Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-01

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papers.
At Norfolk 1ss ladies voted at a recent
school election.
McCook has 4l4 persons Of school age, an
increase Of l29 In Q year.
Fifteen towns In the state declared for pro-
hibition q: the late election.
There are 200 newspapers In the state, and
new ones being established every day.
Horse thieves are harvesting a large herd In
Cunning county, and hemp is ripening.
The Valentine Republican will publish a
boom edition of 10000 copies this week.
st. John is coming from Kansas to 90
through Nebraska on q Temperance crusade.
A new Democratic paper to be called the
Pulveriz, r, will be started at Ulysses In q few
days.
The Lincoln police on Monday rounded up
eighteen tramps and marched them out Of the
city.
A company for the manufacture Of comb.
nation locks for safes has been organized at
Seward.
Pawnee CITY has not had q saloon during the
thirty years Of its existence and does not want
one nov.
A dry goods firm wants to rent the expoei.
ton building at Omaha, and has offered S., COO
q year for 1t.
Minnie Gilmore, the Butler county silk cul-
turist, shipped s35 worth Of silk cocoons to
the east recently.
Doran Moran, an Aurora child OF fifteen
mo- tbs, was nearly crushed by q piece OF side
walk the other day.
At Blue Hill the liquor license has been
raised to 81, 600, and the liquor men threaten
to shut up shor.
NJ. La Rue, Of Stromsbu-g, dropped q few
fingers In a sausage cutter last week. Bologna
can be had there at a discount.
1t is estimated that not less than five thou
sand people have immigrsted into Dundy,
Chase and Cheyenne already this year.
At the revival meeting held in the exposition
building at Omaha Sunday afternoon the
building was crowded and twenty-five converts
were made.
The total number Of children attending
school in the state is 30 1888 To teach them
1922 instructors are employed at al annual
cost Of $l,492, 346.
The Psx,on house at Omaha is being en-
lsrged by an additional story. This will make
the structure SIX stories high and give thirty
additional rooms.
Alec Dobson, Of Ulysses, kept an open water
tank In his yard. a few days ago his 4 year
old girl climbed on the edge Of the tank, fellin
and was drowned.
Twenty.one tramps were escorted out Of
Fremont last Friday. A suggestion that they
work for their lodgings paralyzed them, and
they reggtd hence.
A prisoner broke jail at Geneva a week ago
and has not been seen since. A hickory stick
handed him through the window enabled him
TO break open the door.
Neopolls Is the name Of q new town located
In the northeastern part of Buffalo county, at
the crossing OF tho Union Pacific and Grand
Island and Wyoming Central roads.
In two years the flosting ard Dor ded debt Of
Crete has been reduced 1854 SO, leaving the
town In debt only $3,6eS t7. This Is a healthy
ard c-edltable exhibit for q lively, thriving
town.
Knox county is ont q clean SIC, coo. Ex-
Treasurer A. j. Ka1i.h is short s9,4C4.lS, and
* Clerk Van Rinda, sl,loS.64. The bends
men Of both will be called into court to settle
the deficit.
The voters Of Hastings declared for water
! works by a majority OF sol. The vote author
ICES the Issue of SIS, eco In bonds for that pur-
pose. The system calls for eight miles CT
mains and q stand pipe with acapacity Of $780,
0o gallons.
The barn OF Thomas ConDor, near Colum-
bus, containing 100 bushels OF corn, 500
bushels OF wheat ard oats, seven horses, two
cows, seven calves, and a lot Of farm machin-
cry, WAS burned Wednesday night. The fire
was incendiaiy.
The system OF waterworks now under con-
tract and authorized in interior cities Involves
a direct expenditure OF $sln,t0 90, besides the
cost OF service In stores and residences.
Works are under way In Lincoln, Grand Is
land, Fremont, aad Blair, and the Hastings
and P.attsmouth systems will be let In a few
weeks.
A terrible accident occurred In BaJa1a pre-
cinct, Nemaha county, recently. Job Bartlett,
n well known citizen, had burned a straw-stack
and supposed the fire was all ouS. His 6 year
old girl was walking over Il when she fell into
a hole fll,d with FIRE. Her clothing caught
Ire, aud before .~aistance corli reach her she
was burned to d ath.
Grandpa Leet, son Of Captain Leet. Of
Revolutionary fame, died at the age of Sc, at
the residence OF his son in-law, Captain g. G..
Baird, In Pawnee county, recently. He was
born IN Connecticut in 1870, and from child
hood up was among the pioneers of the west.
He moved to Ohio In 1869, and to Michigan In
1916. He crossed Lake Erie on the first
ste, mer and ascendtd d Detroit river In 1920.
In settling up the estate OF James Hill at
Lincoln, Judge Parker, OF the probate court,
held that moneys paid TO the deceased or ac-
count Of pensions were exempt from attach
ment. Hi died in 1884 owing considerable
money and having q claim tor back pension
pending against the government. The claim
was afterward allowed, ard bis heirs were
paid Sl,st0, which was attached by HIPS
creditors. Judge Parker's decision dissolve s