Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-18
NEBRASKA.

81. Paul talks OF building an opera holse'
at York.
Wahoo is promised a new passenger le-
pot.
Five miles OF water mains have been laid in
Hastings.
Hastings is trying to close the saloons on
Sundays.
Nebrsska's state library contains &c, 900
olunes.
Rushyillc is now provided with q night
Waterman.
wahoo 10 stalking steps to secure the Mis-
souri, Pacific.
Hastings farmers are still engaged In husk-
ing corn.
Mason City is talking Of establishing a Are
department.
Belvidere will probably incorporate In the
near future.
A sod-honse In Harlan cost It's owner and
occupant 81, 400.
The town of Merna, Custer county, is to
have a bank.
Railway surveyor. are at work in the vicini
ty Of Wymore.
A farmer near Osceola has planted sixteen
acres In blackberries.
AT Chadron 100 men find employment In
the railroad car-shops.
1t will cost Beatrice $40, 600 to complete its
institute for the Insane.
The Platte river IL to be bridged at Overtou
with "A SIS, COO structure.
The state beard Of agriculture has a balance
of $4,000 in the treasury.
Omaha is soon to have another telephone
building near the Exchange.
Utica farmers are organizing a grange Of
the Patrons of Husbandry.
A sewer-pipe manufacturing company has
been Incorporated at Beatrice.
About $4,000 worth of Improvements were
made in Creighton during the past year.
There are three wholesale and twenty-five
retail dealers In oleomargarine at Omaha.
The dairymen at Blair ship their milk to
Omaha dealers, and find much profit in it.
The Tract society has decided to rcm9y
heir institution from Fremont to Lincoln.
Nebraska City capitalists are figuring on an
oat meal and homiry mill to cost $4,000.
The Sutton creamery took first and second
premiums at the Chicago fat stock show.
The state papers report great losses Of cat
tie, hogs and sheep in the recent blizzard,
An effort is being made by the business
men OF Norfolk to organize a board OF trade.
The Aurora people are holding meetings to
devise means to secure "a state normal
school.
The prospects for securing another rail
road at Kearney In the spring are said to be
good.
Nebraska City parties made over one hun
dredbarrelsg of grape wine during the past
year.
Considerable excitement is being stirred up
in Lime Greek over a dispute about a grave
yard site.
Saturday was the coolest Of the season In
Mankato, the thermometer ranging from 20 to
20 below zero.
Blu Springs correspondents report the dis.
covery OF a fine deposit Of white marble near
that city.
Richardson county claims to have the larg
est teachers association in the state and The
best attended.
1t has been decided by the city council Of
ihdl IA hS HOW 1T
use In that city is a success.
G.. ID. Meiklejohn, Of Boone county, is tn,
only Republican member of the state senat,
who was reelected in November.
A Kearney company, with a capital of $50,
coo, has been formed for the purpose of gath
ering ice from the lakes near that city.
Sheriff McCallum took Mrs. Shellenberge
from Nebraska City to Lincoln Thursda,
morning, where she will be left until her trla
at the next term Of the district court in tina
city.
The educational facilities at uPierce hav
been extended by the completion OF a ncy
school building to accommodate the risinj
tide.
David City offers a bonus to a creamery,
soap factory, an implement factory, a cannin,
factory, "A planning mill, "A foundry and a ma
chine shop.
Rummel, the Hastings ire-bug, who set fir
to the handsome high school and other build
ings lately consumed in that city, has bee
bound over TO the district court in the sci
of 5000.
. Gen. Tbayer has written to Gen. r. K. Liz
ingston, Of Plattsmouth, a personal lette
thanking him for his refusal to become a can
didate on the Democratic ticket In oppositio,
to him.
At the railroad camp, a mile and a half Yves
of Wshoo, ID. O'Connell's barn burned dow,
Sunday. 1t contained twenty-one horses an
mules, and all but three were burned to death
Loss, $500.
The barn Of Wilson & Pritchard, contrac
tors on the Burlington and Missouri railroad
was destroyed by fire in Elk's precinct, Waho
county, together with twenty-eight horses,
few days ago.
City Engineer Roscwater, Of Omaha, is pro
: pairing a map that will show the location an
! elevation of every fire hydrant In the city, Il
order to ascertain the amount of pressur
that can be obtained at any hydrant.
Operations have been suspended at the Ii
: cation of the recent coal find at Omaha. TIL
well has filed with water and nothing furthe
: can be done until a pump, which has bee
ordered, of sufficient capacity to empty tn
p well arrives.
At Cozad, on Wednesday night, ellison 4
james shot and killed Charles Hayes, a hlacl
smith Of the town Of Galloway. James il