Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10

A young son of Mr.. Bailey OF Schuyler was
killed by being dragged by a rope by a horse.
A handsome church to cost $751; 600 is being
built by the Methodist congregation at Beat
rice.
A shooting tournament OF four days dura-
ton will be held at Hastings in the early part
Of August.
The large hotel which is being erected at
Broken Bow will be thrown open to the public
about Sept. 1.
l.. II. Rust Of Red Cloud claims to have
picked 3,042 boxes of Strawberries from one
acre this season.
Several Of the Franklin county commission
ers have been arrested. charged with recciv-
ing Illegal fees.
Central City business men have formed an
association to erect a hotel, the cost of which
is to be ST., 200.
Thieves entered two houses at Grand Bap-
ids one night last week and secured $1,000 be-
sides a lot of jewelry.
The Nebraska state Sunday school conven-
tioa will be held at Crete from tne lst to the
10th of July, inclusive
Mrs. Elizabeth Isle Saxon will be in Ne
braska in August to spend some months in the
interest of woman suffrage.
Geo. Hunt is the champion rat-catcher OF
Weeping Water. He recently corraled eighty
eight in twonty-four hours.
Indiad Agent Wright has received orders to
expel all white men not married TO Indian
women from Rosebud agency.
Fremont county ranchmen are this year
paying a great deal of attention 10 alfalfa
raising, to the exclusion of grain.
Couch, the metcorologist, has bullctincd the
weather for each day of July for Nebraska.
The 3D. is to be rainy and the 9th clear.
Several Portsmouth lads broke open and
robbed a freight car Of 360 boxes of matches.
The parental switch was put into action.
Fairbury will vote on july 20 on the prop
ssition of helping the Chicago, Kansas and
Nebraska railroad to the extent Of $40, 600.
Miss Margaret Thompson OF the class of
1886 of Doane college has been chosen pre-
ceptress Of that institution for the coming
year.
The G.. A. X. OF Nebraska will start from
Lincoln on or about the 25th of July, on their
trip over the mountains and to the Golden
Gate.
Sixteen hundred dollars will he the amount
of the speed purse Of the Fairnont district
fair, which will be held the last days of
August.
The tramp nuisance continues worrying the
men and frightening the women of Blair. A
fluent poultice of sole leather would prove a
wonderful disinfectant.
a Plattsmouth widow has q monkey that
gets drunk every night, and she says that if
it would only snore in its sleep it would be a
good substitute for her late husband.
Dixon county is the only county in the
state where the sale Of liquor is not licensed.
No more saloons will deck the highways there,
but the byways will blossom with bootless
thistles and the waving cVrkscrew.
O'Neil's court house continues to attract
the attention Of public officials Of economical
tendencies. For size, convenience and cost il
is a model for young and growing counties.
The court room will seat so persons.
A singular and fatal accident occurred at
Crete last week. A current Of electricity
struck the shafting of a well augur, setting
fire to the clothes of a workman named Col
Inns, killing him instantly. He leaves a wife
and several small children.
The assessors books, as returned to the
county clerk, show that there are 1000 head
of hogs in Seward county. Last year there
were 10000, a falling of Of one-haif, which was
caused entirely by the disease that prevailed
so extensively throughout the country last
summer.
a mad dog raided Battle Creek, Madison
county, last week and bit two COWS, a colt and
a dog before it was dispatched. These animals
were on George lIarnon's farm, and all died.
Mr., Harmon was bitten by the colt just before
its death, and grave fears are felt of the
consequences.