Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-24
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There are three murderers confined in the
county jail at Talmage.
Hogs in the western part of Cass county are
afflicted with cholera.
Edward Mccall was drowned recently in a
creek near Minersville.
Ord will soon be connected with the outside
world by the electric wire.
The canine race in Grand Island was muz.
zled by law until December.
York has made a contract for two hose ear
riages and 900 feet Of hose.
The old settlers Of Butler county will picnic
in George Lords grove August IS.
Charley McGee, of Chappell, was buried
alive in a well in which he was working.
A band Of sneak thieves are causing con
siderable annoyance to the stores at Spring
field.
The laying Of the corner stone Of the York
county court house has been postponed untiI
July -.
The city authorities and the school board Of
Creighton are fighting for the custody Of the
school fund.
The assessed valuation Of property In Fill
more county has increased S430, 900 during the
past year.
Eune Millinery, aged s~ixty-six years, a
pioncr of Dakota county, is dead. He left a
large family.
The sixth annual fair Of the Buffalo county
agricultural society will be held al K%earney
October 5 to 9 inclusive.
The notorious Ginger family were ordered
to leave the town Of Hastings ny a mob, and
they silently folded their tents and skipped.
A little girl was bitten ~ IA rattlesnake last
week about four miles north OF Seward.
Prompt remedies probably saved the child's
life.
Willow Springs Is endcavoring 10 raise
funds by private subscription for building a
bridge across the North Loup river near that
place.
As an evidence OF thrift in Sarpy county it
is stated that fifteen self binders have already
by half.
Mr.. George l'utchins, Of Little Blue, re-
ceived by express last week fGO, 900 wall-eycd
pike, which he will place in the streams on his
farm.
John Scott, of Palmyra, took a dose Of
aconite by mistake Saturday, but prompt APP
plication OF an antidote relieved him without
serious results.
Lodge Pole Magnet: The new court house
is now complete, and forming as it does with
the jail enc connected whole, is by no means
an insignificant structure.
George T@llc, Of Nebraska City, is prcpar-
ing for a useful career in the penitentiary.
lie is under arrest for endeavoring TO poison
his father and choke his mother.
A broom factory is wanted at Geneva.
There are many acres Of broom corn raised in
Fillmore county and much more would be
raised could a home market be had.
Fred Brooks, of Danville, Ga, while at
tempting to board a freight train at Dunbar,
Tuesday, bad his left leg severely crushed.
Amputation may yet be necessary.
Louie Schlotfelt, Of Walnut, Chester coun-
ty, while in a heated condition, ate a dish Of
ice cream, and directly afterwards was taken
seriously i'll, death following in a very short
time.
a prairie fire was maliciously started by
some travellers near Hayes Center, which
burned northwest and west over a vast ex-
tent Of country, doing great damage TO pas
turagc.
Miss Alice Baudcau Of Red Cloud, eloped
with a circus performer on Sunday because
she desired to become Il circus performer. The
sheriff arrested the parties and the girl was re-
turned to herS,arents.
Henry Mathiewson, of Rushvillc, while be
ing lowt red into a well the other day, fell
from the bucket to the bottom, a distance of
thirty feet, without receiving any injuries
more serious than a sprained ankle.
John Spodeneck, a horse thief, was captured
at SCHUYLER recently. He had in his posses
sion at the time Of his capture a mare and colt
which had been stolen from the pasture Of
James Hill, a farmer, a few days before.
The Portsmouth canning factory is now
putting up from 20, 1000 to $4,000 cans of peas
and beans per day. The company has $4,000
worth Of its pack already contracted for, which
will be about one-third Of its total pack.
The wife of John Biria, living on DR.. Englc-
hard's homestead, near Rising City, presented
her husband with a pair Of twins Wednesday
morning-a boy and girl. This makes the
third pair Of twins born to John and his wife,
who are parents Of eighteen children in all,
eleven of whom are living.
Papillion economists are figuring on the
profits of this and similar cases: A tramp
was arrested for beating a hotel out OF a two
bit dinner. The fine and costs amounted to
S15, which, of course, be was unable to pay,
and he was shipped to Omaha to board for a
week or more at the expense OF Sarpy county.
A lively county seat fight was begun in
Madison county recently. Norfolk citizens
presented a petition to the commissioners
Wednesday, asking for an election to relocate
the county seat. This was granted and ii
was decided to call the election for August l3.
The citizens of Madison got out an injunction
restraining the board from calling the election
and the end is not yet.
According to the assessors returns there
are in Nance county 209, 62l acres 81 unim-
proved land; 1916 acres under cultivation.
Total value Of real estate as found by the as
SCISSORS, s147,415; total value Of personal
property 1852, SS4; totsl assessment, $1,17S,-
so. There are in the county, horses OF all
ages, 2.092; cattle, S,093; mules and asses,
246; sheep, III; hogs, II, 159.