Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-02-11
NEBRASKA.

Inc CITY MIL AT Huron Is BIeuly CIoNuCd
with an unusual amount OF custom.
The Northwestern railroad has bought
nineteen acres adjoining the town Of Parker.
Judge Pratc and family, OF Edgerton, were
snowbound at Fout Ranpall for three weeks.
The location Of the North Dakota Agricul-
tural fair for 1855 will not be liked until April
10th.
D The lowest estimate Of cattle lost in the
blizzard in Pierce county alone Is put al 1900
head.
Rev. r. j. Mackay will deliver the third IN
the course Of lectures at Blair next Tuesday
evening.
The great blizzard brought a brand new boy
to the home of Bro. Perciyal, of the Pierre
Free Press.
lncandescent lights were placed in the First
National bank and Salisbury Bros. yesterday
at aberdeen.
The tin mines in the Black Hills are likely
to prove a greater attraction than its more
precious metals.
At the turn-table In the Armour yards,
Douglas county, the snow is said to be twenty
seven feet dccp.
u iiAilD u ~ M SUN wa VIVA u uiA'
uggests to TO that city the tie necessity Of a
rendering establishment.
The county commissioners at Lincoln ad-
yertised for plans for a new court house TO
cost not exceeding 10000.
The docket for district court, which opens
Monday at Fremont, contains seventy civil
and thirteen criminal cases.
A.. f,s, nlIsa,on a., thn
Second district are passing resolutions re-
questing Judge Field to resign.
The dwelling Of Mrs. Susan Fuessler, al
Norfolk, was destroyed by fire last Wednes-
day. Loss, 800; insurance, 500.
Norfolk people are quite sanguine In the
belief that a federal court will be located in
that city during the present term Of con
gress.
A large amount Of iron for the dome Of the
state house at Lincoln has arrived, and will
be put in position as soon as the weather will
permit.
And now comes the startling announcement
that the city council Of Omaha has incurred
knowledge or consent.
Mrs. Davis, a well known character in Oma-
Ia police circles. is dead. She went to Omaha
in 1870 and has been under arrest 10 less than
f~fty-two times for larceny.
The sales Of stamps Of the Omaha postofice
for the month Of January amounted to Sl3,-
391 .l5. The receipts for the sale of envelopes
for the same month were s3, 2S9.1 3.
A memorial directed TO congress is being
circulated for signatures, presenting the
needs for a government postoiiice building at
Fremont, which is being largely signed.
Lieut.. Brainerd, Of Arctic fame, spent Sun
day visiting with his brothers in Saunders
county. He Is on his return to his regiment
at Fort Walla Walla, Washington territory.
Rev. G. w. Frost died in Omaha on the ID,
aged sixty-fye. He was purchasing agent Of
the Union Pacific during the period Of its con-
struction. He leaves an estate valued at
$4,000.
The Fremont Turnverein authorizes the
Tribune to state that il a benefit entertain
ment Is to be given for the "ShattuCk fund, -
the use Of the Turn hall is rendered free OF
charge.
George Kinney. Of Blue Springs, has re-
ceiycd notice from the department at Wash
ington that his pension, dating from 1862, has
been allowed. lie will get 5000, with 50 a
month hereafter.
The Omaha Bee acknowledges the receipt
$l44S, to be applied toward q fund for a mon
ument to the Westphalen children who were
frozen To death while returning from school
in Dodge county.
A drunken tool 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 dis
tributed along the track.
There are four prisoners IN the territorial
penitcntiary al Sioux Falls drawing pensions
from the government. One gets $50 per
month, another Sl2 a month and the other two
81 a month each.
A deaf and dumb man, a stranger, name
unknown, was run down and killed by a west
bound freight tran on the Sioux City and
Pacific road, near kenuard, on last Saturday
while walking on the track.
Mrs. Chandler, living east Of Warden, start
| ed 10 90 home in the storm from a neighbours,
and has not been heard of since, although a
| general search has been made. There is no
doubt but that she became bewildered and
yerished IL the storm.
C.. II. Bliss, OF Ashland, is supposed 10 be
lost under the ice in the Platte. A company
chasing IA wolf on the 30th ult. came to the
river, ani as the dogs and wolfhad gone over,
Bliss followed. but thu others turned back.
Bliss has not BET n seen since.
A complaint has he4n drawn up at Lincoln,
TO be signed by the lumber dealers OF the city,
concerning the distributing rates charged by
the Burlington and Missouri out OF that city.
The in rates have been adjusted uutil there Is
little cause for complaint. The out rates are
considered high and unreasonable.
The Lincoln board OF trade Is preparing a
correct map showing the railroad lines enter
ing Lincoln and the proper distances between
that city and the principal commercial centers
Of the east and west. The journal says it
will be used when the inter state
comn ission takes testimony there on Union
Pacific discrimination cases.
The horrors Of the great storm, says the
Lincoln News, are still coming To light. Near
Stuart on the 2sth ult. the body OF the nine
year old son of Gregor Hytreck was found.