Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-08-14
NEBRASKA.

seward is ready 10 invest some x6,5OO In al
oil well.
A board Of trade has been organized a
Long Pine.
Hog yards will be put In at Papillion In tn,
near future.
Oakland farmers are talking 0 putting ~
all elevator.
Wayne will erect q packing house In tn,
near future.
The supreme court convenes at Lincoln
September Z.
A young mems Republican club has been
organized at Auburn.
The Weeping Water Congregationalists ar,
building a $4,000 church.
Ghouls are at work in Blair, and steps ar,
being taken To apprehend them.
Chicken cholera is prevalent near Wymore
and many chickens are dying.
John Clark lost an arm between the bump
ers of two cars in Grand Island.
An Iowa party was IN Hastings looking fol
a place to locate a carriage factory.
a Lihsral league has been organized at Lin
coin to tght the Law and Order league.
The premium list Of the Gage county fair t.
be held IN Beatrice September 10 is out.
Judge Clark, a York business man, took q
'headcr" of his bicycle and broke his jaw.
kearney will vote, August II, on a PROPOSE
ton to grant a franchise for a street railway
"A division of Cheyenne county is talked Of
the intention be ing to make five or six coun.
ties.
One man In Sarpy county has lost thirty five
pigs and shoats this season by the ravages OF
wolves.
Ex,Postmaster Smith Of Chadron, was
pounded almost to death by County Commits
sioner Harris.
The hardware store Of A. N. Treat Of Lodge
Pole, was struck by lightning and burned t.
the grorrd.
The politics Of the. Hooper Sentinel hav,
been changed from an independent to a Dem
ocratic sheet.
The Nebraska City sausage factory will use
the latest improved machinery in the manu-
facture of bologna.
Ed Stagg OF Pierce, Is once more in the
West Point Jail for the murder Of Campbell
his former partner.
The eight-yesr-old daughter OF NJ. ID. War
ner, of Hooker, was run over by a loaded
wagon and seriously injured.
Cheyenne county proposes to capture the
S65 premium offered by the Omaha interstate
fair for the best fifty ears OF corn exhibited.
The workmen at the new packing house a
Lincoln struck on Monday for higher wages
Thay a,p uattinu CT ~ h,t yrapt ca ,or l,v
Tekamah sports have organized a driving
park association" and will hold the first an.
nual trial of rural horseflesh on the 18th and
10Th.
A Cambridge man named Jewett was tarreC
last week for wagging a foul tongue about the
character Of a young woma blessed with sew.
eral big brothers.
a number of fraudulent deeds for western
parties. The discovery was made at thu
North Platte land Office.
A passenger bound for San Francisco at.
tempted to jump on a moving train at Grand
Island and fell under the ears. He lost his
right leg at the knee and the big toe OF the
left foot.
Rev. 7. j. Burton pastor OF the Christian
church Mt York has been expelled from the
pastorate Of the church on account of immoral
conduct. Undue familiarity with female mem
bers of the church is one Of the accusations.
A five year old daughter of j. !. Martin, of
Seward county, was recently bitten by a rat
tie snake. To save her life ii was found nee
essary to amputate the LEI. Immediately below
the knee joint.
A horrible murder and suicide i. reported
from harysville, a country postOfiice a few
miles northwest Of Seward. 1t seems a young
man named Fred Inds had fallen in love with
been contemplated, which was supposed was
frustrated by the father. Sunday evening
young Inds went to the farm house to renew
his attentions. Some alteration took place
and it is supposed the girl sided with the ia
ther. This frenzied the young man who drew
a revolver and fired three fatal shots.
A sad accident occurred on the Union Pa
cific train near Grand Island early Saturday
morning. Mrs. Minnie Carleton, Of Chicago,
occupied a berth with her two children, a babe
Of six months and a four-year-old girl. Dur
ing the night the eldest child changed places
with the baby. Later on the mother awoke,
and touching the child's face lightly with her
hand noticed something was wrong. Thor
oughly frightened she lifted the baby from its
position and found that it was asleep forever.
The little girl had lain with her face across the
baby's preventing Il from breathing, and it
had smothered to death.
A grand council talk ooh place at Rosebud
agency Tuesday which was participated in by
all the chiefs on the reservation. 1t was a
kind Of farewell to Maj. Wright, and as Jndi-
an Inspector Pearson was present the Indians
took occasion TO inform him OF some Of their
wants, one Of which was a farmer 10 take hold
and give them practical illustrations instead
OF sitting In a buggy and telling them how to
do it. They all spoke in the kindest terms of
Maj. Wright and the treatment they had re-
received at his hands. Wednesday was beef
issue day and about 5000 Indians were con-
gregated at the agency; the Omaha dance was
INDUCED in and altogether the red brethren
enjoyed themselves in fine style.
Deep and widespread sorrow prevails at
Fremont on account OF the recent sudden
death of Professor w. p. Jones, president of
the Fremont Normal and Business college.
During the past wear he has suffered a great