Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 4, 1891, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, ~ MEN'S SHOES | AT UST COST MEN’S PLAIN KANGAROO, CONGRESS or LACE The former price was GHOES $3.80, but if you can bo fitted you can have $2.00 them for $2.50 and that’s just what they cost us. —— e MEN’S FINE CALF TIPPED SHOES In Congress Only This was a leader with us at $4.00, but the sizes are broken. At Just Cost. OR 1517 DOUGLAS ST MENS' PLAIN CALF LACE SHOES Last season it was our leading $8 shoe. It is gen- uine hand welt. At Just Cost 53.00 R Al JUST COSE “\'INO HSVD ¥0d4 ORDERS THAN KFULLY UT we cannot pay the express as these goods are AT JIUsSAE @@ =h ——————— IS & WILCOX, ! RECEIVED t'or Gash Only. \Our Rea During the last three month and in some cases we have =old ¢ butin a great many instancs of a kind left over, and it 1s to cl your attention with this announc LADIES’ PATENT VAMP 0XFORDY --AT JUST COST-:- s Just Cost, I Wealways sold them for $2, | but we only have a few of them left and they go at this sale at $1.25. REMNANTS OF SHOES AT JUST COST UNDAY, OCTOBER 4 EMNANTS XTEE PAGE For Cash Only OF SHOLS SONnS .= s we have sold a gre svery pair we bad of certain line we have from one to two dozen pairs s shoes that we attrac Sale begins tomor WILLOCOX, out these cement today. NORRIS & il Al 2 With d AT JUSds COSL OUR REGULAR $8 LADIES CLOTH TOP TURN SHOES In lace or button, diamond patent tip, JUST QOST sale they go for $3.50. pur before for | than 3 LADIES’ it many shoes = (FOR JUST COST. A few pairs of Rochester Bright Dongola, Opera and Com- mon Sense ' Button Shoes for ladies, at $2 a pair. YOU know this is a bargain. t [ 20 PAIRS OF LADIES iamond patent tip. Was our regu- lar $3.80 line. 30U hand-turned, in this You never boughta 18 Pairs of Ladies’ Patent Vamp, Turned OXTF(ORD SBUTTON $y0ES In opera and common sense lasts, our leader all summer at $1,80. To close them out we offer thematthiss ale --AT JUST COST-:- ].00 A PAIR 517 Douglas St-Omaha. 1517 DOUGLAS ST Our regular & Shoe we will sell AT A PAIR. JUST COST. Received a New Line Perfectly Plain CLOTH TOPS For Ladies’ Wear Bought to sell for but In order to Introduce them we offer them tomorrow av $ g Widths AA to Just ot PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY. Tho Manufacturers Association of Nebraska Completes its Organization. PLAN OF CAMPAIGN FULLY OUTLINED. ‘What Home Patronage Will Do for a Few Lines of Local Manufac- ture—Nebraska Manufac- turers Should Join. The Manufacturers and Consumers Asso- olation of Nebraska has comploted its organi- zation by the election of a competent man for tho position of secretary. The mem- bors of the assoclation and the board of directors are enthusiastic ovor ke move- mont and are devoting a large sharo of their #me to the work before thew. Thetr efforts will be devoted entirely to the task of educating the peoplo to use Nebraska manufacinres and products, and by this moans develop the mauufacturing intorests of the state. ‘There aro so many methods of furthering this object that the work of the association will really bo of a varied nature and cover a wide field. Feor the benefit of the manufacturers of the stato outsido of Omaha who havonot had the opportunity of attending the meetings and hearing the subject discussed it may not be outof place to briefly mention some of tho plans which have beon alroady proposed. Ono of . the first things that the association will provably do is to adopt - trade mark or label which can be used on goods mavufactured by any member of the association who may desire to uso it. The object of this is to ouablo the consumer to identify goods of Nebraska manufacture and to guard against deception. So many lines of goods made outside of the stato ure branded with somo local dealer's name, or with thio name of a Nebraska city, that the consumer can not tell whether he 13 otting the true Nebraska article or not, fanufacturers who may wish to guard sgaiust any such deception can avail them- selyes of the Nobraska labol Another branch of the association work will be the organization of home patronage olubs. According to the association’s consti- tution there are Lwo classes of members. Tho first includes the actual manufacturers, who pay dues and supgort the organization and © kuown as the active memhers. The sec- ond includes all persons who will sign an sgreoment Lo use goods of Nebraska manu- facture so far as possible. This second class is known as the weneral membership and iy mot