Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-29
NEBRASKA.

The Falls City Auxiliary Printing company
has suspended.
Nebraska CITY is still crying out for a bridge
over the Missouri.
The police of Hastings wear handsome
regulation uniforms.
Col. Burr Il. Polk, OF Lincoln, died OF heart
disease on Saturday.
Plattsmouth has q cigar factory that turns
out 4O0, coo cigars q year.
Teksmah has four churches, five temperance
organizations and three saloons.
It is impossible to get umoer into strsng
fast enough TO supply the demand.
The Atkinson people have their choice OF
paying % tsx or killing their dogs.
One hundred men are regularly employed In
the yards Of the Elkhorn road at fremont.
Two new schools, costing $40, s95 and SASS
respectively, are to be erected at Hastings.
A "Morals ard Manners society" has
been organized BY the young ladies at Creigh-
ton.
George Rowe, q cigar maker, was killed at
Papillion by falling fro nj a train while in mo-
ton.
Thirty.seven thousand dollars worth OF
buildings are already under contract In Broken
Row.
Fremont enthusiasts claim that the census
now being taken will show a population OF
5000.
Contracts hsv, been awarded for two new
schools In Hastings, to cost $l0,99 o and
s2,S75.
An academy. to be under the charge OF the
Sisters Of Mercy, will be built at O'Connoi
this year.
Nebraska City is endeavoring TO pursusde
the railroad authorities to establish suburban
trains at that city.
The pr yes for the state firemen's tourna-
ment In Fremont aggregates 1900. The
meeting is billed for August.
An Albion young lady has written 1900
words on q postal card, and the Lords prayer
OF a line drawn around a ten cent piece.
Crete papers are seeking to enhance the
cause OF prohibition By publishing the names
Of all citizens who sign petitions for saloons.
A vote will be taken In Cunning county soon
on the question OF issuing bonds to the amount
OF 5000 for the purpose Of improving the
highways.
W.. j. Mettler, of Wayne, hes been appointed
postal clerk between Missouri Valley and
Cnadron, wee J. W. Turtle, who failed In his
final examination.
The latest case Of theft is reported from near
Indlanola. A man stole the roof of a neigh
boris house while the occupant was away from
home on business.
Cutrs,s new town in Frontier county, was
plated April IL, and already $50, 900 worth Of
lots have been sold. All branches Of business
are well represented.
The commissioners OF Cumiug county want
$50, 600 for building and repairing county
roads and bridges, and have submitted the
question to a vote OF the people.
A tramp named Joseph Kennedy fell from
a train near Big Springs Wednesday night, re-
ceiving Injuries that will lay him up for some
time, II they do not prove fatal.
At Falls City on Saturday a runaway team
steered by adrunken driver rushed into the
front OF a drug store, and things were terribly
oLuuohSN up IL dilNCI wa CSilOueiS IA
iared.
G.. ID. Barrows, while picking strawberries
about four miles west OF Lincoln on Wednes-
day, was bitten on the thumb by q rattlespske
At last accounts he was suffering intensely
from he wound, and 1t is feared he will die.
The late st strike is reported from Beatrice
A lot OF trsmps in charge OF All ,ficer To serve
out sentences under charges or vagrancy, re-
fused to work on the streets unless paid for
the work. AT last accounts they were still
striking.
George Smith, while excavating for the
laying Of gas mains at Beatrice Wednesday
afternoon, was completely buried by the cav
ing Of a trench. He was taken out uncon'
scious, and, although badly hurt, will prob.
ably recover.
John Henderson, a youth OF twenty-three,
kidnapped Katie Myer, a girl OF fourteen,
from the home Of her parents In Sheridan
county. They were married. Father Myers
offers a ~ifty-dollar bill for q crack at Hender'
son, or a chance to shiagle the daughter.
Chris Ruhle, a German, probably 80 years
Of age, Yves found dead at Omaha, Wednesday
m )rnipg, with nis tn. oat cut from ear to ear
There is no doubt but that be was murdered
presumably for his money, but the officers
have no c)u as TO who the guilty parties ere
The corpse OF Henry Thiemsn, q German
bachelor, a. I'd about thirty-two, was found
Saturday In I ~decomposed state In his shsnty
on his claim on the Omaha reservation, seven
miles east OF Wisper, by two of his neighbors.
1t is evident that he has been dead several
days.
The Young Ladies' Protective association
OF Fremont has petitioned the marshal and
mayor to prohibit the Mother Hubbard 'haud
me Gown" jackets which the dudes OF the
town sport in public. The girls declare tina
!, display OF crooked shanks is q shocking psro-
dy on the masculine form.
81. p. Shumwsy, Of Wakefield, has in hi
, possession a deed to the family homestead II
Rhode Island, dated October %, 1873, or forty
4. three years b. fore the revolutionary war. Tt
, document Is all written, and certain portion
are scarcely legible. The homestead Is still
in the fsmily and Is the birthplace Of Shum
, ways mother.
AT Blair Saturday evening a team belonging
to Pete Nohrenberg became frightened at