Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-27
NEBRASKA.

free delivery system In South Omaha.
Lumber is being placed on the ground for
the erection Of a hemp factory at Fremont.
1t Is expected that the telephone line be-
tween Madison and Norfolk will be completed
within n week.
Hog cholera has broken out with renewed
vigor In Nemaha county, and the farmers are
exceedingly blue.
Michael Schmidt, an old gentleman, was
slugged and robbed at Nebraska City last
Monday night. This time the assailants were
captured.
The council at Lincoln is getting slarracd
on account OF the work Thich 10 not done by
by street sweepcrs, and has passed @ resolu-
ton to hurry t up.
George Marshall o. Fremont, after years OF
patient toll has finally invented "A valuable
apparatus for steam engines. 1t relates es-
p~ecialiy to the valve gear.
Triumph lodge, X. OF r., Of fremont shows
the largest increase during the past year Of
any ledge in the state the pumber sf new
members reaching sixty nirc.
7. NJ. Peterson, the Blaine county man who
hiIcbl llllrflA at Va cav wv ~S''
is dead. The woman who was to have eloped
with him is still at Grand Island.
StocShsm is now an incorporated village
with the following as The village fathers. +.
j. Sharp, chairman; Joseph Stockham, II.
Resell, w. Is. Flickmeyer aud Walter Scott.
A man was arrested last Tuesday In Omaha
on the charge Of starving horses 10 death,
-. 4. Il tt---1 IL - - 49, n..,N ,af
mails have been killed by him through misuse
aud starvation within a few months.
A bin collector from Norfolk invaded. Bur
nett the other day and secured considerable
money on the Cough up or III blow your
brains out'' plan. It was a novelty to the
debtors, but they didn't like 1t, and have
caused the arrest of the enterprisiDg man.
The board Of supervisors Of Platte county
has employed counsel to test the validity of
the 500, 900 bonds voted Ia 1879 to aid the
Lincoln and Northwestern railroad, and has
Instructed the county treasury to pay DC
more interest coupons until the matter has
been decided.
Thomas Owens, who hasbeen y resident q
PlattslEoulh for thirty years, wastaKan TO the
soldiers home q Grand Island Thursday, his
mind having become go impaired that he w
unable to care for himself. lie served durina
the war in Company A, First Nebraska.
The city hail bonds recently voted by YorA
are threatened with premature death, kcar
ne, and Broken Bow are In a similar fix, al
because the state auditor cannot twist th'
legal tape ard place his autograph on them
The legality OF the bonds has been submitted
TO the state supreme court.
The gasoline stove continues the harves
with the vigor aud vim Of q %tIreIes8 veteran
Near Oakland a few days ego it wrapped the
es,dence Of j. Fsreman In a cloak Of flame
and reduced It TO ashes. Mr.. Faremsn wa
| given time to kick 9 ro:ker, n bedtick ant
himself ont OF doors Just before the crash.
On Friday morning a farmer named Waite
Weet was Shot ard instantly killed at N,
farm house OF K. s. Adams, eight miles cas-
Ct Plum Creek. The murder grew out o.
trouble over the division OF wheat grown or
land owned by Adams AID rented by West.
Anna Swabolr enjoys the distinction q
being the arst woman Ia the history Of III,
Douglas county district court to make q
declaration Of her intention 10 become q citi
zen and secure her first papers. she viii
hereafter be permitted to vote at schoo
elections.
An Omaha man who left SO at home with
his wife for safe keeping came home aDt
found that she had taken the $50 aud skippeG
by the light of the MONDAY sun. This should
L., d, F,,~gnI y,arp{,,rv a.. nu,rho rpaV Who ~
In the habit Of leaving money 1T home viii
their wives.
From an interior town where they have
local option comes the news that 3 man was
arrested and tried for selling whisky. The
jury, in sampling the stufT sold, got drank
and could not agree upon a verdict. 1t Is
not stated whether or not the Judge psrtook,
but 1t was criminal negligence on his part t.
permit them to taste it. He should have
Gully allowed them to smell the cork.
People in the northern part Of Liscoln are
very anxious TO find the three young DUDES
who fred n pile Of brush on the Stratton farm
last Saturday in order that they might get a
chance to ,hoot ST q stray rabbit that had
taken refuge there. 1t required the unite |
energies Il the nei2bboTboOd for two days
and one night to pat out the FIRE, and then
this was not accomplished until considerable
hay had been destroyed.
While overhsuling 4 pile OF old iron near
the railroad coal house IN 0akdale last Wed
nesday the workmen belonging to the steel
gang found o large package Of papers, which
upon examination proved 30 be the notes,
| contracts, leases and certificates Of deposit
taken at the time that j. J. Meliek's safe was
blown open In Neigh. The value OF the pa
| pers found Is estimated al 81, 600. They were
returned 10 Dir. Nelitk the same evening they
were found.
The street car company az Nebraska City
has learned that there Is no franchise for the
construction Of a street railway In existence.
1t was supposed that Mr.. Clark, Of the his-
souri Pacific, had the franchise, but the ordi,
nance granting It TO him required that a
written acceptance should be filed with the
city council before the expiration of thirty
days after the election. This WAS never done,
consequently no franchise was issued. This
will necessitate another election. The com-
pauy 10 ordering material, there being no
doubt about It's securing the franchise.
The Scotia Herald announces that there
will be . wrestling match at the Presbyterian