Omaha daily bee., 1914-05-03
AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA
John Spencer Shoots Wife Who Had
Been Nursing Him.
MORE LICENSES ARE GRANTED
siEty-seven saloons Now Hold Per-
mits 20 open, While Number of
Protests Are Being Set
for Hearing.

Supported by his wife during months
of semi-blindness. John Spencer colored.
yesterday returned her kindness with a
bullet wound in the left arm, al 525 North
Twenty-seventh street. The woman re-
taliated BY slashing her better half
across the face. John Spencer was locked
UP on charge of shooting with intent
to kill while Mamie, his wife, was booked
on a charge Of cutting and wounding.
According to the police the spencers
have had trouble before The woman is
said to have supplied her husband with
money during a long illness. He is said
to have demanded more than che could
well give him lately Yesterday after
noon Spencer returned home In ugly mood,
say the police The woman grew sus-
picious and demanded that he leave the
house. The shooting followed.
Conductor Falls from Car.
Nike Weston, conductor on a Twenty
fourth street car, fell from his car and
sustained painful injuries yesterday even
ing at Twenty-fourth and F streets.
Weston had just assisted a woman to
leave the car He reascended the steps
and the platform, but is said to have
stumbled in some way and lost his bal
ancc. lie was thrown heavily to the pave
:pent. Physicians dressed his injuries and
sent him home
More Licenses Issued
with the second days session Of the
Fire and Police commission sitting as an
excise board twenty-one more liquor
licenses we're issued yesterday, making
i
holGing new licenses. The rest are closed
pending the further action of the board.
number 5f saloons have been protested.
Dates for hearing the protests have been
filed. The following men received their
licenses yesterday:
Frank Stanich, 165 South Twenty eighth
street; Anton Olewick Polk and Rail-
road avenue; Thomas White, go North
Twenty-fourth street; Albert Carlson, 24l1
N street: Albert Tesnohlidek, 4J0 South
Twenty-first street stephen Sorich, 1852
and l. streets; Paul Mollner, Twenty
~ cond and Jefferson streets; George
Walker Railroad avenue and Washing
ton streets; Mike Skorka. 1856 North
TweIty-seventh street. Julius Ovaert
S20l q street; Emil Tutsch, l9S South
Twenty-tirst street; Joseph Benak, 89l
South Twenty-fourth street; Frank
Beister, Thirty third and * streets; l.,
London. 25l South Twenty-eghth street;
Frank Good, i54 South Thrty-slXth street:
Victor Litwin, Twenty-seVenth and Y
streets; f. J. Vancek 2)0l S street.
Ralph Carley Twenty-slxth and o streets,
Joseph Sterba, 2525 street; Frank
Tairch, Twenty-seventh and . streets.
Magic City Gossip.
John l.. Kennedy OF Omaha has been
selected by the eldership OF the First
Presbyterian church as speaker on the
occasion OF Mothers day" May 10 at
the local Presbyterian church, Twenty
third and J streets.
Mrs. Willis A. Berger is seriously III at
her home, yO3 North Nineteenth street.
DIR. r. l.. Wheeler, pastor OF the local
First Presbyterian church, and wife, will
attend the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Churches of the United
States of America which will convene on
May 20 at the Fourth Presbyterian church
OF Chicago. building just recently
erected at a cost of $750,OO0.
Miss Lauretta NJ. Knobbs was united
In marriage with Gardner j. Wheeler last
Thursday afternoon at the home OF the
Rev Robert l.. Wheeler presided at the
ceremony. Both are of this city and will
reside at 3l05 Cunning street. Omaha.
A debate on the question of woman suf-
frage will be held next Tuesday evening
In the high school auditorium, members
of the Gavel and Vellum societies of the
high school taking sides. The different
suffrage societies OF Omaha will be in
vlted and large program has been pre-
pared. No admission will be charged and
all are urged to attend
Persistent Advertising is the Sure Road