roquired to pay initiation foes or dues, and is not put to any troublo or expense in joming the association. T'hey are practically onorary members. One of the most importaut branches of the work betore the association will be the en- Iargement of the honorary roll. Tu Omaba it is proposed to make a houso to houso canvass, explaining to the people the necessity of 'using Nobraska products and giving them information as to what goods aro manufactured in the state, and if poss ble induce them to sign an agroement to use such goods as far as practicable, or 1 other w‘nnlfi. become general members of the asso* ciation what manuer the people of the state at Iargo can be reached hus not been decidod upou, but the association will probably wait for suggostions from the manufaoturers lo- calod at tho difforent towns throughout the stato before lnklu{ any important action. T'no socrotary of the Nebraska Stato Busi ness Mon's association, whose membership includes the majority of the wide awake rolail merchants of the state, has suggested that their members were deeply luterosted in any move that would tend to develop the Tesources of the state, and that they would without doubt help very materiaily o swell ho List of general membership, Every active member of the association will be expectod 1o send 1o tho secretary & list of uuwds made by his firm and these lists will be compiled” by him and printed and N placed ia the hands of consumers for their instruction. ) In making o canvass of Omaha it is in- tended to supply every house in the city with such information. In order to do this effectively it will be necessary to wait until the ‘manufacturers who intend to join the association have come in 5o that all will be roprosented in the movemont and no line of manufacture be omitted from tho lists furnished the con- sumers. Manufacturers can sce from this that by delaying the sending in of thoir names for activo membership thoy are hold- ing back the movement and preventing the association from acting while the poople are intorested. ‘Thero are a large number of manufacturers located at different points in the state whom it will bo impossiblo for the secretary to por- sonally call upon and thoy should avail themsolves at onco of the opportunity to be brought before the people in this home pat- ronage movement and send in their names for membsrship without delay. “Thore is a large numbver of different lines of goods manufactured at the interior cities and towns of the state thatthe peoplo of Omaha will use 1f they are brought to their notice, Another branch of the association’s work which has been proposed, and which will doubtless be carried out in time is the estab- lishment of a permanent exhibit of the pro- ducts of Nebraska factories. Tho plan is to furnish the sccretary with & switable room and have him arrange tho samples of Nevraska mude goods in as attractive & manner as possible and throw tho room open to the public at all hours of thoday. Such an exhivit could bo made very 1ateresting and instructive and would serve to inform tho poople as to the actual products of the state. Mauy other schemes_ for adyancing the in- terests of Nobraska industries have been proposed but thoso mentioued above have re- ceived the most uttention. The Rules Governing Them, At tne request of & number of manufac- tories Tue Bex vepublishos the constitution oraticles of the association, which are as follow: Article 1. The namo of this assoclation shall be the Manufacturors and Consumers Asso clution of Nebraska. Art. 1. The object'of the association shall bo to promote home industry by encouraging the purchase of Nevraska prodiots and man- utacturors Art. 111, The m shall be vested in a bou sist of twenty-one m rs 10 be leeted by the active members of the asso tors shall be en for two voars a The offic vice prosid shall . ey shall hold their vear, or until thelr successors 1 qualified. The duties of the 0 such us are usual in any or- i as the board of directors may y The ofticers shall furnish such bond or the faithful performance of their dut and recelve such salary as by the board of directors. Tha airectors shall have full ower to fill vacancles in the board and to remove or suspend any officer at Lhelr disoretion by a two-thirds vote. Art. iv. The membership of this association shall consist of two classes. (1) The active euiborship shall be confined to such munu- ‘acturers of Nebraska as shall pay the initia- lrad by these articles, ership shall consi state as shall agreemont to give