Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1885-12-26
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'bean bake" Tuesday night.
The famous Friday storm blew the bristles
of thirteen hogs In Oakdale.
A company has been organized to establish
Q canning factory at Syracuse.
Dorchester's jail has been unoccupied for 90
long q time hat 1t can be purchased at half
price.
The Indian trade, amounting to $4,000 q
month, Is one Of the best features OF bust
ness life In Gordon.
Three men near Schuyler we're overcome by
coal gas a few nights ago, but were aired III
time to save their lives.
The railroad outfit Of about eighty-nve peo-
pie, including mtn, women ana children, are
quartered at Cambridge.
Burglars ra!ded Peterson's store on F street,
Fremont, Saturday night, and secured $40
worth of cash and fancy goods.
John Y. Smith, the North Bend absconder,
was captured in Kansas on the 10th. He is
now in jail at Eureka, awaitin officials from
North Bend.
The boiler in FuhIman's factory in Ere
mont froze up and collapsed Sunday night,
scattering fragments OF boiler iron over all the
establishment.
The barn, sheds and hay OF a farmer named
Trolsop, Of Keya Paha county, we're burned
last Friday, together with seventy-sIx head Of
sheep and a fine bull.
The Creighton Hornet has discarded It's bus
tie. and now appears simply as the Creighton
Transcript. Bruce 81 Emerson are publishers
Of the new concern.
An old man, go years Of age, living near
Msdison, was found dead In his house one
his sudden death, as 10 marks of violence were
found on bis person.
The young son OF Superintendent Jones, Of
the Fremont gas works, fired some oil spilled
on the floor Of the works, and was instantly
engeloped IA flames. He Was rolled In a snow
bank and the fire snuired out. The child is
nov nursing a number OF blisters.
Governor Dawes refused to pardon Ben
Cobb, whose petition was signed by nearly
every man in Lancaster county. The Omaha
NV pnyb' - SoO u c'tOb dONh dlu hllIGu
q one-legged and unarmed daylight burglar he
might now be shaking hands with Detective
Pound.
Plattsmouth boasts of a brindle COW with as
much intelligence as a loafer and a dis.
eliminating sense Of a good thing on q cold
day. A bonfire is a feast for her, and when
on. Is found she backs up to It contented,
chews her cud and fans the smoke with her
tai.
Mr.. j. Burrows addressed a large and atten-
tive meeting at Leonard school house, Ian
caster county, Saturday night, in the interest
OF the Farmers alliance. This Is the begin
ming Of n series OF meetings TO be held In this
county. Solid facts were presented and well
received.
Frank and John Persch were unloading
grain from their wagon at Platte Center,
Platte county, when their horses became
frightened and ran away. Both were thrown
violently to the ground. Frank had a leg
broken, while John had a leg and several rib,
smashed. and was injured internally. His re-
covery Is doubtful.
Omaha Bee: II was Senator Van Wyck, who,
during the lest Congress, started the agitation
against the secret sessions OF the Senate. The
probability is that the proposition to abolish
the secret session order while nominations are
under discussion in the Senate will be carried
into effect at an early day, as the movement Is
meeting with considerable favor In some I'M
expected quarters.
Onion socials are the chief feature Of high
life this winter In Republican Valley towns.
Six ladies' take An onion with them into a
room, and one OF them takes a bite out OF 1t.
Then q young gentleman is admitted, and II
after kissing them oil he fails to tell which OF
them bit the onion all the girls are obliged to
kiss him. Old and young, married and single,
are having q amackirg time of II.
@. B. Sheldon, an old resident of Omaha,
has entered the Arm Of j. A. Sheffee IL Co.,
Valentine, Nebraska, Ia the law and real es-
tate business, the firm name now being Shell
don, Sheffee Il Co. The office fcr the winter
will be In Valentine, but when spring opens
the firm will go hence TO Fort retterman, w.
L., ANU 1 Iubb VIClilty cStopliSu lueuIeclftb
permanently and deal extensively In lands and
mining as well as coal lands
A farmer living near Kesrney took a load OF
whest 10 town and sold II, getting pay for
tbirty.four bushels. The next day he took
another load, measured In the came way, and
was only allowed ply for seventeen bushels.
He kicked on this but the elevator men were
obdurate, and 1t WAS only after he had started
to employ counsel that they came dow ard
paid him for the whole amount on promise
that he would say nothing about the matter.
The San Francisco tragedy, in which Chas.
W. Brown formerly NJ Plattsmosth, q 5ured,
resulted In q funeral. Brown and Benson
were partners In government surveying COLI
tracts. The belief ia that Benson got the best
Of Brown In settling up their last deal. This
aUgered the latter and he determined to take
his own as we'll as Benson's life. On the
morning Of the nth Brown wen, TO Benson's
once, and ehot him without a word Of warn
ing, then grabbed q knife and cut his throat.
He bled to death. Benson's wound was not a
fatal one, and he 10 recovering.
Articles OF incorporation OF the Elm Creek
Bridge company have been fled with the sec.
Rotary Of state. The iucorporators are Justin