Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-15
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Douglas county is talking of buying a poor
farm.
Dawson county has a delinquent tax list OF
so, 900.
Dixon county farmers feel sure now a
big corn crop.
They have sod corr out in Keith county
nine feet high.
Fremont is painfully short Of water for fire
protection.
The school house ~iaritors Of Omaha drew
81, 500 for August.
The Omaha pelice force Is busy rounding
up suspicious fair visitors.
The Omaha crook Is in luck just now II he
escapes being set at cutting weeds.
The clearings Of Omaha banks last week
aggregated s., 1898, 200.
Sebastopol's second production in Omaha
drew fully 5000 people.
The Lincoln postofiice netted the govern
ment about $500 In August.
The Portsmouth Baptists have placed the
corner stone for a new church.
The new Murray hotel In Omaha, costing
$50, 600, was opened on the 4th inst.
Two hundred and eighty-six building per
mits were issued in Omaha for August.
The Lincoln city prison furnished AZ meals
during August, at n cost to the city OF sl2.O5.
The state normal school at Peru opened on
the 5th inst. with over 200 students.
Foul air In a well caused the death Of Chas.
Titus, a Red Cloud young man OF Is.
Twenty-one inspectors on public works In
Omaha received 81, 034 for their August work.
The internal revenue collections at Omaha
for the month Of August amounted to 1872,
7S3. 40.
Omaha has now about twenty miles OF
street railway over which a car has never
been run.
Father Brennan, OF st. Louis, WAS robbed
al the Union Pacific depot in Omaha last
Tuesday evening.
Christian Meier, a German well known 10
the vicinity OF Hooper, suicided by hanging
last Monday night.
G. w. ssvidge preached his farewell ser
mon in the seward Street Methodist church
at Omaha last Sunday.
From returns given the chief OF police there
" " JrDV uUlal VI hOaS'C VI w
IN Omaha.
The third annual e~ncampment OF the plon'
GERS of Antelope county will be held iB Neigh
the s5th and Goth inst.
The canning factory at Grand Island now
employs 275 hands. TIL. factory put up In
one day this week 80, 1908 cans.
l.. Shaw, a Lincoln street car driver, about
40 years Of age, dropped dead in his car on
Wednesday evening OF heart disease.
Nearly everybody in Wayne went to Nor
folk, and the returning pilgrims complais
that the people there want to make a fortune
in a week.
The Harrington Nonplreil man says b,
went out collecting last week and spent two
days. He had about $500 in %sccounts. "Ht
collected sOo, 600. co."
II. Westerman has just PASSED the Goth an
niversary Of his arrival IN Niobrara. He has
2sth day OF August, 1859.
The Wayne uazette says that the Poncs
band backed down when confronted with &
$500 challenge by the Wayne boys to play fol
the championship OF the state.
William G.. B%raithwaite, a young lawyer
who has cut a shining figure In the Heming
ford social and church circles for the pas
two years, was arrested on the lst inst. on
charge OF stealing $1,000 from a bank a
Albion.
st. Helena people don't know what is the
matter. A stranger has been there recently
with an anxiety to buy st. Helena property
There are 1851 school children In Doug
las county and the annual cost OF the public
schools Is over three-fourths If a million dol
lars.
DR.. Osborne, Of Fremont, has been ap
pointed temporarily to the Office Of state
veterinarian, DR.. Gerth having returned TO his
former home in Jersey City.
A number of parties, arrested In Lincoln
for permitting waste Of city water, will igh'
the corporation on the ground of the imposi
ton upon them OF salt water.
A 10 year old daughter Of Charles Strelo
eight miles from Oakland, fell under the
wheels Of a wagon loaded with hay on the 9TH
inst, and both her legs were broken above
the knees.
The Hastings city council has requested
the resignation of William Breed, the street
commissioner, on q charge Of reckless ex-
travagance In public Improvements. Mr..
Breed emphatically states In q published card
that he will not be ousted. Immediate steps
will be taken by the council to decapitste
him.
The Fremont Tribune has q report that Z.
F. J. Hergh, late cashier Of the Hooper State
bank, Is u defaulter, reports placing his short
age as high as 10000. The Tribune says
"He was first employed on q salary Of about
81, 600 per year and the next received about
1920. During this line he has lived well
and purchased and paid for g 5000 worth of
property. His proprietors wondered how he
could do this on his limited salary, and when
spoken to about 1t he claimed he got his
money from the east, aud offered other apollo
gies. About two weeks ago some Of the stock
holders in running through the books discov-
cred what they thought was rather queer
bookkeeping, and concluded to dispense with
him. In going through the books since they
discovered traces of fraud, but have not gone
far enough with the investigation to know to
whot avfapt Tho annnppt TINT sapms IN ha