preference to goods u factured in the state. Art. v, The active nagement of the assoolation 1 of directors, to for three ye shall be p and Lroas board o y be determined wbers shall pay an In- itiation fee I monthly dues of . pa Koneral members shall 0 AN Agreoment to give & preforonce to Ne- raska manufacturers and broducts, prices and qualities being equal Art. vi. Tho dire shull not ineur indebt= edness of a gron ount than the amount of money in the treasury ut the tlaie such ln- obtedness Is oreatod Art. vil. The uunual meeting of the assocla- tlon shull be held on tho second Monday of Seplember and the monthly meuting on the thitd Wednesday of each month at § o'clock p. m Art. viil 1aws as the ecossary Art. Ix. These 1y be i & two-thirds vote of the uotive mewbors proa. t at any regular weotlng, notico huying boeu glven ut the procediug regular meeting: Help for the Poor, In two or three months the charitable peo- plo of Omana will b organizing and putting orth great efforts to relieve the needy poor of thooity. The various church sooletios 77l bo sollciting food, clothing sad fusl, sad several hundred charitably inclined ladies h may ay adopt such by- ouded by and the ministers of the city will be devoting a large sharo of their time to this work. The poor will have their most pressing nocessitios relieved and thoy will be " carried through another winter but only to remain dependent, for philanthropists have always observed th: ving to the poor destrovs their love of independenco and the desire to better their ccadition through sheir own efforts. For that reason it has been saia that the best belp that can ve extended to a poor man s work which en- ables nim to becomo self supporting and usoful citizen, This is a point worthy of tho careful consideration of the charitable people of Omaha, who will doubtless agree with the abovo assertion, but the question will naturally suegest itself, how are these peoblo to be given work, especially in tho winter season, when tho opportunities for securing employment are poorer than at other tmes, “The provlom is not so difficult as may ap- pearon its face. Let all the charitably in- clined peopie of Omaha commenceat once to use home mado goods and in_thirty to sixty days thosnrplus stocks now held by the fac- tories will be exhausted and thoy will all be wauting more help and every man in the city will nave an opportunity to obtain employ— ment at remunerative wages sufficient to sup- port himself and family. The ministers of most churches preach sermons on thesubject of charity to the poor and urgo upon their members the necessity of giving freely of their substance to relieve the distress of their less fortunate fellow beings. Would it not be worth the while of these same ministers to_call tho attention of their congregations to this subject now, ana instead of asking for contributions suggest that the people spend their money at homo and give poor people a chance to gat work, and thus Tiso above their present hara lotd Some Omaha Factories, The Maunufacturers and Consumers asso- ciation isnot yot in a position to take up the work of educating the consumers as to the manufacturing iunterests of the state, and Tne Bee will accordingly continue to call attention to local 1actories. A large number of Omaha factories Lave already been described in the series of articles commenced some weeks ago, but there are still many more that have not been mentioned. A line of business with which few people in Omaha aro familiar is the plating of gold, silver and nickel on all kinds of metal. This work is carried on by the Western Plating works at 1114 Dodye street and while the es- tablishment is not large 1t 1s one of the most interesting places in the city. This is manufacturing uot only in the senses of creating somothing new but also in the way of making an old articlo new., The proprietor remarked “We are the groatest cheats in the world for we take an article that has been worn out and put on & new plating and it is not only as good as new but no one can tell it from new.” A great many people do not know that this can be done and thousands of household arti- cles are discarded because the plating is worn off, when they could be replated at a tritling expense. A great deal of the work 1n this line is sent east when it could be done just as well and, many times, cheaper at home. It is es- timated that the work sent away by Omaha people would keep soven or eight more men at work. The operation of plating looks simple_and yet it is a profound mystery to the uninitMred. If tho article to be pluted is of iron or steel it is first placed on emery wheels, which re- wove all the rust and render the surface smooth and polished. This polishing is a trade by 1tself. After tho article is polished it is plunged into different chemicals and at last sus- pended by a copper wire in a large tank filled with a peculiar liquid. Suspended in the samo tank are pieces of orude nickel. The eloctrie curreut is turned on and iu a few minutes covers the article with o coating of niokel. 