Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 9, 1885, Page 8

THE CITY (OUNCIL MEETINC, A Remarkably Short and Peacefal Session Held Last Evening. UNITED STATES COURT DOINGS. Notes Gathered in Police Circles—A Few Lines on Lauer—Happens fngs of A Day Intereste ingly Related Local Legizlators, It was a littie after th the city conneil was eall evening by President Beehel, The gnow outside lipd detdined a number the councilmen, and they entered the cham ber slowly and one ata time. Finally a quorum was on hand and the meeting was open. The members present were Mossrs, Behm, Bailey, Dailey, F Goodms b, Leeder and ler, The order of busi noss was then taken up. ETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS, From the mayor, announcing his ap. proval of certain ordinances passed at the Jast meeting. Also appointing Mar. tin Kelly o spe coman at Boyd's era house, Conlirmed m the eity physician, reporting the number of deaths for the monta ot No- 1 to order lnst of s inspector, reporting that < during the month showed 3 poor for ag it padsed through the meter: more rapidly than coal gas and be of better quality. rous complaints ind been received apout high gas bills during the month, and recommended that the council take action to compel the gns company to produce better gas. Refer k1ol of the tire d thie g0 port also the auditor, approving the bills I t. - Bills allowed From business men on Fifteenth asking that the sidewalks be cle the corner of Fifteenth and where théy are now blockaded with building material. Referred to the bourd of public works with power to act, From the Barber Asphalt Paving com- pany, asHing for\the Ynymemm the ten per cent reserve due them, amounting to 9,100.83, Referved. From the mayor, appointing apprais- ers to assess damages to property by changes in sev streets and also by the crection of a viaduct on Tenth street. Conti From the' ¢ty ,enginecr, submitting a Jat of the” proposed boulevard around he city and making certain recommen- dations. Referred to a special committee of fi From apptaisers, n-;mrliu;: the dam- ages to property by widening of Harney street, from Nij enth to Twenticth, at ls,xm, and_on Ni ‘arnam to Harney, RE: By Goodman fire department and the committee on fire and water works be instructed to make such’tests’ of hydra engble them to determine th apacity and usefulness for fire protection and whether the re complies with that contracted for with the city, and that a report of the exumination be made to the conncil. Referred. By n:m.f ~Lacating a hydrant at Sev- enteenth dhd Paul'sircets. Referred By Lee—That the committe on fire and er works inquire into the cause of the ident which occurred the ap, atus by reason of the ¢ light w coming in contact with the ci b' i December 3, what authority fire lizht wires occupy the same pol and report what add tional legislation i I’ fully protect the city, tolegraph and telephone comps the constant source of danger from said electric ight wires occupying our streets. Adopted. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES, Police: ’k«‘vfm mending that the bill of E. D. Meadimber for the patrol wagon be paid, as the president of the board of education had refused to sign the warrant, and Mr, Meadimber was in need of the money; the amount to be re- funded by the hoird of education as soon 8 it could be paid. Referred to the city Recommending that the pointment of George Irimble as police- man and driver of tho patrol wagon be confirmed. Adopted. Police—Recommending the allowance of several: il out of the general fund, which the auditor had OK'd to be paid out of the police fund. A general dis- cussion followed on the amount of money in the pol fupd Lo pay the oflicers The report anwnded 50 'us to pay the money out of the police fund, and was then adopted. Paving, Curbing, and Guttering— Recowmeiding the aduption of Alr. e's resolution in regard to the adve tising for various paving material, with the amendments made by the commit- tee. Adopted. A olution by Mr, Bailey innlrllctin¥ the cilg engineer to prepare a plat showing all the portions of the scveral streets named in Lee's resolution, was alsq adopted A resoliion. by . Mr, Dailey was d, that the “committee on claims