Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-11
NEBRASKA.

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famine.
month.
Fremont has a gas engine-the first one In
the state.
Machinery has arrived at Blue Springs for a
-four mill.
A cornice factory is now in operation at
Culberson.
An old settlers association has been organ.
lied In Wayne.
Peter Ring, a notorious horse thief, Is In
Jail at Columbus.
A large sand hill lion was killed on the South
LoGp one day last week.
Work on the Nebraska City water works
viii begin September -.
w. A. McMann was arrested for perjury and
lodged in the Chadron jail.
Cattaragus Is the name OF the town located
q short distance west of Clark.
4 prairie chicken protection society has
been organized at Central City.
The inmates of the Lincoln Lookup have
been put to work on the streets.
I. J. Howe wants to remove his barb wire
factory from Beatrice to Hastings.
a Hebron building association has been in
corporated with a capital of 500, 600.
Galloway, a six-wecks old town ia Custer
county boasts of nine notaries public.
Al Marx and Mike Fitzgerald are to engage
in a tistic encounter at Omaha next month.
A large number Of railroad surveyors have
taken up their headquars at Nebraska City.
Sixty bushels Of corn per acre is what Elk
horn valley fields are expected to yield this
wear.
The citizens OF Neigh have decided to ey-
pend $1,000 in the construction OF water
works.
Papillionites have subscribed one-half Of the
= 900 bonus required TO secure a creamery
there.
The tournament of the Nebraska Firemen's
association at Fremont was not a inancia,
success.
There is a move on foot to organize a stock
company To build q steam mill aud elevator at
Ainsworth.
Ord's new driving association offers purses
amounting to $500 to be contested for at the
next meeting.
Burglars have been operating al Nebraska
~ -. Y ldNitINt = SIOitiN HltIt Vas
broken open.
The Lincoln base ball club now occupies
third place in the race for the state league
championship.
Fremont will soon'enjoy the luxury Of a
new three story hotel. The plans have been
drawn and work begun.
\ Juror in Judge Mapes' court at Nebraska
City went to sleep during the progress of a
trial and fell off his chair.
Bartlett has a postofice at last, after long
waiting. +. B.. Mitchell received his keys ami
official supplies Friday.
a Lincoln bill collector swears that q large
number OF office signs are carefully pulled in
on the first Of the month.
Six gangs Of graders are caInped on the new
line of the Missouri Pacific between Weeping
Water ana Nebraska City.
The Chappell Rustler complains Of a disease
breeder in the shape Of a burial ground for
animals in draw above the town.
Rev. Mr.. Toothacker is exciting much In.
terest in the western part Of the state as a r.
yiyalist Of the Sam James stamp.
David Mummaw, a well known farmer Of
Adams county, has been sent To an insane
asylum as an incurablc maniac.
The winter works recently put up al Ere
mont are out Of gear. and an eastern expert
has been sent for to locate the trouble.
The Republicans of the Sixth senatorial dis.
trict have made two sets Of nominations. W.
W. Brown, Of Culberton, represents che fac
ton.
Tho tfrct National la,1 80 D1.sr hoe cue
pended business for the present. The bank IS
solvent, however, and will, it is said, in time
pay all demands.
Charles Nc Conloguc was killed while ~
tempting to get off u construction train Of the
Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley rail
way at Cedar Bluffs.
During the absence of a family named
Briggs, near Hooper, from their home, come
miscreant entered their house and destroyed
all their wearing apparel.
Herman, the Lincoln music dealer, who
was arrested for forgery, and afterwards
jumped his bail, was captured at Diller and
turned over to the proper authorities.
The Galloway STANDARD says the cattle
throughout that part Of the state are in splen-
did flesh, and will no doubt be kept through
the coming winter with little or no loss.
The legitimate dressmakers Of Hastings
have registered a vigorous kick because the
houses Of prostitution in that city nearly all
bear a ''dressmaking'' sign on their front
door.
The railroad is at Broken Bow and citizens
of that vicinity are rejoicing over the fact.
The railroad company does not make that
their terminus, however, but keeps on pushing
the work.
Kearney seems To Ike holding up its end of
the racket for first place among central Ne
braska cities. Improvements that are now
under way will involve the expenditure OF
$3.50, 600.
A town has been located on the Grand
Island extension Of the Burlington and Mis-.
souri,, about eleven miles from the one at the
confluence OF the Dismal and Middle Loup
rivers.
Nebraska City boasts that her harvest Of
hogs the coming season will place her fourth,