Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-06
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coin on the 18th.
A mountain lion Weighing $50 pounds wAs
killed near O'Neill tho other day.
A %greephorn was conndepced out OF $50 at
Lincoln By q bogus check game.
photograph gallery md q livery stable
were burned at Beatrice Saturday night
A blacksmith in Saunders county owns .
watch made in Liverpool IN the year l6S-
The Bank Of Stella has Aled articles Of in
the capital stock being s25,C0o.
Tho U.ion Banking company. With capital Of
$1,000 s, has been established ut Fairmont
Blair has four school he uses, and employs
fifteen teachers at An annual salary Of s7,435
Christopher Tismsn, OF Lincoln, was aned
800 and costs for keeping his sal Don open On
sunday.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars have been
subscribed for the new Congregational church
a. Omaha.
Tae Hastin Is bachelors' club Is in tie throes
OF dissolution. The members are suffering
with c1ld feet.
Aaron Cue, who WAS supposed to have been
fatally Il jared at Omaha by a snow p!ow, Is
rapidly recovering.
A little deaf girl while picking up coal on
the railroad TRACK a. Omaha was struck by an
engine and killed.
The Episcopal society Of Grand Island has
secured $500 as 3 starter for q new church TO
be erected next summer.
The latest estimate OF the cost OF water
works In Hastings is S0l, 40. The source Of
supply viii be drive wells.
A Powder river cattle company has pui-
chased 800 acres near Pilger for the purpose
Of establishing a ranch for winter feeding.
The question OF the constitutlonality Of the
slocumo liquor law is TO be tested by an appeal
to the Supreme Court Of the United States.
X. B. Sweeny has sued the Lincoln Sire, {
Car company for 5000 damages for injuries
received through the alleged carelesspsss Of u
driver.
The real valustion OF johnson county is
$40, 900 and the assessed valuation 81, 9i1,.
So. The bonded debt OF the county Is only
10000.
At Rushvi!le. L. o. Hull and j. x. Jordan
engaged IN a fight. Hull had his whiskers
pulled out OF his face, and Is now trying TO
collect 3 10000 damages from Jordan for the
less Of his beard.
Diphtheria has broken out at Seward. NJ.
Roberts has lost two Of his children. One
died Monday morning end one Thursday
morning. 1t seems that when 1t gets started
the doctors can not do anything 10 stop Il.
Preparations are being made st Coleridge to
erect O Presbyterian church next summer
There has been some talk Of building one but
no arrangements have been made. 1t Ia TO be
hoped Coler!dge will succeed In her en,er-
prise.
Monday morning as Mr.. Smith OF Benton,
eight miles west OF Schuyler, went to get usy
from a stack near that place, the body Of IN
unknown man was found under about ten
tons of hay that had fallen from the stack.
The body had laid there a long while, PROBABLY
three months.
A party Of fourteen Union Pacific surveyors
have been az work this week IN Hancock pre-
cinct, running q line nc.lh from PllEer. The
line Of their survey crosses the Norfolk line
about midway between old and new North
side. Out of some Of these surveys Wayne
county "a bound 20 get a railroad somewhere.
Henry q. j. Lehman, Of Omaha, met with q
serious accident at Willard Sunday. He had
been visiting his uncle a. that place. He in
terded 10 return 10 the city by the early ~traic,
but only arrived at the depot as the train YVES
pulling out. all except the laet coach had
passed, and in attempting to Jump on this he
fell and partially slid under the car. The lsst
two wheels passed over his right leg between
the knee and the ankle. The limb was go
badly mangled that amputation was neces-
sary.
William Tridle was arrested Monday at Ara
pahoe for q brutal assault upon q l4-yesr-o'd
girl named Edith Bell. Upon some pretext
Trldle enticed the girl to go out Of town with
him on one Of the country roads. When about
NO miles out the brute accomplished his
fendish purpose and then eft her. The scene
Of the outrage Is about half q mile from the
aosuulteu STIo uUIuc. QUO Htud uer way
home, where she now lies In . critical conit-
ton (. ON the terrible treatment she received
at the hands Cf the brute. Public sentiment
4, very strong, and loud threats are made OF a
repetition OF the summary Justice dealt out at
Schuyler a few weeks ago. Tridle Is now in
generated, and bis preliminary examination
viii occur in a day CT two.
Wayne Gazette: The annual meeting OF the
stockholders Of the Wayne County Agricultu-
ral association at the secretary's rooms en-
Wednesday was well attended and much IN
terest manifested. The bylaws were amend
Cd, combining the offices OF secretary and
treasurer. A. B. Slater was elected president
and r. NJ. Goshorn secretary ard treasurer. A
new board OF directors we're also elected as
follows: A. T. Chaplin, X. Frazier, J. X. Mall
ming, Wm. Frazier, T. L.. Miller, H. y. Miller,
f. NJ. Smith. L. &. Dearborn, James Barbour
and Paul Epglish. Tn financial condition
Of tie society was discussed, It appearing that
there Is a debt Of about $500. 1t 10 TO be hoped
that delinquents will see the necessity OF pay
Ing In their subscriptions ard having this deb:
cancelled.
TIE war o. tho railroads has already troleo
out northwest of GrAcd Island. Tie Union
Pacific aod Burlington and Missouri are push
ing operations vigorously, and considerable
rivalry is shown In the race for POSITION ard