Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-04-14
NEBRASKA.

The Gosper County District Fair and Driv
ing Park association was organized Monday.
The door was blown of the safe In q Weep
ing Water drug store Monday night and ~
taken.
: Tuesday night an omaha ycupg man gave
his old father q beating for getting married,
He welded a young woman.
W. II. Duffett, OF Leavcnworth, Kan, has
begun sewerage construction for Beatrice,
having contract for work amounting to 80
600.
The Mead Investment company OF Omaha
has filed its articles of incorporation with the
county clerk. The capital stock authorized is
sA0O,0 900.
Tuesday a runaway team in Omaha ran into
a wagon, throwing the driver in the latter
Herman Dahlstrom, TO the street, infiicting
fatal injuries.
Henry Kettler, living north of Hooper,
Dodge county, went hunting recently, and
his gun exploded in such a way as to knock
out two OF his teet.
The articles Of incorporation Of the Ne
bra,ka Elevator and Grain company were yes
terday filed with the secretary Of state.
The suit Of Williams VS.. Judge IIamer, Of
Omaha, for 10000, which lasted for more
than o s week past, ended Tuesday with a yer
dict for the defendant.
A deposit at Norfolk was struck at u depth
Of $40 feet Of a blue clay full Of iron pyrites,
in size from a pin head TO a mimic bail. Sem
pies have been sent to Denver u be assayed.
Reuben Ki-sell, treasurer Of a school dis
trict in Dodge county, has been discovered to
be from 5000 o $500 short in his a counts.
He has been an old and much respected cit
izen.
Articles OF incorporation Of the Mutual
Loan Il Investment company Of Kearney,
Buffalo county, were Monday fled in the
office Of the secretary Of state. Capital stock,
500 go.
The Interstate Collection union Saturday
glcd articles OF incorporation with the sccre-
tary of state. The principal place of bust
ness will be Lincoln, and its capital stock
500 C0.
The building Of the Armour udahy com
pauy, at South Omaha, 200X59O feet alto.
gcthcr, will contain ham and beef houses,
al.o a large beef canning house and a lard re-
fncry.
Chas. Drewcock, an old gentleman AZ
Weeping Water, committed suicide last
Saturday by cutting his throat with a razor.
He said he was tired Of living and was de-
terIuined TO die.
The city of South Omaha has been sned fol-
g., 40G.65 on warrants bought by plaiutiff OF
various persons. Defendant failed to make
the necessary levy, and so will allow judg
ment to be taken.
A dunbar dispatch says a barn and sly
head of hourses and a large quantity OF ha,
and grain, belonging to a prominent farmer
four miles south Of there, was destroyed BY
fire Monday, supposed TO be the work Of al
incendiary. Loss, 81 200; partially insured
An s year old son Of James Kinney, sever
miles southwest OF Milford, was fatally sho
in the abdomen Friday. His brother wa
holding TIE gun across his knees putting
cap on, thinking it wa. unloaded, when /
went of.
Two pretty young married women Of Omah'
went With two railroad men to a "road
house" on the outskirts Of the city and spen
the day in ~reyolry and drinking. All 90
drunk.
A woman in Omaha left a baby at a hous
asking that it might remain while she wen
on an GRAND 10 another part Of the city. Tn
people have become SO fond Of it they vii
adept it unless it is demanded.
The stock barn Of G W. Warner, near Syi
acuse, was burned by an inctudiary recently
on Thursday J. +. Browncll, a neighbor an
brothsr-iu-law OF Mr.. Warner, was arrested
The evidence against him l. said TO be con
elusive. He vas lodged in jail ut Nobrask
City.
A copy OF the agreement entered into bC
tween the Omaha aud Council Bluffs bridg
company TO secure the payment Of a frs
mortgage amounting to 100000 to the Men
camille Trust company, Of New York, wa
fled with the register of deeds yesterday
The mortgage runs for twenty years, at 81
per cent interest, payable the first days o
July and January Of each year.
There was 70 have been a y wedding in hig'
life at Tekamah last Sunday. Chris Peterson
n wealthy grass widower, age sixty-tso, wa
to be the groom, and Miss Delilah Harris,
very pretty girlof sixteen the bride. Blu
after the company had assembled and she am
the old gentleman were standing up befor
the minister and she was asked If she woul,
take him for her husband, she dropped hi
hand and, bursting into tears, said; NO,
won't" She then ran up stairs To her owl
room, the old man left, and the company dis
persed Il in confusion.
Veneer Wagner, a German shoemaker 0
Niobrara, lost his cyesight about two year
ago. The county has assisted the family 70
some time past. About two months since b,
became violently insane. The commissioner
OF insanity sent him to the asylum at Norfolk
but the superintendent refused TO ~receiy,
him because there was no room. He was re
turned to the authorities. He is now beins
cared for at the county jail.
II. ID. Clarke, the postmaster at Pleasan
HI, IL charged with the embezzlemcnt o
S295, which he distracted from registered let
tiers. The theft o Cured last fail when Clark,
WA, running for a political Office. The none.
he used 10 defray campaign expenses. liz
pleaded guilty 10 the charge when arraigne'
before United States Commissioner Andersoi
NJ Omaha. He was placed under bonds o