Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-27

Auburn wants to borrow $4,000 to build q
school,.
The Bohemian Turner's Of WILDER prop ose to
build q hall.
Columbus will light up with electricity Sal
urday night.
The new M. K. church at York cost $4,000
and Is free from debt.
Blair and Humboldt are wrestling with can
ming factory propositions.
The bridge over the river at Republican City
went out with the ice last week.
The G.. A. r. post at Ewing gave an enter
tainment and realized $l4S from It.
The commissioner of Red Willow county
figure the years expenses at $4,000.
The right of way for the Ashland cutoff OF
the B. & M. has been secured through Sarpy
county.
Two new towns are to be located la FIJI.
more county, TO be known as Media and
Ohiowa.
North and South Auburn declare that the
postoffices OF both towns have not been con-
solidated.
A tidal wave Of temperance threatens to
swamp Nebraska CITY. Nearly 1900 tipplers
have signed the pledge.
The exposition building at Omaha will be
formally opened with a promenade concert on
Thursday evening Of next week.
The contract for building a $500 M court
house at York will be let and work commenced
as soon as the weather will permit.
Henry w. Claire, the North Bend masher
and horse thief WAS tried In Richmond, Ird.,
la,t week, and sent up for five years.
A livery stable at Omaha will in tbs sprlng
build a feed!ng-stable 204 feet wide and 632
feet long, which will contain 5000 stalls.
Holdrege is bowling for a branch line TO
Koarney. II the townspeop!c keep swearing
by George they stand a show Of getting It.
Sixteen hundred men and $40 teams will
tackle the grades OF the Grand Island d
Wyoming Central as soon AS the frost ia out
Of the ground.
Aaron Smith, Of Spring Bank, Dixon county, |
was compelled to kill two hogs and a cow re-
Gently which had been bitten by a mac dog. |
The creatures became foaming mad.
Josephus Wrinkle Akers, a pump and light
ming rod fend, done up Farmer Davis, OF SYRIA
cuse for $lOS. As. This method of raising a
stake Is not o new wrinkle with Akers.
There are two lady insurance agents In Ne
brasks, Mrs. A. A. Dow, OF Oxford, Furnas
county, and Mrs. Fannie O'Linn, OF Sheridan, |
DAVE county. Each doesa good business.
A frisky COW disputed the right OF way with
3 b. & NJ. train near Alma Saturday, bat the
race was brief and ended In q bloody cut. The
animal was mangled without injury to the
train.
Miss Angie Sherman, the young lady who 30
myst yriously disappeared from Bloomington
on Thursday, was found Friday about twelve
miles from her home. She gives no reason for
leaving her home.
Mrs. l. E. Bury has sold the FAIRFIELD News
to asyndicate Of capitalists In the form OF a
joint stock company, she retaining one-thlrd
OF the stock. /. F.. Bury will continue 10
wielo the editorial scissors.
Dave ssnee, G pioneer of Bemingford, 10
one OF the 200 heirs to an estate worth 81, l90,-
coo, located in Philadelphia. There Is more
sense than poetry In that legacy, and Dave
ia p:ouder than eyer OF bis family tree.
A l5-year1old Fair9eld damsel excused her
self from school tho other day, jumped into a
buggy with a young man and proceeded to gst
married. The giddy infant thoughtlully in
formed her mother she would call TO see Ter
when she got her house IA order.
A man named Wilhelm Reimers, from Bell
wood, vas arrested at Columbus for mortgag- |
Ing bis wife's property without her consent.
He was released, however, on q writ OF habess
corpus. 1t Is reported he was to meet a fair
damsel from Bellwood and join l.er In an
clipping episode.
The Standard Cattle company, OF Wyoming
has purchased 5000 acres Of land IN Dodge
county, seven miles west OF Fremont, paying
800, eco for 1t. The company will at once put
up a barn $50 by 800 feet In size, covering
eight and one-half acres OF ground, which
will accommodate 5000 head Of cattle.
Aparty OF four men raided Denver Junction
one day last week and turned the town inside
out. A tenderfoot saloOn-keeper was the
chief victim OF their wrath. The fixtures OF
the shop were perforated with bullets, and a
red hot stove scatt red over tha door. The
tenderfoot was badly scared, Blu, managed to
save the building.
The progressive euchre craze sssumed has
such proportions throughout th- state that
full sets of pastebosrds hold the place Of
honor beside the Bible In every pious parlor.
Out at Albion last week the best men and wo-
men OF the town filed into the opera-house and
put In three solid hours at the game. Eighty
four persons and twenty four decks were ia
action at one time. The excitement was so
great that the funeral OF a prominent citizen
was postponed for twenty-fou- hours.
John Prall, q prominent business man of
Fairfield, was recently arrested and taken be-
fore Squire Judd on the criminal charge OF
adultery. The csee WAS postponed until the
9th inst, Prall giving bond to appear at that
time. On the day following his arrest Mr..
Prall was sued by John sperry, u minister o;
the Seventh Day Baptist persuasion, and hus-
band OF the woman with whom Mr.. Prall Is &C.
cused OF adultery, for $4,000 for alternating
his wlfe's affections and disruptlng his other
wise happy home. Both Prali and Sperry are
middle sged men, and both have large fam
ilfas