Omaha daily bee., 1916-04-25
HAPPENINGS In
THE MAGIC CITY
Robbers Get Thirty Dollars from
euro Mineral Springs
Safe.
ENTRANCE THROUGH SCREEN


The safe in the office OF the euro
Mineral Springs at 1872 N street was
cracked sometime Saturday night and So
In money stolen by unidentified robbers
who made good their escape Detective
ed Fleming investigated the robbery and
reported at the station.
Entrance to the building was gained by
tearing off the heavy wire screening on
one OF the rear windows Of the bottling
works. The thief broke the glass in the
door that led from the bottling depart
ment to the main office, reached In and
turned the key in the lock- gaining
entrance to the office in this manner. The
knob on the safe door was found 10 have
been broken off and The works OF the
safe driven clear through. forced with
blankets and tools found in the building.
The robbery was not discovered until a
late hour this morning Contents OF the
safe were found strewn about the floor
OF the office and the money missing The
police were called, but II appeared that
no clue had been left by the burglar.
store Room Robbed,
Az II. Grungor 1907 South Twenty-aixta
street was about TO make ready for this
opening Of bakery at 1874 South Twenty
sixth street, thieves entered the vacant
store room sometime between April Il
and 20 and stole most OF the merchandise
therein installed ready for the opening
day Grunger reported 10 Sergeant JamsA
sheahan who investigated, found that
several rolls Of wrapping paper linoleum
and other equipment for new store room
we're missing, also tools OF all descrip
ton.
II was discovered that the back door
Of the place had been broken open.
nowiers Open Tourney.
-Four flve-man teams OF the stock Yards
league Of the South side will open the
annual handicap tourney Ut the Bruins
wick alleys at Twenty-fourth and "
streets. South Side qt o'clock this even
ing. The Sheep Barn euro Mineral
Springs Clay Robertson ane swft &
co. puintets will roll In The initial series
Of the annual tourney.
Manager ilurb Carlow and Assistant
Ben Hull have completed the entire
schedule which will last five days, carry
ing the initial rounds in team meets
doubles and singles. The singles viii NOT
open until Thursday evening At $50
o'clock. when the latter half Of that even
ing and all Of Friday evening VIII be
devoted TO entrants IN this division.
An entrance fee Of 50 cents pet event
will be charged all bowers, the only
restrictions being that the entrant he
South Side bowler and be able TO verify
his usual score 90 that reasonable
handicap can be given II necessary. The
scale has already been set up and every
entrant will be given q square deal The
schedule for this evening follows
Monday, April a.
FIyE-MAN TEAMs-s r. NJ
euro Mineral Springs.
Clay Robertson,
Swift g. Co.
DoUBLEs-io.l5 +. NJ
Grove and Heft0n.
Anderson and Kasper
Stork and Wilkeraon.
Hanson and Maloy.
DOGBLES-fi r. NJ
Knoski and Parker
Cain and G. p. Heafey
Gillen and Robinson
Thomas and Burke
Work nj Armour Plant.
An entire first-story OF the new Ar
mour g. company office building has been
erected on the company cite at Thirtleth
and q streets. The building wil he q
beautiful brown brick interlaid h stone
pillars and fancy stone architecture. II
is set back more than thirty feet from
the street pavement and will be SUR
rounded by lawn when completed. The |
structure will be one OF the largest and
finest OF office buildings in the South
Side.
When completed In July the local COM
pany offices will be moved at once
from their present location IN the cen
ter OF tho main plant bordering Q street |
10 the new building. The present office
building will be torn out and large
six or seven-story structure built In its
place as soon as possible. This building |
will be devoted TO an ice plant. cold stor-
age and machinery departments.
Funeral of child.
Herbert. l-year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs
John Roose, 25lS q street died yester-
day afternoon at the home OF the par
ents. The funeral will be held this after
noon at o'clock at the residence, In
torment being al 81. Mary's cemetery.