Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-02-04
NEBRASKA.

70 he gathering momentum.
Lincoln will probably put up 81 400 to get
the state firemen's tournament
The Wahoo fire department has just been
furnished with two new hose carts.
j. +. Woods, for eleven years postmaster at
Schuyler, died on the 18th inst.
Temperance meetings are becoming very
frequent and quite enthusiastic at Lincoln.
Fiual proof was mnde on $1,000 acres Of
land in Antelope county during the past
year.
In a new dynamo at an expense OF about
5000.
Republican City has organized a building
and loan association with a capital stock OF
$50, 600.
The Union Cattle company, OF Douglas
county, has failed and it, plant is attached for
$50, 900.
The trains on both railroads began running
through Blair on time last Tuesday, for. the
first time sinco the storm.
A druggist named Howard committed sui
eide ct Crawford Tuesday night By taEing
chlorcform. Nccluse assigned.
The county commissioners at Lincoln sd-
yertised for plans for a new court house to
cost not exceeding Sic 600.
Linwood has u new paper, the Advertiser,
by Sewers X Tyndall. 1t Ia flush with adver-
Using and in a good way to reap wealth.
The small boy with the pistol made himsel!
prominent again Tuesday at Lincoln. His
sisters funeral viii take place early this
week.
Albert Martin, OF saunders county, was ac-
cidehtally shot In the back by his brother,
while out hunting rabbits. The wound is not
serious.
The Lincoln board OF trade have just for
warded to the interstate mrrr commits
sion another formulated kicl "A Pacific rail
road rates.
Three men were caught In a sand slide
Monday at Florence. Two were but slightly
injured, but the third, Charles A.. Sellers, was
dead when extricated.
Justice Levy, Of South Omaha, has been IN
office seven weeks and his docket shows a rec
ord Of scventy-two cases, while his peedeces-
sor had about q dozen I'm a year.
The Nebraska City Canning company adj
vertises that 1t Is now ready to make contracts
or corn, tomatoes, peas and beans in any
quantity, for the season OF 1888.
On Thursday, at Lincoln, Charles Ruley,
colored, was arrested for using profane and
obscene language, to which he pleaded guilty,
and was fined. 81 and costs.
Tbprp was a m.atipr ~ tho stnoIhnlIora OF
the Blair canning factory last Saturday night
to elect officers for 1883. The old board Of
officials was reelected without a break.
Turner Bros, of Frcm mt, sold 4S4 head OF
l26-pound Oregon sheep at S5.l2h. These
sheep were driven from Oregon less than a
year ago and were fattened in Nebraska.
Notwithstanding the unfriendly character
OF the weather the interest in the 81. +.
church revival at Lincoln is increasing. AL
ready over forty have professed conversion.
Three little strangers opened their eyes
upon thist empestuous world at Dakota City
during the late storm. 1t If to be hoped that
the saying "a bad beginning makes u good
ending" may prove true in their case.
A drunken fool at Omaha named Collins
tried to catch and hold a moving locomotive
Wednesday, and had not a brakeman dragged
him upon the pilot he would have been die
tributed along the track.
They are having exciting times at Grand
Island over the enforcing Of the ordinance
requiring snow and ice to be removed from
sidewalks and crossings. Over 100 persons
have been arrested, mostly paving their fines.
Oakland, Burt county, Neb., Independent,
10: On Friday evening, the Goth, at 7:30
o'clock, a conference will begin ut the Swedish
Mission church, and continue over Sunday.
Speakers from Omaha, Sioux City ana other
places will be expected and a grand revival Of
the Lords work is desired. Our Swedish peo-
pie are earnestly requested 10 attend.
During the big storm at Norfolk a portion
Of the top Of the brick work In the tower at
the asylum, weighing from two to three tons,
ell twenty feet and crushed through the roof,
falling into the room occupied by the family
OF Steward Nichols. Mrs. Nichols was at the
stove, and two children were in the room at
the time, one OF whom was in the alcove and
the other was leaving To 60 To another room.
All were unhurt.
Hastings, according to the Gazctte-Journal,
enjoys the distinction Of having in existence
a genuine Bootblack's Union. There are
about fifteen or twenty members, and they
hold regular meetings and transact volumes
OF union business. When IL is discovered
a member has 'cut under in the estab-
grade OF prices for "a shine he IL
promptly fred, and Is for all time blacklist
ed Sundays, 1t seems, the union generally
ten cents for a shine.
Walt Mason's touching poem on the death
Of the Westphalen orphans in Dodge county
Turing the blizzard vas the tribute OF q warm
heart to one of the sad and heroic incidents
uf the tempest. Amid the deluge OF brave
acts, terrible struggles and rescu.s, none sur.
passes In nobility Of sacrifice the efforts OF 4
thirteen year old girl to protect her little sig
ter from the biting cold. almost stripped her
self to save her, and both dying in each
Others arms. The people Of Dodge county
should treasure their memories and mark
their resting place with IA lasting shaft otmar
BILE.
Lincoln special 10 Sioux City journal, Jan.
Owing 20 the fact that numerous cases
of freezing Of teachers and pupils of the pub.
lie schools Of this state during the late storm
have been reported aud many cases OF hero