1f the article to be plated is of brass it is polished by means of a bIff which is nothing more nor less than a whoel made by cutting out a largo number of eircular pleces “of o ton cloth and placing them together, Dif- ferent chomicals are also used In plating with gold und siiver the opera- tion is similar but usually on a smaller scale. Cooperage Factories, Tho coopers had a float in the parade on labor day that attracted a good deal of atten tion as it ropresented two or three men at work at thelr trade and bore the iuscription, “Only a few of us now; patronize home 1n- dustry and thero will be 800.” In Omaha tho manufacturo of cooperago has been groatly damagea by the competition of penitentiary work. No outside coopar- shov employing honest labor can undersell Omaha manufacturers, but when it comes to those who employ conviet labor for whict they pay only 4ic per day per man, the caso is very difforent. Convict labor is the curse of the cooperage business just as it 15 of soy- eral other lines of manufacture. The numbor of barrels, casks and firkins used in Omaha and vicinity is enormous ana if it wero not for this unfair competition this branch of manufacture would grow to vast proportions, At the present timo John Powers employs fourteen men at his shop, Fourth and Jones streets, with a weekly pay roll of $154. Thoy manufacture all kinds of tanks, dairy cooper- age, barrels, ete. Some of ‘these barrels which are made for tho white lead works and smelting works aro strong enough to hold 300 t0 400 pounds of white lead or blue stone, They could easily keep thirty men employed tho whole yoar through if it was nov for the fact that so many Omaha firms uso peniten- cooperag The Willow Springs distillery havo quite a large cooperage establishmont and there is also quite a large shop at South Omaha, Shirt Factorics. The city of Troy, N. Y., is supported al- most entirely by its shirt and collar factories and the associated lines of business such us laundries, box factories, ete. The city proper has a population of about 65,000 peo- ple and has always been regarded as a good business poiut, the large sums of moucy dis- tributed among the working people making trade lively. A number of other eastern cities have added greatly to their woalth and population through this branch of mauufacture, Omaba has been content to seo those cast- ern cities monopolize this lucrative branch of manufacture and tne poople of Omaha have contributed muny thousands of dollars to- ward their prosperity. The ropresentative of an oastern snirt factory claims have 5,000 customers in Omaha. his is probably an exaggeration, obut it shows whero Omaha's moncy has been going ana furnishes one more explanation of why money is not always as plenty in Omaha as business men would like to seo it. Cities like Chioago and Kansus City which have no natural advantage over Oinaha in this branch of manufacturing send their rep resuntatives hero and receive a largo patron- ago. Many times these faotories are v small affairs conaucted in_some attic room, but their agents talk **big” aud the people of Omaha patronize thom and help them to wrow big. It lias boen claimed by Omaha shirt makers that if they were to seng their ngents through the city and represent their factory as lo- cated In some other dity that they could double their busines: Omaha has threo shict factories, the Ne braska Shirt company, Peaso Bros, and I’, H. Gottheimer, employiig’ thirty-three girls and five men. 