention in 1909.
Thirty Days for Six Dollars-Onie Har-
ris. the negro waiter, whose get-rich-quick
scheme at. the expense Of Philbin &
Murray, proprietors of the Schlitz hotel.
through the aid OF duplicate checks, was
frustrated by his arrest Friday night, was
sentenced to thirty days in Jail by Judge
Crawford. Harris had succeeded in
fraudulent obtaining Sc from the hotel
people, which amount was turned over to
Mr.. Murray.
Bellevue Business Meeting-A meeting
of the executive committee Of Bellevue col
lege was held Saturday afternoon at the
Young Mems Christian association building.
DR.. II. II. Maynard, the new financial sec
rotary, was present and there was an in
formal discussion of the affairs of the
college and the plans for its future. A
meeting of the Board OF Directors will be
held next Thursday at the Young Mems
Christian association building.
Floods Keen Banke Away-Floods in
the south prevented Omaha business men
showing the hospitality of the city by en-
tertaining a party of Texas bankers who
had planned to arrive in Omaha Saturday
morning. A luncheon at the Field club and
long automobile rides about the city were
planned for the Texans. but Saturday w.
II. Bucholz, who had the entertainment in
charge. received word from Kansas City
Indl inc bpeCldl tram ndu Deen abandoned
and that only a few Texas bankers had ar
rived in the city, not travelling officially,
and it is not known whether they will come
to Omaha or not.
Woman Gays Men saruck Her-Com,
plant was filed In police court by Mrs
Catherine Claassen charging f. 3
STEPHENSON and John Doe with assault ant
battery. Mrs. Claassen AYERS that she
htra1 Gtapbanucp u,lo 4. ~,
to move her furniture. Stephenson agreed
to do the moving for $lS and called il
another expressman to help him. Aftei
the moving was done the second express
man demanded that she pay $40, which sh,
refused to do. They then attempted to tax,
her plano from the house, in lieu of pay
ment. Mrs. Claassen demonstrated and /
is then she claims that the expressmeI
struck her.
Bankruptcies for the Year-United States
District Court Clerk r. C. Hoyt has JUS
completed his report of bankruptcies in tn,
Nebraska district for the year ending Jun,
80, 1905. During that period eighty-thret
voluntary and twenty-three inVoluntar,
cases were filed. OF these sixty voluntar,
cases were adjudicated by the court ant
sixteen involuntary cases. There wer,
adjudicated by the referee Twenty-Five
voluntary and seven involuntary cases
One voluntary case was dismisse,
by the court and four involuntar,
cases. Discharge in bankruptcy wer
granted IN seventy-one voluntary an
in two involuntary cases. One volun
tary and one involuntary application
were refused. The total number Of case
filed in the Nebraska district since tn
bankruptcy act went into effect July
1898, is 1873 voluntary and 1893 involuntary