Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-25
NEBRASKA.

Inc Dsll0on ascension AZ the Omaha Ialr
was q success.
The Lutheran convention was held at Au-
burn last Sunday. A series Of interesting
meetings was held.
A.. {. Stoll, Of Beatrice, received 1898 as
premiums on hogs at the Omaha fair.
A mass meeting Of Collar county prohibit
tionists took place on the 10th at Schuyler.
Tuesday was children's day at the Omaha
fair. Nearly seventy babies were entered. A
large variety OF prizes were awarded.
The church at Beatrice was broken into re.
Gently and a quantity OF communion wine
stolen.
It is said that a Hastings gambler won ST.
500 in a faro bank IN Grand Island during the
reunion.
/. C.. Van Allen, of York has been
nominated for state senator by the prohibit
| tionists Of that county.
Five settlers on the divide In Cheyenne
| county have lost their crops from the rayages
OF range cattle.
Charles Murphy OF Valley county has
thrcshed twenty-four acres Of oats which aver
aged over eighty bushels to the acre.
Farmont was visited by . destructive storm
on the 18th. The Methodist church and the
county fair buildings were damaged.
At Nebraska City recently a runaway team
threw out a man, two wclAen and two babies
without serious injury to any of the party.
The surveyors Of the Niobrara branch of
the Union Pacific road are working north of
the Milesbororchurch CT %errimac creek.
Hon. $. Sterling Morton has sent a letter Of
congratulstion from Paris To President Fitz
gerald, Of the Irish American National league.
The Northwestern railroad has negotiated
with William Cannelly for land for a town
site about five miles east of Newman's Grove.
William Raupre has disappeared from He
bron, and IL Is not known whether he has
made a quiet sneak or thrown himself in the
river
From Bancroft it is reported that the Oma-
ha lands, opened on the 9th, were immcdia-
telv taken. Many land seekers are coming
The regular monthly meeting Of the board
Of trade was held at the secrctary's office,
Omaha, Monday night, President Meyers pre-
siding.
The new town OF Cody Is being laid out In
lots and building already commenced. 1t
is nearly midway between Long Pine and
Chadron.
Henry Fravert dug out OF the sand near
Potter the shoulder blade Of a mastodon. The
bone was more than four feet long, but not
in a good state of preservation.
n II Turpor hos racippol his positinn aS
county superintendent Of public schools for
Dawes county, and DR.. A. j. Gillespie has
been appointed to fill the vacancy.
Frank Williams and Jack Taylor, who were
arrested Friday for holding up an old man in
Omaha, were sent to the county Jail in default
of 81 1000 bail. They proved to be a couple of
desperate crooks.
Nicholas Downey, the father Of the man
killed by Erskine, near Burnett, has had his
preliminary examination at Fierce on the
charge Of shooting Erskine, and been bound
over to awaithis trial in the district court.
Two little children Of A. W. Murphy, at
Stuart, laid Town on the floor when a large
piece OF plastering fell upon them from the
ceiling. badly ruising ,he elder and fatally
injuring the Younger child.
A rattlcsnakc bit a dog belonging to F.. II.
Drummond, of Naponce. Singularly enough,
the dog did not die, hut developed hydrophobia
transferred the rabies TO the cattle, aud killed
fourteen Of them.
The Fremont Tribune learns that the Uuior
Pacific proposes at an early day to
building its branch from North Bend tc
S,a,+,, Tho ~ pnaIn loct crrjpo ,vcr,
final and the grade stakes set.
The Pawnee Press is authority for the state
ment that a 1ecumseh girl stuffed the arm OF
an old coat with hay and placed it around hcI
waist and sat near the window in the soft
moonlight Of a sweet evening last week. The
other girls in town are just dying with envy,
Charlie Blabon of O'Neill took some lauda.
nun for the purpose OF easing pain from
which he was suffering, but the dose came near
being too much for him and but for the un.
firing efforts Of his friends and relatives he
might have slept to wake no more.
VIM. +. Coleman Il Co., Of Omaha, filed
suit in the district court Monday TO recover
from Sheriff CoburL about s700 worth of wine
and liquors which they allcge was taken from
Them BY the sheriff on an unlawful and unjust
writ of attachment.
a man named Dunn, about 90 years Of age,
living in Hastings, has Seen troubled with a
sore heel for about fourteen years, though nc
medical treatment was given it until the other
day, when an examination was made and a
large piece OF glass was discovered lodged
ly,htl,, ,noio.t +lo bona
Sheriff Eubank OF Hall county captured
three horse thieves near Lodge Pole. Their
names are J. Smith, Charles Lyons and Charles
Holland. They had thirteen head Of stolen
horses in their possession at the time. The
sheriff Of Albany county, Wyoming, had Of
fercd a reward Of 500 for their arrest.
Lightning struck a farm building northwest
Of Pender Monday morning, occupied by a
German farmer named Riedler. A ~plasterer
who was working in the house was thrown
down and Mrs. Riedler was shocked. TIL bolt
entered the house about four feet from where
h little child lay on the bed, but did not in
lure it in the least.
John Fitzgerald he's just closed a contract
with the b. & NJ. folks for the grading OF their
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