Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 18, 1886, Page 2

g & A BIG SENSATION EXPECTED / Th fon Going THE PRISONERS HELD IN IRONS. One of Them Reported to Have fe- vealed t Being Leaving Sionx Ux Crry egram to the the alert to Jury proceed The ry ha two prisoner being kept | Several pr stood in torney Gene Des Moine t Dodge, b westigation, secrecy and will justify the actior dict has bee! to be rendered at any hour now A number of arrests will be ma vorted and g that King divt 1t involves a nun themselyes togeth lnid careful p mitted Mrs. Leavitt, wife of the proprictor of the variety theat wlicated, and Sunday night, was interviewed to-day, and claims that he left merely to look location to open a theatre a few days, his whel 18 render greater t morning and AlL wer isequen some of the to the further le tion matters. Lying for MorNEs, DEs Telegram to Schafer of th interviewed in the city to<lay in the prosecutions for violations of the prohiv- He says that the board proposes itory law to prosecul turns his store into a saloon, as quite a num- ber are charg “ stores it is reported that druggists sell beer v for medicinal purposes on. appli- and whis cations signed by the Garfield, George Washington, Governor Lar- rabee, Senatd hibitory law), Wwhose names An cximinati ceneral dealer in liquors who is | he board of culinary and that during of than 9,000 dis tempt was made t s thought that a t issued aga AW Krokus, I gram to the Koerner was doorway at h . fore, after having b maltreated hi: in two small kicked them out a man wl cecded to close up the house. Iast seen of Koener alive and the woman and children fled where they remained during the night, This they returned, and forcing an en- mornin trance into th and father hanging liteles that he had taken an ordir stood upon a chair, that part of wrapbed the times, not tying & noose inir away and s tho ¢ eternit; Fighting Street Rallways. MoINES, “Pelegram to the Br probability of a vi tween the owners of the old narrow gauge company and the new broad gauge company. To-duy the old company, which claims the right under an old ch they please without asking permission,heard DE: that the new Fourth street to get to the d old company s, and Hon abouts, bring him back soon. 1 the n ever known he Injunctions weré 1ssued by the o he « Closed spirncy—Saloons nd Saloonists lowa News ‘ City in Expectation, | T, Auziist 17.-[Spec of th were gratified on all day. The Walterling, are 1 irons in the adjoinin titutes with whom the men 150 on hand under arrest. At 1l Baker is again here from M. D. 0'Connell, of returned to assist in the in- Both gentlemen still caution are satisiied that future results Jf the Jury, The ver 1 expected all day, and is likely when quite Itis re- believed on the streets d the conspiracy and that her of men who_associated ., raised a fand, and then 1 hired the murder com- il Tel non | da, ner's ngs, but e been in sessi s, King and | room. | n s erally lans g e, who Is supposed to be in who left the city unexpectedly up A new nd will return in ¢ knowledee of andexpect to n as the verdict ct a sensation The police b however. citizens exy bout thirty saloonists 1k of the court this in_the hands of th during the day, and closing, and ng town and favo hle inst i placed sery : the saloons ar prop a prominent attor- en engaged o attend sal business in- the injunc- heir Liquor. August [Special Bik,] — Commissioner pharmacy was regard to Ia the o state board of to every druggist who ed with doing. In many drug names of James A, or Clark (the author of the pro- and_other prominent men re forged for the purpose, 1 of the returns made by one ensed by supervisors o sell for medicinal, acramental purposes, shows nonth he had m ales of liquor 4 ave him enjoined, and it mporary injunction will inst him. ne tin ife Beater S BEr,]—This morning found dead hanging in an inner is cigar factory. The night be- en and shamefully s wife and children, who lived rooms back of the shop, he out of the shop, and then drove ho was 1 the shop, and pro- This was tho to the house of a mneighbor, \e shop discovered the husband They found clotlies line. fastened the line upon the partition over the door, o line about his neck several and then kicked ung himself into In., August 17.—Speclal —There is a_ strong orous street car fight be- rter to go on any street broad gauge was coming down pots. So the laying track on nastily began the unoccupied street to shut the new com: pany out. ‘up W withi lnmy'n road feared, but th stop for the present eity council and the courts, is taken in “The latter laid their track right n a few feet of the other com- and a hostilo collision was he new company concluded to ud fight it out in the Great interest 1o outcomne, The Creston Reunion, CRESTO gram to the B In., August 17.—|Special Tele- —The city is in gala attire and the decorations of business houses and residences are elaborate for the opening day of the reunion of vete) Jowa and train is load At loast five city. Th v tiul Gene norning. T next two days. Vir Dis MoINF egrau to the wholera has broken out in the northeastern part of this “number of at much alarmed. WILL THIS SULT THEM? A Disgusted Editor Tries to Please the N Estelline ble with a about how tices spuld to plense w which we of column, pearls of th want it: A pale young man with dark, flashing eyes was procceding side of a through the cool and leafy retreats of a dense but iviting grove munsion. Piobite Fails. The Druggist hi a fair young girl swinging mock. She was the picture of Sho iness. Huwlinfi as he did startled, aln don me,” call your attention to s twerhal Ca Meware of Im a little, which she was reading slipped from he “You must recollc hand, gan, “that Your - acquuin an '1" yapepsin s Cu Harpooner of Hoarsen ns of southwestern northwestern Missou led with vetera thousand sf Sheridan arr will be a to-morrow el nd time the ul Hog Cholera, es, Ia., August 17, —[Special Tel- BEE.]