Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-23
NEBRASKA.

tory.
Plans have been drawn for a s25, 600 hotel In
York.
The State Fair association has a surplus of
500, 900.
The Plattsmouth creamery has closed for
the season.
The Masons OF York will dedicate their new
hall next Friday.
Grand Island is to have q fire alarm bell
and a tower to It.
The Ponca journal calls Dixon the 'banner
county OF the state.'
The Towner bridge in Butler county was
completed last week.
There are 40 head OF cattle In the distillery
sheds in Nebraska City.
The canning factory at Exeter has been
closed for the season.
The grape vines near Grand Island this sea
son show an abundant yield.
Material is arriving for the Rock Island
bridge over the Blue at Beatrice.
The Ulysses Herald is still Kicking for the
organization of a fire company.
Ground was broken last week for a new
Union Pacific depot at Columbus.
Buffalo county is 10 have a new 10000
court house by the close Of another year.
The supreme court has decided that Rush
vile is the county seat OF Sheridan county.
The contract has been let for a large hotel
In Central City to be built 10y a stock com
pany.
The David City Tribune rejoices in the fact
that the poker dens OF that place have been
closed.
Ninety-four new postofiices have been es-
tablishcd in the state since the first Of Jan
uary.
The Grand lodge Of Odd Fellows hold their
annual mceting al Lincoln on the Goth Octo-
Der
The Alma Times has changed owners and
c3lors having gone over to the Democratic
party.
Alexander Garrow OF Dunbar, has fifty
acres of corn averaging fifty-six bushels to
the acre.
The buffalo grass Is beginning to take a sec.
ond growth and the prairie affords good past
ure for cattle.
The Superior Journal suggests that a good
system OF water works would be d great thing
for that place.
An immense trowd gathered to hear Mrs.
Frances Willard speak on prohibition at Ere
mont on Thursday.
A Ulysses man shot a duck on the wing $50
yards distant. He had an old blunderbuss
loaded for dogs.
The attorney OF the st. Joe and Grand Is
land road offers to run through York county
for a purse of $4,000.
The new German Evangelical church at
Turkey Creek, Pawnee conrty, which cost
81, ZOO, was dedicated last Sunday.
Andy Lantz, OF Oakland, lest a pocketbook
c%ontaing s15 and some papers a month ago
Last week his dog found the pocketbook and
returned it to him.
A Nebraska farmer crossed the river to
Sioux City and lost Il roll of 81, 200. 1t was
found in a car and returned 10 the owner.
The finder was rewarded with 500.
The Plattsmouth Sportsmeu's cab has
divided its members into two teams for a
grand club hunt to take place oct Is and Il.
A grand banquet will be given Saturday even
ing following.
John Hogan, OF Omaha. was sent to the
county jail for thirty days by Judge Steuburg
Thursday, for the larceny Of an o|vcrcoat from
Wednesday night.
Foster Edwards, an OLD crook, was arrested
at Nebraska City II ursday, charged with OBJ
tanning money on false pretenses and fleeing
a number OF persons out of various sums by
the gold watch racket.
The work Of digging the proposed we'll for
gas or oil at Omaha will be commenced as
soon as the council acts upon the petition OF
the projectors for the use OF certain city
property near the river.
The council of Nebraska City has granted
the Missouri Pacific permission to cut down
the grade OF Main street to bring II to a level
| with the track. The right Of way will cost
the company from $50, 900 to $4,000.
The Homer seminary, under the auspices OF
the Lutheran synod Of Nebraska, will open
October IS, Prof. w. C.. McCord and wife, late
OF Pennsylvania, being In charge. The pros
poets Of the seminary are brighter than ever
b fore.
DuTluS tue mOnIu Oh StptcUlDer tnere was
shipped from Dakota City sixty-four cars of
corn, ten cars Of brush and one ear Of hogs.
There was more corn shipped last month than
there was the whole Of last year, being up
wards of 81, 600 bushels.
A herd OF sixty-ive young cattle were
stolen from Fleming Brothers, in Thayer
county last week, but the thieves bit of more
than they could chew and dropped the herd
beyond the Kansas line. TIL cattle were re-
covered but the thieves escaped.
II. s. Jaynes, Omaha superintendent Of the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis Il Omaha rail.
way, received notice from j. NJ. Whitman,
general superintendent, late yesterday after
noon, not to receive any freight for Minneap-
oils or MINI csota transfer. This is probably
on account CT the switchmen's strike.
On Sunday morning a railway engine on
the way to Columbus when between Albion
and st. Edwards while running down a grade,
ran over and killed a little two-year-old
daughter of Charles Liyesay that happened to
be on the track. The engineer tried to stop
his engine but the grade prevented doing so
in time to avoid the accident.
Christ De Wall, living near Platte Center,
exhibited at the Columbus fair two mammoth