'The pay.rell amounts to $215 weekly, ‘They munufacture on orders all Kinds of shirts from thi ‘cheapest to tho most exponsive, underwear, ete. They can buy the muslin and liuen as/eheaply us it can be had in the competing gities and wages are about tho same, so thit Omatia manufactur ers can competo in price as well as quality with apy other city. The fact s that they have beon making a botter article for the money tuan eastern mukers as an iuducement 1o Omana peopls to patronizo homo factorios. “There are quite a large number of Omaha citizens who are having thoir shirts made in the cast at $4.00 each and occasionally in an economical mood they give a local factory an ordor for some at $2.00 or $2.50 and then re mark that the Omaha made article doos not wear quite us woll as the eastorn. When it comes 1o the cheaper makes onstern manu facturers sell thousands of shirts in this city at $1.25 t0 81.50 and olaim that they are made HF to order. The most of these are identically the same thing that oan bo obtalned from any = local dry goods doaler ot $1.00. The party taking the order simply goes to the stock kept on hand snd selects one with the right length of neck band and slesve and the Omaba buye thinks ho has something tnat was wide especially for his order, Parties wanting cheap shirts could do far better by orderiog them of a local factory where they would be certain that they were actually made tor therr order. s Ifall'the work in this line which is sent east in special orders was trausferred to tho Omaha factoriesat least 100 girls could be given steady employmont. What the People Say. Dr. Duryes, in speaking to a roportor on the desirability of the patronage of home in- dustry, aud 1ts many phases, said: **Wo are constantly hearing expressions for a demand for the establishment bere of manufactur ing plants. It1s ofton suggested that this aim might be furthered by the offer of in- ducements in land or money. This form of encouragement will 0ot pre- vail with broadminded men, for if there is a field for them here that ought to be suflicient to_dotermine them to operato horo, To offer a bonus is to ad- mit that the field is not yet extensivo enough to give a return on the outl ““The best offer that can be made to & man- ufacturer 1s this: Wo want your fabrics nere; we will take them and can afford to pay you for them and give you a profit. Capi- tal abroad and in the east 1s rocetving at loan a lower and lower rate of interest in order to maintain its income at ovea a relatively high level it must more and more goto productive industrics, AlLit will ask is a fair field with an ample dewand. [na city in which the dealers noglect their own munufacturers the outlook is not encourag- ing to men who under other conditi might find itto their interests to invest here. ““I'io example of tho most prosperous cities in this country oughtto convince the most stupid mind that the owth and prosperity of a city lareely depends upon generous co-operation within and vig- orous aud honorable competition without. It is the interest of overy business man in tho city to further tho stuccess of his ueignbor equally with his own and to maintain a most cordial relation with the men in his own lino ol busine: As the city grows there will be room onough for nll, and all selflsh 635 and meanuess and underhand trickery react in the long ran to the injury of those who em- ploy thom. Sioux City, Minneapolis and St. PPaul show what cities can do when tho lead- ing mon determine to stand together, and in a nobie, public spirit work for one common prosperity.’’ A. H. Comstock, president, and C. E. Brown, socrotary, Omaha Printing Co.—We huve been watching closely the results of the offorts put forth by Tue Ber in bohalf of home patronage and can say that wo have already noted an improvement 1n our busi- ness aod have heard men n other lines ro- mark the samo thing. Every business man in tne stato ought 1o rally around Tur Brs iu this movement to develop the industries of Nebraska, Wo have changed the namo of sur house by dropping out tha uamo “Republican” ~ and have been iniprov- ing and_increasing our plant and are vow doing all kinds " of priating, engraving, book binding, ete. As showing what a plaot of this kind 15 doiug for tho city we aro now omployiug 103 peopio aud are aving out in wages $2,000 per year. The job printing houses are duing a gréat deal for the city of Omaha in the way of emplo; labor, and they might do much more were it not for tho custom practiced by many bus- iness men of senaing their printing to east- ern offlces. Max Moyer It the peopleof the state would patronize homo industries it wouid be a grand thing for Nebraska, 1 am glad to seo that Tiis Bek 1s succeeding so well in its efforts to arouse the people to a full ation of tho uecossity for home pat e SOUTH OMAHA, Shippers Ar The stock yards oficials aro receiving num- erous lotters daily from stockmen in difforont parts of the country in which they agree that their shipments to the local market have more