Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-04-03
NEBRASKA.


lArged.
Norfolk has purchased o new hook and lad
der truck.
Beatrice pays interest on s2Ss,OOO city and
county bonds.
Wymoreans are wrestling with the water
works problem.
The skating rink at Norfolk will be fitted up
into an opera hall.
There have bsen 5000 homestead entries
fled at the Neigh land office.
The bridge over the Elkhorn river at Crowell
kas been swept away by the food.
Hastings new cemetery is ready for the
spring crop Of defeated candidates.
Workmen have begun digging the trenches
for the water mains IN Grand Island.
The opera house burned ut Cen tral City re-
Gently will De rebuilt on AN enlarged plan.
Wahoo has been made a city OF the second
class. II has u population Of upwards Of .
500.
There are at present 3}3 persons IN the peni-
tertiary at Lincoln, S2l males and two fe-
males.
Work has begun on the foundations OF the
planning mill and machine shcp a. Blu
Springs.
Adams county has no al, and the board Of
supervisors is taking steps to build one at
Hastings.
Twenty.six saloons will compound prescrip-
tons for the drought IN Grand Island the COM
Ing summer.
There are now under course OF construction
at Chadron thirty residences and several bust
ness blocks.
June, under the direction OF Prof. s. e. Pratt,
Of Chicago.
A medical examining board has been organ
lied at Norfolk for the examination Of appli'
cants for pensions.
A P%lattsmouth man will build a canning
factory at Exeter, having accepted the proffer-
cd bonus OF $4,000.
The Poultry Review Is the latest addition to
horticultural public atoms In the state. 1t is
published In Nebraska City by NJ. w. Neihart
The census OF Fairmont shows a population
Of l,317-more than enough TO make It a city
OF the second class. This is a gain OF 40 per
cent In Elk months.
The last number Of the Kearpey Press con
tains q seven. column wrlte.up Of Buffalo
county, which is located in the Plate valley,
"the finest in the world"
Mr.. Trexler, lumbernsu at Pierce, who re-
Gently fell heir to q az, 900, COO estate In New
York, received, a few days ago, his first in
stallment In the form of O Sl0O, 900.
Nelson Thrasher, a man OF s~event-, living
near Valley, Ord county, tied one end OF q
rope TO a ~ratter, adjusted the other end around
his neck, and jumped into eternity.
while In the act OF hanging up his gun, the
weapon fell from his hands and its contents
plowed his abdomen. He died In two hours.
new gas company has beer formed OF
Omaha. 1t is the intention Of the new com
pany to furnish gas to all patrons at $50 per
thousand feet, snd to operate twenty five miles
OF pipe by Sept. /, 1883.
The Rock Island road is sk,rmishing for
bonds IN the southern tier OF counties ia sil
OF the proposed extension. The compsny's
terms ere 81, 30 per mile, and the people take
kindly to them
A large strip OF land In Chase county, owned
by a Colorsd) cattle baron named Brush, has
been cancelled by the government, Il having
been obtained by fraud. The land was retaken
10y homestesders IN two days.
Ross Tschurdy ard Charles Distlehost were
out hunting with some companions near Co
lumbus. ~Tschurdy's gun was accidentally
discharged, the shot taking effect In Dlstle-
hosts leg. Though the wound Is serious It is
not dangerous.
The business community OF Norfolk was
thrown into a high state OF excitement by the
abscouding OF Mr.. Mathewson, president ot
the National bank at that place. Mr.. Mathew
son was supposed TO be finau clally solid, but
since his Il Sht debts have been discovered az
gregating a large amount. The bank IL sound.
Attachments on his private property amount
10 $,6,000 Mathewson wrote to his wife that
ne WOalu never RETURN.
A tramp outraged the eight year old daugh-
ter OF John wilkins at Long Pine on Tuesday
afternoon, and was captured two miles from
that place. The officer had great diff ,ulty In
rescuiDg him from the infuriated populace,
who proposed ID lynch him. Thirty special
constables were sworn la TO escort him to Jail
and were compelled to draw their revolvers 10
keep the crowd back. The father of the little
girI, at the preliminary trial, attempted to
shootthe villain In the court room.
The Eligible Young Ladies' Protective asso-
citation OF Fremont is getting In some hard
licks on the dudes and Washers Of the town.
The lady who holds the honorable position Of
front door bouncer was rudely accosted on the
street bY q masher q few nights ago. The
historical secretary OF the association thus pic
lures the subsequent events: "When she got
as far as the high school building he again
laid hands on her, and attempted to pull her
towards the school house, hut she let drive
straight from the shoulder" and hit him on
the month; knocking him of the sidewalk.
She again proceeded on her way, while he
meditated a moment, then he spoke up, You
are a fighter, ain't your you bet | ami She