Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-06-09
NEBRASKA.

General Van wyck viii speal. at Fremont
Memorial day.
1t is reported that the Rock Island is sur
yeying up the Platte.
A Methodist church is TO be built immedi-
ately at Petersburg.
The Kearney high school graduated a class
of fifteen on the 23d.
The Beatrice Paper Manufacturing com
pany is materializing.
Falls City Will celebrate the completion OF
her water works July 4.
South Sioux City has issued $1,000 bonds
for a new school house.
The Sun is the latest venture in the news
paper field at Huntley.
The citizens of West Point are talking Of
an electric light plant.
Track laying on the Columbus street rail-
way commenced yesterday.
Lincoln real estate agents ar already be
ginning 10 want the earth.
The western portion OF the sts.t x suffer
ing badly from too much rain.
The Vertigree Hornet was rightly named
1t has stung Il ielf 20 death.
The Santa Fe people are still surveying be-
tween Concordia and Superior.
The Nebraska prohibs leave today for the
n~atlonsl prohibition convention.
The Danabrog Sentinel ID the name of "A
new bapa from Howard county.
The state Chautauqua assembly will be held
at Crete from June % to July 10.
A bonanza is promised the mar who will
start a harness shop at Clearwater.
Falls City has organized a gun club com
posed OF shootists from away back.
The Lincoln university cadets have returned
from their encampment at Wymore.
The festive gopher is getting In his work on
the growing corn in Nuckolls county.
Memorial day was observed in every town
In the state where there is a q. A. r. post.
The city council Of Blue Springs has grant
ed a franchise for an electric light plant.
Hliance, Box Butte county, is only three
months old and has a population OF 600.
The Fifty mile stretch OF railroad connect
Ing Talmage and Crete will soon be finished
Wahoo will have saloons. The city council
absolutely refuses to entertain remonstran-
ces.
The Great Western Watch company, at In.
dlanola, has gone into the real estate bust
ness.
A young lady OF Hastings invested 800 in
real estate a year ago and today is worth over
So 600.
Two hundred and fifty H~astingites will
,,;Si, L o,pas Citv Sb;o xy..1y ,, a,ou;al ~
cursion.
Ashland expects the Rock Island this sum
mer. But railroads don't blossom on ex
pectation.
A larger acreage of crops viii be planted
this year in Keya Paha county than ever be
fore.
Matilda Fletcher will make a lecture tour
of the state, commencing at Wahoo mex
Monday.
A man named Rich, Of st. Edward, has 6
collection Of 800 postal stamps, no two OF
which are alike.
The Republican Valley Editorial association
will make an excursion to Denver and tn,
mountains Ia August.
More rain has fallen in Dundy county dur
ing April and May Of this year than during
the entire year Of 1887.
The Sanitarium just completed a. Milford
will soon be opened to weak, suffering human.
ity at SO much per week.
Superintendent Burkett, OF Seward county
reports the school census 5,552, an increase
OF l,l15 over that OF last year.
The school census for Sherman county
just completed, shows 2,26S school children
between the age of ) and 81 years.
Maj. HendershOtt, the drummer boy OF tn,
Rappahannock, will sit at "A camp fire with the
G.. A. r.. post at Ogalalla June IL.
Patrick Caesiday, a resident OF Omaha since
1856, died last Saturday. The estate left by
him is valncd at upwards OF $1,000 0
+. b. Wilbur has severed his connection
with the North Nebraska Argus. His vale
dictory was published in the last Issue.
The first commencement exercises OF The
Edgar high school will occur Friday night
May 25, at the NJ. f. church Of that city.
A young man named Nalck, of Gering, dieG
last week Of pneumonia. which supervenet
from a broken rib, received while boxing.
For the past eight days the district court a
Wahoo has been In session, and during tina
time four cases on, $50 have been disposed Of
The Nebraska Industrial home at Milford
to be built by the state to cost $4,000 IL
under way. 1t will be Of brick four stories
high.
THE fast train going east or west yester
day ran into a freight train and demolished
several cars" is AN item not uncommon thes,
times.
Father Martin again becomes sole proprie
tor OF the Dakota City Argus. "Of course, ,
says Father Martin, ''our story will be con
tinued."
The Nebraska Editorial association is max
ing big arrangements for amusement and in
struction at Crete during the meeting of tn.
Chatauqus,
The day is not far distant" remark. the
Nebraskan, when Hastings will be the po
litical center and chief convention city il
Nebraska"
A 5-year-old child Of F. NJ. Skecns, OF
Wayne county, played with ~gunpcwder re
Gently, and y singed head and a badly dam
aged eye was the result.
Since the death OF Mason, who died from
the effect os a mad dogs bite, a general war