Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-30
BRIEF CITY NEWS
Rave ROot Print II.

Diamonds, Bdhoim, jsweler.
John =. q. Moxesson for auditor. adv
RudofpA =. swoboda, PuSIo-Aooountant'
Thomas ". for congress, adv.
Bowman, III N. IS. Douglas shoe. $3.50,
Pa Rourts for Quality cigars SIC 5. 18th.
Rinehart photographer, 18th & Farnam-
James @, EinElsr for ounty atty. Adv.
John L. Pierce for state auditor. Adv.
Douglas Printing Co. ala S. 18th. Tel
ga
Equitable Life-Policies, sight drafts at
maturity. II. d. Nicely, manager. Omaha.
George u. burlington for state rep
resentative. republican. Vote for him Sep
TENDER ADV
HurgesE-0randin Co., 1911 Howard st,
Gas, electric fixtures, electric wiring and
repairs. Residence electric fans. 1880.
Tor the safe keeping OF money ana VAL
ableS, the American safe deposit vaults
In the Bee building afford absolute secur-
lily. Boxes rent for - per year, or 81 for
three months.
Thief steals Woman's Money-While
Mrs. G.. r. Roach, s1s North Twenty-third
street, was in the rear yard hanging out
clothes Friday afternoon a sneak thief en-
tered the hOuse and stole a pocketbook con-
tanning Sc and a number of fancy spoons.
Burglar Scared Away-whiIe attempting
to force an entraRee to the residence of J.
w. Robbins. 26l4 Bristol street. Friday
night a negro burglar succeeded in making
sufficient noise to awake Mr.. Robbins, who
scared the marauder away. A good de-
scription OF the negro was furnished The
police.
street Car Thief Bound over-Arraigned
In police court for stealing S3,15 from Leo
nard Schulze while the latter was a passen-
ger on a street car, John Holmes waived
examination on the charge of larceny from
the person and was bound over to the dis
trict court by Judge Crawford. His bail
was fixed at $500.
Mr.. Davidson Misses Brothers,. David
son of Denver, brother of Superintendent
w. NJ. Davidson of the city schools, came
to Omaha Saturday, but. was disappointed
IN finding that the superintendent had not
from his vacation. Mr.. Davidson
VIII spend next week at Lincoln at the
State fair in the interest OF an
firm with which he is connected, but ex-
poets ~ conn to Omaha again and see his
brother before returning to Denver. Super
intendent Davidson is expected home Mon
day.
Boy Hurt by Acknowledgment Pit
eel, a l4-year-old boy living at 200l Kervan
street, who is employed as a messenger for
the Missouri Pacific railroad, was knocked
by a heavy freight at the
freight depot shortly after / o'clock
Saturday afternoon and sustained a badly
sprained back. The machine was backing
fiom the depot and was unnoticed by
the boy until It damned him against an
other wagon. He was attended by Police
Surgeon Fitzgibbons and taken home in the
police ambulance.
Woman Kicked by Man-Angered be-
cause she refused to have anything more
TO do with him, Charles Swindell knocked
Susie Duffy down and kicked her in the
left side over the heart, fracturing several
ribs. Both are colored. The quarrel oc-
Cured in the woman's room at Twelfth
and Davenport streets about lis Saturday
afternoon. After rendering the woman I'M
Swindell made his escape. When
she regained consciousness the woman
crept to a neighbours, where Police Surgeon
Smith was called. Her condition is consid-
cred serious.
Mother and Daughter at Issue-Mother
as plaintiff and daughter as defendant is
the unusual situation in an equity suit
filed in district court Saturday morning.
Mrs. Julia Offenhauser started the suit
against Miss Julia Ann O~ffenhauser. her
daughter. and the question involved is as
to the ownership OF a lot in Hamilton
square. Mrs. ~Offenhauser asserts she
bought the property Of Otto A. johnson for
8, $50, and because she was in poor health
had the deed made out to her daughter in
trust. She says 1t was the understanding
her daughter was to deed the lot to her or
to anyone she might direct. Now she saws
her daughter refuses to turn the property
over to her.
Repavtng OF Dundee streets-Efforts If
Dundee residents to improve the east end
OF Dodge street resulted in a resolution
passed by the county board Saturday morn
ing promising that the county would repave
the street from F~orty-eighth to Fifty
second streets as soon as the village of
Dundee had put in catch basins, storm
sewers, curbs and cutters. The road is
now in bad condition, but the board took
the position it would do no good to repair
It until the village Improvement had been
made. AS the report of the State Board of
Equalization on terminal assessments had
not been received the board could not make
the annual levy Saturday. An adjournment
was taken until Monday, when II is hoped
the report will be in the hands of the board