Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-30
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a cemetery.
Forty-fye thousand sheep are feeding in
the neighborhood Of Fremont.
The anti-Howe Republican club in Nebras.
ka City has 100 stalwart members.
Sheriff Hamilton, Of York, captured Smith,
an escaped jail bird, in Hall county.
Miss Brogan, a Seward school teacher, has
just inherited 10000 by the death Of a rela-
tive.
The Emmet Echo Is a recent addition TO
Holt county papers. Phil T. Jacobs is editor
and proprietor.
II is estimated that the shipments of stock
from Chadrun this week will aggregate 1900
cars, or 1900 head.
The Sherman County Transcript has be-
come n journalistic fixture in Loup City. G..
l.. Barton is the-editor.
The people Of North Bend are trying to
close the saloons of that place on Sundays
and after II O'Clock at night.
The new German Evangelical church at
Turkey Creek, Pawnee courty, which cost
5000, was dedicated last Sunday.
Another new town has been located on the
Rock Island, near Beatrice. Grading is being
done for 1890 feet Of side tracks at that
point.
TIE Windsor hotel, Omaha, inaugurated al
orchestra accompaniment for their Sunday
dinner, and music, as well as feasting, was the
order there.
jeremiah Wilson, "A farmer living near
Buda, pulled a gun nozzle foremost out Of
lfS Npotrpp Last Gutnrlar JIia funaru1 Xvos
largely attended.
Jay Gould, the railroad financicr, his son.
George j. Gould, Mr.. George Gould, accom-
panied by a large party, inspected Omaha
pretty thoroughly on Monday.
The stock yards company are at work sink
ing more wells in South Omaha near the
point where indications Of natural gas were
found when a well was sunk some weeks ago.
The murderer OF Quinn, the man who was
killed in the northeast part Of Adams county
was traced as far as st. Paul. where he had
left the team. No further trace OF him could
be- found.
Ex-Governor Furnas has raised on Nebras-
ka soil some beautiful samples of cotton, as a
matter Of amusement. The fibre is a trihc
coarse and short, but it Is clean and of
good weight.
The Neigh council has furnished the saloon
keepers and druggists there with a list of hab-
itual drunkards, and warned them not TO sell
them any liquor under penalty of having their
licenses revoked.
The Plattsmouth water works contractors
have bad another spasm OF progress. The
contract for the settling basin ha" been let.
4 carload OF pipe has arrived, an. the work
Of laying them has begun.
The revival in Beatrice is said TO have
strangely affected the young men. Their de
sire to embrace religion, however, Is not as
spontaneous and tender as the embrace Of
the religious on the journey home.
Frank Bochlc, a farmer living near the
Howard county line, while returning from
Grand Island with a wagon load Of lumber,
broke through a bridge and was crushed to
death. He leaves q wife and three children.
John strand. 4 Tell-known farmer living
in Albany township, near lioldredgc, had a
tooth extracted a few days ago CA his re-
turn home ne took cold in the jaw and died
from the cllcCl> Oh IL III d lc" ual0 AtV
wards.
The body Of an unknown man was found
1oatjug In the river at Portsmouth Tuesday
afternoon. Nothing wa, found on the body
by which IL could be Identified. 1t had the
appearance Of having been IN the water for
several days.
The B. Is VI, proposes to turn the channel
Of the Missouri river at the mouth Of the
Platte ana shape lis course TO the bridge, II
successful I: will give the company q much
needed addition to the yard facilities ia
Plattsmuuth.
4 freight train on the St. Paul and Omaha
road went through a bridge near Emerson
Saturday, wrccking the engine and fonr ears.
The engineer jumped and escaped, but Fire
man Patrick O'Hern went down in the abyss
aud mIraculously escaped injury.
4 street fakir started a little game in
Red Cloud Que DAY last week, having PAID
S25 for the privilege. ON the first turn 81
the wheel hc raked in so and a policeman. II
cost him ~ - more to get out OF the Law
clutches and leave the country.
Saturday nights wreck on the ElkhOrn Val
ley road at Hay Srpings was a serious one
Two engines and four ears were demolished
and Fireman Harvey killed. His remain
were taken TO Norfolk for burial. The wrecl
was caused bv a misunderstanding of orders
The surveying corps Of the +. f. & NJ. '
are now at work running a line southwest II
the direction OF Hastings and York. The sur
vey starts from the end OF the new brtdg'
across the Platte and follows the river on th'
south side past North Bend, Schuyler aD'
Columbus.
Stanton county is greatly excited over III
mysterious disappearance OF Mrs. Pryor. Stu
1T her home ia Stanton driving a sririte'
team Of horses. On Saturday the buggy wa
found overturned on the shore Of the Ell
horn, the team having plunged over the ban
a distance Of fifteen feet. The team wa
found two miles down the stream on the OF
posite side. The river was dragged for tw
miles, and no trace Of the remains va
found.
An the iourncymen plumbers in Lincoln
Thursday, went ont on a strike for standar
wages Of - per day. The striking plumber
in the city number some twenty-five. all tn
men al work In their line in town. Most g
them have been receiving $3.50 per day. The
is consequently a complete shutdown. Their
is an immense amount Of work dtnandin
attention. The striking plumbers have