Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-06-19
NEBRASKA.


Belvidere and Hebron will soon be connect
ed by telegraph.
The big distillery at Nebraska City will begin
operations next month.
Potatoes are q drug on the market at Pal
myrs at 70 cents a bushei.
Milford talks Of adding an inflrmary to her
attractions as a summer resort.
The stock Yards at Omaha are 70 be en-
larged to double their present capacity.
The first stone building is now going up In
Schuyler, and will be occupied by a bank.
The canning factory at Falls City has com
mencoa operations with 80 hands employed.
A Humboldt citizen owns a colt, aged eight
DAYS, for which he has refused an offer OF
$500.
The Fremont creamery turned out and
marketed 80, 16l pounds Of butter during
May.
The assessed valuation Of Plattsmouth prop
erty is s734,S7 .s3, an increase of $685. 900 over
last year.
The citizens Of Pender offer to raise a bonus
Of 81 1000 to anyone who will establish a roll
ing mill there.
The farmers at Turkey Creek, Holt county,
have organized the Producers brotherhood for
self-protection.
A Sl2, 900 opera house and an 5000 hotel
are among the promised improvements this
season at Central City.
The assessed valuation of real and personal
property of Norfolk precinct is $412, l76, an in
crease over last year Of $50, SOB.
This is the season when peerless cubs decor
ate the shady side of street corners and anxi-
ously await an invitation to smile.
Lightning struck the Episcopal church I'm
Central City last week, tearing out huge
chunks of the interior furnishings.
The business men of Greenwood have sub
scribed the necessary funds to place a $4,000
canning factory on a solid foundation.
The Elkhorn river runs a third more water
for by those who have lived there that long.
The leases on about 1000 600 acres Of Holt
county school lands were forfeited recently on
account of the non-payment of the lease
money.
A good hotel man can find a first bust
q ulN II aIV lhuuttIiehis ny NdllllS
on or writing to Messrs. Hazlett a Bates,
Beatrice.
The store of a prominent merchant at Blair
was rotten-egged one night last week by par
ties who were opposed to his extreme temper
ance notions.
A street habitue at Omaha recently made an
insulting remark to a lady passer by, who in
stantly knocked him down. The police then
cared for him.
The question of dividing Custer county,
which has been agitated for some time, is
gradually being abandoned, 1t being consid-
cred a poor policy.
A four-year-old son Of Willis Bryant, living
near Madison, was stepped on by a colt last
Wednesday and instantly killed. His breast
bone was crushed in.
The skeleton Of an infant was resurrected
under a house in Crowell, Dodge county, and
the people are now engaged in the profitlcss
task Of solving the mystery.
Several herds of buffalo were seen near
Haigler last week. Four calves were captured
alive by local hunters and placed in one of the
ranches in the neighborhood.
A young maj at Spring Creek named Jesse
Rabbit suddenly became insane and jumped
into a well thirty feet deep. He was rescued
without having received any serious injuries.
A family living near Ulysses, four in mum
Der, bear down heavily on the scales, their
combined weight being $40 pounds, and one
of the family is only a thireeen-yearold boy at
that.
The Nebraska Warehouse company has been
organized at Fullerton; capital $4,000. The
company proposes to erect warehouses and
bins with a total storage capacity of 100000
bushels.
Judge Post opened court In Fremont Mon
day morning, sent two crooks to the peniten-
tiary, cleaned up the docket and at moor adj
iourned court till August 9. The session was
SO short and lively that the lawyers did not
have time to sneeze between motions.
The West Pointers are already having
trouble with their water-works. The main
reservoir recently burst, and as the authorities
had accepted the works from the company
which constructed them it is quite likely that
the loss will have TO be met by the town.
Edward Nicholson, of Red Willow county,
was recently killed by lightning. He was
passing "A wire fence with a spade on his
| shoulder. The fence was struck first. His
clothing was torn from his body and was on
fire when his body was found, ten minutes
! after the stroke.
The Johnson County Agricultural and
Mechanical association Is first in the field with
a premium list for the fair to be held at
Tecumseh, September 21-4. The grounds are
among the finest In the state. Buildings and
| stalls have been enlarged and no effort will be
spared to make the exhibit a success.
John L~indcnholm, of Central City, has sued
six merchants Of that city for 10000 dam
ages. These men, it is alleged, charged thai
Lindenholm, a grocer at that place, while ad
v~ertising to sell thirteen pounds Of sugar fol
81, really sold only from eleven to twelve
pounds for that money, thus in~juring, SO it !,
claimed, the good name of the plaintiff.
A frightful and fatal accident occurred on
farm west Of Sidney last Wednesday. Th'
farmer, whose name is not given, was pillow
ing some distance from his house and his ter
year old daughter brought dinner to him
Something did not work to suit him, anC
stopping the horses he threw the pillow out o
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