Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-19
BRIEF CITY NEWS

Have Root Print It.
Rudolph r. Swoboda, accountant-auditor
For Congress-Thos. W. blackburn. Adv
Bowman, lit N. 1e., Douglas shoes. $3.50
Pa Rourke for Quality cigars, s16 5. 18TH
Rinehart, photographer. 18th & Barnam
DR.. soukup, dentist, moved to Paxton blk
Pants to Order, IS up; coats and pants,
go up. MacCarthy- Wilson. SO4 8. 18th.
Ready doney-S1oo to $1,000, Nebraska
Sav. and Loan Assn. Board OF Trade Bldg
Equitable Life, Paul Morton, president
Policies sight drafts at maturity. II. D.
Nicely, Manager, Omaha
novelty Skirt Comparative wish to
thank the employers and employees of the
Novelty Skirt company for their kind
membranes and present Mr.. and Mrs.
Rosenburg.
Funeral Of John @. FoIsy-Funeral ser
vices for John C. Foley were held Monday
afternoon I'm the Cole-McKay mortuary
chapel under the auspices of the Omaha
Typographical union No. 100, of which he
was a member. Interment was in Forest
Lawn.
Signal Service Men off For Cuba-A
detachment of eight enlisted men of the
signal corps has been ordered from Fort
Omaha to Fortress Monroe. to sail from
there to Cuba. The detachment will be
assigned to duty with the Army Of Cuban
Pacfication.
Projectors OF Gas Plant-Representa-
tives of the proposed Peoples Gas com
pany," backed by Denver capital, and the
lighting committee of the council, will
meet Tuesday and discuss the proposed or
dinance granting the Denver corporation
the right to ask for franchise to build
a plant in Omaha.
Texas Bankers to Visit omaha-Texas
bankers in large numbers will visit Omaha
In July, including this city on their itinerary
of a trip around the western country They
leave Dallas on a special train and will ar
arive IN Omaha at II O'Clock Friday night,
July 10, remaining eighteen hours. They
will leave Saturday afternoon at o'clock.
Omaha Ad Club Lunch--The Omaha Ad
club will hold a MONDAY luncheon and
meeting at the Her Grand Tuesday. Two
ten-minute talks are to be given, one by
Charles d. Beaton on Display window Ad-
vertising From a Druggists Standpoint
and another by c. w. Waddell on What
Advertising Means to Some Men and How
They Buy It."
Fourth OF July in May-Residents in the
neighborhood of Twenty-siXth street and
Dewey avenue were treated to some regu-
lar Fourth Of July fireworks about {
O'Clock Sunday night. when live electric
light wire got in contact with some cross
wire. The flames flew high and cracked
like a gun, Illuminating the sky with al
sorts Of colors.
STORMS Battlements OF saloon-Georgt
w. Cady started in Sunday night to de-
molish the drink emporium at Prizes lake
and had succeeded in tearing down dooi
Avhen Deputy Sheriff Thompson, who wa.
called from Florence reached there at mid
night Thompson arrested him and pacet
him in jail, A charge OF drunkenness prob
ably will be filed against him.
Ran Badly Hurt by Fall-Charles Kint
was trimming a tree at the corner Of
Seventeenth and Cass streets Sunday
when he fell TO the pavement, twenty-fou
feet below breaking his left clevicle anC
receiving serious injuries to the spine. DR.
"A. A. Hoffman, who is attending King, be
lieves the man will recover without the in
1uries developing into permanent nature
UndoBirable Emigrant-Michael Todisco
an italian was arrested Saturday evenln
by the United States immigration authori
ties on warrant issued by the Department
of Commerce and Labor, who, It is alleged
IS unlawfully in the United States. Todisc
was at work with section gang on tn
Union Pacific. He was placed in the Doue
Jas county jail until further disposition
made Of him by the immigration authorl
ties.
Marriage Last Year, NOW Divoroe-Mrs
Bessie b. Boekee has begun suit for al
vorce against David G.. Bockee a travel
ing man, and service was had on him Mon
day while he was temporarily in Omah
on business, They were married In Febru
aTy, 1907, In California. She charges hiI
with cruel neglect and with talking
her in a cruel manner while she was III
q hospital, She also accuses him of drum
enness. She says he has an income OF 81
o month and she wants alimony.
Claims Alibi, nut Pleads Guilty hay
. good alibi, judge, but I want to plea