Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-06-26
NEBRASKA.
Platte Center has a new bank.
Raatriaa ic tiu,vipu IN a city hall

Beatrice Is 'short" on brick for building
! purposes.
Saunders county IS valued at S22,4s2,0 600 for
tax purposes.
Joseph Sherk Of Kearney. committed suicide
d few days ago.
The schools Of Norfolk will cost 81, l75 for
the ensuing year.
Eli Owens was lynched for rape at Hebron
on Thursday morning.
Nebraska City will have a bridge across the
river In less than six months.
Building improvements now in sight at
North Platte will cost S135,00O.
A valuable mare was badly lacerated 10y run.
| ming into a barb wire fence near Sterling.
An adopted son Of Mrs. Conner, Of Platte
Center, was drowned while bathing on Sun
day.
Tue title Of the Adams County Savings
| bank has been changed TO the Adams County
bank.
The banking and loan institutions Of Hebron
represent over 81 200, 600, all of which is home
capital.
The assessed valuation Of Cass county foots
up 81, 925, ls9. The county levy is S mills on
the dollar.
There were twelve graduates from the
| Tekamah high school last week-eleven girls
and one boy.
| CMr. and Mrs. Isaac Heaton, pioneer resi-
| dents OF Fremont, celebrated their golden
wedding Thursday.
The new grain elevator at Fremont will be a
large structure, 100000, and 1870 feet high,
and will cost $4,000.
The young son of Mr. Weggener, a Merrick
county farmer, was dragged to death by a run
away team last Friday.
Nebraska City is throwing out A,nts TO cap
italists that they can invest money to great
advantage at that place.
Minnie Dishner, the famous sleeper Of Platte
cannot survive many weeks.
Frank jenkins, son of ex-Mayor Jenkins, OF
Kearney, was drowned in Wood river on Sun
day afternoon while bathing.
A house at Hickman was aidred Sunday
while the family were at church and all the
edibles it contained devoured.
The Lincoln Democrat SAYS the umpire
stpcu otNtu W SIX III ldNOT Ot TIE LtduNllIt
club in the game at the latter city.
A movement is on foot In O'Neiil city TO
erect a monument TO the memory Of General
John O'Neill, who founded the city.
A severe hailstorm at Hastings Monday eve
ming did great damage to window glass on the
south side of the buildings in the city.
Horse thieves are getting numerous in
northwestern Nebraska. A few mora cracks
and the regulators will get to work again.
The Sioux Indians will assist in celebrating
the Fourth Of July at Rushyille. They will
furnish the aboriginal features Of the affair.
A storm last week destroyed a large stretch
Of growing grain in the vicinity Of Utica.
fruit destroyed.
A granary Of w. B. Morrison at Hickman
slid of its foundation last Saturday. The
building was wrecked and its contents dumped
on the ground.
The catalogue of the state university for
1860 is out. The commencement exercises
occur the present week. The hext term be-
gins September IL.
A newspaper is soon to be started at Al
gernon, Center county. Town lots are chang
ing hands rapidly, and a number of new build
ings are Being erected.
l.. G.. Humphrey, of Bennett, banker, lawyer
and Sunday school teacher, was arrested by
the United States marshal on Wednesday for
selling liquor without licer Sc.
Tn music Of the singing swine fills the air
around the depot at Loup City. And the
town is building rapidly in that direction, ac-
cording to the Northwestern.
Gov. Dawes received an autograph letter
from Mr.. Gladstone in reply to a cable dis
patch containing resolutions of the meeting
at Lincoln in favor of home rule.
1t is generally believed in the neighborhood.
that the surveyed route of the Northwestern
extension to Albion and through Boone coun-
ty has been accepted at headquarters.
A party of masked men ut Edgar waited up.
on j. 7. Heasley and ordered him to leave
town or take the consequences. He had been
guilty OF crooked dealings in buying stock.
He left.
Fire destroyed the barn and contents OF w.
H.. Shultz, a farmer Of kearney county, last
week. Eight head of horses, farm implements,
etc, were CONSUMED. entailing a loss Of 81, 400:
insurance $500.
The sale of lots In the townsite Of Crawford.
Dawes county, will be held June 23. Twenty
business places are already located in the
town, which premises to be one Of the largest
and most prosperous in northwest Nebraska.
g.. A. Bryant, formerly publisher Of the
Waterloo Gazette. Is out with the Napoleon
Homestead, published in Logan county, Da-
kota. He claims to have struck "a richer lead
than he found in the Elkhorn valley.
An advance drummer Of the b. IL NJ. ia
sounding the praises of the company in Ante
lope county, telling the residents that a
branch will be built into that region, and
Offering to sell land dirt cheap before tie
boom begins.
Burglars raided the office Of the treasurer Of
Dakota county Saturday night, cracked the
safe and cash box. but failed to find n penny.
The explosion damaged the vault, and impor-
tant papers and records were scattered over
the floor. No clue.
A large ice house with a beer storage at
tachment Is to be planted in Nebraska City by
the Brand Brewing company, Of Chicago.
This, coupled with the fact that the big dis
tillery will start up next month, should allay
in that neighbornood all fears Of the drought