—A violent form of hog coun nimals, carrying off e large The farmers are very - ew York Advertisers, Bell: Hayving had some trou- New York advertising firm some of their medicine no- run, and being determined have fixed up the following, Il publish eowtf2wipdg, top among heavy editori fi ayd hought or any ‘other way they cautiously along little brook which flowed near a statoly not goue far when for Consumption Nover great Pulver Ask your 5 attention tracted by in o b He I did not - dr b | Busters, 50 shie looked up with u timid, most pleading glance. -~ “Par’ said our hero, “but 1 wish to | Sagenen’s Ca Yours for Health. She drew back | ilo vorter ions.” and the volume of “‘Lu t, sir, I have not the ce, but moe of Dr. Bnorter's Destroyer, tria Bottle at the nuine 18 Blown in the " she be- honor of | if you I will listen,” The young man did but drew still nearer and sat down on a grassy hillock Her rare beauty Get Walloper’s Liver Leveler and Cast [ron Bitters for Infants and Invalids had completcly entranced him and Beer and Plug T habits Permanently cured. No Publicity, Address Dr. Van Quacker forgetting himself for the time he gazed up in her great fiquid eyes till Try Muggins' Cancel . she turne her Hair B first consc Spav n sken B s, Cramp. In inity, Glanders and other of the Throat and 1 try Biik's Pain Astonisher and Paralyzer that he had per Purify the Blood with Whang's System Renovaror and Drink Hops and ras Coflin Varnish and try Profes cmetery's Celebrated Rough on Life salve and general Digestion Awak ener and Human Race Esterminator Cleans ont Men, Women, Children, ote Don't die in the House, Druggist TWO REMARKABLE MEN, Cork not answer “for the Pink Eye Diseas The Roebl ings and_the Bridges They Have Built, Pittsburg Post: I worked with John sling on the Sixth street bridge in and on the Cincinnati bridge said Louis Yeager Roebling was a wonderful man How many persons, do you suppose, know how the cables of the Sixth strect bridge are anchored. 1 don't suppose that one man ten thousand who crosses the bridge daily, could tell It is a wire cable ~bridge. The cablos are compnsed about five hundred strands of wire. In the anchor every one of these wires is separ ately an chored. An iron pin was driven into the stone foundation and the end of the cable unwrapped and each individual wire wrapved around one of the pins. Oyer all of it lead was poured until the whole iented into a solid mass. No : strain is put upon the bridge ables can never be pulled from their horage. Over all_there rests a solid wall of “stone that fifty heavi trains conld not lift, “The Cincinnati b job than the Sixth caker went on, A man who had to go into t would have done well k It was my duty Lo super- intend the laying of the p nd 1 used tosit in the wire basket the rheumatism reach every body and wonder if it wis T sury that men should kill the the benefit of humamty. Mr, Roebling was one of tie most considerate men that t ever knew. Once when [had one of my fingers crushed in the laying of u stone he told me to take care of my finger and let the work go to the dogs. When he would see me around the work he would come up and ask mo how I felt, and tell me to g0 home that I wasn’t losing any money, but that I might lose a_tinge i nt it that w. My ary went on all the same, and the sur- geon’s bill was paid by Mr. Roebling, nd [ was given extra compensation for having been hurt.’’ “I didn’t work on the great Brookly: bridge, which was built by Roebling son,” but I would like to have been there If I'had been working there I would hav objected to young Roebling spending so much time in the pits. He knew as well as anyone that it was dangerous to his ife, but he wi ctuated by professional pride, and would not trust the personal supervision of the work to anyone, Ho and his father were the greatest bridge builder: Both of them lost r art, and_it is not ble that there will again be found in the United States two men who will be so solely given up to a purpose.’’ of dge was a worse i 0 Deserted Colorada Towns. ew York Tribune: The evidences of reasein wealth and population that with in the ‘mountains are In every dircction the e rests upon abandoned ranches and de- serted towns. The towns have fared worse than the country from the hegira which followed —the llapse of the mining “boom” five or six years ago. Gunnison was then a prosperous mining camp full of men and money, where even ordinary laborers received ¥4 and §5 for a da; work. Now it would serve as a muni: ment to desertion and decay. ““This will be a good town yet, mark that; there is ])lum._v of mineral 1 _these hills, and somebody will strike it after _a whil aid” a shopkeever to me. It was the old story of hope strug- gling against despair which is so charac- teristic of this mining country. I thought the dairyman I met gave a more truthful picture of it when he said: “Do you see those fellows going down to the river? Vell, they support their families by fish- That's about all there is to do round Gunnison’ now, and when that source of supply becomes exhausted, as 1t vapidly 1s, there won't be much left.” Up near Crested Butte, where they mine the coal that is most’ like the Pennsyl- vania anthracite, an old wood-chopper said a hundred teams used to pass along the road daly. We camped near his cabin one dayand counted three teams passing by, Real Estate