Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-04-17
NEB

Omaha and Nebraska City are to be connect.
ed by telephone.
L.ncoln's new city directory is to be com
pleted by June /.
Plainview, 3 town Of $50 inhabitants, has
been incorporated.
The prohibitlonists carried the election at
Springfield, In sarpy county.
The principal Of the Edgar public school is q
Thrasher by name and by profession.
Ponca business men will build a number of
substantial brick blocks and residences this
season.
The Adams County Savings bank, capital
s1Oo,o Oo, opened up Ger business in Hastings
last week.
Charles Ross, while digging a well at Cur,
upon him.
Mary Anderson is in trouble up IN Neigh.
She is l9 years Of age and has been ind. csed
for infanticide.
The Odd Fellows of Nebraska City have de-
cided to celebrate the anniversary with their
brethren In Omata
The Elkhorn Times has suspended and Z.
Messenger, the editor. goes to other fields In
search cf legal tender.
Republican City has received assurances
that the Oberlln branch OF the B Il VI. will be
extended to that town.
Compressed fax straw Is coming into prom
~ " tba oo,ptry nc a, art;oIa % f,ar ,-l
ss food for mich cows
The Missouri Pacific strike caused a coal
famine In spriL field. Fuel and food had to
be hauled from Pspill!on.
A. 8. Raymond. Of Lincoln, has presented
the Congregational society OF that place with O
pipe organ costing $4,000.
uPalo Alto county warrants are worth l0t
cents on the dollar, and have commanded
that figure for several years.
II. H. Johnson, OF Webster City, has re,
ceived back pension amounting to 81, 500, with
o monthly allowance hereafter Of $50.
3 Mrs. Annie Rstbbsne has secured q verdict
for 81, 200 against Nebraska City for injuries
sustained by a fall on a slippery sidewalk.
Already this season htty-one cars contain
ing stock and railrosding outfits have beer
shipped to Dakota and Nebraska from spencer
A petrifed woman has been found in the
northwestern part Of the state, and in the
anne region a p%etrifed fish and q FOWL have
been discovered.
A mill Is being erected on Salt creek west OF
Greenwood, which will be furnished with the
roller process and all other Improvements te
make It frst-class.
The family OF John Fox, OF Creighton, were
poisoned by eating bread made Of -four IN
which it is supposed rough on rats had beer
placed. Medical aid saved their lives.
George B.. Inman, of New York, has filed bis
acceptance OF the proposition TO build and
maintain water works In Plsttsmouth and
fled a bond Of 5000 to faithfully carry on
the contract.
Cora Brooks, a little girl residing at Papil
lion, was bitten BY a dog and the citizeus sup
posing II to be mad, turned out and killed II.
The dog bad overturned a hive OF bees and had
q rle hit to be mad.
A fly forger, nsuled Nolan, has been run IN
by the police OF Hastings. He had gathered in
considerable money On forged checks, fo'
small amounts, aud becoming bold, attempted
10 cash a bogus check for $50, but was nipped.
Max Rubenstsin, a travelling salesman, sen,
an insulting note to one Of the lady boarders
at the Opelt house in Lincoln. STE reported
the fact to tho proprietor and R~ubenstein only
escaped arrest by the police by boarding 6
passing train without standing on the order o,
his dep arturo.
There resides two miles from Avoca, In Cas-
county, q family named Belts In which there
is a son and daughter, the latter about twenty
years Of age. The body OF q babe, about two
days old, was found near the house and the
girl was lying sics. The belief is that she IL
the child's mother, and that the brother is III
father lts throat was cut. The authoritie!
are Investigating the affair.
David Owen, OF Owen Bros, contractors CT
the new 3. and M. line through Sarpy county
had q morrow escape from a situation tina
promised certain death. When In the act o.
mounting a horse, the animal started to run
OWENS foot was fastened In the stirrup, ant
he was dragged for several rods, the horse
stamping him about the face and breast, break
ing his collar bone and badly bruisipg his en-
tire body. The stirrup broke and wen was
released just before the horse plunged into
deep ditch. The doctors say tie In jured mar
will recover.
An important civil suit is on trial in the
circuit court In Audu ION this week. Or. 7 M
Rsndlem An has sued A. A. ZAuer for $22,G (
for sland ar, and Mr.. amer files q couutel
claim for $50, 900 for damages on account o.
alleged malpractice. Some three yeers ago
DR.. Rsndlemsn attended Mr.. Zaner in a pro
fessional way, and claimed that the defendan
has injured his reputation as a physician By
asserting that his, defendants, present phys.
cal condition Is due TO improper medical treat
ment. Both parties TO the suit are men o.
high social and business standing In that com
munity.
Sergeant T.. s. Nixon, a veteran soldier, dice
suddenly In North Platte last week. Mr.
Nlxon had seen nearly :os:y Tc::: 90 NE "
the army. Al the age Of 20 he entered Battery
B, Fourth artillery, and served under Genera
Taylor In the Mexican war, being particularly
distinguished for gallsntry in the battles OF
PAIo Alto and Buena Vista. He vent through
the rebellion unscathed, and was a member OF
Company l., Fifth cavalry, during the recon-
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