Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-11
NEBRASKA.

Hill.
District court opened at York on the 30tf
ult.
Corn is worth fourteen cents per bushel al
Ord.
Diphtheria has made its appearance AT Nc
Cook.
A Philharmonic society has been organized
at York.
The North Nebraska Teachers association
meet in Norfolk December 80.
The corner stone Of the Episcopal church
OF Sidney was laid last week.
Salt Creek is frozen over and political expe
ditions are postponed till spring.
Omaha is highly elated over a splendid FIND
OF coal In the river bottoms.
An emigration society it helping to increase
the population OF Holt county.
Crane Rapids Is trying to secure the loca'
ton there OF q Baptist college.
Omaha citizens are discussing the estab.
lishment Of a home for the friendless.
A petition is being circulated for the re
moval OF the postmaster at Stromberg.
A Table Rock hennery has shipped 1850
dozen Of eggs to New York this season.
Cloth peddlers with shelf-worn goods have
invaded north Nebraska in large numbers.
An effort is being made by the business
men Of Norfolk to organize a board OF trade,
The Hillside Congregational church at
Omaha View, was reorgapized Oh Tuesday
evening.
Union Pacific surveyors are busy in Wy
more, and expectations are high In conse
quence.
John w. Burnside, county treasurer OF
Harlan county, died at his residence In Alma
Saturday.
A nine-yesrold boy disappeared some weeks
ago from his home near WILDER, and no trace
of him can be found.
The Ulysses Herald, Democratic, recently
established in Butler county, was too good
to live. 1t died young.
The Papillion Times suggests that If the
new Fort Omaha is not located In Seymour
park Papillionites should make a bid for it.
Dawes county has decided to divide. The
south halt OF the county becomes Bex Butte
county, with Nonpsriel the probable county
seat.
The constitutional amendment increasing
the pay OF legislators, lacked 3,69S votes OF
securing a majority of all votes cast. 1t IL
dead.
county, involving $4,000 damages to the rep
utation Of Martin Luther, has been continued
till the next term Of court.
Schuyler wants day police with hickory
clubs and superb shape. They would be a
'take-iu" feature OF the town.
The widow OF Matthias Thompson, who was
run over ard killed Dy The ears while i~ntoxica
ted at Wisner, has sued the men who sold him
liquor for 5000 damages.
Two hundred men were out for days vainly
searching for the remains of the seyen.year-
old son Of Jacob Bungo, Of Knox county,
lost during the storm of the Eth inst.
Capt. w. ID. Young was seriously injured al
Luton, on Tuesday, by a falling pile striking
him on the back. He was engaged in build,
ing a railroad bridge across School creek.
Mr.. j. l.. Howser, who lived near Beatrice,
fell back on the hay rack of his wagon one
day last week and was dead before help could
reach him. His trouble was heart disease.
A pig ran between the legs OF j. l.. Soden, q
farmer livingon Plum creek, near West Point,
on Thursday last with such force as to send
him a short distance in the air. When he fell
both his arms were broken.
During the storm of last week a chicken
came into Beatrice as "A passenger on one OF
the trains. 1t had taken refuge from the
storm by perching on one of the trucks under
the cars.
B. j. Lamb, a brakeman on the Union Pa.
cifc railway was instantly killed at Kearney
Junction Saturday night. He was caught be-
tween the Drawbacks while engaged in coup
ling.
The sum Of 1870 has been allowed by the
government to G. C.. Crowe!l, OF Blair, as the
apportioned share of damages done his faith
er's estate by rebel privateers, and recovered
by the celebrated Geneva award.
An old gentleman named Emerson, eighty.
six years of age, becoming dissatisfied with
the earthly accommodations at his sons
house in Kearney county, had a grave dug and
fenced, and then hanged himself.
The Farmers union at Oakland have raised
the necessary $4,000 with which to begin the
grain business and will determine in a few
days whether TO buy an elevator already built
or build one themselves.
Mike Fittle, the twclve-year-old lad impli.
Gated in the disappearance Of the boy Jimmie
Mayer, Of WILDER, was held to answer for the
murder, and his brother, ten years old, was
held as accessory. A great many still believe
the shooting was accidental.
An old feud between Ed Starrctt and John
Hall, two notorious toughs, Of Auburn, broke
out afresh Saturday night and resulted In q
shooting affray. S,arrctt shot at Fall but
missed him, and the ball broke one of the
larg plate glass windows Of Reed & Autler's
drug store. Both men were arrested.
A grain company has been organized at
Chenille with a capital of S., 900, In shares of
$40 each, stockholders to be farmers Of Clay
and Adams counties. No grain dealer Eligible
to membership, and no one member shall M
any time own more than twenty shares of
stock.
Charles Hunt Is missing from HIS homo at
Davenport, Thayer county. His wife has is.
sued a circular through the press giving a de-
scription Of him. lie IL a man Of Medium
height, spare build, blue eyes, long sandy