Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-31
NEBRASKA.
nad a BIZ, 900 fire Monday.

Sneak thieves and burglars infest Grand
Island.
Horse thieves are operating in Colfax
county.
Cass county proposes to construct = hre
proof JILL.
Sterling has a school board composed in
part of ladies.
A Law and Order league has been organ
zed at Valparaiso.
A new Presbyterian church was dedicated
at Lincoln on Sunday.
| The Metiludists of Oakland arc 20 hare /.
new church building.
at East Nebraska City.
kearney had a 5000 fire Tuesday morning
To test her w~ater-works.
BY a vote of 600 for and l49 against, Ne
braska City has decided to erect wafer works.
The merchants Of Shenandoah have sub
scrlbed 81 900 for the purpose Of prospecting
for coal.
Jerry Hammond has been appointed post
myster at Hamburg, vice George Wise, de
ceased.
The Nebraska editorial excursion will start
westward from Omaha on the evening of Au-
gust ).
Huckfeldt and Preston, OF Hastings, were
arrested for selling liquor without a license on
Monday.
The western part Of the state has had sew
cral refreshing showers and is no longer suffer
ing for rain.
Rev. Father Ryan, Of Columbus, celebrated
he twenty-ffth anniversary Of his ordination
Wednesday.
An old man named Beeler, of Bloomington,
fell under a wagon load Of LUMBER on Monday
aud was killed.
DR.. Dilldine, a respected citizen OF Kear-
ney, died recently while on a Witt to his rela-
tiycs In Evansville, N. Y.
The residence Of James Csrrig, four miles
east of Platte City, was struck by lightning
on Thursday. A daughter received slight in
jury.
Five thousand insurance agents represent
in Nebraska eighty-fve foreign companies
which take from the state annually 81, 800, 600
in cash.
The North Nebraska N. f. conference camp
meeting will be held on Parker's Island about
two and a half miles from Central City, com
mencing August II.
William Banpton Of Cheyenne county was
wounded Friday by the explosion Of both
barrels of a shotgun while shooting rabbits.
He cannot recover.
The Northwestern Railroad company has
purchased John Hunts farm near Clarkson
postoflice and will lay out q town and put IN a
station at that place.
Ferdinand Arndt. y German farmer near
Friend, beat his wife with an iron hoop, and
contributed $50 toward the payment OF the
citv's expenses for his amusement.
Elijah Adams, aged sixty-three years, one
Of the old settlers in Mt. Pleasant, Cass coun-
ty, neighborhood, died Monday at the resi-
dence of his son James, near Factoryville.
Plattsmouth has decided to refund her s10,-
600 school bonds issued along in the seventies.
the principal and interest amount to SCI 900,
which will be refunded in 5 per cent bonds.
The gallon law" ordinance has been passed
by the Tecumseh city council. 1t provides
that no person shall have in his possession at
any one time more than one gallon o. liquor.
The ruiliaa, Gieb, who brutally assaulted
his sick wife, escaped with the meager fine of
of S25, the full limit Of the law. The CELEBRITY
with which he was hustled into jail prevented
a rope.
A secret meeting Of western saloon keepers
was held at Hastings last week, the object Of
which was to prevent the submission OF a
prohibitory amendment. Their actions have
not yet been made public.
Some unknown scamp fred three shots into
the residence Of Mayor S%tonfYer, in Fremont
Tuesday evening. One bullet passed through
the parlor where the family were sitting, but
fortunately Injured no one.
Articles incorporating the Overton Bridge
company Of Overton, Dawson county, were
filed Tuesday with the secretary OF state. The
new company is formed with a capital stock
OF $4,000 for the purpose OF building and
operating a wagon bridge over the Platte river
just south of the town named.
Fire at Chester Monda destroyed a livery
stable containg ten head Of hores, among the
number being two valuable imported stations,
all the buggies, harness, etc, about the place,
IL saloon ana IALufes anu q Iccu stable were
consumed in the flames. The plaintiyc cries
Of the burning horses were said to have been
fearful to listen to.
Another swindling scheme developed in
Boone county last week. A sleeia1 ooking
gentleman visited private houses taking or
ders for cheap books, as his victims supposed,
when in reality the orders were notes. In this
case the rascal secured over 800 Of the notes
II Boone, and some s40 in Boonsboro, sold the
notes and left before his victims realized what
they had done.
Clay county real estate is bounding on the
high waves of prosperity. Another branch OF
the Burlington and Missouri and the Kansas,
City, Wyandotte and Northwestern is expect
ed to tap the county within a year. And
right on the heels of the roads comes the de-
tails Of the organization Of the Kansas City
and Omaha railroad company. This appears
to be an offshoot of the Union Pacific system.
The intention is to build from Stromsburg, on
the Omaha and Republican Valley road, south
through York, Clay and Nuckolls counties to
the state line.
The Alexandria lynchers OF the man Owens,
accused Of rape, are getting quite nervous. In
fact it is decidedly unsafe for a nonresident
to stop IL Inc village over twenty-four hours.