than met their expectations. Mauny of thom stato that bitherto they have ulways shipped to Kansas City, but that the prevail- ing prices there for the past few months have becn on 4n average of from b cents to 10 ceuts lower than our markot, therofore they have coucluded to patronize the local market in the futuro, Tois intiux of new blood has already begun to bear its fruits, aud three records of re- ceipts were broken last month, some of the _ hoaviest shipments being _those which formerly went to F City The receipts of cattle, 7 were the largest on record, exceeding the largest previous record, 69,276 in October, 158, by B, head. For the weok ending Seplembar 0 receipts of cattlo were D. You will like this shoe. exceeding tho largest of 22,335 for_the waeek 1500, by 3.544 head. receipts of sheep wera 24,1500. On the samo day this year S, head were recnived, an increaso of head. This is certainly a very satisfactory showing, and from all accounts this month’s cattlo receipts will provably be still heavier than last montb, provious weel’s run ending Octobor 31, The largest provious 02, on Septembor Police Court Grind, Ullck A, Burke, a sclf-termed M. 1., was placed in juil for an indefinite period charged with being au incorrigible drunk and vag, S. V. Cornell, charged with appropriating 00 in subscriptions for a California paper, was fined $30 and costs by Judge King ves' terday, in default of which he will have fuel, board and lodging at the Horrigan houso for twenty days. Friday evening a number of Bohemians living in the vicinity of Sixteenth and Brown strocts got into a quarrel. The actors wero Joo and John Petack and Joseph Ledlock. ‘Tno Petacks nsed their guns, but Ledleck, being an artful dodgor, cscaped with his epidermis unpunctured. 'Ho had his assail ants ja lod yesterday aftornoon snd Judgoe King will givo them a hearing turough au interpreter tomorrow morning. The Century Club. A mooting of the Contury club of the “I'reaty of Limerick will be held at St. Agues ball, Twenty-third and O streots, South Omaha, unday, October 4, at 7:30 p. m, All mombers aro particularly requestod to at- tond. Joux G, Inwry, P. Suvky, President, For Cash Only. 13 otween the hours of § and 10 Monday morning, will sell to Ladies” only, LIADIIR =t U S S S At BG i PAIR That cost us 220 & pmr. Wo will only soll ono pair to a lady, and thut only bo- tween 8 and 10 a, m. EDWIN C. BURT’S LADIKS This is The Less Sizes Cost, Broken. 1f we had the sizes you would p: # for thom Hand Welt Shoes, Than Are Ladies' Patent Trimmed LACE SHOES [Blucher cut] Just 4 Cost A Lot of Different Makes of Ladies’ Turned Shoes, At Small § {rom 210 3. Below we sold all At nicest fitting shoe wo have, regu- lur $6 shoe, but the sizes are broken. The Cost. Thero aro shoes In this lof sunmmer at $ and ¥, A Lot of Philadelphia Button Shoes In Plain and Patent Tip, Secretary. Notes About the City, R. H. Robivson returned yesterday from a visit to Auburn, Schuyler Smith is home from an extended visit to Murray, Ia, M. M. Catchpole, Sterling, 111, was a vis- itor at the exchange y sterday. Mr. Joseph Newcomb left for Denvor yos- terday toengage in business, Miss Clara Porvins of Weoping Water is tho guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. >, Hodges. Lditor Stearns of tho Drovers' Journal loft last ovening for a throo weels' vacation Mrs. E. G. Smith loaves thls evening for Weeping Water to visit with relatives and friedds. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Marshall aro guests of their daughter, Vaughn Rev. J. A. Henderson will occupy the pul pitof the United Presbytorian church this evening Elder Marion Boles goes to A aftornoon to engago in debato with Egchaner of Selle Plaine, In. Tho democrats of the First ward held a caucus in Pivonka's hall last evening to elect delegates to the county convention The openiug und _social at the Reed hotel has been postponed until Monday evening owling to the inclemenoy of the weather. William Hike, charged with assault with intent to kill, was found guilty and senteaced to thirty days in tho county jail Captain J. W. Cress colobrated his fiftioth birthday and a party of his frienas passed a piensant eveniug at his home Friday evening. H. 1. Aultman of tho Stockman left yes torday for Stuart, Ia., n response to a fel gram announcing the serious illness of his agod mother, ‘Lhe entortainment of the Alpha lodge, Daughters of Rebokah, was a_woll attended and ‘most enjoyable affair, despite the in- cloment weather, Billy O'Koofe, formerly a