Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-11-20
NEBRASKA.

Strong.
The total vote of Cheyenne county was
1867.
A creamery company has beel organized In
Wisner.
A Masonic lodge will be organized at
Springview soon.
Fowler's new packing house IT Omaha was
opened last Sunday.
The Qnill says that there are several cases
OF scarlet fever at Schuyler.
THenty.six new business houses were put
up IN Nashville last year.
Wheeler county Masons are holding meet
ings and organizing lodges.
A man in Sarpy county has six hogs whose
combined weight IS 1920 pounds.
Tacre is an unprecedented demand for
horses in all parts Of the state this year.
Hastings wants more street lamps and the
council is being stirred up TO supply them.
A carload Of stock hogs shipped frola iowa
are dying rapidly with cholera at Friend.
Three suicides occurred during one week
recently in the vicinity of Howe, Nemaha
county.
An elevator with a capacity Of $1,000 bush
els and a mammoth corn crib arc going up at
Loup City.
The Apglo-American Cattle company has
begun the shipment OF $500 head Of cattle
from Southwick.
William Elders, of North Branch, killed
three horses by order Of the state veterinary.
They had CHAMBERS,
B.. ~ NJ. surveyors are said TO be camping
on the outskirts of Schuyler, and the town
prophets predict great things.
a substantial new school house has been
completed in Gothcnberg. IT is two stories
high, 3Gx4S, with a tower fifty feet high.
Joseph Misel, living several miles south
east of Ogalalla, was thrown from a h@rse sew.
eral days ago aud his collar bone broken.
The st. Joe and Grand Island Railroad
company are now surveying "A road from Hast
ings southwest to Pueblo, by way OF Orleans.
The Trumblc farm near PapillIon was sold
last week to the Lincoln land company.
Great expectations have been sown 10y the
sale.
The Advance Is the name Of the proposed
prohibition paper to he started at Long Pine.
Inspiration viii be furnished by an a~rtesian
wen.
The Presbyterian church Of Columbus has
unanimously refused to accept the resignation
of the Rev. Mr.. Little, which was rendered
recently.
D.. Lowman, q cemetery promoter in Has
tings, set q good example by being the first
occupant of Parh View cemetery, just opened
to business.
An old man named Beemcr, aged sixty
seven years, who lives near Blackbird, in Holt
county, was arrested last week on the charge
Of horse stealing.
"Going to my wife's relatives in Kansas y
was the wording that appeared on an emf
grant wagon that passed through Nebraska
City the other day.
Several corps of engineers have gone onto
the line Of the Nebraska and Colorado beyond
Curtis, aud the probabilities are that grading
viii commence soon.
The farmers of Adams county are agitating
the matter Of building and operating an ele-
vator with a capacity Of about 300,0 600 bushels
of grain, on the cooperative plan.
William Patrick, brakeman on a freight
train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul
road, while coupling cars at Tekamah, We'd
nesday, got the two front fingers Of his left
hand badly mashed.
During the month Of October nearly 81 ,243.-
GO worth Of stamps, envelopes and wrappers
were disposed of at the Beatrice postofice.
The sales denote an increase Of 40 per cent. in
the business OF the city over last year.
At Falrmout X. w. Phillips has leased his
barber shop for one year to Home Weber
and Fred Krysel. He leaves in a few days for
his homestead in Thomas county, Kansas.
The Rock Island road has laid out two new
tow ms in Pawnee county and three in Gage
Steinauer and Lewiston in the former coun-
ty, and Virginia, Hamilton and Ellis in the
latter.
Sparks from the engine stt the grass on fire
west Of Bertrand, and the wind blowing a gale
promised to make IT lively for the town, but
everybody turned out and fought it to a fin,
ish.
Dawes county was cut In two by the voters
at the last election. The dividing line runs
east and west, and the south half erected into
Box Butte county, with Nonpariel as the
county seat.
The people Of Madison county have had
three elections on the question of relocating
the county seat within four months. The
question was finally decided In favor of Madi-
son by 500 majority.
A meeting Of the Southeastern Nebraska
Teachers association will be held in Tecum-
sch, beginning the evening of next Thanks
giving day and continuing through the fol-
lowing day and evening.
Galloway, the new town started In Custer
county a few months ago, is reported TO have
collapsed owing TO the failure Of the railroad
to pass through It,. Most Of the buildings
have been moved 10 the railroad, half a mile
distant.
There Is a suggestion Of retributive justice
n the announcement that the thoughtless
boy who frightened to death Anna Studeyille,
If Erownville, by throwing a toy snake on her
las fallen from a freight train and broken his
.eg.
The York cannery turned out 120,0 900 cans
Of tomatoes and III 900 cans of corn this sea-
son. The demand for the product has ex-
ceedcd the supply, and the company propose
to double the capacity of the plant for the