Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-05-12
NEBRASKA.

prospects.
A mad dog is the latest curiosity at Ne,
braska City.
c Republican City's new school house is near
ing completion.
Fremont Masonic temple will cost from
SIS, 600 70 $40, 900.
Chadron's three story hotel will 10 com
pleted this summer. (.
A Talmage child died from poison In the
paint of a water pail.
The Nebraska Methodist is the title Of 9
new paper at Hastings.
David Caulthilower, Of Seward county, has
been adjudged insane.
The Norfolk Daily News is a year old and
shows evidence of prosperity.
l.. {. Root, secretary of the state grange, il
speaking at various towns u the state.
Furnas county is to have a $4,000 court
house to be completed at once.
An effort Is being made to organize a Chris
tian endeavor society at Dustin.
Edward Beck, late county clerk Of Saline
county, died In WILDER Friday night.
Liberty offers the Wyandottc road s3t, COO
to run through that tow and to Beatrice.
Between the years 1866 and 1856 there were
tifty-nine divorces granted in Cunning county
Artistic horse thieves are doing a business
In Sheridan county, while the yigilant'
sleep.
Fremont's electric lights fail to shine jus
now, on account of broken and disconnected
wires.
The American Farmers union, organized
at Pawnee City, is receiving a good mem
bership.
j. Sterling Morton, the sage Of ArboI
Lodge, is at home again after several month.
absence.
After three weeks OF excitement, loss ant
glory, the Kearney Daily Courier took its up
ward flight.
The real estate transfers in York for ST,
days, ending on Saturday last, aggregate
5000 so.
Nebraska City's jail will be repaired In
such a manner that escape therefrom will bt
impossible.
Rev. Joseph Cook is lccturing throughout
the state on the question, "Does Death End
Allr'
There is an unusual amount Of blue grass
making its appearance on the prairies this
spring.
The citizens OF Fairbury are jubilant over
the assurance that the Rock Island road will
build to that place.
w. j. Comley, a mail agent, who had TIVE
ribs broke in the Alma wreck, reports tina
1870 letters were lost.
Believing in the maxim that il she docs no
blow her own horn no one will blow it 70
her, Fairbury prints boom editions of he
papers.
DR.. Billings, who has just returned iron
the east, Is getting ready to make some won
derful developments in the science Of hol
culture.
Several Nebraska papers warn farmers Q
the danger Of blowing up roads for the pun
pose of polishing their plows, and refer ther
to the law prohibiting it.
The physicians and attorneys of Gandy
who is in jail at Pawnee City uuder a Sci
tence Of five years, are trying to get him on
under a plea of hemorrhages.
A lacrosse team has been organized /
O'Neill, and if thore are not too mauy broke
bones and cracked skulls among the member
during the middle of the summer they propos
to challenge any team in the state.
The Omen Frontier looks at the figures an
exclaims that Omaha Is maintaining her plac
as the third pork packing city Of the worlC
and at her present rate OF increase she wi,
down Kansas City and take her place next t
Chicago before many months.
The assistant state veterinary surgeon wa
in Stratton recently looking for glandere
horses. A Mr.. K!rkwood owned a mare tia
was sick. The scientific gentleman pronounce
the disease CHAMBERS and was about to shoe
when kirkwood protested and offered hi
opinion that the case was not CHAMBERS. An
in this unsettled manner the case was left.
The fact that corner lots are being stake
above new Indian graves is proven 10y a rccen
find in Antelope county. The Tribune says
'In digging the hole for their tree on colleg
hill the boys dug W parts of two skeletons
probably Indians. They found two skulls
one entire backbone and a pile Of other bone
Of The body promiscuously throw Il together.
With eighty-two glandered horses kille'
during the month of April, a paper in tn
southwestern part or the state insists tina
the diseased horses are brought over from
Iowa.
An attractive young lady Of Edgar wa
chewing gum and engaging in a walking
tournament at the same time. A skilled ply
stefan finally dislodged the gum which haC
lodged In her throat.
Herman Huberman, the young boy wht
tole the horse in York county, has been duly
installed In the reform school at Kearney
He is under IL years old and was a ~fu.itivi
from the Kearney institution al the time hl
appropriated the horse.
\ man named Davis from Wano, Kansas
called the ''gehtlemauly and urbanen tickc
agent at Benkleman a liar. The agent trans
formed the face OF Davis into a war map, an,
caused the arrest Of the Kansan, who con
tri D $40 to the school fund.
A Hastings paper says that "unless worl
is rapidly pushed on the new insane asylum
and the building completed feaIs are enter
tanned that ii will be necessary to transfer the
patients now temporarily kept TO the ston,
block at Lincoln. They are becoming bad. :
The Wayne County Gazette finds that i
''sepms 10 a man uD A cottonwood tree tina,