Transfors. The following transfers wero August 16, with the county cler! Augustus Kountze and wife to Elien Crom- welletal: Lot block 6, Kountze's 4th add, W 0--8500. Augustus Kountze et a1 to Theodore Olsen etal: Lot 6, block 8, Plain View, w d—8 Larmon P Pruyn and wife 'to Morris J Michaels etal: Lot 10, Prayn’s subdivision of lots 1 to 1 inelusive, in Paulsen’s add, w filed y to P L Sourd 1st add, w d— . - wife to Paul € Olsen: Lots 5 and 5 Lowe' Johu K Potter S 24 ft of out lot Florence S Hascall o' Ciifton M , Kountze's 4th adi, w d—$2.550, ni Murphy et al to Wilbur 8 Dudley : Lots 8 and 9, block 3, Thornburg P v French (exeentor) to Wm O Bar- , Lorbach’s 1st add* q c— Hlizabeth Ann Rogers to Martha M Ish: Lot 21, Rees Place, w d—3$4,500. Dayid Kaufman'et ai to ‘I'he Public: Suo- division of lot 20, Tuitle's sub-plat of Wa- verly add—dedication, Wi O Bartholom field et al: Lot 55, 00, ohn Schroeder and wife to Henry Lage: Lot 10, block 2, Arbor Place add, w d--8! Bauman and wife to Edward S A 'a;'s.n Lot 6, block 1, Omaha View, w d— Susie M Phillips and husband to Ella 8 Olarks Lot 11, block 8, Patrick’s 2d udd, w d B k L Smith to Geo E Wright: anise’s add, w d—§1,500 Nathan Shelton and’ wi , block 1, Windsor Terrace, w d—8300. tverett G Hallou and wite to Wm 8 Rob- ertson: Lot 5, Pruyn’s subdivision of lots 1 to 8 inclusive, 1n Paulsen’s add; also lot 5, block 5, in Ambler Place, w d Charles Harris and wifo to Lot 4. block 6, Ambler Place,w d—8$1,500. Jacob Bechtel to Larmon P Pruyh: Nig fot 10, block 1, Lake's add, w d—$300, Jolin L MeCague and wife to Mattie L Ar- thur: Lot 14, bloek 8, Hanscom Place, w d— $500, Jeremiah O'Hoarn and wife to Sarah Me- Gaire: 5 25 ftof n 52 {4 lot 7, block 11, £V Smith's add, w d—$ Charles W Hamilton and wife to M Cald- well Hamilton: Lot 16, Sunny Sideadd, W 8700, . Daniel Keniston and wife to Wi I Wi inms: Lot 8, block 5, Reed’s st add, w d- $6,500. ? A houso and lot in Boggs & Hill's 2d addition for $1,800. J. B. Evans & Co. w to Charles W Can- Lorbach’s Lst add, w d— Lot A prowminent eitizen walked four blocks to Goodman’s Pharmacy for an **Eueel sior'” cigar, the best nickel cigar in town. For Bargains in Real FEstate gu to Mavne Bros, 1519 Farnam; they have the largest tist an city, 3 OMAHA DAILY | BURIED IN A LAND SLIDE. | Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands Cov- ered With a Peat Bed. THE PEOPLE TERROR STRICKEN. | The Descending Barth Carries Evory- thing Before it and Causcs Whole« Destruction— Only Two Fatalities Roported. sale Under Tons of Mud, WaAsHINGTON, August 17.—Secretary Bay ard patch from the United States con at Tort Stanley, Falkland islands, giving an acrount of a slip ot peat which oceurrea the n t of June2 Ex tending i tire | 1 of the south shore of the harbor, at aslight clevation, is a peat bog, from which the laboring people their fuel. There are no channels which drain the bog, and largze anantities of water collect there during the long rains which at certain asons last for days at a time. For three days vrevious to the disas: ter a rainstorm had prevailed, About § o'clock in the evening the bog began to quake, and with a noise like thunder it broke loose, rushing down upon the town, carrying way everything in its way, blocking up the sets and piling up the peat in_places height of six or eight feet. Solid s walls were rent asunder and everything in its path was swept away, The bewildered and terried population” beli 1 the town was being destroyed by an earthquake, and added their piercing yells and cries for help to the ind ril horrors of the night. The avalanche lasted only an hour. A mass of scattered peat amounting to no less than 50,000 tons lay over the town. A boy of seven and an old man ore lost. The body of the Jatter has not yet been exhumed. Atthe date of the dispateh, fourteen days after the slide, people 1iving near inundated parts, fearing another disaster, were con- stantly on the alert, The consul's 1 their appreiensions to some extent, as the winter season, when lieavy snows and rains prevail, was at hand. he” citizens of the ?nlun-ub lected £200 for the relief of the principal suf- fere received a di Pprocure Socigiy AT A COUNTRY STORE. A Slow and Careful Way of Transact- ng Business. Youth’s Companion: An eldorly wo- man, with keen gray eyes looking sha ly through steel-bowed spec and casually examines se lawn lying on the couute “Ah, good day, Mrs. H—, saj ttor, coming briskly forward and ting a sale, *looking for lawns?" ‘No, L donoas 1 w the pe sible customer, guard “I was just noticing thes “They're pretty patterns. them n."” “They're all so light.” 2 “Light colors are all the rage this sum- mer. But here’s a black and white piece that's just the thing for you. Now, isn't that neat?” *‘Yes, ruther; but it isn’t just what 1 like. How much is it “Fiftecn cents a_yard." “A'nt that dreadtul hi “Not for lawns of ! dly, - I just got W for lawns?®” quality, Just | Haver!. see how line it is.” ““Yes; but they'ro selling lawns ev'ry mite and grain as good as that in the city at 8 and ¥ cents.” “Impossible, Mrs H——1" “Indeed, they are! And one of my neighbors got 4 good picce for 7 cents, “They arc not such goods as this.” “It’s pretty nigh the same thing. I hadn’t calculated on giving more than 10 cents.” ““Why, Mrs. H—w, this cost more than that at wholesale!” *‘Oh, I guess not. give but 10 cents a “1 can’t take 1 won't give any more “Well, just examine that lawn closely, now.” “It looks well enough, but I an’t at all sure thatit won't fad, “IIl warrant it not to fade. standard and fast colors.” “‘Weil, how many yards are there in the piece?’’ ““Ihirtecn; just & good tull pattern.” “Eleven would be a great plenty for me.” +‘Now, I'll tell you what T'll do. I'll let you have the piece tor fourteen cents a yard, seemng as it's all I've got left.” **Can’t you say an even twelve cents to an old customer like me?'" “No, really, I couldn’t.” “Fourteen cents is too much for lawn that’s selling everywhere for ten conts.’’ “Oh, I think you are mistakon.” “Well, see here I'll give you twelveand one-half cents a yard for it,” “No, I couldn't go below thirteen cents, and wouldu't let anybody but you have it for that.” “Well, Pl give you 13 cents if you'll call it twelye yards." _“‘But there's full thirtcen yards in the piece.” “Well, call it twelve and I'll take it.’ “Can’t do it.” “I reckon you'll throw in threads and buttons and Waist linings?” “Couldn’t do it for that money.” “Well, say thread and buttons, then?®” “1’1l throw in a spool of thread.” “And a card of hooks and eyes? “Well, I don't know—yes, [ will.” “Now, why can’t you sy buttons, too?” 1 really cannot; T'm losing now “And you can't make 1t twely a half cents a yards" $iND1? “Well, L guess I won't takeit. Tan't needing’ a lawn dress this summer, any- how." Anyhow, 1 ecan’t ard.” It's a and Pt 1055 Beuton's Hair Grower All who ate BALD, all who aro becomin, BALD, all who do 1ot want to be bald, all who ure troubled with DANDRU LECHING of the scalp; should uso I s Halr Grower, Eianmyv PER ( of " thoso using it have grown hair. It nover fails to stop the hair rom falling. Through siekness and feyors the hair sometimes talls off in a short_time, and although the person may haye remained bald for years, if you nse Ben- ton’s Hair Grower according to_ directions you are sure of a growth of hair, 1n huu- dreds of cases We have producad a good growth of Hair on those who have been bald and glazed for years we have .ully substan- tiated the following facts We grow Hair in 'S0 eases out of 100, mo ‘matter how long bald. Unlike other preparations, it contains no sugar of lead, or vegetable or mineral ~ " poisons. Itis a specific for falling hair, dandruff, itehing of the scalp. weris a hair food, and its tion Is almost exactly like the oil \ supplies the hair with its vitality. DOUBLE AND TRIPLE STRENGTIL When the skin is very tough and bard, and the follice is apparently effectually closed, the single strength will sometimes fail to reach the papilla: in sueh cases the double or triple strength should be used in_connection with the single, using them alternately. Price, single strongth, 81,003 strength, $2.00; tnple strength, $3.00, Af your m-ulzgx,m ave not got it we will send it srepared on_receipt of price = PP ERTON HAIR GROWER €O, Cleveland, 0, Sold by C. F. Goodman and Kuhn & 16th snd Douxly 15th anl Cumings Oy Talk, Elgutter’s mammoth clearing sale of finc clothing. *Gireat Reductions. Cor. | ¥arnam and 10th. Fair Grouna Privileges. Atl applications for booth dining hail and other privileges on the fair grounds puring the coming fair_should be wade E. P. Davis, 106 and 108 South 14th st - the fumous mind reader, comes well Tells past, adolpl double | present and future. Resides 304 N. 15th St., 2nd N. of Davenport St. In from 8 | 8, . to6p. m. No one received onSun- | dny. Price: Ludics, 35c; gonts, 50c. BEE A GREAT ENGAGEMENT. rols Wntertain and in Tarn Are Bntértained “All ken! Largest number of people ever in''thd house! Lar receipts taken in by afy minstrel com- pany!” Thesc were the nseriptions written by Treasuter Whitmore of the opera house on the Dox office sh which he was triumphantly disy ing among his_ friends. It will ! framed and . proserved by Colonel ck Haverly, as a souvenir of the most successful ‘theatrical en mient ever played in'Orfahs The people began to pour in as e a8 & quarter past seven o'clock eight o'clock all the seats were W n the eurtain rose at eight o'clock there were 1,800 people in the house, and twenty minutes later the number had reached 2,000, Hundreds were turned away by Manager Boya y's minstrel shows and the performanc xception to the rule, Every fea- 8 bright and new, and even in part_no stnuts” were perpe The mu 1 _features took im B Dr. Sawtelle's “St. Bernard Galaxy" of dogs g noyel and highly interesting perfermance. 'The side-split ting burlesque, the “Cigardo” (a bur- lesque on the “Mikado ), formed a fitting finale to the splendid evening's enter- tainment After the performance a reception was given to the members of the company by the Omaha Lodge of E'ks. About one hundred and seventy-tive gentlemen, in cluding members of the company, invited guests'and the Elks, gathered in the hall. At 11 o'cld the health of ab- sent . brethren was drunk by the circle of Elks and from that time on, merriment reigned supreme, An excollent programme of music and recitations was carried out, to which the minstrel men as well as the other guests of the evening contributed. When the hour for parting came everyone left the hall, yoting the social a memorable suc- cess. Mr. A. B. Davenport acted as chairman of the session, while *“Pope Gregory distinguished himself by brilliant n the role of policeman. records br re always Building Permits, Inspector Whitfock 1ssued permits yesterday us follows: Mitchell Fleming, frame shed, 15th and, Cass .. s A, C. Dayenport, iigstory frame dwelling, 11th and Dorcas. : Adolf Schroeder, I-story frame cot- tage, Webster, near 52d..... . ¥ Geo, H. Fitehell, 11-story frame dwelling, 25th, near Leavenworth. . John Meiklineer, 1-story frame cot- tage, 15th, between Center and Dor- cas ... Hugh Flan tage, North Saunders . 