Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-02
NEBRASKA

Milford.
The Masonic temple at Beatrice is nearing
completion.
Hay Springs veterans have formed a G. A
r.. post.
Many horses In Omaha are badly afflicted
with CHAMBERS.
m schools opened up with 252 pupils
In attendance.
Apisculture is becoming a profitable indus
try in Boone county.
Frank Buck, OF Greenwood, was gored TO
death by a bull Saturday.
A Prairie Chicken Protection society has
been organized at Central City.
A new Catholic school, 5Ox55. two stories
high, is to be hnilt in P%lattsmouth.
D. \. Hickman Il CO., stone contractors at
Beatrice, were closed up Saturday.
Anselmo is the name OF a new station me
hundred miles north Of Grand lsland.
Eight business houses were burned in o dis
astrous fire at Greenwood on the clst.
Sixty bushels OF corn per acre is wha. Elk
horn valley fields are expected to yisld this
year.
1t is proposed to give tive Northwestern
railroad $50 900 in bonds to tuilI its road 10
York.
The Kansas City and Orlaha road has
asked Sutton for the right o. way through
the city.
There were ninety-fslr ney pos tofices es-
tablished in Nebraska from "Janua-y to Au-
gust l..
1t is said tina, the town OF Newman Grove
4 vSit 1a,a ttr ,n,. .-.l -
gets there.
Hebron nov has two stea'. printing houses
and the two weeklios have a circulation OF
about $500.
fainas county Democrats declare for Van
Wyck in preference to any Republican in the
field Tor United States senator.
The advance agent OF the Kansas City and
Omaha railroad has arrived at sutton, to Sc !
cure right OF way for the road.
Aaron Dryer, ~tfty-two years of age, from
Richmond, Michigan, was killed by a street
car in Omaha Saturday night.
BY the close of 1886 the Burlington and
Missouri company will nave 1900 miles of
railroad in operation in Nebraska.
Hebron now has two steam printing com
panics and two weekly publications, with a
circulation OF thirty eight hundred.
A large number Of the members of Mt. He
hron comlnandcry with their wives have left
to attend the c~onclave at st. Louis.
Eugene Orendorf, aged sixteen years, while
herding sheep near Hebron discharged a shot
into bis leo inhicting a serious wound.
A heightened descendant OF Sitting Bull or
some other distinguished scalper, purchased a
KS bedroom set for his tepee in Rushville.
Mrs, }. A. Montague, Of New York, discov-
cred two daughters in Omaha recently whose
whereabouts she had not known for eighteen
years.
The result Of this years farming in Cherry
county demonstrates that feed crops, such as
grasses and corn and rye, etc, are the most
productive.
Frank Marvin, a brakeman on the Grand
Island extension OF the b.. and NJ, was in !
stantly killed at AnselIno, on the 10th, while
Coupling cars.
Thayer county will soon hold a special
election for the purpose Of voting bonds to
the amount OF $4,000 for the purpose of
erecting a new county Jail.
The b. and VI. and st. Joe and Grand Island
roads are having a lively war Of rates on st.
LoulS BUSINESS Al Hastings passenger rates
down to s. for the round trip.
The following sign was nailed on the side Of
an eil'Sraht wagon "hlch passed through
oSa'"l'a iast week = ca he from NeiAaha
''uh's' h"n'' "u" = : Nho" "HcIc an go
inS'
a Saiooh-heepcI al ilaS'ihgs was recently
arrested lor hecplhg open altcr II O'Clock, but
ne informed the Judge tflat he was running
MS place by sun time, ana the case was dis
missed.
Inc Omaha iair ana exposition, 7 says the
sutton Register, was a grand success and
was as me a display OF STOCK ana farm pro-
ducts, machinery, etc, rs was ever collected
together IN Nebraska"
a kearney man advertised In a local paper
Tor a girl, ana his wife promptly presented
nm with twins, both girls. This is another
evidence OF the wonderful fertility and circu-
lation OF the modern newspaper.
A farmer living near Bellwood, sunk a well
three hundred feet deep, and the water flows
from the too WITH sufficient force To reach his |