Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-16
NEBRASKA.


four weeks.
great rush Of land seekers.
The surveyor generals Office at Plattsmouth
has been removed TO Lincoln.
Z. f. O'Suilivan, publisher OF the West
Point Progress, has sold out.
The voters of Madison viii give the county
seat another whirl in Novem Der.
Safe crackers tapped an iron TIL in Hast
ings Friday night and secured $50.
The Rulo Bridgeman is the latest addition
to he journalistic procession In the state.
George Guthals, OF Syracuse, shot Oh 4 knee
cap while jumping from his buggy, gun In
hand.
Night passenger trains on the Missouri Pa
cihc travel st the rate Of thirty-two miles au
hour.
The work OF etcavating on upper Broad
way, Omaha, has commenced preparatory to
paving.
An elevator with n capacity Of $4,000 bush
els will be built AT Cresco, X new town Oh the
Elkhorn valley extension to Lincoln.
Jim Blaine's picture is doing service in
Boone county to illustrate 4 local candidate
for the legislature.
A large force OF men are al work on the
Kearncy gasworks. The plant will be ready
for business Oct. -.
The United States court adjourned Monday.
Judge Shiras left last evening for Sioux City
To open court there.
O'Neill is booming. There are about TWEEN
ty-four buildings, both business and resi-
dences, under construction.
The postohices at Chadron and Creighton
have been raised TO the presidential standard,
with salaries Of 81 900 each.
1t is proposed to divide Brown county on a
line, thus giving Ainsvorth and Long Pine
each a chance TO be a county seat.
A man was found dead on the platformof
the Burlington and Missouri depot at Brown
Vile Wednesday morning.
Black Hills stone is being shipped into the
state for building purposes. Two hundred
carloads will be sent TO a Fremont contractor.
Cedar county ha. granted = Ave year char
ter to a Yankton man TO run a ferry on the
Missouri between YSnkton and the Nebraska
side.
The Union Pacific company 4. busy layin 6
iron on their road from Howard to North
Platte. This road follows the South Loup
river.
The three and only children Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Tomec, OF the Verdigris valley, were married
on the Goth ult. Five hundred guests were
present.
G, w. Ormsby, a travelling man from Atch-
ison. died lately In Hastings from an over
dose of morphine taken to allay the pain OF
neuralgia.
Ravenna received its baptism Of fire on the
4th. A hardware store on Appian avenue was
| cleaned out, and $500 worth Of property de-
stroyed.
Sam Stuart, O Burlington and Missouri
switchmsn, was run over by a yard engine al
Plattsmouth on Wednesday. He lived only
two hours.
Senator VanWyck has written to Secretary
Endicott, complaining that Nebraska has
been sighted in the apportionment of funds
made 10y the Missouri river commission.
The Omaha Musical Union band Monday
paraded the streets and furnished lively cleo
ton music in the interests Of Mayor Evans.
They we're served a bountiful dinner at Bech,
telc's.
The RaveGna Star points the way to the
magic young city on the B. IL NJ, thirty miles
northwest of Grand Island. 1t is owned and
edited by Charles p. Whitcsides and Carl b
Cass.
A Inference Of opinion between Chas. w
Haney and Wm. ii. Head at Broken Bow, re-
suited in a shattered shoulder blade TO thu
former and leisure for reflection in Jail to the
latter.
A fire near North Platte last week destroyed
200 tons Of hay, 400 feet Of stables and cor
rails, a grain house filled with feed, three head
Of cattle and three horses belonging to J. \.
Calhoun. Loss, $4,000.
Up to the first of October the Elkhorn val
from which the company realized Sl97 600 In
freight charges. Yet the road has barely
touched the borders Of fodderland.
Butler county is considering plans for q
court house to cost about $4,000. The com,
mittee appointed by the board Of supervisors
reported In favor of submitting a proposition
to voters to issue bonds for the building.
The Wise and Lewis teams of the Platts
mouth sporting clubs are goin. out on a
slaughtering expedition next Wednesday and
Thursday. Western shippers are advised tc
make generous ~consignments for that day.
The Plattsmouth cannery has closed dow
for the season. The company has put uI
| 5000, 600 cans Of goods, about one-half the
amount calculated upon. The shortage is due
to the partial failure of the vegetable crop.
The contract has been let for the extension
| of the B and NJ, 100 miles northwest OF Cur
tie in Frontier county. This branch will run
through Keith county and will strike the
Union Pacific In the ncighborhood Of Ogal'
lala.
A committee OF citizens OF York has
rendered the Chicago and Northwestern PEG.
pie a bonus OF $4,000 as an inducemeDt to
build to that city. The offer was taken under
advisement. The odds are In favor OF its &C.
ceptance.
A tall Is soon TO be held In Omaha for the
benefit OF the police force. The Herald
charges Marshal Cummings with having black
mailed the sporting class in the city out of
! several hundred dollars, compelling them TO
buy from ten TO twenty-five tickets.
Work has begun on the ST. James Episcopal