8. E. Hopewell, fr 142) Douglas building agan, T-story frane cot- 1, between Clark and fo L) ..8 4250 Personal Paragraphs. Moritz Meyer has returned from Spirit Lake. o Dr. Rebert has réturried from an ex- tended eastern tript 8. H. H. Clark was apassenger on the Lissouri Pacitic sonthward last night. Conrad Youngerman) a wealthy Ger- man citizen of Deg Moines, is at the Pax- ton. o S. G.Seaton, of, Des Moines, superi- tendent of the Anierican express, is in the cit W. W. Higley Higley and_wife, 4 are in the city. prs i, John Honza left estérday afternoon to attend the Nm’thy'NWf:m a soldicrs' re- umion atNorfolk, ' > Father Ryan, of Columbus, the nestor of Nebraska's Catholic clergy, was in the city yesterday. Miss Emma Hultgren, of Bloomington, fll,, is visiting her sister, Mrs. T. Al Hedendahl, at Walnut Hill. Miss Annie E. Haskell. saleslady with Kolley & Stiger, left for the enst yestorduy to spend her summer vacation. Hon, J. M. Wilson, of the law firm of Shellabarger & Wilson, Washington, D. ., 18 here yesterday on his y to Portl- and, Oregon, and other western pomts. Joo W Bishop, jr. of lato bookkeepor for the Central Stove Works, has come to this city to make it his future home, ox- pecting to engage in business of some sort. Sir O. Blakeman, bart., and wifé, of England, passed through the city last night bound for Laramie, Wyoming, where the baronet has extensive cattlo interests, Rev.J. N. Lenker, socretary of the Evangelical Lutheran immigrant mission- ary soctely, with headquarters in - Grand Isfand, arrived in town yesterday morn- ing, on;missionaryabusiness. Messts. J. V. Weckbach, Frank Car- uth, J. D. Simpson, George E, Dovey, A. B. Todd, F. E. Whito and C. W. Sher- man, all 5olid men of Plattsmouth, were in Umaha yesterday enjoying metropoli- tan sights. Genoral O’'Brien left last eveming for Norfolk 1o be present at the soldiers® re union; Mrs. al O'Brien and son M. P., left for Chicago where tho latter will attend the national land league conven- tion,and Nich O’Brien, another son, from Valparaiso, left yesterday for Seattle, Thomas Connors, a leading citizen of Denver, is in the city as the guest of his old friend Patricio Dosmondl” Mr. nors was a popular resident here fifteen years ago and is naturally surprised that Omaha’s wonderful growth makes him a stranger where in the sixties s acquainted with everyone ant passenger arrived from Seven vermits, aggresating —e— #nd wife and Mort_A. Rapids, Ia., agent of the Us Sun, Fr uy, took a cup of coffee and a doughnut and immediately boarded the train_for the Norfolk re- union. Omaha’s Sam scems to have sreater success in winning converts for the righteous Union Pacific as a travel- ers’ route than the two southern Sans with a car load of psalins have in refor- mation railroading.! A Blaze in a Brickyard. A fire broke out In the sheds of Live- sey's brickyard, at. the corner of Thir- tecnth and “Williams streels, at 7 o,clock last evening, The fire department was called out and suppiressed the flames bes fore any serious damage was done. General Badeau says that once, when a member of an Engliah shooting party, he proposcd to send & brage of phensants which he had shot to General Grant, but was told by another guest that it would never do, is the host always sold every one. General Badeau says that this thrifty custom is géne m;. Two car loads of Llinois veterans lomeward bound from Sun Francisco came 1n on yesterday morning’s train. Washburn's best flour, $3 per cwt., ut Heimrod's, ——— FIRST-CLASS ORGANS AT $3; monthly paymients; prices from $36 up, Call at Mux Meyer & Bro.'s. e ——— Bids opened yesterday for Sloman Bros'. stoc 2 L. Kiper & Sons, Atehison, Kan. ... .$30,111 Myer, Bauman & Co., St. Louis, Mo, 29,426 alty & Landrod, Omabia. © 97,000 Wittimau Bros., Lincoln - For West Side lots inqu McCandlish, or at John A. fice. re of Bell & cShane’s of- — Ger Howe & Kens TURE. 1410 DougLas PRICES ON FURNI- [REET. | Deatn 'rich A PEACEFUL, BUSY SESSION. The Oity Fathers Dispose of a Large Amount of Business, GETTING READY FOR A VACATION of An Old-Time Omahan—A Blaze in a Brick Yard—Personal Paragraphs, Brevities and Other Local. A Tusy Session. Alderman Lee's chair was vacant i the city council last night. The fact sevmod to have a sootir upon the belligerent reformer from the Third the mectiug passed off quictly, a la amount ot important patehed in short order. was i weeks' absence, oces of rheumatism A communication was received from the mayor approving ordinances adopted at the last meeting of the council and vetoing the ordinance ovening Center street, as nosuch street exists under the new naming of the streets, The apyointment of John Wakeficld registrar in the Fourth ward and Mat Hoover in the Sccond ward were ap proved The mayor_appomted the following policemen: M. McCarty, P. Gilligan, Arthur Pulaski, John Kobbins, Lews a and Thomas J. Casey, 'The ap- pointments were referred to the commit- tee on_police. Engineer Rosewater roported that plans for the basement of the nev hall had been received. ' of the board of public works was in- structed to readver for bids for the construction of the work OFFICERS OF ELECTION. The following judges and clerks were nominated by the mayor for the special election to be held September 2 ward t distriet: Judges, Ruben, Charles Printzian, John chack; clerks, R. D. Stewart and J. R. andt. ' Second district: Judges, H Ehrenpfort, H. Mathuson, J. D. Jones; clerks, Osear Goodman and Clifford Red tield. Third distriet: Judges, J.T. (’Con- nor, Nathan Booth, Al and Albert Scl rd—lirst district: Juages, honey, G. B. Stryker, Thos. clerks, James Donnelly, sr., .M. Armount. Sccond _district Charles L. Thomas, sulius Rud- sky, John F. Dailey; clerks, August Schroeder and H. W. Keynold: Ihird ward—Judges, E. J. Tillotson, mes