Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-12-05
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from forty to eighty bushels to the acre.
Cunning county proposes to turn her hands
to bridge building and making better roads.
The canning factory at Plattsmouth is to be
enlarged for next seasons business. The
management proposes to pack the crop OF GEO
acres OF corn, 200 acres of tomatoes and thirty
acres CT beans.
Albert Hummer, OF Columbus, recently
winged a monster gray eagle on one OF the is
lands in the Platte. 1t weighed thirteen and
one-half pounds, and measured from tip to tip
OF wings ninety-thre inches, or seven feet
nine inches.
Daniel Freeman, OF Gage county, WAS the
first man Ia the United States to take a home
stead under the homestead law. He made his
entry Jan. /, lcoj. the day the law went into
effect, and still lives ON the land, four miles
west OF Beatrice.
A test Of Bennett whisky proves that 1t Is
sure death at less than the regulation forty
PAGES. The son Of farmer Genuchi, living
near town, poured a pint flask OF 1t into his
gullet at one sitting. He keeled over in a few
minutes, vas carried home On q stretcher and
died next morning
Judge HAYES. of Omaha, who has been prose-
cutting the claim Of the state against the
United States government for money expend-
cd in suppressing Indian hostilities when
Nebraska was o territory, has been notified
that the claim to the amount of s2l, 766 has
been allowed by the war department.
The Irisbmen Of Plattsmouth have organized
a branch OF the national league, with Hon.
William Neville as president. A mass Meet
ing was held In Fitzgerald hall Tuesday even
ing to raise funds for Parnell. Hon. j. Ster-
ling Morton, OF Nebraska City, and Thomas
Brennan, OF Omaha, are mentioned In the list
OF speakers
There is q move on foot in several counties
to recover back large sums OF money paid to
county clerks for making out tax lists, and
there Is likely 20 be q case In the Supreme
Court on the matter. This action will be
brought by reason Of a recent decision In the
case Of Bayah VS.. Webster county, which de-
c!ares that the clerk is tot entitled TO extra
fees for making the tax lists. In some coun-
ties the amounts received for this kind Of work
reach several thousand dollars.
Michael sullivan found on the Sullivan
farm two and one-half miles southwest of
Vail, Crawford county, an elk horn Of huge
dimensions. When discovered il was buried.
With the exception OF a small portion, In the
mud near a creek. The horn contains six
prongs, is five and one. half feet in length and
weighs twelve pounds. The letters, I'D. NJ"
position is that the animal that sported this
extensive antler was killed by a hunter way
back In 40, when elk and deer roamed over
these vast prairies IN almost countless nun
bers. The horn will be kept as a relic by MIR.
Sullivan.
Lincoln Journal: The secretary Of state
has finally received the official returnG o. the
late state election, and the state board Of can
vassers have reported the following vote;
SUPREME JUDGE.
Cobb, Republican, 70 g4.
Martin, Democrat, 49.49S.
Hewitt, Prohibition, 4,445.
REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY.
Gere, Republican, 7l,423.
Burnham, Republican, 1880.
Livingston, Democrat, AZ, 929,
Lorenzen, Democrat, 9,499.
Graham, Prohibition, 1851.
Taylor, Prohibition, 1851.
1t will be seen that Cobb's majority over the
other two candidates is 1892. In the regency
contest Gere received a majority over the
other men Of 1888, while Burnham got IS
$50.
In Omaha John w. Lauer shot and killed
his wife, Mrs. Sarah Lauer, early Sunday
morning, In his own house. Lauer claims he
mistook Mrs. Lauer for a burglar. The total
absence OF witnesses, and the fact the couple
| have had a stormy matrimonial career, however,
have given iise TO an overwhelming popular
belief that the shooting was a clear case of
murder CT the most cold-blooded SOFT. Lauer
came TO Omaha seven wears ago from Toledo,
.. He was employed by the Omaha Nail COM
p6ny as a journeyman, but was afterward pro-
NOTED TO be superintendent. In 1882 he took
lodgings with an old lady named Mrs. Julia
Goetchus, and married her daughter, Sarah,
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girls In Omaha. Within a month or two after
the marriage Lauer began TO eviuce an almost
insane jealousy OF his wife, anil on various &C
casions shamefully abused her. Thanksgiv-
ing dag, 1883, he beat her with a turkey, and
the following Christmas beat her so severely
that she wac laid up In bed. Shortly after
ward she left him and vent to live with her
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turn, and they lived together since, but ac-
cording to the neighbors unhappily. There is
great feeling against Lauer in Omaha.
Prot. +. j. Couch, the well known me.
~teorologist, OF Humphrey, Neb., announces
the following forecast OF weather for
the month Of December, based upon the me
theological constants, and thus derived from
pure physical fact:
lst, northerly winds. .
I'd, stormy.
Sd, high winds.
4th, cool.
5th, warmer.
9th, rain and snow.
7th, snowy, high north winds.
Sth, cloudy south, clear north.
9th, fog and frost, coast storm.
10th, cooler.
18th, fair.