Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-17
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Tekamah is erecting a jail.
Crete has decided to invest In water works.
The Nebraska City distillery is on the mash.
Sneak thieves are raiding stores in Spring
field.
Lightning rod swindlers arc working Wayne
county.
A 550-foot salt-well has been put down at
Lincoln.
Broken Bow will have a new railroad by the
list Of August.
Hastings has sent tkree young toughs to
the reform school.
Emil Merha, a five yesr-old at Pierce, ate
poison berries and died.
The assessed valuation of Fillmore county
increased 100000 this year.
Hog cholera is again emptying the pens in
the west end of Cass county.
The city council Of Omaha has approved au
ordinance licensing prostitutes.
The assessed valuation OF property in Sew
ard county foots up 80, 1872, 745.
Large stock yards are being built at Long
Pine by the Elkhorn Valley road.
Another coal find il reported In Holt coun-
ty, on the farm Of j. II. Rushton.
The farmers Of Wayne county are having
trouble with lightning-rod swindlers.
Business buildings under way in Hastings
now show a total frontage Of 35S feel.
The Pioneer brewery of NebraskB City has
been sold 10 parties from Des Moines for s25,-
600.
Mrs. John Stull, living eight miles from
Plattsburg, died suddenly and mysteriously on
Monday.
McIlrevy's hotel at Nebraska City was de-
stroyed by Are on Monday evening about 8
o'clock.
Two Germans, whose names are unknown,
were assaulted and robbed near Nebraska City
by tramps.
A recent hail storm caused much damage to
the wheat, oats and fax in the ncighborhood
of Osceola.
The Fremont creamery put up , 1000 pounds
of butter daring June, beating its own and
the state record.
The agricultural association Of Dodge
county has decided To postpone holding a fair
until next year.
The Burt County Teachers institute is TO
be held at Tekamah, July 10 to 80. +. b. At
kinson. conductor.
The district teachers institute of Valley,
Garfield and Loup counties is to be held at
Ord August 9 to 20.
Glencoe, died of blood poisoning communi-
Gated from a sick horse.
Francis Murphy, the temperance lecturer,
will hold meetings at Davenport for two
weeks, ending on the 2lst.
The residence Of s. X. Lee, OF Hastings was
burglarized and $500 and a watch and chain
valued at $50 were taken.
Bids for the building Of a sod school house
are being advertised for by the directors Of a
Cheyenne county school district.
The new Methodist church in Beatrice will
be dedicated on July II. The building is
l20xl6S, of brick and stone, and cost $50, 600.
John ID. James, the Law and Order police
man OF Omaha, has been indicted for adultery
and moral delinqucncies. He is under arrest.
Mr.. Akin, of Hay Springs, who was tarred
and feathered by a mob, led by one Chamber
lain, has sued the latter for 10000 damages.
The BARRIERS Of Hastings recently went on a
strike, and after a compromise was made the
price Of shaving was Immediately raised to 10
cents.
Red Jacket, a notorious woman known all
over the west, is in jail at Chadron for threat
ening the lives Of the settlers in her neigh
borhood.
A S25,Oo y damage suit has been Instituted
by Aiken, the Nashville lawyer who was re-
Gently tarred and feathered, against his per-
s%ecutors.
Eune Whinnery, one OF the oldest settlers
OF Dakota county, died Sunday evening of
apoplexy. He was s~ixty-siy years OF age and
leaves quite q family.
Miss Nellie Hanna, Of Omaha. Monday went
riding on horseback with some lady friends,
and the exercise was so violent that she died
within a few hours.
Rev. j. y. Lenkcr, pastor Of the English
Lutheran church Of Grand Island, received a
call to travel for the Church Extension and
American Emigrant societies.
The Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley
railroad has offered to put. in large shops at Ere
mont If the citizens of that town would make
1t an inducement for them to do SO.
The local committee Of the State Firemen's
tournament, which is to take place August "a
to - at Fremont, have secured 81, 600 to
be distributed in prizes and premiums.
The Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley
railroad has offered to put up large shops at
Fremont if the citizens Of that town would
make 1t an inducement for them to do so.
Lightning struck the house of John Conner.
near McCook, and Knocked the family into a
corner. They recovered in time to finish the
meal turbed by that unwelcomr visitor.
Sam Smith, a yard switchman in Platts-
mouth, attempted to scale the tender foot
board OF an approaching engine, missed his
grip and narrowly escaped death. He got a
broken leg.
Chadron citizens have subscribed 81 600 for
the purpose of putting down an ~artesian well.
The water facilities at Chadron have been
very poor during the past three months, hence
the sudd L generosity Of the people.
Six thousand acres Of land near Timber
Vile, a few miles from Fremont, comprising
the 'farm'' of the Standard cattle company,
were finally transferred to that company and
the deeds recorded last week. The aggregate
cash paid for the land was $3.50, 900.
A Tecumseh grain shipper sent several cars
Of corn IN ST Iouis some waeks MO apd Loot