Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-11-17
NEBRASKA.

Work Is progressing rapidly IN the street
railway at Norfolk.
Wakefield feels sure of having a new rail-
road next spring.
The roller skate has just been declared a
nuisance at Cedar Rapids.
Nebraska City expects to have bobtailed
cars running by Christmas.
Columbus is indulging In a little stone side
walk TO give the to~n tone.
DIR. Osborne of Fremont has been appoint
ed state veterinarian TO succeed DR.. Gerth.
A building, loan and protective association
was organized at Oakdale last Wednesday.
There Is talk OF moving the Presbyterian
church at Humphrey to the town OF Creston.
Mrs. Patrick Cooney, OF Greeley cognty,re-
Gently gave birth to twins, making the fifth
| pair that she has borne.
A couple of Pine Ridge Indians brought to
the Rushville mills last Saturday a load CT
| wheat OF their own raising.
T.. ID. Barrett, who is running the Beatrice
medical and surgical institute, is away and
the report is that he has skipped.
The first message over the telephone wire
between Norfolk and Warneryille was re-
ceiyed at Norfolk last Saturday.
Joseph Butterbough's livery barn at Fair
bury was destroyed by fire last Sunday night.
Loss, 81, 500; insurance, $1,000.
The w. c. T. ". OF Fremont fs preparing
for a grand fair so be held in the new temple
which will be completed in a snort time.
A. b. Knots, editor OF the Plattsmouth
Herald, and Miss May Russell, daughter OF
Judge Russell, were married last Thursday.
A poker club has been formed at Gothen-
burg and the local paper Is posting the gam
blers on the penalties CT the new state law.
A white robed apparition has been seen re-
| Gently at the school house az Unadilla, and
the people are all worked up over the matter.
Wayne county farmers are paying 80 cents
a bushel for corn hueking, furnishing board
and team, but still the hands are very scarce.
Col. z. Fl. Allyn, one OF the Oldest and
most prominent citizens OF Dawson county,
dropped dead In a drug store at Plum creek
last Monday.
The first number of the Nebraska Mctho-
dist is announced to appear this week. 1t
will be published at the Wesleyan university
at Lincoln.
Hail hampton, colored, was stabbed last
Monday night by George Mum In a saloon at
Nebraska City. The difficulty arose from a
political quarrel.
Asa Berry of Seward was given a verdict of
& 1900 against the Burlington read for injur
les sustained by him last winter by being
struck by an engine.
The Advocate says that while the spirit Of
Improvement is abroad In Neigh it would be
well to organize a joint stock company to
build an opera house.
The citizens of Tobias and vicinity as
eembled last Thursday and dedicated the
large elevator which was erected at Tobias by
the Farmers alliance.
There Is some talk Of a new brewery in
Fremont. WIN. b. Bosh, proprietor OF the
Western Brewing company, OF Burlington.
TO-, is looking the ground over.
The Dawes County Journal has a $4,000
libel suit on its hands brought by A. V.
Harris, the only Democratic member of the
Board 81 csrrty commissioners.
Ii is rumoIcd that a number Of Frcmon
young men are attempting to ftiso Yhiskers.
All new industries should be tenderly fos-
tered by the people Of that enterprislngtown
Matt Foley, an Omaha stonemason who wa
at work on the new Methodist church at
Beatrice, fell from the building yesterday. n
distance Of forty feet, and was instantly
killed.
Ida A. Montgomery, a 10 year old girl or
Wheeler county, died very suddenly the other
day. AS she finished playing on the piano
she remarked that 1t was her farewell piece,
and IN five minutes was dead.
The body OF the daughter Of G. T. Barto,
| ex-treasurer Of Dixon county, who left her
| home Wednesday morning, was found In a
| creek near Emerson the same evening. Her
mind was deranged by sickness.
A number Of ladies at Wayne are talking
up a "tub parade" to take place Immediately
after the first fall OF snow. Just what a tub
parade is can't be told at present, but the
public can look for something novel.
VIII McVicker, deputy sheriff OF Dodge
county, has just accepted an offer to go to
Johannesburg, South Africa, TO superintend
| the business Of a big gold mine there. He is
an old miner and has been guaranteed a large
salary.
The son Of q farmer named Calkins, living
! near Hastings, was impaled on a %pitchfork
last Thursday while sliding off Of a gralns.ack.
The prongs pierced the boys leg and until re-
leased held him suspended with his head
downward.
Frank Fansler and David Crinkslow, two
gamblers, INDUCED In q row at Hastings
Friday. Pistols were drawn and eie ut shot
were fired, three OF them taking effect In
Fansler and killing him instantly. The
murderer escaped.
Hon. James Ewing OF Wood River, an hon
ored resident Of Hall county, died suddenly
OF heart disease Wednesday morning. lie was
editor Of the Wood River Gazette for 4 mum
Der of years and county superintendent OF
schools for two terms. He was IS years OF
age.
Mrs. George Luce, wife Of a wealthy farmer
living four miles north OF Lyons, suicided
last Thursday by taking a dose OF strychnlnt
that Mr.. Luce had In the house to poison
rats. This was the lady's second attempt a,
self murder. Domestic troubles axe assigned