Omaha daily bee., 1915-08-25
BRIEF CITY NEWS

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=. n Howell, recent United States At.
torney. located offices at 775-Si BIandeis
Thester Bldg. entrance 18th or 18th SITS.
Butler Is 1Eayor-City Commissioner
Butler Is acting mayor this week. during
the absence Of Mayor Dahlman, who is
having a rest at Lake Seymour
Undsrross operation-G. w. wiging-
ton, train dispatcher for the Union Pa
c!fic at Grand Island, has been brought to
the Clsrkson hospital tor an operation
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classified section today. and appears in
The Bee EXCLUSIVELY. Find out what
the various moving picture theaters o. fer.
steals Garden Hose-Barney McCor-
mick. a transient. was sentenced to thirty
days in the county Jail for the alleged
theft Of garden hose from the emergency
hospital.
Fund for Auditorium-By adoption
OF resolution offered by Commissioner
Butler the city council set aside fund
OF $500 for immediate expenses at the
Auditorium.
Charities lose out-The city council
decided TO discontinue the $50 monthly
allowance given to the Associated Char
tiles by the former South Omaha city
government
burst Bound over--Horace burst,
22l1 Seward street, arrested Monday night,
charged with carrying concealed weapons.
was bound over to the district court, with
bonds fixed at $500.
For Safety First in Life Insurance
see w. H. Indoe, general agent State
Mutual Life Assurance Co. of Worces-
ter. Mass, one of the oldest, n years
and best companies on earth.
Noyss' Salary Raised-Dean Noyes,
superintendent OF the street repair work
in the department of street cleaning and
maintenance, has been granted an In
crease of salary TO s165 month by action
Of the city council.
Mrs. stone Fined-Mrs. N. Stone. 171S
Cunning street. charged with keeping an
ill-goveTned house. was fined s25 and costs
in police court. John Chiausis 500 South
Thirteenth street. was given thirty days
suspended sentence on similar charge.
Fine Is suspendsd-A report pub
lished in The Bee Sunday said that sam
Finkensten, Twenty-siNth and Blonde
streets, was fined s. and costs in police
court. Finkenstein's fine, however, was
suspended by Judge Foster.
Struck BY Auto-william Turner, HOS
South Ninth street, sustained slight
bruises when an automobile driven by Dr. /
c. S. Stoakes of Battle Creek. Ia. struck |
him at Fifteenth and Douglas streets. He |
was attended by DIR. Charles Zimmerer. /
Building Condsmned-Upon the pre-
sentation of photographs showing the |
dilapidated condition of the building at |
1906 North Sixteenth street, the city coun-
Gil ordered the structure condemned and |
torn down. Several other buildings were
Says City Not Liablo-city Attorney
Rine advised the city council that the
city cannot be held liable for the death
Of Otto Click, who was killed during an
accident at Forty-slxth and
Cunning streets. three weeks ago. Essle
Click, the widow, filed a claim, main
talning that clnders in a rut of the street
the thoroughfare dangerous.
Sues City TOR water Damage-Charles
ID. Alexander filed suit against the City
of Florence, asking 5000 damages be-
cause water flowed on his property on
Locust street, during several years,
flooding his cellar and devastating his
garden. He says he repeatedly called
the notice Of city officials to the need OF
grading the street so as to obviate tho
flowing of water upon his premises.