tuin the cost of the ment, and how the ay be decreased third time and passed. President Bechel announced the mem- bers of the bouvelard committee as Schroeder, Dailey, Furay, Goodrich, Goodman, | The council then adjourned, UNITED STATES COURT, Small Business of the Day—A United Three small ¢riminal cases were dis- posed of by Judge Dundy yesterday follow Sol Kissell, selling liquor to Indianse pleaded guilty but first offense, fined $1.00 and costs and placed in custody of the marshul for twenty-four hours; Wm. Flynn, selling liquor without license, pleaded guilty, fined $25; Abram Colen, selling cigars without license, pleaded guilty, fined $10, Judge Dundy then took up the suit of Caroline E. Doud vs. the Union Pacific Ruilway Co. On February 2, 1842, Wm. W. Doud, a wood chopper, was run down gyaluw)umli\'v and killed in the Unicn acific yards at North Platte. His widow sued tho Gompany for an indem- nity of $5,000, but the jury returned a verdict in favor of the defendant. The case of Lucia Knut vs. the United Btates was then taken up and was still on when court adjourned. The suit is for 5,000 damages, which Mrs, Kunt, an oid Iady, claims to have received by fall- ng :;fl‘u\c platform of o train at ‘North nd. District Attorney Lambertson filed a suit yesterday in ‘the circewit conrt, under th tlo ““The United States vs. the adiini; stovs af Geovge E. Dorsey, deceased, Ilu 1and oflice at Bloom- orsey entered upou his , 1878, ‘and - continued b “ | dgath this year. His & “l rlage of $3,800.11, l torney now sues the ale for the smount. The 1sual time when | administratore are Charles Dors» Lincoln and W Dor Beatrice, The sureties npon the offlcial bond are the following: Thomas Vallentine, Is Sheppardson. Wm. MeBride, Sanford R. tuzee, Daniel Fuller, James T. Ream Paris A. Wiiliams_of Riverion, Ernest Arnoldand Jos, L. Mumpower, of Bloom ington; 1 Muilaly, Alfred T. Smith Matthew W. Blackburn and John N Lucas, of Republican City POLICY COURT. hings for Money to Morning Cases. prisoners in court terday was one who answered s name of Lo M. Day., He was a mid A man, with gray hair and gen- eral brok On s shabhy elc of pawn tickets Day,” said the 'd with being don’t kne out,” was the r tand work for coi live on Davenpo Thivteenth st e Pawned His Gamble With Among th lice to n down 1w ound a earance 108 We number judgo, grant w you make that ‘I am a cacpenter ictors in this eity, between Twelfth and Last night wis coming out of Higgins' mtending to go lome and the poliee eollared me “How is it that you scemed to have ned everything you've got?” asked dge. eil, 111 tell you jnst between yon and me, judge. Gamblin bestof me. Lwork hard to and then [ throw it aw Day promis away from this condition the ju Joe Burns, drank discharged, aud was man, on the same enurge. John Powers and John Dailey, two itors from Walioo and Springtield re- ly, had come to Omaha_and got nendous spree here. They were sed on n promise to leave town at “you are ch 3 charged with intoxica- |im|.{l d tine of £1 und costs. 0. L. Wilson, ¢ 1 with vagrancy, was discharged upon un earnest promise to seek work at once, Lon Hewitt, the incorrigible uttle tough, was sentenced to jail for ten days for petit larceny, but penalty was sus- pended. G Clubbed by a Block Watchman. Jake Heitman, a block watchman on rrested about 1 o’clock this morning on complaint of Jim Me- Quade for assault and battery Accord ing to McQuade’s story Heitman entered a restaturant where the former was eat- ing oys with him and create a_distarbance, In this he did not succeed and soon left the restaurant. When MeQuade was on the way home he saw Heitman standing in a doorw |} when the latter jumped upon McQuade and strack him “with a billy. The latter ran, but an ovestook him and struck him again on the head. Heitman, however, says McQnade the aggressor. Botli men were locked up in the city jail for the nce of the night. McQuade’s head shows the marks of the billy by two cuts. He says he be- lieves Heitman irtended to hold him up und rob him, as he had just vn bis month’s pay and had it in his pocket. Selling Lignor to Minors. For some time the police have looked upon John O'Connell’s saloon on South Tenth strect as a low dive which ought to be