Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-03-06
NEBRASKA.

hehTucy CdAnA.
A twenty-one pound wildcat was killed near
Norfolk recently.
s'Tugn Wilson, the noted slugger, is in pris-
on at Broken Bow.
Exeter has raised a subsidy Of $4,000 for q
canning establishment.
Norfolk wants TO secure manufacturing con-
Germs Of various kinds.
The new Methodist church al FORK cost SIS,
900 and ia clear OF debt.
The Merchants Protective association OF
Broken Bow has dlsbanded.
A sl0,0 600 school building will be construct.
ed at Holeridge this season.
wahoo thinks Of voting aid 10 the Elkhorn
and Missouri Valley railroad.
At Nebraska City nearly two thousand
persons have signed the pledge.
The invalid wife OF DR.. L. Walker Of Seward
died at Hot Springs, Ark, last week.
Ell Prentis, OF Fairfield, gsshed his wind.
pipe with a pocket kuife and bled to death.
Grading has begun on the Nebraska and
Colorado railroad Between Superior and Ed
gar.
The Beatrice city treasury will give $4,000
to lay out IN Improvements the coming fiscal
year.
Alexsndri, is agitating a canning factory
project which promises to result In q $4,000
plant.
T0irty o, the one hundred inmates Of the
| pAuna frr tha RVinp1tasa OF I incoln arc from
Omaha.
The humorist Of the Hastings, Nebraskan iu-
dulgeiin a surteit Of McNish minstrel gags
last week.
A broken rail ditched cM!ssouri Pacific
freight train az Dunbar Thursday and wrecked
eight cars.
Ex-senator Filson OF Richardson county
died suddenly Saturday. he leaves a wife and
seven children.
At the election In April Wayne will vote on
to build waterworks.
Bluffberg people are excited over o noun
tain lion which infests the timber and carries
of a fat hog now and then.
The Exposition building now under course
Of construction OF Omaha will have q seating
capacity OF nine thousand.
A gang Of sharpers defrauded q number Of
saloon keepers OF Platte county with a bogus
concrete for filling pool tables.
The work OF tracklsying on the Lincoln ex-
tension Of the Elkhorn Valley road has begun
on the south bank Of the Platte.
The amount paid four hundred and fifty pa
irons for milk and cream at the Tremon.
creamery last year was $4,000.
z. Preller, of Pouca. (. alleged to have
butchered a COW and found over a pound OF
nails and screws IN her stomach.
The Nebraska Palladium published at Belle
vue in November 1854, is alleged to be the first
newspaper published In Nebraska.
Fairfield is disturbed about a scandal Of con-
siderable magnitude In which a minister aud a
merchants wife are the principals.
SIlas &. Johnson, a Brownville photogra-
pher, GEE d into the smerao OF a gun barrel and
died instantly. He knew 1t was loaded.
1t Is now suggested that Grand bland en-
ploy the census compilers OF Hastings and do
the city during the Grand Army reunion.
A WILDER man Is confdest that he is en- the
right track to a cCal vein, and has invested In
machinery to develop his belief and sink a
prospect hole.
Three men undertook to drive O tesm over
the ice on a creek nesr Ord. The Ice collapsed,
the team was drowned, and the men escaped
with a duckipg.
Humboldt has decided that a 1900 cream
cry would meet the wants Of the community,
and a stock company ia being organized to
OF crate the plant.
4 Wymore man swallowed q teaspoonful Of
leather glue, mistaking It for essence of old
rye. A pound or less Of salts saved him from
being glued to a coffin.
Young William Barnet died at Mead, Saun-
ders county, last week. While playing with
a companion the latter slapped him on the
back, causing instant death.
At q mass meeting recently held in the In
terests OF . new court house in Portsmouth
800 0 was subscribed by those present. The
required amount Is $4,000
Ord is chirping merrily over IL" certainty Of
a railroad, several elevators, II lis, business
blocks and residences being addsi to her ma
terial wealth the present year.
Daniel McCouen, a Plum Creek stonemason,
aged So, while dancing q cotillion at q neigh
boring ranch, suddenly threw up his hand and
fell to the floor q corps. Heart disease.
Easement, Carlisle Il Co. have secured the
contract for grading the Missouri Pacif: ex-
tension from Weeping Water to Lincoln. The
job must be completed by the 1st Of August.
A. 8. Fox was captured in Neigh last week.
He was bsgged for selling liquor without a
town permit. He Is one Of the few men
whose natural cunning blends with his nams.
L. L. Luse, q Methodist itinersnt, and editor
Of the BLU Valley Blade Of Wilbur, has
skipped the country, having wrecked several
families with woldsh piety, besides borrowing
all the money his acquairtances would lend.
A North Bend preacher ramed Littell has
been hauled up before his church for holding
osculstory seances with a gtddy young female
Of his a ,ck. The reverend gentleman con!d