Delany, Wm. Linehan; clerks, George H. Livesey and A. Payment. Fourth ward—First district: Judges, Richard Tizard, D. Keyes, Louis Brash clerks, W. P, Peck and Harry D. Reed. econd Judges, D. Keniston, James G. Carpenter; ane and Salon Emery. rst district: Judges, y, John C. Lucas, John . Peter Conner and Second district: Judges, Sohn Knight, G. W. Trim- E. S. Warner and John business being dis Alderman Good attendance, after a two sioned by an attack Timothy Kell Wallace; eler Richard Clai Brice V ball; cle: Buckley. Sivth ward—First Bernhard district. Judges, cnsse, Charles A. W Parker and on. ond district: Judges, John r, L. H. Parker, F. C. Still; clerks, George A. Day and Isaac Van Horn. A number of estimates for paving and other public _improvements were pre- sented by the board of public works and allowed. ‘The question of approving the contract of J. E. Riley for the constraction of the Jones street sewer drew out a warm de- bate between Aldermen Schroeder and Lowry. The matter was finally referred to the committee on sewage. Authority was given to the county commissioners to change the width of the sidewalks on Eighteenth and Nin teenth streets, between Farnam and Har- ney streets. The financial statement of John H. Butler, ex-chief, showing a balance of $287 in his possession, was referred to the committeo on fire and water works. (Gas Inspector Gilbert made a report of ntest he had made of soventy-one gus jots from the strect lamps. Two-thi of the number were sup amount of 20 per cent less than is re- uired by the company’s contract with &e city.” The attention ot the company has been frequently called to this de- iciency but they have paid no_ attention toit. The report was referred to the on gas and electric lights. ANOTHER_INV 1GATION., Ex-Alderman Hascall presented a pe- tition asking the council to cause an in- vestigation of the police force to ascer- tain the names of the members of the police force who have been guilty of con- spiracy and circulating reports for pur- poses of bl ail and intended to in- ure the petitioner’s character, by having published in the Omaha Republican report that - the house known as the *“Cosmopolitan” and owned by the petitioner is a place of illrepute. The item published referred to the finding in tnis city of the two girls who lefvone of the busi- ness colleges in this city. The petitioner nied that the said gifls had ever been in the *Cosmopolitan.” The n T Was temporarily tabled and aftorwards taken up with a resolution offercd by Alderman Sehroeder instructing the city marshal to ascertain where the > had been found and report the same to the council in order to place the petitioner in the proper light hefore the public. A communication s read from L. Kalish, asking for un investigation of the official conduct of Officer Donivan, who had arrested the petitioner without'cause and charged him with drunkenness. Tho petition was refetred to the committee on polico. AFTER THE PROSTITUTES, petition of property-owners com- e that is daily » prostitutes on Capitol avenue in iting themseives in a semi-nude condition, was referred to_the sance. e appointment of J. W. Way and flonry Rohiwer as commissioners of ad- justnient was confirmed. DFE HYDRANTS, ‘Ilie committee on fire and water works reported the result of tests made by them of the capacity of a number of fire hy- drants, showing that the most of them turnish an inadoquate supply os water in oase of fire and also recommending changes in_ the size of the water mains to bo used by the water works company hereafter. Referred to city attorney with instructions to report methods by whien the water works gompany ni be required to comply with their contract with the city. ORDINANCES, A special ordinance making priations for liatnlities incurred nth of August. Pas Deelaring “lhu e ty-eighth ay on, Passed. Laing the necessity of changing the grade of Jackson and Jones strects from Sixth to Ninth. Grades and grad- appro- during ing. Brdering the grading of Twenty-seo- ond strect from Davenport to Cass o { changi colaring the nocessity of changing 1he traie ot Oapitol avetius from. Hlaht: eenth to Twenticth. Grades and grad- ing. Biuunging the grade and ordoring the grading of Harney street from Fifteonth | especialy and | strect to a point 500 fect west of Twen tioth stroet, Grades and grading Creating pavini districts No. 8, 8f, &2, and 81, Paving, curbing and 'gutte iny .( arrowing Twenty-fourth street, from Saunders streot to Michigan street Passed Creating sewer district No and ordering the construction of sewers in said district. Passod Regulating and lice of house moving. I The council then wacks T JLONS' SUNDAY OUT. Omaha's Twelve Mur on a Vacation, have ears, saith some old nd he was in the main correct when the reportorial is stretched to its best Now it so happened that for somo days past tho worthy members of the common council, regardless of party afliliations, style of whiskers and types of manly beauty have been arranging for a little vacation, and they first and fore most solemnly swore on the big book to kecp it a profound sccrot. They were to fold their tents like the Arab and as silontly steal away. Nota reporter was to know of the exodus of bruns, but *'in tho usual way’' the Ber sippod the bud of secret planning and extracted the honey of correct information. There fore in the vi o of booming the ket, for every residenco will be , be it remembered that on Fri y, August 20, A. D, 1836, the aldermen of Omaha will Teave these red shrines in a bedy and depart for Kansas Ci Denver “and Leadville, returning o Cheyenne where an_annex programme will” be arranged. They are to