Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-02-18
NEBRASKA.
Fremont IS to have electric lights.

Columbus con'd be induced to give a bonus
for II canning factory.
Columbus il thinking OF a Young Mems
Christian association.
A new Congregational church has been ded-
icated at Grand Island.
In well at Stratton human bones were
found az depth Of l4o feet.
Columbus has sixteen passenger trains a
day and claims to be something Of a railroad
center.
Engineer Sawycrs, wEo was recently killed
near Emerson, had $4,000 insurance
in favor u his wife.
The county commissioners at Lincoln ad-
yertlscd for plans for a pew court house to
cost not exceeding l7C,0o0.
An enthusiastic meeting was held In Be
atricc on the lst to take steps 10 properly al
vcrtisc that live town in the east.
The Nebraska Southern Railway company
has fled articles Of incorporation. Hcadquar-
tiers, superior, Nuckolls county capital stock,
SG,OoO,0JO.
Wolves are said to Toe 50 tame In the neigh
bolLood q Fairdale that they will come INTO
the yard and sit and watch anc farmer while
Ia docs his chores
In Gage county on the Rock leland Road is
a snow drift twenty feet deep ana 200 feet
long. Report says the road was successful in
tunncling through it.
VIM. Durec, a wcll-to-do farmer, twelve
miles from Wisncr, suicided on the 18th ult
He was forty-fve years Of age, and leaves a
wife and seven children.
Nebraska City people are considering the
project Of having a big celebration in August
BY erecting a big fruit palace and GROWING a
fruit queen of that section.
A. Abcrcrombie, of Brady Island, caught
and killed a large cougar one day the first Of
the week. The animal had a beaver trap fas-
tened upon one of his feet.
Pott Pond, a farmer, and John wilkins,
colorrd, spared for "A knockout at the Alma
Opera House the other night, the colored man
doing the granger up in three rounds.
Two married ladies horsewhippcd a scandal
mongcr at Plum Creek. That Is, they struck
him once, and when they got ready for the
second blow the wretch had a ifty-yard start.
There are four prisoners in the territorial
penitcntiayy at Sioux Falls drawing pensions
from the government. One gets $40 per
month, another Sl2 a month and the other tive
- "A month each.
The Galloway Standard says: sand Greek
is a wonder to new Corners. This little stream
never freezes over, and green grass can be
seen growing ca along its banks even at this
time Of year. The water coming from spring,
in the bed of the creek ispuie and good at al
scasous.n
The Omaha Bee Of yesterday reports the
brave school teachers who suffered in the
blizzard: Eta Shattuck, Si,5l599: LoiC
Royce. $l,4G4. %: Minnie Freeman, $6l0.23,
Wcstphalen monument, $Sl.3l: Lena Wocb
becke, $230.OS; special fund, $50.
Mrs. w. II. Loncks. of Central City, was a
work in her kitchen on the evening Of the :,
when two men attempted To burglarize tho
house. One Of the men seized her, but sh,
partially freed herself and stabbed the man il
the neck with a butcher knife. His pal came
to his relief, but a sight Of the knife changeC
his mind, and dropping his plumber the
scamps escaped.
Two young men Of Auburn thought tina
they would have some fun sleighridiDg. The,
united a team hitched at a church and belong
ing TO n man whom they KNEW wouldn'
kick They took a spin, returned the team
and went home. The next day the man die
kick and the festive youths HAD to pay - eacl
and costs, amounting to Sl5, for their fun.
" lTI- - u. lIs.a a -
victim Of the Beatrice Mutual Insurance com
pany, that gilded concern Of which Colone
Sabin sang SO checrily last summer. Mr.
Wagransky invested in a $4,000 policy, ant
generously crossed the divide for the bcne
lit of his family. The tear parched widow
got S219. The Sarpy County Democrat reac
the riot act 10 the concern, and advises tn
people to shun it as a pestilence.
Hardin Pigram, IA patent right man al ON
aha, died Thursday a%fternoo. from a dose o
morphine taken with suicidal intent. Drs
Biart and Mattice attended the man, but n,
was past all human aid. Pigram anne t,
Omaha several weeks since iron Red oak, Ia.
where he has a wife and four children. HI
was agent for some patent right, and wa
meeting with much success in his sales. Sat
urday he got on a drunk and has been drink
ing ever since.
The Lincoln Journals Lens Webbcke funt
has grown TO SS03.43. Very little has beer
done for this fund outside Of Lincoln anG
Seward. 1t would seem that this case SHOULD
appeal 10 the generosity Of Nebraska's liberal
hearted citizens. A little ll-year-old orphan
girl out all night in that terrible storm. and
a. a result one foot gone, a cripple for life
with no home and no friends; such q case
should attract the attention Of every one and
the fund should run up to a 81 600 in a short
time.
ON Wednesday morning at about . o'clock
Frank Bell, OF Omaha, somewhat under thl
influence Of liquor went into a saloon singing
NO Irish Need Apply when some one mad,
remarks regarding the song. Bell drew a 4
calibrc bulldog revolver and commenced fire
ing into the crowd. one ball strnck JohI
McNulta in the chest. He was taken To the
hospital ana the doct, : say his chances be
tween life and death are about even. Bel
was arrested and held In $1,000 bonds to mp
pear before the district court.
Early Friday morning n Lincoln Fred Abb,
and VIVA Bnchtcl, with another couple, man