Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-28
NEBRASKA.

A Touring mill is being put up at Mason.
Lincoln is overrun with sncaks and traInps.
Lake Kearney has opened up as a pleasure
resort.
Senator Van Wyck is making a canvass of
the state.
Too much rain is the cry Of farm ers around
Arapahoe.
The Wymore police are shooting all unmuz
zled dogs.
The work OF enlsrging Fort Robinson has
been begun.
A new depot is to be built at Mead, Saun-
ders county.
Hastings claims IL be tho best horse market
In central Nebraska.
One hundred and eleven teachers attended
the Butler county institute.
Oakland is agitating a cooperative lumber,
grain and stock company.
A pair Of Missouri capitalist are negotiat-
ing to start a creamery in Papillion.
The crop of wild grapes is very large in the
vicinity Of Plattsmouth this season.
Seventy-six posts of the grand army have
been organized in the state this year.
Beatrice is experimenting with the Blue
river, with a view of supplying the city.
A Republican senatorial convention will be
held at McCook on the 9th of next month.
Work has been discontinued on the South
Loup branch of the Union Pacific railroad.
Over 1000 Butler county people have signed
the total abstinence pledge in the last few
weeks.
Franklin will make a strong effort to pull
the county seat away from Bloomington this
fall.
North Platte horsemen are training a nun
Der OF promising thoroughbreds for the fall
races.
An unknown person shot into O crowd OF
people coming out of church at Oakland Sun.
day night.
The Republican convention in the First con
| grcssional district will meet at Beatrice Sep.
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Peter Linewither and John yass are under
arrest at Papillion for horse stealing in Madi-
Son county.
A farmer named Dunn was killed by light
ming a few days ago near Hay Springs, Sheri
dan county.
John Stcinhart has received his appoint,
ment as United States storekeeper at Nebras
ka City.
A horse thief named James Little shot him.
self last week near Pierce City, rather thar
submit to capture.
Notwithstanding the dry spell in the middle
Of the season, corr will as usual be king in
Pierce county this year.
The water in the Blue river is to be used by
the citizens of Beatrice. Filters will be built
first to test the quality.
The directors of the Dodge County Agri
cultural society have recently decided not t.
hold the usual fair this year.
Lightning at Plainview struck in one night
two trees, a hog, three grain stacks, two
calves and a telegraph pole.
SIS. Johnson, living near Syracuse, was
badly gored by a mad bull while leading the
animal from pasture asst Tuesday.
Falls City Leader The crop Of early apples
in this sect. on is unusually large, and the
price has been as low as % cents.
The city council of Auburn has advertised
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for the establishment OF manufactures.
Chinese cucumbers are being raised near
Schuyler. Mongolian doctors will have to bc
admitted If the industry is encouraged.
Track laying has begun on the Wayne exten-
ton Of the st. Paul and Omaha road. The
branch is only twenty two miles long.
Frank p. Wigton and George l.. Wigthom
Of Norfolk have just been admitted to prac-
tice in the interior department. at Washing
ton.
The Elkhorn Valley line is putting in a
system Of water-works at Long Pine that will
furnish 1Oo,C COO gallons of pure spring water
daily.
Blaine county boasts OF sod corn twelve feet
high aud ears twelve inches long. The stalks
VIII be preserved for torch handles for the
campaign Of 1855.
A ''shiveree'' party in Waco beltcd tin can,
and disgust and the silence that pervaded the
cottage. 1t was untenanted.
The Hastings Trotting association is pre-.
pairing for an interesting fall meeting Septem-
Der 21-23. Three thousand one hundred dol.
lars will be distributed in purses.
The murderer Of Lon Adams, in Nebraska
City, has SO far successfully eluded the Off
GERS. They are on a warm trail, however, and
expect TO nab him before many days.
A street car company has been organized In
Grand Island, backed by O.. Fl. Abbott, Fl. A.
Koenig, {. w. Scarf, I. r. Alters, o.. B.
Thompson, A. II. Baker, all men Of means.
Admirers Of Buffalo Bill in cheyenne coun.
ty suggest that one of the six new counties
into which Cheyenne county will be divided,
be called Cody, in honor Of the Wild West
prince.
The young town OF Ravenna, on the Bur
liugton and Missouri extension, thirty miles
west Of Grand Island, already boasts of a pa
per, the News, published by Clayburg Broth
ers.
Sunday at Crawford, Neb., a half dozen col.
ored soldiers opened fire upon a woman of
the own and after firing twenty shots hit
her, one in the shoulder and one in the
ankle.
The suit Of p. T. Convey, OF Papillion,
against the Union Pacific for damages for be.
ing elected from a freight train at VALLEY. has
been settled by the company paying $500 to
Convey.