be gone two weeks and will take Clerk Southard with them. This wiil be the first time in its history that the city will be left with- out a single local legislator, and not- withstanding the t that they leave on a Friday and the party will numboer thirteen it 1s to be hoped that they will go through their round of pleasire on “first reading’’ by a unanimous vote and that no inconvenience or mishap will suggoest a veto of the trip’s enjoyment. nsing the business ajdourned for two cipal Senators *Walls tymp anum tension echoing 3. A Lindquest Sued, Bailey &Olsen commencad suit yester- day morning in the district court nst G A, Lindquest, to recover $2,000 still un- paid on the three story buildmg of the latter on Jones street west of Tenth, - “Steepy” in Jail, “Sleepy” Hewitt was arraigned in police court yesierday afternoon charged with an assault upon Mr. Mulhail's boy on Sunday. He plead guilty but asked the privilege of sp eaking in his own be- He said that he _knew all of the crooks in town and had been of great service to the marshal in giving them away. He was on duty regularly at the city jail, until one day he accidentally drovped an umbrella on_Officer Brady’s sove foot. The marshal, who had never forgiven him for faking the chief's watch, then fired him from the jail. He was'given ten days in the county jail. Wants Her Deed. Hattic May Hart has commenced a suit in the district court in which she alleges that on August 14 she contracted for the purchuse from Patrick Morrow 28 feet of the north side of lot 2, biock 6. in Patrick’s first addition to Omaha paying therefor $2,100. Morrow now re: uses Lo deliver her a deed to the prop- erty, therefore the suit. Summer-Night Kejoicing. On next Thursday night the Germama Mannerchor will give a grand summer- night fest in the garden connected with the Stadt-theater on Tenth street. It will be quite a pleasurable entertainment and in it certain members of the excellent comedy company at the Stadt thehter will take part. Sold Mortgaged Property. A warrant has been issued from Justic rka’s court for the of James nd - Walter Lewis, two colorcd s who are charged with having sold a horse and harness that were mortgaged to Frank ¥ Brevities. The rain came to Commissioner Leahy's assistance yesterday and gave the court house steps a sadly needed washing. The police are looking for Charles F. Waterman, who is wanted at Plum Cri {0 answer to the charge of grand larceny Hans Boyson, the vagrant, who has boen kept around the city jail 4s & helper for the past year, is reported to be show- ing markedsigns of insanity in his pres- ent quarters at the poor farm. The mother of the four small boys who were taken to the poor farm from the police station lust night, is reported to be opping at the stock yards. The author- ities have not been able to locate her. Judge Dundy returned yester- duy morning and convened " court in~ chambers yesterday afternoon. Yesterday morning depositions were taken i the West. Point creamery ociations case. Auten & Co.. the great agricultural implement firm of Akron, 0., have an agent here who is try.ng to purchase some land on which to erect & mammoth warchouse to be used as a central depot for the sale of the firm’s goods. A very pieasunt party was given by the «Mngs’ social ciub ai Hanscom's park Monduy venin Phegdance was to huve been held on the dancing platform, but on account of the rain it was held in the refroshment salgon. About twenty couples were present, and a gen ood was had by all until near duylight, yes- terday morning. Next Sund cerny v Bend, o'cloc ond In symnastic Sovicty rsion to Nort P. depot at 8 a.m. Full military band of nry regiment will uceompany ots for round trip leav Professor Pat Fallon has issued neat cards of invitation to the grand afte noon and evening reception with which he proposes to alobras. the openiag af his new subur resort, *'Coltonwood Villa,” formel Croft’s club house next’ Thursdsy. Every preparation has been made for first-cluss time There will be music by the military band, and a grand illumination and dis play of fireworks. Supper will be served Ly Kingsley of Chicago. Few people realize the number of buildings in course of construction and in contemplation in Omaha at the pres ent time. ‘The Paxton Vierling iron works have closed up during the last two weeks contracls amounting to oyer 000.00. The largest of these, and the rgest of the kind ever made in Om - ha, is the First Nugional bank building, amounting in round numbers to $40,000, and the latest is Frank Ramge’s brick block on 15th ana Hurney sts., amount ing to §11,000. Add to these contracts with C. J. Ka gra M A J. Yoppleton, Hormar Kountze, Johuson & Wakeficld, Jno 5. Collins, Geo Heimrod, Millard hotel, for new improved sky lights, and others, and we have sone ide: being dono, and still the Paxto ling Iron works suy they are open for more contracts and are pre- pared to turn out the work within “the time specified in the contract without fuiluro or delay of any kind. - Dr. Dissaud, house surgeon of the Chi dren's hospital in Paris, berformad four operations for croup in three days, and on the sixth day died of the malady which be hiad tuken frow his patients. An y §10,000 1N RAIN AND MUD, Yesterday's Fonr Honrs' Sale of the Al bricht Aunex. ENTHUSIASM UNABATED. Another and Trains, Lunches, Last 8ale With Music sy 1 Froo Choeap Prices and | Next 1 on Saturday. With the lowering skies of early morn ing, the muddy condition of out of ten have dospaired of moving the streots, real estate mien wonld If they had it to show an inquir property, in all 1 have endeavored de. But the men who are managing the sule of