suppressed—a resort for boys of bad and indiferent characters. It has been openly charged by che police, fur- thermore, that the place is a notorious center for the young thieves who are con- stantly committing depredations through- out the city, Marshal Cummings is de- termined to break up the place and yester- dn{_ he swore out a warrant against the 0O’Connells on the charge of selling liquor to minors, Itis claimed that the case against tho proprietors of this place is conclusive, a3 the police have been to work for some time sceuring evidence. Mrs. O’Connell, in whose name the license is issued, was arrested durmg the after- noon and taken to police coort, where s trial was fixed for Friday next. A Sixteenth Street Robbery. Tt was e headquarters yesterday that Marsh's butcher shop, on Cuming and Sixteenth streets was enter «ed by burglars Monday night. The proprictor had left the shop carly in the evening, the win- dow n, the safe not closed. in cash was taken from the till, besides some articles of minor value. A Compromise, The Higgins case came up for trial yes- terday atternoon n police court. After some parley Mr. Higgins agreed, if all the suits against him were_dismissed, to pay the fine in the case where he was con- victed and appealed, and to pay the cost in all other cases, and to obey the law in the future. The last number of the Police Record & notice to the effect tha H. rman, a notorious thief, had bre trom the punltcllli:lr,l in Mississippi. Ackerman was well known in Omaha, where part of the time he went under tne alins of Marx, He figured conspicuously in the Hanley-Fell prize fight, and was the first man to draw his revolver in the grand melee which attended that event. I Cummings recel yesterday Lfrn: a in Notfolk, Neb., who signs solf Michael Meylan, asking intmenf on the Omaha pol ering a bond of from $30 to #1,000, should he be accepted. He suys he has been reading the Omaha pa- pers, and infers from certan artices n that there isa probability that the police fores will be increused by at least ten men Ahappy wedding was held Monday evening at the South Teath street Meth- odist parsonage. . Edward G, Fow- ler performed the ceremony in which the popular William Hutton and Miss Sarab Cathro were made hushand and wife, LAUER AND THE PUBLIOC, Mr. Thurston Afraid of a Habeas Cor- pus—*Popular Feeling. Hon. J. M. Thurston said yesterday when questioned as to his future pro- ceedings in the Lauer case, that he was not yet determined what course to take, “Iam prepared to enter action fora habeas corpus, but I do not feel that it would be good policy to release Mr. Lauer. I wust learn the full drift of public fee in‘g in_ this matter, It might not be s or Mr. Luuer to be abroad y. Some of these mur- n him- A atening letters might do him in, An old time citizen who has bes Omaha ever since the days of Indian seaves and has observed every phase of popular emotion here under stress of the numerous exciting episodes in the city's history, langhed leudly when Mr. Thurstou's solicitude was mentioned to Lim yestorday morning, “In the tivst place,” said the old-timer, “‘those menaci letters are written by some eranky wag who is totally sponsible and has not the faintest inten] tion of executing the blood-thirsty threats he makes. His ouly aim is to have some fun at the eapense of the timorous recipients of lus notes and the more fuss they raise the wore be g has got'the o | for | THE OMAHA DATI and the more he are about ready tc drop the tragedy as & theme of cnrrent 1l Jeave it to the courts to set will laugh mutter and not in oo heaithy light either. As 1o Laver and s husiness r | nothing develops, He has resigne Ot works, but lis accounts not yet s His successor has not been ‘avpointed and the work is run- ning without any superintendent any lations from ASSISTANT TRAFFIC MANAGUHR. The Rumor Relative to General “reight Agent Shelby, The publication in a morning contem- porary relative to P. P, Shelby, general freight agent of the Union Pacitie, is a preverted and too utterly premature at tempt at a statement of facts, The writer the impression through an | erroncous construction of the purposes of the comps It has been ramored repeatedly that the fiest day of the com ing