Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-01-30
NEBRASKA

The free mail delivery at Lincoln Is to be IL
creased.
Qaails and prairie chickens have been killed
by the cold.
A wing has just been added to the Peru nor
NAL school.
Norfolk boasts OF a population Of 1,649, an
increase 1,429 in five years.
A new &C ri house will start the building
boom inC eighton next spring.
The im provements Of West Point for the
year 1855 amounted to 1874, l59.
The Neigh land Office disposed Of "a, AIS
acres Of land during the past year.
Already s23 600 have been expended in
Chadron on permanent improvements.
Eighty hogs belonging to z. G. Burns, Of
Scribner, persisted In the recent blizzard.
Norfolk has raised a guarantee of 5000 to
secure the soldiers reunion at that place.
The West Point Manufacturing company
cleaned up a net pro { OF $l3, 1865. So last year.
The expenses OF Cass county for the present
year are figured ut $40, 200 by the commission
ers.
A survey Is being made for a railway up the
north branch Of the Elkhorn in the direction
OF Dakota.
A capitalist named .Rutter will put up a car
Mug Factory at Exeter II he can get q bonus
from the citizens.
The young town OF Cambridge, Furnas
county, expended sS5, sos In building improve
ments last year.
A fried oyster eating contest is TO come OF
at Wsyne. One contestant agrees to eat four
dozen In half an hour.
The great Kearney canal has already cost
$1,000 and $75, 900 will be needed to cut the
ditch to Wood River.
Bent Bowers, OF Falls City, narrowly es-
capped being lynched for writing an insulting
letter to a lady Of the town.
A company to manufacture shot has been
organized at Omaha. Offices Of the company
will be opened In st. Paul and Dubuque.
A fire destroyed six business houses at Bea-
trice Monday morring. The fire was OF incen-
diary origin. The loss Is estimated at $4,000.
During the recent storm the snow drifted
against o. Nelson's sheep-sheds at Schuyler
and broke them In. MIR. Nelson lost l40
sheep.
Dan Conlin, OF Poncs, bears the dis
tinguished honor OF being the first white child
born in Dixon county. He first opened his
eyes In 1857.
Papillion was visited by a destructive fire on
Monday. -Four buildings we're destroyed,
causing q loss OF 5000. The town has no
fire department.
A specimen OF the ancient spinning wheel,
IN good repair and In constant use, has been
discovered in the household OF q farme In
Pierce county.
Bernard Dodd, who resided near Jericho,
Sherman county, drove his team over a bluff
and Was instantly killed. He was returning
from Loup City at the time.
Judge Sternberg, OF Omaha, has arranged
with the quarry company and the railway com
psnies TO give trsmps and Migrants work who
are brought before him and thus hopes to keep
the city clear OF them.
John T. Ecker, confined In the jail at Albion
under an indictment for felony, mae his es-
cape by r~eachlag n window in the second story
and making a rope of his blankets, let him.
self Iowa 10 The ground.
An O'Neill bride OF three months Is about
to sue for a divorce because her loving mate
insisted on sandpaper!ng her heels. This is
the first instance on record where a raspipg
heel threatened the social peace of a conmu-
nifty.
j. s. Dondra, OF Lincoln, Yves bitten by a
dog which afterwards showed signs OF having
rabies. DR.. Geith, who treated the wound,
telegraphed to DR. Billings Of New York, for
some vicus with which TO inoculate the pa
tient.
A man at Harrington tarried too long in a
salon and his team became tired Of waiting
| for him and started for home on their own
motion. They were found IN a creek three
miles from town both dead, and the wagon
was u complete wreck.
r. II. Montgomery, the Cambridge forger
and dead beat, has been apprehended and ar
rested at Austin, Texas, and will be brought
back to Arapahoe FOR trial. Besides beating
the banks, he confdenced his friends and left
his wife In destitute circumstances.
Fremont claims to be the largest roost FOR
hen fruit In the state. Last year 4, llS, 400 eggs
were shipped from there, al increase OF 100
per cent over the previous year. In addition
TO this half q million pounds OF butter were
disposed of, 4,426 barrels of apples and 1851
baskets OF grapes.
W. A. Parkhurst, civil engineer, super,n-
Tending the construction Of the new Union
Pacific bridge at Omaha, aud who broke a leg
coasting, abou. a month ago, Thursday sub
mitted to the amputation of the fractured limb.
The snputation was necessary to save Mr..
Parkhurst's life.
Albert McHenry, alias w. II. Carleton, the
dude tailor OF Arspahoe, hastily lit out last
week to AVOID presiding over the deliberations
of his wives, three Of whom were about to as
semble there. Albert endeavored to illustrate
a new edition of an old law, that 1t takes four
women to make a man-hump himself.
In the United States court at Lincoln Thurs
day, the jury In the Leighton q Clark insur-
ance case, brought In a verdict Of $24, 900 In
favor OF the firm, Twenty-four insurance
companies were interested. The contest was
mada IN the oround that Messrs. LEIGHTON IL