Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-27
NEBRASKA.

Nolioih is enjoying the luxury OF Il daily
paper.
Hastings is rejoicing In her first city direc.
tory.
Central City is mourning for a board OF
trade.
An 5000 grist mill recently burned at Sar.
gent.
Ainsworth cast $50 votes at the recent cleo.
ton.
There are 81 800 Scandinavians In Ne.
braska.
The Episcopal church at Neigh is In need
OF a pastor.
There is talk OF organizing a Shakespeare
club In McCook,
ing Nebraska,
The marshal Of Albion is trying to suppress
the gambling business.
One tailor and four newspapers manage to
"suit" the people Of O'Neill.
The peace purveyor Of Albion has declared
war on gamblers and tiger dens.
Lincoln has a colony Of rich people at Hot
Springs, Ark, trying the healing waters.
The ministerial association of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church meets in Tecumseh on
the 10th.
The new bell for the Catholic church at
O'Neill weighs 1000 pounds-the largest bell
west Of Omaha.
Farmer Sweetman, well known IN the
vicinity Of Papillion, has been committed to
an insane asylum.
The Blaine Centre Protective association Is
keeping an eye upon tramps and suspicious
looking characters.
The roller mill at Clearwater was stopped
recently by a large Dumbe OF fish filling the
fume Of the water wheel.
Frank Noolan, the Loup City suicide, who
shot himself on November /, died of blood
poisoning on the 18th.
Loup City is struggling under a load Of
gambling dens, and an enlarged and secure
Jail is a prime necessity.
The Madison Chronicle reports that the
Union Pacific company will build a branch
from that point to the Northwest.
Rushyille and Hay Springs have taken the
Sheridan county seat question up to the dis
trict court for settlement.
Capitalists from Burlington, la, will re-
open the First National bank of Blair under
the old name and charter.
A prospective vacancy In the North Bend
postofiice has started a lively war among the
harmonious spoils hunters OF the town.
The ladies OF Atkinson are about to organ
lie a society for the prevention OF kissing
kissing anybody but the members thereof.
Nebraska City sends to Omaha for hogs,
doubtless because the metropolis is the pack.
ing house headquarters in more than one
sense.
Ephraim Bastron fell under the stone train
In the Louisville quarries Saturday and was
crushed to death. Bastron was thirty years
OF age.
A prairie fire along the river bottoms, near
North Platte, burned 900 tons of hay. The
blaze started from a fire left by some camping
emigrants.
The old soldiers Of Schuyler who were con-
fined in southern prisons during the late war,
have taken steps to organize an ex-prisoners'
association.
Perhaps the only wildcat seen in Brown
county for several years was killed on the
farm Of James Sailings last week and weighed
forty pounds.
Omaha's police station is said to enjoy the
reputation of being the ilthiest one In this
land of liberty, and the police the most be-
nighted and brutal.
Chadron's ~artesian well is under Roadway,
and it will be but a few weeks before the den
liens of that place will have a straight article
10 quench their thirst.
Friday was a field day for the thumpers in
Ainsworth and the judges court was kept ac-
tive assessing the damages done to the peace
and dignity Of the village.
The county clerk of Chappell failed to issue
notices for the election of justice of the peace.
The question has arisen: "What are con-
stables good for without justices!"
The corners jury which investigated the
causes Of the death of John F.. O'Brien at
Palmyra, declared that the cause Of his death
was the result of being thrown from his bug
CIV by a runaway team.
A Mr.. Massey has purchased a small piece
of ground near Ponca which he is using for
running down slim holes about a thousand
feet long to tickle the bowels of the earth
for oil or gas.
Dee Laling, the Papillion Ii. year-old tough,
has been acquitted of the charge of having
attempted to murder the English brothers
near that city last spring.
The Fremont. Elkhorn g. Missouri Valley
company have settled with nearly every
farmer for the right Of way through Boone
county, and there are very few cases left for
settlement by the appraisers.
A valuable horse was stolen from the stable
Of Mr.. Higgins in Hastings Sunday night. A
neighbor lost a harness, and another a buggy
the same night, proving that the thief knew
the lay Of the ground, and went of with the
plunder in frst-class style.
Fears are entertained that Wisner will not
secure a Touring mill this season. The bonus
has been raised and the site secured, and two
Or three parties have CORES pended with the
citizens Of that place, bat so far no step has
been taken to hurry the matter.
Fremont is considering the proposition Of
X. Griffin, of Arlington, to operate a pack
ing-house in that city and Kill from twenty.
five to one hundred hogs a day, pro vided the