Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-09
NEBRASKA.
Ponca has a population OF LOO.

ldl.
New corn is coming into the market in tn
central counties.
Pickpockets relieved l.. j. Halstead Of So
at the Hastings races.
"A female confidence shark has established
herself in Omaha.
Oakland has voted s., 1000 Of bonds for waite
works.
A prohibition club has been formed a
Plattsmouth.
Grand Islands stand.pipe holds $1,000 gal
Ions of water.
A turnip weighing ten pounds is on exhibit
ton at Oberiin.
Burglars are industriously plying their pro
fession at Fremont.
Nearly forty persons are inca-cerated In tn,
city jail Al Lincoln.
P~lattsinouth's new water company will take
its supply from the Missouri.
The potato crop IN Nebraska is, as a genera
thing, above the usual average.
a full kit OF burglar tools was found under
a sidewalk at Beatrice the other day.
Several small herds of buffalo have been
seen in southwestern Nebraska recently.
a branch Of the Liberal league has been or.
gained at Tobias against prohibition.
The postoflices at Chadron and Creighton
have been raised to presidential class.
The Stadt theater, Omaha, has closed uI
permanently owing to poor patronage.
Mead is moving for fire protection and the
erection Of a $1,000 school house.
The Sherwood farm, near Ponca, recently
sold for SIS, Zoo, or S25 an acre.
A gang Of forgers attempted to relieve the
Wahoo banks with bogus drafts, but failed.
An eighty acre patch of ripe corn In Blaine
county will show up sixty bus to the acre.
The Law and Order Leagu' Of Wymorc Is
having "a lively tussle with tow n toughs.
A vigilant committee has been organized In
Wavne county, tue object being 10 keep horse
thieves straight.
The school buildings at Nebraska City art
said by the local press to be a disgrace to the
city.
Night passenger trains on the Missouri Pa
citic travel at the rate Of thlrty-two miles an
hour.
In the Fullerton section chicken hunting 1.
quite a success. One man killed nearly forty
in a single day.
Lieutenant Bush has been granted a seven.
teen days leave OF absence from his duties al
Fort Russell.
Edwin l.. King, of Polk, and Clarence X
Chamberlain have been admitted to practic,
at the supreme court at Lincoln.
1t is said that the town OF Newman Grov,
will have its name changed when the railroad
gets there.
Hebron now has two steam printing house:
and the two weeklies have a circulation OF
about $500.
Editor Crawford, of The Elkhorn Boomer
skipped out recently, leaving several cred
itors.
O. ID. Myers received injuries which may
prove fatal in a drunken row at Fairmont or
Sunday night.
A Thayer county Mormon is credited with
five wives in different parts of the country
He is wise enough TO cultivate them at "a dis
lance from each other.
John Spodnek, the horsethicf who escape,
from Schuyler jail several weeks ago, volun
tarily returned Thursday and asked the jailel
10 give him something TO eat.
A tramp applied for relief in Friend an,
was sent 10 work upon the streets. The veal
and woeful efforts Of the wanderer to handl,
the shovel were attributed to hunger, but i
turned out to be "A girl ~masquerading in men'i
clothes.
Peter Northruss, a ranchman near For
Robinson, was knocked blind while forcing
cartridge into a Winchester rifle. This is tn,
third accident OF the kind in the neighbor
hood.
The citizens Of West Point have pctitionet
the city council to pass an ordinance prohib
iting boys under IS years of age from ap
pearing on the streets after 8 O'Clock a
night.
The Omaha road has reduced its local pas
senger rates to 3 cents per mile In Iowa, Ia
kota, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The pric,
Of transportation in Nebraska is fixed by Law
at 81 cents per mile.
}. McConley, a notorious Hamilton count,
tough, has been captured and Jugged. For
gerry, bogus mortgages and disposing OF prop
erty belonging to othors are among the crime:
charged up to him.
j. T.. Prev refused to pay fare on the Bur
lington and Missouri train near Lincoln anC
attempted to stab Conductor Ballinger, bu'
was overpowered and sent to Jail. The con
ductor received a few slight cuts.
The Western News OF Ainswortb. has ius'
issued a large extra edition, which both II
matter and mechanical appearance is credit
able in the highest degree. The News is 4
prosperous and enterprislng paper.
A new confidence game has taken to the
country in search Of victims. The plan Is tc
drive up to a farmhouse, denounce the rapa
city OF town grocers, and sell a barrel 81
sugar at one-third the regular price. II the
sucker bites, he pays srot cash and finds him
self the proud owner OF a barrel of salt.
The test Of the Fremont waterworks las,
Friday proved the ihcapacity of the engines
to furnish the amount Of prohibition provi
ded in the contract. The pump was worked
for one hour at the best speed which could be
made without pounding, and threw into the
tank 3,7S7 gallons, which would amount tc
33O,oSS gallons in twenty-four hours, less
than three per cent Of the amount required IL
the contract.
The Elkhorn Valley railroad has made a
successful and profitable move in the railroad
checkerboard in Boone county. The Union