Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-25
NEBRASKA.

Rushville's pressing want is a pubic Ilora-
ry.
Grand Island is promised a barb wire fac
tory.
A coal company has been organized at Red
Cloud.
The Abba water works are proving a fail
ure.
Red Cloud is promised a depot, TO cost
sec, 900.
The Catholics Of Hebron will build a paro
chial school.
Platte Center pays out $1,000 a day for
grain and hogs.
An oil well has been discovered near Ulys-
ses, Butler county.
The York coal prospecting parties have
given up the hunt.
An electric hight company is absut to be in
csrporated al Ashland.
Ainsworth claims to have put SIS, 900 in
Improvements this year.
A. II. Baker will build a $l2, 0oo residence
in Grand Island next spring.
A large white owl was shot at Rising City
last week by Uncle Davy Smith.
The Nebraska City Distilling company
wants 100, 900 bushels of corn.
As Alselmo now has a population of 20o,
the Argus suggests incorporation.
Some Of the capitalists Of Norfolk are TAX
ing steps 10 secure a packing house.
The Nebraska City Packing company will
sink an a~rtesian well 600 or 700 feet deep.
A Touring mill is needed at Anselmo, the
nearest one being forty miles from there.
The American Savings bank, capital 800,
900, is the latest institution in Beatrice.
Eighteen Of the seyenty-seyen counties Of
the state are under township government.
There are III life and Gre insurance COM
panies doing business in the state.
Work on the biennial reports Of the various
state departments is nearly completed.
The female members Of the Grand Island
are organizing a charitable society.
Steel rails have been placed on the main
line OF the st. ice and Grand Island railroad.
A flowing oil well is one Of the snriosities
Of Butler county, four miles from Ulysses.
The Bachelors club of Rulo has adopted
the safety pin badge suggested by tie Omaha
Bee.
An electric light company at Norfolk will
possibly include a telephone line in its bust
ness.
Custer county has a postofice called Stop,
which is a short distance from another called
He'll.
The sportsmen of Republican City are pre-
paring for a grand wolf aunt on New YEARS.
day.
The Beatrice postoHice is to occupy A por-
ton Of the Masonic temple when that build
Eng Is completed.
Rev. w. f.. Howell sued the Methodist
church Of Gordon and obtained judgment
for s95 back pay.
Samuel Hardy, the murderer of Ralph Cow
ley, in Boone county, was sent to the peni-
Tertiary for fifteen years.
The well borers at the Nebraska City pack
Ing house struck a three-inch vein of ceal at
tn a DEPOT seventy-iye feet.
The ex- prisoners of war who reside in Paw
nee will meet aud organize an association De
cember Is, in Pawnee City.
The statistics OF Omaha's public improve
ments for 1856 show a total Of s. 10000
double the record of last year.
The total amount charged up to the ccun-
ties of the state for the care Of insane patients
for the last quarter is Sl3, 22912.
The South Omaha remen's ball will take
place Christmas eve. Everything will be done
by the ladies to entertain thel5 guests.
Arrangements have been made with the
railroad SO that Wyoming coal ear be sold
as far east as Valentine for IS a ton.
The coal discovery Of Cass county is found
to be OF a good quality. The vein is twenty
one inches in thickness and twenty feet under
A farmer near Arapahoe hauled into town
Wednesday, forty tons Of broom corn, re-
curing the help of thirty-three teams and as
many men.
The Fairmont News says there is too much
gambling In that town, and If it is not stopped
ii threatens to clean out the light.fingered
gentry.
The title to about $3.50 600 worth u Hast
ings real estate has been found void, owing
IL some dishonesty Of a mcmber Of an old
town-site company
The county commissioners of Douglas
county have gone east for opinions as to the
merits and dement's Of hospital plans in some
of the large cities.
Supervisor Snyder, of Harlan county, is fat
tening 335 head Of cattle and $50 hogs for the
market. He estimates that it will take 81, 40C
worth Of fodder TO reach market weight.
Postofice officials say that the increase Of
population in Nebraska last year has been
more rapid than In any of the western states
excepting Minnesota or Missouri.
Mrs. Elizabeth Titus has sued Beatrice for
81, 500 damages for permanent injuries to her
person, sustained by being thrown out OF a
buggy and having one Of her limbs broken.
Mail Carrier Andrew Peterson, OF Omaha,
and his entire family were poisoned b. eating
corned beef not properly cured. They suffer
ed great agony for a time, but were brought
out Of danger.
The Union Pacific has decided upon anoth-
err feeder--the North Bend e Northwestern.
1t will leave the Union line at North Bend,
strike Stanton early in the spring and move
on TO Dakota nj a two-mile- s-day gait.
A thrifty Madison county hen was caught
and housed in a suowdrift last month. She
did not give way to despair, however, but
''set', TO work and Matched out n flock of
seven chicks before the roof thawed off.