year will witness some changes in the tratie department of the Union Pacitic. Nothing of the details of the ins has ever been made publie and probably not more than one or two of the general oficer y advised of them. has been, however, obtained I'he underst that the west it ever from, the opi L M. Shelby would for emigration. The g itagent coming next to the 8 gorin trallie importance, it is not her without judgment that Mr. Iy was settled upon by the rumorist, wlthough the rumor may be radically g e, Shelby left night before last for California and eould not be personally interviewed on the subject. An Impostor Ventilated. A newspaper correspondent by the name of W. V. Rooker h: en tit to ve tilate his grievances in a loeal paper, con- cerning his alleged mistreatment by the managing editor of the Ben, The ¢ of his outburst is the following letter: OxanA, Neb., Noy. 20, 1885, —New York Worid, Managing Editor: We understand i V. V. Rooker is in the habit of hav- s addressed to him in eare of the thus conveying the ide . This individug ver with this paper to him in e eived at this office nor get on whatever, Yours trul OMAUA D Per Managing Editor, On the face of it Rooker is a very much abused individual. A b foutline of his i ill show that we were aking ste1 preeantions. Rooker made his appearance .m Omahu some time last spring letter of in- troduction from the uss t manager of ated press in Chicago. e ) \Invli(-:lliml for the position of nigh t editor of the BiE, and was engaged atn high salary upon the representation he had be was then night ed- itor of the Chie himself as fully qualiticd to do the work of managing editor, in addition to hand- ling ths telegraphic s He also presented that he getting $35 *hicago News. In due t turned out that Rooker was an and blow-hard. Mr. Melville editor of the Chicago N pronounced him an impudent The wt was he b been night editor, nor @ of the Chicazo New. slesraph od a week, At the time he a he was out of employ- .z been discharged by M, Stone for reasons best known to himself. His work on the was entirely unsat- isfactory. He was incompetent even for the handling of the_telegraph. He ney- er wrote a line of editorial, or performed any work outside of revising telegraph. This is neither here nor there, however, and we should never have referred to it but for his impudent card. Vhien looker was with this paper he ob- tained special telegraphic correspond- ence from several papers on the strength of his conncction with the B D s superior news facl ! ft the paper he adroitly keptup ap- arances as an editorial employe u‘ the He fumbled among our dispatel rgraph oflice, and had orders 15 addressed to himself in of the B as stated in the 1 gives him such offense. After patiently submitting for some months to ais impo- sitions it was thought best to advise the New York World that he_was no longe connected with the B We had a right to protect ourselves against such sneaks, and should not hesitite to do so again under like circumstances, Death of James B, Charlton. James B. Charlton, for ten years a cit- izen of Omaha, died at his residence, at Seventeenth and Davenport streets, as 6 o'clock yesterday. Mr. Charlton was stricken by paralysis on last Friday even- ing, gradually sinking from thut time until the hour of his death, He was born in Huntington county, Pennsylvama, in 1318, but spent boyhood and the earlier part of his manhood in Washington county, Pennsylvania. In 1800 he removed with his family to Mon- mouth, [lli , where b ided until 1874, In 1875 he b, Whe he has since re An carnest, -d d g not in all his \equaintance an enemy, or 1 him ns anght but a His good nam y of a life smgu- fanlts the her- his . His Charlton, well known and Christian ing lnu*%vu Omaha Bk, in the te for spee wide 1 | one who mun of ;nn[l arly fre itage _he wite, Mrs, L. ( umong the tempe workers of Omu mourn his loss parture. His child B s harlton, assistant ge cket agent of the Wabash at St. Louis, J. B, Charl- ton, Jr., connected with the sume road at the sume place, Mrs. Mary Grace Ed- holm, Alex. G. Charlton, with MeCague Brothers, and Louden Charlton, with the National. ‘The funeral will take place from the United Presbyterian chureh, hteenth and California