Albright's aunex are not men of that stamp. They Keoy ypointment when they make it, and they had one of the largest appoint ments ever made by any real estate firm in this city. wvithstanding that the rain fell, they ordered the Mu: | Union band to make the parade outlined, which it did, and when it terminated at the Union Pacitic depot, six car loads of expectant people woere there to meot them, every one of whom would have been' disappointed if there had been no e, When the excursion roached the Annex., notwithstanding that the g 1S WL, the auctioneer mounted stand and sold and sold for four hours, until a rain which finally suggested a deluge inti- mated to all that 1t mught be well to ad- journ to th Had it not been for this visitation every lot in the Annex. would have been disposed of. As a cc sequence of tnis interruption the owne of Albright's annex. feel that the public must have anothor day, and this they propose to give them on Saturday next, when the now popular features of free musie, free lunch, froo trains and almost free Tots—s p aro the latter being sold—will again bo at the disposition of the people. ~ The lunch yosterday consisted of sandwiches by the thousand and and lemonade by the gai- lon. With this, as with everyihing e nected with the sale, the people’ intensely satistied. They were espee sfied with the land, some of whi al to the finest in the country, prices are the most ever offered in the county. On the ground, yostor a Beg n‘lmrlvr noticed several gentle- men who had purchased several fots on the first day of the sale and who yester- day had several demands for them making betw venty-file dollars in one d. e lust opportunity that will 'be people to take advantage of the kable sale of Albright’s Annex is on Saturday next. The terms of sale are only one-fifth down and €5 per month for the balance. ‘A PIONE nine made an appointm individ probability they wou | | | | | to setit temporarily but reasonable eq the 'S DEATH. Daniel Duggan, of Dakota County, Dics, Aged Sixty-five Years. Last evening the news was brought to this city of the death of Daniel Duggan, of Dakota county. He had becn a resi dent of that place Since 1854, coming to this as an emmigrant from thoe farthest part of Iowa. He mequired a vast amount of land which to-day is esti- mated at remarkable prices. He served seyeral times as member of the legisla- ture and filled almost in succession every important office in the gift of lis county. Atone time, with the Detweiles of this city, he ac appraiser of In- lands. He w i and ardent an Wyck democrat and leaves the im press of his character and muanly hero- 1sm in a family of three sons, who aro enterpriging and thrifty farmers and me- chanics in this part of ihe country. One daughter only survives him at the late home of the deceased. Mr. Duggan was yeurs of age, and when Inst scen hero, aboui four months ago, it did not seem that he was 50 soon o pass away. His death will be lamented by many friends in Omaha and in_other “sections of the state. He_was worth §60,000. He was buried on Monday lust. Building Notes. The contracts for Frank Ramge's new six-story, 60x132 business building on Fif- teenth and Harney were let yesterday. Withnell Bros. secured the brick and mason work and Paxton & Vierling the iron work. The contract for the car- ponter work has not yet been let. The structure will be of brick and granite and will be one of the most clegant buildings i the ¢ Adam Tttner has recerved the contract for the brick work on Kairbnch's new three-story building on Fifteenth and Howard. es & Co. have the work, and Pax- ton & Vierling that for the iron work, The News at Bancroft. Bancrorr, Neb., August 17.—[Corres- pondence of the Bee ]—The train from the south to-day wus loaded with old set- tlers and their families, from Lyons and Bancroft and towns further south, en routa for the reunion at Norfolk. As the train pulled into the depot, the brave boys in blue were saluted by the firing of a cannon planted near the depot, after which they fell into line and gave three arty clioers around the dear old Hag had followed through so many bat- 1 The late rains are bringing the crops out wonderfully, and farmers still hope ir average crop of con, r Van Wyck speaks at Pendor next Friday. Bancroft will honor him with a large attendunce, and do every thing in her power to advance the in. terests of the eanso, : In Sunday’s Bek [ noticed an item in the Pender correspondence charging the Bancroft Journal with ‘“‘waxing warm over the fact that Pender is to be honored by a visit from Senator Van Wyck,” und “abusing Mr. Prichard in round térms.” Allow mo to state that this is entirely false. TheJournal has . said one word dejogatory to Mr. Prichard, and is domg all in its power to preserve har- mony between the elubs of Baneroft and Pender, and the assault upon it is cowardly and unwarranted. Dr. Richardson, of London, remarks that if the young among lower animals be comparéed with that of children it will be seen that there 8 no animal which loses 50 large a proportion of its offspring s women do. — V. J., young 1man who row bul not 1o swim was of the The Elizabeth, knew how W drowned within seventy-five fee bout honse. e rosy is not u contagious disen cording to Dr. George L. Fitch, who been for five in churge of the lep at the Sandwich Lslands The steamship Bothuia's chief pastry cook jumped into the ses in mid-ocean during the last voya He is the third senfaring cook whio Das done so within & year. LA The Marquis of Bath, whose aid ms- terially helped the tory cause in the re- went English eloctions, owns 30,000 acres, | ihe annusl reutal of which brings him 200,000