Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-18
NEBRASKA.

Burglars we're operating in Nebraska City
last week.
A ~six-foot rattlesnake was recently killed
near Dundyville.
Platte county will spend 8 1900 in repairing
bridges this season.
canning factory.
The York CT 1cry made its first shipment
Of goods last n TX.
A Hastings syndicate Will establish a road
grader mandatory.
Inland cornfelds are being damaged by the
omnipresent chinch bugs.
The Furnace county fair will be held In
Beaver City Oct. Is, IA and Is.
The next county seat election In Madison
county will te held Sept. "A.
Work is to be commenced Oh a new Meth.
odist church at Salem at once.
The combined capacity of the grain eleva.
tors at Ord is about 1875, 900 bushels.
The new town ball at Galloway will be
opened next week with a free ball.
sarpy county rape-growers expect to har-
ftSt lPo toHs VI Sidbts luis year.
The FIRST fair Of Dawes county was held at
Chadron last week and was a success.
There are thirty five school districts In Stan
ton county and thirty.tiye sshool houses.
The Louisville pottery is being rebuilt, and
will be ready for business next spring.
Charley Lee, Of Oxford, lesped from under
a falling sand bank and escaped death.
The fourth annual fair OF Brown county
will be held at Long Pine September PA.
s. w Holland, the artist, lost finished pic
lures to the value OF SIS in the North Bend
-
The first encampment of the pioneers Of
Antelope county will be held at Neigh Sep
TENDER 20.
The state normal school at Peru has just
opened the year with an attendance Of over
two hundred.
The burnt district Of North Bend is being
rebuilt. Brick is the principal material used
in The reconstruction.
The safe of the North Bend bank came out
of the fire with the cash intact and the time
lock in working order.
The new town of Florence, Nuckolls coun-
ty, was visited by a severe wind storm recently
and almost totally demolished.
Andrew J. Bobyler, aged sixty.seyen, and
Mrs. Evelin Exye, aged ifty.fve, we're recent
ly married in York county.
'The Minneapolis of Nebraska" is what a
correspondent in the Fremont Tribune terms
Long Pine, Brown county.
Keith county will probably vote on the ques-
ton Of dividing the county this fall. A pc
tition to that effect mas been circulated.
A street fakir in O'Neill recently ''roped i'm
some Of tie leading citizens Of the town on
the give.away money racket to advertise his
From Bancroft II Is reported that the Oma-
h. lands, opened on the 9th, were immedia-
tely taken. Many land seekers are coming
in.
The Plattsmouth canning factory disposed
of sl4, 600 worth Of goods to one party recent
", and ives unable to fill a second order for
s.. 900 worth.
One Of the late industries Of Dawes county
is charcoal burning. There is an abundance
of timber, and ready sale is had for the pro.
duet at profitable prices.
The citizens OF Lincoln, $50 in number gave
a reception and banquet to Michael Davitt at
the Windsor hotel last Tuesday evening. Mr..
Davitt is the guest Of Patrick Egan.
The affairs of the First National bank at
Blair are found TO be in a much better condi-
ton than at first supposed. Stockholders and
depositors will receive their money in full.
Stromsburg will have an election Septem-
Der Il for the purpose # voting for or against
issuing bonds to the amount of $4,000 for
the construction Of water-works.
The trial of Casey, who robbed a stage Of
81, 900 government funds last January, is now
in progress and has attracted a large attend
ance at the district court of Dawes county,
On Thursday morning three masked men
robbed the house Of William Muihall, Omaha,
bound and gagged Mrs. NJ. and tied her to a
tree in the yard. They secured $40 besides
many valuables.
Thomas Casey, the stage coach driver,
charged with the robbery Of the treasure box
OF the Wells, Fargo & Co.'S express, between
Chadron and Fort Robinson, has been ac-
quilted.
The Prairie creek, Merrick county, bird pro.
tective society has filed a number of com
plants for infraction OF the game laws. The
members say they mean business and intend
to prosecute all violators against whom they
can get evidence.
The exhibits at the York county fair, which
has been hell at York since Monday, arc ;he
finest ever made in the county. Rain has in.
terfered every day and unless the weather i'm
proves the fair will be a dismal failure. 1t Is
intended to continue it till Saturday.
While in the country the other day Will
Stewart of O'Neill attended a ball ani becom-
ing enamored of the belle of the evening he
asked if he might claim her for a partner in a
waltz on the program. "No, much begged
was the %artless reply; chem round dances al
lus turn my stortach."
John +. Tiedgen's large new barn, G0x10O
feet, and his old barn, 4lxl50 feet, contain.
ing several hundred bushels Of grain, 200 tons
Of hay In stack, and twelve horses and mules,
about two miles southwest Of Battle Creek,
burned Sunday. The damage Is estimated az
80, 900; Insurance about 5000. The cause
is not known.
While Miss Crowder, OF Hamb burg, who has
been on a visit to Miss Wyckof at Omaha,