strects, at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning, where seryices wil be conducied by Rev. E. B, Graham, Affairs In Salt Lake City, “The battery B sent out from Fort Omaba on Saturday,” said a well posted army man to a reporter to-day, *will not return to this post. In fact it belongs at Fort Douglas. There is no need for it here, Gen, McCook, the commandant at that post, has long been apprehensive of Mormon troubles, and he thinks that with the aid of Major Raweles and his magnificént little company he can more y suppress any insurrection. No, [ don’t think that _any more troops will be sent ont from Fort Om: n fact, don’t believe that we sk ar any more of the Mcrmon troubles, for a time ui least.” Gen, Howard, porter yesterday at Salt Lake not received that poiut yesterday. hear, he aid, “tho when asked by a re- about the situation said thut he had any _ reports from “From allthat I can is no ground for ous trouble. Any McCrook might taken to suppress riots und prevent Y_BEE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER | bloodshed were taken Becanse he bo- | lieves that an ounce of prevention is worth a po of cwre. Further than | that I ean say nothing." Mr. A. B. Fllingsworth, who yesterday from Salt Lake, where he is engaged in business, said that the Mor mons were wrought up to a fever pitch of excitement. Some of the more hot headed, he said, were in favor of precip- | itating ‘an out-und-out war, while others | of the cool and conservative are inelined | to deprecate the action of their more hasty brethren “I'do not thi ved that thete will be he remarked in ¢ L perhaps, a few McCook and the go ought to be able to suppress casily any el SOUTH OMAHA, Second Annual Mecting of the care Yesterd The second annual meeting of the trustoes and bondbolders of the South Omaha Land syndicate-the company which owns the site of the new town of South Omaha—was held yesterday in the oftice of the on Thirteenth stroot v prosided, and M retary, were sacretary orge B t I, Boston; Augus is. 1. Anth h I'rank, Chi- 5. Rog Omabia: Richard, New York; (] Washington Hlinois; Jo 0. The report of the soeretary was read and adopted. It ghowed a marvelously prosperoas condition of affairs and gave promise of great things in store the young community. One hundred and ixty-two town lots und 157 acres have been sold since the formation of the syn- dicate in May, 1838, These sales repre sent receipts to the amount of 128,100, The property in the town has appreciat- ed $598,807.05 since the beginning, upon the original inyestment — of § 5,000, Thus in less than twc rs the valuation has almost tripled and is now estimated at close to a round million. The ex- penditures reach $15,000, of this $35,000 was for erworks, and the system in the town is one of the best in the coun- try. Following are the trustees and officers: T - W. Humil- ton, W. pl 1. M Woolwa Oflic L wmilton, vice etary; n treasurer; M. A. Upton, assistant secretary and n ager; L. M. Anderson, superintendent, Smit wn, president, C. W. 1 prosident; Thos Swobe, Murph, Opening Display Of HOLIDAY GOODS, Wednesday afternoon and evening. J. A FULLER & CO. 14th and Doug Hebrew Benoywlent Ball, The Hebrew Bencvolens socicty i a grand ball and concert at Mctropolitan hall to-night. The affair prom- ises to be one of the most brilliant thus far of the season and the salr of tickets Indicates that the attendance will be iarge. _Lae Musical Union erchestra will pre- side with harmony and the following ladies und gentlemen will participate in the concert: Mrs. M. Michaels, Mrvs, A. Jucobson, Miss Minnie Rothschild, Mr Thos. J. Pennell, Mr. Will Taber and Mr, D. Bacer. Following is the committee Meyer, Mrs. M. Hellman, Mrs. M , Mrs. Adolph Meyen, Mrs. 5 Irs. 8. Knlisn, Mrs. cwater, Mrs. w, Mrs. A. Polu 5. Reichenber, —— Opening Display OF HOLIDAY GOOL Wednesday afternoon and evening. J. A, FULLER & CO th und Do e Ben Hogan, The meeting Monday eve in the M. E, church in Blair was largely attended by all classes of people. Mr. Hogan spoke for nearly three-quarters of an hour— subject—"*Blind Bartimeus'—which was fairly interesting and instructi The spiritual interest in the meeting was good. Some fifty were seeking and about forty