Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-04
NEBRASKA.

The Hattin.s ball club costs 81, $50 per
month.
Springview, Keya Paha county, sigls for a
daily mail.
The Columbus water works will be com
plcted by Oct. IS.
The canning factories at Blair are running
at their full capacity.
The Platte river bridge Of the Elkhorn
Valley road is completed.
A Red Willow County Bar assc ciation mas
been organized at McCook.
Republican City Presbyterian dedicated
their new church Sunday.
Horse thieves are getting In their work in
the neighborhood of Wayne.
A forty acre field of wheat in Davidson
county yielded 9, POO bushels.
Union Pacific surveyors are actively al work
between Hardy and Stroms5erg.
Chase county draws her supplies from Ben
kleman, a distance of forty miles.
The Sterling Gazetta, with w. II. Fitzgera d
as editor, has made its appearance.
The Kearney Milling company has been in
corporated with a capital Of $4,000.
I. II. Glover, a Chadron merchant, has
Jailed, with 5000 liabilities. No assets.
James c. Leonard, cashier Of the State
journal Office, died on Sunday morning.
Judge Backmah, OF Holdredgc was depoeed
from the bench for official misconduct.
\ city hall is TO be put mp in Beatrice II
is to be Of brick and viii cost about 1900.
Dorchester shipped sixty five ears Of grain
and stock during the week ending Monday.
Miss Nevada Ruby and Mr.. j.. X. Miller, Of
Holdredge, eloped Saturday and were married.
Norden, Keya Paha county, is without a
doctor, DR.. Beattie having skipped the coun-
try.
Walter Wilson, Of sutton, suicided on the
10th inst, after having been married only four
days
A street railway company has been incorpo-
rated at Grand Island and have asked for a
franchise.
The Improvements now under way at
kearney will involve an expenditure of about
s250,000
A city hall building is being put up at Beat
rice. 1t will be a two-story brick, and will
cost $3.50.
Long Pine and Ainsworth are in a wrangle
as TO which has the Brown County Agricultu-
raj society.
Tracklayinc will next week on
the street car tracks between Wymore and
Blue Springs.
Four soap takers were ovcrhaulcd at Shei-
ton last week and persuaded To divide with
the city treasury.
Lightning at Plainyiew struck in one night
two trees, = hog, three grain stacks, two calves
and a telegraph pole.
Watermelon thieves are getting in their
work in many sections Of the state. The
melon crcp'is immense.
The city authorities Of Harrington are dis
cussing plans for the erection of a Jail and the
formation Of a police force.
4 recent game OF bali between West Point
AMI Hooper resulted in the score of 81 to 0 in
favor OF the former club.
Mr.. A. c. Richie, Of Plattsmouth, has a
night-blooming ccreus now in bloom which is
the wonder of al the neighbors.
Every preparation is being made forthe mu-
steal festival at Grand Island. Musicians Of
more than local fame viii participate.
The saloons at Crete are being prosecuted
by the Law and Order League for selling iiq-
nor to minors and confirmed drunkards.
The great feature of the Fairmont fair Will
be a mule race in which the officers OF the as
ISOLATION VIII participate--as riders.
The mineral springs at Blue Springs are TO
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and a fine hotel built to accommodate the visi-
tors.
TIL annual meeting Of the Michigan Sol
diers' and Sailors association of Nebraska
will be held on the camp ground at Grand Is
land Thursday, September ..
Stuart 5. Smiley, a young man at Lincoln.
committed suicide on Wednesday night,
Financial troubles are supposed 20 have been
the cause of his self destruction.
The proposition to grant a franchise to the
street railway company at kearney TO run
their lines through the streets Of that city was
passed at a special election on the 18th inst.
Mr.. Berger, an architect Of Omaha, while
at work on a packing house in Nebraska City,
fell from the third floor to the second and was
badly bruised about the l,cI and shoulders,
one day last week.
Two men were employed to throw sand out
of the basement Of a building at Grand Island
and being refused their price on the compile
ton Of their work they threw il back in the
bascment again.
Mr.. Fitzgerald. the new president Of the
National Land League, met with a cordial re-
ception on his return home. Gov. Dawes
made a welcoming speech and he was then es-
corted to his residence,
Eleven large stacks of wheat were burned
by an incendiary near Liberty recently. They
belonged To John Seldcn and were worth
81, 900. A reward Of $500 is offered for the
capture Of the tire-bug.
The Burlington and Missouri has secured
the right of way from Belvidere 10 Hebron.
This will bring the Nebraska Central TO a
junction with the st. Joseph and Grand Is
land.
A state travelling mems association has
been formed. The meeting was held in Hast
ings. Officers were elected and a constitution
was adopted. George f. Spangler of Hast
ings Is president and J. {. Allen OF Lincoln
secretary.
Among the attractions for the state fair