Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-10
BRIEF CITY NEWS
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CasBeroiea-Edholm. Jsvseter
snohs mouse for Hmoeeu. S1s s. ism.
hndolph p. swOboaa, Public Accountant
Eiushart. Photographic, 18th a Farpam.
Aeyn, Photogs removed to Is A. Howard.
Equitable LifO-Pofszss. sight drafts n.
maturity. H. d. Nicely. manager. Omaha
Keep Your Money AM yaauablss in a safe
deposit box In the Amel icsn safe Deposit
Vaults in the Bee building. 81 rents a
box. p. c. Hsmer. president
Ths Rsbraska Savings = Losn Asia
losns on homes only In Douglas county.
seryice prompt. terms reasonable. Board
OF Trade building.
West L-eavonworth Lmproverp-The reau-
lar meeting OF the West Leavenworth I'm
provement club will be held Wednesday
evening at ASA L~eavenworth street.
weather permitting.
Railroad oonfsansS JuaRmsnt-The
Union Pacific has confessed judgment for
&s,s00 i'm the suit brought by Mrs. Ida
Brown fog the death Of her husband.
Albert Brown, and the case is thus set
tied. Brown was killed near North Platte
While operating a locomotive crane.
al Thief wants IL the cash-After re-
moving . pair OF trousers from the own
erie room 20 the hall, a burglar. who
visited CHARLES Robinson's home Monday
night, only took 81 from the pocket and
left the garment. Robinson lives at 2s1I
LAX street The thief forced the back
door of the house.
xswxsr N susd for Divoroa-Louis
N Phillips. an attorney, is defendant in a
suit for divorce brought by Mrs. Anna M.
Philips. Nonsupport and infideiity are
charged. The plaintiff prays for aiimony.
mt nar,fnn thu antna and F,r fha 5000.
OF two khildren, Roberta, a girl, aged 4,
ana Robert, a boy of 2 years.
Lsuts Exhszas f. BarIsd-Louis Erhardt.
whe died rom the effects Of an electrical
shock last week. was buried Tuesday
morning me service was held at the
church or st. Mary Magdalene, Nineteenth
and Dodge streets, and interment was in
the German Catholic cemetery at South
Omaha. Father Slime conducted the ser
vices.
Thug snatehss womAn's Purss-A case
of pocketbook snatching was reported to
the police Monday night. Miss Gertrude
Ashcroft. while at Twenty-fourth and the
belt line, within a short distance of her
home, was met by a man who grabbed
her handbag and ran down the tracks. Her
loss was about SO. She lives at 4120
North T~wenty-fourth street.
Gets thu Protection Thers-while under
the Impression that a crowd of people
were following and seeking TO kill him,
Logan Helm ran into the police station
Monday night and begged Captain Dunn
to protect him. This the captain did by
locking up the man in a cell. Helm is
believed to have been using drugs or else
TO be demented. He says he is from
Council Bluffs.
Look cut for FSleek" BegraF-Miss
Jontz, OF the Associated Charities. has re-
ceived from the Lincoln association a
warning to look out for a sleek beggar'
who masquerades as a church worker and
~solicits money under the aliases of Math
ews, Blanchard or Savidge. He served
sixty days in the Lincoln Jail for soliciting
money under false pretenses and come from
Lincoln 20 Omaha. Miss Jontz has been
notified that the man Is now working in
south Omaha.
Contractor In legal Mixup@A suit for
s4b, 060 for breach of contract has begun
in Judge Kennedy's court. The contract
ing firm of Lamoreaux & Peterson
alleges that Phelan q Shirley deprived
the former of the sum indicated by taking
away n promised contract for some miles of
grading in Montana on the Milwaukee ex-
tention TO the coast. Phelan q Shirley
had the chief contract. and. after submit
ting a part 20 the plaintiffs, took u away,
so the charge runs, because they could get
it done cheaper by others. The contract
would have been a highly profitable one
to the plaintiffs. A jury will decide the
merit OF the claim.
Commercial Gu Commttsses--E- +
swobe, vice chairman of the membership
committee of the Commercial club. is to
nave charge Of the campaign for member
ships during the absence of e. A Hen
richs and has called a meeting of the
committee which is TO push the work
The meeting will be held at the CONNER
cial club rooms Wednesday. Dan Fuller
chairman of the trade extension commit
tee OF the Commercial club of Omaha, hal
called a meeting of his for Fri
day, when the next trip over Omaha
trade territory will be discussed. TIT
route is not known as yet and not ever
in prospect except that the trade boosters
have planned for some time to visit Soutl
Dakota and northwestern lowe.
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