woll known tractor of this city, died in Macon, Gu., a fow davs slnco. The family have & number of rolatives here. The entertainment and recoption which was to have been given Lriday evening by Alpha lodge, Daughters of Rebokab, has been indefinitely postponed Al Carpenter has wound up his affairs and _sevored his connection with the firm of Cockrell, Hunt & Carpenter and will leave for Tacoma, W b, in a few days. The Epworth league cntertainmeut and orauge festival that was to have boen glven Friday at tho Methodist church, cornor Twenty-third and N streots, has boen post poned of Fromont Mrs, C. C. ahou this E. J business Miss Mary Sullivan died at St Joseph's hospital aftor alingering iliness. The fuucral hor took placo yostorday afieraoon from lor parents’ residence, Thirty-third and streots. West Albright Mission Sunday scnool at 3 . m. and preaching at 4 p. m. Pirst Christian _church, near Twenty-second and K streots, in Swodish Baptist church, Marion Boles, pastor. Sun- aay school at 10 a. m. Preaching at i1 a. u Baptist church, Twenty-soventh street, bo- tweon M and N streets, Itov. Thomas Steph- enson pastor. Sunday school at 10 a. m., preaching at 11a. m. Evening sercice at 7:30 p. m. Subject: ‘“Martin Luthe Mr. J. W. Lowry, one of tho best known citizens of South Omaha, will bo married to- morrow morning to Miss M. Sullivan of Omaha at the Holy Family church. Rov, Father Hillman will perform” tho coromony. An attempt was made Thursday evening to burglarize O'Connor’s salood, 2512 N_streot, which was nipped in tho bud by tho v lonce of koundsman Murphy. Tho thief was scared off before he secured anything, The domocrats of the Third ward held a caveus last ovenimg in John N. Burke's hail, Thirty-second and () strects, and elocted I5d* ward Hanloy, John Winnosly, James Broudy aud T.J. Malonoy delogates to the demo- cratic county convention, ‘The Adams Expross company has ostab- lished an office at South Omaha and com- menced business Wednesdav. J. P, Kvers is agent, with his oMice in the basement of tho Puckors' National bank. Tho adaition ot the Adams company gives 1o South Omaha ropresentation to all tho_exvress companies whicu bave agencies in Omaha, A party of friends agrocably surprised Miss Lizzio Poarce yesterday ovening on the occasion of her birthday anniversary. The party was given at the homoof Mrs, W. Saxo, The following ladios wore presont: Mosdames Lott, Cheok, Hayward, Leavitt, Doud, Seykora, Ginder, Sloane, Saxe, Ackor, Cuughey, Smith, Moyers, Houscholdor, Hoglo, VanLiew, Jongs and Miller, and 'Missos Wallwork and Hayward. ———— Dr. Birney cures catar -~ Small in size, groat in results; DeWitl's Little Early Itisors. Bost pill for constipa- tion, best for sick headucho, best for sour stomach, corner of h. Beo bldg. - A GRAND JURY, WAN Commissioners Don't Desire Any More Committee Investigations. ‘Threo of the county commissioners, Chalr man O'Keeflo, Messrs, Berlin and Van Camp, attendod the meoting of the county board held yesterday afternoon Commissioner Berlin thought that it would bo a good plan to chango Mr. O'[Kcoflo's r olution asking tho judges of the district court to appoint u committos 1o 100k into thoe South Tnirteenth streot grading. Heo thought the bost thing to do would be to ask the judgos to call & grand jury Mr. O'Keeffo said that he wantea 1t that way, but that the county attorney had passed judigment and had declded thut a grand jury could not be called until the next torm of court, Mr. Borlin and Mr. O'Keeffo said that they wanted a grand jury and nota commit- tee to investigate tho ailegod misappropria- tion of funds, Mr. Van Camp suggested that both of tha goutlemen were doing considorable talking, but wore not anxious to bave & grand jury 1ook into the case. ‘I'bo resolution remained as written the book. Mr. Borlin was appointed a member of the following committees : Finance, charity, poor farm and roads, to serve during the illness of Messrs, Corrigan and Timme. The inwmbers of the committee from the Real Estate Owners association withdrew thoir roquest for the appronriation of $1,500 o de fray the expenses of the advertising train that is to be sont on a trip through tho oast- orn states, The request was roferred to the committes on finance. I'ne board will hold Wodnesday afternoon - - Dr. Birney cures catarch. - Allowed Some Bills, The Board of Park commissioners met ves. terday afternoon and allowed bills for cume ront expenses amounting o 82,660 - Birney cures catarrh, upon anothor session Beo bldg, Dr Boe bldg,