Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-10-13
NEBRASKA

The citizens Of Crete are busi)y engaged 10
an effort to raise 49, 600 for the benefit Of
Doane college.
4 combination Of home and foreign capital
VIII develop INFO a n~atlona. bank IN Oakland
at an early day.
The Weeping Water quarries turn out $50
carloads Of stone per day. The demand ex-
ceeds the supply.
There Is talk Of bonding the town Of Plum
Creek for the purpose OF securing apparatus
for a fire department.
The Topeka branch OF The Women's For
eign Missionary society viii convene at Ne
braska City October Is.
The plasterers Of Dodge county are rushed
with work, all because the plastering Is done
with mortar instead Of mortgages.
Parboiled ice cream and oysters stewed 81
Ice are reported as among the deltcacies served
at a church supper at Dodge.
Tht chief OF the Seward fire department
has resigned because the city council would
not put the apparatus in a lit condition for
use.
The proprietor % the Kearney Daily Jour
nal he's placed an electric motor in his Office
and hereafter the paper viii be printed 10y
electricity.
The precoc'ous Kid girls Of the Hastings
school are escorted TO and from school by
beardless beaux. The paternal slipper is be-
ing busted for the fray.
A merchant at Eagle by mistake gave a %
bill in change for s., but before he discovered
| bfa .rror thn II " n who rno,iv,f II had
blown it in"
John Flater of North Bend undertook 10
drive u team Of bronchos the other day, and
s6 soon as he can sit up he will commence
work on a book entitled How 10 handle a
Brouclo."
j. +. French, proprietor Of the Hotel Day
export at Fremont, retired suddenly from
business last Wednesday, taking about $40
with him. He left his family with $325 in
cash end an indebtedness OF 81 100.
The Jewish residents Of Lincoln are ar
ranging to establish a lodge Of the /. o B. Is.
Independent Order OF B'nai Birth. II Is
probable that the lodge will DC established In
about ten days or two weeks.
Leonard Nash, postmaster at Leigh aud 4
prominent dealer in agricultural implements,
has plunged into the sylvan shoals OF the I'M
known. A number Cf promises to pay
~heightens the desire to learn his whcrea.
bouts.
Enlineer Frank Watson, Of the st. Joseph
and Grand Island road, had a narrow escape
from ccath Saturday. When nearing DOM
phan the connecting rod Of he ctgine broke
and smashed the seat under him. lie was
fortunate enough 10 escape injury
A crazy steer took possession Of Lincoln
avenue, Hastings, Monday, tossed . hired
man toward heaven and sent = schoolhov
after him for company's sake. Both re
turned unipiara2, while the animal waa
steered into Q barn and the police summoned.
Arthur Preet, a Nebraska City bum, was ar
rested Sunday for being drunk. Monday morn
ing he secured the ususl $40 AID coste, where
upon he fled information against the large
drug Arm Of Ii. n. Shumsn for SELL 8 liquor
on Sunday. But the dtm emlhatically derirs
the charge.
An old soldier n med & ristiau left bis coat
on the river bank near Nebraska City and it
as ib&HtA 4 uFrGoS' - ttt III tHt ipthtt
informs bis wife that he is tired of living, but
no footprints were discovered near the river,
He will, however, be supposed to be dead un-
til he appears on the scene again.
The mayor OF Council Bluffs has said to the
mayor Of Omaha; Lets celebrate The open
ing Of the new bridge" And the mayor Of
Omaha has sent greeting to the mayor Of
Council Bluffs, remarSing: an 20 You"
The proper conn ittces will soon be az
pointed end every effort put forth to make
the occasion memorable.
Harry l.. Bennett, a ~footsore and hungry
tramp, was taken In and cared for by W. G.
Willoughby If Harvard two weeks ago. After
being being stall fed and allowed to rccuper-
ate he repaid his bentfactor by stealing a
watch and skipping out. A reward Is offered
fer his arrest,
The Fremont Tribune relates a story Of 4
Dodge county citizen who attended q wedding
near Hooper anJ alter partakiug literally Of
the good things set before hi;a had the gall
10 steal Il Get If silver knives and forks which
were wedding presents.
Mrs. Soland, the Wahoo lady who inhaled
a santburr some days ago and has had sew
eral physicians attempt t. relieve her Of the
obstruction, coughed the troublesome thing
up just rs the doctors were about To perform
sn operation with a new tangled instru
nent.
The second election OH county seat WAS
held last Thursday in Chase county, and re-
iulted Ia a gain for Champion over Imperial
md the dropping out Of Manderson. IL viii
lake one more ballot TO decidc the race,
hich now lies between Imperial aud Cham
lion.
EXCITEMENT ran high at Ainsworth last Fri
day, whep Simon Fraacis, n colored barber,
sas found In bed with two little white girls
WHO Q parents were absent from town. He
vas taken outside OF the corporation by some
twenty men and treated to q dose Of paint
brush and horsewkip and advised TO vanish.
The Omaha Herald cheers the downhearted
n the following manner: Several papers
are unnece sssrlly worried over the report
hat the bsl kers Of the 'Slcge of sebastapool'
ii Omaha lost money. Dry your tears,
The money was donated by bust
nen who did not expect either principal or
interest. They provided entertainment for