professed a change of ~heart. The meeting will be conducted by Mr, Hogan during the week. e D Opening Display OF HOLIDAY GOODS, Wednesday afternoon and evening. J. A, FULLER & CO., 14th and Doug Tulius Biler 4N 5. . Sehaw, Burr Oaks, The cozy little Peaple’s theatre was crowded Monday night, on the occusi the third presentation of the st g melodrama “*Burr Oaks.” It is not nee- essury to 4y of the J’I"‘v in detai its strong points are familiar to every theatre-goer 1t is well handled by the company, and will doubtless continue to draw good houses this we - Opening Display OF HOLIDAY GOODS, Wednesday afternoon and J. A, FULL] —— A Small Fire, A cottage occupied by a widow wo- man on Seward strect caught fire about noon yesterday and burned to the ground. The fire department was summoned, but |u‘?ul:uu to be of assistance. Loss about - Opening Display OF HOLIDAY GOODS, Wedncsduy noon and evening. J. A FULLER & CO dth and Douglas. e Broke His beg, Mr.J. C. Aldrich, employed in the Novelty Tron works, slipped on the pave- ment near the corner of Fourteenth and Dodge yi 1y and smstained a frac- ture of his leg i twoplaees. He was ro- moved to his homerin North Omaha, where he is now under medical care. His 1wjuries are quite serious. *“That was a swell sffalr at Smith's,” gaid one mun to amethar on the t cars, “Whut was it?" was the question, “a boil,” said the joker. Th: swelling could soon have beem weduced by St Jacobs Vil, Atthe Ridfk, Westbrook and Hacker gave a splendid performance at the 1 lust night. Their feats were the most diicult, each one harder to perform, seemingly, than the preceding one. el new (urn wus greeted by the audience with rupturous applause, A Scandinavian-American Pancr. Capt. C. J. Lindstrom, reeently of the Swedish Tribune, Chicago, is in the city. He expects to associate himself with Stromshurg ation of i new weekly, to Eaoglish langua journulists of long and will do their venture. first issue will be out in about ten’ days, aud will be one of 10,000 copies gentlemen wi varied exp rnor | 9, 1885, ELTIES IN ELEGAN AND HIGH ART At the Only Misfit clothing Parlors, 1119 Farnam Streat, which would prove a variety to any man’s eye when in search of clothing. 76 FUR BEAVER AND CHINCHILLA OVERCOATS To be sold for less than the cost of material which the garmeut contains at the Only Misfit Clothing Farnam Street, 34 KERSEY AND MELTON OVERCOATS oselect from, consigned to the Parlors to be sold for less than the cost of material. Parlors, 1119 Farnam Street. 93 FOUR-BUTTON CUT-AWAY SUITS Made from Corkscrew Worsteds, Plain Worsteds, Cassimeres, fancy and plain, Cheviots in la Parlors, 1119 At the Only Misfit Clothing est designs to be sold for less than cost of material which they are made from at the Only Misfit Clothing Parlors, 1119 Farnum Street. 603 PAIRS PANTALOONS Made from Worsteds and Cassimeres, cut in auy style man can des material at the Only Misfit Clothing Parlors, 1119 Farnam Street. 89 SACK SUITS cribe, to be sold for less than he can pur chase the raw Cut from imported and domestic fabrics in Cut-Aways, Straight Cuts, Double-Breasted and Don Pedros, to be sold for less than the raw material can be bought for ouiside of the Only Misfit Clothing Parlors, 1119 Furnam Street. 56 Prince Albeit, Chesterfield, Prince William’s and Full-Dress Swallow-Tail Coats and Vests To be sold to the person they will fit for less than the cost of material. SEE THEM. Parlors, 1119 Farnam Street. At the Only Misfit Clothing 48 NEWMARKET AND SURTOUT'S OVERCOATS These are rare, not to be foundoutside of the Only Misfit Clothiug Parlors, 1119 Faruam Strect. PANTAILOONS At $2.90, $3.20, $3.65, $4.15, $4.556. $5.00, $5.60, $6.85, $7.40, $8.20, 9.70. SUITS As a guide wo me » $6.30, At $9.80, $10.40, $11.60. $12.45, $13.00, $14.40, $15.00, $15.70, $16.70, $17.60, $18.20, And others more expensive. Each were made to order bva mer- chant tailor for double the amount to be sold for. OVERCOATS At $9.40, 210.20, $11.60, $12.20, $13.30, $14.80, $15.50, $16.80, ¥18.80, $20.60, $23.80, $25.10, nd others more elegant the syace could describe. N. B.—Cousignments by express received daily consisting of Pantaloons, Suits and Overcoats, AT THE ONLY MISFIT CLOTHING PARLORS TARIT.ANM ST. 111g