Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-06
NEBRASKA.
Norfolk wants a board of trade.


museum.
Wahoo is moving for a new butter and
cheese factory.
a tea train Of nineteen cars passed through
Lincoln recently.
The Valparaiso mills took second premium
| at the state fair.
Typhoid fever in a malignant type has bro,
ken out in Lincoln.
The Lincoln police made 253 arrests during
the moth Of September.
Charles Muir. Of Omaha. was fatally iniur-
cd by a kick from a horse.
The contract has been let for sinking an ar
tesisn well at Harrington.
An elevator, with a capacity Of 5000 bush
els, Is 10 be erected at Cresco.
The price Of gas has been reduced at Ere
mont to -. IS per thousand.
Omaha will prohibit any more smuggling
matches being held in that city.
a counterfeit ten dollar bin has made its
appearance in northern Nebraska.
The canning factory at Blair is being run
night and day to its full capacity.
Butler county is considering plans for a
court house TO cost about $500 0
Antelope has ninety pensioners who receive
the aggregate sum Of 1863 per month.
Scotia has so citizens by actual count.
Three years ago she had about twenty.
The Nebraska Tract society is contemplate
ing moving its headquarters TO Lincoln.
The state association of Congregational
churches will be held at Fremont this year.
Pender has voted 81, 600 bonds with which
TO buy a site and build a new school house.
DR.. Billings is vigorously prosecuting his
work with the hog cholera virus in Lincoln.
A dwelling house ia Columbus, belonging
to A.. McAllister, was burned. Loss, $1,000.
Esther Ware Bell, a Nebraska elocutionist
of some note, died recently at her home In
York.
The dedication services of the new NJ. f..
church at Crab Orchard will be held Sunday
Oct. 81.
The Northwestern railroad company have
decided not TO change the name of Newman
Grove.
1t is said that the people of Custer county
are almost unanimous for the county division
scheme.
Prairie fires are still raging, and IN som
portions OF the state are causing considerable
damage.
There is a new town on the Burlington IL
Missouri railroad in Northern Nebraska
called He'll.
The city council of Wahoo has prohibited
the building of stock yards within the limits
that city.
Ravenna suffered from a s., 500 fire a few
days since. a hardware store and drug store
were destroyed.
A tramp, name unknown, suicided at Brown.
Vile by ~thsoWing himself under a passing
freight train.
EX-Postmafter.Gener Greshem, of In
diaDapolis, has large real estate interests in
Saunders county.
The Methodist church Of Nebraska has ar-
a committee OK twenty 10 locate the
NJ. f. university.
The buffalo grass is beginning to take a
second growth and the prairie affords good
pasture for cattle.
Sarpy county has now ~ffty-tive miles of
ia'i"d'; oh WITCH t"t taAcs Loi tHt HCAI year
will be $4,000.
The Union Pacific i, grading a section of
road seyenty-fye miles long up the Wood
from Kearney.
over 10000 head Of cattle have been
"rounded-ul'' on the Omaha reservation
during the last week.
Three thousand and nine hundred tax re-
have been issued by the treasurer of
Seward county for 1855.
About POO carloads Of Black Hills granite
have been received at Fremont, to be used
for building purposes.
j. }. Neigh, OF Omaha, has been arrested at
Nebraska City on a charge of obtaining money
under false pretenses.
The public schools at Ashland and Wahoo
have been temporarily closed, to prevent the
spread Of diphtheria.
a large force Of men are a. work on the
K%earney gas works. The plant will be ready
for business this month.
The Norfolk insane asylum will be com
pleted IN about three weeks. 1t will cost the
state a little over $4,000.
Nlllldln hNuer, Oh DunDdT, is lne ;" v
owner of "a 6.year-old Durham stce. ~
weighs over 1000 pounds.
A fire in Omaha destroyed John Under
stock Of dry goods. His loss will
amount to nearly $4,000.
William Starkjohan's barn near Platts-
mouth burned, together with its contents, in
three head Of horses.
Mr.. Adolph Moschage, of Oakland, while
riding, fell from the horse dead.
trouble was the cause.
The Northwestern Cattle company, o. Wy
oming has opened up an immense feed and
stable near Neigh.
Mrs. Robert McNut has sued the saloon
OF Elkhorn for $1,000 damages for
selling liquor to her husband
The Methodists OF Hastings district are
to secure suitable grounds on the Blue
liver, where they can hold camp meetings
Washington county will vote this fall on
he proposition to bond the county in the sun
If $40, 600 with which to erect a new court
The boiler In the bottling works of Kloss q
Barr, in Nebraska City, exploded and shook
up the crockery. The bottles, however, were
ininjured.
The citizens Of Elm Creek have decided, by
vote Of 46 to 9, to issue bonds To the amount
q - 900 fnr tIa 800 20 I,f1lt,. -a-.