Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-03
NEBRASKA.
Kearney wants water works.

The Lutherans OF Sidney have organized a
church.
Cherry county has organized an agricultural
society.
A Grand Army post is to be established at
kimball.
A dummy railway is to connect Omaha with
South Omaha.
The temperance people Of Hastings are or
ganizing for the campaign.
The county superintendent will fold q con-
~vention at Fremont July 22-24.
The Blue Valley bank at Hebron, capital
$4,000, has been incorporated.
Bogus note swindlers are beating farmers In
the neighborhood of Table Rock.
Earnest knabe, and old resident Of Omaha,
committed suicide on Thursday.
DAn elevator with a storage capacity Of 25,-
600 bushels is to be built at Neigh.
A reduction of $4,000 Of the railroad debt
OF Cunning county took place last week.
About 100 cars Of produce were shipped
from Rising City during the month Of May.
A well at Strong has been bored and furn-
ishes the town with an unlimited supply of
water.
A shooting tournament for state sportsmen
will be held in Hastings for four days In Au.
gust.
Experts say that the vein Of coal recently
discovered in Cedar county will not pay for
its mining.
The first town on the Lincoln branch OF the
Elkhorn Valley road beyond Fremont is named
Cedar Bluffs.
Grand Master Workman Powderly has been
invited to crate At the Knights Of Labor cele-
bration in Fremont July 4.
Several idle young gentlemen were arrested
and heavily fined one day last week at Odell
for throwing stones at a passing train.
William Smitbson, a workman on the Platte
river bridge OF the Elkhorn Valley road, shock.
ingly mangled his hand with a broad-axe.
Three doctors worked three hours on the
neck OF Mrs. Ella Brown in Fremont the other
day and successfully removed q number OF
distressing tumors.
There arc fifteen denominations thirty.tve
ministers, nineteen churches, and sixty Sab
bath schools in Holt county. There are also
several baseball clubs.
Holt county is 4Sx5O miles and contains
1900 farms OF 270 acres each. The present
population is $4,000, and 80, 1000 more are in
vited to share its wealth.
A man named Cleaver was arrested Wednee.
day at Red Cloud, Neb., on a telegram from
the sheriff of Logan county, H., where it is
said he is wanted for murder.
The West Nebraska Methodist conference
will build a university at the new town Of
BARLEY. Two thousand acres OF land have
been donated for that purpose.
During a thunder storm on Monday at Crete
Martin Collins and Frank Polansky were
struck by lightning and instantly killed. The
former had a wife and three children.
Jacob Hoover, an old man OF seventy years
residing about seven miles southwest Uf Te-
cumseh, had his left leg broken last week
while aiding in putting a ring in a bulls
nose.
The expert sent to Cedar county to examine
the coal holes there reports that the vein dis
covered there will not pay to mine, and rec
ommend that the reward of $1,000 offered by
the state be not paid.
DThe prohibitionists of adams county are
making extensive preparations for a grand
rally and mass-meeting to be held in Hastings
on Saturday, July 3. 1t is proposed to make
1t the greatest political demonstration ever
held in the state.
An Auburn justice opened a new road to
the pockets of saloon keepers last week. A
man who had been fined for drunkenness sued
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and costs. The official dispenser of law held
the claim to be a just one and gave judgment
accordingly.
A Congdon farmer wants a wife, but not
bad enough TO tie up with a "slim.n She must
weigh $50, must be red headed and six feet in
height. Freckles and warts he thinks are
beauty spots, and a hankering for onions and
atheism will be considered favorable additions
in the premium girl.
Theodore Heasley, an Edgar stock man,
failed some weeks ago, settled huge piles Of
debts at 80 cents on the dollar, and pocketed
a snug fortune. He continued to live and put
on style among his swindled neighbors till
their patience gave out. At the solemn mid
night hour OF Thursday night a delegation of
masked citizens called on Heasley and invited
him to leave. The summons was obeyed with
out ceremony.
A young man by the name Of r. Little Is
under arrest at Lincoln on a complicated
charge. 1t seems that he had taken a girl out
riding Sunday and that 1T had supplied her
with whisky, which succeeded in making her
deathly sick. Two physicians were in attend
ance upon the girl Sunday night, and it is not
known whether she can recover or not. 1t is
supposed that the whisky was drugged by the
young man for a purpose of his own.
Contractor Robinson, near Lincoln, has had
to submit to an amputation of his hand. An
iron block weighing nearly three thousand
pounds fell a distance Of three feet upon the
member and crushed it to a shapeless mass.
On Sunday 1000 people assembled at Durfee's
Park, Lincoln, TO witness the broad-swOrd con
test between Duncan {. Ross OF Cleveland and
a soldier named Mcclure. At the instance OF
the Law and Order league the sheriff appeared
on the scene and ordered the contestants TO
stop.
The Fremont Herald pointediy refers to the
outrageous assault by a tramp on Mrs. f. C..
and says 'the tongue Of n wagon elevated in a
perpendicular position answers nearly as well,
and is mat "a pfypctiva whom a troe dnaop't