Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-04
BRIEF CITY NEWS

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Times, Printing.
DR.. william G. Maxwell has returned
from = winters sotourn In Palestine Jeru-
salem. and the orient. and is now located
at Ns-eiO Omaha National Bank building.
where he will be glad to welcome his
friends and patrons.
Martin Reum Is Better-Martin
Reum, manager OF the meat department at
Hayden Bros. who has been confined 10
his home FOR several days with a threat
ened attack Of pneumonia, was able to be
out Wednesday.
Mrs. Mckenzie Injured Grace
Mckenzie. Thirty-sixth and Lafayette
streets, was thrown from an automobile at
Park avenue and Leavenworth streets
Monday evening and incurred injuries
which confines her to her bed.
Fortune Awaits Wanderer- Ar
thur Waksham, who surrendered to the
wanderiust twenty years ago, will shake
the dust Of the states from off his
feet and come home to dear hold 'Heng-
land, he will find a tidy fortune waiting
for him at Sandown Farm, Deal, Kent
England Frank Kent, a brother Of the
wanderer. asks the police Of Omaha to To-
cate his long lost brother.
Asks Five Thousand for Finger
Five thousand dollars for the loss Of a
finger is the amount asked by Alois Poslof
a carpenter. from Jacobbinger & MCGOWAN
in a suit for damages brought Wednesday
p in district court Poslof says that the
same defective saw that took off his finger
also "dethumbed" another man. The
plaintiff complains that the loss Of his
finger has permanently incapacitated him
for his trade
Seeks Two Brothers-=Who in Omaha
knows wlady Rasprzvk and Henry. his
brother. Alex Kasprzvk Of Marseilles,
H., wants TO know right away. He
has some property for brothers wlady
and Henry. He says that some
years ago Henry worked at the
smelting works in Omaha and wlady's
name appeared on the pay roll OF the
Cudahy packing house Alex will pay for
the information
Sues for Loss of An Eye-Twenty
thousand dollars for the loss of his eye is
the amount asked by william A. Cox from
!. NJ M. Back, a saloon keeper at sO1 South
Seventh street. in a suit filed by the former
In district court Wednesday. Cox alleges
that while in an intoxicated condition from
the liquor sold him by Back that he en-
gagged in q fight in the latter's saloon last
December that cost him his eye.
lincoln Goes A-Boosting-The Lin
coin Commercial club viii start ON a
week booster tour May "a, travelling over
the western part OF Nebraska and return
ing to the capital city May 20. There will
be between rs and 100 boosters on the trip
The Lincoln delegation takes the Union
Pacific out OF lincoln going to Loup City,
Galloway and Sidney on that line. and TAX
ing die Burlington from Sidney to Guern-
ssY, Sterling, Holdrege and back to Lin
coin
Sunday School COnvention-The
Sunday School superintendent union OF
Douglas county and the Elementary Unior
Of Omaha will hold a convention In this
First Presbyterian church Tuesday, May
Q. All officers. teachers and other Sun
day school workers in the county are In,
vited to attend the convention. A ban
unet viii be served. and for this places
must be reserved through Mrs O. L
Shook. "a South Fifteenth street. befor,
Saturday.
Catsup Goes Into Rfver-Six hun
dred and fifty-two five-Eallon cans Of
tomato caAsup, which was condemned ana
ordered destroyed by Judge T. c. Munger
In the federal court, VIII be dumped int
Ehs Missouri river Thursday. The good
y were shipped TO the McCord-BrAdy com
pany by the Harbesu-MarIeau company o
Toledo, o., and seized the govGnmen
authorities, upon arrival in this city, a
being in violation OF the pure food an
drug act Of June 30 1905
MohIeF Sends q Checl-For tn
services OF the police department at tn
new Union Pacific office building at Eff
tenth and Dodge streets, A. L. Mobiles
vice president and general manager OF tn
Union Pacific railroad. authorized the gif
of $50 to the police pension fund IN
Board OF Fire and Police Commssioner
last night accepted the gift. instruOtin
ssoretary Arthur Shields to write tn
thanks OF the police department and oom
minsOners to ths Union Pacific.
Contract for Hin DepOA Thursday
- Announcement has been made by tn
Omaha offices OF the Burlington that N
contract Tor the freight depot complSdoI
to bo taken UP this summer. win /
awarded from the Chicago hsadquartel
Thursday The plans have been change
twice since the first bids for contract
were called for. but the general layout
the buildings has not been materially q
tered Work win begin on the depot
soon a. the contract has been awarded.
Wants Damages for Fal1-Assertin
that through the negligence Of q fello
a distance OF fifty feet and landed on h
head and shoulders in the basement viii
great injury TO himself, Peter Rapid
formerly employed on the new court hous
- brought suit for ti,Ses damages In distrt
court wednesday against Caldwell
Drake. contractors. The accident Occurr'
September g. RApide says the boy
charge OF the freight elevator was only
years old and wholly incompetent and tn
II was because ne lowered the elevator q
quickly that the accident occurred
Fifth Ward Club as HOst-Frids
evening the Fifth Ward Republican oil
win act as host for the republican worke
OF the ward. and fer the republicans OF Z
sixth and Twelfth wards The Fifth wa
republicans have always been in the fro
rank as entertainers when they underta
the Job and the officers OF the club s
that this function will be well worth
tending Speakers with something TO >
viii be present The meeting will be
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